Shiur Tonight In Chicago, Illinois

Thank you, Rabbi Brand, for your kind words and your beautiful daughter. My son was dating in Chicago a couple a little while ago. Baruch Hashem has returned this week with with his wife and child. But he was dating in Chicago and going back and forth between Chicago and Connecticut. And he used to call it when he would come to Chicago, it was in a way game. And when his wife is when she would come when Civi would come to Connecticut to to the tri-state area, he would call it a home game. Called it home games back and forth. Home games, away games, home I want to express that coming here, this is a home game. Feels this is a home game. First of all, now my daughter-in-law and my mechutanim are here, but even I see Yosef here, Effie, and Yair Dovidler to see to be with the chevra, the baal habayis, the mishpacha, Rav Nachman here. Just to be with the chevra, really to even to just be with this kolel today. I've spoken to Rabbi Brand on the phone, but to meet in person somebody To me that we're beautiful people with many branches. We have all different shvatim. We have different different ways. There's as many Yidden as there are ways of avodas Hashem. And that's a beautiful part of our people. We have all different ways of avodas Hashem. But deeper yet, we're Yehudim, we're Yidden. And to me, we have to be able to see that in each other. We're Yidden. We're Yidden. And I love this kolel to sit with Rabbi Brand and and the whole kolel that the Rosh Kolel has assembled for people that are teaching Torah to all different Yidden. It's all It's a place where Tyra is taught and learned and all different Yidden much deeper than all the divisions than all the the deepest in the core that were Yidden were Yidden. And it's a just feels so comfortable to be with the whole the whole Kyle of the air Simcha the whole Kevra. That is a really beautiful Kevra of Benei Tyra that teach Tyra that learn Tyra that recognize the Tyra belongs to our people. So, I thank Rabbi Brand for the introduction. I thank you for the Kyle you have and I thank you for the opportunity of coming here and for branding with Yidden from Chicago. It means a lot. Danny, you brought your father the whole right Greenland that everybody's here really that every single person came. It's a big thing that on the Lail Shishi Yidden are here together. We'll sing, we'll learn that Yidden came every single person. It's appreciated that everybody's here and certainly I want to learn together and for branding together. I feel like to start with a Nigan. I want to sing the Berditchever Nigan. I want to sing the song from Reb Levi Yitzchak and I want to express that he wasn't like being the care of Yidden Reb Levi Yitzchak. He just had good eyesight. The Berditchever had tremendous eyes. He was Nishtamen from a Yid. He was blown away by Yidden. That was his base medrish. He was close to Noam Elimelech was a similar base medrish. They shared the same Rebbi. And in that base medrish they saw Yidden. They saw a Yid. A Yid's not replaceable. We're experiencing we went through two years together our people davening for a single Yid that no Yid is expendable and then we're seeing in our nation in a country that's been good to us. It's a good country and it's been good to us because of Hashem but we're seeing even on the right people chirping about Yidden. And it's alarming us all. But in our in our but in the midrash in our rooms, in our homes, a Yid is wanted and a Yid is welcome. All Yidden. All Yidden. All Yidden. A Yid is wanted and Yidden welcome. Rebbe Levi Yitzchok saw that in Yidden in Elo. When many people get very intense and are looking inward, Rebbe Levi Yitzchok looking inward, he went around to our people. And he would go to Yidden all over and just see Yidden. He would just see Yidden and be close. We're We're an incredible people. The story of our galus, the story of going to Mitzrayim is division in our people. Yosef HaTzaddik was sold. There was a separation. And we leave Mitzrayim ba'atzmos Yosef when we pull our brother closer. We bring our brother close, we come back. And I want to start before we share the Rebbe Torah, I want to start let's sing the song of the Rebbe of Berditchev. Anybody when a song doesn't have words, Yitzchok it's a machaya. Everybody can think what they want. I would like to pray personally that Hashem gives us a name to see in ourselves. I'm not talking about I want to see this in Dan Kalish. That to see in ourselves we have a big or that a person each of us has a tremendous light that's that's irreplaceable in our people. It's not a slogan. It's not cute. We have a light that's emes. Me and you have a light that's essential. That's needed. That's necessary. Every single Every single person here. Every single one in our nation. Bar none. A Yid is is a big thing. A Yid a Yehudi. And we should be zocheh to see in ourselves, to understand that in ourselves that there's a big light in us, and to see that in others. That was the Berditchev was about. He had tremendous aim to see in himself and to see in others Godless greatness. We hear the term like Don LaCav judge somebody favorably. Rebbe Nachman wrote Torah Don LaCav is cuz a Yid has a big thing in a Yid. It's not like some working to see positive in a Yid. The Bardichever saw a Yid lost his mind. And then it's very natural when you see the Yid, you see the the holiness, the loftiness, the preciousness of a Yid, quite naturally what flows is even when there's a mistake, they're certainly do Torah, there's certainly reasons, there's certainly tremendous that's inside the Yid. So let's sing the Bardichever and then we'll share the great Torah. Can we do that I came together, I flew with Gurry, with Shimon Goldstein, we flew together. Yair Dovidler is already here, so we'll all if the can join, if we could sing the Bardichever and maybe pray together we should have good aim to see preciousness in ourselves and other Yidden. >> [music] >> Can I ask you to switch chairs? I'm sure you this chair. >> [music] >> Ai ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya [music] ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya [singing] ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya [music] ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [singing] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [music] >> Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. >> [singing] [music] >> Yeah, yeah. 