הינוקא הגאון הרב שלמה יהודה במעמד סיום התורה ביום הולדתו • ציון דוד המלך, תשע"ט - The Yenouka

5:01 So we see that celebrating a birthday is not something that is it is not something that is needed like that at all Many have also spoken about this, as you know Also in the Mishnah, in Tractate Avodah Zarah, in the Mishnah in the first chapter, in Mishnah 3 where Rabbi Meir lists the festival of the non-Jews, the festivals of the non-Jews so he lists among them the 'genusia' day of the king which is when they would crown their kings the day of birth as the Bartenura explains: when the king was born or the day of death when they have the passing of some madman so these in particular are the festival days on which it is forbidden to celebrate, because of the non-Jews Also in the Yerushalmi, in chapter 2, halachah 3, in Tractate Avodah Zarah

5:43 there too we learn the prohibition and the stringency of celebrating birthdays Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah, may his merit protect us the author of the responsa Divrei Yatziv, in part seven, siman 64 also speaks about the stringency, that he says that we have not seen that our Rabbis practiced - our Rabbis who practiced making a matter of birthdays, or celebrating with it - that it is something that need not be celebrated and one need not rejoice on it And so too the holy Gaon of Munkatch whom we mention many times during the year for we love this tzaddik very, very much and he was very sharp, the Minchas Elazar of Munkatch he has very beautiful, wonderful books he has the 'Darkei Chaim VeShalom' the 'Minchas Elazar', everyone knows his book the novellae he has, glosses on the Yerushalmi, very beautiful things

6:27 all kinds of very, very beautiful and wonderful things people who do not know the Torah of the "Minchas Elazar" he is a grandson of Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech of Dinov it is very recommended to study his holy books and writings There is the book Divrei Torah, fifth series, fifth series, siman 88 in the name of the 'Minchas Elazar of Munkatch', may his merit protect us where the Minchas Elazar of Munkatch also brings that he says we have not seen our Rabbis practice celebrating and making a matter of a birthday So both he and the Divrei Yatziv brought that in Tractate Eruvin, page 13b the Sages say: is it better for a person that he was created and they voted and concluded that it is better for a person not to have been created than to have been created

7:16 that it is better for a person not to be in the world at all, not to come into the world because of the great obligation one must fulfill here, and to be here There is a very great obligation and seriousness in it and very great importance in this world and very great responsibility and very great importance So the Tosafos say a very beautiful thing "Here it deals", he says (here it is speaking), "with ordinary people" (that it is better not to have been created) but, he says, a tzaddik - fortunate is he and fortunate is his generation So it is implied from the wording of the Tosafos that if there is a tzaddik - that when there is a birthday of tzaddikim then certainly there is a great matter and great joy in it So he says, as we see from here, that according to the words of the Tosafos

8:04 "here it deals" (here it is speaking) with ordinary people, what the Gemara says that it is better for ordinary people not to have been created but with a tzaddik, fortunate is he and fortunate is his generation And from here we truly see that there is a beautiful sign in this to make some celebration or joy when the Holy One, blessed be He, truly grants the Jewish people that there are tzaddikim There is, in particular, in Midrash Tanchuma - with Hashem's help we will also include it in the siyum today that at the end of Midrash Tanchuma, at the end of the Midrash on Pekudei there it tells of the beauty and importance of the birthday of Yitzchak Avinu how much joy there was in the house of Avraham Avinu and how he rejoiced, and there was great light and joy, and how much everyone rejoiced

8:49 and there was glory and splendor, and everything in the very best way from the joy that a tzaddik was born, Yitzchak Avinu And baruch Hashem, also that you came up and blessed us for that too there is a source the Tiferes Yisrael, in his will, in section 6 he warned his sons and daughters, he told them that on every birthday, to be careful to write a letter of blessing and give a blessing to a brother and a sister because it increases closeness of hearts, and there is value, preciousness and importance in it In the Jerusalem Talmud, in Tractate Rosh Hashanah, in the Yerushalmi, chapter 3, halachah 8 in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi, where it is written that Amalek was a sorcerer and he would set up people on his 'genusia' day when going out to war

9:41 saying, 'not on every day' - a man does not fall on his 'genusia' day, when going out to war And then he said: "Sun and moon stood still in their habitation" Also in Yalkut Shimoni on Chavakuk, remez 564 this same matter is also written, what they would do that they would set up a man in war on his 'genusia' day and that is how Amalek would win he would use the importance of the birthday that it is a great day, and a great fortune rises and especially a birthday, when the fortune..

