Rabbi Lieff Sefira Conference 2012

said that to run an organization you have to start on time in rabbinics you have to finish on time so i hope it's out of the shema to finish on time is a time when yidden said loma nigora why should we be prevented from bringing a koben pesach from being part of cloud israel and until this very day the overwhelming majority of cloudy israel is silently crying out lomanigaga why should we be prevented from joining cloud israel like boimer is a day that celebrates the cessation of death a very strange yomtif twenty-four thousand talmidham rabbikiva died a terrible misa oscara and they were not destined to be the disseminators of tyra why celebrate the fact that they stopped dying commemorated in some way but to make a yamcha out of it truth be known it's very difficult to comprehend the tamil rabbi ravikiva's what you despise don't do to another how could it be that even the shemets of the essence of rabbikiva did not influence his tamida twenty-four thousand goine that weren't influenced by the rebels existence his resound would you despise don't do it to another and then that no you covet zeb is there it's very difficult to comprehend there's another kimora and the mother says survival of the fittest rebecca says that if you're in the desert sojourning with another and you possess the only flask of water and you only have enough water either for yourself or your friend you'll divide it you'll both die and the question is do you give it to your friend do you take it for yourself your blood is of no lesser value than your friend and you drink the water and you survive and you live and whatever happens to your friend that's that that's arabic your survival is more important than someone else's survival the tamidimer verb understood that taylor was the samakhayam that terror was the elixir of life taylor was in their life blood they live torah they breathe terror they slap tyra how are they going to give up their lifeblood by reckoning with somebody else's his understanding of the zeiss the deceivers how he learns they're giving away the last flask of water so remembering the lesson of rabikiva they didn't give it away they didn't give quarter they didn't accept or tolerate anybody else's understanding of the vladimir it was their way or the highway so ultimately they were not able to be muhammad somebody else's black murray his inside his ashkafe is messiah because if there's one key tone of mayam the elixir of life the tairang daisha you don't give it away but at the end of the day they could not be the disseminators of torah because the lesson that we're to learn from the demise is that the survival of tyra is by giving it away the survival of tyra is by reckoning with someone else this is disneyland rabbi if you don't know what i'm talking about to have hasidim all gathered for one purpose this is how we're repairing the torn fabric this is a celebration of sphere this is like boimer the resiliency of cloud israel the fact that a bikieva took five more tel medium from the south and the tower that we have today are from all those tamidim one of the premier to meet him so it represents the resiliency of klaus israel the tenacity of rabbikiva who didn't throw back the keys that got his ball in frustration and say take back your tiger you killed almighty tell me them he started again if the urban europa the jews who arrived at these shores didn't say rabonisham take back the keys they raised him for each other building and those jews that were here during the holocaust of american acculturation and assimilation in the 20s and the 30s and the 40s they were mice and fish they never gave up and the result is this august body of muslim who are here to be inspired and to inspire others who learned the lesson of the death of the tamil keeper that it's necessary to give up for others i love you i love you i love you and then your child steps on my toe as he's leaving the aisle i don't look at you for six months he says if you want to learn about the kamehameha it's poradumo very strange and puzzling statement the very same ashes of the para duma that purify the individual's tummy defile the cayenne who prepares the ashes and sprinkles the ashes where do you learn from there i believe the terrorist is glaring and it's what we're all about every one of us in this room picayan has been trained since his earliest youth to remain with the status of kadusa vitaj of purity and sanctity he refrains from becoming tamik love his rebbe his love is russian his uncle is nifter he can't go to the leviatha his brother-in-law is sister-in-law only the immediate relatives father mother sister brother son daughter spouse and his whole life he abstains from turmeric a fellow who's not really cognizant of what's happening in his life becomes spiritually defiled tummy with corpse tumor he touches a mace and now his tummy and this halogen loses his status of taharah to be matar yena he becomes tame that's the after that's the yes that's real it doesn't mean you're over alvarez it's according to the getter of the torah but both foreign said independently at the same way there's something called myself of him i get as an obligation to give 10 percent 50 percent 20 percent of his earnings to the indigene to the poor there's a key even our door to give my sir of yazman if you're going to learn 100 hours a week and 10 hours have to be to the indigenous and the poor if you're going to spend 10 hours learning then an hour has to be given that's why you're here preaching to the choir so to speak i don't just mean the group up there i'm talking about everyone because at the end of the day you realize that to enrich yourself you have to enrich call you israel that will even accrais sphero that's the ultimate tikkun antarcona specifically during these days to create the nitrates of cloud israel you gathered here leeroy roy is the sea and to be seen in a nutshell if i needed to typify each and every one of you your baguetter gabriela foreign there was an encounter between the austroftsa goyin the austro-sarov and turned to the ostroffs and asked them for a kiddish torah he was a brilliant mikhail and he said to him why are you asking me for this why am i a greater governor than you he said says how foolish so those individuals the kamen become and say father they stand for us they vitara but they don't stand for a talmud because in the torah it says and came and lessened the 40-39 