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V'enashuvu. >> [music] >> V'enashuvu. >> [singing] [music] >> V'enashuvu. >> [music and singing] >> Ah. Shivanu. >> [music and singing] >> Hashem. >> [music] >> Ah. Ah. >> [singing] >> Shivanu. >> [music] >> Ah. Ah. Shimenucha. >> [singing] >> V'enashuvu. >> [music] >> Amen I show >> [singing] >> Amen [music] I show that >> [music and singing] >> Amen I show that Amen [music and singing] I show that >> [singing and music] >> Ah, she better >> [singing] [music] >> I >> [music and singing] >> I show that >> [music] >> I show that >> [music] [music] >> I I >> [singing] [music] >> I show that I >> [music and singing] >> show that >> [music] >> I >> [singing] [music] >> I show that I >> [music and singing] >> show that >> [music] >> Amen [music and singing] I show that Amen [music and singing] I show that >> [music] >> Amen I show >> [singing] [music] [music and singing] >> Thank you, I want to share something with everybody here. My son walked in and my other son, Ezra, and Manny and Yianni are all here, all brothers, sons. And I want to share something with them and with you as follows. Everybody asked the question. I want to try to to contemplate the question. The minute you scroll that that parents bless their children and on layl Shabbos there was there's many minhagim that you didn't just blessed each other such a blessing. I saw the minhag grow up like that, but many parents have accepted to bless their children on Shabbos Kodesh and they say yesimcha Elohim k'Efraim u'Menashe. And it makes everybody wonder why Efraim and Menashe. What are we saying about our children Efraim and Menashe? It's an obvious wonder. Why is the bracha k'Efraim u'Menashe more than the shvatim what's happening more than anybody what's yesimcha Elohim k'Efraim u'Menashe. Right at the beginning of the galus, right in the beginning of parshas Vayechi, when it's nistamu einayim, the galus is mamash beginning here. It's marked by the Torah as the start of galus. And right at the start Yaakov Avinu, right before he departs from his parting message is Yaakov Avinu the Av who went into Golus, who went to Mitzrayim, the Av was beginning and his death, his departure marked the beginning of Golus. He's mamish the Av of Golus. And Yaakov Avinu fascinatingly decides, he had the 12 shvatim and he makes two more shvatim. He takes Ephraim and Menashe and he says, "Lehaim, you're my sons. You're now, instead of my grandchildren, Lehaim, you're my son." I've been waiting on the parsha, when you study the parsha, different things you used to hit you different years. I've been waiting for 2 months, but I was tonight for an hour to hold my grandson and to just hold him. All night I've been like hugging pictures. He's much better in the flesh. And and I think about this Sugya, this is what sticks out on the plane. This is what I was learning the parsha. And Yaakov Avinu says to Ephraim and Menashe, "You're my children. You're not my grandchildren, you're my children." The Ramban has a machlokes, but the Ramban even with the other shitas we're shainy, but it's easier, we'll go with the daas of Ramban. The Ramban says that they got a chelek, Ephraim and Menashe along with the other shvatim, it was divided into 13 parts, not the typical 12. Yosef got sad that it was given two shvatim from one and they got, according to the Ramban, bigger pieces, more All the shvatim got an equal chelek, the Ramban learns. So, Yosef got a double portion. He got Ephraim and Menashe, his children were Yaakov Avinu's sons. So, and each shavet was given an exact same piece, no matter how big or small the Ramban learns. Unlike Rashi. So, then in Yosef's shvat, there was two portions of Eretz Yisroel. They were literally Yakov Avinu's sons, and that was Yakov Avinu before he departed. That was one of his final messages to our people. Ephraim and Menashe are not my grandchildren, they're my children. Now, Yakov Avinu learned that from Hashem. Hashem promised him when he came back from Lavan, he had 11 children. Hashem promised him another son, and that happened with Binyamin. He had a 12. And then Hashem said a kahal will come from you. Yakov understood he's having two more shvatim, and he decided that Ephraim and Menashe are key of these two more shvatim that Yakov Avinu was having. So Ephraim and Menashe's grandchildren become his children. That was one of his final messages. What's Yakov Avinu saying to us? What's he saying? I just want to express to everybody here that one of the things golus does it makes a Yid feel far. It's what it does to me, it's what it does to you. We all have moments we grapple, does it matter what I'm doing? So I'm just doing this, I'm doing that. That's not a side point to golus. The main ideas of golus are inside, are bifnim. Are bifnimius. This parsha starts golus there was no shvat yet. The iker golus is on the inside of a Yid is distance. That's the main story of golus. The external expressions only bring out the pnimius to the golus. The golus is my story inside of you of me of distance, and your story inside of you. That is golus. That is golus. It's not that's my mish golus. And and a Yid sense I'm getting further, I'm distanced, does it matter? Do I have a light to shine? That's Golus itself. And Yakov Avinu's final message in Golus, the grandchildren that seem to be Rachok, that seems to be distanced, weiter krayvim, distant. Yakov Avinu says, "You're not my grandchildren, you're my children, close. You relate to the Avos, the starters of our people, Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yankev. You're a ben, you're a bonim of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yankev. He takes what appears to be distance, maybe it's a generation removed. His final message to our people, to the children, to Bnei Yisrael, to the children of Yisrael. We're called Bnei Yisrael as children. His final message and his final Avodah was to say, "It