Cheshvan - The Last Jew

2:38 And I remember she's screaming, she's screaming, Ein Mayim Baruch. Like how could you guys be wasting water? Like we don't have enough water in this country. It was probably one of the best musas I got all year. I'm walking around, water is everywhere. Turn on the faucet in America, you don't think. To turn on the faucet in America you have to be sensitive. There's not enough water in the country. You imagine, here we are, and it's a couple of days after Yountif. If you were a farmer, imagine you were living in an agricultural society. If you were a farmer, when did you want to start davening for rain? As soon as possible. Rain, if it doesn't rain, if there's a drought, people died. It's serious business. We don't think about it today because we live with such an abundance of everything. Can you imagine you're living in a culture like And if it doesn't rain, your family died. Your family died. If you didn't yield a good crop, your family died.

3:44 So comes along Rammam Tammel Yael and he says, when do we start to daven for rain? Not right away. On the 7th of Marcheshvah. Why? 99% of the Jews have already made it home. But there's one Jew and he lives all the way in Bovil. He lives by Na'apras. We have to wait for him to get home. Maybe he's gonna get wet on the way home. He's gonna get wet. What would you have said? I imagine most people in this Yeshiva, they would have gotten practical. They would have said, they would have said like, okay Shka'ach, so one Jew's gonna get a little bit wet. He gets wet. The rest of Eretz Yisrael shouldn't get what they need because one Jew who lives in Golis is going to get wet. It was your fault for living out there. Everybody else is living inside. You're living outside. You're living all the way on the outskirts.

4:37 A farmer has the Chassere Shalom go starving and maybe his family is not going to get what they need because we started davening for Geshim too late. What in the world is going on over here? So I want to share with you a pshadap, pepnim yisatayra. Who is this Jew? Who's this guy? The Mishnah describes him as the akron. He's the last one. I think all of us, if we reach deep inside of our hearts, we know exactly who this Mishnah is talking about. He's the Jew who lives by nairpras. He's not just the last one to make it home. He's the last one. You know what that means? He's the farthest away. And this guy came to be Oleragel. You know, it's very hard. If you're the farthest away, it is very hard to be Oleragel. You know, sometimes we feel so far from Hashem. It's like, am I really going to come to be Oleragel? Am I really going to come to the base of Mevtash? I know who I am.

5:51 I'm not faking myself out, you know? I'm very, very far from the base of mikdash. And this guy, he had unbelievable courage. He said, I'm going to the base of mikdash anyway. He found that pintiliyid. He found that nikudetayvah. He found that irreducible spark. That irreducible trace of essence that exists within sight of every single Jew. And he said, I'm going to find my way back home. But he knows, he knows when he comes to the Beis Hamikdash, he knows that it's not going to be, it's not going to be like, I'm going to stay there. You know, some people, they come to the Beis Hamikdash and they're like, I'm turning over a new leaf. I come from the Beis Hamikdash and after I'm done coming from Beis Hamikdash, I'm like, that's it, I'm a Beis Hamikdash Jew. But this guy, he knows exactly who he is. He's still going back to where he came from.

6:44 He still goes to Galas this guy. He still goes to Galas. But for a minute he travelled a long way. It's a 15 day journey. He travelled a long way. Imagine 15 days in those times. Where in your life is it ever going to take you 15 days to get anywhere? You want to go across the world? You go across the world, you're going to be like... If you go to Australia, it's a two, three-day journey. Fifteen days is a long time. And it wasn't comfortable. Fifteen days is not comfortable. A fifteen-day journey? However, we drive in the lap of luxury. Think of your cars. Your cars, for the most part, your cars are amazing. Beautiful seats, air conditioning. Even in the Hamishah cars, you know what I'm talking about? You know like the Rebbe car? You know like where the felt on the top of the car is already like pulled down? It's like Svarim all over the place, you know like I'm a sifter hidden in the front seat of the car where nobody could see it. Like diapers. Many years ago I came up with an idea, there was a show called Pimp My Ride where they would take like not nice cars and they would like trick the cars out. I wanted to make a show called Yeshivish My

