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Rav Shlomo Katz explores the teachings of Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l on the Parsha with the sefer Even Shlomo
Alright chevre, let's sing a good niggun today. Let's sing a good niggun this morning. We haven't sung this one in a while. Let's sing this one.
Good morning. Good morning, everybody. Le'iluy nishmas, today we're learning le'iluy nishmas בתיה פייגא בת ישראל. Thank you.
Levi ben Yosef, and for the refuah shleima of אליזה חנה בת נעמי, שושנה יונה בת אידל, and Hila bas Ilana. The week is sponsored le'iluy nishmas רב יששכר מענדל בן רב צבי אלימלך ונחלה אלה in honor of Paul Grill's 50th birthday. For, also the in honor of the new granddaughter of Miriam and Avram Deutsch, Shir bas Tzion, in honor of Hershi's mother's first aliyah anniversary. Anonymously, for the refuah shleima of all who need it.
Today, today specifically is, is sponsored by Matanel Shalev and Bo Whiteman in honor of their parents' wedding anniversary. That's good. That's good. It's very good.
Chevre, I also want to learn. Happy anniversary. What number is it? Not, not five. Six.
Not five, not seven, I think. Many, many more years b'ezras Hashem. Hashem loves you. Also today chevre, today is the yahrzeit.
I can't believe this. It's the first yahrzeit of, I was at a yahrzeit last night, a gathering, for le'iluy nishmas a dear friend of mine, of some of ours, of, of אלימלך פרץ בן יוסף שלום, Michael Brandt. It's his first yahrzeit, so תהא נשמתו צרורה בצרור החיים. And I want, yeah, I can't believe it.
I can't believe it. Anyway, I also want to, I want to say something very important to everyone here, and that is that I'm so proud of everyone here. Everyone showed up this last Shabbos in ways that I'm, I'm having a hard time putting into words. And veiter with last night, chevre showed up last night to give kvod haTorah to the talmid rebbe.
And it's such a beautiful, humbling feeling to be part of such a chevre that's like, that's giving this kvod haTorah. It's unbelievable to me. But it should be believable to me. But it's just, it's so special.
You'll tell him afterwards, tell, he's not here, is he? Tell Reb Eli that we all thank him, that I thank him. It's an amazing, beautiful, beautiful, a mamash a, a... moment in time of our chevra.
לא פשוט לא מובן מאליו, and I just want to say thank you to everyone because yesterday was, last night was very, very special.
Hopefully the recording with the with the audio that was that was much closer to the Rebbi's mouth was will be will be coming out and you'll hear, you'll listen, if you weren't able to hear. Ah, Eli, we're just saying what a what a kavod haTorah it was last night and we all thank you so much for working so hard to making it happen. Oh yeah, and together, aval, aval, there was a shadchan, there was a there was a there was a mezaveg zivugim over there. So thank you, and it should come back to you and your family a million times back, shefa bracha, b'hatzlacha.
I just want to say, we're still, you know, we're we're this is not just another morning. A yiddele was killed right next to our homes yesterday, and others were injured, and this should also be for the refuah shleima of אביה צופית בת נחמה. I don't remember her, if anyone remembers. A woman in our neighborhood that was injured yesterday in the in the attack.
I think it was Avia Tzofit, if I remember correctly.
אביה צופית בת נחמה. She should have a a refuah shleima, and Am Yisrael should have a collective refuah shleima and wake up and realize that the only answer to any of this begins with kibush, geirush, hityashvut, and we'll have repeated over and over and over again, l'maan shmo b'ahava, until the coma is finally removed from us. And our avodas hanefesh that we're doing on our neshamos has to go hand in hand with anything lemaaseh befoal that we're asking to happen on an actual level on the grounds.
Ha beha talya, it's dependent on how much we're we're plugging away with our neshamos, with our souls and opening our hearts to connect to Klall Yisrael and doing the avodah of the tzaddikim, mainly that's coming down from this line that we see in front of us over here have have paved for us and provided for us all the ways to come and just take our nefesh elokis and decide like the Alter Rebbe says, you know, davka about this parsha that's always a it's a wrestling match between Yaakov and Eisav. And that Yaakov should be victorious, b'ezras Hashem. The Rebbe said something last night during his during his beautiful words that got me thinking. It it it got me thinking again about something that I try to avoid whenever I hear it because I I I guess I don't understand it right.
And today's piece is hopefully going to help us understand it a bit more, a bit more correctly. How long is this world? Six thousand. Six thousand. That means that, so what what's what's going on now? So so it's Erev Shabbos, yafeh.
