Journey To Jerusalem: Advise To Aspiring Rabbanim - Yeshiva Aish Hatorah

this tour class is brought to you by torahanytime.com number one in rabonos is that person should appreciate that you're not selling used cars you don't have to you don't have to sell your product you have the best product in the world you have a product that everybody wants whether they know it or not but they they want it and not only do they want it they desperately want it and they definitely need it and more desperately than they need anything they need what you have to offer so you know from in the Yeshiva then I went to I went to uh yes in Kew Garden Hills originally in in Forest Hills one of the major officeshiva was that the product when you when you're in rabanos or kirov you don't need to sell your product you don't need to embellish it you don't need to change it you don't need to paint it up it speaks for itself as long as you're a worthy pot you know would say that all of has to do is he has to be a path you fill yourself up with Tyra you just hope that the part is kosher but if you keep yourself straight and you keep yourself on target then all you need to do is pass over the Baton of of the Torah that Hashem we've had since uh the year 24 48. um so as I mentioned whatever I say today is not taramisinai I recently heard a story uh somebody came to a remote Shapiro it's really one of the greatest of the last generation and he said he said should I go to the mirror you know I'm just thinking about going to the Mirror he went to prison I was thinking about going to the mirror I'm actually yeah you should go to the mirror and you know try to pick up Brooklyn but just one thing at the end of the day you have to have your own darach now what does that mean because it's a very dangerous thing the greatest dangers that are in Cloudy soil people who have their own Dera and don't have a rebbe and I'll say another thing I think in my bonus it's critical that people see that you have a rebbe whoever he may be somebody you learned by it could be you have done to be one person if they hear you quoting somebody say I heard this from however going this and I used to go to him I used to hear even if you didn't go to him personally you heard what he said if people feel that you did not reinvent the wheel you're you're you learn from somebody and you're just continuing the Messiah of Claudius it's much more impactful than you just say over with veritara that you developed or thought of on your own but Shapiro was telling this person is you have to have your own Dara what I think that means is there's like a duality that people need to see in you they need to see that you're continuing the Messiah Israel you're giving over something that's been passed down through the generations they're not receiving something that was made up in 2017 or even in 1980 or even 1960 you're you're passing over the tradition of Cloudy cell however it has to be coming from you meaning if you're a tape recorder and I'll tell you I've been to yeshivas um I've heard two rabayam of mine say the exact same schmooze that they heard from their revi one of them I'm like oh no not that again I know that already and one of them like you want to learn from it and to me the difference was one ready I felt was just parroting what they heard it wasn't part of their personality it wasn't who they were it's just like okay they're Towing the party line I went to this place and I'm saying over this information and they're just repeating it as a tape recorder as opposed to somebody who it could be the same information but it's the way it's coursing through their veins it's the way they feel about it so it's a messiah and it's a tradition and it's it's the the ancient Heritage of Cloudy so but it has to be you it has to be you know says and I know none of this is on the sheet because I'm not sure where this is going but the auscho says that you know it's the same thing with children as it would tell me them after all the tar says teach your your children so you tell me them are your children so it's interesting if you look in Krishna it says on your heart then you'll be able to teach your children and same thing would tell me the meaning like this if you're if you you consider Tyra like a subject or something that I don't know I need to make a living uh I gotta do something with my life so I'm not gonna sell used cars so I'll sell Tyra but it's not coursing through your veins and it's not really meaningful to you really there are other jobs you should be involved in do not go into rabbano's kirov if it's not something that you feel passionate about and meaningful to you it's not going to be passed over not to your children not to your tell me them it has to be Olive and then you have a Fighting Chance especially so that's a very important cloud okay um Rob bonus right you wanted to hear about rabonos so I don't know if I'm the right guy to speak to you about Rob honest because I know there are different types of red buttons you have kirov I know Asia's multi-dimensional so there's and then there's called Intown ramanas amarav in town so if whatever I tell you now if you're gonna plan on going to kirov or out of town in rabanos it may apply it