Rabbi YY Jacobson Farbrenging with Children #4: Stories, Riddles, Q & A

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children gathered everywhere and I want to welcome all of you who are here with us today some day ballad Nissen tough shinpei the fourth day of Nissen of the year 5-7 80 i am so thrilled that you're all here with us March 29th 2020 so the first thing I want to thank I want to thank first and foremost the team at the yeshiva net which put this all together already this is our fourth children's program you could see all over the previous ones on the yeshiva dotnet and I want to thank the very dedicated team who put this all together our dear programmer Rafal Houseman and the person who initiated all of this and is putting it together of knocking freed and Arab small silver thank you thank you very much I want to give a special shout-out to Ari Berkowitz who runs all of those extraordinary groups called Thank You Hashem for promoting this program and promoting it so nicely and beautifully thank you re very very much I want to welcome especially one group of children and those are the children who are here with us from Italy there are many Jewish children here with us from Italy Italy Italy was struck very very hard with this coronavirus and whoever wants a shout-out you can text eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven eight four five seven seven seven four seven four seven if you want to shout out your name your first name your last name your age your city will be scrolled on the screen throughout the program so just text eight four five seven seven seven 47 47 if you want to shout out if you want to ask any question you would like God willing we're soon gonna get to all the questions and we still have another program this coming Thursday at four and then next Sunday at four basil Hashem made all be in good health for us and all the Jewish people but we're gonna be here back Thursday at 4:00 and next Sunday in one week you Dolloff listen at four o'clock p.m. for Jewish children the world over so we have another two programs before Pesach besides this one and I'm gonna try to get to as many questions as I can with God's grace you can text them all to eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven I want to make a shout out to a family from Italy who's sitting with us right now and that is the Ruddell family from Milan we have raised the eleven conoid nine Figgy six and Menachem Mendel Rado two years old from Milan Italy whose parents say they are behaving so special in such difficult times and a fur of whole month remember Italy started before us a whole month in quarantine thank you all of the kindle are joining us from Italy and the rural family and all of the children who are here from all over the world you all deserve a thank you all the children deserve a very special thank you this is not an easy time for anybody it's not an easy time for your parents for you and for many people who are struggling on many different levels I want to make another shout out for a special group of children and that's the children of all the Hatzolah members in all Jewish communities the world over the children of the Hatzolah members their wives and their children the children of doctors the children of nurses the children of EMTs and ambulance drivers let's give a special aspect where ever you're sitting join me with a special applause for all these children whose fathers are so often not home during these times they are on the front lines of this battle against a terrible virus and a terrible pandemic they literally are on the front lines of this battle going into the fire to be able to save lives thank you thank you thank you from the depth of our hearts and thank you children and spouses for keeping it together and keeping the morale and the spirits high anyway we are thrilled to have all of you here you could text your questions to eight four five seven seven seven 47 47 and I'm so happy you are here with us the world is now at battle we are fighting an invisible enemy seven point seven billion people are fighting an invisible enemy called the corona virus and it's a challenging time many of us have relatives or close friends or close family members who have passed away over the last few days over the last few weeks many of us have friends family members maybe very close family members who are struggling with illness whose lives are endangered we begin with a prayer for all of them for all of them lovino mal que no se after Mia vino mal que no Manama gahafer monocular sefa avi no Malkina Khaled ever vas era reverse via Marcia's mood every second our father our King stopped this pandemic from your people and from the world and allow this Dever this this magatha this plague this terrible disease and infection to to be eliminated to be wiped out from all of your people in area two sir all in America in Europe wherever they are in the whole world wherever they are people are joining us here from the whole world and from all of humanity slacker force slam ELISA lay America and bring a complete and speedy and wholesome recovery to all those who are ill I'm now going to begin with a story right are we going to begin with a story we still have a lot coming we have riddles we have to deal with the riddles we have questions and answers we have more stories we're going to do a special meditation today but I'm right now going to begin with a story and I'm beginning with this story cuz somebody just sent it to me literally ten minutes ago and I really appreciated the story it meant so much so I want to begin with this story dear kindle ah again you could text your questions eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven or if you want a shout out please we'd love to see your presents eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven so a friend of mine rabbi blooming rabbi Zalman blooming sent me this story just literally a few minutes ago and I wonder I want to read it to you as you know Jews in the Soviet Union in Russia were stuck behind the Iron Curtain for decades once the Communists took over Russia they did not allow anybody to leave and it was very hard to come in and get out very few people can leave that crazy country where Judaism was uprooted and where every vestige of religion was decimated and destroyed it was under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev the leader of the Soviet Union when the iron curtain opened up you're too young to remember but some of us remember 1989 when the Berlin Wall fell there was a big wall in Berlin in Germany dividing West Germany from East Germany East Germany was under the Communists and West Germany was democratic and there was freedom there and enjoy the symbol of that day when the Berlin Wall fell was unforgettable it represented a new era that came into the world and during that year 1989 1990 communism fell the doors of the Soviet Union opened and hundreds of thousands ultimately millions of Jews and non-jews left the Soviet Union many of them made a yacht to the Holy Land territory so many of them came to America and to other countries many of them came to Europe a big community actually went to Germany more than a million Jews came to Eretz Israel more than 1 million Jews and it was a big question about the Jewish identity of many of them remember that for 70 years they weren't allowed to be Jewish there were no Jewish schools there were very very few shalls' and only older people would go because there were spies everywhere if you would go you they were informed upon you you could lose your job be sent to Siberia it was it was a living purgatory so in terms of marriage who's Jewish who's not Jewish it became a problem and when the Jews were coming tired too strong in 1990 1991 1992 this was a very difficult task to figure out who's Jewish there was a Jew he was 42 years old he came in to the rabbinic court of tel-aviv in the Holy Land and he wanted authentification today it's authenticating proving that he's a Jew at that as the head of the Jewish Court of the besten was somebody whom I'm privileged to know and call a teacher and a mentor many of you know him rabbi you saw Mayer Lolita a bistro mayor Lau was for many years the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv later the chief rabbi of Israel - Ken as a chief back to Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv rabbi Larabee saw may allow was sitting as the rabbi as deriving the Russia of best in the head of the court in Tel Aviv and he was the one who was speaking to this 42 year old Russian drew said he was Jewish the man brought two witnesses one witness testified that he was at his bris forty-two years earlier the second witness who he brought was another Jew came from the Soviet Union to Israel this was a kebab closet an elderly man and older jeweler bhavacakra suit and he shared the following story with Rabbi Israel mayor Lau and he said I don't know this man personally I did know his mother and I want to tell you something about his mother she ran a department in one of the big hospitals in Moscow one of the hospitals in Moscow his mother ran one of the departments in the hospital she was Jewish she was completely not religious she was not observant she was not a same material mitzvahs but there was one Mitzvah that she stuck to tenaciously she would not give up on that Mitzvah one Mitzvah that she clunked to with every fiber of her being and let me tell you about her then in those days smoking was much more popular than it's now today people are much more aware of the dangers of smoking it's very unhealthy to smoke it's not good for the lungs especially a person needs an immune system that's powerful and smoking is not good for the person then it wasn't so known and there were a lot a lot of smokers men and women especially in Russia there were lots and lots of smokers she used to smoke every day two packs of cigarettes at night she would take one cigarette and place it quietly under her bed she had a box a treasure chest which she used to put every night one cigarette that she left over she didn't smoke she put it in that box in excess she did this every single night of the year after Purim she would gather 365 cigarettes because every night she put away one how many days are there in the year 365 so each year ultimately she compiled in that box 365 cigarettes it was after Purim she would collect the 365 cigarettes and she would bring them to my home this Habad closet is telling her a bylaw at Tel Aviv in 1990 she would bring all these cigarettes to my home I used to sell these cigarettes on what's called the black market in Russia there was a black market which meant the illegal market because if you tried to do business the regular legal way it was very very hard to make any income because it was a communist system