Mishpatim - If It Doesn't Include Chesed, It's Not Torah

1:59 Next week's parsha is about when they said Naso. At the end of this story, is when Klal Yisrael accepts the Torah. The point is not what happens on the bookends. The point is what happens in the middle. It's unusual that in the middle of this entire parsha we stop and we have the halachos that come in Parshas Mishpatim. The question is, why was the Torah given in this way? Why was it given in such a way that right in the middle we all of a sudden stop? We talk about Mishpatim and then we finish, so to speak, with Klal Yisrael accepting the Torah. So that's the kasha that Rav Moshe Weinberger asked And he brought from his Rebbe, Rav David Lifschitz, who said over a pshat from Rav Meir Shapiro, Zecher Tzadik Levracher. Rav Meir Shapiro was famous because he was the founder of the Daf Yomi.

2:46 And he asked a question and gave an answer that's going to be relevant to our question. We're coming up not so long from now. It's already going to be the Pesach Seder. I know it's crazy to think about, but we're within sixty days of Pesach. Remember when you girls just arrived here in Israel? You got off the plane. We're already holding by the end of the year. We have less than a month to Purim, less than two months to Pesach. Everyone has a favorite part of the Seder. For some, for many, even I would say that the favorite part of the seder is dayenu. Who doesn't like singing dayenu? Day dayenu. Everyone has their own way, and everyone likes it. I don't know if you have it at your seder, but growing up we had like day dayenu, and then everyone go enu. You have all the geshmack parts of the seder. Dayenu is one of the best parts of the seder.

3:33 There's a lot of very deep Torah that goes around in dayenu. We shouldn't just sing the songs. We should also pay very careful attention to the meaning. One of the most famous questions on dayenu is of all the different dayenus that we have, one of them is a very strange one. It says, "Ilu ke'ravnu l'fnei harsinai, v'lo nasa manu esat Torah dayenu." If Hashem would have brought us to Harsinai, but wouldn't have given us the Torah, dayenu, then it wouldn't have been enough. And the obvious question, the question that many mafarshim have asked, and thousands of answers have been given What does that mean? The purpose of going to Harsinai was to receive the Torah. It wasn't. Who cares that we went to the mountain if we didn't receive the Torah? Imagine someone said, 'It's enough that I went to the chuppah, even if I didn't marry anybody. But at least I went to the chuppah. At least I walked down the aisle. Nobody cares about walking down the aisle. We care about the actual marriage that takes place.'

4:28 So what would it mean if Hashem had brought us to Har Sinai but not given us the Torah? Dayenu. That would have been enough. And Rav Meir Shapiro gave the following answer. We know that Chazal say the Gemara in Zvachim, Rashi explains over there. The Gemara in Zvachim tells us that before Har Sinai, you were not able to bring a carbon shlamim. Once we came to Har Sinai, even though the Torah wasn't yet given We were now able to bring a carbon shlamim. What is a carbon shlamim? What's the difference between a carbon ola and a carbon shlamim, and why does it matter here? So the difference is as follows: When you bring a korban olah, what does the word olah mean? To ascend, it goes up. A korban olah is completely consumed by the mizbeach; it's totally burnt by the mizbeach. It's so to speak only enjoyed by Hashem.

5:26 Whereas the korban shlamim is partially burnt on the mizbeach But it's eaten by who? It's eaten by the one who brings the korban, as well as the kohanim. So the simple answer to our question, obviously we're going to go much deeper than this, but the simple answer to our question is, what does it mean that our Kadosh Baruch Hu brought us to Har Sinai, but not given us the Torah? It would have been enough Because bringing us to Har Sinai was not nothing. The way that I phrased the question before was incorrect. I compared it to a marriage. Who cares if you walk down the aisle? At the end of the day, did you marry that person? If you didn't marry the person, who cares that you walk down the aisle? Says Rav Mayer Shapiro, it's not true. Showing up at Har Sinai even before we received the Torah, something changed. What changed? We were able to bring not only a karban ola, now we're also able to bring a karban shlamim, a karban that's enjoyed not only by the mizbeach.

6:22 But also by the one who brought the karban, and also by the kohanim. The question we still have, and obviously this is why we have to go much deeper, is What does that mean? What's the inner meaning of the fact that now that we came to Arsinai, even before the giving of the Torah, we were shyach to the world of a carbon shlomim that could be enjoyed by a kohen and the person who brought it, and before we came to Arsinai, we couldn't. What changed? And also, what's the significance of the fact that this carbon is specifically enjoyed not only by Hashem, but also by the kohanim and also by the one who brought the carbon? So I want to tell you a story. It's a beautiful story, but it needs to be understood deeply. Girls, have you ever heard of a yeshiva called Valasjin?

