Baba Sali: A Beacon of Hope and Faith - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

what a great it is that throughout the entire world on virtually every continent we are all United in the study of Torah through Torah anytime I would like to thank Torah anytime for its magnanimous efforts throughout the entire world I would also like to thank chickens for chabas for all that they do throughout the world to make the lives of is just a little bit better just a little bit more comfortable we have the amazing life of the great sadic ad babaali was born on rashash interesting rash is a day that ushers in a new era a new year when basali was born it ushered into the entire world a new era an era of a babaali of a father that prays for his Nation for his brothers and his sisters for a brother that cares about each and every person throughout the entire world babaali was known as a great as a d as a as a as AER as a as a person that gave brus freely to everyone as someone who you could go to and you could tell him anything that you wanted you could spill Out All the Troubles all the concerns all the challenges and babaali would never be judgmental and would treat everybody like a child of his own he was the grandson of the great air Yakov he was the rabbi of taat Morocco his father was RA masod the oldest son of the ab Yakov it is interesting that they say that the ab Yakov was once on a boat on a ship and he wanted to go to erat Isel ever he lacked the funds to pay so they told him that he would not be able to continue on the journey and they made him go off of the ship I cannot imagine the person that said to the oper Yakov please leave so he did and he took out a carpet he put the carpet on top of the water and he sailed behind the ship the entire way abuat I would like to thank all the members of the abuat family those outstanding personalities sikos that I have the privilege of knowing and having a Casher with the grandchildren the Great rabim and the raban may she live long and be well and continue her work I thank all of them for all that they have done for me and for letting me have a bird's eye view of the world of the great babaali we know that babaali he always went with that hood that covered over his eyes that came down over his eyes and they asked him many years later when he was in AR Isel how is it that you're able to see things that are happening all over in different parts of the world many many miles from where you're living in the T and he said I always guarded my eyes when I went into streets I always made sure that the hood was down over my eyes I was always is careful only to see the things that are sights that are holy imp pure babaali attributed his great K his great power of sight to the fact that he watched his eyes and in fact R masud he would cover his eyes with his cape whenever he went out in order to avoid seeing something that he shouldn't when little Reb Isel was a baby his mother brought the Cradle to the B madish like we read in the gar in order that the child would hear the sounds of learning the c toyra babaali as a baby had his cradle in the Bas medish and as he grew up there was only one place that babaali was at home that was the Bas Mish that was the besses his mother always protected what he heard and what he saw and as he grew up the years of growth he was always very careful he loved learning that's all he wanted to do was learn he loved there was a period of time that he didn't want to eat he wanted to make tanim even though he was young and his older brother said please is you have to eat but his life was was different re the babaali from the youngest age he had no interest in gmas he had no interest in playing and in other things he was only interested in the T in the mitz and so when he grew up as he began to grow up to a young boy they saw that this child was different they saw the coak of this child they saw what he was able to learn what he was able to grasp they saw that he would wake up at at the age of 12 and they saw him begin to do TI and he would stay up the entire night until the morning in order to learn tasan that which is hidden one day he came home his father saw him R masud saw basali and saw that babaali was a little shaken up he walked over to him and babaali was looking down and he said to him Isel what happened he said there was one of the boys in school and the boy wasn't nice to him and the boy pushed him r son asked babaali and what did you do babaali lowered his eyes and said I cursed him Ras looked at him and said don't you ever curse another person in your life because whoever you curse whoever you Lev a curse at I want you to know it could come true Shalom only give Bros as it says in the Torah those who you bless will be blessed those who you curse will be cursed and so he guarded his tongue he guarded his mouth from that day on throughout his entire life only to bless we know that when his older brother the great rebi David was nifter during a take take over in his city of Morocco they asked young R Israel that he should become the r of the Moroccan Community yel deeply mourned over the passing of his brother he would not attend any Simas he would not go to any happy occasions he wouldn't even attend the suda one night he had a dream and his brother came to him and he