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And so I would like to
continue from
where you left off with
a ma'aseh which the Rosh Yeshiva brings
in the hakdamah to the
new sefer which was brought out tonight.
Beyond the Rosh Yeshiva, a few years
before being zocheh to the tremendous
ness
began going to the
kevar of the
holy tzaddik to daven for yeshuah.
And we all got to see
just a year and a half ago
the tremendous ness, the tremendous
yeshuah.
But there was something which happened
at the time when the Rosh Yeshiva went
to the kevar, something unbelievable.
This is something the Rosh Yeshiva wrote
about in the haskamah to the sefer
Birchas Tzaddik. And just as I've done
my end of from
whenever I ask the Rosh Yeshiva to write
something, the Rosh Yeshiva is medayek
in his words
in a tremendous way. There's never a
haskamah or mikhtav which is written and
it's okay right away. The Rosh Yeshiva
goes through again and again making sure
every single word is emes.
So whatever's written in this
haskamah, and there's a lot written
there,
is worth being medayek.
In addition to that, I heard this
ma'aseh directly from the two gabbaim
who were with the Rosh Yeshiva at the
time,
Reb Chaim Teitelbaum and Reb Chaim ben
Nadivah.
It was around the year and a half
before
the leida.
And it was
an Erev Shabbos like this year.
The yahrtzeit fell on an Erev Shabbos
and the weather wasn't so great like
this year, right? It was raining and
pouring.
And the Rosh Yeshiva went to the kevar
Erev Shabbos afternoon. And they were
looking, it's not so easy to find where
the kevar is. They They were going and
looking around in Har Hamenuchot, "Where
is the kevar of the holy tzaddik?"
And they couldn't find it. And the
gabbaim were running from one side to
the other side looking and searching and
trying to find out, "How do we get to
this holy kevar?"
And nothing was doing.
So the master of us two to shave our
Shabbos, let's get back.
We tried, we didn't manage.
Let's give up.
But not the Rosh Yeshiva.
The Rosh Yeshiva doesn't give up. And
the Rosh Yeshiva said, "There's no such
thing as we've come to daven by the
tzaddik, en kaze davar, there's no such
thing that the tzaddik's not going to
help."
And right after the Rosh Yeshiva said
those words, in the pelting rain on Erev
Shabbos afternoon when no one's there, a
car stopped
and someone came out, a Yid, called the
Rav, "What are you looking for?"
"The kevar of the tzaddik of Ranan,
maybe you know where it is?"
And he said, "For sure." And he took the
Rosh Yeshiva and the gabbaim inside and
drove them to the kevar of the tzaddik.
And the Rosh Yeshiva stood there by the
kevar and davened and begged and cried.
And then this Yid took the Rosh Yeshiva
and the gabbaim all the way back to
Yeshiva in time for Mincha.
And what does the Rosh Yeshiva say about
that in his hakdamah? Let me just read
out those words.
And we're here today to see the next
yeshuah.
The beautiful leida of the yahrtzeit of
Reb Chaim of the Rosh Yeshiva. Why?
Because the Rosh Yeshiva didn't give up.
And that's such a chizuk for us. We're
all here tonight.
As Reb Gluckstein said, we all have
things we want, we all have things we're
waiting for, we we all have things which
we'd love to give up on.
But tonight we're learning no, there's
no such thing as giving up.
Before we move on to the rikudim and the
tfilos,
I would like to share with the tzibbur
a form of tfilah which the Rosh Yeshiva
has taught us.
I was zocheh to hear this numerous times
from the Rosh Yeshiva.
When people come to the Rosh Yeshiva and
say, "I've davened so many times
and I'm still not seeing a yeshuah."
What does the Rosh Yeshiva say? And by
the way, this is also written briefly in
the
mikhtav Rav in the haskamah to the
sefer. The Rosh Yeshiva says,
"The reason is because you're davening
with a feeling
as we say in Hebrew, shema'giyali, I'm
deserving.
And if you feel you're deserving, maybe
you're not, and maybe that's why you're
not zocheh.
The way a person has to daven is by
shedding that feeling of I deserve.
By saying,
'I don't deserve anything. The yeshuah I
want
is not coming to me in any way. But why
am I asking Why am I asking you Hashem
for it?' And let me read again the
nusach of the Rosh Yeshiva.
