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Rav Shlomo Katz explores the teachings of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l on the Parsha with the sefer Even Shlomo
All right, chaverim yikarim. Chaverim yikarim, let’s learn. The month of Tevet is sponsored by the Arron family לעילוי נשמת לוי בן יוסף, by the Dear Silver family in memory of בתיה פיגא בת ישראל. The week is sponsored by the Beers in memory of שפרה רבקה בת רב אלחנן יצחק, anonymously for the refuah sheleimah of Hila bas Ilana עליזה חנה בת נעמי, and by Miriam and Avraham Deutsch for the refuah of הלל תפארת בת חיה אילנה.
Today, Wednesday, Yud Aleph Tevet is sponsored by someone that’s like family to me, by Miriam Futerman, in honor and blessed memory of her husband נחמן ירחמיאל בן יהודה לייב וגולדה פוטרמן on his fourth yahrtzeit. I want to tell you a little bit about this person, not that anything I could say would ever come close. Nachman, whose fourth yahrtzeit is today, was one of the closest people in my life, he was one of the closest people in my heart. Nachman had a jazz to him.
He had this inner jazz. He had this inner groove. Nachman physically was way older than me, probably about close to 40 years older than me, maybe even more, around 40 years older than me, and yet in his presence I felt that I was old because his youth, his inner child, his youth was something that it drew me so much. Some of you knew him, a few of you knew him, a few of you knew Nachman.
Nachman was very, very close to Reb Shlomo. Nachman was very, very close to Breslov, to BRI, Reb Chaim Kramer, the early, early days before it was cool to be part of these things. Nachman was one of the big supporters of Reb Chaim Kramer and he was the president of the Carlebach Shul in New York. I could go on and on, but you should just know that all these torahs that we’re learning also from Reb Shlomo, Nachman has a big chelek in the fact that they’re out there in the world.
And today, whenever I think of him I only see him smiling, and today is his yahrtzeit, so it’s a zechut that his precious wife, our soul sister Miriam, dedicated the shiur in his memory, and b'ezrat Hashem תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים. Amen. So here, I’m going to give these out. Yeah, it’s one page back and forth.
It’s the... it’s hard to tell because it doesn’t really start in the beginning of something, we’re starting the middle of something but you’ll figure it out, I’ll show you where it is. Okay, so in Even Shlomo, Vayechi, for those that have the sefer, it is on page, let’s see, it says 339 there? 339, so let’s see if it’s that one or the other side. Other side.
So where it says 339, turn it over.
ברוך אתה ה' אלקינו מלך העולם שהכל נהיה בדברו. Amen. Okay, chevra let’s learn, but let’s learn.
Ready? This is a short torah, however it encompasses so much. It’s in the middle of a bunch of teachings we have over here of what was Yaakov Avinu doing, what was Yaakov Avinu doing that moment that he wanted to be what’s called legallot et haketz, to reveal the end of times. This teaching over here is another example of how Reb Shlomo learned all the torahs of all the rebbes, squeezed it, and the juice that came out is what you have in front of you. We should all live long, we should all live b'ezrat Hashem in good health, and obviously the end is undeniable.
What happens at the end? Can you imagine for a second, can you visualize what you’d want to give over to your children and grandchildren the second before you took off? And we should all live long. I actually saw Chevra Etan Yiamer invited everyone to a death cafe. Did you see this on the Pitum Shtim? I actually looked into it, I just can’t make it at that time. It’s a pretty, some would say dark inyan, I don’t see it like that.
I see it as actually something that could be very, very healing for certain people and I’m going to look into it even more, I just can’t make it the time that they have it. But that moment where you... This is it, you know, the Piaseczner in Bnei Machshava Tova leads us through that insane visualization about about walking about your kids walking your body to the grave and you're screaming there wishing you could tell them certain things there's nothing you can do. Remember that remember that visualization anybody? That one was that one really stuck with us.
That freaked the daylights out of us. That woke us up like more than any other piece we did over there. Here what we're saying is no no no you still have something to do it's before you took off. It's before you took off.