may not apply you have to use your own judgment but uh let me tell you what in my opinion is the traditional role of arav and then obviously you know you'll it has to be tailor-made to the exact circumstance and situation uh it's something I thought about no what's the job of a Rob what in the world is a rub like you're going to a shawl you know imagine you went into the base of mikdash and there's a guy sitting there while everyone's coming in one way a guy like he has a stender the other way like who's this guy in the front what's he doing why is he facing a different direction I mean aren't we all one nation what in the world is a rabbi doing in front of the show like what's right I once read that bar minell came to Italy he's like I don't understand what's going on there are these like funny people called rabbis what's a rabbi either you know Tyra or you don't know Tyra either your time or you're an amaret what's this like a professional either you know either you know Tyra or your Pretender what's a rabbit what's the job of Random and somehow it developed that in like a shul or in a community there's a guy with a beard or without a beard sitting in the front and he's the leader like he's a leader like he has to keep more than anybody else no he has to learn Torah more than anybody else no it doesn't save on him it doesn't save you know every Jew has the same exact responsibility so what in the world is a rabbi what's his job is he is an advisor is he a place sake so I'll tell you there's a famous story and the story like took on a life of its own because there's so many different versions of the story that uh I've heard like almost every rub and the third cousin get involved in the story but here's How The Story Goes the question was presented what is the job of a rough and supposedly the question was presented to right you know today I think the mission of Brewer is sort of rising to become the seminal work of halacha but it wasn't always this way in Europe almost I heard from Old Time who I heard from a tower of laser silver but it's always found but now the way the hashikaka has it is the mission Brew is becoming like the final word on halacha even maybe surpassing foreign ER I guarantee you they didn't ask you against the pet work he just crept in because his name is it Salon according to the first version there's one it's like he crept in there's no they but I did hear that version they asked what is the job what's what's the rub supposed to do people don't know the halacha and the job is the Pasco and childless they asked if it's Allah how about this Torah to give shiram and then they asked if Kai and brisker they said one second to get to pascan chalice what kind of childless every Jew needs to know how to pass control if you don't know how to pass in chess how are you going to take your socks out of your joran Shabbos otherwise you're going to be over you serious just taking your socks out of your drawer yeah every Jewish and I had to take the socks out to to um that's the passion LMI to teach Taira every Jew has to teach Tyra no it says every dress to teach her that's a job that brisker supposedly said the job of the Rob is to take care of the downtrodden the Brokenhearted the yes and by extension today I think everyone is together downtrodden and broken every human being alive today if they're not involved in in Tyra and even if they are broken and downtrodden that's the that's the fact of the generation the the um the uh yuridas the emotional makeup of people today is extremely fragile and weak and people are really suffering from anxieties and worries and distress and lack of self-esteem and people really suffer and today everyone's together you know and um and the job of the rub by extension of brisker is not just the past and shylist and not only to teach Tyra but to really uplift people you know people come to say Good Shabbos you have a nice word for them you know you have a lot of tummy it's very hard to connect with every talmud but he would have like a certain joke with every talmud that when he would see that talmud like he would say oh you know you have a good three-pointer or something like that I don't know I'm giving an example you know but that's just the way of you know lifting somebody's Spirit up for a moment that's a very important uh part of the job um and and I think I miss understand or I don't fully appreciate when people are lining up to wish a rough Good Shabbos to them that's like I'm here in this show for an hour for the two seconds that the rabbit is gonna look at me what's the rabbi is going to say is he gonna smile sufficiently wide I remember I used to go to a Victor Miller so he would say over like he once got in trouble in his early rabonos that one battle bus had a tine on him that the width of the rabbi's smile was not sufficiently wide for him you may not pay attention to it because you have to smile at 100 people but or even 10 people or five people but to that person this it's Make It or Break It the width of your smile is all that they care about they don't listen to one word of the the ten minute he said Friday night they're half asleep they don't even know what parish is and they don't care but not not to everybody