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The Laws of War and Peace with Rav Shlomo Katz is a series based on Hilchos Milchamah VeShalom by Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, opening up the Torah of מלחמה ושלום for the times we are living in right now.
In these episodes, Rav Shlomo explores the halachic, biblical, and inner spiritual foundations of war, courage, national responsibility, emunah, and redemption. Through the lens of Tanach, Chazal, and the living reality of Am Yisrael, this series asks: How is a Jew meant to think, feel, pray, and act in a time of מלחמה? What does true gevurah look like? How do we fight evil without losing humility? And how do war, mesirus nefesh, and miracles become part of the unfolding geulah?
Yofi, Chodesh Nissan, this is our last limud for the Chodesh Nissan, sponsored anonymously in honor of all the open miracles we're seeing daily by the Silver family, le-ilui nishmas בתיה פיגא בת ישראל, by the Kraman-Miller families' memory of רייזל בת רב דוד דוב, לייב יצחק אריה בן נחום, בר זביאל בן רב יוסף טוביה, נחמה בת אפרים זלמן ברוך, and this week is sponsored by Paul and Devorah Grosse. I also want to make today's shiur le-ilui nishmas Chaim David's brother, who just nifter and we were at the funeral late last night in Yerushalayim. Yosef ben, I don't have the name on me. Did they write out, did they put the name out on the WhatsApp? I want to make sure we have that name.
It was an amazing, it was actually a really holy beggars' funeral, a story from, they'll write about this funeral, the characters that were there, the image, the people that came out and what they actually ended up saying.
יוסף בן משה ירחמיאל.
יוסף בן משה ירחמיאל, zichrono livracha, תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים. Amen.
And also for the continued refuah sheleima of Hilla bas Ilana that had her surgery two days ago and b'ezras Hashem she should, we should all hear good news and koach and simcha and chizuk for the family. Amen. Okay my holy brothers, we are gonna pick up today on page 42. What we did last time was speaking about the advice that Yitro gave Moshe Rabbeinu in terms of what types of leaders are you looking for and how it seems that Moshe Rabbeinu could not find leaders that have both, right? That have both.
Both what? Anshei chayil, yirei Elokim. What did he end up, more or less, I mean again this is not exactly exactly the way that we, boker tov, it's not exactly the way that everyone sees this angle the way we've been learning it really stems, it really comes forward and that's inyan of what did Moshe Rabbeinu, who did he choose to say okay if I can't have both anshei chayil and yirei Elokim but right now I need to get a nation physically to get to another place, so it seems like who did he, I don't want to say compromise, but anshei chayil. What's that? Anshei chayil. Anshei chayil.
Zot omeret, Moshe Rabbeinu says hey I can't get both anshei chayil and yirei Elokim so I'm gonna go with anshei chayil. We see the problems that come with that where you're just choosing leadership that are Ramatkalim and sarei bitachon and a bunch of what we call now there's a new, you know since October 7th you have words that have come up. One of them is conceptzia, very strong Hebrew rooted word. And you also have another word which doesn't really, it's not really a word but it's called l'she-avarim.
Have you heard that? The Israelis in the room? L'she-avarim. How do you say that? Has-beens, the before. No, and these are the ones that are sitting and giving eitzas to the am and it's like eitza after eitza after eitza mitokh not yirei Elokim, mitokh mitokh anshei chayil. We stopped on page 39 where he says over here that anshei chayil that aren't yirei Elokim they just bring tzaros onto us and he gives examples here of Yiftach, Bnei Dan, Shaul, Plishtim and the result is that with this type of mindset you ain't going nowhere and you're actually bringing tzaros on Am Yisrael.
I don't want to be stuck in the mud too much, I want to go to the light and the light for us will begin today on page 42. We are sitting in Dovid HaMelech's backyard. Never gets old. I bless you all, bless me back, that the fact that we are sitting mamash in Dovid HaMelech's backyard never ever ever ever gets old.