So what does that mean from now until six thousand? What's supposed to be? Hachanos. For? The Shabbos. The Shabbos is is Mashiach Shabbos? Is Mashiach the six thousandth year? Yeah. That's exactly where the pain is.
Chevra, chevra, listen, listen. I need everyone, I know there's always a lot of ratzon that everyone wants to give over the Bar Mitzvah speeches here, just hold back a little bit till some thoughts come out, b'emet. Please, I'm begging you. So this means if we hold like that, then when I say שיבנה בית המקדש במהרה בימינו and especially when the Rebbe added the words techef u'miyad mamash, there's tension between that and the notion of a six thousand year, right, six thousand, six thousand years.
And sometimes when these things aren't understood correctly, so it could put a person into a state of, okay, it'll be great for my great-grandchildren. I'm doing it for them. And after the Holocaust, and and after the Holocaust of our times, we know that there needs to be a kfitzas haderech. And kfitzas haderech is a very important yesod in Yiddishkeit.
It came up last Shabbos, like we said during one of the one of the moments during Shabbos, I don't remember which one. Eliezer was zocheh for kfitzas haderech because when he explains, he gives over the whole story to Rivka's family and it says ואבוא היום אל העין. Rashi says מלמד שקפצה לו הדרך, היום יצאתי והיום באתי. I left today and I came today, when really it should have taken a week.
And a lot of things in life technically should be long, they should take much longer than they are. Kfitzas haderech, though, is a concept that can be manipulated. It could be manipulated. I was so proud, I remembered one of Rebbe's Torahs that I said that I gave over at one of the meals because I ate with the chevra there upstairs, and there's much more to share about that at another time, because what happened during the meals when none of you were there was something awesome, awesome, that's all in the zechus of you guys, where they were.
They had this moment, everyone that got up and spoke had these moments of wow. When they told us about Efrat that we're going to come here on the itinerary, many of them were like, what's wrong with the Waldorf? They they said this. They mamash said this. And they said that they walked out of shul the first time like, wow, it could be that that it could be that our dreams actually could have a makom.
There was a kfitzas haderech in their minds, in their machshavos about in terms of what could be. And that that is is all credit to the to the love and warmth and and openness of the heart that you all provided. It provided a kfitzas haderech in the mind from thinking about what could be to what is, to what is right now. So I got up at one of the meals, I was so proud.
I gave over this whole vort that I once heard from Rebbe about in the name of רב לוי יצחק מברדיצ'ב about kfitzas haderech. It's something that we learned once from you're in Berdichev about when chaverim get together and see each other and are able to see each other, somehow each person carries the other person's peckalach on their backs a bit more and then suddenly, every yid has three three arms, four arms, six arms, eight arms. Everyone has a much easier time going forward. That was like, I felt so blessed that I remembered that Torah and I went back to my seat and I sat right next to Rebbe and he said, it was actually the Apter Rebbe.
It wasn't the Kedushas Levi, it was the Apter Rebbe. That was like, that was that was that was perfect. That was perfect. That could not have been more perfect.
Like that, you know, that that that inyan. In today's piece in Even Shlomo, we're going to see, I remember when I was transcribing this one, there was such a like a it was like jumping on the keyboard. I remember where I was sitting, jumping on the keyboard, saying, oh my God, what is he is he actually saying this? Wow. But it's a Torah about being able to to understand that when you see each other, I told you guys the vort that I said the chosson and kallah to the to the chosson and kallah on Sunday night, Yir'ah shleima Yerushalayim is yir'ah shleima.
To completely see each other. When you really could see each other, there's a kfitzas haderech that happens. It's a theme throughout all the parshios in Breishis, but specifically, we're going to see it in this in in this one today. If you have the sefer, I the truth is, I I don't have any more, I have to buy more copies.
I have still like the the old the first version. So I don't know if it's the same one here. Over here, it's 196. So I'm not sure.
Here, if you could pass these around. Yosef, thank you very much. Same, same number. It's the same number? Okay.
By the way, I'm gonna I'm gonna be I'm gonna share much more about what I hinted, not hinted, what I shared about the kfitzas haderech that that that Rebbe's chevreh had was a it it was shocking to me and very, very big. Huh? It was shocking to them as well. It was shocking to them as well. 100%.
Listen, after between between lunch and between shalosh seudos, there was about like an hour and it was a mabul here. It was pouring really, really hard. So a lot some of the chevreh were staying by Hamenora or down or like the end of Pitum, you know, not so many were staying close enough to go chaf a half hour shluff and be back for Mincha, shalosh seudos. So a bunch of them came into the office, I opened the office, they sat down, and there were a bunch of them just sat there and were just asking all these questions of of wonderment over mah zeh, like, what?