7:12 Valasjin was one of the great Lithuanian yeshivas, and it was run by someone whose name was Rav Chaim Valasjiner. That was the name of the town, Rav Chaim Valasjiner. And Rav Chaim Valasjin ran the yeshiva. It wasn't like today where people pay tuition or there are organizations where people help pay tuition. Back then, there were what was called mishulachim. There were people whose job it was to work for the yeshiva, and they would travel all throughout Europe, raising funds for the yeshiva because people didn't pay tuition back then. The yeshiva needed to feed them. The yeshiva needed to pay its educators. The yeshiva had the upkeep on the building, the dorms, etc. So yeshivas need money to run, just like seminaries. So this is before technology. They couldn't run any crowdfunding campaigns. The job of these mishulachim would be to be sent out all over Europe. They would spend months away from their families.

8:05 And they would travel around collecting money, and then they would bring the money back to Vilozhin. Vilozhin was Klal Yisrael's yeshiva, and Baruch Hashem, many people would donate. How does a mishulach get paid? How does a mishulach get paid? He also has to make a parnasa. So the way that the mishulach gets paid is you want to incentivize the mishulach to do a good job. So even today, people who are fundraisers for a living have a base salary, but they also get a percentage of the money that they raise. That's a good way for the yeshiva to make money. It's a good way for a fundraiser to make money. And it's clean. It's clean money. You're raising money to help an institution in Klal Yisrael. So one moshulach. Came to a certain town. People in those days were very poor. It's not like today in the Jewish community where everybody owns nursing homes and Amazon businesses and hard money lending.

8:57 Back then, people were really poor, and they mamish had grushim. And this moshulach came to a certain town, and he did all the things that he always did. He went to the door and he went to the shuls and he went to all the different shuls and he was only able to raise a couple of hundred dollars, not a lot of money at all. But he was told in the town that there's one person who's so astronomically wealthy that he could give an enormous check, but nobody's ever been able to get through to him. Nobody's ever been able to get through to this guy. But this mashalach, he knew himself. He said, "I'm talented. I'm charismatic. I'm dynamic. I'm going to convince this guy to give money to Yeshivas Valausha." Everyone said, 'Give it a shot, man. Maybe you'll be the first.' They were hopeful for him, but most people were laughing behind his back and saying, 'There's no way he's going to be able to crack this guy.'

9:50 So he goes over to this guy, and before he can even get started on his pitch, some people see Mishulachim coming from a mile away. You can always tell if somebody's coming to ask you for money. Before he even gets started, this wealthy man looks at him and he goes, 'Don't even bother.' Don't even bother. I want you to know, one time when I was still living in America. I was learning with this high school teenager at night, and one night he canceled on me because he was sick. I thought to myself, I'm going to be such a good rebbe for him. I'm going to go knock on his door, and I'm going to come to wish him a refuah shleima in person. I went to his house. He lived in a very fancy house in a certain one of the five towns. Doesn't matter which one. And I knocked on the door, and his mother looked through the glass in the door, and she said, "I'm sorry, we don't give tzedakah door to door." "I'm your son's rebbe."

10:37 So she said, 'I'm sorry.' And I thought to myself, 'Man, I really must look very shivish. I finally made it. I went to Haftar, but now I look like a mashulach who's coming to collect door to door. I'm sure my parents are so proud of me.' This guy saw this mashulach coming from a mile away, and he said, 'I'm sorry, we don't give door to door.' And this guy said, 'No, you don't understand.' And the guy walked away. But this mashulach was undeterred. He's been rejected before. If you're a mashulach. And you're good at it. You don't mind getting rejected. Rejection is just the first stop to saying right? You get a million no's before you get your yes. So later that day he comes to him again. He goes, please let me just tell you about my yeshiva. Guy goes, I've heard about all the yeshivas. I'm not interested. Day after day he keeps coming and he keeps telling the guy a little bit more about the Voloshan yeshiva. You should understand. In our yeshiva, the biggest talmidei chachamim in Klal Yisrael are the rebbeim. The Rosh Yeshiva is Rav Chaim Voloshan. And you should know that the boys in the yeshiva are the future of Klal Yisrael.