What would you what would you want to tell your children? What would you want to tell your kinderlach? So this is where we meet Yaakov Avinu in the parsha. Yaakov Avinu is over here finally the chevra are together and it's a moment of okay let's Heasfu, Heasfu, gather together. Interesting how the Izhbitzer translates beshem hamidrash Heasfu is leshon hitaharu, purify yourselves, האספו ואגידה לכם את אשר יקרא אתכם באחרית הימים. The way the peshat is learned is that Yaakov Avinu was about to tell them everything that's going to happen to them until the end of days and how the end of days is going to happen and the whole description of how Mashiach is going to come vechulei.
All the things that we are chaleshing to know and would love to know. And if Yaakov Avinu has the ability to share that with his children of course he's going to share that with his children. He's going to say everything, he's going to share everything with them. So now Rav Shlomo takes us to a place of what was kiviyachol transpiring in Yaakov Avinu when the moment of nistalka mimenu hashchina? When he was about to do that but the Shechina that was present and able to reveal all this when it was mistalek from them.
But again I just want to reiterate we should all be blessed with arichus yamim. Like it should all be you know and I can see this piece I davka wanted to choose because I could see the person that we're dedicating the shiur for, for Nachman Futterman, I could see his smile, mamash his smile and his tear through this teaching. It's a very very profound thing. Pesach had the zechus of being very very close to him as well.
And Miriam dedicated the shiur for Nach this morning. Okay so look inside. Baparsha shelanu you see where we are chevra? It's two pages but the side I don't the side that doesn't have the number.
בפרשה שלנו יעקב אבינו יודע שהוא עומד לעזוב את העולם.
Yaakov knows he's about to die.
ולכן קורא לילדיו ומבקש לגלות להם מתי תהיה הגאולה. He's calling to his children and he wants to tell them, wants to reveal to them when geulah will happen.
כולנו מתפללים לחיות חיים ארוכים.
We're all davening to have length of days, long days, אבל דמינו את היום שבו יגיע זמננו להפרד מילדינו. But imagine the day that comes that we have to say goodbye to our kinderlach. It's a very emotional thing, no? It's a very very deep thing. I don't know if it's striking a chord for anybody else but it's a very very deep thing.
Imagine, he says, imagine the day that you have to say goodbye to your children. daminu shebeoto rega now imagine that at that moment נוכל לראות את כל מה שהם וצאצאיהם עתידים לעבור בחייהם עד ביאת המשיח. And imagine at that moment that you're about to say goodbye to your abba, your abba's about to say goodbye to you, that they also the father was able to know and see everything that his children, his offspring, would have to go through till Mashiach comes.
היינו רוצים לומר לילדינו כל כך הרבה דברים.
You'd want to start talking forever. You'd want to share everything. You'd want to say everything in the world. What would you hold back at that moment? What would you hold back? And of course now that's mitzad hanosen, that's mitzad hamashpia, and mitzad hamekabel.
Imagine you're sitting there as a mekabel and you see oh oh something's going on, he's about to download it all. You're sitting there like this and you're just saying are you kidding me? More every word. So the sons see something in their abba and then they see something switch in their abba. They see that they're about to receive every piece of vital information that so to speak they would need in order to make it till Mashiach comes and then they see that that's also removed from their abba.
So also mitzad hamekabel it's very strange.
זו הייתה מדרגת יעקב אבינו לפני שהסתלק מן העולם. Third paragraph. This is where Yaakov Avinu is holding before he died.
היו לו שנים עשר בנים קדושים שעברו כל כך הרבה בחייהם. Twelve kinderlach, twelve sons went through so much in their life.
והנה הם סוף סוף ביחד. And they're finally all together.
זה היה פלא גמור. Total wonderment. ad How big was Am Yisrael back then? They were basically the representatives of all of Am Yisrael were all in that room. And there was utter oneness, there was achdus, there was total unity.
Love, finally trust and harmony with the Shivtim, with the representatives of Am Yisrael. Then Reb Shlomo says there will never be such great achdus like there was in that room in that moment. Now he says הגמרא אומרת דבר שאנחנו לא היינו מעיזים לומר. The Gemara says something we would never dare say.