איך זה יכול להיות and then the other half of them that I caught them in here standing here for half an hour just looking at this.
Mamash, they were they were in here. And Reb Itzin Weinberger was giving a shiur while it was pouring in that room, and there also the chevreh thought, you know, maybe she'll get like two women that happen to be in the shul. It was packed in there. Packed.
It was just like every moment of this Shabbos was not just that it worked out, it it it was much, much, much what was the word you said, Eli? Flawless. Of course. Flawless. It flowed.
There was a flow that had that was be'emes, I credited obviously the light of the tzaddik but also the kli kibul, which is all you guys. And that's an amazing thing. I want to I want to before we even learn, I want to give us a bracha that this Torah should touch our hearts in infinite ways. Zrizus.
Zrizus. Whatever you knew about the story of the brachos of Yitzchak giving to Yaakov and then giving to Eisav, I want you to remove everything from your mind and your heart, and now let's learn it for the first time again.
כשביקש יצחק מעשו ועשה לי מטעמים כאשר אהבתי והביאה לי ואכלה בעבור תברכך נפשי. It's a very strange pasuk.
Yitzchak tells Eisav, go and make my favorite dishes, the ones I love, bring it to me, I'll eat it so that I my neshama could give you a bracha. It's a very strange choice of words. The mefarshim and, you know, the baalei chasidus go mamish, they they open up worlds and worlds just on this pasuk. So what ended up happening after he said that, יעקב הופיע תוך זמן קצר.
Yaakov shows up pretty fast right after that and he brings him what he asked. So Yitzchak sha'al et Yaakov, but he was kind of, we're not sure yet if Yitzchak was thinking that he was asking Esav or he was asking Yaakov. Al pi pshat who is he asking? Esav. Yeah, al pi pshat, huh? That he thought.
Al pi pshat he was asking Esav, but it really over here, we begin to see that he kind of knew already from this moment that he knew that it was Yaakov. How? Because he says, יעקב הופיע תוך זמן קצר. Yitzchak שאל את יעקב, מה זה מיהרת למצוא בני? How did you do, איך הצלחת כל כך מהר? How'd you do this so fast?
וYaakov, Yaakov heishiv, Yaakov heishiv, כי הקרה השם אלוקיך לפני, which means, השם נתן לי את זה במהירות. Hashem gave it to me very fast.
And now here, Yaakov, and now here Yitzchak is already wondering, hmm. That doesn't sound, this really does not sound. A, it doesn't sound like my son Esav, and B, I don't really see how these things would happen so fast from the Ribono shel Olam to my son Esav. Harei that's the reason why I'm loving him so much.
That's the reason why I'm trying to give him so much is because I know that he's not holding and that it's probably going to take him much harder and longer to figure things out. So here, if it happens so fast, this is the first siman that Yitzchak is already wondering, who is this? What's going on over here? And that's why he says, how'd you do it so fast?
כי הקרה השם אלוקיך לפני. Hashem gave it to me so fast. So look what it, this is a Reb Shlomo's mastery, mastery of kol hatorah kulah, squeezing it and the juice that comes out of that mastery is another example of one piece of Torah over here.
Nitbonen me'at. Let's look deep inside for a second.
האם יתכן שיצחק מדבר רק על האוכל? You think now that Yitzchak knows that it's Yaakov? Let's say mamish he knows that it's Yaakov. You think he's only talking about food?
אין לו דבר לומר מלבד זה שהסטייק נהדר? All he has to, this is what Yitzchak is talking about, what a steak? How'd you do this so fast? How'd you grill this so fast?
ואיך השגת את זה כל כך מהר?
הדברים מוכרחים להיות עמוקים יותר.
It's got to be deeper than this. Nachzor l'divrei Yitzchak. Let's go back to Yitzchak's question.
הוא שואל מה זה מיהרת למצוא? How did you find it so fast? Find what? Miharta limtzo ma? What did you find so fast?
לא תמיד אנו רואים את הזולת כפי שהוא באמת.
We don't always see people for who they really are. Take your eyes out of the text and take a look around this room for a second. And I'm going to say these words while you're looking at each other. We don't always see people the way they really are.
לא תמיד רואים את הזולת כפי שהוא באמת. Obviously this vort goes על אחת כמה וכמה klapei atzmeinu, too. You think you know what you're looking at in the mirror? It's not true. You're you're looking at fragments of tortured, traumatic memories of of what it looked like to look in the mirror when you were eight, 15, 22, 38, 78.
It's not true that what you're looking in the mirror is really what you're looking at. It's not really it either sometimes.
לא בכל פעם שאני מביט בך אני יודע מי אתה. It's not always that when I look at you I know who you are.
