Shavuos: The Universal Reverberations of Torah Study

Okay, I got to call this everyone. Today's learning and breakfast is sponsored by from Nachman Meshaya Halevi in honor of Rosh Chodesh and Chodesh Sivan. The first the day that came to our Sinai. Even though it says the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare ourselves for the first day of the month. Today's the day we began to be the prepare I want to share with you another item from the safer Darkei Eliyahu. I have to say I haven't opened up the safer I don't think in 27 years. I even forgot I had it. >> [clears throat] >> I have to say I wasn't even sure who wrote this safer. I got it in Eretz Yisrael when I was in Eretz Yisrael. And I vaguely remember that the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbeinu Yaakov Luban recommended that we get the safer Darkei Eliyahu. Anyway, uh Rabbi Luban came out recently with a new safer called Shma Beni. Rabbi Luban is Rosh Yeshiva now of used to be the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim in Yerushalayim. Now he's Rosh Yeshiva in North Miami Beach. And Rabbi Luban's first volume Shma Beni, by the way he's the author of Chidushei Halev, which are the Shmuzin of Hagoen Rabbi Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz. He also wrote a safer Shma Beni Beni of different Tzadikim that he was close with when he lived in Eretz Yisrael. Among them are Rabbi Dov Katz, the author of Tnoei Hamussar, Rabbi Yosef Kahaneman, the father of the current Rosh Yeshiva of Chevron, Rabbi Dovid Kahaneman, Rabbi Shachne Zohn, the father of Rabbi Elchanan Zohn, the head of the Chevra Kadisha in America. Other Tzadikim included Rabbi Shiya Plachinsky. Other Tzadikim included Rabbi Bentzion Brook. Also, um with Meir Chadash and with Mordechai Zuckerman. When I was learning in Eretz Yisrael, I had this zechus to meet some of these tzaddikim. I believe I met Rav Shiya Plachinsky. I met Rav Yosef Chaim. I heard a shiur from him before Rosh Hashanah. I met Rav Mordechai Zuckerman and he gave me two brachos. He was the last talmid of the of the Chofetz Chaim. And now in volume two, Rabbi Luban put out the hanhagos and hadrachos of Rav Dovid Halevi Avrahami. I I have to admit, I never heard of him. And then the here's the bombshell. It says he wrote the sefer Binyan Olam. Did you ever see the sefer Binyan Olam? Binyan the sefer Binyan Olam is a classic mussar sefer on Talmud Torah. It was the sefer on hasmadah. It was considered a very a sefer you have to handle with care. Ha- because it talks about how you have to spend every moment of life learning Torah. So, question is is this appropriate for a bachurim? But it was written anonymously and nobody knew who wrote it. And now Rabbi Luban, one of my rabbaim, put out a sefer of hanhagos of Rav Dovid Halevi Avrahami, the author of Binyan Olam. Oh, they don't even I never knew who wrote the Binyan Olam. So, I got the sefer and I was I was startled that not only is the sefer the hanhagos of Rav Dovid Avrahami there's almost no mention here about limud haTorah in the whole sefer. Probably that was left for Binyan Olam. Rabbi Luban writes like this. That in the year 1937 the tzaddik Rabbi Yehuda Cohen who's the author of this sefer. Okay? In 1937, Rebbe Yehuda Cohen was 18 years old, and he was sitting and learning in the base knesses Zaharei Chama in Yerushalayim. In that base knesses sat the famed Sadiq Rebbe Shmuel HaLevi Halperin. Shmuel HaLevi Halperin wrote Even HaMelech. He wrote Olas Tamid on Tefillah. We mentioned him a few times. He also wrote a sefer. Can you bring me the the Haggadah? Wash your hands. [applause] Do Libun Chal, yeah? Rebbe Shmuel HaLevi Halperin has a sefer on 160 mitzvahs for me kind of say that. Yeah, we once mentioned that. And Rebbe Shmuel HaLevi Halperin was 23, Rebbe Yehuda Cohen was 18, and one day Rebbe Shmuel HaLevi Halperin comes over to Rebbe Yehuda Cohen, and he says, "I like you." Ata motzei chein be'einai. You find favor in my eyes. I want I I want you to be my friend. Do you ever do that to somebody? Go over them. You find favor in my eyes. I like you. I want you to be my friend, and together we're going to be oisek in Torah and Yiras Shamayim. Rebbe Yehuda Cohen said, "Yes." He responded in the affirmative. And for 40 years, these two tzaddikim learned together mussar. Let's fast forward from 1937 to 1992. HaRav Binyamin Luban met Rebbe Yehuda Cohen, and he said, "Could you learn with me?" And they started to learn once a week, and they learned sefer Derech Emet, which was written by Rebbe Yehuda Cohen. Which Rebbe Yehuda Cohen