8:39 He's living even farther away from Yerushalayim. It's another day farther and farther away, moving away from Sukkos, moving away from some Chasdairah, moving away from the Iris of the Antyth. That guy, we're doing for him. We care about that guy tremendously. He's living deep, deep, deep into Gola's. And every single Jew says, let's wait. The Rebbe Nachman will send the reign exactly on the right time. We will start davening When is it appropriate? When the very last Jew is home? Because the worst possible thing we could do is discourage a Yid from coming to Shalaim Yerach Hiddish. We want his journey back to be comfortable. We don't want him to be driving in the rain. He's going to get wet, it's going to get muddy, he's going to break an axle while he's driving, it's going to be uncomfortable for him. Next year, you know what's going to happen? He's going to say, I don't know, it was such a difficult time last year to make the Aliyah Luregul. It was so painful. I had such a miserable trip. I got sick on the way. It was raining.

9:48 We have to be doeik for the lowest Jew, for the farthest Jew. Because if we had a proper Eliyel Rego, if we came to Beis Hamikdash, that means that the way we leave, if we're really on fire, is we have to care about the Jew who's farthest away. The biggest sadeekim in the world care about the biggest rishaim in the world like you can't imagine. Because that's the precious child of the Rebbe Neshol. Abunish Lom Aye but all of Klal Yisrael is going to have to wait to Daven? Say there. The Rebbe Nisrael is not going to take that out on us. If we have a drought it's not going to be because we started Davening a couple days later to make sure that a Yid can find his way back to Hashem. Adirabem. If we Daven too early and we're pushing Yiddin away that's not a year the Rebbe Nisrael is going to bless us with rain. There's a sensitivity

10:49 I wonder what from-kite means. I do. I really wonder. I wonder what from-kite means. When we're building...I don't want to say anything not nice. I'll say it in a positive way. When we're building a community where Baruch Hashem we're stagging like crazy. And there's so many good things happening in our community. There's so much growth. There's so much growth. There's so much growth. There's so much growth. So much Torah being learned. You look around, everybody, everybody, everybody's putting a shiurim and it's not 10 clicks and 20 clicks, it could be 500, 1000, 2000. You look at some of the numbers on some of the shiurim that are being posted, tens of thousands. It's unbelievable how much Torah is being learned. No? It's unbelievable. We're going to have a Siyyam Hashem Shass this year. Over 100,000 Jews are going to be Messiah Am Shass. That's unbelievable. Rabbi Elis And our least Tefanzke alone has 60,000. That's unbelievable. And our shuls, our Hashem, our shuls are palaces. And with Rabbanim that are engaged and talking to people and really doing unbelievable work. It's amazing, no?

12:12 And our schools are Yeshivas that we're building bursting at the seams bursting at the seams Yiddin want to learn and we're talking about real things and talking about guys growing and spending more time in the base of Medrash and more time in the beis medrash it's unbelievable Thursday night 11 30 walk into the beis medrash come downstairs to the Fabrengen see what's going What's going on in Klal Yisrael? It's unbelievable. But what about the guy that's not? What about the guy that's not in the shul? What about the guy that right now is very far from Yeshiva? And I don't necessarily even mean in our Yeshiva, but of course in our Yeshiva too. And I need Yeshiva. Where are your friends? They're your friends. They're your friends. They're your friends. What about that guy who's far away? What about that guy who's struggling to find his way back to Beisamiktosh?

13:06 Are you doing for him? Because if you're not, I don't know. It's hard to know. Of course, I'm not Chazershah, I'm taking away. Every word of Tyre that you learn is precious. But why are you learning Tyre? You're learning Tyre because it's academic? Chazershah. Nobody in this Yeshiva, to my knowledge, is trying to be a professor of Rashi, a professor of Rambam, a professor of Rambam. I don't think so. Are we learning Tyre because it's a Are we learning Torah because you get to say, now I'm from, might hit a little closer to home. Am I learning Torah because I'm trying to connect to my Father in heaven? That's what we're trying to do here. But if you're trying to connect to the Abishthir, if you're trying to connect to Tati, if you're trying to connect to your Father in heaven, so then don't you have to be doig for His children?