רק ברגעים מיוחדים של חסד אפשר לדעת אם האדם ממש כפי שהוא. There are only moments with of chesed that you look at someone and you could actually know what you're looking at and see. Remember the Rebbe was speaking about this last night? The Torah? I don't know who caught this and when he said this I right away went like this because he said, you know, I learn a lot about chochmas hapartzuf. And that moment that's always when, you know, I told you the story about the girls that were learning in Reb Ginsburgh's seminary, right? Once they knew that the tzaddikim and mekubalim can read everything about you by their foreheads, so once they figured that out, they all like started, you know, coming in like this or wearing hoodies that that were like covering over here.
It's a pachad ayom v'nora. It's a, it could be a pachad ayom v'nora. Pachad. I've given up.
Reb Ginsburgh's already seen me do this so many times where I sit like this. so long but then I have to play guitar, and I can't. I can't. I need these hands for this, you know.
So it's like I, but here he's talking about that there are moments of chesed from shamayim that we're gonna learn how to activate. We're gonna learn how to activate and in that moment, it could be I'm zoche to mamash see you. And you're and you're zoche to mamash see me. And it doesn't always happen.
Why is it people they come away from looking at a being by the presence of a tzaddik and what happens to them there? What happens to them? They feel seen. You know Yerushalayim is like this because it says שלש פעמים בשנה יראה כל זכורך. Shalosh Regolim was such a simcha because those three times a year you came to Yerushalayim, what did you feel? Rabbi Yaakov Meir Shechter speaks about this. What did you feel? What was the simcha of the regel? Seen.
Seen. You're roeh. There's moments of chesed that you look at someone and you're like I'm, I, I see what's in front of me. So he says like this.
רק ברגעים מיוחדים של חסד אפשר לדעת את האדם ממש כפי שהוא. And now he's gonna go to history.
הפעם הראשונה שאברהם אבינו ממש ראה את יצחק כפי שהוא, ושייצחק ראה את אברהם כפי שהוא, היתה בדרך לעקידה. Avraham and Yitzchak.
How old was Yitzchak Avinu over here? 37. So it's, and Avraham Avinu. How old is Avraham Avinu over here? 136, right? So that means it's amazing thing. Our tati, Avraham Avinu, the first time that he mamash saw his son happened at the same time that the son mamash saw his father while they were walking to the Akeidah based on what?
התורה מספרת על יצחק ויאמר אבי.
He said Abba, my father?
והביט באביו וממש ידע מי הוא.
ואז נאמר על אברהם ויאמר הנני בני. Yeah. Here you are, I'm here my son.
That moment. We just read it as like a pasuk in the Torah. Shlomo says do you understand what happened at that moment? As they were going up to the Akeidah and this tiny minute exchange happened between Avraham and Yitzchak, we just lane, we just lane in the parsha. Just like the Rebbe said last night.
פינחס סבק קדושים רבי משה עדיין. I was gonna raise my hand when the Rebbe said that whole thing about how people have no idea what they're talking about but I felt so much better not having to say anything because he said that the Gerer Rebbe told his son, go and ask all the Gerer Chasidim what does Pinchas svak k'doshim mean, and no one knew what it meant either. But we know I, I like mess with you guys sometimes and with, with these, with these things, the pasuk itself, and whoever thought about this for a second that's the first time that it says like this, Avi. My Abba.
Yes, hi, I'm here my son. That moment of seeing each other. That was a moment of chesed, an immense chesed that took place.
זה היה הרגע הגדול של אברהם ויצחק בעקידה.
מתי התרחש הרגע הגדול בין יצחק ויעקב? Okay, so that's between Avraham and Yitzchak. But when did this moment of seeing each other happen between Yitzchak and Yaakov?
בשעת הברכות.
יצחק זכה לטעום מי הוא בנו הגדול בשעת הברכות. Yitzchak tasted who his big, who his great son is at the time of the blessings.
You should all ask a question about this. It's actually, what is the, how does that whole parsha open up with? What does it say about Yitzchak? That he's blind.
ותכהנה עיניו מראות. So obviously we're speaking about a re'iyah p'nimit.
We're talking about an inner, an inner seeing, an inner sight. A way to really see someone could have very little to do with what you see in front of you. It maybe it could do with one question, asking that one question, hearing that one answer and you see the whole picture. Because that's the whole Torah, Reb Tzadok there.
Based on אין ברכה מצויה אלא בדבר הסמוי מן העין. The bracha is really only found, located in place, places that are concealed from the eyes and he says the raya is that the bracha that kept us alive till today opens up from the parsha where Yitzchak actually couldn't see anything. But he saw, based on this question and based on the answer. That was, this is the moment of Yitzchak and Yaakov.