It says, it says in Bava Metzia and it's brought down in Breishis Rabba in the Midrash שיעקב אבינו הוא המובחר היה המובחר שבאבות. You know mivchar means? Yeah, not chosen but preferred like the of the highest if you have to look at a few numbers the highest in rank amongst the numbers that he was included in which was Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. The Gemara says Yaakov Avinu, so to speak, is higher. There's reasons for this, mittaso shleima, there's a lot of different reasons for this.
Also I think it says in the Midrash שופריה דיעקב אבינו מעין שופריה של אדם הראשון. He also looked like Adam HaRishon. He had something about him and obviously he's Yisrael, right? So he has something, there's something going on by Yaakov Avinu that's mivchar she-ba-avos. Was it Reb Shlomo who talks about him being on the, was it Reb Shlomo who talks about him being on the shoulders of his father and grandfather? I mean could be that Reb Shlomo said it but it makes total sense that he's standing on top of chesed on top of gevura and he's carrying both those middos together.
Yeah, absolutely. So יעקב אבינו היה המובחר שבאבות יותר גבוה אפילו מאברהם ויצחק בחינת אדם הראשון קודם החטא. So Yaakov Avinu is on the level of Adam HaRishon before he even sinned, kodem ha-cheit. Talk about the pristine, clear purity of who we're dealing with.
ליעקב אבינו היתה נבואה ברורה בהירה. Yaakov Avinu had clear, clear, clear prophecy. There was no problem, it wasn't like Yaakov Avinu was being like, I gotta do still, I still gotta do teshuva to figure out how to cleanse that and cleanse that and then get clarity about this. No, Yaakov Avinu's in a state of nevuah behira.
Behira, behira, bahir, clear, clear prophecy.
כל העתיד היה ברור לו לגמרי. All of the future was clear to him.
את זה הוא רצה לגלות לבניו.
This is what he wanted to reveal to his children.
לגלות להם את הכל באותה בהירות כמו שהייתה לו. He wanted to give over the clarity like it was clear to him, like it was clear to him. I've seen this a few times where parents try to get their children into the family business.
Parents that, a father that he was really good at what he was doing, he was really good at what he was doing and then he wanted to, and then they want to give it over to the child and the child's struggling with it, he doesn't get it, it's not working for him. Sometimes I see the opposite. I see a family business that the kid's looking at the father and he's like, but out of my kavod for you I won't tell you anything, but I could, I could do this so much better. This happens to me sometimes when Nachman comes and sits in shul next to me and he looks at me and sometimes I feel like he's looking at me with those eyes of like, abba.
Come on. Oy, mamesh, bishmola busha, you know? It could come out also when he's duchening. Yeah, could be, it could be. But Yaakov Avinu has a family business, it's called nitzchiyus Am Yisrael.
Netzach Yisrael. Nitzchiyus Am Yisrael. What a, what a combination. I was just gonna tell them, I was about to play a chuppah one time, I get three calls one after the other from Chicago.
I was like, okay this must be an emergency. Aryeh Polstein, how many years ago? Three and a half years ago. And he wanted to name his son. What's his full name? Netzach Yisrael.
He was told he shouldn't. He says what do you think? It's like what do I think? I think that's the highest, most heilige name in the world. Netzach Yisrael, Netzach, Yaakov Avinu is holding by Netzach Yisrael. He wants to give over Netzach Yisrael to what nitzchiyus Am Yisrael is all about.
And if you have the clear Eternal. Eternal and not just Netzach being eternal and victorious, Netzach miloshon menatzeach to be a conductor. That the way you're acting in the world, you're going to conduct the world. The way people are going to be treating each other in Pakistan and in Zimbabwe is going to be vibrations coming out of the nitzchiyus of Am Yisrael.
Netzach Yisrael is everywhere in the whole world. We'll try to start from here, but that's the goal, that's the dream, right?
אבל אז קרה לו משהו. Az kara mashu. But then something happened, as Rashi tells us, בקש לגלות את הקץ ונסתלקה ממנו שכינה.