but to them they're just look they're measuring how many teeth you show them when you when you smile to them anyway so that's what we're behind Briscoe said um it's interesting I don't think the story went this way it was just as like a point of historical fact I was like doing research on the story I was curious how did this story happen because as far as I knew this was the only like Macar I'm very I don't know if anyone heard my shoe room I'm very into if it's in there's no Makar I don't want to hear something I heard from somebody you heard from his third cousin's aunt that I think when I was waiting online to a certain rub foreign somebody told me um I heard that this girl said I said who'd you hear from a friend of mine I said it never happened he said no you're right like yeah you said you're right so you could just imagine you know and this is the guy was telling me this is what he heard and I said I don't believe he said you're right but anyway so I was really researching this story where does the story come from it's interesting I found the source there's no rival upon Adventure there's no realistic pet to Burger there's no reviews for kohana inspector The Story Goes that they um the name of the individual was the mayor Berlin who's your mayor Berlin the son of the Native who later became known as with mayor barilan at barilan University was named after him and he went to his relative Somebody by the name of Roberto Shapiro and he asked you know what's the job of arav now just an interesting Shapiro had a shita was he didn't talk you go his cheetah was like if if it was a question that really what's the job of a Rob what was that with me not hiring me I asked the like he wouldn't just talk for the sake of it so ramir barlon said uh well as John I heard at you see I asked my my great uncle the reprime said the job of the Rob is to do to the downtrend so he's like and by the way he said and I asked my uh my grandfathers so what do you think the Java Bravo is hmm I think that's what most people think I don't know exactly what the rabbi no but um that's the story that's the story and uh I found in a biography of Joshua salavechik that robyasha bear he wrote he's related to Mayor Berlin and he said that mayor Belen told him that he asked um the and he asked what the job of Arava is interestingly supposedly said that the job the main job of said to the people and insisted that on his cover it should only say the following words what is a rub or it says the word RAV one time in the Hamish what does it says you know what a rough is a lot of so I didn't believe that either so I looked it up I want to see what does it say on rookheim's cover so I called up a friend a friend of mine in bar Park I said moisha get me holder of times cover so you got me a hold if you turn over your seat it said dozens of other things and it did not say the words rather and at this point at this point in time and then someone that was a little bit incredulous but I figured if there were too many svarum that said that on Real crime's cover it said Rapha said that I said give me another picture and sure enough the other picture the first line was cut off but uh if you look at him's cover it says and the stories about the salvatics so they're talking about the graph the grass the father of the Yeshiva World you know revolutionized the way learning is done in Yeshiva until in the way the yeshivas used to learn in Poland they had a whole system of popo it was very much like um intellectual acrobatics re-invented the way they learned more penetrating analysis that was the invention but the father of the Yeshiva system nevertheless insisted that the first Accolade that they write on his cover is however I don't know and my in my personal opinion for whatever it's worth I don't view the job of the Rev today as that as the rav Haka said there's so many organizations you know for every sorrow for every difficult situation there are organizations just had so uh there's High Lifeline there's there are dozens and dozens and dozens of organizations now I'm not saying the rabbi needs to be compassionate and the rabbi needs to be involved in showing kindness to the people the way I see it the main job of the rough today is Tyra and this is a very important point and this is something you know rev sternbach and the truth is he sort of pokes fun of the modern day Rabbi what's you know what has the modern day Rabbi become the mountain they have is we come basically social director ah funeral the rabbi knows I remember I went to a urbanic conference and it was embarrassing Rabbi got up and he handed out catalog of pens and he was showing us you know a rabbi has to have a really sharp pen I'm like you got to be kidding me this is this is what he's teaching young rabbanim to have a nice pen or a nice attache case no that has what that in many communities that is what the job of Rabbi has been become reduced to you're a glorified social director oh at the chanukkah party you could thank The Sisterhood in a really Charming way or you could really be must at somebody in a very meaningful there was a famous Russia Shiva actually we went to discover today I'm not going to say who it was who a joke and say you know he