10:11 Also Rabbi Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin, may his merit protect us in the book Resisei Laylah, page 95, in his book, in the old edition there he also writes that a person's day and his fortune can rise and be uplifted and there is a very, very great virtue in it, on the day (of a person's birthday) that he can bring about before the Holy One, blessed be He, many, many wonderful things many requests before Hashem your fortune can rise very, very high it is possible to change, to bring about, and to cancel harsh decrees, and everything especially, just that a person be joyful on his birthday So this is also what we want to..

10:48 that the Holy One, blessed be He, bless everyone, that the Holy One, blessed be He, give everyone help from Heaven and that everyone be in joy, with miracles and wonders So after all that we said, we simply said that we did not make this celebration as a birthday we simply made it for a siyum - I do not count myself among the tzaddikim I just said that tzaddikim can do it on its own but every year we make siyumim and then we make the celebration over the siyum and so we do not hang this celebration on the birthday itself, as if.. I say - 'I say it is better for me not to have been created' I don't.. I don't know better not to have been created than to have been created If only I will give Hashem satisfaction

11:32 If only there will be satisfaction before the Master of heaven and earth I am not trying to speak before anyone and it is not fitting to speak before anyone, and baruch Hashem everyone .. truly I.. truly everyone is wonderful, truly everyone is special and this is only what I am trying to explain Truly we have no words Everyone is special, we have great love for everyone We were born today - you also see, it fell on the 15th of the month of Iyar in the year 5748, and this birth was brought to us from Heaven And here I am in the world, seeing trees and stones, sky such a strange world, all of it a very crazy world only when one truly learns Torah and looks into it then one can truly return to Heaven

12:41 when one learns the Torah truly for the sake of Heaven then one sees Heaven through the Torah, and then one is disconnected from all the.. from this whole world, without seeing it, thinking about it, contemplating it looking at it at all, because it is just a world that confuses and distances and causes many people to think that this is the way, or that is the way and the whole world goes crazy and they forget the principles of the Torah and what the Torah truly came to give us is only to light up our eyes The Torah that the Holy One, blessed be He, gave us is to unite us with Him to show us that we are His chosen people to show us that it is us He loves, and us He chose and to uplift us

13:26 because the Torah needs to uplift us and unite us and bond us together and for there to be love between us and unity between us and to love Hashem and to love His people And a person who learns, learns, learns, and does not come to love of the Jewish people apparently he did not learn For once someone came to the Rebbe of Kotzk and told him: I have learned all of Shas So he said to him: and what did Shas teach you?

13:53 You may have learned everything, but perhaps Shas did not teach you something Many people think that they learn and learn but they never learned simply, a day will come when they will throw them into the pit and they will remain alone in a dark and gloomy place The "Yismach Moshe" used to do this every year he bought himself a grave at a very young age and every year on his birthday he would go to the grave and would also stay there, remain there and so he would read Tehillim and think to himself: the Holy One, blessed be He, completes their years So he says: maybe I am counted a tzaddik - now, no?

14:37 who knows what will be with me - thinking about his last day.. on his birthday because a birthday is like a Rosh Hashanah when a person is asked: well, you have been so-and-so many years in the world what did you do with the years I gave you Look how many years I gave you - what did you do with them? Did you do something with them? Did you do some good with them did you act with them for the good And so let us say something, so that one can think that maybe it will be a little connected, and..