14:06 I don't know, when I was growing up, Mayr Hasheshivir Rebbe Bander Shleetah used to give us a shmooze Learn with a guy who's weaker than you. Learn with a guy who's weaker than you. You'll grow from that. And I think what the rest of Yeshiva meant as he was saying, you'll grow from it because you'll say maybe it's not always about me having the highest level learning. Maybe it's about giving and maybe that connects you to the Rebbe Nachman. Your Torah becomes tarescha said. Are we davening for each Last year we had an initiative in Yeshiva to daven for each other. Moshe Ahriyeh started the initiative again to daven for each other. Are we davening for each other? We're not davening for each other. Can we really say we're being doe'ed for that Jew who's finding maybe a different path to serve Hashem? And maybe it's a little bit of a complicated path. Maybe he has to take a step or two or three or four or maybe even 15 days of journey in a different direction before he finds his way back to the Rebbe Nachal.

15:09 Are we davening for each other? There was a screenshot that went pretty viral by Aria Leibowitz posted on his WhatsApp status a story that I think if I'm not mistaken and somebody could correct me if I'm wrong. They asked Rav Lapianski, how do you become a Rosh Yeshiva? Rav Lapianski is of course the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Gedol of Greater Washington. He's a voice of sanity in an ingrowingly insane world. I imagine many of you are familiar with his saver, Ben Tyra for life, Ben Yeshiva. If you're not familiar by the way, it's a great read. It's a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful saver. Bechlal, like Rav Lapianski's Tyra is incredible. I encourage everybody to learn every word that they can learn from Rav Lapianski. He's amazing. So they asked Rav Lapiansky, this boy asked Rav Lapiansky, how do you become a Rosh Yeshiva? So I hope I'm not getting the quote wrong, but Rav Lapiansky said something to the effect. Emerson, you saw the quote So if you tell me if I get it wrong, he said something to the effect of I don't know if it's a virtue I don't know if it's a virtue to be a Rosh Yeshiva. I don't know if it's a virtue to be a Rosh Yeshiva But, listen what he said, he said, but it's certainly a virtue to learn with a bachar who's weaker than you

16:31 And if you do that, then you could become a Rosh Yeshiva. There's a line from Rosh Lomah Freifields. There's a line where Freifield said, everybody wants to be a Rosh Yeshiva, nobody wants to learn with Tushvach ha-Bachram. A good Rebbe is somebody who sits down with two weak boys and he says, let's learn alephbeis, let's learn mishnayis. However, there's guys that are struggling, they're not struggling because they're bad. Nobody is bad. I have yet to meet a Yiddh who's bad. People are struggling because... better know. Because we're in Golis, that's why people are struggling. That's the reason. Because we're in Golis. Because if David Makas and Mashiach was here, everybody would be fine. We're struggling because we're in Golis. And we're struggling because the Abinasholm wants us to struggle. The Abinasholm says, I understand where you are. You're in Golis. I want you to bring me into Golis.

17:18 So maybe you are a little less in Golis. Maybe you are a little less in Golis. Okay, so then you're privileged. That's a responsibility. If the Rebbe Nachman gives you something, that's a responsibility. If you're a guy who lives in Eretz Yisrael and you're not living by Nara Pras, that's an Acharias. And Labavit Shiraeba famously said, if you know Aleph, teach Aleph. If you know Aleph, you have a responsibility. You have a responsibility to teach Aleph to the guy who's next to you. That's not a joke. Every guy in this yeshiva has to be a Rebbe. Every guy in this yeshiva has to be a Rebbe. And when I say Rebbe, I don't mean like in the holier than thou sense, like I'm your Rebbe. If you see a guy who's struggling, I, but it's going to take away from me, it's going to take away from my learning.

18:10 First of all, I don't think that's true on any level. I don't think it's going to take away from your learning. But more than that, what are we here for? We're here to take care of everybody. Our weakest link. All of society is there to protect our weakest link. You know, sometimes in Yeshiva we have rules in Yeshiva that are for everybody. A guy goes, this rule is ridiculous. It's not for me. But that's not the way life works. If you're driving on the highway, imagine you're driving down the Jersey Turnpike. You're doing 105 miles an hour on the Jersey Turnpike. You get pulled over by a state trooper. And he pulls you over and you say, listen, officer, I know you think this feed limit is 65. I saw the science. I'm a NASCAR driver. I'm a Formula One race car driver. I'm an Eged bus driver.