He's about to give this all over, everything we just said, this behirus, these instructions, the manual, the guide, the strength, the passion, everything, and then that's removed. So let me ask you something because we're in the world that we're in right now. What would you say right now was taking place in Yaakov Avinu's mind about his own inyanim with himself? What did he start thinking about himself when that was removed? I'm nothing, I'm a navi. Or what else? I'm getting old.
I'm getting old. What else? He had had this Ruach Hakodesh he had and then he lost it when Yosef was in Mitzrayim and he just got it back and it's gone again. What do you think he thought about himself? He did something wrong. He didn't raise his kids right.
Didn't raise his kids right. What else? Maybe, I mean self-doubt could be a big thing. Maybe all those things I was certain of it's not so I shouldn't have been so certain about this. Yachol liyot, yes.
Or maybe he didn't have the merit the same way he didn't think he had the merit beforehand. He didn't have the merit. He lost the merit. Something happened.
What happened? You name it, you could come up with a bunch of different stories and biblical critics have a field trip with this kind of garbage. But you know what I mean? He could you could start to think for a second, nistalka mimenu Shechina, maybe I needed to feel I was as special as I was to make it through this world, but this level of special, to give it over to them, as clear as it was to me, that's already something else. Go to the kever with anava. Go to the kever with humility, go to the kever with like a sense of being like, yes, I experienced the greatest things in the world, I was mamish shteim asar shevatim, I built the house of Israel.
Aval maybe that can get to a person and maybe he's getting a message from the Eibershter: lower it down, simmer it down a little bit. Yachol liyot. You can come up with a million conclusions. Yeah, what did you want to say? Isn't the as we understand the reason that he wanted to tell them was because he saw they were going to be sent into the galus and it was almost like a way of comforting them, right? By revealing to them when the ultimate geula would come.
It could be he realized they don't need that from me, they have it within themselves. Wait, you're giving a drash, we're still stuck in the possibilities of what we like when it happens to us, when something's so clear to us and we're like, oh, I can't wait to give, ever happened to you, let's dugree, okay? Like totally honestly. Did you ever, many of the chevra here have prepared shiurim before, and this is a lot of the machon guys that are here, this is a big limud for yourselves for the future, I still work with this all the time. You ever prepare something, you know it, as you say in proper English, klar.
You know it, klar. Naftali, what's klar? You grew up with klar, right? In the yeshiva. Clear. Klar.
You know it, klar. You get up to the amud, you go up to the shiur, whatever it is, and you're like, what's going on over here? That which I knew clearly is not coming out now. What would start to happen to you in your mind about yourself? I'm not worthy, I have to work on my skills, this isn't for me, change careers, all the different sfekos that can come into you. Yaakov Avinu goes into a different zone.
He goes into a zone that's even deeper than nevuah, that's deeper than prophecy. What could be deeper than prophecy? Look at this. This is the whole Torah. Look at this.
אולי יש כאן רמז עמוק, maybe there's a deep deep siman here, there's a deep hint here. Ve-ulai lo. Now, I love that. I kept that in bechavana.
No other rav would write in his sefer, אולי יש כאן משהו עמוק, אולי לא, right? Maybe there's something deep here, but maybe there isn't. But that just shows to me the height of anava in the Torah, you know? It's like the best sales thing to do: "Maybe this is a good part for you, or maybe not." All of a sudden, you're listening. Right, right. Totally, he got our ear.
If he didn't have our ear until now, it's like אולי יש כאן משהו עמוק אולי לא. What may you be wrong about, you know?
אם אני יודע כמו נביא את כל מה שעתיד לקרות לבתי הקטנה, if I know what everything that's going to happen to my child like a prophet and I know it clearly.
זה גורם לי להיות קרוב אליה, don't kid yourself, it does make me feel closer to her, to my, to my baby girl.
אבל כשאני לא יודע מה עתיד לקרות לה, but when I'm not clear what's exactly going to happen to her, אני כולי מצפה ומייחל שיקרה לה כל דבר טוב וקדוש, the all of me, the all of me is davenning, is longing, is in a state of kissufim that every single good and holy thing should happen to her.
זה הרבה יותר עמוק. That's much deeper.
