Rebbi Meir Baal Haness and the Eternal Children of Hashem With Rabbi Daniel Glatstein (Author)

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All right, we have a very special edition of the Motivation Congregation podcast, and special because, while we always try to highlight great works of Torah literature, fascinating new Saffarium, this Saffir is different different because of his author, and different because it's a deep dive into something that interests a lot of people but what perhaps others may not know a lot about the topic.

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Without further ado, I'd like to welcome the great Rav speaker, historian Tomon Kachom, rabbi Gladstein, into the show.

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Once again, thank you so much.

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Of course, rabbi Gladstein.

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All I know when we talk about the great Tano Ravmer is that Elokkademir Aneni is a famous song and that the Sudaka boxes are quite widespread and frequent in shuuls.

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Okay so, that's a good starting point.

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We know the famous prayer and Tvila Ravmer Elokkademir Aneni, which is a little bit puzzling, because why is Hashem associating himself with Ramayah more than any other person?

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There have been a lot of great luminaries over the generations and we don't say Elokkaderbikiveger Aneni, elokkadochsamsoyfer Aneni, elokkaderbishayelah Karashtera Aneni, it's Elokkademeyer Aneni.

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So what is Hashem's association with Ramayah?

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And isn't there a rule Hashem doesn't associate with the living.

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Even Yaakov, right Even Yaakov, or even.

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Yitzcha, and Ramayah was the one who said the Tvila.

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That's sort of the starting point.

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How could Ramayah say Elokkademeyer?

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That's the question of the Marsha.

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Where is this Gamara?

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And he said Elokkademeyer Aneni.

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What was Confils in the background of that?

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Yes.

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So the Gamara in Avayd-e-Zara it's a worthwhile Gamara to review.

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So the Gamara says that Ramayah's sister-in-law, ramayah, is the married to the daughter of Abkhannina Ben Shadyay.

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He was married to Breuria and Breuria's sister was captured by the Romans.

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She was brought to a brothel, a base Zaynois, and Ramayah was tasked with rescuing her.

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And Ramayah tells the warden okay, I got to rescue my sister-in-law.

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The wardens like well, I have a job here.

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So Ramayah says no, I'll give you a few bucks.

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And if you have an issue, you just say Elokkademeyer Aneni.

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And the warden was incredulous.

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What do you mean?

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Just say Elokkademeyer Aneni who says it works.

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So they tested it out on some wild dogs and it worked and the warden used it and Ramayah was able to rescue his sister-in-law.

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By the way.

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So we see that of all the different powers of the Tfilil-elokkademeyer, it's most effective against dogs.

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Actually, what happened to?

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those dogs?

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Yeah, they left.

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Somebody told me that they were on Hatsala and just yesterday somebody showed them that they got bitten by a dog and he's like well, you know, you know the new book that came out, you should have said Elokkademeyer Aneni.

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That's it.

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I'm in traffic now on the way to Yizheva and Lakewood and it's taking me an hour.

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I'm on the nine.

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I'm just going to say Elokkademeyer Aneni.

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Look, it depends if they're wild dogs holding up the traffic, absolutely, but in general, you know, we bring in the book that the Klozenberger Rebbe would advise his students and people who asked advice during the Holocaust what they should do.

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And one of the pieces of advice Klozenberger Rebbe gave was that people should constantly say let's feel a Kudmaraneni.

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And it's written in the Klozenberger Rebbe's biography that those who did were actually saved.

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So it's, let's say it will call it a general purpose Tfilat.

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It's an effective overall Tfilat.

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So maybe we're speaking about Ravmer, who is one of the most frequented cited Tanoem in all of Talmud-Bavali.

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Yes, yes, right, in other words the Tanikama, stam Mishnah Ravmer.

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We're talking about the Tanikama, we're talking about the student of Rebbe Akiva.

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And where did the Rav find out of all the topics to write about?

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And it last calculated there were 10,000 sheurim by Raviglasi and Altair at any time.

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So what's with respect?

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What's with the new obsession and interest in specifically the Tanoem Ravmer and him being a Balinese sir?

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Honestly, it's inexplicable.

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I, ravmer, grabbed the hold of me and I couldn't shake it.

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What?

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does that mean In the Mishnah Ravmer, in the M I?

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just started noticing his opinions in the Gamara.

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I had a question on one of them.

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I had an idea to answer it.

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That idea snowballed.

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I thought I was going to write like a small country on the subject and about how many statements are a mayor are thematic and l'shitase, and once I began the process, I literally could not shake it for a year until this work came about.

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It just came about.

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Yeah, it's really super.

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Honestly, it's like lamal manateva.

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I reached out to a couple of people to try to educate myself about the book that have read it and they are all speechless, even from some of the people at Art Scroll.

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They're very excited about it.

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The front of the safer, along with some of the advertisement that Art Scroll does, for it is based on Ravmer's worldwide shita, the worldwide phenomenon of Ravmer, and specifically has to do with the love that Hashem has for Jewish people.

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Maybe the Rav could speak to that.

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Yeah.

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So the specific worldview and shita that I'm referring to is a mayor's opinion that, irrespective of our behavior, irrespective of our actions, our conduct, Ben kach and Ben kach ne kram bananam we're always considered the beloved children of Hashem.