I think it's shtikel kashur to the nevuah of the chevre that gave the name to the shul, they were naming it after someone, a dear friend of mine, a chavruta of mine, but this is mamash Shira David, this is the way, where, this is where Dovid HaMelech sang, this is where he could very much possibly have composed a number of Tehillim. I know, also in the caves by you. He had a lot of places where he sat. But we definitely know that Dovid HaMelech, the proximity to Dovid HaMelech's birthplace and where he lived and to where we are right now is startling.
It's not Tuohy in Chicago, this is not Central Avenue in New York, this is not Pico Robertson, this is mamash Dovid HaMelech's backyard. Dovid HaMelech is this amazing combination. of what Yitro had in mind when he told Moshe Rabbeinu what kind of people you need אנשי חיל יראי אלקים כמו כח דוד המלך. This is where we're starting.
Dovid Hamelech's roots we all know, we're going to be reading about soon Shavuos, Chag Hashavuos, which is coming up soon. Chag Hashavuos every year there's so much to learn, but if you just sat with Sefer Rus and you don't bank on getting inspired from a laining of Megillas Rus at 4:15 in the morning, but there's actually like hakdamas for it and getting into who here has blown their mind sitting there at like 4:00, you know, hearing Megillas Rus, right, on Shavuos morning. Hakdamas. So in the years past we did hakdamas for Sefer Rus, beautiful beautiful learnings on it.
We have a number of shiurim on it. But we're already getting a little bit of a head start already right now with Shavuos, but because if we're learning about Dovid Hamelech, the ultimate leader, the shiluv, the combination of anshei emes, אנשי חיל יראי אלקים. Why did I say anshei emes? Oh, because the niggun אנשי אמת זרע קודש ברוך.
אנשי חיל יראי אלקים.
Now Ari and I have noticed something, I mean you noticed something and then I kept on noticing it afterwards. The concept of chayil, cheil, chiyul, you'll start to see all over t'fillah. You'll start to see this everywhere. You'll see this concept of chayil, cheil, חיל אחז ישבי פלשת, חילו מרכבות פרעה וחילו ירה בים.
I saw, did you see any any others? There are others that I've been noticing now, this happens. You know when do you notice car brands? When you're looking to buy a car, and then that's the only time you notice other cars, right? It's the same thing over here, like when you notice a certain thing, oh I see it here, I see it here, I see it there. The roots of Dovid Malka Meshicha in Sefer Rus, obviously, where we have Boaz and Rus. So Boaz, Naomi, and Dovid, אנשי חיל יראי אלקים.
These middos are embedded in Boaz, they're embedded in Rus, they're embedded in Dovid Malka Meshicha who comes from the whole story of Sefer Rus.
דוד לא היה ירא אלקים יותר משאול. The Gemara in Yoma tells us everyone's so fast to knock off Shaul Hamelech. Why? Because, bless you, obviously his end could have been a bit more geshmak, it would have saved us a bunch of things, although like we learned last year, the Rishiner says, had Dovid not killed Agag, there'd have been the one holiday that we didn't have, Purim.
So in a weird way, the Rishiner has a whole Torah that in the zchus of Shaul not killing Agag, we have Purim. Reb Shlomo said in the name of the Baal Shem Tov that a Yiddele with ultimate utmost holy chutzpah, azus d'kdusha she-b'kdusha, can come before the Ribbono Shel Olam on Yom Kippur and say Eibershter, had I not sinned so much this last year, Gevalt, you wouldn't have you wouldn't get such a such a, you know, such a broken Yiddele that wants to be close to you. Or he said once in the name of the Baal Shem Tov, had we not done aveiros, you wouldn't have gotten the niggunim that basically came out of a Yiddele's crying, krechtzing from his heart. These are all Torahs of b'di'eved not l'chatchila, chevre.
This is going to be our new album. You mean the other 20 weren't enough? The b'di'eved. Yeah, b'di'eved it's called. Shiri B'di'eved.
That's the name of the album. B'di'eved Hearts. Okay. So the Gemara says in Yoma, דוד לא היה ירא אלקים יותר משאול.
Dovid Hamelech, Shaul Hamelech would have yiras Elokim, of course he did. But the reason that Dovid Hamelech was chosen was different.
הסיבה שבגללה הוא נבחר היא השילוב שהיה בו בין ירא אלקים לגבור חיל. A shiluv, the combination of both attributes.