begged him please stop the morning please I am very happy in shamayim it is good for me there and so babaali stopped the morning and he continued his work on behalf of the community at the age of 31 he visited erat Israel Yim and when he came there they had already recognize the greatness of babaali and they asked him rebi what could we do for you you what can we give to you he said I only want one thing I want the key to the Mikvah he visited the oldest sadik of the generation Reish schlomo elzar alfandre he was 95 at that time when babaali came into the room RL stood up for him the people couldn't believe it for a young man the greatest sadic in your stands up and before he left he begged babaali to please give him a bro babaali remained in AR Israel for one year a whole year he returned to Morocco in 1922 and he became the rav of the Moroccan Jewish Community people came to him just like people come to aidic Rabbi they come with a with a p interesting that's the same way they came to babaali he blessed people and people started to see that his Bros that His blessings came true when he would make Public sudas public Gatherings the people of the amim the non-jews would stand out looking through the window maybe they could get a glimpse of this great miracle working Rabbi of the tadic when the queen had a son the king and queen said for babaali to Bless the Child in 1933 babaali returned to erit Israel people came from all over just to see him and in 1952 babaali visited arat Israel one more time and there he was saddened to see that there were many Jews many who immigrated from Morocco that were not going in the right way because there was all all kinds of influences influences that were taking people away from Torah Mitzvah so he went immediately went back and shuttled between Morocco and shuttled between France and began to have a tremendous impact on his Brethren and his sisters that they should stay strong to this very day the influence of babaali is felt all over the world in Morocco in Spain in Italy wherever you go in the entire world in the Soviet Union there is the Hasa of babaali he cared about everyone and he went to be Masia on each and every person to strengthen yish kite to strengthen Torah mitus wherever he went it was an interesting idea that Baba became a person that went constantly for all people no matter where they were to bring them and to inspire them to go higher and higher in yides Kai when he arrived in arit Israel finally it was interesting that he wanted to go to ramla but the ship docked in K people were waiting for him the crowds rushed to kiss his hand and to be blessed they wanted a there was a top government official that came and wanted babaali said everything is yours my car is yours my driver is yours whatever you need ask me babaali said I cannot drive in your car because I sense that your car drives on Shabbat and I cannot use it I would rather take the bus when he went to the bus and he took the bus the bus began to go babaali said to the bus driver I'm sorry I have to pray I got to say the afternoon service could you please stop the driver said Rabbi this is not a taxi this is not private this is a bus babaali said if so then please let me get off the bus the driver didn't want to but such a great Rabbi he was afraid not to he let him get off the bus and so babaali went to the side of the road and he prayed Min in a way that we can't even imagine the cavana that he had when he was done it was more than a half hour he was shocked to see that the bus was still there he went over to the bus driver and he said to him why are you still here the bus driver told him I couldn't moov the bus it broke down I tried to start it up and it won't go babaali said don't worry I'm going to go on the bus I'm sure it's going to start now babaali went onto the bus the bus started immediately and drove off that sadic decrees and Hashem listens to his decree like Hashem said what can I do he's a child and I love him so much he is such a great sadic that whatever he tells me I do go go there Hashem can decree and sometimes the sadic can even an know that decree and so babaali started with all the greatness that he had to make a major impact on the world babaali saw people from all over he was able to direct an entire generation to tell them where to go and how to go and when to go is there any question when you walk in the streets of the world that you don't feel the hash of babaali is there any question that when you are going and you see a store or a restaurant and there is a prominent display of Babas sali's picture or of the Torah of babaali is there any question when the magazines come out and they put Baba sali's picture on the front and they know that it's going to be a bestseller because they put the sadik on the front there isn't a question that is Hash that reaches out the stories that are told far and wide the books that continue and continue to come out I just saw two new books on the stand about babaali The Thirst The Thirst to know more about the sadic why why is it that he has that singular zus well it's interesting because said I remain the singular Novi to hasem question is asked by the we know in fact that there were many hid over 100 100 Nim so what does it mean I was the only Navi there was something singular about