זה לא מדרגה של נבואה, it's not the level of prophecy, אלא מדרגה של כיסופים. This is very much connected to what we've been seeing of Rav Biderman the last few Fridays.
This is greater. Nistalka mimenu Shechina. Hashem was teaching Yaakov Avinu the last Torah of his life, which means that what's greater than clarity and that you know everything is that the problem with it is that what does it maybe prevent you from tuning into? Davenning. If it's all clear to you, if everything's crystal clear to you, then why do I have to daven for? This is what's going to happen, it's nevuah.
This is it is what it is. Or hope. You stop hoping. What's what hope do you need? It's counterintuitive.
It could be counterintuitive. You need to hope for it to all the things that basically Chassidus teaches us make us who we are. Our daas makes takes us to a certain level, but without the davenning over the daas, that's why Rabbeinu Hakadosh, רב נחמן בן פייגא, zechuso yagen aleinu, made us rush to take the daas that we have and put it into a tefillah. It's exactly for this.
It's the formation of the pasuk וידעת היום והשבות אל לבבך. It's the that's the formation of it. If there's no, if there's no if it's just clear nevuah, nevuah let's say over here a level of daas, then do I need to go into vahasheivosa el levavecha? No, because what I see will happen. It will happen.
It will happen. But what he's saying over here is that the Ribbono Shel Olam is teaching Yaakov Avinu, who at that moment is then teaching to his children, who of course are all nevi'im and going to be nevi'im, and the nevi'im, the bnei nevi'im, all their children, the kinderlach, and their offspring, they're all going to come from Yaakov Avinu, all these, all these prophets, all these worlds of prophecy. Of course that's what's going to happen. And he's trying to give over to his kinderlach the deepest lesson in the world.
Yes, we're Yidden, we're intuitive, we have some kind of level of prophecy that it's almost impossible to explain to the world. But don't you dare think that it stops there. Sometimes that could actually be a blockage. If you as you see, you know, if you want like a shtickle Purim energy now, right? If you want like a shtickle Purim energy even right now, so what you should do is turn on the news for three minutes on any of the Israeli TV stations, right? It's a bunch of people sitting around and they're saying with such clear nevuah, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen.
Now let's say that one person's right, okay? So the other chevra, gut Purim. But the real gut Purim is for the one that saying what's going to happen and he's right, because then you want to run up to him and saying to him: and what are you going to do about? What does that make you do? What does that make you feel? We've read all the analytics, we know exactly what's going to be. Let's say, kavyachol. Can you imagine right now if we knew exactly how the next few months are going to unfold in this country? We know it clearly.
We've read all the signs, we've done our homework. We've taken the top specialists, the mumchim, in all these areas, right? And then what? And then you sit back and relax and just say, hey, this is what's going to be, I'm so happy that I've figured out what's going to be. Yeah, do any of your predictions involve like world peace and bezras Hashem all of the oyvim putting down their guns and begging to do teshuva? No. So what doesn't get you how could all your predictions not get you to daven? So therefore, in the world of emes, clarity is removed in order to get you to be a Yid that knows how to lichsof.
about some of the stuff that you have with your Kinderlach. Who wouldn't want to know exactly how things will pan out for our children? All of us would want to know. And then think like based on what we know will happen to them, I'll give them the best Etzas. And you can even give good Etzas without Davening, you know that.
Etzas can come just from the world of Das. This removal of clarity, this moment, this epic moment before Yaakov Avinu dies set the stage for how Yiddishkeit unfolds and how Yiddishe homes, how Jewish homes unfold and what should be in there and what shouldn't be in there. And that's why Reb Shlomo says that it's much deeper to actually not know exactly what's going to happen to your child, even deeper than prophecy, cause prophecy doesn't get you to Daven. Unclarity gets you to Daven.
And that's what he's experiencing over there.
האם כשהכל ברור לי זה הכי טוב? When I have utmost clarity, is that the best? Lefamim. Lefamim.
ולפעמים דווקא כשאין באפשרותי לראות בבירור זה הרבה יותר עמוק.
And sometimes davka when I don't have the ability to clearly see what's going to be, it actually hits and it strikes much, much deeper.