a socialist communist system where you were allowed to own almost nothing everything you had to get from the government so people were so poverty-stricken so there was something called a black market so this lebara chocolate as rabble I used to sell these cigarettes cigarettes were a precious commodity I sold them on the black market and with the money that I got I bought quite a few pounds of flour and then I used to prepare my oven cash in my oven and use this flour knead them with water and start baking beautiful beautiful maps of a basis which I knew has no issue with comments who did I bake the Motta's for her she would buy the sicker she would get the cigarettes give them to me I sold them with the money I got great flour and I baked her moths every single year which I would deliver to her house before paisa rabbi Lau here's the story this is the second witness who is trying to prove that this man her son is Jewish he asked the man is your mother still alive he's 42 years old mother ma says my mother's alive can I speak to her yes then you could score Russia got the number called his mother from the court in Tel Aviv rabbi his thrall may allow got on the phone with this woman and these are the words he told her he said you know the difference between you and me I am rabbi Lau the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv let me tell you the difference I celebrate the night of Pesach I celebrate the Seder of Pesach one night a year you have been celebrating Pesach Seder night 365 nights a year that's the difference between you and I for me Pesach is one night to say there is one night for you every night was to say the night this story tells you about the nature of our people the nature of their faith of their commitment of their mysterious nefesh and of their love for their people for their story for their tradition for their ancestors for their God for their faith not an easy times for decades every night she thought about one night and that was to say the night now you understand what it means I am adding the Mishna says many of you Linda miss Esther broca's my steering it's es miss Ryan by Leila's we mentioned utsa mitzrayim every day and every night it's one of the first passages we say in the Haggadah we mentioned you'd see us miss Ryan by day and by night right the Haggadah says I'm where Blas abanazar yeah how did I learn this we learn it out from the Montes skirt cm seis Khmer it's Mitzrayim kirlyam a fire the passage says and varam you should remember the day you left mitzrayim all the days of your life why couldn't they just say you should remember you'd see as much rhyme throughout the days of your life the days of your life means all the days of your life so he says you may haha yeoman curly america yes aloha via Leila's the days of your life represents daytime during the days of my life every day of my life I remember you'd see us miss Ryan I remember our liberation from Egypt call you my sciatica teaches me not only during the days also during the nights of my life so we just mentioned you'd see us Messiah for this woman literally every single night she sacrificed to remember it's yes mister I am to prepare for the Seder to put away that cigarette sir shall be able to have matzah for Pesach and you know on a deeper level there is daytime and there's nighttime daytime is when the sun is shining when things are bright when it's clear you could walk outside and you see exactly where you're going nighttime is a time of darkness if there's no light outside if it's dark I can fall I can trip I can stumble I can stumble on a rock I can fall into a little ditch or a little hole day time is a time of darkness there is confusion there's uncertainty I can see clearly my path it's easy to remember gula in the time of day but the Mitzvah is and this is how we opened the Hagaddah and Pesach o marabella's abanazar iya I finally learned the source to mention you'd see us betray him at night he's not only talking about the technical mitzvot he's also talking about the experience that even in a time of night even in a time of confusion even in a time of uncertainty even in a time when there's darkness even in a time when people don't know exactly what is happening and what is going to happen even in a time of fear and even in a time of deep deep challenge that caught everybody off guard the Jewish people know we are I'm Seri they are eV we are a nation that survived the greatest swords we still remember UTS mitzrayim every single day and every single night we're a nation that always is connected to Google always is connected to redemption even when the Sun has set and one does not see light we still believe in we hope for redemption we pray for redemption and a part of us remains always in a state of redemption in a state of gula in a state of serenity and in a state of trust and in a state of courage and in a state of confidence and in the state of resolve and this is where we are today this is the story I wanted to share with you and open up for you friends Kindle love you could text your questions to eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven and if you want a shout-out please text your name your your your age the city where you're from your brothers names your sisters names to us eight four five seven seven seven forty-seven 47 and you will find your name basil Hashem scrolled during this program right here on our screens I want to welcome everybody who's watching us from all over the world you know I thought to myself is it right to have a children's program today and then in a few days on Thursday and next Sunday and then I thought to myself I realized isn't this exactly what Martha that I did during the decree when hummin gave a decree against the Jewish people you know when it happened you'd give all this and you could look in the Megillah on the 13th of Nissen Herman had the King sign a decree to exterminate Ramona let's not every Jew man woman and child in all over the 127 provinces of akashi Irish what did Martha Zion Esther do Esther did what if she had to do naturally she would ruin got dressed up and she went to the king and she threw a party and then she threw another party and she got the King leopard thickened frail and there was a lot of drinking and hummin came to the parties she did what she had to do according to the natural circumstances to get our surveyors to execute hummin and to ultimately cancel the de Korean allow the Jewish people to defend themselves but what did Martha hide the Martha fair as a Jewish leader at the commandment of Esther who said noises coli you heard them gather all of the Jews and I'm sorry and be xuxa and fast and Davin and do Trueba and Mordechai himself the Midrash says in McGillis Esther gathered who together he gathered all of the Jewish children he gathered 22,000 Jewish children from the whole world and together they were learning and together they were dominating and together they were celebrating life and because it was Pesach because the decree came out a day before Erev Pesach they were learning the whole office of the carbon Eimer the halacha of the carbon that they would bring on the second day of payza every year in the base our mixers - Zionists and known as the carbon Omer they would take barley did you know Kindle actually would harvest the barley from a field you have the sole barley you saw pictures of barley we didn't grow up on farm so many of us don't know what real barley looks like they would harvest barley stalks of barley get the kernels out grind the kernels into flour put the flour through a sister so that the flour would be thin and and and clean and refined they put it through 13 sifters 13 times they sifted the flour and then the Cohen took a part of the flour no one has an ax serious ax ay for the volume of 43.2 eggs that was the volume of flour that he took the Kunin took a fistful of that flour of climates he would put it in his hand take with his hand from the Kayle from the vessel a fist full of flour the second finger the index finger the middle finger and the fourth finger near the pinky would cover the flour and with the thumb and with the pinky he would remove the flour on the sides a little bit of this flower this flower under the three fingers in the fist was burnt on the MS baya on the OLT in the base of McNish and the rest was baked of course as matzah and the Cohanim would eat it in the base hamikdash as matzah on the second day of Pesach and that's when we started to count Spheeris Homer Omer is the measurement of the flour that was used for this carbon it's called carbon iron and that's when we count 49 days from that day all the way till 49 days and then comes Luis and from that day they were allowed to eat all the fresh grain that started to now in the fields during the time of Pesach today of course we don't have a base a mixer so we don't bring the carbonyl myrrh but we still do smear asaram right after we count we say hi Roth come on no Yahoo's are long elevators based on mr. slim climb of am here be a main or main seller may Hashem return us to this work to the service and the base I'm English our main forever so that way we won't only count but will also actually bring this year the carbon Eimer of Spheeris armor this is what Martha guy was teaching the children this is what Martha was teaching the children and the adults the Gemara says and McKinley taught this to the adults also during that time and the children saw Amon coming and they would not leave Martha fact they remained connected this was the power that Martha if I understood with the Jewish soldier so here we also come together everybody children from around the world I'm gonna ask you all to give a little sadaqa after this program and add in your davon ink and add in your learning and add in your mitzvos and add in your Alice Easter all and the power that the Jewish people have when we're United when we're connected when we are uplifted when we are inspired is incredible it's infinite it goes back from the beginning of time and it continues till to day so I'm going to ask you all of you to relax now a lot of questions came in about people being anxious and afraid and sad and these are all very very normal emotions you're a human being if you're feeling all these feelings you're in good company I'm also anxious I'm also not having an easy day it's a hard time for everybody for every person for every Jew there's not a human being whose life has not been turned over in some way by this some people in some ways and some people in much more drastic and serious ways but everybody's life has been affected I want to do a little meditation with you Kendall ah sit up in your chairs or wherever you're sitting in your couch and your chair I don't know where you are and your couch and your dining room and your living room in your family room