11:39 The future Talmidei Chachamim of all of Klal Yisrael. This is an unbelievable opportunity. This is the best investment you're going to have for your money. And slowly but surely, he finally wears him down. And the guy says, "Fine, I'm inspired by your vision for this yeshiva. I'm going to write you a big check on one condition. Thank you so much. I appreciate your sensitivity." I'm going to write you a big check. But on one condition. The condition is you do not get a percentage of the money. The mashalach says, "Fine" I don't even want a commission on this one. This money is going to help the yeshiva so much. Don't give me a commission. Just write the check. The wealthy man writes the check, and as he's about to give it over, he says to the mashalach, 'I don't trust you. I don't trust you that you're going to go to Rav Chaim Voloshiner and say, 'Here's the money,' and not take. I'm coming with you to Vilozhin. You tell me this yeshiva is so great, I can't wait to see it with my own eyes. I'm gonna give the check, but I'm gonna tell Rav Chaim Vilozhiner that you get no money from it.' The mashal says fine. They get in the horse and carriage. They travel back to Vilozhin. They arrive in yeshiva. This wealthy man has an audience with Rav Chaim Vilozhiner.

12:53 He does a tour of the yeshiva. He sees the beis medrash. The boys are learning all day long, all night long. You can imagine walking into the Vilasian yeshiva. Not only do you hear the koltar of the boys screaming at each other and learning, but you also see the tremendous genius of these boys. These are literally the future of Klal Yisrael. Vilasian was the greatest yeshiva in Klal Yisrael. So inspired, he sits down with Rav Chaim Vilasianer. He writes an even bigger check than he was going to write before. And as he's about to hand it to Rav Chaim Vilasianer But on one condition. This money should only go to the Talmidei Chachamim in yeshiva. I don't want it to go to maintenance in the yeshiva. I don't want it to go to anything ancillary. I just want it to go straight to the boys. And this mashalach doesn't get a penny, no commission. I want my money to only be used for Torah. I don't want it to be used for fixing toilets. I don't want my money to go for anything. I want it to go towards providing only for the boys. Rav Chaim Volozhiner said to him, "Keep your check."

13:52 It's a gaiyach korban. So he said, "What?" I'm offering you thousands of dollars. In those days, a check like that could have sustained the yeshiva for a long time. He said, "I don't want it. It's a gayish acharbon." He said, "Rebbe, what do you mean? He said, "A guy can bring a carbonola." A gentile can bring a carbonola. But a gentile is not allowed to bring a carbon shlomim. Only a Jew can bring a carbon shlomim. Remember, girls, what was the difference between a carbonola and a carbon shlomim? A carbon ola, everything goes to Hashem. Everything is consumed by the mizbayach. A gentile can dedicate themselves to the service of Hashem. They could say, "I want everything to be spiritual. I want everything to go to Hashem." But a Jew is different. A Jew knows that the best carbon is not the one that only goes up to Hashem, but the one that goes up to Hashem.

14:49 But it's also eaten by the Kohanim. It's also eaten by the one who brings the carbon. Meaning, how do we serve Hashem? Not by going up to Shamayim. How do we serve Hashem? By sharing what we have with others. When this wealthy man came to Rav Chaim Voloshiner and said, "I'll give you the money, but I only want it to go towards spirituality. I don't want it to go to the moshuloch. I don't want it to go to sustaining his horse and carriage. I don't want it to go to the toilets. I don't want it to go to the food. I only want it to go to these talmidei chachamim." Ruchaim V'Lojner said to him, "That's a gausha way of seeing Yiddishkeit." Yiddishkeit is not about going up to Shamayim. It's not impressive for us to go up to Shamayim. It's impressive for us to find Hashem down here in this world. How can you tell if you're finding Hashem down here in this world? It's very simple. How do you relate to other people?