כך אומר חושי הארכי לבנו של דוד והוא גם בן חיל אשר לבו כלב האריה המס ימס כי יודע כל ישראל כי גבור אביך ובני חיל אשר אתו. He says, he says to your Abba, he has both. And we all see it. And we know that our leader has both.
Hagevura hazos, Rav Eliyahu says, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu says, megi'ah misabo v'savato Boaz and Rus. It's not it wasn't his own thing, it's in his DNA.
משתיהם התכנסו שתי התכונות של יראת שמים אנשי חיל. Both by Boaz and by Rus you have the same concept, אנשי חיל יראי אלקים.
Al Boaz ne'emar: ולנעמי מודע לאישה לאיש איש גבור חיל ממשפחת אלימלך ושמו בועז. That's how he's introduced to us. Ish gibbor chayil. Gevalt, right? Ve-al Ruth ne'emar, כי יודע כל שער עמי כי אשת חיל את.
Amazing. I'm telling you, you're going to notice it now more often. This concept of chayil.
כל העם מברך אותם בילדים כמותם and the am, once they're together, the am blesses them that they should have kinderlach like them.
What does it mean like them? That their kinderlach should have that spirit, these definitions, this combination that they both have.
ויאמרו כל העם אשר בשער והזקנים עדים יתן השם את האשה הבאה אל ביתך כרחל וכלאה אשר בנו שתיהם את בית ישראל ועשה חיל באפרתה. Anyone have a kid here in that school? Okay, so you're going to start noticing, I'm telling you, it's unbelievable. You have it, yeah, he's in Aseh Chayil.
Aseh Chayil be-Efratah is a pasuk from Megillas Rus. So our whole inyan here in Efrat, if you think about it, is maybe aseh, like le-chayil is more embedded in its nature, in the DNA of the place. And our hashlama has to be the yirei Elokim. Mi-chayil el chayil, they should say מחיל אל יראי אל חיל they should say, maybe they should say.
Rotzeh?
מזמור שיר עשה חיל in Tehillim. Yeah, it's the same pasuk, it's just from Tzidkiyah yesterday. Is that it?
רבות בנות עשו חיל ואת עלית על כולן asher mi-Mishlei. Yeish, I'm telling you, I mean I don't, you have chevre, these guys, none of us here hung out with in high school that knew all these pesukim by heart in Tehillim or in Nach.
Just me that didn't hang out with those guys? As if, Naftali, as if you, you never, you knew they were in your class. We could keep on finding but this is a gevalt thing. Efrat is the bechinah of v'asseh chayil be-Efratah. So the hashlama of yirei Elokim, you know, is true about not just Efrat, it's true about this whole dor.
Okay, weiter. So they're all davening that they should, your kid should have this.
הברכה של כל העם והזקנים עושה רושם. It works.
ולבועז ורות נולד לראשונה בישראל נכד שיש לו את שתי התכונות. They have a grandson that has both of these qualities.
הנה ראיתי בן לישי בית הלחמי יודע נגן וגבור חיל ואיש מלחמה ונבון דבר ואיש תאר והשם עמו. That's the description of David ha-Melech when we first get to meet him in Sefer Shmuel.
All these pesukim are referring to the anshei chayil part, but where's the yirei Elokim? Ve-Hashem immo. Over here it's Ve-Hashem immo, before that יתן השם את האשה אל ביתך, meaning that the consciousness of Hashem is there. Now he ends off here saying לראשונה מתקיימת עצת יתרו למינוי מנהיג שהוא גם גיבור חיל וגם השם עמו. Rav Eliyahu did something amazing.
He's saying go back to Sefer Shemos for a second. Yitro coming to Moshe Rabbeinu, telling him what he need, it took until, it seems the way he's saying it here, it took until here for Yitro's eitzah to be implemented and to be something that it was galui le-chol. And he ends off by saying this is interesting. Ruth ve-Yitro is otiyot damot, right? There's a lot about this.
Mamash, it's the word Torah, the word, and the word Torah, betach, betach, yeah. In Hordoseh, I think we've done last time that if someone is not an ish chayil and he thinks it's all כחי ועצם ידי then Hashem can't co-exist in the same place as him, so Hashem immo... no, if he's not a yirei Elokim, he's saying. If he's not a yirei Elokim then it's not Hashem immo, that means he is, he is a yirei Elokim.