looks like you're moving away, le haym, you're mine, you're my children. Close, come closer." He was moved by Yosef HaTzaddik in Mitzrayim, didn't forget who he was. He's distanced, he left all the shivtei Kah, left left the Beis Avraham. And Yosef HaTzaddik stayed loyal, stayed sincere, stayed as an authentic Yid, and he brought up two sons who in Mitzrayim, which can pull a person distant and far, and to a sense, I'm so rachok from that. Yakov Avinu said, "You're not my grandchildren, you're my children." And the message that every leil Shabbos a Yid says to his children, "Yesimcha Elokim K'Efraim U'Menashe." You should be Ephraim and Menashe. You should sense and know, we say to our children, "You're close. You have shaychis here. You're a ben Avraham." Just 2 weeks ago, I I a kid called me up. I was talking to him on the phone about coming to Yeshiva and he said, "Rebbe, he said he said he was talking we had a conversation I wasn't Zaya I like meeting in person but we met over a zoom over a a FaceTime and he says to me he says I want to tell you I have like a secret. He said my father's a gear. That's interesting. Your father's gear. So can I tell you my story? So my father's a gear also. So what's crazy? Crazy. Both our fathers are gear. Me and this back both our fathers are gear. We come from Avraham Avinu. We come from Avraham Avinu. We have shyness. We have shyness. The mission in Galas and what we're saying to our children you seem like him we all have a journey. We all have a story. We all have Nesianas and things that can make us feel distant. We're shy. We're shy. We're my mission shy. Very very shy. It bothers me when we when when we when we are shy we teach Remember years ago having a sense like Tisha B'Av like it's what's Tisha B'Av in the Yeshiva by us Tisha B'Av's like the holiest day of the year. It's crazy. What goes on Tisha B'Av care of we're very shy to Galas. Every difficult thought in us is my mission Galas my mission. And we're shy to go over we're very very shy to go over you and I. My father had a way he had a he wasn't it wasn't a trick it was I don't know when he came to this clarity. He was a going to be tired. And he would teach tired you'd said in the share you'd told me that for 14 years I slept in your father's share for 14 years. He ended up being in the share he finished shots afterwards couple of times that he learned well and is you do no shots today but he said I slept for 14 years. What would bring a Yid back sleeping for 14 years? A Yid's learning is getting What would a Yid go back to a Daf Yomi 14 years sleeping? What would bring him night after night with such such tremendous can see Momish had to say the cover up to sleep. What would bring a Yid Momish he stopped going? Okay, it's not The guy in his sleep finished Shas. People know Shas. My father knew Shas in his sleep. This he had learned Shas in his sleep. What would bring a Yid back for 14 years? And the answer is my father had a tremendous hashivus a Yid came to learn was like the biggest thing in the world. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't It was like late sonus to ask my father's the Yid follow was late sonus. The question was ignored. He didn't like when his children were late sonim. That's late sonus. Ridiculous, stupid question. Yid came to learn Torah. Yid's here to learn. He was mashiv a Yid came to learn Torah. And the Yid sensed that it's a big thing. It's a big thing. A Yid came to study Torah is a big deal. There was no cynicism to that. There was no The one I saw I I I I admire the Torah of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the main thing I see is he saw a Yid. He was mashiv a Yid davening with a Yid. Yid put on tefillin was the biggest thing in the world. Davening with a Yid is deep. We just came that we started the winter. Winter is a manner of golus and we started with Chanukah with the auras of Chanukah. The nais of Chanukah, every miracle we celebrate is a miracle that something good happened to us. What happened to us? The menorah lit, that's for God. What happened to us? What happened to us that the menorah lit if it didn't light? But why am I celebrating a nais? How emotionally can I attach myself? Every nice makes sense. It happens to me. It happened and happens to me. What's the nice that's happening to me of the minaira? That was Hashem's nice. Hashem the mitzvah was completed. By us I miss Rachmana Patra. We wanted to do the mitzvah. That's good. We get we It happened. I wanted to do the mitzvah from my aveda. What's the nice of Hanukkah? God it carried out. That's That's in the realm of God. Hashem Hashem. Hashem decides what happens. We wanted so so the minaira what's the nice of Hanukkah? What are we celebrating? It burned faith is asma. The nice of Hanukkah is the pshat that Hashem says your aveda counts. Your aveda our aveda matters and counts. Is significant aveda is very very hashiv. Golus creates shashless aveda. The iker of golus is the sense I'm distant I'm right I'm far. Does it even matter? Many a bachur has described to me like dragging your body to share and it means nothing. I can relate to that in my own aveda. Sense does it even matter? Does it count? Does it even matter? We That's golus. That's That's the epitome of golus. The base hamikdash is a place you experience God. But sham the aveda the year here counts. You experience nisim the year aveda is like fire. The Kohanim and Hashem and the aveda the year is like that's what you experience in base hamikdash. Golus is a sense does it matter? Distance. That's what golus is. That's the That's the epitome of golus. The sense the bachur drags himself to a shears. Does it even matter? And the Rebbi is jumping a schmack. Such a rush man. I said So, that's Golus. That's the shpitz of Golus. The sense, does it matter? Does it count? The nays of Chanukah was a material stat avoid of a year that's significant, that's big. The avoid of a year counts significantly. That's the nays of Chanukah. That's the or of Chanukah. It lights up the whole darkness. That the avoid of a year is massively >> [laughter] >> I want your avoida. I want it badly. The the Bach, the famous Bach says that the whole Yevanim had