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And, contrary distinction to the shita of Rabbi Huda, who says that our relationship is conditional, that we're only considered children when we do the will of Hashem, Rameir says it's unconditional, that irrespective of what, of how we act, we're always the beloved children of Hashem.

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And this is a theme we see in many shita of Rameir.

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Just to name a couple, let's say Rameir says that Hashem says that when a Jew suffers Kalani me reishi, Kalani mezroyi, my head hurts, my arm hurts I mean God says he feels our pain.

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Why does God feel our pain?

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Why is God empathizing and sympathizing with us?

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Because we're his beloved children.

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Same way a parent feels the pain of a child, Rameir thematically says that because we're the beloved children of Hashem, HaKalash Rukhu feels our pain.

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There are many, many proofs.

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My Yishieva head says Rameir's cochay se slide mith.

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Okay, so actually in the book we do offer a connection between the view that Ramayr is Khaysheesh for the Mi'at and Ramayr Sheeta.

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They were always the beloved children of Hashem, the connection being then the world of Ramayr.

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We're never down and out.

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There's always that remote possibility of return is significant, the remote possibility.

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So there's a funny story that when Rev David Oppenheim, who is the Rev in Prague, was on his deathbed and they wanted to ask you know who do you think should be the next Rev?

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So Rev Oppenheim says what about.

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Ramayr and then he passed away and they couldn't figure out Ramayr who?

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Which Ramayr?

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They don't know Ramayr in Prague and also in the night of the night of the night.

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They got the job because the night of the night he said he wasn't referring to Ramayr a Rabbi Mayor.

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What he was saying is it's true, he's on his deathbed and he's a Khayshe.

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So most, most guys don't make it More Ramayr, who's Khaysheesh for the Mi'at, and maybe I like it, because the night of the night he was appointed the next Rev of Prague.

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Whoa, that is an interesting anecdote.

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So the reader it sounds already very exciting.

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The Jewish people are very much a Mi'at in the world and being Khaysheesh, al-Miy'at and the hope that is even when you're down and out, being the underdog, perhaps there's a lot of charity and giving of Sudaka that's involved with Ramayr.

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Where does that fall in here?

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Okay, excellent.

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It's very much connected to what we just mentioned.

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It's connected to the idea that a Mayor is Khaysheesh for the Mi'at.

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In the worldview of Ramayr, we're always the beloved children of Hashem, which, by the way, allows us to give Sudaka because there's a discussion.

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Are you allowed to give Sudaka?

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Because, think about it, god decreed this person should be poor, so you're going against the decree of the king.

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It's like imagine if a king threw someone in jail, said no one could support them, so if you sneak them food and resources, you're going against the king.

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The only allowance for Sudaka and this was the argument Rabbi Akiva said back to Tornus Rufus, he says well, what if the king locks his son in jail and then someone sneaks in and tries to support him?

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Then the person would be rewarded.

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So really, what allows us to give Sudaka is Ramayr's opinion that we're always the beloved children of Hashem.

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And that means Ramayr and Rabbi Akiva are in agreement about this issue, which is of note because Ramayr was a Talmud of Rabbi Akiva.

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And amazingly, in Herkei, avais, who says Chavivim Yisro, sh'enekru b'anim lamakai, rabbi Akiva, who's going?

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to guess, rabbi Akiva.

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Yeah, but you're right.

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When Avais dremnassan, it's Ramayr and if I should ask yeah, well, so who was it?

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And one of the answers given is it was Rebekiva and he gave it over to his Talmud Rebbi Mayor.

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So it was both of them which is consistent because they both hold of Tadaka.

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Rebekiva argues to turn his roof as Tadaka is permitted and, as we know, Tadaka is very much connected to the opinion of Rebbi Mayor.

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It's epic.

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I'm so excited because it's such a big emphasis that a lot of rabbis will put in learning to have lishitussos and have everything kind of add up nicely to build a nice tower of perfection and logic and in svara.

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But it almost seems like somebody's going to meet Rebbi by reading this book you kind of see how everything comes together.

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Yeah, very much.

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So I hope you know we could say we bring some of the view of Rebbi to life, and Rebbi is actually buried in a very unusual position.

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Rebbi is buried standing.

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Most people are buried horizontal.

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Rebbi is actually buried standing up.

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This is what's brought by the Ben Yohyadah from Rebchaim Vital, and the reason being because, in the end of days, when it comes time for Hashem to bring the G'ula, ultimately what's going to bail us out is the fact that, look, we might not be worthy, but we're the beloved children of Hashem.

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So Rebbi's viewpoint is what stands up for the Jewish people until the end of time.

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Wow.

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Yeah, wow.

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I'm so excited because in a world where a lot of the sperm that come out are short little nibbles on the parasha like quick hits, it's so exciting to see a new niche and someone that's bringing all the mastery and all the depth of a topic to somebody, it sounds like.

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But there will get more than what they bargained for when they will get the safer.

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There's Hashem.

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I thank you for your time.

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I know you are a busy man and I wish you luck on all the trips and I'm very much looking forward now to reading the safer and I'll call the mayor Anani, and I'll make sure to hit the Zadukah boxes wherever I go.

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Very good.

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Thank you very much, thank you.

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Thank you very much, thank you.

Rebbi Meir Baal Haness and the Eternal Children of Hashem With Rabbi Daniel Glatstein (Author)

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