The last installment of the Rav’s awesome shiur.
At the end, we get the most important message of all:
A person can cancel every [decree of] Shoah.
With sincere teshuva, and heartfelt prayer – and some help from Rabbenu.
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Mi’mekomech malkenu tofia
We sing this every Shabbat. He [the Klausenberger Rebbe] sang this, mi’mekomech malkenu tofia, after he’d recieved a kicking and they’d broken all his bones, and they stomped on him with their boots.
Because he’d managed to make a hole in the water pipe.
He sharpened – he took from the iron threads, he took one thread of iron and he managed to sharpen it with stones, and he filed it for a few days, until it was a point, and then made a hole in the water pipe, next to his hut, and every day he would day netilat yadayim (ritual hand washing).
He would take a crumb [of the bread ration] and do netilat yadayim every morning, and drink a little. Suddenly, one SS man came past, a big captain of the SS, he was wholly a ‘man of ideals’, and had motivation, and a ‘world view’ – suddenly, he saw damp earth.
What’s this? Why is this earth moist?
Suddenly, he saw that the pipe was dripping.
Who made a hole?
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He waited for a few hours, then he saw some old man come out, with a white beard, do netilat yadayim.
He gave him a kick in the stomach, with his boots, and crushed him. He made him into a pita with falafel, he made him into a quiche, he made him into a pizza, for Seder Night.[1]
He made a pizza out of him, pizza, pizza, and then he was laid out on the ground – and he sung mi’mekomech malkenu tofia…
“From Your place is our kingship, [it] will appear, and You will reign over us, because we wait for You. When will You reign in Zion? Soon, in our days, forever and forever You will dwell. You will be enlarged and sanctified, within Jerusalem Your city.”
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And he got to Jerusalem.
He built a town [in Netanya – Kiryat Sanz]. He merited, after they killed his 10 children, and everything, he managed to found a whole kingdom.
All those who last the course, they found a kingdom.
They revive the dead.
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[The Rav returns to the story of how R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin came to Meron, to try to cancel the decree of the Shoah.]
[He said in Yiddish]: In Europe, not a Jew will remain alive!
Stop dancing, and stop singing! Come now to Meron, to the graves of the tzaddikim, come, let us cancel the decree, [with] a great, bitter cry!
[It seems that R Avraham Elimelech may have fainted from all his crying out, so his shamash] Ran to the Rebbe, ayir gayat avis. [The Rebbe answered him] avis ga’an.
Then, he arrived on the 1st of Elul. On erev Rosh Hashana who boarded a boat [headed back to Europe].
After a week, he got there, he travelled on the last train to Warsaw, from Constantinople. The Port was in Constanza, the Baal Shem Tov travelled by way of Galatz, the Rebbe [Nachman] travelled by way of Odessa.
He said, I’m going via Odessa. He said that the way that I’m going, that’s where they will travel from.
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Everything was rocks and boulders.
Afterwards, they blew them all up. The boats used to have to thread their way through the rocks. Exactly before the Baal Shem Tov travelled, a boat sank with 50 people, there were shailot and teshuvot about the 50 agunot (widows), about how to free them. Everyone found the corpses of those who had died after three days. After three days, it’s already impossible to testify [who the corpse actually was]. But, if the body was whole, then it was possible to identify.
So, a whole boat sank, and then he travelled.
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When R’ Elazar Rokeach got to Galatz, they told him pick which boat you want.
He said I want to pick by myself.
There was a wreck there – it was a ship graveyard. There are cemeteries for people, and also graveyards for ships. Around a thousand ships had worn out already, they were already rickety, already falling apart. They all had holes.
So, a sailor went along with the Rav, and [the Rokeach] said I want to travel to Eretz Yisrael.
This was the R’ Elazar Rokeach of Amsterdam. He was a rabbi in Tsfat. His signatures can be found in the [rulings of] the Tsfat Beit Din. He died in 5503. R’ Elazar Rokeach. There’s his book, all the commentaries, all the chiddushim on the Mishnayot.
He said that ‘mishnayot’ is [the gematria of] ‘Yehonatan.
Yehonatan is 521, mishnayot is 525, another 4 is missing.
[Later on in this same shiur, the Rav tells a long story of how Yonatan Eibshitz got a fortune from hiding stolen plate from churches in his basement…]
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[The Rav continues the discussion about the gematriot, then starts to speak of King David, and how he nearly went to serve avoda zara, as a result of his terrible suffering and persecution, so that people wouldn’t say that people who served Hashem suffered so much. The Rav then continues by saying there was a Shoah 80 years ago, and there was another Shoah on October 7th, 2023. Then he returns to the story of R Avraham Elimelech of Karlin.]
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Everything was clear prophecy.
[R Avraham Elimelech] said this after Tisha B’Av, when he got to Jerusalem. He got to Tel Aviv, and from there, he went to Meron. And nobody understood what he was saying!
Nobody believed, that something like this could even happen, at all.
That Hashem would destroy Am Yisrael – nobody believed this! Not in their darkest dreams! They couldn’t believe, that Am Yisrael would be annihilated – but Hashem destroyed everything. Everyone is in Gan Eden.
We want that they should be here, but the Choftetz Chaim said:
On Mount Zion, there will be a remnant.
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So, we read all of this about R’ Avraham Elimelech [of Karlin].
His brother, R’ Yochanan, he became the Rebbe [of Karlin].
He was saved. He escaped to Siberia, he was there for four years, in Siberia. The KGB kept wanting to kill him. All those who went around with a beard and payot, [they said to them]:
Either, you take off the beard, or we’ll kill you.
He didn’t take off the beard, even once! He hid himself for four years, he himself in Siberia, in Ponza. He wrote that was the name of the village, where he hid. And there, he found a few Jews, and there was a beit knesset there.
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[The Rav now talks about Hananel, Mishael and Azariah, and how they refused to bow to Nevuchadnezzer’s statue, but the Prophet Ezekiel told them they were going against halacha by openly flouting Nevuchadnezzer, and should have just made some excuse about why they couldn’t bow to the idol, or run away instead. Then the Rav continues:]
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A person gets a draft notice – this should be torn up.
Home Command – they can’t [arrest everyone]. When you go across the border, that’s when you’ll be caught [by the army]. But digitali[2], is not ‘caught’. The digitali – this is not caught / recognised.
Digitali – it’s possilble to travel to Uman and return.
Already, hundreds of the hevrei travelled, and no-one caught them. So, digitali – this isn’t ‘caught / recognised’….
So, a person needs to move to digitali, and that’s that.
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Now it’s going to be Rosh Hashana, another little while.
Travel via Kishinev, in the meantime, there is still not peace [between Russia and Ukraine].
He [Trump] wants to make ‘peace’, to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Perhaps, after Simchat Torah there will be peace. In the meantime, we need to travel via Kishinev.
Perhaps after Simchat Torah, we’ll travel direct, we’ll land straight in Uman.
Already, each person will have a private plane by then, now, everything is cheap, the prices are going down on everything.
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[Skipping more comments about the Prophet Ezekiel].
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A person can cancel every [decree of] Shoah.
Every destruction.
There is nothing that cannot be nullified.
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Translated from Shivivei Or, 408.
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] This might have occurred on Seder Night – I haven’t checked the original story, so this is a guess.
[2] It seems that the Rav is referring to the digital passports being rolled out in Israel.
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So much to digest and unpack!
And I still have a bunch of other interesting stuff to try to translate from that shiur, but more to do with the Sabbateans, again.
But that will do for now.