power cuz it's rashlus avoida. There was a laziness. The opposite of laziness, we tell kids, parents will tell me, "My son's lazy." And the way they're saying a p'shat is remarkably lazy way of understanding their child, remarkably. "My son's lazy." They don't know what laziness is. What's lazy? We were lazy in the avoida. And the answer is we fought for it. We risked our life, mesirus nefesh. That's not the opposite of laziness. It says the tikkun of the hisrashlus is that we fought for avoida Hashem. Why is that the tikkun of laziness? We should work hard at the avoida. Get be straight straight up. We were lazy, so let's work hard. Let's work hard. As we're the opposite of lazy is work hard. It's a big mistake. People think that we tell youngsters, "Try harder." Or "Let's go. Try Try I don't think you should try harder. That's bad. On the things you care about, as with a catcher fly ball, we try harder. We just care more, men Ezra. We get we catch the ball, we run after cuz we care. Laziness means that it's not chashuv to them. His rash Lubavitch means they thought it doesn't count. The opposite is not trying hard. That's a very superficial look. Laziness is a sense that it doesn't matter. Zrizus means that it matters and to the world not to do a trying hard or accounts. That's what Zrizus is. It counts and it matters. That's what Zrizus is. If by me the dorm counts, there's aren't putting in so much work. I don't gather the dorm counts AND SAY, "KEVRA, LET'S GO." THAT'S A SILLY TO SAY. I don't want them working so I don't want them fighting for something they don't believe in. That that that burns out. That lasts 3 seconds. You have burnouts. That's what it is. The speech to the dorm counts is what it means to lift up another year. Let's talk about what it means. And then the response is great effort. Now, I want to express it's dangerous to learn this truth. I'll tell you why it's dangerous. But Hisrachlus means that we thought the avoida doesn't matter. And the opposite is not trying hard. The opposite is to fight for the avoida. Matters to the end of the world. We'll fight for it. We'll fight for this accounts. It counts and matters. That's the opposite of Hisrachlus. Now, the danger of this teaching is if we don't go to minyan so that show I don't care. He's not going to minyan. Clearly, I don't care. All of us have an neshama that craving that cares from one end of the world to the other. We have an neshama every me, every one, every single person. Daniel, Caleb, Shimon, Yair. What's your first name? Zack, we have an neshama that cares that all it wants is Hashem and avoida to Hashem. We want to get in touch with that. We want to reach it. It could be through Hisrachlus and Pnimius, but we can touch that place that cares. Hisrachlus avoida means they weren't in touch with their neshama. They didn't think it counts avoyda. And the ner Chanukah, the neis was a miracle from Hashem when they stood up and fought for it. Hashem announced for all eternity that avoyda be it counts. The way children, the youngest child lights menorah, as there's no mitzvah in the yeshiva that rivals ner Chanukah. My son's a dorm counselor, he's like, "Moishe said I don't understand like kids who are not doing a lot say make sure I light and you light the menorah like a rebel, like a yeshiva with no cynicism. We don't make like a big thing during menorah. I don't try to like crush it. Like there's a little singing. You're just sitting in the beis medrash, you watch guys light the ner Chanukah, you lose your mind." Sincere ner Chanukah. It's the mitzvah that says that avoyda be it counts. That's the essence that lights up the night of golus. Golus is rehook, is distance. A yid's avoyda counts and is significant. The The bracha that we give our children and we wish each other is yesimcha like him K'Ephraim U'Menashe. In the darkness of Mitzrayim you should move ever close, >> [clears throat] >> ever happening. You're a ben Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. You're rooted in You're rooted in the avois. You're connected to the avois. You're very in You're very part and Whenever it's moving closer from grandchild to child, that's mamish the sug of geulah, coming close. Whenever pushing away, "Well, I'm so far." Come close, the avoyda matters. Our job for ourself, the geulah that we have to bring is in our own avoyda to take seriously. We learn for a minute. Sometimes we get into scholarly races, catching up, keeping up, competing. Our avoyda and avoydas Hashem is to know We learn for a minute. We gathered here tonight to sing a song to Hashem, to learn a pasuk or two or five is a big thing, is a big light. A mitzvah for another year. It's funny we start I like that it started a little late. Right, brand strikes me as somebody very on time. I'm working towards being on time, but it's very important to me that the event start at 8:00 sharp. Just the first part of the event the Yidden talking. I don't know if there's any holier part of the of the of the event. When we came Yidden were mamesh comfortable they were talking. I start speaking I'm like the great buster of mitzvahs. Yidden are talking all of a sudden I realize quiet talk. Talk. B'emes I come every Shabbos I give a shiur to my wife I was to my wife and my sister and then some other ladies joined. And I they're they're in the Ezras Noshim schmoozing before I come up. Because my wife can be mad I walk downstairs. I don't want to walk into the room. They're mamesh schmoozing so nicely. Noshim are schmoozing it's a big thing. They're greeting each other. I'm like the great destroyer of big mitzvahs. I walk in the whole place gets awkward uncomfortable. Please. Please. It's crazy. So I say I walk downstairs I won't walk upstairs. I wait they're talking more talking more. My wife V'niel V'niel like there's supposed to be a shiur. They're talking what? They should talk. So I bring myself up the stairs. I tell myself if what we study together will perpetuate will cause more to You know how to say shiur when two Yidden are talking it's a chutzpah. Two Yidden are talking to each other. How do you say shiur when two Yidden are talking it's crazy. To quiet two Yidden is the biggest