אנחנו הכי קרובים לזה בלילה. Obviously we tune into this much more at night.
בשעה שחשוך ולא רואים בבירור זה את זה.
We can't clearly see each other.
וזה בחינת וכל עין לך תצפה. This is the level of seeing that's called וכל עין לך תצפה. That every eye will actually be active, actively doing something.
What are they, what are eyes going to actually be doing? Tzipui. What does Tzipui mean? Anticipate. B'diyuk.
המדרגה הזאת של ציפייה היא עומק העומקים.
By the way, I once said a Torah like this, and I may be wrong. I just wanted to see if it works again. I said I may be wrong, and then faces turned. I may be wrong, but I thought that maybe this is Pshat that when it says that Eliezer met Rivka, how old was Rivka? Three.
But it says that when he met her, when he describes meeting her to Lavan, he uses the word that I came today to the eye, ואבוא היום אל העין, there's a lot of Torahs in this. So I once, I think it's like this, is that somehow אליעזר עבד אברהם אנכי. Eliezer was holding with the Torah of Avraham Avinu. Avraham Avinu was a longer, a chashkan, a mitzapeh, a mitzapeh.
So he learned from Avraham Avinu how to know where people are holding by looking at their eyes and to be able to see: are these eyes of longing for that which isn't clear yet in the world, or is it just eyes that are using your eyes just to see what's in front of you on the level of clarity? So here I want to say Rivka, yes, al pi the Midrash that how old was she? Three. Not three like back then they say when you're three you were really like 30. No, I want to say three. Three.
Three. Eyes of a three-year-old, think of your three-year-olds or your cousin's three-year-olds or your grandchild's three-year-olds, and they have the ability look in their eyes and say certain eyes have this ability of וכל עין לך תצפה, that even if they know everything that's clear to them in the world, even if everything is planned out for them and their parents set them up, they go to Ivy League schools, everything set up for them, and they don't have to worry about a thing, but what do they want? These Kinderlach know that what's deeper than having everything set up for me and clear for me is וכל עין לך תצפה, that I am someone that needs to long in order to feel alive. I'm someone that needs to anticipate, to look forward to, to Daven, to pray, to be, to be broken open in order to long for something bigger in order to feel alive. And maybe you could say that that's what Eliezer saw in Rivka and he knew right away, this is the mama of Am Yisrael.
This is the mama of Yaakov Avinu who has to come from Rivka. Yaakov Avinu has to be born to a woman like this, she has this, she's born with it somehow. And he ends off here and he's saying, וזה מה שהנחיל יעקב אבינו לכל יהודי עד ביאת המשיח. This is something that Yaakov Avinu gave over to each Yid until Moshiach comes.
What did he give, so what did he give over to us? That when it comes to Moshiach, it's not knowing when it's going to come, it's your, the actual yearning itself that is the task. And even if someone tells you exactly when it's going to be and how it's going to be, which many, by the way, I mean, there are many stories of people that have very holy people... Very holy people. There's all these stories that have come out.
You know, they came to the Amshenover Rebbe once, and this is like twenty-five years ago, and they came to the Amshenover Rebbe and they said, "You know, this tzaddik says it's happening here and this one's happening, this one said it's mamash happening here." They had all these simanim based on this, that's why just you should know whenever these, we have like, it's so funny to say this, whenever we have mini wars, which is a davar miskabel over here, right? Whenever we have these like mini wars going on, then someone pulls a midrash that says, "Oh, that tzaddik said that when Russia does this to, I don't know, Paras, or when Egypt then comes up and shows its face, that's a siman." Mazel tov, I'm sure that's also true, but it's not as deep as what happens to me at that moment when I feel tzara and I want to daven for geula. It doesn't come close to it. It doesn't, it doesn't come close to it. This is what he's saying.
What did Yaakov Avinu leave over for your kinderlach? For us? That even when you have all the da'as in the world, just remember something, you could have nevua behira uvrura, clear, clear prophecy, that doesn't come close to what happens to you when something's not clear and you want to daven over it. You're much closer to your children and you're much closer to anything that's important if something gets you to cry over it and daven over it as opposed to knowing exactly what's going to be. So let's go back to the beginning now. Yaakov Avinu wants to megaleh the ketz.