elvi he knew Thea he knew the speech he knew how to relate he understood the hearts in the minds and that made him different babaali he understood people he understood the lingo he was the one that was able to have that singular Hasa that lasts for Generations it's also very interesting that we learn the Torah tells us um the are like the stars those Stars might have gone out but the light continues to shine babaali may have left this world but his light continues to shine on brighter and brighter greater even in their passing than they were during their life babaali loved every child and he always gave kisuk he gave kisuk to reim he gave kisuk to moros to the great teachers they should teach and it's an interesting thing that When Baba was talking about theim rashes tells us that theim are called Bim the raav is called of is called father why did Rashia have to tell us this babaali says the reason is is because your father is always your father your rebi your MOA your rabbitson is always your rabbitson in the good times and in The Not So Good Times sh whether there is money for them whether there's not money they're always your ra they're always your Reby and an interesting thing he explained according to the ab yakob that little star that a person is born under the influence continues throughout their entire life the re are like that little star the what he says apparently their light might be very small it was the first grade rebi the first grade MOA it was the prean Moa it was the nursery MOA or Rabbi maybe small maybe we didn't remember them when it came to the maybe they weren't under the maybe we don't even remember exactly what their name was but that light will continue to shine throughout the entire world throughout their entire life he says you need to know that you should know that their influences on you throughout your entire life the great AB Yakov babaali would always be very very understanding for people when people would come he would give them a little bit of arak and give them the BR on the arak a little bit of that special arak and in fact many times he would take water and give the broa through water it happened to be that somebody came from England they needed a br for a child babali gave to the Father a bottle of water specially blessed and told him go and give it to the child the father said he was worth the entire trip just to get that water he carried it in the bottle he did not want to put it in the luggage or anywhere else he wanted to watch over it however as he was going to his airplane when he was going to the flight he tripped the bottle fell on the ground and broke he went all the way back to naot when he came back he saw the raban was at the door the raban was smiling she said babaali said that you would be back for this and she had another ptle of water prepared do you know the that the water through being an agent of the sadik from hem was able to bring Bros I was that they gave to me a bottle of water many years ago from Baba Sali I guard this bottle there are times in life when there is a need for a major Yeshua and I give a little water there was a ye that saw me me and I happened to be out of town out of New York and he told me about something that was happening and because of confidentiality I don't want to say the exact situation and he told me that he doesn't know how it's going to take place he is very much afraid that something will not go right on the next day I told him have the person come into me the individual hurried into me I instructed them to use the water in a certain way if I would not have called got a call from the person themselves I'm not sure I myself would have believed it the the things that the great sadik did and was able to accomplish because of the the raban said the truth is that if we would have thatuna we could turn the faucet on in our own kitchen and the water could come out and it could do our own water but we need to have the the amuna the belief the and that great trust we also know that there were times that babaali uh in this world tried very very hard to correct that people should go in the right way he was not somebody that would just let things go by it happened to be that one time there was somebody that came and the individual had brought a lot of apples and oranges and sweets and fish boxes and boxes for Auda babaali come in he was gathered at the table and he said what do you come here for you think I need the food from you you think I need the boxes from you why did you come here they couldn't believe it Baba Sali to talk that way the man of course you can imagine this young man after he was cured from babaali he leaves he goes out Vis embarrassed he goes home put all the boxes back into the car he drives home the Arabs Ambush the car they shot from behind but all the boxes that Baba Sali said take with you they guarded him they were the bulletproof shield and he emerged unscathed from the incident he ran back to babaali babaali welcomed him with open arms he came and he kissed his hands babaali said I saw when you came in the males was that was dancing around you and I wanted to save you that of a person embarrasses somebody in front of the r him in front of the multitudes it's like they killed him so as I able to exchange that you should be able to live and just