Journey to Hungary - The Wonder of the Storks of Kerestir

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

make no mistake, it's not a coincidence that these birds are here. The Gemara in Chullin says on daf sameach gimmel, why is the stork called a chasida? Because it does chesed im chaveiroso, it's the bird that represents chesed. What city in the world represents chesed more than Kerestir? That's what Rebbe Shayala's whole avodah was, gemilus chassadim. And the Gemara says that the stork is the bird of chesed she oisen chassad chassadim im chaveiroso. Now, it's very interesting. If you make a cheshbon of the number of birds in Parshas Re'eh, there are 19 birds total in Parshas Re'eh. 19 birds total. Rebbe Shiya Heller, talmid of a talmid of the Gaon wrote a chabura um a kuntres explaining how each bird of Parshas Re'eh and Shmini corresponds to a different bracha of Shmoneh Esrei. Meaning if you understand an eagle, you'll understand Magen Avraham. Like Rashi says, what's the pshat in an eagle? An eagle, it's the only bird that it flies highest so it carries its young on its wings. So it says better that the arrow should hit me. Right? Because it doesn't have to worry about a bird swooping down on top of it. Better better the arrow should hit me. So if you want to know what does it mean that the Ribono shel Olam is a Magen Avraham? The Ribono shel Olam carries us for es escha imacha kan finisht arum. And he goes through all the brachas of Shmoneh Esrei corresponding to the various birds. Now, you see? He's talking already. He has what to say. The Rebbe Heller says if you make a

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1. 0:30make no mistake, it's not a coincidence that these birds are here. The Gemara in Chullin…
2. 1:00birds in Parshas Re'eh, there are 19 birds total in Parshas Re'eh. 19 birds total. Rebbe…
3. 1:30it flies highest so it carries its young on its wings. So it says better that…
4. 2:00chazana, the 16th bird of Shmone Esrei is the chasida. Is the stork. The The 16th…
5. 2:31shamayim all the storks here that it's a place of kabbalas ha tefila. But furthermore, Rebbe…
6. 3:02me his tefilos won't be answered." So the first ingredient of tefila is chesed. That's why…
7. 3:32Says the Gaon in Parshas Re'eh that the stork, after tashmish, is always tovel in the…
8. 4:03ikur in kabolas tfila. The possuk says in Yirmiyahu yodea chasida zman. The the the historic…
9. 4:33The Bodrog. The Bodrog river. So they come here in the spring summertime and they feed…

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