wrote? And they also learned many of some of Shmuel HaLevi Halperin. Then Rebbe Yehuda Cohen passed away in 1995. So, it says that Rebbe Luban went to the the house of the Almana of Mordechai Hamener. I don't know who Reb Mordechai Hamener is. I think it must be a mistake, Reb Shmuel Hamener. And Reb Luban said, "Who are the talmidim of your husband?" And she said, "Reb Dovid Avrohomi is a student of my husband. He wrote Binyan Olam." So now now we know how the cat is out of the bag. The Almana of Reb Shmuel Hamener said that Reb Dovid Avrohomi is a student of Reb Shmuel Hamener, and he's the one who wrote Binyan Olam. And it says over here, in that in those times um people didn't know who the author was. I have to say, I didn't know who the author was. So Reb Luban said he used he would go with his friend Reb Dovid Chait, and they would learn with Reb Dovid Avrohomi, who at the time was a marbitz Torah in France. Now they lived in Yerushalayim, so they could only learn with him bein hazmanim, when they came home. And they learned once a week. Then Reb Luban became the Rosh Yeshiva in Florida. Okay? This is like the Novardok Slobodka shita, that more important than living in Eretz Yisrael and learning in Eretz Yisrael is hatzatzas Torah. So both of them it's not only Slobodka, Novardok also. And it's poshut, hatzatzas Torah has more value than yeshiva in Eretz Yisrael. So they both held that Reb Dovid Avrohomi was a marbitz Torah in France. Reb Luban, can you imagine, moved from Yerushalayim to Miami Beach. Anyway. And they continued to learn on the telephone. How often? Every single day. >> [snorts] >> For how long? About an hour. Okay? So Reb Luban, living in Miami, North Miami, is learning with the author of Binyan Olam an hour a day for almost 2 years until he passed away on Tisha B'Av and Nisan Tavshini Ayan Dalet. What they learned Even Shlema, then they learned Swarm of Emunah, and then they learned Pasa Pasa Shavuah. And Reb Dovid Avrohomi gave over Khidusim from Rebbi Kheskel Levenstein and Reb Shmuel Hominer. So now you know Darkei Eliyahu was also a talmid of Reb Shmuel Hominer. So Darkei Eliyahu is a talmid of Reb Shmuel Hominer. Reb Dovid Halevi Avrohomi was a talmid of Reb Shmuel Hominer. Which is a pella otzum. You ready for this pella? The author of the Sefer Binyan Olam, which is the Sefer of of um Hasmoda Liman HaTorah Lishmah left Eretz Yisrael to be marbitz Torah cuz that's even greater. Anyway, here we go. I want to learn with you. We covered the Yom Tov of Shavuos perek yud of Darkei Eliyahu from the tzaddik Rebbi Yehuda Kahan who's a talmid of Reb Shmuel Hominer. The first thing he quotes a Sefer of Chassidus says like this, Kosav BaSefer Chinuch Bais Yehuda perek lamed dalet Shishama miRebbi HaKhozeh miLublin. That really it's everyone's responsibility to give rebuke to other Jews. So really you should go out today after the shiur, you should go to Central Avenue and rebuke people the whole day. Should ask people what time they came to shul in the morning. Should ask them if they brought their phone with them. You should rebuke. That's your aveira of hochiach tochiach. The only thing is not everyone's able to do that. Key to what when he's supposed to learn? Ki Torah Tziyon tetzei. But the the Khozeh miLublin said Bekasha Yoshe v'lo yimei Torah Lishmah b'shem kol >> On behalf of the Jewish people who You cause people in throughout the world to do chuvah and you fulfill the midst of rebuke. So if you're not able to go to Central Avenue, you should stand outside of my Shalom. And as people are going in, you should rebuke them as they're entering and as they're leaving. First of all, anyone's leaving early. Should tell you say I don't get it. Imagine if at a Yankee game in the like let's say it's 9-2 Yankees in the bottom of the ninth with one out. Imagine if you had a guy who starts, you know, taking off his his cleats and his socks. Can't take off the uniform before it's over. You can't leave before you can't you can't start, you know, undressing before it's over. Anyway, but if you're not able to do that, you should learn the shame And by doing that, it will cause Jews to do chuvah. And you're the midst of chuvah. This is the Yeah, yeah. But the you're actually it's considered you're rebuking by the in the meaning of the meaning of the meaning of the meaning of the meaning of the meaning of people know the first part cuz it's a song. How does it go you do? Who wrote it? Who wrote the Maybe Shapiro. Think Shapiro wrote it. I don't know what you're saying. Okay, know what you're saying. Okay, anyway. That