15:13 There are many beautiful things in the month In our month, the Holy One, blessed be He, starts the month and then the month in fact ends on its thirtieth, as is known The Maharal of Prague has a book, "Or Chadash", on Megillas Esther and on page 208 he writes that all the times and festivals and holy days of the Jewish people the Holy One, blessed be He, arranges them so that they will always be on the 15th of the month, in the middle of the month as we find in all the times and festivals as is known: Purim, Pesach, etc., all of it, the 15th of Shevat everything revolves around the 15th, the manna that came down to Israel And.. so I said, today let it be the 15th of the month and a siyum

16:22 So I said something beautiful like this that, without making a vow, we will make the siyum soon that the siyum is on the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings, with Rashi, yes Rashi, and the Radak, and the Metzudos, both David and Tziyon the Ibn Ezra, the Malbim and Midrashim, that is - Tanchuma, Tanna DeVei Eliyahu, Sifra, Sifrei Pesikta DeRav Kahana, Pesikta Rabbasi, and Zutarta Midrash Tadshe, Midrash Aggadah Yalkut Shimoni, and Midrash Rabbah And this should be in honor of the birthday so that these things will not be, as it were, just for nothing that we make a celebration - that it should be over this that it should not be only over the fact that there is a birthday So there is in the Midrash Rabbah on Shemos in the Midrash Rabbah on Shemos, in section 15, paragraph 26

17:35 the Holy One, blessed be He, says: "This month shall be for you the head of months" The Holy One, blessed be He, says to the Jewish people that just like their month, which is thirty days so the kingship of the Jewish people will last thirty generations And the Jewish people sit and think and say what is meant by kingship for thirty generations See what a beautiful thing the Midrash says The Midrash brings a verse in Tehillim, chapter 72, verse 7 "In his days the righteous shall flourish" - what is "In his days the righteous shall flourish, until the moon is no more" "In his days the righteous shall flourish" - this is from the beginning of the month to the end of the month until, in fact, the moon is no longer seen And we are speaking from the beginning of the month, from the head of months

18:35 from its middle to its end because Rosh Chodesh is in fact within the month we have Rosh Chodesh, the middle of the month, and the end of the month And from Avraham Avinu, that the Holy One, blessed be He for it is said about Avraham Avinu, the Midrash says that the light begins to shine from Avraham that after this, when Avraham Avinu arrives "Who shone from the east", in Yeshayahu, chapter 41, verse 2 "Who shone from the east" - this is Avraham Avinu And after Avraham Avinu arrives the light begins to dawn through Yitzchak Yitzchak Avinu lights the light in the world as it says: "Light is sown for the righteous", in chapter 97, verse 11 "Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright of heart" - this is Yitzchak Avinu And after Yitzchak Avinu, the light begins to shine for Yaakov Avinu

19:42 "And the light of Israel shall be a fire" the prophet Yeshayahu, in chapter 10, verse 17 "And the light of Israel shall be a fire" - so the Midrash brings that this is said about Yaakov Avinu And after this, from Avraham to Yitzchak to Yaakov we count up to the 15th - the 15th is Shlomo The Midrash says: King Shlomo is the middle one he is between the 15th and the 30th And then the Midrash counts, it counts like this it starts from Yehudah, after there were Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov Yehudah, Peretz, Ram, Aminadav, Nachshon, Salmon Boaz, Oved, Yishai, David, and King Shlomo King Shlomo corresponds to the 15th, corresponds to the middle King Shlomo as it says in Divrei HaYamim I, chapter 29, verse 23 "And Shlomo sat on the throne of Hashem as king" - this corresponds to Shlomo

20:56 After this, from Shlomo, what do we know, says the Midrash that when we reach the middle of the month and the moon is full, right its disk is filled, the moon's and when the disk of the moon is filled and the moon lights everything in completeness after the disk of the moon is filled what happens on the 16th, etc., after this? it keeps diminishing And right after King Shlomo - Rechavam comes, it starts to go down And after Rechavam, Aviyah, and after Aviyah, Asa and after Asa, Yehoshafat, and after Yehoshafat, Yehoram And after that Achazyahu, and after Achazyahu, when we come how do we come - after that, Yoash and after Yoash, Amatzyahu, and after we come to Amatzyahu, Uzziyahu and after that Yotam, and again we go down and after that Yotam, Achaz, after that Chizkiyahu