on the fool it excuse me on the floor but I'm gonna ask you all to sit comfortably sit comfortably and close your eyes and try to take a deep breath a deep breath through your nose inhale and slowly exhale through your mouth let's do it again can they lock slowly inhale through your nose and then slowly exhale through your mouth just try to relax my dearest boys and my dearest girls we love you all so so much and we all feel so connected and let's do it once again and again a deep breath in and exhale [Music] now I'm going to ask you my dear children try to feel your body try to feel the parts of your body can you bring attention quietly and calmly to the top of your head the top of your head right here are you feeling anything there are you feeling any tension on the top of your head then you're here or is it relaxed be very quiet and calm and try to feel what is happening right there on top of your head now come down a little bit to your neck how was your neck feeling are you feeling tight in your neck are you feeling tension in your neck if you are try to take a deep breath and allow it to relax do the same with your teeth with your jaws your cheeks with your back your upper back your lower back let it all relax and if it's not relaxed just acknowledge it with compassion don't get upset at it just breathe into it notice your hands can you bring your mind and focus on your two hands near you or on you do you feel tension in your hands can you relax them and even if you can't relax them can you just be fine with your hands being the way they are how about your stomach your heart your chest your knees your legs and your feet can you bring your minds attention to them help them relax or just breathe into them and be fine if they're not relaxed don't judge them and what about your emotions my dick in the lot are you feeling fear are you feeling dread are you feeling panic are you feeling anger are you feeling pain do you feel clogged up do you feel like clogged up you're stuffed up do you feel this and where do you feel these emotions and which part of you do you feel them in your neck in your back in your chest do you feel a lump in your throat do you feel it in your head do you feel it in your feet where do you feel it can you tell it and give it permission to relax and even if not give it permission just to be the way it is can you notice there Kendall ah can you notice that there is an eye that is aware of this pain or these feelings right I'm aware that I'm anxious that I'm scared that I'm stuffed up I am aware of it that means I am NOT the anxiety I am NOT the fear I'm noticing it I am aware of it it's sitting inside of me but it's not me can you notice that and Who am I who is the I that's observing all of this who is the I there is an eye inside of all of this and this I can contain it and your eye and my eye you don't have to be afraid of it you don't have to be afraid of any emotions that you're having it's all normal you're a human being it's a difficult time you're stuck in the house for a long time your parents may be afraid then you're feeling it you may be afraid you may be angry you may have so many questions you're not sure you have so many beautiful plans that are not working out it's fine can you accept that and know right now that your eye your deepest deepest eye is fine you know why it's fine because it's one with Hashem and it could contain everything you have inside of you it's one with infinity it's one with a reality that is unlimited I want you to take another for deep breaths and try to tell this to yourself in a very relaxed and compassionate and non-judgmental way breathe in through your nose hold it for a few seconds and then breathe out through your mouth and I want you to remember our sages say coil hana Shama - hallelujah hallelujah every soul is thankful Taschen the word neshama comes from the word Enoshima which means breath I'll call the shamone Shima every breath is another miracle in the making every time I breathe so many things have to happen in my body and I'm grateful for every breath and I want my breath to be able to be included with your breath and - Shama to be one with your neshama and help all the neshamah sabri DH whoever needs help breathing should be able to breathe and now together with me I wanted Arvind I wanted Arvind from the depth of your hearts the depth of my heart to our loving creator davon for your family for your community hashem please bring a speedy and complete recovery to everyone who was struck with this virus and to all who are struggling to breathe and to all wives who are struggling and want to survive give them all healing healing to all of the Jewish people in the whole world he linked to all good human beings in the whole world bring everybody healing and give us all the courage and the resolve and the strength to be able to deal with this in the best way bless all of the medical health professionals in the whole world working so hard to help people with this virus working so hard to find the right medications let them be the channel of healing help our whole planet help our people help our brothers and sisters in air to strollin and here in American in the whole world and let this insanity wake up the world wake us up from our complacency wake us up from our lives from our fall sort bring in a new era of truth a new era of truth that everybody so deeply wants we all want truth ms/ms truth and let the world experience the ultimate truth the ultimate oneness when it will be revealed that everything is won by yo-yo ma fuyi hashem echad is my Ahad hashem let's pray together all the candela bring us the Gullah bring us mashiach at kano now our main four main thank you Thank You children for the trust thank you for joining in this prayer in this Fela and in this meditation riddle time riddle time my dear boys and girls and anybody could text their questions to eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven here's the new riddle of this week's this Sunday's program and the answer will be announced next Thursday at the program four o'clock p.m. who ever gets this riddle right you could text in your answers to eight four five seven seven seven 47 47 and Bleen net that we're going to send something special to your home I know we still have to get to the riddles of last time so many answers came in but here's the new riddle for today's program Pesach is coming and during the Seder we do so many different things okay so we're going to ask two questions about two Seder these are the two questions of the day question number one I'm going to go through one two three four five six seven eight nine nine things we do during the Seder and I want you to answer this question each one of them do we do it because it's a mitzvah min ha Tara it's a biblical commandment which we call a diary so the himesh tells us to do it moisture a bane who told us to do it from Hashem is that the reason we do it is it a mitzvah there are bonham it's the rabbi's and the sages and later generations who instituted it or is it a minute a custom which means it's not an obligation just a custom that's been practiced for many years in many communities so we're going to go through nine items and I want you to be able to tell me about each item is it minatoya is it a biblical commandment does it come from the Torah is it madera Bonham is it something that the rabbi's instituted later in history or is it a miniature custom which means it's not an apple not from the trailer and not Madeira Bannen but it came later in history number 1 kiddush the Kidder's that we say when we come home tired to contain from soul MouseMan kids we say kid is that kiddush is it midnight parameter up on it or a minute next four cups of wine next item has Sabre reclining you know we take the pillow only recline and I left slide when we eat them we drink next item matzah we eat matzah is this minute or is it made their eponymous in a minute what about Mauro next arises what about saying the Haggadah saying that I gotta what is that how about dipping the egg in the water in the salt water we dip the egg people before the meal deep that the bragging eat it and the last question is what about God God eeeh God God God God all these things minute Raider made their opponent or a minute oh one more falling asleep just talking there's no mitzvah to fall asleep there's no mitzvah to fall asleep ok so I'm gonna say the items again saying kiddush drinking 4 cups of wine reclining matzah morin khuur Isis saying the Hagaddah dipping the egg in water and singing at the end like many do had Gardea God God yeah that's question number one you could text in your answers to eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven whoever gets all of them right we're going to get God willingly neither your home address and send you a special treat one last question this is a little more difficult kinder life but I know some of you will have brilliant answers so here's my next face of question and that is this we know that I'm Pesach there's a mitzvah to tell the story of UTSA Mitzrayim to ourselves and to our children we gather to live in huts as in parishes I tell the story to your son tell the story to your child and that's why I'm pasted that we sit down by the Seder and we say the Haggadah I just gave one of the answers and we tell the story of leaving Egypt to all of our children right now if you had to write the Haggadah if you if my Shura Boehner came to you or rebbi akiva came to you or review dynasty came to you and said you I am Yankee mati David Sarah hiya rifka I want you to prepare the Haggadah we have to make something that we're all going to do at the Seder night and you say what should it be and I'm gonna tell you it should be the story of your tears miss Ryan the story of the Jewish people going out of Egypt what's the text that you would have chosen what is the text that you can do like what I've chosen I think the best text would be we have this story where do we have this story many of you learned in an amish parish mice patches ver era parshas boy partial smudge tells the story of the Jews went into Egypt parishes way that tells the story of the plagues and parishes boy tells the story how they came out of mitzrayim shouldn't we open the Commish on the night of pacer and read through that story read through smize for area and boy it's a beautiful story how Perry enslaved the Jewish people how the Jews cried out how much she came to power and he said let my people go no no no I will not let them go no no no I will not let them go King Perry and then the blood and the frogs and the lice and all the ten plagues and then the Jews came out of Egypt we have it in Hamish do we read these parshas by the Seder night we don't we don't why not Candela why don't didn't they choose for the gardener this story from kamesh