Nachon. That, that's the... I'm walking with Hashem immi... I wasn't questioning they had the yirei Elokim...
yeah, yeah, no, no, it's good, it's very good. Now David ha-Melech, yeah? You're saying the first time the Torah says the word is by Paroh's cheilo bayam. If that's the type of definition of the Torah's first time it uses any word, it's like showing you there's a negative chayil. Betach, betach.
Although I don't know if it's the first, we have to check. I don't know. Lichora, yeah, but I don't know, I don't. For sure it comes before Yitro.
But it comes before then. Nachon. But I don't know in the Torah itself, that'd be interesting. Don't do it now chevre.
Today every time I say something because the ChatGPT chevre on this like ten minute scavenger hunt but the rest of the shiur's missed. Afterwards we'll look at these things. Now David ha-Melech understands deep in his heart and that's why Rav Eli Michel's shiurim on David ha-Melech I can't encourage you enough to listen to they're all recorded he finished it this year it is amazing amazing Torah amazing stuff our dor is mamash needing to... Our dor is mamash needing to still listen to Dovid Hamelech's vision of what kind of people he saw and what kind of people he knew were needed, not just to establish Beis Hamikdash but the geula hasheleima, ve'amitis, vehanitzchis, the eternal one.
דוד הולך להנחיל את התכונה הזאת לכל העם. And he wants to give this over to the whole, to all the people. Bottom paragraph.
הדבר הראשון שדוד עושה אחרי מות שאול הוא להקים צבא מיומן.
Shaul Hamelech dies and we learned, remember how we learned gruesomely what they did with him with Shaul Hamelech? So after he gets killed, you have to lehakim tzava, not it's not a tzava from Uman like maybe some of us are reading, lehakim tzava meuman. What does meuman mean? A well-oiled, well-trained army.
ויאמר ללמד בני יהודה קשת. It's a famous pasuk in Shmuel Bet.
To teach benei yehuda kashet. What's kashet?
הגמרא אומרת שקשת זה מלחמה שצריכה לימוד. Milchama shetzricha limmud. A war that needs learning.
לימוד מלחמה היא לא המצאה שלו. War, what's a better, what's the term for this? Like a war, not war theory, but strategy. Let's say that for now but there's a concept I'm thinking of, I just don't have the words.
לימוד מלחמה היא לא המצאה, he's not making this up.
Oh, you have to have war strategy, war tactics, you have to have chochma within the chayil.
ככה עשו האבות הקדושים הנה כתובה על ספר הישר.
דוד מקים צבא של גיבורים יראי השם. What does it mean to have chochma in milchama? Yiras Hashem.
ראשית חכמה יראת השם.
ראשית חכמה יראת השם. The some of the greatest Israeli warriors in the modern era that did incredibly big things for Am Yisrael who today when we mention their names we have such anger and animosity and pain towards is because they weren't talmidei David Hamelech. For instance, give a name and hopefully this should be a limmud zechut for him because gevald does he need it.
Who am I thinking of? Sharon. Ehud Barak. Sharon. Sharon.
No one did more than Arik Sharon for the hityashvut hayehudit in Eretz Yisrael. I feel bad for the generation that a little bit younger they come onto the scene around the time of the geirush in 2005, the hitnatkut from Gush Katif, from Aza. So for them it's just this guy that nitpaka lo hasechel, he was right wing but something happened to him trying to cover up for his children with legal problems, whatever, and then he goes on this binge, right? It's not true. Arik Sharon, I mean when I was growing up, Ariel Sharon was, does anyone remember Ariel Sharon before the hitnatkut? Tank commander.
There was a bulldozer. He was a bulldozer. And how much he did for the hityashvut hayehudit in Eretz Yisrael, right? Ela mai, ma habaya ito? Im kol eleh, all those that have fallen in this trap over and over and over and over again, Jewish heroism without the Ribbono Shel Olam being the center of it, I'm not gonna finish my sentence. But all I'll say is that it's led us to a mabul of Jewish blood flowing in the streets of Eretz Yisrael.