person transgresses with astra with warning he eats the other white meat he gets malcus the terrorist says you get 40 lashes came and they took away according to the khadushi ramban ifanote marquez they actually qualified they changed it from 40 to 39. and the gemara is referred to the tamir who did that as gavarab continue the austrofsa other places where the qualified var it says this baruch you have to count 50 days of sphere well my sir we only count 49 days so why is that not gaviramus said the australia because they're they're teaching how to count sphere that's very important but in the marquis when turned the punishment the irish of 40 lashes into 39 what they did is they took away a clop from a yid they lessened the severity of his punishment that's gavarabha to lessen pain and suffering of another jew is agavrabha to know shasta is not yet a governor but to take away pain and suffering even a minuscule amount from another year does he stagger and you reprimands are renowned not just to be again in torah but your whole life is to take care of our goodness and yes widows orphans those that are abandoned to restore life to them and dignity to them you're a goverable you're a towering personality you don't need to hit it from me i need to retire from you every meister that we hear you have to learn up like a london if you look at the sacraments it describes at the end of the third peric how malcolm slashes are administered it's a whip that's made of braided calf skin with donkey hide it's extremely painful the siberic spends all his energy in whipping the individual and flogging him the three malcols you forget your name if the nine markets you don't know what planet you're on so what's the difference if you get forty lashes or thirty nine lashes you're faklapta ishana your back is cut to ribbons and you're in terrific pain so why are you a governor rabbi by taking away one lash the man still writhing in pain i surprised the terror it says that if you take away a minuscule amount of pain you're agavraba we live in an instant society with instant solutions we want instant popcorn instant soup instant relationships we want to resolve problems instantly we don't get involved because we can't fix the problem who says you have to fix the problem agavra robber takes away your little pain agavra robber learns an hour with another yid agavratha picks up the telephone writes a letter in an email sanctioned of course by agreement a governor but does what has to be done to love another yid through teaching him torah that's what this is all about you're giving up your time and you understand that in reality yiddish guide is all about sharing what we have that's the authentic way to transmit the torah that's the derek and that's what we celebrate after five new tamidim unfortunately tabitha rabbi kiva would not roy to transmit the torah because they lack this essence of understanding the need to share someone else's torah to share their terror with others how can they transmit the torah the inaugural covered zeb is that it's a kitun shamayim it's a flask of water i need it for my own survival but the next five tell me them the tamidima transmitted the terror understood if you stein they are ravis the z kite kiko orange concept of arvis means the terrorist oge schmuck that i pass it on to others because i want to share this share the sweetness with others i want to leave you with two stories one story happened on shabbat salgado i told the gabba who asked me if i was speaking this morning 24 years s you don't give a rash in the morning so yesterday's the ralph speaking i said yeah he says about to decorum i said no i want to speak about something positive so i told the oil of the following mesa for ten months i had been staying at my cousin's house we recently moved into our home on bedford and obor hashem but we were staying in our cousin's house the last shabbos was staying there shabbat sagar walk out the door with my robertson motor bayla and i see a mercedes benz parked in front of the house now this did not happen in minneapolis in milwaukee in denver in san francisco it happened right here in flatbush on avenue n between east 16th and e 17th black mercedes-benz is stuck lights are flashing guys cranking the engines the gate mission when i walk by you see a handsome italian fellow youngest guy about 28 years old and he's cranking the car and i just smile he's blocking the driveway he's in front of the hydrant he rolls down his window and he says it's not a very good day so i tell the italian guy hopefully he'll get better as the day gets on goes on so he responds to me shabbat shalom so i figured out right away because i'm a brooklyn boy this isn't an italian this is like a sparty fellow he looks like an italian he's a handsome fellow but he's jewish so we're walking to shul and after three blocks i like to be on time i tell my rabbits then you know this is hashikaka protest that his car should get stuck but daftka in front of the house that we're staying at for ten months the last shoppers that were here were moving before beijing to the new house and his mazel is stuck right in front of a rabbi's house there's something to this and he smiled when he said shabbat shalom i got to go back so she says i was thinking of it but i knew you were going to be late let's go back if you feel we should go back let's go back so i go back to the call and the man's on the phone and i turn to him i say you know it's shabbat today hey look at a nice guy i know it sounds crazy but there's got to be a reason why you got stuck in front of the rabbi's house and i punked walked out as you're there and punk you tell me shabbat shalom and it's the last shabbos that i'm here come with me to sure he looks at me like i'm crazy we'll go down together you'll sit near me you'll come home you'll come back i'll give you some come in you knew what that was the man gets out of his car pushes his car to the curb so he's not blocking traffic on avenue end i tell him leave your stuff in the house comes into my cousin's house takes his cell phone his wallet his car keys his money and he puts it on the shelf what i didn't know was for hours his phone's ringing and my cousin thought i left my phone in my coat pocket on he didn't know his phone it was the man was on the phone with the tow truck driver i said forget about the tow truck it's raining i tell him you want a coat i don't need a coat i was in the israeli army