21:54 and after that Menasheh, and after that Amon and after that Yoshiyahu, and after that Yehoyakim and after that the kingship of his brother, King Tzidkiyahu And then the prophet Yirmiyahu says, in chapter 52, verse 11 "And the eyes of Tzidkiyahu he blinded" And at the end of Tzidkiyahu's kingship, the moon is already covered and therefore this corresponds to the blindness, this is the last "And the eyes of Tzidkiyahu he blinded" - this is the end And the king after the kingship of Tzidkiyahu is King Mashiach There is no king after Tzidkiyahu After the kingship of Tzidkiyahu, "And the eyes of Tzidkiyahu he blinded" the kingship ends, and the kingdom returns to King Mashiach And then it goes back - from the beginning, what was, to the end and from the end it goes back to the beginning

22:48 and then everything returns once again to King David Therefore this here is a very, very holy place for the Minchas Elazar of Munkatch says that this place, the son of Yishai at the head (the tomb of King David) comes before all the holy places in the world - the tomb of King David so writes the Minchas Elazar of Munkatch that the importance of this holy place is that it receives the prayers and it comes before many holy places that people walk to but they do not know the virtue and level of the tomb of King David And I thought to explain this, that the middle of the month when everything shines and everything is filled with light and also the day the manna came down to Israel - so perhaps this is what needs to be done

23:46 this is the hint that I need to take upon myself to learn that the Jewish people - for the Holy One, blessed be He, brought down manna for them which He gives to each and every one in the middle of this month this corresponded to King Shlomo, who corresponded to the 15th and then it comes out the 15th, so from this it goes down, down the manna would come down to each and every one, up to the doorway That means the role is to serve every single Jew like the manna, which had to be of benefit to each and every one so like the manna, which would do good for every single Jew that is what I need to learn from the manna that just as the manna comes down to the doorway of each and every one

24:28 so the role I need to learn is to serve each and every one the manna was absorbed into the limbs - one needs to nullify oneself to everyone for it would reach the doorway of each one so one needs to go to each one, one needs to listen to each one you need to be in the mouth, so that everyone chews you, eats you turn into every taste of whoever wants so give him a little from here give him this, give him that..

24:53 I said this is what I need to learn from here and this is what we, baruch Hashem, try to learn that this is the main thing The power of the Torah, the power of the.. As you know, the Prophets to learn the Prophets, and to learn the Writings, and to learn the Torah and not to finish it only on Simchas Torah, when everyone makes a siyum rather one needs to finish it several times, and even before From our Torah came out all the laws, all the halachos the whole famous Yerushalmi, and the Bavli all the Midrashim, everything has its root in the Torah everything has its root in the Prophets, a custom of the Prophets everything is words of the Writings everything is hinted within the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings And of course there is no verse.. therefore in the Bavli a great many verses are mentioned

25:51 and Mishlei is mentioned very often in Shas, more than any other book And the importance of this learning of mussar, from the Zohar, from the books of the Sages all of it has great importance but if one does not mention the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He through learning the Prophets or through learning the Writings a person does not truly come close to Hashem There is great importance to learning the Prophets and the Writings; it is very important to learn and especially to learn it with their Midrashim or to learn it seeing where it appears and if there is a sugya or something connected in the tractates about Yehoshua bin Nun, about the entry into the Land to look in the Rishonim and the Acharonim and learn the Torah in depth of course the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings, in depth

26:38 so in this way too the learning gains depth and importance and from there one learns how the halachah unfolds in everything that from this one learns the halachah.. And baruch Hashem, this learning today is also a learning of a siyum on many halachos too and things that we have within the learning but we will do it all inside and I will say the prayer, the Hadran, for the siyum, and..