Pashut me'od. Yehuda's article? Which one? He writes like every two days, I don't know. He was saying that you have to bring Hashem into tactics. There's no other way.
It won't work. It's never worked any other way. It won't work any other way. How does tactically, how do you have war scenario, if you attack them they will retaliate and then how does one practically live in a world where we have yirei...
Hashem tells you to do it and have a military tactic without thinking about cause and effect and? What's the stira? Yirei Elokim is just like Hashem, we don't care what the world, there has to be some level of anshei chayil... No, ein shum stira. Ein shum stira. Why I don't see the contradiction.
You still have war tactic but the heart that you're doing everything is with yirei Elokim? Bidiyuk. The war tactic that's coming from a chochma, from a sechel that's ראשית חכמה יראת השם would probably be even smarter and more advanced in war strategy. It doesn't having yiras Hashem in the story doesn't mean just worry about that. Le'afech.
It means take that cup, you put it into the mindset of how you wage war. how you protect the Yidden and then go out like a fierce lion like Dovid HaMelech. The same way that Reb Hershel starts a shiur and says B'siyata d'shmaya and then starts the shiur. Imagine if before they sat down to plan or or go out to action they had a small tefillah or kavanah of B'siyata d'shmaya.
Well that's why I don't know about you but I'm sure you too some of the most most mesmerizing deepest pieces of footage that any of us have been exposed to from the beginning of this war has been when these chayalim get together. Their mefaked comes to the front. They're saying they're saying pesukim of you know I'll tell you something amazing. I've one of the pieces of footage from one of the one of the rounds I have no idea which one but it was more recent was a mefaked that was trying to get his chayalim to go to be in the right zone right before they went into Lebanon right and he said over there לא משנה מה יהיה השם איתנו.
Now those are actually lyrics from one of Chanan's recent songs. Histakli L'mala it's called לא משנה מה יהיה השם איתנו. Like תחשבו על זה שנייה that a chayal goes out to war and he hears his mefaked yeah B'siyata d'shmaya Shema Yisrael the קבלת עול מלכות שמים those those those things are are ooh and I'm sure we have people in the room that have participated in those moments of going out to battle. And the koach of that type that mefaked was here yesterday.
Sheyihiye refuah shleimah.
לא משנה מה יהיה השם איתנו? Shema Yisrael? The one that was mamash like then you know listen there were a lot Baruch Hashem so I don't know it could be. They're at the front. They're at the front.
So Aryeh I b'emes not only is it not a stirah it's a stirah any other way. That's how I see it but I know I understand you know the mind that says like what do you mean you get too involved in spirit then how are you going to be strong davka on the on the on the ground on the tachlis kiviyachol. I'm sure I read a little biography on him and and they said how could you have given up East Jerusalem you're the best guy you did it he goes it's all about security it was once once I saw that there could maybe be peace you know and it's it wasn't an inyan of this is biblical Eretz Yisrael and this is where the that that it was all about security right once I could justify that it'd be safer the other way then I that's why I don't care you can give this. So check it out I see I see Moshe Rabbeinu's decision making still going till today.
Let's go with this for a second. David Ben-Gurion yirei Elokim? No. That's not exactly the thing I put on him right? Moshe Dayan yirei Elokim? No. Yitzchak Rabin alav hashalom yirei Elokim? No.
The list can go on. I don't want you know where I'm holding today. Binyamin Ben Tziylah yirei Elokim? Lo yodeia. Mispallelim.
The list can go on and on and on and on. However so the so the let's call it what it is the anti-Zionist or the one that looks at this and think you think these are the people that are going to lead Am Yisrael you're crazy? Something Jewish about this. So are they are they right or are they wrong? So hold stick with me for a second. Nachon.
However if we go their tactic of just yirei Elokim gas chambers for all of Am Yisrael. Chas v'shalom. Chas v'chalilah. Chas v'chas v'chalilah.