would say Effron Aiden for my son-in-law I don't have a lot of money to give but a good hespet I could give you know he was a he was a professional Master he's as a eulogizer you know the famous joke about the rabbi a great speaker if he could prepare off the cuff he was you know terrible so it's not a problem bar mitzvahs as soon as a kid is born you ready you write the bar Mr Johnson weddings you know you hope the guy gets married and you prepare him events the problem is what are you doing somebody dies so the rabbi had a nine fight a great idea he basically in his first year in both he wrote has paid them for everyone in the city the problem was there was a big hurricane one day and his file cabinet went blowing out into the street and people picked up the papers and they're reading their headspace them and uh yeah true story no I'm just joking Okay so so it's unfortunate that the role of Rabbi has become redu um glorified social director that's not the job of arav the main job of arav is that people need to a respect and appreciate the rabbi scholarship as Tamar you don't have to be but that they should appreciate that you're somebody who is knowledgeable certain Baseline knowledge of basic Basics the frame of sir you have no shots but you have to know how to learn you have to know how to learn a typist you have to know basic uh and if they ask a question at least know who to ask the question to don't say uh they ask you a question about don't say uh I don't understand I heard in a seminar Once Upon a Time about um about I don't know what the proof to God's existence you have to know how to answer at the very least have a basic level of knowledge and know which poiskin to ask you know very often people move up in their knowledge and the people that you start with maybe they brought a person close or they were mccarrative person yeah but you know you have to graduate who you're asking your questions to the the the seaboor needs to appreciate the rub first and foremost as good speaker is very important is very important the rub is the Paragon of the tamakam in the eyes of the people the children that grow up in the show they have to see what is the time what does that look like carry themselves what uh how do they speak to other people how do they react when they're challenged when somebody insults them how do they react do they stand up for halacha now I'm going to tell you my personal beliefs you know speak to your own I believe very strongly you know this is supposed to be rabanos or yeah right so if you're Rabbi in a show I'm just telling you my personal belief there can't be any talking in the show if there's talking in the show you don't have a show it's not a shul what is that now again if you have a KIRO if this is a beginner's minion then I'm not saying you're gonna call somebody out for whispering but if your clientele are Yeshiva educated so oh as somebody once came to me they said rabbit why are you so I I'm insistent if there's any talking I stopped it happening although it's not it's not a show what in the world what in Heaven's name are you doing here you get more gun Aiden if you stay in bed and snore for three hours then you come to Shoal and talk during Crystal Torah what in the why you here what are you doing here so if the person is doesn't have a basic level of Education it's a different story you work with them Yeshiva educated just because they grew up in a place and I don't know if I'm speaking to the right crowd if this is appropriate but again if it's Yeshiva educated crowd you can what are you coming to show what are you doing here so I'm insistent there's no talking my diving I feel that's the job of the rub now it's not a popular stance and not everyone I'm a rough seven years is yes it's gotten me in trouble absolutely now the way I look at it is you know what it says by Mordechai it says most people liked him wow imagine you say there's a rabbi he's a goddaughter and guess what only 30 of people couldn't stand him only 30 percent of people hated his guts yeah that's right that's the most you could hope for your your job is not to gain Universal appeal or to be popular if everyone loves you you know the story goes there will be still cilantro said that any Rabbi they don't want to throw out of town is not a rabbi and any rabbit they throw out of town is not a man now I'm not telling you to be uh like edgy or to like start you know um what's the word to uh antagonize people obviously no they're not throwing around not throwing anything right but in a respectful way where they see you know um you start you stop and you wait and then they say this is what you stand for but she say to me the is not you we are not licensed to be lenient with the halacha it's not our Tyra Tara doesn't belong to the rabbi the Taurus God's Tyra the God our only job is to safeguard it now you do it in a respectful way in a dignified way you don't want to embarrass anybody I'm not saying you have to look at the guy you could look the other way if somebody's talking about Crystal Tyra you stabbed it down I'll tell you I'll tell you a story my great grandfather we want zakah to be at his cover today but I wanted to go but they say if you say over from somebody that's