27:08 I just want to say that I truly love the Jewish people that one needs to love each one and I can say wholeheartedly that I love each one truly so, every Jew, each one in his own uniqueness however he may be, whatever he may be, everything, everything, everything And all that I want is that each one be only strong and courageous and joyful and full of hope because I do not give any shiur and do not come to anything if it is not the aim, that each one who comes here the aim is that each one be strong, strong, strong and courageous, always, always and also whatever he goes through and also when he goes through so many hardships whether from the hardship of his livelihood whether from the hardship of his home whether from the hardship of his wife

28:07 whether from the hardship of his children whether from the hardship of his life The aim of what we teach is that this Torah should have the power to save each one and baruch Hashem, many people have told of miracles and wonders and things beyond nature when I heard the things I said: wow, this is simply.. because hearing how it happens makes me happy too, to hear it and I understand that this is called the power of learning Torah for its own sake that whoever listens, and whoever teaches and learns for the sake of Heaven then we see that each one truly finds himself in the Torah because we say 'our portion', and 'grant our portion' we ask the Holy One, blessed be He that we have a portion in the building of the Beis HaMikdash, the Holy Temple - we want a portion in the Temple

28:54 because this is to reveal the portion that each one of us has and until Mashiach comes, and until the Beis HaMikdash is built and the geulah comes we need to know that each and every one of us completes the portion of the Temple and each and every one is a stone in the building of the Beis HaMikdash that there is no superiority over anyone and also at whatever level someone is whether he preaches to the Jewish people or teaches them it does not mean that he is superior to any creature it does not mean that he is above anyone and many times he is much lower, almost than everyone because if he were above? He would not need to speak whoever is above is already in Heaven, he does not speak so one needs to see where a person is

29:44 as everyone says, there are stars.. so stars need to be in the sky So I say that - what Rabbi Yaakov Yosef HaKohen of Polnoye says that this truly fits by the way, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach was his descendant of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef HaKohen, and also of the Maharash of Ostropoli everyone has surely heard of Rabbi Yaakov Yosef HaKohen that he says that whoever teaches Torah his law is like one who walks in a forest with a candle and a torch and he needs great patience with each and every one who walks with him in the forest that he not fall, that he not stumble - that he have patience until he reaches his safe place until he reaches that place I can only tell you that we ask with all our heart that the Holy One, blessed be He, give each and every one salvation

30:43 that each and every one see miracles and wonders that we all see the good and the splendor that is in us for this is the gift and the purpose of the Torah that the Holy One, blessed be He, gave us the Torah, and chose us He did not choose some great man, He did not choose some other rabbi He chose you, He chose each and every one The siyum that we learn is a siyum of each and every one of us We are all guarantors You know, in Tractate Shevuos, page 39a at the end of the page, on the last line, the language of the Sages is "All of Israel are guarantors in one another" And today people say: all of Israel are guarantors for one another And there is a difference between 'for one another' and 'in one another'

31:28 'for one another' is like this but 'in one another' is like this that one makes a siyum and everyone takes part it is a siyum of each one because it is learning that is ours, it is Torah that is ours, of each one each one has this learning each one learned it - if not now then he learned it in the womb each one learned the whole Torah, everyone The portion of each and every one of us in the Torah is an immense and wonderful portion...

31:57 So also a big well done, a big well done to each and every one a big well done also to all the students, all those who help who come and learn and toil Fortunate is each and every one "Fortunate is the people for whom it is so, fortunate is the people whose G-d is Hashem" And we rejoice in each and every one and everyone, everyone, everyone without exception - this is the King's crown this is the crown.. we are the people that is the King's crown In Heaven we look like a great crown and every Jew is a precious stone set in this crown all of them are on this crown and the fact that one is here, is here, is there but all are on the same crown of the King and there is no longer a difference, because the King puts it on His head

32:41 and it does not matter if this stone is on the right or this stone is on the left this stone from here, this stone from here, one from here, one from here all are on the King's crown And many people look for excitement, or to travel here to feel something but they do not feel one thing they do not feel how much Hashem truly loves them and rejoices in them and chose them and chose us, and gave us His Torah that each and every one is chosen And every day that you pray and every time that you say a blessing know that Hashem, blessed be He, wraps the person hugs him, raises him, lifts him up for the Holy One, blessed be He, has no joy except in every Jew and especially in those who learn His Torah

33:26 especially since here, baruch Hashem, so many Torah scholars, there are here.. Know, among you sit tzaddikim, people who are geniuses Torah scholars sit here each and every one according to his honor and stature it is impossible to begin listing the names and also those who want to remain hidden not everyone wants.. someone brought me a book, he does not want me to say that he brought me a book he does not want.. fortunate are they for their humility..