15:45 The Chasidish Rebbe. Rav Moshe Leib Sassover. Rav Moshe Leib Sassover was one of the great Hasidic masters. Rav Moshe Leib Sassover, there was a certain misnagid, a certain opponent of the Hasidic movement, that he would always make fun of Rav Moshe Leib Sassover. He would say, "what type of rebbe do you have?" But it was hard to come at Rav Moshe Leib Sassover because he was a tamchachem, because he was a tzaddik. So this misnagid once said, "I know how I'm going to get him." I'm going to follow him." I'm gonna follow him. I'm gonna see where he goes. I'm gonna see where he goes. So one morning On the morning of Yom Kippur, Rav Moshe Leib Sasserer didn't show up to shul. He didn't show up to shul. Where did he go? Nobody knew. The Chassidim would say, like when they when Rav Moshe Leib Sasserer disappeared, they would say he goes up to Shamayim. Rav Moshe Leib Sasserer is in Shamayim. And the Misnagdim would always make fun. They would say he goes up to Shamayim. What do you think he goes to Shamayim? Obviously, he doesn't go up to Shamayim. He's a physical person.

16:44 So this misnagdi tailored Rav Moshe Leib Sassofer. He wanted to see where he was going. He camped outside his house. And Rav Moshe Leib Sassofer came outside of his house. It wasn't Yom Kippur. This was during slichos in Elul. And Rav Moshe Leib Sassofer came out of his house, and he was dressed like a person who goes to the forest and chops wood. Like a woodcutter. You ever see what a woodcutter? Woodcutter doesn't dress in like a chesidah shirabah. They dress in like flannel shirts and overalls. Like they look like men. Like a real man. So Rav Meishalib Sassofer came out of his house and he's dressed like a wood chopper and he's carrying an axe and he walks into the forest. The Misnagid is laughing his head off. He said, "There's the funniest thing in the world." They think their Rebbe is missing davening because he's going up to Shamayim. He's missing davening because he's chopping wood. What a joke!

17:31 And sure enough, Rav Meishalib Sassofer goes into the forest and he's chopping down trees and chopping up wood and loads all the wood into a wheelbarrow. And he brings it to the house of an almana, to the house of a widower, somebody who lost her husband. And he shows up at the house and he knocks at the door. She doesn't recognize him as Rav Moshe Leib Sassover. She thinks, who's at her door? One of the woodcutters. So she says to him, "I'm so sorry. I can't afford to pay you. My husband died. I don't have any money to pay for this wood." Rav Moshe Leib Sassover says, "Don't worry about it. This is the extra wood. I was just coming to give it away to those that are in need." The Misnagid is watching the entire thing and realizes that Rav Meishel Leib Sassofer got up in the morning and didn't go to slichos because he was going to make sure that this almana had food and wood for her fire so that she could stay warm and cook her food.

18:24 And then he became a very big chassid of Rav Meishel Leib Sassofer. He stopped being an opponent, and the chassidim asked him. They said, 'See, we told you our Rebbe goes to Shamayim, and that's why he misses davening.' And this new chassid smiled and he said. You're wrong. Rav Moshe Leib Sasover doesn't go to Shomayim. He goes even higher than that. Higher than that by us. What's higher than going to Shomayim? Higher than that is how you treat other people. How do you relate to other people? There's such a thing called selfish Judaism. A person could be Jewish, but they could be selfish about their Judaism. They don't share their Judaism with others. To be truly Jewish means not that you're involved in your own service of Hashem. Of course, that's important, but that you're also involved in helping others serve Hashem. I want to say something. I'm sure it's not the case here in Be'er Miriam, but I know it's the case in other places.

19:18 It's a new thing. It's beautiful. The coyotes of Yerushalayim. They're the melody to the heart. They're harmonizing along with the Torah that we have with us. We were giving sheir in New York, in New Jersey, in Chicago, and Los Angeles. We wouldn't have this, but Baruch Hashem, in Yerushalayim, even the animals want to draw along with the Torah. Don't have to be a seminary girl. The I want to share with you something that I don't like so much. There's a movement today in seminaries to remove Chesed from seminaries. Why? There's a movement today. It exists. What? It's not right. These girls come; they just become schleppers for families. They're not really doing anything. What's the point of this? Let them sit in the Beit Midrash and learn. I'm sure it's not the case, Aaron Bar Miriam. That's why you all had that reaction. But there are certain seminaries that I know that are cutting back on chesed.

20:07 I want to tell you in the strongest possible terms that I think that is a terrible, grievous mistake. When we come to seminary, are we coming to learn? The answer is, of course. Are we coming to learn? Chumish. I know that you girls, after this class, have a parsha thing that you do. That's beautiful. That's wonderful. Of course, we should spend a massive amount of time learning Torah, learning Ashkafa, so that we can be inspired for the rest of our lives. That is what we'll call the part of the carbon that gets burnt on the mizbeach. That's between you and Hashem. But that's a carbon copy. Even a guy can bring a carbon ola. A carbon shlamim is yes, a part of my day is designated for my learning. But a part of my day is designated towards how I can feed others. How can I make sure that the Kohanim are eating? How can I feed all those people that are in need?