This is the moment of Yitzchak and Yaakov. Again, מתי התרחש הרגע הגדול בין יצחק ויעקב בשעת הברכות.
יצחק זכה לטעום מי הוא בנו הגדול בשעת הברכות. Here, only here, and it's, it's we look at it and we're like oh it must've been so sad for, don't worry about Yaakov.
Rifka saw him from. before he was even born. And that's the way Hashem designed the world. But obviously, as a son, I'm sure that even though he had his mother always seeing him, obviously, he also wanted to be seen by his Abba.
But he never felt that he was worthy of being seen by his Abba. That's a previous teaching in Even Shlomo. That's why Rivka has to convince him to go out and do this shlichus because he says I'm not worthy of such a moment. But we answered with earnest and this is what happened.
This is the result. Yitzchak. Good, good.
יצחק זכה לטעום מי הוא בנו הגדול בשעת הברכות.
What is it? Pesach, you have the English? Yeah. So does it say taste there? Yitzchak got this awesome taste. Yeah? Very good. Very good.
who his son Yaakov was by the senses he had.
כך מפרש הרבי הקדוש מאיזביצא.
מה זה מהרת למצוא בני? How did you find this so fast? What does this mean? How did you become who you are so fast?
הרי נחוצות שנים ארוכות כל כך אולי כמה תקופות חיים להגיע למדרגה הטהורה של עבודת השם שלך. What I'm tasting here is kodesh kodashim.
I could see what's going on over here. I could sense in the room I'm with someone that's so pure, that's so beautiful, that's so refined. Yitzchak's asking, how did you do this so fast? How old was Yaakov over here? Again, everything is relative, right, in those times. But how old is Yaakov Avinu over here, b'erech? Does anyone know? Let's do a cheshbon for a second.
How old is Yitzchak when Yaakov is born? 60. 60. How old is how old is Yaakov and Esav in the time of the beginning of the parsha with the selling of the birthright? They were bar mitzvah. So when we know this based on the Rashi that cheshbons out the aveilus over Avraham Avinu, because remember, there was only three psukim in the Torah that Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov are all alive at the same time.
We've said a lot of torahs on this over the years. How old is, how old are Yaakov and and Esav during this situation over here? We have to estimate, because I don't know if we have an exact number, but if they're 13 in the beginning of the parsha, and then it says ויגדלו הנערים, right? There's like already a jump over here. Let's say they were like 40. Mashehu kazeh.
Mashehu kazeh. Could be. Yitzchak Avinu is looking at his son, he's saying, you're like the, how did you get here? The world is freaking out right now over the Yanuka. Right? Rightfully so.
This tzaddik, this type of tzaddik is, we've never seen something like this in our life, b'galui. Like, in a revealed manner. Forget all the stuff that's happening around the Yanuka with chevra that are, you know, posting every three seconds another miracle story on on on on social media which gives us for many of us this bad taste because we don't want that to be the reason why we think he's so great. We want to connect to the pnimius of what's going on.
It's very, very, he's 37. When I heard about him for the first time, it was from Rav Buso, about six years ago. He was like just over 30. And Rav Buso is speaking about the Yanuka, giving over chidushei Torah from the Yanuka.
מה זה מהרת בני? How did you do it so fast? So it's the same shayla that Yitzchak is asking Yaakov, how did you, how did you become this so fast? How could it be? How how is it possible? How is it possible? And it's so funny that he's asking this because, slicha, Yitzchak. You could say the same thing about yourself. You become an olah tmima at such a young age. How old was he? Maybe I want to say a crazy vort right now.
Maybe they were the same exact age. Because how old was he by the Akeida? 37. So I don't, again, I'm not saying this is it, but it seems to me that there's something going on here with very similar ages going on between Yitzchak and Yaakov at this at this moment of seeing each other, or feeling like this. Is that not like the same age that Rebbe Nachman passed away and Rav Aryeh Kaplan also? Yachol l'hiyos.
Yes, there is something. Tzaddikim. Yeah, a lot of the tzaddikim, nachon? It's around the same. Chevre, it's not, guys, guys.
Like that was like a buzzkill of a buzzkill. It wasn't 38. We're just speaking about like youth. It's the geder of youth, you know?
מה זה מהרת בני? That's the Izhbitzer is saying that's the question.
How did you, how did you, how did this happen?
איך הצלחת להשיג זאת כל כך מהר? And the answer of Yaakov? Only Yaakov Avinu gives an answer like this. You know why?