33:53 does not want it known that he wrote a book one published a book anonymously, the other.. they only want to increase the honor of Heaven each one is so special, such Torah scholars sit here Once they came to the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and told him that there is someone who boasts that he has a revelation of Eliyahu So the Divrei Chaim of Sanz said: go tell him that there is a revelation greater than a revelation of Eliyahu. So he was startled, he said: what..

34:21 He said: look, Eliyahu the prophet is an angel a Jew is more than an angel and every day I see a Jew in the synagogue like Eliyahu the prophet, may he be remembered for good.. The Ramak, in the book 'Da Es Elokei Avicha' writes that there are several levels in the revelation of Eliyahu the prophet, may he be remembered for good there are people to whom he comes in thought and learns with them by way of thought that a person sits, is nullified, and Eliyahu the prophet speaks from him this is a middle level, this is a very high level A level lower than it is that Eliyahu the prophet appears to a person in the form of a poor man some simple man who gives him tasks or gives him things and so he learns with him like some poor man, like some simple man

35:03 And there is a level even higher than all the levels which Rabbi Shimon merited, which the Arizal merited many tzaddikim, the unique ones of the generations, single individuals who merited this who would seclude themselves this is also a level that cannot be merited when there are people or something.. it is only when a person is alone and separated and there are no people at all in his radius in all his surroundings, that there be no people because Eliyahu the prophet cannot come like that in life where there are people who are a little crazy, a little this he cannot come down, their thoughts will stop him it is only in the Judean Desert, only in places where there is no living soul where a person secludes himself there and then Eliyahu the prophet appears to him exactly in the form of the prophets

35:52 as he went up in a storm to heaven this is a vision that Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai saw this is a vision that the most solitary individuals saw fortunate are the eyes that saw the eyes that saw the eyes these awesome things these holy sights and this is called a revelation of Eliyahu the prophet as they say, the choicest of the choice - this is a revelation of Eliyahu So a revelation of Eliyahu - what he will tell you, and he will tell about some revelation so you have a revelation of a Jew in the synagogue this is a great thing, a Jew who is revealed to us to hug him and kiss him, loving one another rejoicing in one another I want each one, with Hashem's help, to continue to grow and flourish and each one to discover his path, and his diamond

36:42 and the power of his Torah each one will choose in every path and in every single thing he is involved in, in every single matter that here, with Hashem's help, whatever comes out should be in the very best way that "in his days the righteous shall flourish", with Hashem's help that each one flourish and rise higher, higher, higher, higher and we will see everyone uplifted, in awesome levels and in holiness and in elevation, that everything be of benefit to each and every one May it be His will that the Holy One, blessed be He, save everyone in all matters I love you with a great love May the Holy One, blessed be He, give you great success and help from Heaven Amen, forever, selah, and eternally.

37:18 After that we'll do a little - I'll make the siyum, and then are there niggunim? And we'll do some niggunim in honor of the... Let's make the siyum. We will return to you, holy Torah! We will return to you, twenty-four books of the Tanach Bereishis, Shemos, Vayikra, Bamidbar, Devarim Yehoshua, Shoftim, Shmuel I, Shmuel II Melachim I, Melachim II, Yirmiyahu, Yeshayahu, Yechezkel, Trei Asar Rus, Tehillim, Iyov, Mishlei, Koheles, Shir HaShirim Eichah, Daniel, Esther, Ezra, and Nechemiah Divrei HaYamim I and II Midrash Rabbah, Yalkut Shimoni, Midrash Aggadah, Midrash Tadshe Pesikta Rabbasi, and Zutarta, Midrash Tanchuma, Tanna DeVei Eliyahu Sifra, Sifrei, Pesikta DeRav Kahana, Rashi, Radak Metzudos David and Tziyon, the Ibn Ezra, and the Malbim Our mind is on you and your mind is on us, twenty-four books of the Tanach We will not forget you and you will not forget us