21:01 Otherwise, it's a gayish a karban. If we take Chesed out of seminaries, if we diminish the value of Chesed, and for the yeshivas too Every yeshiva should have. Even if they don't have chesed hours like they have in seminaries, it should be a part of the conversation every single day that every rebbe should be talking to the guys. What did you do for somebody else today? Chesed is everywhere around us. You could find opportunities for chesed everywhere around you. I was growing up. I'm a Talmud. I'm a proud Talmud. I'm proud to say it's a schuss for me to say it. It's not an honor that I have. It's an honor that I was privileged with in my life. That I got to be a Talmud of Rav Yaakov Bender. Rabbi Bender is the Rosh Yeshiva of a yeshiva called Yeshiva Darche Torah in Paraguay.

21:47 His book, with the new one, the stories one that came out. The second to new one. That's also a wonderful sefer, and you should learn it. He's unbelievable. I'll tell you something. I could spare you the trouble of reading it. You want to know the entire sefer? In one word, Chesed. Rabbi Bender's mission is for every kid in Darche to be a Bal Chesed. And I want to tell you something. I saw it growing up. Rabbi Bender every single Friday when he would give us a shmuuz, the same shmuaz and over again. What did you do for somebody else? He would tell the guys in yeshiva, "You're good at learning. Learn with someone who's weaker than you." I, but you'll say it's holding you back. He would tell us, "It's not holding you back. The time that you give to somebody else, you'll learn ten times greater than that." And the source of learning with somebody who needs help—it's an unbelievable thing. I remember when I was going into Chinuch. I spoke to one of my erbeim, Rav Zucker Shlit, who's a Rav in Yerushalayim today.

22:39 A massive tzaddik. And I was learning in Kibbutz. Baruch Hashem, I had the opportunity to learn in Kibbutz for six years. And now I was deciding, should I leave or should I go into Chinuch? And I asked Rav Zucker, "What do you think, Rebbe?" I said, "If I go into Chinuch, I'm afraid that my learning won't be as good. I love learning. I don't want to stop my learning." Rav Zucker said to me, "He said, Mordechai What happens to a subject of the King who's making millions of dollars? He stops making millions of dollars in order to help out the son of the king. Do you think the king is going to let him live on meager belongings, or do you think the king is going to say, since you left behind millions of dollars to teach my son, I'm going to make sure you have millions of dollars? The king does not leave those that take care of his children behind. And Rezuker told me, said Mordechai, I want you to know, if you leave Kehil, you think your learning is going to suffer, your learning is going to get better. Because you're taking care of Hashem's children, and I want to tell you, I've been in Chinuch for 17 years, and I don't have the time that I had in Kailo. In Kailo, Baruch Hashem, I was zayecha to learn all day long.

23:41 And even at night. And I don't have that time anymore. Baruch Hashem, Mevaseret, Ber Miriam, Tomer, Devora, Sharfman's different speaking opportunities that I have to teach Torah, I have much less time than I ever had. But I want to tell you something. I see siyata d'shemaya, the Rebbeinu Shlomo Rezucker's bracha, it came true. The learning that I have, maybe I only have an hour, hour and a half, whatever it is to learn, two hours a day, but the learning that I'm doing is ten times as effective as the learning that I did when I was in Kibbutz, because Chesed is at the core of everything that we do. We're taking care of Hashem's children. If you're in the dorms and somebody's having a hard day and you sit and listen to them and you put your arm around their shoulder and you give her a kind, compassionate, empathetic ear. You should know maybe you missed a little bit of learning. But you served Hashem. You brought a carbon shlamim. You didn't just learn your own Torah, which is of course important, and everybody has to have their own time that's dedicated to that.

24:36 But it goes without saying that a Jew brings a carbon oyleh and a carbon shlamim. We have to help other people. We go even higher than just being in Shamayim. We bring Hashem down to this world. How were we zayecha to that? When were we zayecha to a carbon shlamim? We were zayecha to a carbon shlamim when we arrived at Har Sinai before we got the Torah. Because when we arrived at Har Sinai, how we arrived. We came together as one. Once we were together as one, Hashem said, you already get a carbon shlamim. If you're one, then you'll surely serve each other. Now you could bring a carbon. That's not only a carbon to me, but it's going to be a carbon for all of Klal Yisrael. That's what happened by Har Sinai. That's the depth of Rav Meir Shapiro Zechetzat Olam Racha's answer. Why? Because we understood that we are all one, and that to help out another Jew is to connect to Hashem Himself. These are not two opposite movements.