instead go through the embarrassment and then he told him a Tien Chua rectification that he should do in order to repent that was babaali babaali was able to understand people was able to look into an individual was able to be the the that he did in this world was unique he never ever kept a penny overnight whatever he had he gave out he cared about everyone he gave out his money he did not want money there he couldn't go to sleep if there was a penny in the house if there was a shekel in the house one night 3:00 in the morning whatever little sleep babaali was supposed to get he wasn't getting he woke up he couldn't sleep the whole family began to look maybe there's some money left over they couldn't find it finally they realized that there was a small coin that had rolled under a piece of heavy Furniture when they took it away they were able to see that the coin was there they right away took it outside and gave it away babaali went to sleep that's an individual that cares about it seor and I will reveal it in honor of the hula of the great sadic the babaali everybody has challenging times in this world everybody there isn't anyone that doesn't go through a few hard days and so one night I went to sleep and I had a dream the dream would be as clear as watching it in broad daylight I was on the right side of babaali and I had Babas sali's arm in mine and in the dream I'm walking together with a great sadic trying to hold him being somebody that had the to walk together with him however there was a dip in the road and I didn't see it and I fell a little bit babaali held me up I leaned over to babaali and I said to him in the Dream It's a read I went down in order to go up babaali told me I will carry you mi a person that learns the a person that goes through so much of the St of babaali of the sikim tries to understand goes to the Kev is pal always holds in mind the great re is the individual forges a connection the individual has a CER and that cure is an inextricable bond that carries them through life I am forever thankful for all that that sadik does for this world and for me included we continue in Babas sali's ways we continue to learn there is a safer reel or Isel that goes through all of his different Min in different alas through all the year from El to rash to Yum to sukus to all of the Y toim and all of the things it talked about what he did what his hog was in terms of what he did with the mikah how careful he was all the different things it says that he was careful to go toik and in fact he quoted that left the the spies and he went to the he went to the graves in order to be and then babaali quoted the The Shield over this world during their lives and in their death even more than when they're living he used to go to sikim when he was in moroccoan of course reab Mas reab yob AB he would go to all the sikim in an is there were numerous sikim that he used to go toim that he used to visit it was an interesting thing that one time it happened to be on the art side so the art side and I heard that there are different laws that have come out whether a person can go to the Kev not go to the Kev this year and people are all upset but I found something interesting in the writing of babaali it was the yard site of the a Yakov and the sonin-law ab babaali had heard that the Border was just open and he could be one of the first to go in the group to visit on the yard side of the ab Yakov he came to his sainted father-in-law and asked babaali if he should go babaali said tonight is the hilula of reab yov he's going to be right here next to me those who are traveling over there are going for nothing basali had a sixth sense of what was going on in the world he understood the different things that would happen he understood its world he understood many times when things happen when challenges happen What should go on and in fact he gave Specific Instructions for AA for a plague and he quoted the and Aon stood between the dead and the living and the plague stopped babali said he wanted to be on is he said the living can still do cha but the the Mas can't do anything what Tois is there if those that are living will die however you want we say you don't want that those that are living should die but they should return from their ways and live he stood by those that can't do CH in am those that are still able to do Chua hasem heard the plea Maga and babaali said that is how the Maga is removed and so too Baba Sali calls out to us with this PUK in our days that we should all understand that all of us should come closer to Hashem that we should hear the voice that we should do chuva each of us knows what we got to do we know our work our work is cut out for us to be stronger in Mitzvah to be more enthusiastic about all of our learning to try to take it to the next level and certainly to keep away from that which we have to keep away from we are so good do you know how many people call me and they asked me something especially about babaali and they asked me about anoga Babas or there was a story about babaali and how he used to sleep and they would ask me the pro there's a particular interest because babaali tried to show us the correct way to be in this world one time showing his R his ability to see in the distance there was a man married he was not