כי הקרה השם אלוקיך לפני. It's all because of you. There's something going on with you, Yitzchak, that you cause things to happen faster than normal.
And he brings Rav Shlomo in his greatness, now brings a raya. What's the greatness? What I told you in the beginning of shiur.
כשילך אליעזר למצוא את רבקה. When he went to go find a wife for Rivka.
We're dealing right now with the most sensitive moment for the future Klal Yisrael. Because if Yitzchak doesn't have a zivug or the right zivug, gamarnu with this whole story of Am Yisrael. And Yitzchak needs so badly to have a zivug. And Eliezer is on this shlichus and he's in pachad hayom v'nora to make sure he does it right.
And I was learning last week that if you notice Eliezer, he keeps on stopping and davening, stopping and asking for brachos. He's davening. Even before he starts giving over the story to Lavan and the family, he starts davening again before he starts giving it over. Because he knows that everything is, everything is dependent on making sure this shlichus is done, and he's blowing his mind that instead of something taking a week, it took him one day.
Kfizas haderech.
ואבוא היום אל העין. I came here today. So when Eliezer goes to find Rivka, I tell him, kfizas haderech.
הרי דרוש שבוע כדי להגיע מחברון לחרן.
ואפילו בימינו צריך שנה עד שאפשר לגרום לנערה להסכים להתחתן. Rav Shlomo says, and look, how long does it usually take to convince a girl to get married to someone? Right? Sometimes it could take a year. When she is three, how long do you think it should have taken? A little bit longer.
Just a tad longer. And then what happens? Everything happens so fast.
אבל רבקה באה מיד. She joins it right away.
Lachen, so Yaakov Avinu says, listen, I grew up in a home that, I don't know if Esav was there, but when you put me to shluff and said Shma at night, I would always say to you, Tati, can you tell me again how you met Ima? Tell me again the story of how you guys fell in love. Your kids ever ask you that? How'd you meet each other? And he would ask this question. I want to say that he would ask this question all the time and every time it got clearer and clearer to him, wow, everything happened fast. Wait, tell me again how, how long did it take Zeidy's shliach? How long did it take Zeidy's shliach to go and find mommy? It took him one, the same day.
Same day, but that's, it's not, it's a long time. It's at least a week. And Yitzchak is saying to over and over again to Yakov, I know, he must have been very holy. He had kfizas haderech.
And Yakov hearing is hearing these stories, he's hearing all these things and he realizes, no, it's not because Eliezer is so holy. In fact, Eliezer only became holy through the shlichus.
יצא מכלל עבד מכלל ארור, and he went into the chezkas of baruch only through this shlichus.
אבל רבקה באה מיד.
לכן אומר יעקב כי הקרה השם אלוקיך לפני.
זו הייתה הזכות שלך. Abba, don't kid yourselves. The reason I was able to find this so fast, and the reason things are happening so fast, and the reason that you met mommy so fast, it's because of you.
כיוון שיש לי אבא כמוך, כל התהליך התרחש במהירות גדול הרבה יותר. It's because that I have an Abba like you that things happen so fast. This is how Rav Shlomo describes the psukim that we just read every year, and we don't pay that much attention because I think we heard it last year, and we definitely heard it the year before. And this year when we're going to read these psukim inside, and there's a beautiful Bar Mitzvah bochur this Shabbos.
I met with him yesterday. Beautiful, so proud of this boy, mamash.
לא מובן מאליו. Elimelech Green, this boy is so beautiful.
Such a great Bar Mitzvah teacher, Avi Nadav Hershberg, a year and a half is working with him on this. It's very, very, very emotional, very beautiful. He's going to read these psukim, and we're just going to say, we can't read it the same, is what I'm trying to say to you. When you learn a Torah like this, you cannot read it the same.
Why did it, how did it take you? It took you so fast. What do you mean? Hashem made it happen. No, Hashem made it happen lefanacha.
כי הקרה השם אלוקיך לפני.
It's because of you, Abba. Things work for me in my life faster, it seems, because of you.
כיוון שיש לי אבא כמוך, כל התהליך התרחש במהירות גדול הרבה יותר. So now he continues.
And this is how he ends this piece. And I remember I was debating, do you put this piece, I wasn't sure to put this in here because, It could have stopped right here and it would have been fine. But this next paragraph is will help us understand the initial question I asked you when based on what the Rebbe said last night that we all know, the world is 6,000 years. We're 5786 right now.
So what does that say about like our chances to be part of what will take place after the 6,000 years? So look what he says. The Imrei Noam, you know who that was? Anyone know the Imrei, Shulem, you know the Imrei Noam? The Imrei Noam is the Dzikover. Who was the Dzikover? Is the son of the Ropshitzer. Who was the Ropshitzer? Start doing your homework.
