Shavuos : "No Ordinary Joe" - The Klausenberger Rebbe on What Rav Yosef Really Meant

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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.

chagarim. If not for this day that I learned Torah kama Yosef ikka bashuka. As they as they say, "I would just be an ordinary Joe. There's so many people on the street named Yosef. What would the difference be between me and them?" But bahayoma, because of this day, my status is known in the world. I've elevated myself. Now I am chashuv. Now I am important. Now I've elevated myself above the rest of my peers. Now I'm not just Joe. Now I'm Rabi Yosef, the great Talmid Chacham, the great leader of Klal Yisrael. And the question is, and all the Acharonim ask, especially in light of the Gemara in Sotah that Rabi Yosef was specialized in the middah of anivus, middah of humility, why would he extol his virtues that now after the Yom Tov of Shavuos, the day of the giving of the Torah, now he is above, he's a cut above the rest of his peers. He's sort of pointing out how special he is. Yes, he says if not for today he would just be average. But that would seem to be somewhat arrogant to point out how he is a cut above the rest. Well the Klausenberger Rebbe the Baal Shefa Chaim in the She'eilos u'Teshuvos Divrei Yatziv offers quite a novel p'shat in this Gemara. It's found in Orach Chaim siman reish yud ches. Says the Klausenberger Rebbe, you know, the Maggid of Ramah asks, why do we make

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1. 0:30chagarim. If not for this day that I learned Torah kama Yosef ikka bashuka. As they…
2. 1:00above the rest of my peers. Now I'm not just Joe. Now I'm Rabi Yosef, the…
3. 1:31pointing out how special he is. Yes, he says if not for today he would just…
4. 2:02Shavuos on Vav Sivan? The Torah wasn't given. It's not the day of the giving of…
5. 2:32Well, says the Klausenberger Rebbe, the truth is, Klal Yisrael wanted to accept the Torah on…
6. 3:34Sivan, from which I learn that merely wanting to do a mitzvah is considered as if…
7. 4:05an an even even in spirituality. But he wants to learn Tyra. He desires to know…
8. 4:35feel I am elevated above others. Not not because I've achieved anything, just out of my…
9. 5:06even on an a greater scale than if they had performed the mitzvah itself. For example,…
10. 5:36Rabbi Yonasan Eibeschutz, that when a person is limited by circumstance and then the mitzvah is…

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