19:13 The best driver in the world. By the way, I hold it's true, no? Either that or this entire country lives on miracles. Used to be that the bus drivers in this country, while they were driving with one hand, would also give you change because you had to pay them. And it was like an unbelievable thing. They're like on a mountain, you know, going like 100 kilometers an hour. The bus is on two wheels and they're like giving you change and yelling at you at the same time, you know? So maybe it's miracles. I'm not scared to get in the taxi in New York. They've got nothing on these I get bus drivers. You get pulled over and you go, listen, I could drive 105 miles an hour while I'm safe. Go pull over the old lady who's driving, you know, you can't see her, the old Jerry Seinfeld bit,

20:41 You're fine. You still get the ticket. A society creates rules because we care about every single one. We care about every single person. The rules are designed to protect the weakest link. And Baruch Hashem we do have a community like that. Think about what the chassid in our community is. If you're the weakest link, we've got something for you. Even if it comes at our expense. How come nobody says like this? How come nobody says, Why should I donate to Tom Heshabes? Go get a job. Imagine. You know why we don't say that? Because we think in our community it's a privilege to give to Tom Heshabes. I, but I worked hard for my money. It's not your money. You worked hard. The Rebbe Nachman gave you a brachadat. Brach was an achrais. Guys, you're not losing out by giving tzedakah. You'll never lose out by giving tzedakah. There was no havamina. Those farmers living in Eretz Yisrael at that time, not one farmer was sitting there. If he really, if he was Eilir Agil and he had an inspirational time, by, I don't mean inspirational time like a child, I don't mean like that. I mean he was truly inspired being in the presence of Akkadosh Baruch on the base of miktosh. There was not one One farmer that was sitting there going like, come on man, get home already, I need to David.

22:07 He understood. My Ahrais is to that Jew. I wonder sometimes about a society that looks at its best and brightest and says, you guys are amazing and doesn't look at that, at those same Hebra and say, you're the best and brightest, give out. You're the best and brightest. That means you're the ones with the biggest Ahrais to take care and to make sure that I have an agenda tonight, so don't worry I'm going to get to it now. I want to say this in its sneest way, but I also want to say it in a direct way. There's a lot of haak right now about camps. And I'm not even touching that with a zillion-foot pole. But I want to share a hushkofe. I want to share a hushkofe. You guys are in the process of making decisions about what you're going to do this summer. It's a little absurd that we're making these But the guy has to ask himself.. what am I doing this summer after I come back from Eretz Yisrael?

23:29 Some are very very ambitious they have to start their career right away So they have to already begin the process of owning many nursing homes It's like.. collecting old people. I don't understand... Collect the whole set. If I don't start working in cash advance. If I don't get an internship then the Renaissance is not going to be able to find out where I'm going to get Brachan on the world I'm not being Mizzazal in it, I think there's such a thing as it's time to start your career and get an internship. I'm not sure you need to do it right now. And then of course there are other options. I think the Hashkafa should be where am I going to be most effective at sharing everything that I just learned for the last year or two in Yeshiva. It doesn't matter which camp you go to really after that. People are going to come to you this environment, that environment. Wait a second. What are we talking about?

24:33 What are we talking about? But what's going to be with me? Okay, that's a good question. But what's going to be with someone else also is just as good a question. You have the opportunity to be a part of something where there's a kid, and remember, you guys were kids not that long ago. Now you're 18, 19 years old. Your adults are in. But remember a minute ago when you were in 7th grade and you looked up to your counselors? That guy didn't know you were looking up to him. But you were, and you were watching him carefully, you saw, what does it mean to be a bentairos? And you saw that on his breaks, you saw that on his breaks, you saw that he was chill and he was normal and you could talk to him, and he had a good time and he was athletic and he made camp fun for you, but you saw that on his breaks he went to the base measures to learn, you saw the way that he davened, you saw that he was a mensch, and you started to have dimyaines about maybe one day what I could look like.