thing. Two Yidden are giving each other chizuk. You can only say shiur if what you're going to say is going to cause them to talk more together. If you pashet cause that Yidden are more in chizuk each other then you can say Rebbetzin can we be quiet for a second so we can talk much more and talk much better to each other? Okay, so then you can ask them mechila I just want to promote more talking. The Yidden should be mechazek. So the first part getting talking together is a big thing. A kid being my cousin and other kids a big deal. I wanted to ask this one will sing songs together soon. This will be a solo from and Shimon. If you know it, you can join most of them. I don't think we'll know it. There's a song from the Messiah the words I'm not crying at that that the acre fits that I should once. It's true cuz I live I should once us to mean it to care about it to know it's hard. The acre of a void is a shame. It's not a scholastic competition. It's the serve a shame with a fire matters what I'm doing. It matters what I'm doing. True cuz I live my mission a big thing what I'm doing a fire. That's the acre of a void is a shame. So, I want to sing it and I want to be miss follow your tire and I have to say your tire should become a tire. I want to be miss follow a shame should be the sack as you send like him a cafe mocha man a shame. We should see even though we're moving dairies. We may have lost rebellion people that were big and people that we looked up to and annoyed that go away but I should make us a frame of a man a shame. Whoever come in closer recognizing we him where a Ben Yakov closer closer for sing this song if I can hold my grandson. This is about the brother if I can hold him and I can. Thank you. Thank you. I think you do wish my man. He likes music. You need a mic? I can't do it with the mic. The mic is should be on. Probably. Probably. Shimon, you have you have that mic. This is perfect. Exactly what I want. Thank you. Is it on? He's turning it on. Thank you. Thank you. Is it on now? Both mics on? Perfect. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] >> Would you >> [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music and singing] [singing] [music] >> Beautiful. If we can sing together as a team before we share more the way to tie up God and God. If we can sing together as a team the promise of our sham at team to sing about our people on your stroll is not a theory. It's me and it's you. Whenever you think it's like a people and you don't see one you're like this then you make it like a concept. Call your stroll means me, means you, means us, and means our stories. We'll talk more about this in a few minutes but if we can sing together about them too if everybody can please join in. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] [singing] >> The Baal Shem Tov famously taught, I'll give him back to his father. He didn't teach that. Excited about the Bas Shem Tov? The Baal Shem Tov taught that words we say on Leil Shabbos and we'll sing Bas Shem, we'll sing some Shabbos niggunim on Leil Shabbos, on Leil Shishi. The Baal Shem Tov that we say a prayer, it's very it's like difficult to read, but Yidden across the world and they greet Shabbos, they say Kar Vel Nafshi. They're speaking about Eretz Yisrael and Kar Vel Nafshi, that which is so close to my soul. A Yid cares about Eretz Yisrael tremendously. A Yid has ga'agu'im, has tremendous desires and yearnings for Eretz Yisrael. And Kar Vel Nafshi, that which is so close to my soul, Ge'ulah, Hashem, please redeem her. Please bring the Ge'ulah. But it's such an interesting language. The Baal Shem was medayek. Kar Vel Nafshi, that which Say, "Hashem, redeem Eretz Yisrael. Bring the Ge'ulah." What's this Kar Vel Nafshi, that which is close to my soul? What are you speaking about your own kerva to Yerushalayim? You're talking redeem Yerushalayim. But we say Kar Vel Nafshi, that which is close to my soul. This might be from the most important teachings of Chassidus. It was just the Yahrtzeit. It's just now with the Meshiach, and the Torah of the Meshiach brought this out. He was a talmid of Rebbonim and he brought this out in No'am Elimelech I found him. And it might have been one of the main important teachings of Chassidus. Picture a student in a class and he has his own worries and stuff inside and he sees a mentor, some people like growing shtarking and he has like this funny stuff inside and challenges and distance and he can't seem to get even a joy other people are so excited about stuff. He has like sugios inside, insecurities, worries. Somehow he has to like forget his stuff and try to become him. No. No. The story inside of me, my insecurities, my difficulties, my tough stuff, my own story inside of me, the story in Yaer, the story in Shimon, the story in us all is not a side point to golus and geulah. Carvel nafshi, the Baal Shem said that there's golus pr- klali, there's a golus of Klal Yisrael, there's a golus prati, the golus of every single Yid, his own unique individual story is the golus, is part of golus. And the geulah is a geulah prati, each Yid finding, uncovering, discovering from the places within. When I went to Waterbury, I was distant from myself. I didn't know myself. I thought my religion was I'm just happy, I'm positive. I was a distant from what was going on inside. I'm getting I'm learning a little bit. I'm like a 10th grader, maybe 11 sometimes. That I'm learning my own insecurities, my own how does something hit me? What's hitting me? The guys are incredibly present and honest and straightforward. They're not doing the force thing. What's happening? How am I relating? What's hitting me when I walk into prayers? It's a boring for me. It's a hard. Am I just finding myself distant? What's really happening inside of me? Don't be afraid of it. I don't get it. My son just doesn't come to the avenue. He doesn't feel anything there. He should do it anyway? But he should also know what he's feeling when he's there. What's the inner experience? And the inner experience is very much an important story and not to be ignored, not to be plowed over. It It directs and it informs and it says things to us. Two days ago I got a