instead you know what they chose instead they chose parshas kiss of a much later income --is-- when a Jew and straw would bring a basket of ripe fruits every year you would go into your garden or your field and fill up a basket with the new fruits new pomegranates and new grapes and new figs and new dates and no olives and you would bring it to your shall I him and give it to the Cayenne after suus it was called bickerin and when you brought the basket of fruits to the current in the base of McNish you would say briefly the story of UTSA mitzrayim you would speak about how he went down to Egypt and we were enslaved and we had hard labor and I Shem heard our cry and he took us out with an outstretched arm that's what you say when you bring the basket of fruits after service and the Haggadah repeats those sukham and explains them and it's so funny because instead of using this story of ETS retirement commish we used the suka much later of a Jew who was living in Eric Cicero and brought the basket of fruits to the base of McNish and he said this brief history of ETS which I am in a few look him and it wasn't even on pacer it had to be after slowest why did they chose parshas cassava where the story is recounted by the person bringing the fruits rather than the story and partial Schmeiser area and boy kinder laughs that's the second question you can text in your answers eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven we will address these questions in the next programs we still have a program next Thursday at 4:00 and next Sunday at four o'clock p.m. right here on values Sheva that net we also could see the previous programs this is our fourth one we had one last what's today I'm confused today is Sunday we had one last Thursday we had one a week ago Sunday we had one two weeks ago Thursday they're all on the Shiva that net we took a lot a lot of questions and we tried to give some answers and we told a lot of stories then we had some other riddles so please feel free to go and watch the other ones and now my dearest dearest Kindle ah my dearest Kindle ah I am going to shear one story and then we're gonna take some questions that I keep on coming in and then I want to share another story and then we'll take another few questions and another few answers the A's they're Hashem so let me tell you a beautiful beautiful story it's a sad story but it's also a beautiful store it's a very powerful message the story goes like this there was a Jew his name was a Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk Vitebsk is a city in belarus belarus is a section of the large country of russia's called belarus they used to call it white Russia he came from Vitebsk madmen de lavit Epps care he's also known by some as an of Menachem Mendel of horrid ahora duck is another city where he also lived he wrote a safer called pre Horus the fruit of the land and he was one of the greatest students of the maggot of miss rich to Deborah Deborah Deborah Meza rev Dave bear of Miss rich he lived in Russia as I said but he in the 1770s made aliyah to arity strong area stroll then was under the turks under the adam and empire and he took a large group of Hassidim from Russia and Lithuania and they went up to Eretz East row this was the famous Alya in the year tough kilometers I in 1777 around 1777 and he settled in the holy city of tavera Tiberias in the year tov Kaufman love 1786 there was a pandemic there was a plague there was a it seems like a horrible infection or virus then they knew very little bit about this because they didn't have the microscopes that showed them what a virus is because you can see it with your eyes but the consequences were there but they didn't always understand what is happening it's not like today we understand a vision that's happening but we understand more and medicine thank God has progressed so significantly so that we could save more lives but we see how much we don't know and we see how the world was caught off guard and in that year 1786 there was a terrible pandemic in Terraria and I assume in other cities and we know about this because it Amendola wrote a letter and in the letter he writes that he was in quarantine from Purim till after suus imagine he was quarantined in a home from portable evidence he was one of the great leaders and one of the Great Pacific masters of his generation it was a great holy Jew a picot Saavik he says from poor him - laughs - show us there was a few family they actually had ten men in the house so they can davon in the house with a minyan because they happened to have ten people in the house quarantined but of course they couldn't go to the mikveh of course they could not go out he writes about how they got food he also writes about how many lives were taken because of this pandemic there was one man in the group who felt very bad that he's not going to the mikveh he used to go to the mikveh every day and certainly used to go to the mikveh on Monday and Thursday an era of Shabbos and Shabbos and yom tov and now he couldn't go to the mikveh Remender live attempts kay told everybody nobody should leave nobody is allowed to leave it's Pequot nefesh it can endanger a life but he felt the need to go to the mikveh and he left the house and he went to a mikvah and fast sadly he got infected by the disease and it took his life and read Mendel I heard about this Rebbe Mendel of attempts to heard about this and he said something unbelievable he says it's a pity that is Jew did not believe in Apothic which PASOK impartial Zachary mice hacchyan item beside to my son Hashem says I dwell with the Jewish people in the midst of their tumor in the midst of their impurity if he would have only believed in that passing and he would have understood that he doesn't have to go to the mikveh because now is a time that I Shem says I am going to be with you without the mikvah things could have turned out so much different if you could express yourself that way ultimately I guess it was by shared what is rip Mendel teaching us here some kinder laughs are asking me so many questions no chakras no minister no my roof with a minyan I always David with a minyan Shabbos Kriya cetera some of you have the Minich to go to the mikveh and Shabbos with your Tottie's like there's mimic of many of the customs some go every day no mikvah Pacers we always had with so many family members and cousins and Sadie and Bobby and this year it's gonna be so different it feels like it's not a Jewish thing to do that's why some people feel they have to go to the mikveh they have to go to shul but let me tell you Kindle life that's not the way it is we don't decide what you this guy is Hashem decides with your disguise and this is a time where a Shem says I love your darling when it's done from your home privately and I'm gonna love your say there when it's gonna be done from your home privately I sure you can eat them but touch to my some I'm hearing you're dominating in your learning and in your mitzvahs and in everything that is happening in your kitchen and your dining room and your bedroom and your home that's where the Shema is right now it's not anywhere else the Shema is not in the shul the stream is not in a mikveh the skin is not in any events you're not gonna find that shem there it could be that if somebody goes to shoulder diving with a minyan they're not even Yoichi dominating they have to davon again ribbed of a coin said that if somebody goes to Sheol to divert now it's not a mitzvah baba very it's a thefts of an it's not a mitzvah that you're doing through a sin the whole thing is one big set could be weren't even fulfilling the mitzvot of domine when you come home you have to dive in again because you're putting people's lives in danger imagine somebody on pacer would say oh I don't have matzo for Pesach oh I have a great idea instead of mats I'll eat Salah that's great I can't eat not Sally Paola you're gonna laugh right Evy foul on Pesach is not the second to the best it's the worst violations of basis today the daven in the shul is the worst violation of Davin Inc because whenever we go out together with people whether it's a shoal or a street or a park or a store or a grocery store and we're not careful and we're not being responsible to curb this virus we are endangering life so Hashem says I want to be with you in your home that's where I am that's where all the action is that's where the base I make dishes that's where the shul is that's with governing is that's where learning is our I didn't eat um besides to him awesome that's what your Mendel of victims Vitebsk air was teaching I want to tell you another story about him maybe it happened at this time maybe didn't happen at that time it's a famous story I saw that one over the swimmer from Earth observing and his superior acidnam he tells a story and that is that one day there came a rumor to tavera that mashiac is coming why they said that somebody went up on the horizon on the mountain of olives in Yerushalayim and he blew Schaefer and because he blew Schaefer it's probably a Leo our Navi announcing that mashiac is about to come and they told this to read Mendel of attempts care you know what he did the truth is this guy was on meshugganah he was a he was a madman he was an imbecile he was a shite he wasn't normal and he took a chauffeur and he went up to the ization and he started to blow and Jews always are waiting for Misha so they thought I must be a Leo an avi so rumor traveled this is before whatsapp but rumor traveled all over the place until it came to terraria that DeLeo Arno V is on the mountain of our lives are as a sand blowing chauffeur the Mendel of attempts K went over to the window of the house and he opened the window and he stuck out his head and he sniffed he started to cry and he said the Schmeck nisht the earth I'm Ashiya I don't smell the cooler in the air it's not a Leo on Navi on the mountain of course later they found out that it was just a Michigan who went up on the mountain I started to blow on a big show for at all shy for unfortunately it was not a Leo on Navi on the mountain so Hasidim asked the question why did he have to open the window and stick out his head then sniff outside why couldn't he just smell in his home take a sniff right there in his home you know what they answer they answered that in the house of rebel of attempt scare there was always the energy of Gokula there was always the moon and the energy and the spirit of mushiya so that's why if he would sniff in his own house he wouldn't be able to tell the difference he had to open the window and sniff outside and then he could smell what's happening in the big world and he says it's not ready yet because in his house there was always this spirit of gula so somebody emailed me today I'm a friend of mine from the 5000 of the ocean and Gordon emails