38:18 not in this world and not in the World to Come May it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers, who chose good prophets and was pleased with their words spoken in truth, that in the merit of all the holy books, the commentaries and the Midrashim that we have engaged in and learned in the holy Scriptures, and in the merit of their verses, their words, their letters, their vowels, their cantillation marks, and the holy Names that come out of them, and in the merit of the true prophets, the tribes of Israel and the tzaddikim of the generations mentioned in the books of the Torah, Prophets and Writings, may we merit 'the pleasantness of Hashem... establish the work of our hands for us, and the work of our hands, establish it', to merit today, and on the day of our wedding and on the day of the gladness of our heart,

38:59 to arouse [unclear] joy, and to unite the secret of the Written Torah with the secret of the Oral Torah, in a complete unity, and love and brotherhood and friendship, the G-d who is faithful in all His words, and draw down upon us abundance, the light of life for the nefesh, ruach and neshamah, to lengthen our days in goodness, and in the fear of Hashem all the days. And make pleasant, Hashem our G-d, the words of Your Torah in our mouth and in the mouths of Your people, the House of Israel, and may we and our descendants, and the descendants of our descendants, and the descendants of Your people, the House of Israel, all of us know Your Name and learn Your Torah for its own sake, and may we rejoice and exult in the words of the study of Your Torah, and Your mitzvos and Your statutes, forever and ever.

39:34 For they are our life and the length of our days, and on them we will meditate day and night. May Hashem our G-d be with us as He was with our fathers, may He not leave us nor forsake us, to turn our hearts to Him, to walk in all His ways and to keep His mitzvos, His statutes and His laws, which He commanded our fathers. And may it be Your will, Hashem our G-d and G-d of our fathers, that just as You helped me complete the twenty-four books of the Torah, Prophets and Writings, with their Midrashim and their commentaries and the holy Scriptures, so may You help us continue to learn books of the Written Torah and of the Oral Torah, and to complete them, to learn and to teach, to keep and to do,

40:08 and to fulfill all the words of the study of Your Torah with love. And open our uncircumcised heart to the secrets of Your holy Torah, and bestow upon us the light of the source of our souls, in all our aspects. And may the sparks of our father and shepherd, Moshe Rabbeinu, shine forth, through whom You revealed the depths of the secrets of Your Torah; and may his merit, and the merit of all the holy prophets of Israel, and their books and their holiness, stand for us, that we [unclear] forever and ever [unclear] from Your holy Torah, Heaven forbid, and may their words be faithful and desirable, living and enduring forever and to all eternity, upon us and upon our children and upon our generations and upon all the generations of Israel, Your servants.

40:46 upon the first ones and upon the last ones, a good and enduring thing, in truth and in faith, a law that will not pass away. So that we may merit, and live, and see, and inherit goodness and blessing for all of the World to Come. And in the merit of the holy Torah, Written and Oral, save us, Hashem our G-d, and gather us from among the nations, and reign over the whole world in Your glory, and be exalted over all the earth in Your splendor, to bestow upon us the light of salvation and mercy, from the wellsprings of salvation - amen, so may it be His will. May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable before You, Hashem, my Rock and my Redeemer.

41:14 Magnified and sanctified be His great Name, in the world that He will renew, and revive the dead, and raise them to eternal life, and build the city of Jerusalem, and complete His Temple within it, and [unclear], and restore the service of Heaven to its place, and may the Holy One, blessed be He, reign in His kingship and His glory, and make His redemption sprout and bring His Mashiach near, in your lifetimes and in your days, and in the lifetimes of all the House of Israel, swiftly and soon, and say amen. Amen.

41:39 Amen.