letter in the mail that said Mr. Daniel Kalish. I was insulted. Didn't say Rabbi. I have no smicha. I learn a frightful little amount. And it said Mr. And I was insulted. I don't mind that. That's cool. I got very good places from that. I go on walks. I drive it's in my car and I get to think and have conversation. I learn a lot. We have good insights, me and you. Don't be afraid of your inside. If we want to connect to today's door, we have to We were a generation beautiful. We stand on the shoulders of tzadikim. We were a performative generation. We were stark. We did. Today's door is feeling very primus. We could dig in. The Baal Shem Tov that Karvel Nashiga Allah means we're equating ourselves that I'm a Karvel to Jerusalem. Karvel Nashiga with close to my neshama gala redeem her and me. The gola comes our own gola practice, our own learning our story, digging in, figuring out what's happening inside. By us today, the parents are in the yeshiva as much as the children. People come they want a parents day. You want to discuss your child. I want to talk about mine and your insecurities. Want to handle my son wakes up late. I want to talk about that I space out by prayers. I want to talk about my journey. I want to lean into my story, to my story. Then I'll be present to my son's story, also. Our inner story matters a lot. And it's part of Godless and Golem. We dive into Hashem Carvel Nafshigala. That each of us the Bal Shem spoke about the Gula shall call Prado Prado of every single Yid. Commission by day and even base amidash beyond my day of the G'mar in Brachot. Person discovers emotional reality, connects to something. It means something. They discover a moment of prayer. I love a bucker comes 12:30 to the base measure. He's praying. I was watching a guy this morning pray to Hashem. It was like wild. It's pretty Can you imagine? He was praying to Hashem and he like meant it. It was crazy. I dive in a few hours before him. I didn't touch his prayer. Not touching it. It's prayer. He's praying to Hashem. Mamish. He's talking to God, him and God. Carvel Nafshigala. Examine our own story. Look into our own story. Work through. Don't be afraid. We come It's all good in there. It's good. We think that bucker will open up about the darkest things. It's Mamish a guy shaking to express it. He thinks It's all places of want for good news. I never heard like something that cherish wasn't crazy holy. Like crazy holy. The darkest secrets the guy in six What he saw, he was craving like Mamish he wants Hashem. Mamish true. It's just true. Okay, he's looking for connection in the deepest ways. Okay. He has to learn how to get connection. What he's seeking, what he wants. Examine our inner story. Don't be afraid. And the Gula is if each person looking into the looking into the inside, working through. Not like it It's all the craziest place. Be present to our own inner story. Be present. This is what is This is what we're experiencing today. This is what we're being called to today, Carvel Nafshi. To see our own inner story. And from that place to shine a beautiful light and each one of us in our own story finds meaning finds Hashem was bringing me somewhere. That was an important place I was being brought. I want to express that Golus takes on a very dark meaning and it's not it's not what we think. It's really not what we think. The The Waterbury Wolfpack lost a very good important game tonight. They're probably knocked out of the playoffs. Maybe they have a chance. A lot of things have to happen. I've been at a game where the where the Waterbury team loses and we come with a big crowd. Tight playoff game and we traveled in momish a couple of hundred guys. And they lose a terrible playoff game. Now, us as a crowd, we feel badly, but we're just having a good time. Can we care for the players? But the crowd wants to sing. We just want to dance and sing. We traveled from a long distance. I'll never sing while the players are still on the field on the court. It's not nice. They just lost. I wait till they go in the locker room. They can cry. Maybe we'll go into cry for a few minutes. Then the rest of the crowd is not so sad. Let's sing and dance. We traveled far. We're not going to not dance. That's not happening. We'll sing. But I don't want to I don't like when somebody's not in touch with a person who's sad. It's not appropriate. Somebody's sad, you know, somebody's sentenced to 40 years in jail, you don't start singing. The day one, you start singing. This is bizarre. You're not giving space. He's sad. He just went to jail. If you ignore somebody, you just You tell a kid smile. He's sad. Cry with him. Make space. He's sad. Something sad happened. Our start of Golus is so strange. Our start of Golus was so beautiful Mitzrayim. Was the reunification of Yakov and Yes. What's Hashem doing? Now I'm very happy for every good minute in Golus. Golus was dark. What's Hashem playing music for in Golus? It's weird. Seems like it seems we would call Rachman l'tzlan when Yidden were brought to dark places the enemies were playing music in a sadistic way. Don't play music when I'm sad. Cry with me. It's not nice. If your kid's sad, you cry. You don't like start putting on louder music. It's not We don't start singing when the wolf pack are sad. When they go in the locker room, we can sing. But to them they're they just lost an important game. Make space to cry. What's this that we go to Mitzrayim and it's like nice? What's Hashem doing to us? Like it started so sweet. Yakov sees Yes. What's that they can You're making Golus is Golus has been really hard. Hashem like played a nice music, a nice song. I'm happy it started like a maybe break us in slowly. What do you want, Kadosh? I don't want nice things when I go to Egypt. It's a dark story. Don't play music. Cry with me. Hashem made it such a nice story. The going to Mitzrayim was so pretty. It It set up Golus. Golus has been really difficult. What's the nice music? Might say Shabbos. You're leaving Shabbos. Shabbos is awesome. A Yid smells besamim. What is that? What is the besamim you smell might say Shabbos? Person's going to the week with all its frustrations and challenges, a Golus of sorts. So