he says who knows why didn't he go outside why did he open the window I didn't just walk out cuz maybe it was during this time and people were so anxious and they heard somebody blows over they said oh it's probably the ghoul and maybe he couldn't go outside it was dangerous so that's why perhaps he opened the window I don't know I can't say that but this is a famous story about Reb Mendel of attempt scare but now we know generations later we are at the end of gullu's and i thought very very soon we're anticipating the coming of messiah at any moment we could see the world already be going through a transformation this is transforming the whole world the world is never gonna be the same after this we don't know when mushiya is gonna come that's up to Hashem we do know that it's high time and it's overdue and we dove in every day in every moment that show us forgive me know : that mushiya should come today but one thing we know even in this madness and in darkness in your home when you sniff try to be able to sniff an energy of gula by being positive by living already the way we're gonna live during the google how are we gonna live during the gula we're gonna only live with truth no lies no falsehood we're not gonna let the ate Sahara take over our lives we're gonna feel the oneness that we have with each other and with the whole world and with our Shem when the gula comes it's gonna be revealed that everything is part of infinity we're gonna see the power in each and every one of us we're gonna see the light of a Shem shining through each and every one of us and through each and every person and for each and every creature in the world the parsec says if you're shy of an eagle accord our sham berroco boss are you active kaffir sham dipper we're gonna see that the whole world is really divine energy it looks like a big physical - mystical world that is not godly but really the whole physical world is all based on the divine energy without the divine energy giving life to everything in the world every moment nothing can exist literally nothing can exist we see here what happened everything in the world collapsed in a few days from an invisible creature because the whole world every moment is really an expression of divine energy and when we realize that we're already in a state of gula we're already in a state of redemption we're already in a higher state durab mendelian as house always felt that and that's one of the greatest things we can do to prepare for machine is to already live in a whole new way to live with truth to live with our deepest deepest power to live with our infinity not to allow our fear to define our lives but to allow our infinite godliness and holiness to define our lives in the lifetime to take at least some questions 845 777 47 47 you can text all your questions and if you want to shout out as you see on the screen we are scrolling the shoutouts I want to thank River Houseman for doing such a beautiful job on scrolling I can even see it here speaking to you quarantined on J court in Muncie New York I see this screen in front of me and all these beautiful names of these beautiful and holy holy holy children so I'm going to listen I want to cover it are you so many questions so many questions Wow Wow Wow and I want to try to do a lot of them so therefore I'm gonna ask you permission to give short answers okay I'm gonna give short answers because you know sometimes I give long answers because if I give short answers I can try to cover a lot now if you're not satisfied with your answer which is very likely because I'm only telling you what I know and a lot of things I don't know trust me I know much less than what I don't know right somebody once said in Yiddish Abu Qatada initiative is ensign Amir Ali right in ignorance were all wealthy so therefore if something is unclear or you want more explanation feel free to text again the elaborate question or you can even email me directly if it's private why rabbi why why at value Sheva dotnet rabbi why why at the yeshiva dotnet and Bleen that there with our shams help I'm gonna try to answer every email so if it's a personal question and you feel that my answers now are not really dealing with what you need to know feel free to email me directly Kindle ah rabbi why why at the yeshiva dotnet and don't think that just because you're a child your questions are not significant and are not important your questions to me and to us are very very very important so feel free to email and now to text eight four five seven seven seven four tea 747 let's go question number one last program you did your whole twenty dollar bill stick will you jumped on it and you trampled it on your shoulders that it did not lose it value yes that was fun but I have another question what happens if somebody takes the $20 bill and rips it into shreds then it does lose its value some people were spit on some people were stepped on they feel broken and shattered but some of us were ripped into shreds some of us are now addicted with horrible horrible things and it breaks us as you can imagine our dollar bills were not stepped on our dollar bills were torn Wow you know I would really like if you email me because I think we should have a more private conversation rabbi why why at the yeshiva net but I do want to say one thing to you and to all the Kindle ah and that is my metaphor would the money was not a perfect metaphor and I'll tell you why you're right when it comes to a $20 bill or $100 bill you can tear it up into pieces you could burn it you could throw it in the garbage you could scatter it and it's gone there's no value to it you can destroy it not when it comes to your soul your soul is a Gaelic la Comi mal mama Sh your soul is a piece of Hashem literally that's the quote that's brought in many many swaram and then Tonya he adds the word mama it's literal you are a fragment of a Shem you are a piece of Hashem could anybody destroy and burn Hashem can anybody take Hashem and tear him up into pieces that's impossible nobody can ever do that to your soul there's always your neshama that is wholesome happy powerful confident courageous full of strength and full of infinite power and no matter what has happened to you in your life and no matter the difficult circumstances that you endure in your life and no matter the mistakes that you may have made because of different experiences of your life nobody and nothing has the power to destroy your invincibility invincibility means nobody can destroy the part of you your essence your core which always remains wholesome and it's not breakable it's not destructible now I know sometimes we don't feel it I know sometimes I'm not in touch with it but I want you to know that it's Lear and one day you'll be able to access it and when you access it you will be able to find a way to go forward with your life with joy and with wholesomeness hang in there take what you need you could come in and take wow this is a very very powerful powerful question for many many years I was looking forward to my bar mitzvah I was supposed to have a very big Bar Mitzvah I didn't have an easy life and I'm an orphan I won't have my father at my bar mitzvah my father died many years ago and I was hoping to have such a big bar mitzvah and now my bar mitzvah is happening in a few days and nobody's gonna be at my bar mitzvah because we're all quarantined so first of all I want to ask you to please email me your address I want to send you of a mitzvah gift that's number one number two number two with your permission with your permission at the next program if you send me your address I would like to announce your address maybe some other kinder life would like to send you something if they want they might want to send you something we all want to participate in your bar mitzvah and right now we're gonna have a little bum it's of a similar for you Mazel Tov for your bar mitzvah Mazel Tov may you have a beautiful life an awesome life a happy life a blessed life and continue to grow from strength to from strength to strength now I know that it's painful and it's not easy but I want to tell you a story and I hope that this story can shed a little light on your bar mitzvah My dear Buffalo my dear boy and those of you who know other boys having Bat Mitzvah these days or these weeks or these months please forward them this this program you could for with them a link from this program to their email I'm asking you a favor to please forward it to them because I think it's such an special story this is a story that was told by the Baal Shem Tov a bistro Baal Shem Tov and he said the following there was a Jew who lived in swass in the year shin lama the gimel shin lama gimel would be fifteen 1573 this Jew was a simple Jew he can read Hebrew he can davin but he was not a Tom McLoughlin he was not learning he was not knowledgeable he was a simple Jew a very fine man a god-fearing Jew one night a person appeared in his home they started to speak and this man tells him that he's a Leo an avi the Jew cannon believe it le oh I know Vivas leave me alone stop you stop dressing up and making yourself a Leo one of it the man came back I'm a Leo or nothing what do you want from me I'm going to reveal to you the day mushy if is going to come but there's a condition the condition is you have to tell me what you did on the day of your Bar Mitzvah I know that you did a mitzvah on the day of your Bar Mitzvah that made an unbelievable commotion in heaven and Hashem joy from your Mitzvah was unbelievable tell me what it was and now that Jew knew that he was for real because he knew about something he did on the day of his Bar Mitzvah so the Jew told Ellie oh and avi what I did on the day of my bar mitzvah I did only for Hashem for nobody else and therefore it is none of your business and I'm not going to tell you what I did elio I know he told them I'm going to tell you when Messiah comes he says I am NOT going to be bribed what I did I did for a sham it's none of your concern no Leo 1.avi left and this made such a commotion in heaven that a Jew was ready to send away Leo on avi they decreed in heaven that aliawan avi should come to and start teaching him Tyler and that's what happened and this Jew from a simple person was transformed into one of the holiest people of the generation but he never told anybody everybody still thought he was simple and he wanted it that way he was a private person he passed away the Baal Shem Tov said and he came to have and it was decreed in heaven that his soul should come down to the world and teach the world profound teachings of Tyler that have not been revealed before and whose soul was this this was the soul of the Baal Shem Tov because one of the main teachings of the Baal Shem Tov through his teachings of acid' this was that in life you have to ask one question