So Moshe Rabbeinu right as as he's what so what is his decision like so go back down to Moshe Rabbeinu's kopp back then. It's like okay so if I can't find people that have both at least I need the ones that are interested in staying alive. So therefore we it's this it's like a chain it's like this crazy chain of like okay can we finally reach the era that we don't have to compromise? Like can we finally reach the era where you don't have to compromise anymore? That that it's a that it's the shiluv? So Dovid HaMelech is the one then that stops he's one that stops that meshugas of both of saying one or the other. He's both.
But it's like again in our dor there's this there's this hizdamnus of saying okay can it can it be both? It has to be both. When was the last time it was both? There wasn't. Dovid HaMelech is the last one. On the level of leadership? On the level of leadership what do you guys think? Menachem Begin? Menachem Begin is a million dollar question.
Yes Menachem Begin? Yes so he he's the best of the bunch but even even the mefaked I mean this is like an inyan in the army now Ofer Winter who says Shema Yisrael... and he's going the spiritual route to get the guys fired up and because he needs Hashem's help, what can I tell you? And he gets he gets it on his head, yeah, and to the point where it's holding it's holding him up. Of course, like we spoke about on Monday, anyone that's going with this so far with that vibe of both, he gets stopped, shut down. He gets shut down.
He cannot go up. It's a it's the wildest thing. These guys are the most illustrious warriors with with amazing with their stories what they've done and they know. So that's why Eli shared that okay, so his son's going to Mechina, that it seems that the hashkafa isn't let's go to to become the elite warrior and be on top cause we've seen that that gets stopped at a certain point, but let's go mi ha'am pnima, let's go from the bottom.
I've been thinking about it for the last few days, let's go into the kishkas of the people first, spread it by the olam, this inyan of ruach of אנשי חיל יראי אלוקים and then go vaiter, which seems to be the only chance of of it happening because any other way, each guy has been stopped. There was a guy, I don't know if you remember these names, Effi Eitam, do you remember him? Remember Effi Eitam? Like like there are a lot of dugmaot, there are a lot of examples of people that got stopped there because David Malka Meshicha's light to shine on Am Yisrael means game over. Or I should say game on, meaning, or I should say actually game on. So the other side, the kochos of the sitra achra, I'm not just speaking about in the form of physicality, we believe in this in the world, the kochos hachushuchim, the dark forces of the sitra achra, they they they can't handle that David Malka Meshicha's manifestation should come out through the chayelim at the top of command today.
So it's it's a very heavy thing. But we have to remember what David Hamelech was trying to do and and hopefully we'll get a lot of koach and kivun in kivun in this in this way. Okay, look at the look at the second paragraph on 43.
דוד מצליח בכל מלחמותיו.
He's totally matzliach. Velo zach da'ato. Remember zach da'ato? His mind, his head doesn't get to him.
הוא לא אומר כוחי ועוצם ידי עשה לי את החיל הזה אלא מבין שזה כוח השם שמתגלה בו.
He sees that when I kill 250 Hezbollah terrorists in a minute, like happened a few days ago, that is Hashem. And when the when the planes went into Iran the way that they did, the first time, the second time, whatever, and the and amazing miraculous things happened, that they're doing it and they and they have a consciousness of Ribbono Shel Olam, way more than however you want to say Israeli nationalism was important to you. The pager attack was I mean honestly ein sof dugmaot, that you can't get enough examples. We are living in this time.
We're in it. I was thinking about it this week. Our children, you know, used to be that for Pesach, because it was a good example this year, they had to work really hard on telling your children over a story from the past to get them to be connected to the story of today. It's kimat afooch.
It's like you just have to make sure your children are aware of what is happening right now in the yad Hashem and then you don't have to worry about mesorah at all. That's the mesorah. That's mamash it. So David matzliach, okay, and then he says in Tehillim האל המאזרני חיל ויתן תמים דרכי משוה רגלי כאיילות ועל במותי יעמידני מלמד ידי למלחמה.
What a words. Melamed yadai lamilchama. He's moving my hands in war. He's teaching my hands how to move.
ונחתה קשת נחושה זרועותיי. Hashiluv hazeh mamshich bagibor chayil shelo. He has a talmid, Benayahu Ben Yehoyada, שממשיך גם לתקופת שלמה המלך. He reigns, he goes also into the period of time where Shlomo Hamelech, David Hamelech's son, is king.