kill your my great-grandfather came over to this country not to this America I'm a man sorry my watch is still an American time zone he came over to America he was self-taught he did not I don't know he didn't have a high alleged level education in Poland he taught himself to read the mark says someone's talking about dominating guy ran by you scream at them it's the only Allah doesn't say if somebody's eating tree if you scream at them so I was intraved see and so that we are excuse me you know maybe you want to learn with me there's only one they say scream at me that you scream at the person so he doesn't know any he doesn't know but nobody does that and if you do that I think you're a lunatic so it doesn't know any so he followed and the rabbis are the shoes that hidden in were not happy with him there was you chasing people away so he said look Rabbi I just want to let you know it's not your toyra it's not my Tara this is what it says now I'm not saying we should scream at people they're saying that I think it's a big Avila that rabbanim sort of looked the other way and uh they say well I don't know they'll eventually come around meanwhile the shul is the your Arena the show is the place where you operate it's your court on the court people have to follow the rules what they do at home you don't have to call out everything but in the at in where you operate and where you're where you're performing from the things have to be mahaja Mahajan that's one thing um I'll tell you some other things I guess you could call them pet peeves but I think now this I'm not as insistent on and the truth is this is something that I don't know why benetira Rabbi people are not zoharan and there's nothing to do anything people like to learn about you're not allowed to it's Allah it's Allah we went through a crime last night that if your mother said during hazards you have to do it again you're not your thing why am I mentioning these things because I think that what takes place in the show is your Arenas your court you don't have to like shove down their throats every humra of what goes on at home there might not be on that level but I think in the shul is different than at home in the shul when the next generation is coming to the shawl this is the place where they see that Torah is operated in its ideal form what how they observe themselves that's their issue and on their terms but I don't think you could water down how you present Torah and the way people conduct themselves in the show is the way that Torah is being presented to the next uh generation um in my humble opinion the main job of arav is giving shiram how about sastairah that is the way you communicate with the people that is the way you educate them yes you want to be there at their simchas and you want to be there at their time of distress but that the people should be getting high level Tyra they should feel like the rub is putting time into preparation they only have an hour a night or an hour a week they should feel that in this hour I'm getting the rough put in 20 hours and it's worthwhile for me to come I need to be here because look how much preparation the rabbi put in into it and I saw there's a biography not like a storybook so to say on a vadio Seth it's well known of a value of valued more than anything else writing true voice they once asked him uh you know Tata the family got together they want to give him a present on his birthday value said the biggest present is if you give me time I could write another chuva however it's a hero number nine on the sheets I'm just you I don't know what the shares call like stream of Consciousness you know but you said that when he was a rub in Tel Aviv he did not write one chuva he felt the primary job of Rob is giving shurim and preparing shirim and he writes there's a for every one hour of sheer you prepare at least three hours um what else are we Dan over here so it's interesting on the same one uh along the same lines many years ago in America there was an old rabbinic uh Society a group of and let's point out a very uh Stark observation back in the day back in Europe who are the godelli Israel Khan reviews the authors of the shelter foreign what were they primarily they were rabonium the godolly were upon him go to any wedding today uh you know in Yeshiva who's a messiah a rub not a rub the Russia Shiva has taken over the job abroad meaning if you ask most people who are the leaders of the generation it's become the Russia Shiva not so much the rav why do you think that is why has The Prestige of the bonus sank very simple because the job of the rabbi has become reduced to social director and people see all they see is a professional Rabbi instead of and the prestige is not there and in fact um Rabbi tithe many years ago wanted to develop a new institution a new group of rabbanim to to do what he called to elevate The Prestige of the rabbanos and a particular Rabbi of mine Rabbi Noah said and he spoke he said there's no way to elevate The Prestige of the rabbanos it's not like you can get a better fountain pen or a you know a more curved Hamburg and now all of a sudden the rabbi is going to put on the pedestal it's all dependent on one thing the rabbi has to be at