and that is what does Hashem think about this nobody else I don't need validation from anybody I don't need endorsement from anybody I don't need anybody to agree the only reason I do it is for a Shem and I shan't himself nothing else no other agendas no other politics that's Yiddish guy that's one of the great teachings of the Baal Shem Tov he was the soul of that Jew in Slough who came down again and the Baal Shem Tov's body Baal Shem Tov was born 60 98 Tufnell s which means this Jew was from 1573 and this is 60 98 it's a century later century and change later what do you see from here my dear Bar Mitzvah boy you see from here you had a Jew and he told the Leo or Navi you are not part of what I did privately for I sham himself and that's your special opportunity in your Bar Mitzvah we make bar mitzvahs we have pictures we have family we have a caterer we have music we have a Viennese table we have chocolate mousse and vanilla ice cream we have a beautiful petal we have gifts it's all beautiful and amazing but you have a special opportunity now and that is to celebrate here by mitzvah with the rabona Shalom himself and trust me your father's neshama will be present so yes it's not what you expected it's hard it's difficult and if you cry about it that's also fine but I want you to know that the main aspect of your Bar Mitzvah is your own relationship with our shell and what the Mishna says that every single person is considered a whole world of them was born one person one person and other knew what I do changes the whole world and it's true till today we just don't live that way anymore we're always trying to please this one and that one and that one and the main thing is other people should see and other people should notice there was one somebody who once said the greatest feeling in the world is to do something anonymous and then have somebody find out but you have the opportunity of this Jew who was later the Baal Shem Tov to be able to have a real Bar Mitzvah a real Bar Mitzvah means you and your Tati his eternal love Rafa and Hashem and Salonga yada and your mommy and the siblings who are home I dedicated a few more minutes to this question because I felt it's so important let's go to the next one and I'm going to try to do this I'm going to try to do this try to do this fast eight four five seven seven seven four tea 747-8 four five seven seven seven 47 47 - vow that okay should a yeshiva bocher have a phone with just calling and texting yes you're very lucky if you only have a phone with calling and texting it's a much much better way to live much better much healthier now when everybody's quarantined in their home speak to your parents perhaps you can get a device to be able to communicate with classmates to be able to communicate with teachers to be able to enjoy shiorin but generally when times are normal it's much healthier this way now is a unique time because everybody's doing everything from their house and the fact that we could communicate right now I know some of you are listening by phone but this is very special that we could see each other so maybe for now it would be a good idea to speak to your parents to get an updated device for you to be able to learn more Toyota and communicate with friends can you please explain the meaning of the song Chad gadya after the Seder great question I'm gonna make a note we're gonna do it in one of the next programs before pacer discuss car gadya we have still Thursday at 4 next Thursday at 4 next Sunday at 4 how can a Shem do this to us doesn't he love us patty you would never do anything like this to us mommy you wouldn't punish us like this Hashem is our father how can he be so mean how can he be so cruel why do I have to live through this perhaps a Shem should have not brought me into this world oh my dear child you are now experiencing and seeing what a lot of your grandparents and great-grandparents and great-great grandparents and great-great-great grandparents or throughout history there were many many painful moments in history where what we saw and what we see is so difficult to understand but let me tell you the rule in life you don't have to understand I don't have to understand everything I don't have to wrap my brain around everything some things I really can't understand just take a deep breath and know that this world is so so mysterious remember every moment that we could breathe every moment that we are protected from viruses is a miracle 37 trillion cells have to work every moment in your body and be healthy just for your life to function normally and that's just your life there's another seven and a half billion people and then there's billions and billions of mammals and fish and rodents and insects and bushes and trees and shrubs and everything else in our planet and in our universe and they all have to work to perfect symmetry so I want you to know that every moment of oxygen is a miracle there are trillions of red blood cells trillions trillions not millions not billions trillions of blue red blood cells that are invisible to the eye that are moving through your body every single moment to bring oxygen to bring oxygen and other nutrients to your body so all of life full of life comes from our Shemin and life's challenges also come from usha why does our loving father do this I don't know I don't know we don't know but still know that I shall is still your loving father and still your loving mother every single moment and every moment of your life is precious even if we can't understand so much of it hold on we're all in this together we love you we bless you we here for you can you explain for us children the difference between the mysterious NEFAs Jews had in Europe 100 years ago for example Pesach I read stories who nearly Jews nearly starved to death in jail or exile mati comments on Pesach people who learnt in public at the pain of death the story of Rabbi Akiva and the Romans how are we supposed to learn from them they gave up their lives for Toyota and mitzvos they technically should have avoided all these mitzvahs to protect their lives in health and now we are told not even to daven on our porches we are we supposed to dive in with a minion and answer Amane why don't we learn from all these people wonderful wonderful wonderful question so let me answer your question you have to understand in those situations there was a zero against Judaism the Romans made a decree against terror mitzvos the Russians want to uproot Judaism so therefore there was a room from a serious nefesh to self-sacrifice here the corona virus is not fighting Judaism every school in the world is closed Jewish and non-jewish you're allowed to learn your ladder you just have to do it in your house not ensure they're not in school but generally here is the principle we don't just die when we decide it's right to die we follow the tailor for mysterious nefesh the terrier tells us when we have to give up our lives and when we don't have to give up our lives the Torah tells us when we listen to the doctor and when we don't the tire gives us rules when we are supposed to sacrifice our life davin in with the minion is not one of those mitzvahs that you are massive to sacrifice your life for in order to dive in with a minion we cannot make up new mitzvahs and do it do something that is against what the Torah tells us to do now even if you yourself want to say I want to give up my life even for a mitzvah that I'm not McCoy of for example dabbing with a minion I want to give up my life wonderful but you're not giving up your own life you're gonna be healthy you're sacrificing so many other lives when the tailor says you're now allowed to do this imagine somebody would tell me go davon with the minion but the only way you could happen with the minion is if you take a gun and your first shoot ten Jews you shoot them some will get sick some will die some will have to be in the hospital for a year but shoot them and then go down them with a minion what would you say then would you say oh go shoot Jews and then that was a minion mysterious nephrons that with a minion mysterious now first I'm with a minion at bestest you want to sacrifice your own life but what if I'm putting other Jews lives in danger it's the worst thing it's against the whole tire it's against the whole mitzvahs rebbi akiva would be the first one to tell you no no no it's forbidden your danger in people's lives we have mysterious efforts to save a life not mistress nephesh to murder another person's life this is Domini that would be the worst worst sin I hope I answered your question it says intial Senora Farah from the ballot Anya why don't we make sure to you know buy because comets when we check for the Comets or burning the Comets and he says because we make sure he uh no on the night of Pesach trying to say therefore every thing okay so more you should though broker h10 Borough Park says why don't we make sure if you don't know why because comets for everything cuz that's the first Mitzvah we're doing for pace on excellent question and the answer is because the purpose of Dicker's comets and burning comets is to prepare for Pesach why do we check our house for comets to clean out the house because the Torah says that for seven days of pace f you should not have any comments in your house so because the whole purpose of Dicker's comets and beer comets is let's say your car a go it's for preparing for the UM to face up so therefore when should we make dahi uh no we don't make sure he under when we're preparing we make sure he only yump if itself by the seder because because hummus is a preparation for that beautiful beautiful question Leia Moskowitz eleven-years-old Montreal we believe that this virus was brought upon the world to make Hashem know into all the nations we're seeing people and governments saying that only God can help us now my question is if this is so why do Jews have to die to can't the nation see it without us having to lose precious youth edition of Samus Wailea what a question but maybe there are other reasons I don't know I don't know we can't understand how shams mind this may be part of the plan but there's so much more to it and maybe we also have to go through a transformation I don't know why any precious either should have some have to give up their life I'm Amish don't know and I will never know and if I don't know it's probably because I don't have to know all I can do is cry and all I can do is pray and all I can do is be here for ourselves and for all of us and try to get rid of this madness together I don't know why all of this had to happen but what I do know is the world needs transformation for sure we also need transformation this is also a wake-up call for each and every one of us and for all of our people we also have to go through a transformation there's some