And it says about him in Shmuel Bet, ובניהו בן יהוידע בן איש חיל רב פעלים מקבצאל הוא הכה את שני אריאל מואב והוא ירד והכה את הארי בתוך הבור ביום השלג. They describe Benayahu Ben Yehoyada having this warriorism. Hagemara omeret shezeh gam gevura fizit vegam גבורה רוחנית גדולה מאוד. Now this is we're going to get even more fine-tuning right now into the type of personality we're looking for.
Look what he says. What he does with Yerovam ben Nevat. When I say the words, the name Yerovam ben Nevat, does anything strike? Does anyone get triggered by anything? A traitor, the kingdom split. Traitor.
It's amazing. It's like a kid asking about Arik Sharon, who was he? So we go to the end. Nachon. And before that, Yerovam ben Nevat? Kadosh.
So let's... I wonder what they're gonna say about us, you know? But it's interesting, he's known, Eli's right. You say Yerovam ben Nevat, you're not naming your children Yerovam. You are, some people would name their children Rechavam, huh? He could have been as big as David HaMelech almost.
ירבעם בן נבט היה גם גיבור חיל ואיש ירבעם גיבור חיל זו הסיבה שבגללה שלמה ממנה אותו להיות גובה מיסים של שבט יוסף. Shlomo HaMelech saw this in him, he knew I could put you in a high ranking.
ירבעם היה גם תלמיד חכם גדול. Chazal say about his learning Torah: ובתורתו לא היה שום דופי.
That means nothing was missing. Nothing was missing in his Talmud Torah. He knew how to learn stark. You'd see him in the Beis Medrash and then you'd see him fight and you'd think this is it, this must be the ideal.
Mechadesh ba-Torah. He had chidushim.
דברים שלא שמעה אוזן מעולם. By the way, whenever you see these quotes, he's just quoting from all over Chazal, Rav Shmuel Eliyahu, okay?
גם טעמיה של תורה לא נסתרו ממנו ומאחיה השילוני.
Chazal say about him and Achiyah HaShiloni that the ta'amei ha-Torah, meaning the taste and the deeper secrets of Torah, were not concealed from him. He was what we would say holding.
כל טעמי תורה מגולים להם כשדה.
מהמקום הזה הוא מעז להוכיח את שלמה המלך על התנהגותו עם בת פרעה.
והגמרא אומרת שהוא זכור לטוב על כך. It's a fascinating... I looked at it this morning, there's a fascinating sugya in Sanhedrin that speaks about what was going on over there. He saw, since he knew Torah, he knew how to act, he knew how not to act, he sees Shlomo HaMelech with Bas Paroh and he gives him tochacha on it.
And mishamayin were they happy with what he said? It's amazing. The Gemara says that he was zachur latov for taking his chochmah that he knew and even having the chutzpah to be mevaker, not visiting, to call out Shlomo HaMelech for certain hithanhagut. So now look what happens. Now this is gonna be a trigger.
This is, I'm telling you all, not all of you but some of you, this may really rub you the wrong way, just have patience with it, okay?
בירבעם מתכנסים תורה עם גבורת החיל.
גם עוצמה כלכלית עם עזות של קדושה. So he has all these things that are coming together with him: Torah, gibor chayil, economic independence, power, economic power and holy arrogance.
אדם כזה צריך תזכורת מתמדת שהכל אומר אלוקים.
This types of person, where you see in every area that he's putting his hands into, there's nitzachon, he needs much more of a reminder of Hashem imo, Hashem imi. Davka, a person like that that things are going good, right? E.g. July 1967 le'inyaneinu, right? Davka when it's so geshmak, davka then the tizkoret, the reminder that everything is from Hakadosh Baruch Hu is needed much more than someone else.
כנראה שזה לא היה במידה מספקת.
It seems that with all of his successes, even in being a talmid chacham, even in having azzus dekdusha when needed, like talking to the king the way that he did, even the person like that when they don't really work hard and do hitbodedut, sorry, it's what it is, where you're talking to Hashem, where Hashem is a real, real entity in your life, look what happens to him.
כנראה שזה לא היה במידה מספקת ודעתו של ירבעם משתחררת בהצלחתו. The success got to him.
