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0:00 It is the privilege of all of us, the privilege of all of us to know the honored Rav. We see the honored Rav's work of bringing merit to the many, and it is great, truly tremendous. Yours. Thank you very much. How are you? I don't, I don't... what can I add? But where there is more kedushah, more learning... it is good for the whole world. So the honored Rav did not hold... not for this thing.
0:29 Thank G-d, thank G-d, we are moving forward, certainly, certainly, quickly and in purity, bringing merit to the many, the merit of the Torah, and truly, may you see good, salvations for you, my people, today a person of flesh and blood makes an issue of his honor. "It is enough for the servant to be like his master." Look at the Holy One, blessed be He, how much the Holy One, blessed be He, is an insulted King, as they call Him, This is what the Ramak writes, the Ramak, whose hillula it is, yes, today, an insulted King, an insulted King, "Who is a G-d like You" - in the first attribute.
1:01 He bestows, gives food, abundance to the whole world, He created the world, He changes the times... The nations of the world come and bow down to the cross. They ask who the Holy One, blessed be He, is. We need to learn from the Holy One, blessed be He, as the Ramak says: look, what are you? You think about your own honor? Who are you to be particular about your honor, when Hashem, blessed be He, His honor - where is it? We need to cry out for the honor of Heaven, not for the honor of flesh and blood.
1:26 Also be ready to be slaughtered and bound for the sanctification of His Name a thousand times, until the honor of the Holy One, blessed be He, is made precious in the world. OK, my friend, I came across it in a film program. Apparently... let us be able to sanctify His Name in public. It is a great merit, for the many, thank G-d, and I needed... I have the book there, I received it when I came to the synagogue, at least for Chanukah.
1:53 I enjoyed it very much, I really read it. For the Rav, do I have the books? Not everything is personal, it is for distribution. I'll bring it to the Rav. I'll bring the Rav everything now. But the emissaries, truly, truly, it is in every generation the Holy One, blessed be He, plants them in it, yes? "For the pillars of the earth are Hashem's, and He set the world upon them." That is, the Holy One, blessed be He, saw that the tzaddikim are few.
2:18 So the honored Rav has merited, the merit of this Torah, truly. Do not think, do not think about what is not, people talk about all kinds of things. Always, every thing, the more important it is, the bigger the opposition it has. Our Sages say: "This opposite that." the more kedushah rises, the more the other side grows too.
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2:45 But what is written in the holy Ohr HaChaim: "And it was, when the Ark set out, Moshe said: Arise, Hashem, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee from before You." There you have it. Beautiful. One can say that a person who is here and walks in the ways of Hashem needs to spread out those who love Him, so there will be more of them. Yes. "Let them be spread out." That there should be spreading. ...so that the honor of Hashem will rise. It is written; this is the Ohr HaChaim, the holy one says this.
3:13 ...about you. "And it was, when the Ark set out, Moshe said: Arise, Hashem," they are spread out for You. I read everything in its order in the book of Bamidbar, and especially, there is no order of kedushah... And sometimes they traveled: they camped one day and traveled, or two days and traveled, they spread out. What does it mean? Raising up to holiness, the holy Torah, or there - they spread out. So therefore, be strong and of good courage, truly, honored Rav.
3:42 Does the Rav know the book Avkas Rochel by Rabbi Yosef Ohayon? Not Avkas Rochel... not the Avkas Rochel of Maran. Not Maran's? Not Maran's; this is one from Morocco? Yes. Does the Rav know it? From a hundred years ago? Yes. A hundred years, yes? Yes. Yes, it is on the parashah, no? Yes, also, one moment. Parashah, mussar, family, derashos, derashos, derashos, derashos. It is this, this, this, this, this. He was in Morocco, they brought his bones up to Israel, he is buried opposite...
4:13 there, in Tzefas. ...below the... yes, yes, below, below, below. And below. I'll tell him what's there. In this section, which you once mentioned, the square, exactly, exactly, right next to the square. There are many holy ones there, specifically there. Many tzaddikim came there.