25:34 And that guy didn't even know what was happening, but he was a big mashpia in your life. And there was a culture in your camp. Also, there was a culture. There was a culture, hopefully, of Shabbos Miroz. There was a culture of we're here to grow, we're here to shtaig. And your counselors, and your division heads, and your assistant head counselors, and your head counselors, and your directors, they were all there for you. Rabosai, that's you now. That's you. If a guy chooses to spend the summer sitting and learning, Gevaldik. I love that. That's amazing. A guy who's so inspired and he says, Rebbe, I just want to, I want to continue, I want to continue to learn in Yeshiva. Great, great, great. That's awesome. I'm begging you, please do that in the place where you're going to have a Hashem. You're going to inevitably see Parver. I came to Kaylee this summer. It's okay. You don't have to make that noise.

27:01 The Rosh Yeshiva already answered it. And I stand with the Rashi Shiva. I walked into camp, not surprising. I walked into Kaylee. First person I see is Parver doing Chassidah. Of course. He's got a walkie-talkies, you know, like... There's two ways you know how people are important in camp. Walkie-talkies and keys. I have not one key in this Rashiva. That's how you know I'm not important. I feel like I asked permission from Kalate to get into the office. It's not even a joke. I asked if I could have the password. He goes, you have to speak in the tunnel. Avram Nairan knows the password. I don't know the password. I don't believe it. I know Avram has the password because every morning, you should know, every morning you want to know what Chazad Avram Nairan is? Every single morning I get a WhatsApp. Rebbe, can I get you a coffee? That's why Avram is still in Yisrael. I won't let him leave. Who's going to get me my coffee?

27:59 He's joking, Avram's in Yeshiva because he's Chazaq coursing through his veins. Every camp needs that. Every camp needs you guys to come. You owe it to them. You're investing in yourself for what? Just to hold it for yourself? And by the way, when you're in camp, you might find a guy who's very far away. That's your camper. That's your guy. Don't give up on him. You have no idea what that kid could become. The craziest kids in camp often become very big people. Camp is an awesome place. We were talking about what to name the kolol and missoura this summer. I want to name it Shaq. Steiging hard all kites. Where you going? Shaq or Kobe? It's not going to happen, but it should.

29:23 I like to see the guys who come back from Hask every summer. I like to see it. I like to see it so much. I like to see how they come back, and just something about them is different. It's amazing, because they spent their summer in sconstant Chesed. Because you have a kid who he grew up and everything was handed to him. And for the first time in his life, he had to do something for somebody who can't take care of themselves. I told this story in one of the shurim. In COVID, when COVID broke out in the Yeshiva that year, so there was a COVID outbreak. So in the hallway of Merkaz, in the hallway of Merkaz on Friday night, we just don't want to burn the place down, yeah? It's okay, blow down, blow down. Oh! The fire was burning so bright in Yeshiva. Literally the Yeshiva is on fire. Anyway, that year, that

30:50 year in Yeshiva, that year in Yeshiva, so we had a Friday night, we had a Fabrengen in the The Hallway of Merkas. I came in, I didn't have COVID, I came in in a full hazmat suit. Avram, you were there? Yeah, of course you were there. I was there. In a full hazmat suit, literally head to toe. We had a fabreng in Friday night in Merkas. And I spoke about this Indian. I spoke about the Indian of spending the summer doing chassid. And I spoke about Hask. And I said, you changed the diaper? It changes your life. And one of the guys, he said, he goes, That's the new tagline for the Hask Bro Shor. We change them and they change us. It's a fire line. It's a fire line. It does. It does change you. And by the way, who gets more? It's not obvious who gets more. It's not obvious to me. You know guys, in your life, best Hashem you're going to learn a lot of Tyre. You should. You should. Every day. There shouldn't be a day in your life that doesn't have Tyre in it. For sure.

32:16 And in the same way there shouldn't be a day of your life that doesn't have chassid in it. Just like there's such a thing as being kovei yitim la Torah, it's kovei yitim la chassid. And if you could turn your Torah into chassid, if you could become a Torah schassid Jew, that's the biggest thing in the world. How do you turn your Torah into chassid? Look around. Look around, boys. You could share your Torah with people. I want to give us all a bracha that our tayra should be tayr eschassid, that we should be zaicha to mamish serve Hashem and the ultimate list mistest of if we're serving Hashem is if we're taking care of his children and especially those children that are very far away.