stuff by us that we can also transform my hate year old daughter had this question okay the uncle passed away from the coronavirus very recently 43 years old it's heartbreaking it was a shock for all of us now she will come soon what happens if my aunt the widow remarry somebody and then mushiya comes and my uncle will be alive again he's gonna want to go back to his family to his first one to his wife but she already married somebody else will he be able to go back to his family what's going to happen Wow thank you thank you for this question what an amazing question beautiful the answer is he will he will don't worry about it let me tell you something every soul has its soul mate that it needs to be with every soul has its own mate sometimes a soul has more than one soul mate when machine comes everything will be orchestrated in a way where everybody is perfectly happy knowing that they are in the place they have to be and they want to be in the place where they are being exactly what they're supposed to be so everybody's gonna have the perfect right Shiva that their soul wants and their body wants you don't have to worry about it if this is the right Shiva for him he's gonna have this that remember there's a lot of calculations because we don't know exactly I was gonna work out but who is this second man that she may marry this second man and where was we was he married before is he gonna want somebody else I don't know all these calculations what I do know is that our son is gonna orchestrate it in a way that your uncle will be perfectly happy and your aunt for many long and happy elf ears will be perfectly perfectly happy because everybody is gonna know that they are exactly where they're supposed to be they're married to the person they're supposed to be married and they are living the life that is best for them to live representing and bringing to the world their unique godly light so don't worry about it my dear 8 year old girl very special question marshmallow we davon we learn we do mitzvahs to end this plague for all those sick we want them to recover Lama chef isn't he the one who created everything he created this plague in the first place we were already before he wanted more that he have to have people pass away to get more all you Kindle a car asking such beautiful questions and I want the adults to see what the children are asking this is so so important again it's hard ever to know Hashem is mind I don't know why Shem is mine can I can I can can imagine if you create a table do you think this table can understand you if you take pieces of wood and you make a table can that table understand you that table can't understand anything about you much less can my brain wrap itself around Hashem is brain our brains were created by God so all of our brains understand is human understanding we don't know any we have no understanding of an infinite brain of infinite wisdom we trust we believe we keep our spirits high we dive in exactly what the plan is what he wanted I don't know but I tell you hold on strong let's be joyous let's be united let's pray and don't think Davenant have an impact sometimes Kindle life asked me somebody said I dive in for somebody and the person passed away does it mean Hashem didn't listen to my diving no everytime you dive in for somebody it has a tremendous impact we don't know how it impacts the person sometimes we dive in for a person and they pass away don't think they don't gain from your domini their nash humble lives on forever known as summer ever dies do you know how much that neshama gains from your davon e you know how thankful that neshama is for you never think that words that come out from your mouth are in vain they go nowhere they're wasted learn from the virus one man sneezes in Wuhan China and the whole world is affected by a sneeze do you know that the ear droplets can carry this invisible virus and it can travel they say some 30 feet that's why you need so much distancing from people do you know that one sneeze and this is a virus everything that comes out of your mouth changes not only this world it changes all the worlds the Baal Shem Tov once said on the puss akin to he'll mmm Tish Kevon banks battalion Hashem lays between your lips at Shem guards your lips and waits for every beautiful word of Atilla and tyre that comes out of your mouth and he kisses every word every word has an impact when you dive in for somebody even somebody who's not here there neshama has tremendous benefit from every filler of yours never think that your diving is worthless it has a tremendous impact very powerful people that are living here for many long happy and healthy years and people who sadly and unfortunately are not here with us beautiful beautiful questions Kindle ah Wow why do we say Iraq come on who you Kyra Vayne only my son mushiya why not Iraq him on who you V able the mysamma Shia why only get close might decide 10 years old from yerushalayim I think the answer may be weird Ivany not only to get the Messiah but that we should feel even now that we're getting closer you carve a know not only that we should get there you know sometimes you take a family trip God willing soon after this viruses dissipates you take those family trips and part of the brushes that you should feel that you're getting there you're getting closer and closer and closer that helps our raff you wonder you Caravan we shouldn't only get there but in our journey there we should understand that we're getting closer and closer I understand that our sham is the biggest and the best farther in the whole entire world and he created everything but I want to ask who is on top of Hashem who made Hashem Wow what a beautiful beautiful question Wow I addressed this in our first program let me say it again very briefly I'm gonna give you one minute answer and that is if you learn a little bit about the world you understand that for the one to create the world he has to be beyond matter beyond physical matter can't be physical beyond time and be and space and that which is beyond physical matter and beyond time time and beyond space is also infinite which means has no limitations whatsoever such a being doesn't have to be created such a being is the essence of everything that is reality all reality comes from that being and is included in that being we are all in Hashem it's not that a Shem exists and we exists Hashem is existence and all of existence is part of Hashem all of existence is in Hashem you could listen to this again and try to think about these words and I think you'll understand it a little bit probably much better than I and many adults dear rabbi Jacobsen if this if the shul scenarios Pascal is different than the Rambam is it mutter ago to go according to the Ramba well there's a system of halakhah there's a system of Melaka so we have to understand we're the ram bombs opinion is coming from with the Chicano rogues opinion is coming from what the majority of the poisk em say usually we follow the Shannara but there is the shulchan aruch there is there are more sometimes this other PI scheme so best is on every situation to consult with a rabbi who is knowledgeable and whom you trust and he can guide you in this specific question I want to know what my parents can do about my only sibling in the house he does not comply with social distancing rules he is 30 years old and I'm so worried for my parents Wow well you and they have to speak to him or somebody has to speak to him respectfully and tell him that this is a very very dangerous situation maybe you could show him some videos to explain this to him but if he really doesn't comply with social distancing it's it's it's completely completely unforgivable that he should god forbid endanger your parents so maybe he can go to another place but he has to at once comply with social distancing this is very very serious and the question is that he already catched the coronavirus and if you already caught the coronavirus then he should be quarantined and shouldn't be in contact with your parents if especially of their elderly people or they have a weakness so they're not feeling so well so this is very important and if you need emergency help with this then call the numbers that they gave for help or your parents should call tell your parents they may need help with this because this is a very this is a very serious it's a very serious situation to put other people in danger we're really really not allowed to do that while Kindle laughs your questions are amazing thank you for sharing thank you for their theory 877 you could call in and text other questions eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven eight four five seven seventy seven forty seven forty seven you can also ask for shout outs and when you ask for shout outs we will scroll your name on the screen let's do some other questions my dearest dearest friends beautiful beautiful beautiful okay we did this dear rabbi Jacobsen we are Satmar Hasidim we listen and we enjoy your classes tremendously right great but we have a brother who won't listen to you since he claims that you are at seeing the you are a Zionist the truth is that we are also very confused with this topic everybody knows that the Santa Maria had a strong opinion on the issue of Zionism of C&S and he wrote smartin about this so we turned to you and hope that you can address this question with all the point of views wow that's such a beautiful question and thank you for your honesty and thank your brother for thank you brother for up for your honesty that's that's that's a beautiful beautiful question let me just say let me just say one one thing wonderful that you are stop the Hasidim 'you should continue to be Santa Monica system large richness young and Vachon employers one of the greatest things about the Jewish people is that we are all committed to the same Tiran to the same Hashem and to the same mitzvahs sometimes there are a few disagreements trust me even if we have a few disagreements and I'm not sure they're so big 99.9 of things we agree right this 613 mitzvahs of the tire so maybe about one of them maybe is about some things there is some disagreements but we all believe in a versus Shem and we all believe in Navasota and we all believe in a versus row and we all believe in the Google and we all want machines to come and we want the world to be healthy and we want the Jewish people to be healthy so we have so so much 99% of our life we agree on let's focus on that let's also remember that all of our souls are one the satmar rebbe is a subsonic live Russia and every oil and in many many places discusses that the differences between all the Jewish people is only externally internally we all have oneness humus over one so we have a principle and that is let's say there's some things that your parents or your brother