אמר רב נחמן גסות הרוח שהיה בו בירבעם טרדתו מן העולם.
It was the gasus ruach that came and got the best of him.
הוא התגאה וכל תלמידי חכמים דומים לפניהם כעשבי השדה. Al ken, next page.
ירבעם נופל בחטא החמור של עבודה זרה.
He ends up like Eli said, he ends off, it's the saddest thing. So much... much potential. But what does his name allude to? His name itself, Yerovam, Yerov Am.
He brought a riv into the am.
הוא נפל בחטא החמור של עבודה זרה והחטיא את ישראל לדורות דורות הפסוק אומר שעשרת שבטי ישראל גלו מעל אדמתם מאות שנים אחריו בגללו. It's amazing to look at Tanach like this. He's saying the Pasuk in Melachim now, Melachim Bet is going to show us that the Psukim are blaming Yerovam for the eventual Galut.
וידח ירבעם את ישראל מאחרי השם והחטיאם חטאה גדולה וילכו בני ישראל בכל חטאות ירבעם אשר עשה לא סרו ממנה עד אשר הסיר השם את ישראל מעל פניו כאשר דיבר ביד כל עבדיו הנביאים ויגל ישראל מעל אדמתו אשורה עד היום הזה. So who are they blaming, chevre? Are they blaming someone that eats pork on Yom Kippur? No. Are they blaming someone who doesn't put on tefillin? Are they blaming, that's why I'm saying the triggering thing here, okay? Because now I'm going to explain why this should be very triggering. Are they blaming someone that doesn't do שנים מקרא ואחד תרגום? Are they blaming someone for weak war tactics? Are they blaming their galus on someone who wasn't financially responsible, thinking in, you know, thinking smart economy, smart commerce for his people? No, they're blaming someone that had all of these qualities.
If it wasn't somebody at that level he couldn't have had that kind of impact. It's because he's that. Exactly. That's what Rav Shmuel Eliyahu is saying.
Had he not been on that level lechatchila, then these hatzlachos wouldn't have happened. They looked at him like he was holy. But davka that person, it's davka that person that is under the assumption that he's close to Hashem has to davka work even extra harder. So now I want to say like this.
Maybe it's the biggest mazal that a person that we're speaking about before from the machane of yiras Hashem with mamash tzitzis and ga'ava Yehudit didn't reach the top yet. Why? Why are we saying that it could be its mazal? Could be a downfall. Because it could be that that person still needs to feel from the am that that's what they want and if he's not feeling that from the am, he'll easily get into cheshbonos what do they need to hear, what do they not need to hear, and operate like that. What's that? That's what happened to Shaul.
Right. And that's what, bediyuk. So maybe, maybe, I don't know, again, I hope I'm wrong. But you understand what I'm saying? Maybe it could be with all the avodas kodesh and we know that the mesiras nefesh that came from the tzibbur that we're speaking about, unparalleled to anything in the world.
Unparalleled to anything in the world. And that's why a person has to be aware and conscious of the fact that all of these inyanim that we're speaking about over here right now are about us. This is about us right now, our zman. He's not giving us a history shiur.
He's explaining where we're at right now. Now this last, the last thing over here we're going to wait until next time because I have to end today. But we're ot ot. I want you to know when we're learning these Toras, this is, he's not giving us a history shiur.
This is describing what's available for us right now. And the next thing we're going to learn is mamash the hachana before Moshiach now. I just want to remind everybody Monday morning, for those that didn't hear, Monday night is Yom HaZikaron. Although Yom HaZikaron has been like two and a half years already, but Yom HaZikaron is going to be Monday.
We're going to do Reb Shlomo on Friday, the Friday morning shiur. Monday morning we're going to go to Har Herzl. We're going to go in with this sefer and we're going to go learn on Har Herzl. Monday night is Yom HaZikaron, so it's going to start.
The tekasim is on Tuesday morning in Har Herzl, right? So in the night it's not. Whatever. We'll have our time. We'll figure out carpools, whatever, there's no minibus and snacks.
You could bring if you want, but that'll be very special. That's next Monday morning. Okay. Yasher koach.