even one individual who's called of chuvah in the hearts of the Jewish people. I don't know what you're saying. Okay, anyway. It says I don't know what you're saying. Okay, anyway. It says I don't know what you're saying. Okay, anyway. It says I don't know what you're saying. Okay, anyway. It says I don't know what you're saying. Ashrei Adam ois loy bach. Fortunate is someone who the strength of Torah is in him. You know what he his contribution is? Mesilos bilvavom. He causes pathways to open in the hearts of the Jewish people. Next. The what the Chazon Ish writes. Chazon Ish wrote in his Kovetz Michtavim, the same way the various limbs of a person are subdivided according to their activities. The eye sees, the ear hears, the hands are busy. So too, the Jewish nation as a whole is like one body. But we have different personalities. Everyone has their role. If Klal Yisrael would be Amel baTorah la'amitasah, it would cause many It would save many children. So let's say you want to save children from going off the derech, on a Sunday afternoon you could come to shul and you could learn for 20 minutes. It will also save many people from sin. It will cause many people not to have thoughts of aveira. It will save many people from kefira. Why? Through the outpouring of kedusha that emanates from your learning. If you learn Torah lishma, it affects your neighborhood. It affects the city. It affects the world. B'hish- stopich ruach taharah ba'olam. It causes Hashem to pour down an outpouring of purification on the world. U'visvivaso ba'al ha- ba'al Torah amiti, in the surrounding area of the in the vicinity of a real master of Torah, hadavar nikar l'eineinu hashpa'ah merubah al anashim harbeh. It's recognizable. You could tell. You could see it. The influence on many people. In other words, in the immediate vicinity of a Baal Torah, his influence is felt. Masha kol hishtadlus ma'asis lo tasigena, that with every effort of teaching or or overt influence, it will not achieve his >> [clears throat] >> m'meila influence will be successful at. Something is given over, something is transmitted through limud Torah lishmah. It influences people in the immediate surrounding, even more the Chazon Ish says, than than kol hishtadlus ma'asis lo tasigena. He says rishumin al harachokim she'ein ayin hora'ah. It actually influences people at a distance. So, let's say somebody is learning Torah in New York, it could affect people in New Jersey, in Pennsylvania. The eye can't see that because it's it's very subtle. In the immediate surrounding, it's recognized, the eye could see it. At a further distance, it makes a roshem, even though you can't necessarily see it. Then he says, he brings from the Sefer Chareidim. Who wrote the Sefer Chareidim? Rebbe Eliyahu Askari, the author of Yedei Nefesh of Arachamim. He says as follows, "Kol Yisrael etzem echad k'de'amar shiv'im nefesh." Since all of Klal Yisrael is one entity, b'hetz b'hat stick adam nafsho, when someone makes his soul righteous, the kol Yisrael ya'aseh roshem. It affects all of Klal Yisrael. When you elevate yourself, you elevate all of Israel. So here it is, you're sitting in a corner. Nobody even knows you're there. You're elevating yourself. Arouse yourself with great Havana to repent. And have in mind that all of Israel should do along with you. You hear what the says? You should arouse yourself. When you say have you know arouse yourself to do with her and thereby have in mind that with you all of Israel should do with her. >> [snorts] >> That's why it says you should with her with her head. And then she was killed him the volume the shoe volume rather. Why? Start off you do with her. Your personal will affect all of Israel. And therefore it concludes you should have a bee me menu. My wrath has been reverted from you and explained explain even if some one person does with her has wrath will be removed from all of Israel because you've caused them all to have her. So this these are some of the I the power of one's personal with her. personal I'm a spotter personal with her the reverberations to your surroundings and to the whole world. This is on the docket a tournament of the small hammer. And like we mentioned and think brought him in the Haggadah about the number of mitzvahs you could be mikayem leil seder. Let's see if we can get the official count before we I recently came across a contest called mitzvahs belayla seder in by Hamena which he compiled mitzvahs that you're mikayem the night of the seder. Have a wonderful Rosh Chodesh Sivan. Bayom zeh ba midbar Sinai. Shkoyach. Adon Olam Chaim.