he tells me his story he grew up in syria damascus and he left when he was 15 years old like in 1990 something and a whole life is happening i'm not going to get into the whole story so i'm walking with him i ask him what his name is he says i said no i'm joking with him and we had a whole schmoozer eye and we came to shul and one of the bottom took him and sat him right next to him right in the front of the show so he's in front of the beamer and all the people are behind they don't see him the kids are nimrods i tell the gaba i'm going to talk and i get up and i tell the story about this fellow his name is i told him lose he tells me in our arabic lose means almonds i say lose to us is the bone the loose that's the neck bone and it never disintegrates and it remains firm and strong in fact after i said this barabban somebody came to me and said that their uncle was in the sunder commando and he was sweeping up ashes for months of all those that were cremated and time and time again the loose bone always remained intact the loose bone always remained intact and i told him lose on the way to shul that the lose represents the tenacity of clough israel and the resurrection betrays him a body is formed from the loose eat to strengthen the lose bones brought in the gemara upon him so i get up and i tell the island the story and then i say by the way the young man in the story is sitting right here in the front his name is let's greet him i said stand up as a shy fellow didn't want to stand up finally after three times he stood up hundreds and hundreds of people gave him a standing ovation they got out of their seats i didn't tell him to do this and they gave him and when we were coming home from shul the whole flatbush community had heard about it and people were coming over to me and i was introducing him to the gansevelt he told my son afterwards he felt like he was a hollywood movie star and then he stayed in the home i made kiddish he had challenge and about 2 30 i wanted to take a nap before my sheer and when i came back he was gone the mercedes was gone but do you hear the incredible masira snfish of a young man he's willing to throw his whole life away he manages a store and eureka avenue the store didn't open up that day his wife was trying to get hold of him nobody he disappeared from the face of the planet from 8 30 in the morning till after three stories not over we almost had his wife here at the event today couldn't work it out logistically but she almost came with my rebecca this morning because i wanted to introduce her to you she's not a bunch of the ladies she grew up in boston and she wrote a beautiful letter to my wife and sent over a bottle of wine i've been praying for this moment she said rabbi said i could have just kept on walking it's not my nature i wasn't rubbing minneapolis i don't do this for a living nothing better to do but tell a guy come with me to sure leave your car your keys in my house and you'll go home at three o'clock but they're waiting for this there's a mice and shahoyah now i'll conclude with another mice and mr isaac rose told me last night he learned to son sofa and there was an elderly yet who drove the school bus on some sofa picked him up every day brought him back home man's name was schleimer cats mr cats when schleim the cats could no longer drive the school bus he wanted to still be involved in matastar for some safer so he took it upon himself every day to pick up the mata store for rove and to bring him to shore and to bring him to the mikvah and help him into the mikvah and out of the mick for the outer mountain and when the mantis dover ruff was nifta he asked permission to take care of the mikveh the schleimer cats wanted to clean the mikvah keep it orderly rob schleimer cats was nifter sitting on the steps of the mikvah isaac grows without his funeral at his leviah his wife had a bag a big brown bag and his wife says i want to bury this with my husband my husband wants us buried with him and so the hunter gematus of arov that sadik asked her what's in the bag she opened up the big hundreds and hundreds of scraps of soap little bars of mikvah soap this was the soap that he used to use to wash and scrub the matas door of his back before he went into the mikvah to help clean the matastopherov and he wanted this so buried with him to be a source to be made that he took care of the american stuff rub that he bathed him and washed him and showered him hundreds and hundreds of times so they tried explaining to his wife and she can't bury the soap in the cave and she started crying and screaming and the hindi mata stuff has said i guarantee you the montessori loves that sal is now being macabre upon him your husband he doesn't need this soap rabbi said that's why you're here every one of you is taking soap and washing our people and preparing them with the soap of tyra of era of chesad and me of shanna these individuals the losers their parents their grandparents their great grandparents i've run me to genyank if i'm going to greet you when they're gonna say you washed my child's back you brought him back to yiddish you were makazikim and tyren and mitzvahs you recognize that you're not clean unless he's clean that you're not making the kiddish until every jew has made kiddish that's the concept of harvest according to the acharyanim i'm not being might see somebody else with his favorites i shrink him you're an incredible group of uranus you're following sadiq and gadolin and the bikiva who recognize the need to share that flask of water when it comes to terror with others karish bahru should be native this kenaisee should be one the shame shamayim of ribwik vaishamaya you should walk away inspired to inspire others i'm inspired by the massive turnout you know sometimes in the yiddish event you say 9 did the york biz the yiddin valenkumen normally the 10 to 10 slot is not a minion and generally it's your own relatives but for the islam to come out and miss to learn how to teach to learn how to grow to grow through others there's nothing more incredible than this you don't need to be an outreach professional i am certainly not an outreach professional a person says shabbat shalom you respond we will have so many opportunities to do this he wrote about him to grow to inspire yourselves and others in this will truly celebrate will celebrate the continuity of taira allah will be said to the greatest symbol of the girl mayor of amen