I feel so happy I could say, who was this? You'll find it. Rav Naftali Ropshitzer, you'll find it. His son was the Dzikover, the Imrei Noam. Reb Shlomo Baruch's father was a Dzikover chasid before World War II.
Dzikov was, Dzikov was demolished. Dzikov was, it's crazy. There's so many names. There were rebbes, thousands of chasidim, dynasties wiped, wiped out.
Who's Dzikov? Where's Dzikov today? So the האמרי נועם הקדוש אומר דבר נוסף והוא מופלא ממש. This is an amazing thing.
בכל מה שעשה יעקב אבינו, everything Yaakov Avinu did, הוא סלל את הדרך ליהודים במשך הדורות. Yaakov Avinu paved the way.
We say this about Avraham and Yitzchak too. But right now we're in the pnimius of Yaakov Avinu. Everything Yaakov Avinu paved the way he did, it paved the way, it opened gates for future generations to do whatever we have to do. And he gives some examples.
היינו אמורים להיות במצרים ארבע מאות שנה. Hey, this kfitzas haderech happened big time. A 190 year kfitzas haderech. It happened once before.
We were supposed to be in Egypt 400 years. How many years were we there? Redu. Gematria 210.
אבל השם הוציא אותנו משם עוד לפני שהסתיימו השנים.
K'shenichnas Yaakov, when Yaakov Avinu walks into the room, let's walk into the room where where where where where Yitzchak is waiting to give the bracha. Yaakov walks into the room, ra'ah Yitzchak b'nevua. Prophetically, Yitzchak saw שאנו עתידים לצאת ממצרים קודם שיסתיימו ארבע מאות שנים. That's what he was asking.
Suddenly Yitzchak sees that the brachos he's gonna give, he sees prophetically, there's a kfitzas haderech in time for the future of Am Yisrael. That's what he was asking: Who are you? And how did you bring about the future of Am Yisrael to have kfitzas haderech?
צריך ארבע מאות שנה כדי להגיע לגאולה. For some reason, the Exodus from Egypt, that geulah was destined to be arba meot shana. How do we know that? It's a trick question because it's an obvious question.
Because it says so in the Torah. Who said this? Hashem! Hashem said this. Hashem told Avraham Avinu this. This wasn't based on theories and calculations and kabbalistic interpretations of drashos.
Hashem Yisbarach said it. But when Yaakov walks into the room to get the brachos, Yitzchak sees, that thing that Abba told me my whole life about the future of Am Yisrael, even that thing here has a kfitzas haderech.
מה זה מיהרת בני? How'd you do this? Who are you? It can't be that you're that you're Eisav. Eisav, Eisav asks me these these these stupid questions, I make him feel special.
And I say, oh, that's so beautiful that you care. Eisav's doesn't, Eisav doesn't mekatzer the the the galus. That's not Eisav, Eisav's thing. He asks stupid questions like many of us did in high school to show, or maybe it was just me, to show the the the parent, the the the the teacher that we we're a little bit interested.
I told, I was in this year, women's shiur, I said it here, right? The last sentence. Huh? Repeat. Yeah, I had this stopwatch on my, I had this like, I was here? In this shiur? Right? The alarm on my phone every 13, 13 minutes, 15 minutes would go off on that Casio calculator buttons, you know all those buttons, where I would have this thing where I would every, what was I doing? I was reading all the Kol Chevras that I got my hands on in those years, and I start any transcript of Reb Shlomo. I'm 14, 15, nothing is talking to me in class.
I was just had these things were blowing my mind, but I, I wanted to show, you know, that I'm still holding. So every like 13 or 15 minutes I had a stopwatch which would ring and I'd be like, okay, listen to the last thing the teacher said and then ask a question on the last thing that the teacher said to show ke'ilu that there's a interest and and unfortunately, it worked every time. That's Eisav. That's Esav.
A kid like that is not going to, that's Esav. I'm not comparing myself to him. You're learning from Shlomo's Torahs. No, no.
Like the rest of us. That's what we were all doing. It wasn't comic books or whatever. Like really, yeah.
I'm sorry. Only Rav Tali was doing that also in high school, right? He was actually, he was actually learning those years. Yeah. No, he was actually, he was, you see, someone's doing it.
It's happening here too, huh? Esav's questions never made Yitzchak feel that the geula is going to come closer, is what I'm trying to say. Not Esav's questions. Yitzchak knew, eich ma'asrim melach, you tevel melach. He knew this.