4:45 ...yes. Tzefas: Rabbi Avraham Azulai writes about Tzefas there, one of these reasons. "If a bird's nest happens before you," it is explained there, and in a few more places. The whole order. Not from Tiberias? "If a bird's nest happens before you," I don't know, it could also be from Tiberias. Once, I think, it just fits. That from Tiberias too. Yes, that it is from Tiberias. From the whole north, like the whole northern area, from the Galilee, from Tzefas itself. Rabbi Avraham Azulai, the grandfather of Maran the Chida, brings a lot about it; it is much hidden wisdom.
5:18 So all of it, truly, after all, our master... was born in Jerusalem. Right, ... some earlier ones. He... they went to Egypt... Rabbi Shlomo had... So that's it, the eldest son... afterwards they did not return from Jerusalem. They are all... organizations. ...the Rav of Beis Yisrael... or from... all of them.
5:42 I also know that the Satan stood against him so that he would not be... in Jerusalem. And if you stay here, that is good. Also the holy Ohr HaChaim. that he then had his house, where our master the Ari was born, in this house; afterwards this house was preserved. They said that Eliyahu HaNavi was in this house when he came to the bris.
6:13 Yes, there. The uncle, Rabbi Bezalel Ashkenazi, was there. His uncle, the uncle of our master the Ari. The uncle of our master the Ari. And he was there, the synagogue, Eliyahu HaNavi, may he be remembered for good, was there, yes, at this bris. And afterwards the holy Ohr HaChaim kept this house, and it became the house of the Ohr HaChaim. And afterwards it was also the synagogue of the Ohr HaChaim. Afterwards he suffered many humiliations and persecutions, and he had to give up this house; the authorities took it from him, the courtyard and the house, and even after he passed away, he only... they had to pay dearly for the house and this courtyard.
6:49 Rav, every year I make a hillula at my home for the holy Ohr HaChaim. Every page in the Ohr HaChaim was written in the city of... every page you turn in the Ohr HaChaim, in the city of... With him, from Salé, Morocco. From Salé, right. Once it was called Salo. Yes, that is because it is Spanish, it depends. It is written Salo, Salo, Salo. But like that... like solo, solo...
7:14 They were Spanish speakers. Yes. But Salé is near Rabat, they were near Rabat. Which holy ones were there? There was the whole world, the whole world, wherever the Holy One, blessed be He, brought the Jewish people in. yes, every place. ...your wilderness. The Nasi whom the Ramban writes about in his introduction: "I sent the Nasi," in Moshe the prophet, the Rama.
7:42 all the matters, Zaragoza... There is a great deal of antisemitism there. In Spain there is no open antisemitism... Fine, no problem... There is a problem, really: hidden antisemitism, which is very harsh. Today I don't know, today it is maybe a bit more, but all these last years, all the Arabs... about the Arabs, I don't know. He knows why with him it was the opposite... that is their essence. It is written: "And he shall be a wild man."
8:07 So they say, the commentators ask: what is "a wild man"? It does not say "a wise man", "an understanding man". Why does it say "wild"? A wise man? No. Because you would argue they want to give him "man". Right. A wise man, an understanding man; here he is a wild man. His essence is wild. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, and don't we see it to this day? Among the great ones of the world, the nations, it is not so; for the Jewish people the title is: "You are called man."
8:36 "You are man." "You are called man. You are called man." The Jewish people, the Jewish people; we do not reckon with them. The Rav strengthens us. I am strengthened very, very much by the Rav's shiurim. I listen to the shiurim, and OK, something not... a connection, something not ordinary. It is a privilege for me. You are simply holy. May Hashem let your days be spent in goodness, with blessing... May Hashem let your days be spent in goodness and your years in pleasantness, and may you merit to make the Torah great and glorious, and may no mishap ever come out from under your hands, my master... the knowledge of Hashem. And the Holy One, blessed be He... the knowledge of Hashem, may He increase, increase, increase upon you the light...
9:18 may your wellsprings spread outward. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much. Let us bring for you... good tidings... may we merit the consolation of Zion. Amen. Our holy and glorious House. Amen.
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