25:37 If you can learn Torah but you can't connect to another Jew, then you don't have Torah. If you connect to another Jew, it eventually inspires you to learn Torah because connecting to another Jew means you're connecting to the godliness inside of them. So Chesed, yes, Chesed. Is mission critical. Derech Eretz, Kedma, and Torah. If you don't know how to sit with another Jew and help them No good. I heard a line from Rabbi Bender. He's quoting somebody, but I forget who he's quoting. But it doesn't matter. The line is, it could be from Rabbi Bender alone, and it would still be worth it. He said, if you can't close your Gemara to help another Jew, then even when your Gemara is open, it's really closed. And if you can close your Gemara to help another Jew, then even when your Gemara is closed, it's really open.

26:28 That's what it means to be a Jew. Say it again. It's a great line. If you close your Gemara to help another Jew, then even when your Gemara is closed, it's really open. And when you close, and when you open, I'm sorry. And if you can't close your Gemara to help another Jew. Then even when your Gemara is open, it's really closed. Chesed, Torah, Chesed, Torah, Chesed. It's not two opposite movements. It's the same movement. It's a carbon slumim. It's what happens when you recognize the actus of Klal Yisrael. Let's go back to our initial question. What was our initial question? It seems so strange. Hakadosh Baruch Hu comes, kailos who broke in thunder and lightning. This unbelievable nesina satayra, and then all of a sudden, the mundane civil interpersonal laws of Klal Yisrael don't make a person pay interest. Don't hold a person's collateral against them. All the different halachos of the interpersonal relationships And then we're messiah within the sinas Torah. Why? Why in the middle does it stop to talk about all the interpersonal relationships? The answer, says Rav Moshe Weinberger, is now obvious. Because to receive the Torah means it has to be a Torah that helps us come close to every other Jew. If you have a Torah that takes you farther away from others, that's not the Torah.

27:43 I want to share with you that this week we had a boy, a young boy, an unbelievable boy, who came from Florida on Olamim launch, and he came to visit Mevaseret as part of their thing in Mevaseret, so we had twenty minutes, half an hour to learn from each other. The boy asked me a question. Young boy, I don't forget, I remember his last name. His first name was Adam. A really special, you see, a big neshama on this boy. And he asked me the following question. He said, "My parents don't keep Shabbos. My parents don't keep kosher." On this trip, Baruch Hashem, even the week trip that he was here in Arizona, only me launched, he's already grown so much. He was wearing tzitzis, he's keeping Shabbos, and he's so afraid. It's what he said. He's so afraid that if he starts being shomer Shabbos and he starts keeping kosher, then it's going to separate him from his family. And he was even crying.

28:33 And I said to him, first of all, how beautiful are you? That you love your parents so much. That you don't want to do anything that's going to interrupt your relationship with them. How beautiful are you? Isn't that an amazing thing? Before we even know anything about this, if we dainu, if I stopped here, you would already know he's an amazing guy. He's an amazing guy. But I said to him, it's not true. If you start keeping Shabbos and you start keeping kosher and you start connecting to Hashem and that takes you away from your family, then something is off. Torah is meant to bring us closer to every single person because the more we connect to Hashem, the more we connect to the godliness inside of every single other person. If you start keeping Shabbos and it creates a rift in your family, then you're keeping Shabbos wrong. If you start keeping kosher and it creates a rift in your family, then you're keeping kosher wrong.

29:20 We have to live in such a way that we find a way to connect to every single other Jew. It's so difficult. Because we're so not connected to our own godliness within ourselves, we have difficulty connecting to the godliness within each other. But I want to say something. We know everybody knows in Kallah Israel. Again, we hope. I don't know if officially it's been announced yet or not announced yet, but the news has been leaked, and we hope it's not true unless it's been officially confirmed. But I haven't been online all day today. We know that we're all waiting with bated breath. It appears from the reports that are coming out that the Bibash children were murdered in Gaza. That's the initial reports. Everyone in this country knows that if that news Chassid Shalom comes out again, I wasn't online today to know if it was confirmed. I know that it's being reported.