I don't want to smell spices. I think we should all like cry. By us far them they laugh at Havdalah. What are you laughing for? Let's cry together. All of Klal Yisrael smelling sweet, nice smelling stuff. We're going into Golus. Let's all weep together. Men and children What are you smelling nice things on my say shabbos? What's the ice of a tzaddik on down to mitzrayim? He's being kidnapped. That makes sense. That feels like all this. But then it's sweet smelling. The the the the hammer are carrying sweet smelling incense. What's going on? You're playing nice music Hashem? A guy's kidnapped in the trunk of a car, but they're like playing patty my king from shleima like kishka I'm being kidnapped. It's horrible. >> [laughter] >> That is a good thing as a nice song. Somebody's going through like I don't think it's like what's going on? You you you're mocking me. I want to express that Hashem's teaching us what golus is. Golus is not being sent away. It's not imprisonment. Golus is something that Hashem will look at our people. We're stunning. We're a good people. Golus is Hashem giving every year an opportunity for kiddush Hashem. To create a tremendous earth. To create a tremendous light. Hanukkah starts the winter. It's like Hanukkah is the best yom tov. So bright. That's What's Hanukkah starting the winter? That's like music again. Cuz you're not entering prison. Cuz the storms of winter cuz the difficulty of golus is a space where you didn't have shown beautiful lights. The only reason for the choshech was the earth. Shraga betira mayaihani a light can't be lit by day. At night it brings out the beauty. Look at our people. Look at our people. Go around open our eyes. Look at this room. Look at our beautiful people. We're a stunning people. So the music that started is expressing the the besamim on my say shabbos. I know you crave shabbos yidden. I know you love shabbos. Now bring it into the chol. Spill out into the chol. Bring it. Find shabbos in the yemei chol. Light up the yemei chol with shabbos. Be mosif michol al hakodesh. Spill out into bring a light, bring it all there. And the Yids test to bring in our with test in our travels. We're travel people. We've lit up. We brought beautiful beautiful lights all different places. There's something precious and beautiful about all the about our journeys, difficult and hard. But the music playing and even the beautiful start our goddess that Yaakov reunifies with Joseph is cuz this place is not dark and ugly. It's The lights will be turned off, but for a few minutes they'll even be light and go with to see it's beautiful. Then the lights go off and you didn't have a test to shine our own unique lights. But each of our stories are massively important uniquely. Every single Yids to be valued. Every single Yids story is to be encouraged. What's going on just as much as our exterior story is the our internal stories exact session. Well, the different thoughts and that kid sitting in a class thinking I'm like There's so much blocking that it's not blocking. You could be open. You could be honest. You could be comfortable. There's a path. There's a light to light up in your specific inner story. Be present your inner story and light a light in that inner story. If we could sing some songs and let's sing to start. Let's sing to start. Whoever knows to please sing along. >> [clears throat] [snorts] >> Hey hey hey Hey hey Hey >> [music] [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] [music and singing] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> [music] [music] [singing] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> I know you don't know how good it is. What? Should we have We'll have do a solo. This This is a song him and his brother made up. If you don't know how good it is. This I I hear in this song this idea that our actions matter and are important and count. Sometimes we're not in touch with that. Let's sing this song. >> [music] [music] >> It's palpable. I can feel how much pride you take in your voice. Thank you. [music] It's beautiful. >> [singing] >> Thank you. >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Sometimes they may seem [music and singing] far, but you don't know how close you are >> [singing] >> in [music] your words and in your heart to be who you really [music] are. >> [singing] [music] [singing and music] [music and singing] >> You don't know how good >> [music] >> it is. You don't know how good it is for you and for me. >> [music] >> You don't know how >> [singing] >> good it is. You don't know how good it is for you and Money can't buy ourselves [music] a gift. Give >> [singing] >> us a gift. Money can't buy >> [music and singing] >> ourselves a gift. Give us And I can't wait up. >> [music] >> You don't know how good it [singing] is. You don't know how good it is for you and for me. >> [music] >> You don't [singing] know how good it is. You don't know how good it is for you and >> [music and singing] >> for me. If only we would know how good it is. If only we would know how good it is. If >> [music] >> only we would know how good [singing] it is. >> [music] >> If only we would know how good it is. If only we would know how good it is. If only we would know [singing] how good it is. If only we [music] would know how good it is. If only we would know how good it is. >> [music] >> Yeah, na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na [music] na na na na na na na na [singing] na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na >> [music and singing] >> You don't know how good it is. You don't [music] know how good it is for you and >> [singing] >> for me. >> [music] >> You don't know how good >> [singing] >> it is. You don't know how good it is for you and for me. >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [applause] >> I want to sing together another Shabbos song. I want to express a little she she is a is a is a serious Indian to ready bring the touch of Shabbos into Arab Shabbos. Says Rab was mispallel by the Rab Shabbos shall Shabbos by Arab Shabbos. The the the few that is a huge challenge of anger on Arab Shabbos. People think they get angry Arab Shabbos cuz the stress of Shabbos no