He wants to megaleh the end of times. Did he? In a way, yes. A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
On the level of longing. On the level of i-behirut, on the level of, on the level of unclarity that brings to avoda. Yes. That's the gilluy, that's the revelation.
That's the, some of the tzaddikim say the truth is Yaakov Avinu was megaleh the ketz by the first word he said to them. Right? What's the first word he said to them? The Slonimer says this: He'asefu. Meaning that was the whole chap, right? Beseder, but now this takes it to a place of I think where most of us are holding. I don't know if most of us, I'm definitely holding there, where there's nothing barur, there's nothing bahir, there's nothing clear.
Like Naftali and I always talk about this like אנחנו חיים פה על נסים. Like we're living on miracles here. We don't, it's so beyond insane how anything here is functioning and the people that are running and how they're running the country. If you knew a little bit of the inside, it's pashut lo yuman.
The significance is the emphasis on the present. Nachon. Nachon. Past is history, future is mystery, all we have is right now.
But that is, but that is right. Nevua is future. Nevua is future. Mazel tov.
What does it, what does it do to me right now? So we should be zocheh. Did it also take away from the moment? If he was with his children and he knew everything was going to happen, like you said in the beginning, he would talk for hours and he would miss the moments that he was having right there at the moment. It's true. You were saying what was his machshava? I was thinking as you were reading the Torah, is it not like the Avos, all they had were havtachas of the future.
Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, their majority of their conversations recorded in the Torah is, "I have a prophecy, I'll make you a great..." Right. Yeah. It's always future thinking but then this life would be like the, wow, you know? And that havtacha it means, it's not about, you want to have the havtacha, it's you guys are going to be the ones who are going to bring it about. This is the hemshecha of all the havtachas in the moment.
Very good. That's chazak. And it wasn't intentional? Or was it? Right, or was it. That's another, that's a good shaila.
I don't know. Ulay, I don't know, ulay, maybe, maybe yes, maybe stay tuned for next year but I don't know, maybe yes, maybe no. I just want to give us a beracha to hold on to this Torah for dear life and that, and not to freak out when things don't, aren't clear, it's a moment. And I just want to add one more thing, this is very special.
It's something I can't believe is happening. In the middle of September 2023, I was invited to come and participate in a, in a day, in a day in the Knesset that's honoring Rav Shlomo and his legacy. And it was scheduled I think for October 13th or 20th, I'd have to look back at my notes, 2023. Obviously that, you know, didn't really happen.
But you all saw I think Pesach sent it out, it's happening this Monday, and in the Knesset, that I'll have the privilege of doing exactly this in the Knesset. There's 400 seats there that are available and 300 of them were already taken. I think it'd be a gevalt if as many chevre as possible were able to come to the Knesset that day. There's a form, we'll send it out, you fill it out.
There's going to be some very, very special people there, including the former Chief Rabbi, the one who actually gave the hesped to Reb Shlomo at his funeral, Rav Chief Rav Lau, Reb Shlomo's daughter Dari and some of the and the truth is it's so look how the world turns around. In 1966 Reb Shlomo met a young man and woman named Alex and Miriam Scott on the streets of San Francisco. To make a very long story very, very short, Alex and Miriam Scott were the first people that Reb Shlomo sent to Eretz Yisrael, turned them on like fire. They are today leading, leading figures in the Breslov movement, Rav Eliyahu Sukkot and Miriam Sukkot with I don't even want to say how many children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren throughout Eretz Yisrael.
Happens to be one of their grandchildren is Zvi Sukkot from the Knesset and he's the one that's helping to organize this thing and he's going to be interviewing his grandfather about what his story was, what it was like, Haight-Ashbury 1966. Can you imagine what this is, in the Knesset, right? And a bunch of our chevre, so I think it'd be a beautiful thing. That's why unfortunately I can't give shiur here Monday morning because we're relocating shiur to the Knesset. I'm really sorry.
But whoever wants to come and join it'd be a big kiddush Hashem.