30:14 This country is going to go ballistic. We have been waiting for 500 days for those children to be returned. And how many pictures do we have all over, everywhere in this country? These beautiful little orange-haired children, and there's videos. Maybe we saw them walking through Gaza. There was hope that they were alive, and it appears now, at least it appears on the outside. Again, we hope that we're wrong. But it appears now that they're not alive. It appears that they're going to be returned to us, not alive. And that levaya chas v'shalom. Again, we hope that the reports are not true, but if it's true that levaya is going to have. If not hundreds of thousands, then for sure many, many, many tens of thousands of people are going to attend that levaya. Why? For two children that we didn't know For children that if we saw them crossing the street, we wouldn't give them a second glance. Why now is the entire country sitting on the edge of its seat, saying it better not be true? It better not be true.

31:14 All Gehenna is going to break loose if it's true. It better not be true. Why is everyone waiting? Because the MS is That since the time of Har Sinai, when we stood ki ish echad beleve echad, every single Jew is connected to every single other Jew in ways that we don't understand. That's why it bothers Hashem so much when we attack each other. It bothers Him so much when we fight with each other. He destroys the Beis Hamikdash because of it. If you guys aren't going to act like a family, then we're not going to live in a home. When you guys start acting like a family, we'll rebuild our home. It bothers him so much because it's the nature of our souls to be connected to each other. Achdus Yisrael is not a joke; it's a reality. It's the Mitzvahs. It's unavoidable. Two Jews, if you're sitting together on a train and you don't know each other, you girls don't know this. I traveled a lot in the last two weeks. I went from Eretz Yisrael to Los Angeles, from Los Angeles to Chicago, from Chicago to New York, back and forth between New York and New Jersey for two straight weeks. I came out, didn't sleep. My favorite thing to do is

32:12 On all the things, Baruch Hashem, I'm so happy to meet a lot of Jews. I sit down, do interviews with the boys, give shirum. It's a packed trip. My favorite thing is walking through the airport, seeing another Jew and doing the Jew nod. The Jew nod is when you're walking through. I'm walking out. I'm walking off my United flight, which Baruch Hashem landed safely. Every time I turn on the news, it seems like planes are landing upside down today. God willing, I'll never fly Delta again. I'm coming off schlepping my knapsack. I'm wearing my knapsack and schlepping my handbag. And I come out, and there's another Jew waiting to get on the flight that's going to leave, and we do this move. That's all it is. It's just a little Jew nod, right? And I take score. How many Jew nods will I get as I walk through LAX? How many Jew nods will I get as I walk through O'Hare? And if you land in LaGuardia, the numbers go skyrocket. We were walking around in LaGuardia. I see City Field to my left. I look at City Field. I see a Jew coming to my right. Stop looking at City Field. Jew nod.

33:11 Why? I never met that guy, and I'm never going to meet him. What's the pshat that we do that little Jew nod? Because we are deeply connected. And if somehow, by some miracle, you end up on the air train together, going from Hertz back to Terminal Four to get on your L plane in JFK. Somehow you have a conversation. Where are you from? Who do you know? Jewish geography, right? Why do we play Jewish geography? That is the dumbest game of all. What happens at the end of Jewish geography? You know them? Me too. Game over. Or this movie. Send my regards. Send your own regards. If you cared about them so much, just WhatsApp them. You don't even need to pick up the phone today. You can email them. I ran into a friend of yours on the air train in JFK. There's no reply email, because who cares? What are you going to say back? You did? Very nice. There's no the game Jewish geography, single most foolish game in the world, and yet we love playing it.

34:13 Who do you know? Where are you from? I always bothered me growing up because both of my parents were balei chuba, so I didn't come from an Orthodox family. In my yeshiva, everybody had cousins and grandparents and great grandparents. It was like, where did you learn? Where'd your grandfather learn in yeshiva? My grandfather didn't learn in yeshiva. I was the farthest thing from my grandfather. I hated people who learned in yeshiva. So I never was able to play Jewish geography. Baruch Hashem, I grew up in the Five Towns. Now I'm awesome at it. I can play Jewish geography with the best of them. But growing up, I always felt a little silly. Why do we have this need to be deeply connected to every other Jew? Because we are. Because part of Kabbalah Shtayra is mishparshes mishpatim. It's connecting deeply to every single Jew. If you're learning Taira, you go high. You want to go even higher? Connect to every single Jew. Girls have a wonderful Shabbos.