He gets a different whiff of something with nevuah saying this is insane. How'd you do this? And Yaakov goes right back to him and says, you're an olah temimah. You were ready to be shechted for klal Yisrael. You're asking me how I did this? Your refinement, you sing Abba, your Abba, and your Abba seeing you at that moment, is what brought about the kfitzas haderech?
צריך ארבע מאות שנה כדי להגיע לגאולה אבל יעקב אבינו מזרז את התהליך.
Yaakov Avinu makes the whole process much faster.
והלילה שבו אנו יוצאים ממצרים הוא ליל סדר, which is what?
הלילה של כל הברכות. Why does he say that over here? Because we're talking about the bracha when they see each other for the first time. Yeah, but why, what, but why is he davka bringing Pesach over here? When did this happen? On Seder night.
It happened Leil Seder. Jumping over. Also, there's a jumping over, but the story happened Leil Seder also. This this whole this whole thing.
Because Rav Shlomo always says that Seder night is the quintessential night for parents and children to see each other. So I want to say like this, based on this whole thing. You could come out of a teaching like this and be like, wow, what's an amazing change of understanding the pshat and Yitzchak gets a sense of Yaakov, everything happened so fast and he, okay. But l'maaseh, to bring it down to you and I, I believe that there's two ways of going forward from the exposure to the tzaddikim that we have, that we've had this week.
And there's two ways of going forward. One is that we could just keep on bringing in tzaddik after tzaddik, and I hope we will. Tovi left early. I'm on top of him to get Rav Biderman to come to our shul as soon as possible.
And we can keep, we've been to many tzaddikim, we can keep on bringing tzaddikim in, and I hope we will. But I'll tell you what will turn me on way more than that. Way more than that would be to remember that the tzaddik shows you what's possible. What's possible is to be seen.
And if we don't davven after a moment of feeling so high in the presence of someone that sees us that we should be zocheh to see each other, then I think we may be missing the point of why we even come in contact with tzaddikim. We're not living in a world, we we don't, this is not a chassidus here. We don't, we we love to say we're into chassidus. It's not a chassidus.
We don't we don't like go and and and milk from the Rebbe every time. We're we're we're chevra that that that grew up the way we grew up that know that our neshamos are calling for more, and to see each other. And there's no greater way to see each other through learning. And that's why I want to push you guys, especially now, that our beautiful avreichim in the kollel are, they're doing their, they're plugging away at night seders.
Take advantage, jump on it. Like the video that you posted, run. Run. This is the week of yoshev ohalim.
We're tent dwellers. What does that mean? It means we're we're we're, we're those that know our inyan is to sit and learn as much as we can. And we're doing great. We're doing great.
We could do even, we could do even much better. So to set up chavrusas, to set up times, if the night doesn't work for you because you're one of the rare people here that actually has a job, find a different place or a different time that it could work for you. It doesn't matter what it is, but I think that we could see each other when we look at each other and engage. Maybe that's the pshat, o chavrusa o misusa, like misusa, like, that's probably what what it could mean.
Not just to say, oh, we're serious people, we learn. We're serious people. We want to see each other and we don't want to wait another 214 years for things to change. We want the kfitzas haderech.
We want a kfitzas haderech. I think we all want this so badly. We want to jump. We want to jump forward in time, because we...
can't take this galus anymore. We can't take it that right in front of our eyes. My wife was, and I'm sure many of your spouses, maybe you were passing by there. You heard it.
I couldn't find my wife for 15 minutes. And those 15 minutes, olami necherav l'gamrei. And I didn't want to call my daughters because I don't want to freak them out. And my my brother-in-law, Yehuda's brother Shmuel had just made aliyah.
He was right there too. We need kfitzas haderech. It should be a kfitzas haderech, the zchus of our seeing each other, of our learning more, of our, of our being in love with each other more and and and doing like some of the chevra asked me, what should we do now? Right? What do we do now? What do you mean what do we do now? This is what we do now. And more of it.
And more of it. And more of it. You don't have to go on on on three-day breathing retreats to to to take on what just happened this last Shabbos. More.
And more. It's okay, you do a five minute ritual with Naftali, you're covered for. It's fine, you know. Just just just more of it, veiter.
B'shem kol Yisroel, so there should be a kfitzas haderech. There should be six new yesomim started saying shiva last night. Nim'as mi'zeh. Nim'as mi'zeh.
We're so big on saying kibbush, geirush, hityashvus, it's got to be together with ela kodesh pnima. Ela kodesh pnima. More learning, another chavrusa, another shiur, something else, more. You hear this opportunity for a few more minutes of Torah, grab it.
Grab it b'simcha. B'shem kol Yisroel, there should be a big kfitzas haderech. Amen.