doesn't agree with me okay that's fine that's perfect that's wonderful ain't a-sayin Chavez look in the Gemara there's so many disagreements between 10:00 a.m. and I Miriam and between girliest all this sometimes disagreements but 99% of things we agree on so I think that I think that we could continue to learn from each other I could learn from you and you could learn from me if you want to follow this up in emails we could follow this up in emails with more details Wow there are there are literally I think another hundred or two hundred questions that keep on coming in eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven plus a lot of questions still from last time that I didn't answer but God willing we're gonna get to all the questions and I still have to give you my riddle and finish with my last little story so let's get to the riddles let's get to the riddles a lot a lot of children and to the riddles a lot of children a lot Mama's dozens and dozens of children and a few of them got it beautifully right I'm gonna read you the first answer that came in I'm gonna read you the first answer that came and it came in from he saw her and you Shia Tenenbaum in Muncie New York and they got the answer to both riddles correct they gave me their address and I want I still I see if people are still sending the answers to the riddles so I'm going to still announce all those who got the riddles correct and I thank everybody who tried to answer the riddles even those who got it incorrect because it's always about trying trying is very very important of course we want to be successful but trying is important so let me give the answer the way the Tenenbaum brothers from Muncie gave the answer and anybody who got this riddle right after year my answer please make sure to text in your address very very important the Tenenbaums did three spartan were written during a pandemic okay the first one the first one and this is actually what i was referring to good this the first one was written by their mo Robbie no moisture is surrealists was the rabbi of Cracow he's buried in the cemetery right near and strollin cracked I was there he lived in the 1500s and he wrote a commentary on the whole shil Senora called her Goya saaremaa it's called the Shulchan Aruch means a prepare table and he's the mapper like the tablecloth on a table and they recorded all over the Kazik traditions because the base Joseph was a Spidey and he wrote it shows America by Joseph Cairo remember histor which was an Ashkenazi from Cracow from Poland and he ran away from a pandemic he ran away in the year shin you involve 15 1556 he ran away to a city called should live and he said there was no fresh water there was no food there were no fruits it was poor him he said it was a horrible depressing Purim because they were running away from a Porsche over the city we lived he said was diseased he calls it that the ear the ear had a had an infection so to speak basically there was a virus traveling and killing people so they ran away and he said it was a horrible poor him because he was without people and without a community so what did he do in such a time he wrote a safer on the Megillah one of the most beautiful commentaries on the Megillah it's called Monsieur yayan the price of wine written by their amah during a pandemic in 1556 he wrote the SAF McCain you know what to save my scientist he explains the whole Megillah Esther as a muscle for a person's life the whole story from Akash perish from the beginning of a fresh radishes rain in the party and Vashti and Esther Martinez ran hama all as a parable for the life of a human being plus many other beautiful insights into the Megillah why did he write this because he couldn't celebrate Purim the way he usually celebrated it what do you learn from this Kindle ad when you're given a lemon you make lemon aid right you're in you're in quarantine and you celebrate life you see the silver lining keep your humor going there are ma had a difficult poem and he wrote a safer because he couldn't celebrate Purim usually would sell a bread and they would dance and they would for bring and he would go remote would visit the houses on poor him but he couldn't do any of this so what did he do he sat down and he wrote a safer on materiai in on the Megillah two other people wrote started during a pandemic muda Shh written by the clayey car the famous cleric Loran homage in the year shin I&S shin i infest would be 1618 a moody sage by the clayey car and finally safer her fiim by repeat I am been bit sallow a brother of the morale wrote it in the year shin noon gimel 50 93 all these books were written in the 1500 to the 1600s during pandemic so materiai in of the Rama and then we have a mood a sage by the clayey car and we have safer Hawaiian by repeat I am the brother of the morale I actually saw this safe it's quite an interesting safer what did he call it he called it the book of life the book of life okay riddle number two riddle number two you know ask the question about rich tradition isn't the minister skin'll famous minister skinner abusive Bovada asks it in his book mitzvos I say Dao let's say for at Hanauma and you know what he answers he says that we accept the first witnesses he says we accept the first witnesses who said it's Rajesh why do we accept the first witnesses I'm going to read to you what the minhas Kimmel says he says when the two witnesses came and they said the moon they said they saw the moon they were kosher and we investigated them and they were kosher so it's a mitzvah embezzlement to accept their testimony and therefore we make rice writers now even though later we find out that what that two witnesses came and disqualified them and because these two witnesses disqualified them so therefore we should disqualify those first two witnesses so that mr. Skinner says no because the fact is that by other testimony if we find out that bez Dhin was deceived it's worthless but there's an exception by recitation says that even if mezda made a mistake because they were deceived it still restrained us so therefore it not like other witnesses we're if the witnesses are pusle everything that's disqualified here but the evidence empty them they were kosher because there were no other witnesses so even though later we find out that they were disqualified nonetheless we look at the fact that they were accepted as kosher and therefore it is recited ish because even be evident find out that they were wrong it's still risk our dish and the Kapila when they came it was kosher and it's a mitzvah to accept them so therefore I believe that you accept them and it's restraint dish and even later when two witnesses come to disqualify them you don't have to look at that and you don't have to disqualify their ages and nothing is being ruined then you can keep it true you can keep it as rush cry this and especially you can add that according to their own testimony the second witnesses they're still children because it's not rich like this yet so they themselves said that their postulate this is disqualified they disqualified themselves also so therefore the first testimony testimony stands let me conclude with this little anecdote and we will get to your questions next program Thursday at four o'clock eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven eight four five seven seven seven forty seven forty seven bleeding that day I will address all the questions briefly I know they're coming in I did the best I can I know there's a lot lot more from last time and this time and so forth and if you still want to shout out even gonna get a shout out we're gonna start Thursday four o'clock next week and here is my final final little story and that is as follows that is as follows ok once ok I'm gonna do I'm gonna I'm gonna it's gonna it's go it goes like this there was a there was a very famous sage a very famous wise man who was traveling from city to city and he was answering everybody's questions and nobody can stump nobody could get him stuck until one day a little child stands up in front of the whole crowd and he tells them I will stump him I will ask a question he won't be able to answer and when it came to the question-and-answer session he turned to this old sage and he says I have a butterfly in my hand now you tell me is this butterfly alive or is this butterfly dead you know everything answer this question now of course what was this trial thinking whatever he says he'll get wrong if he says that the butterfly is dead the child would just go like this and the butterfly will fly out and if he says that the butterfly is alive he'll just squeeze his hand and the butterfly will die so he's stuck so he says is this butterfly in my hands dead or alive the old man looks at him and says my dear son the answer to your question lay in your hand the answer to your question lies in your hand you will decide the answer to your question conceptually and physically it's in your hand and I share this to you because this is not an easy situation and we don't have all the answers but the one thing we do have a choice and what's the choice that we have how we are going to live now how we are going to respond I cannot control a lot of things in my life but one thing I could control my attitude my perspective how I think about things how I look at myself how I look at the world how I treat my brothers how I treat my sisters how I respect my father and listen to my father and listen to my mother these days how I live with myself these days remember even when you're quarantined so much is in your hands and in my hands so Kindle ah I love you I bless you I'm so happy you're here with us stay healthy stay at home every moment you're home you're doing the greatest Mitzvah in the world helping to save innocent lives from illness and from death together let us dive in together and finish off of volcano slavishly mahalia maha Aveeno Malkina Manama gave them in a colossal a vino mal que no Khalid ever with hair averag with shreya mastis McNabb reset ah mash and bring recovery to all of us and to all of humanity and may the souls of those who passed away rest in peace may they be good the Baptist for their families and their loved ones to overcome this crisis but HESA the barakamon and we should be Zoya immediately to the ghoulish lamer be mayor BIA may know our main this month of Nissen so we could celebrate Pesach in the baser McNish lishi the note Hassan Mina's vaca moment up saw him with simcha and uplifted hearts and great great spirits stay healthy see you back here Thursday 4:00 o'clock p.m. on the you Shiva dotnet you can also text your questions eight four five seven seven seven four tea 747 and remember the answers to the questions that we asked at the beginning of today's class about the 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