blessed with children he came to babaali and he said uh rebi bless me Bor I need a child babaali sometimes was difficult to understand sometimes he spoke a little bit low sometimes he mixed in a little bit Arabic it seemed to be that he kept saying is the man asked him again rebi please give me a br I need a child and he kept saying the man thought either babaali didn't understand him or he's not getting the BR he left a year later he has his first child he comes to babaali to be the Sonic a year later the second child a year later a third child a year later a fourth child until after a number of years he had 21 children 21 children and he came back to babaali and he said rebi I just had my 21st son but we ran out of names I don't know any name to call him could you please tell me which name I should call my child babaali smiled and he told you I told you already when you first came to me a the 21st child to is call him Israel there were things that happened there were great sikim that came to visit babaali from all different backgrounds from L Riva from the rosh yes were extremely close from great sikim great Rim all from the entire spectrum of all different backgrounds they felt at home Baba Sali was a loving father everybody would be able to get their answer everybody would feel his greatness his care in his compassion for all of them babaali was a person that never ever felt that he was above another Jew he himself felt as if everybody that came in was a friend of his and in fact if you take a look through the Abu family they're all like that every illustrious member is the same way the way that they bring people in it's the same exact thing like it was in the times of the great sadic of the babaali babaali was a gift for our world he was a gift that will continue to be M us to strengthen us and encourage us and Inspire us until M would come babali at the end of his life was sad everybody was together it was Mo shabas and it happened to be Paras and there babaali was together surrounded by his family and everybody wanted to know what was babaali saying cuz they saw his lips moving finally someone put his ear right in front of the mouth and he heard babaali saying may my passing be a kapara for all of CLA Israel may I be a kapara may I be an atonement for CLA many times throughout his life babaali said I will give up my life just so the cloud is will continue on and will have Simas and will have Happ happiness in the of us one final word the great babaali would always have a special suda on roses at that suda it was only great Scholars that could come to this private suda or the people that were in great need the people of those that had troubles they could come and they would go and be together with babaali in that special room at the suda on rosesh there was one person who was in attendance and he would not stop crying he had seven daughters marriageable age nobody had a sh for him and he did not have any money to make the marriage possible in addition his wife had some health challenges facing her he cried and he cried everybody could see that babaali had great anguish in sing a y in his problems he was filled with tremendous Mercy with Rahman for this child of Hashem who is enduring such hard hardship all of a sudden the door opened the son-in-law of babaali rebi D yav was standing there at the entrance when babaali saw him he raised his voice he began to shout at him everyone was in shock why are you here who told you to come who invited you rebi David was thunderstuck the other people could see how afraid he was everyone knew that babaali loved every Jew and certainly his own son-in-law but why was he shouting in this way babaali said who called you who told you should come here rebi David responded a son-in-law is like a son and a son is able to enter to his father whenever he wants when babaali said that he heard what he said he asked the son-in-law please say it another time and the son-in-law told the father a son-in-law is like a son and a son is able to enter to his father whenever he wants babaali then went over to the wall he looked up at Hashem the HF for the Creator B and he said Hashem did you hear that I am a son and I am able to enter at any time because I am a son that wants to come to his father I wish to come and I wish to pray to you on behalf of this yeid standing right here babaali Davin tears flowed from his eyes as he was misso for that ye about 10 minutes later he opened his eyes he spel Alti I prayed and I was answered that ye got his Yeshua within time all of the daughters got their rightful Zim we are almost in the of the great Admar of babaali our master that babaali up in Shay in his m g that he once again looks up and asks AEM and pleads for all of us all of us in Gus all of us in the Exile all of us that face challenges all of us that need so many Yeshua and ruas and panasa and Sh and children going on the D and that everybody should be strong and healthy all the things that we need in life that everyone should be we askem please in the of theic hear his Fus on our behalf and may we all be answered for all that we want in the of the Great sadic I may his life be a guide to all of us may we walk in the footsteps of babaali emulate his ways and remember that we were one that that a real angel walked on this Earth for