and I'll tell you another thing as important as it is to be dedicated to the people a rabbi has to devote daily serious time to learn because the moment you stop learning you plateau and that means you've capped out and you've maxed out and then people see basically you've stopped growing if you've stopped growing you slowly lose the impact you have on the people I think people are inspired when they see somebody who's constantly growing pushing themselves elevating themselves the only way to elevate The Prestige of the rabanos and the procedure of any in the particular rev is people see the scholarship improving in the rub they see the rub is growing he's learning this safer now he's learning that safer now his shiramar more sophisticated on a deeper I think that's that's very impactful again maybe eurobaim have other opinions I'm just sharing with you my personal thoughts um it's very important and maybe it'll end with this to um to connect to the balabatham after all you could be the god of Hadar you could be you know you could be my shradino but you know you give a sheer and you're dashing isn't he doesn't know what you're talking about you need to be able to communicate effectively but I think what I'm more getting at is you want to connect with the people um I'll tell you two things that have worked for me they're very small examples but maybe so for example I remember in my previous show there was a guy who did not listen to word I said you know I don't know why they make Rabbi speak like right after right before laning or right um right after laning basically what are they doing people are dead tired Friday night and then they make up honestly Friday so people walk into shower this morning in like a semi-coma and then then the davening is Oscar schlapped as they say the last thing anybody wants to hear a shot this morning is rabbis Russia and this guy really what he was a smarty good guy he just was not interested in anything I had to say I think primarily because he felt I was too right-wing right or whatever it is and I remember one Shabbos I'm not a bresler I'm not if anyone knows me I'm not looking against whatever great rubber is you know I'm not a particular anyway foreign the guy like woke up like a guy like he hit the ceiling I quoted his Rabbi oh he's mine why because until now he's not glorious anything you say because Torah to him is only remakeman everyone else is nobody else knows what they're talking about and if if you don't believe in going to uman then you have no chance of being redeemed in the net in the in the next World and especially a rabbit doesn't call him now but once I quoted himachmanin ah now now I'm Orthodox too and now he listened to me and now he listened to me so but it's like that with everybody because everybody goes to Yeshiva and in many yeshivas if you don't have the ishator your mom is I'm just joking right thing yeshivas are very particular I want to every issue that has their way of doing things and we're in danger of not really being gay race people who are slightly different so if I come in here and I told you by the way everything I said to you today came to me in he told me to tell you oh I'm talking right but I'm just saying that if you could speak the other person's language you show them that who they value you value then that's a very strong way to win them over again I I mean this humorously okay that's one way no seriously um the other thing I remember I had a guy in my shawl he was a great great grandson of the Sam Cipher fine every single time I quote the clam Cipher I said I'm sorry for says Emmy's grandfather oh the guy feels like a million bucks right so if it's even if it's not his grandfather most people you find their third cousin was you know the Reba the demos right as they say so you know I heard his great great grandson went to a classroom so you know it's a way of showing them covet and it really works anyway so um I hope some of these ideas were helpful and where they are please use them and if they're not you know again as I said everyone has to have their own Dara meaning whoever you're ready is also I'll tell you something I heard from Victor Miller you know there's a rule in gamar one of the most Wanted which means that if I say hey pal you owe me a million bucks okay that's nice bird enough proof is on you so the gemara brings the Posse says why don't need Apostle kind of question is why I don't need a pasta no the problem is we don't sing clearly but if we would have unadulterated common sense that's even more valuable than it was an entire so with everything we learn we have to have tremendous common sense to know when to apply oh my ribby said that if somebody Talks by Dominic the guy is coming for a yard side it's the only time he's ever coming into shul maybe this is not the right time and the right guy so not every every rule has its exceptions and every situation has to be judged by differently and you have to have the balance and the guidance of friends and so on and so forth and ultimately we will dive in for Seattle they know that we don't make any major or minor mistakes I wish everyone tremendous also thank you for listening you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com