Because you're Av Harachamim and you
want me to be happy.
She takhniseini now listen to these
words leheikhal harachamim. Not in my
zechus, in the heikhal harachamim.
Because there there's no cheit which is
nikhnas. And please give me what I want.
And when a person is mitpallel umamin
ba'Hashem, and again, ve'eino
mit'ya'eish,
oz zocheh hu liyeshuah, as we've seen.
And the Rosh Yeshiva explained a little
bit deeper.
The Rosh Yeshiva explained a little bit
deeper.
If a person has belief in himself,
then Hakadosh Baruch Hu might say, "You
believe in yourself?
Sort it out yourself." If a person
believes in Hashem's rachamim, Hashem's
rachamim applies to everyone. It doesn't
make a difference who he is and where
he's reached and where he hasn't
reached.
Reb Pinkus is me'ayek a little bit in
this. He brings a Medrash exactly about
this.
The Medrash says when Hakadosh Baruch Hu
was up in Shamayim and Moshe Rabbeinu
came, he was oleh la'marom,
then
Hashem went and took Moshe Rabbeinu on a
tour, on a trip around Shamayim.
What was he zocheh to see over there?
Tremendous things. Otzaros
of shefa. And Moshe Rabbeinu wanted
those otzaros and he said, "Eilu lemi?
Who's going to be zocheh to these
otzaros?"
And the first one Hashem said, "Well,
this otzar is for gomlei chasadim.
People who do chesed, you do chesed, you
deserve shefa. Those are for them." They
continued walking, a stroll, Moshe
Rabbeinu and Hashem in Shamayim. And
they came to another otzar. Moshe
Rabbeinu said, "Wow, I also want from
this one. Who's this for?" Hashem said,
"Well, those are for amalei Torah."
People who toil in Torah, they deserve,
as we heard.
People who toil in Torah deserve a lot
of sechar.
And they continued. "Who are these for?"
"No, those are for megadlei sonim."
Until they came to one otzar which was
so big, so massive, so huge, it was
endless. It kept on going and going with
no stop.
And Moshe Rabbeinu said, "Eilu lemi?
Who's zocheh to these?"
And Hashem said, "You know who's zocheh
to these?
Those who mevakesh rachamim. Those who
ask rachamim us."
And Medrash continues, Hashem was
kavyochol mishtage'ach, he regretted
giving away this secret. He said, "It's
better to bring into your house a snake
than a pair of eyes."
Because
Moshe Rabbeinu was zocheh to see
something which kavyochol Hashem didn't
want him to see, this secret
of the otzar of rachamim which the Rosh
Yeshiva has told us about. And Reb
Pinkus explains,
he talking kaze davar, someone who's
amalei Torah, someone who's megadlei
sonim,
gomlei chasadim, all kinds of things,
and they're zocheh to
shefa, but with a limit. And someone
who's mevakesh rachamim, just asks for
free, they get without limit. And listen
to this, this is so deep of Reb Pinkus.
He explains as follows.
When a person is zocheh to shefa because
of something he did, say he learned
Torah, he'll get a lot of shefa.
But how much? Well, how much Torah did
he learn?
A little, a little shefa. A lot, a lot
of shefa. A very lot, a very lot of
shefa.
You're megadlei sonim, how many sonim?
How hard was it? So you get a little,
you get a lot.
But it's going to have a limit.
There's one thing which has no limit.
And that is Hakadosh Baruch Hu's
infinite rachamim.
And therefore, if we ask Hashem, not in
my zechus, as the Rosh Yeshiva has
taught us, in the zechus of you, of your
rachamim, and we ask Hashem, "Please
bring me into the heikhal of rachamim."
There's no limit to the yeshuos we can
see.
And we're now going to go to the final
part of the evening where we're going to
be singing and dancing.
But more than anything, we're going to
be davening and begging
Hakadosh Baruch Hu, don't daven in our
zechus, daven and beg Hashem, please in
the zechus of your otzar of rachamim.
And your rachamim is endless. And then
as the Rosh Yeshiva says,
in that zechus
and in the zechus of not being
mit'ya'eish, then we'll be zocheh,
b'ezras Hashem, to the yeshuos we'll
daven and be zocheh together.