connection. Could have stresses on Tuesday. It's not the verb. It's not the oimek. People have struggled at getting frustrated and there are a few hazal the Gamoran Gittin says that the instructions of Shabbos is to rub them on there. So you have to say it calmly and softly not to get angry. The Gamoran in in Shabbos with Hillel where they tested him tested the anger of Hillel Rashi says Arab Shabbos say yeah. The Gamoran Gittin says that in the neighborhood of of Reb Meir there was a couple that would fight Meir of Shabbos Shabbos. Anger is in a sign of Arab Shabbos. The oimek is cast is the opposite of Shabbos Kodesh. Shabbos is a deep acceptance my life is good. I'm in good hands. It's an acceptance of Hashem. It's a b'chelk it's a l'Hashem. The distance the most far point from Shabbos is Arab Shabbos. It's the most distance you traveled six days away from Shabbos. Arab Shabbos is the furthest distance from Shabbos Kodesh. And the job is is to put Shabbos even it should reach Arab Shabbos. And the main job is not to be cast. We're all human. We all struggle with anger. And it's to bring to that place a tranquility. To bring a calmness to bring gola. That's our task. We're human we struggle and then to come to a place Hashem to accept the situations of our lives. So if we can sing to let's let's try to bring Shabbos into Arab Shabbos. Let's Shul. >> [music] >> I make a joke. >> [chanting] [singing] >> I make a joke. >> [music and singing] >> You're the kind of What you say? >> [music] >> You're the kind of What you >> [music] >> I make a joke. >> [music] >> I make a joke. You're the kind >> [music] >> What you You're [singing] the kind of What >> [music] >> I saw I saw I saw I [music] saw I know >> [singing] >> I know I know >> [music] >> I know I know [singing] I know >> [music] >> I [singing] saw I saw I saw >> [music] [singing] >> I saw I know >> [music] >> I know I know >> [music] >> I >> [music] >> I did. >> [singing] [music] >> I did. I did. >> [music] [singing] >> I did. >> [music] [music] >> I did. >> [music] [singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> Should we end with one word, did you? Thank you so much. Thank you so much. >> [snorts] >> I want to again thank I want to thank each person for coming. People came people came out we're all have busy lives and people came out to sing to learn to a beautiful thing and it's appreciated each person being here. Tremendous tremendous bring we have needs our people have needs and should give us that those amongst us that need should send we want to build homes that are loyal to we want beautiful homes of loyalty to he should send our children our sons and our daughters quickly to we're asking we're begging we we just let we want our homes to illuminate a beautiful light a sincere light we want children that are sincere should send should send thoughts of and a recognition to all our children our sons and daughters should recognize that they're accounts. It's not a placement in the class it's not how each person each all of our sons and daughters should recognize the importance of their that should be clear to them. Should send to bring the should bless every single person in here with a tremendous we hear a lot the blessings of should pour into all our lives a tremendous blessing should pour from the into our lives we're a beautiful people who are full of blessings and we appreciate. We're coming from a a place of gratitude. We're coming off of Hanukkah. We're grateful for our families, for our people, for all the goodness that Hashem gives us, and we have the guts to ask for more. That actually empowers us to ask for more and we plead with Hashem to send the chef of bracha. If I could ask the chevre if we can close. We've been singing and singing different Torah, but you didn't holding hands is powerful. So if we can close for sure, we'll sing the Berditchever for sure, and then we'll sing in the the the beautiful song that that Rabbi Twerski made up Sheya's Amcha, praying for the entirety of our people at such a holy gathering. It would be appropriate. So if we could hold hands, if we could stand and hold hands singing the Berditchever together, again praying for the entirety of our people, and then close with Sheya's Amcha, again praying for our people. Thank God we're good. Thank you so much. You ready, >> [music] >> You can come on your next one. 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I see right there. I'm sure he's sleeping. She had a lot of nothing. [music] It's pretty good advice. >> [music] >> I'm going to go to the bar. Good man. I know [music] it. This was my ring in the first day. [music] I doubt it. >> [music] [music] [singing] [music] >> What time are you in? >> [music] [singing] [music] >> I don't I don't know why. Why do you ask so many questions? >> [music] >> I don't know why. >> [music] >> I don't I don't >> [music] >> Sometimes [singing] in my game Father, [singing] I say no. >> [music] >> Never let Never let go of me. Never let Never let [music] go of me. >> [singing] >> Sometimes in my game Father, I say no. >> [music] >> Never let never let go of me. Never let never let go of me. I need you. >> [music and singing] >> I realize that I'm lost in my guidance. >> [music] >> Pick me up. >> [singing] >> Help me stand tall. Don't let go of my hand. [singing] God be my king. >> [music] >> Father I think I'll never let never [music and singing] let go of me. Never let never let go of me. I [music] am here [singing] to speak to you I am here to speak to you I'm starting to see >> [music] >> now >> [singing] >> I'm starting to >> [music] >> I've been walking [singing] for a for a year >> [music] >> Take his hand Now I'm walking >> [music and singing] >> down your path Now I'm walking down your path Even [music and singing] with the questions I have to Even with the >> [music] >> Give me all >> [singing] >> to know that I belong in the I reach out to you >> [singing and music] >> God be my king Father [music and singing] I think I'll never let never let go of Never [music] let never let go of God be my king thank you. [music] Father, [singing] I thank you. Never let Never let go of me. Never let >> [music and singing] >> Never let go.