Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Translation of Rav Malkiel Kotler speech by the Siyum hashas 2012

The posuk says vayhhi biyshuron melech behisasef roshei am, there is a nation, when we gather gedolei torah together with klal yisrael to be mekabel ol malchus shamayim, as the rambam explains it to mean limud hatorah. This is a  gathering  for kavod hatorah proclaiming hashem is our king. In the parsha it says and you will be a goy kadosh  chazal explain that klal yisrael is the goy kadosh but the pasuk says I will uplift you on wings of eagles and bring you to me ve'avi eschem eiloy. The targum says that hashem brought us closer to worship him and learn his torah. We can elaborate this according to the kli yakar's explanation, that klal yisrael was refered to yotzei tzava not that they came out of a army, but that they are indeed soldiers of hashems army.

 The gemara explains there was no one who referred to hashem as Adon untill avrohom avinu. Even though he wasn't the first maamin many before him believed in hashem what was avrohom  mechadesh ? chazal explain that Avraham had the realization that hashem is the one who runs the world he is the manhig. There  is a country that has a king living in the capital city, the country is very big it stretches thousands of miles, there are towns that all show their allegiance and pay taxes to the king, however thet have no shaychus to the melech they dont live with him he's miles away from them. Avrohom Avinu said that the entire world is the capital city where hashem exists not only in his palace. That is the explanation of tzivos hashem. We learn hashems torah at the shulchan of hashem we are in a different world when we learn torah we dont live in this physical world of chumriyos, rather we enter a world of  v'avie eschem eiloy we go into the tzivos hashem- to learn torah in hashem's world. A world of torah its a different world, the world of olam hatorah that is when we get the crown of torah. Every yid who learns torah says the gaon of vilna is a Sar, a minister in hashems kingdom. Klal yisrael lives in hashems olam hatorah Yeshiva leit and baalei batim who learn torah are in a different world they are in hashems treasure. 

 How can we understand that we are lone sheep among  shivim zeiveim? how can we have a kiyum when we are surrounded by billions of enemies wanting to destroy us. If there are yidden learning daf yomi and make the highlite  of their day learning that will protect klal yisrael. We are hashems army we enter hashems domain a life of torah a life of yiras shamayim.

(This part was spoken in english by the Rosh Yeshiva)

The Sefer yam shel shlomo compares a siyum masechteh to a chasunah we only mention that we are going back to shas not that we finished. To explain with a mashal, when one builds a sky scraper you celebrate when you finish the foundation we celebrate for the future of the building to come. So too when we finish shas once, its a foundation for the olam hatorah to build on, its a yesod for olam haba a yesod for asid lavo. May we be zoche to the shmira of the ribono shel olam and our torah should be a foundation for the future of klal yisrael.

3 comments:

  1. Any idea why this had to be in yiddish, and the latter part of his speech in english??

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  2. Rav Malkiel speaks naturaly in yiddish. He spoke a little english for the many who dont undestand yiddish. I enjoyed his drasha as it was a rosh yeshiva's drasha he spoke to bnei torah derhoibineh reid.

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  3. R. Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, Master of Ceremonies also spoke very well. He sadly pointed out that 6,000,000 people would have filled 60 such stadiums! He noted that Hitler YMS was applauded in 1936 during the Olympics in Berlin. He spoke about Esav wanting Brocha Achas wanted the blessing of “Unity”, He spoke about Shalom, which incidentally is part of the last Mishna in Nidah/Shas. He noted that the Siyum is taking place on the 13th of the month of Av, and the word “Echad” is 13 in Gematria.

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