Bo: The Meaning of Hashgachah Pratis—Hashem’s Personal Care for Every Yid

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. As we read and learn the parshiyos of Mitzrayim and Yetzias Mitzrayim, it's important to address what Yetzias Mitzrayim came to teach us. Of course, there's a lot in the sefarim, lessons that are deduced from shibud Mitzrayim and geulas Mitzrayim. But there's one ikar, one main lesson, which is miyesodei hadas, me'ikrei hadas, that Mitzrayim, galus Mitzrayim, and Yetzias Mitzrayim is to teach us emunah, belief in HaKadosh Baruch Hu, which is me'ikrei hadas. Every Jew has to believe in the thirteen principles, the shlosh esrei ikrim, and if not, he's a kofer, he's a heretic, he doesn't believe in HaKadosh Baruch Hu. He has to have shlosh esrei ikrim. These are the main points, the tenets of Judaism. And Yetzias Mitzrayim, which followed shibud Mitzrayim, is one of the things that teaches ikrei hadas, and that's emunah in HaKadosh Baruch Hu. So let's analyze which concept of emunah, which ikar in emunah does Yetzias Mitzrayim and Shibud Mitzrayim teach us. We all know that there's two parts to emunas Hashem. One is emunah that Hashem created the world. And then there's emunah that Hashem runs the world. He's manhig. He's in charge. Bereishis bara Elokim es hashamayim v'es haaretz. Parshas Bereishis. Parshas Bereishis teaches us that the Ribono Shel Olam created the world. Koach ma'asev higid l'amo, Rashi already tells us that HaKadosh Baruch Hu in Bereishis teaches us that He, koach ma'asev, that He created. He's the Creator, the Great Creator. What does Yetzias Mitzrayim, and for that fact matter, Shibud Mitzrayim, what does that teach us? That teaches us that the Ribono Shel Olam is the manhig, the mashgiach. The Ribono Shel Olam created, and the Ribono Shel Olam runs the world. As the Rishonim point out, many believed that Hashem created the world, yet He went to sleep, so to speak. The world runs on its own. It's on autopilot. Yetzias Mitzrayim is to teach us that it's not autopilot. The Ribono Shel Olam is mashgiach. So this is briah. Borei, the Rabbeinu Shom created, and also that He is manhig, which is the first of the shlosha asar ikrim: ani ma'amin be'emunah sheleimah shehaBorei yisbarach shemo hu borei. The first one, the first tenet of our thirteen principles of faith, that this is what a Jew is, and without it he's considered, and he doesn't believe in the tenets of Judaism, is that the Rabbeinu Sholeilam is borei u'manhig. Borei comes from bereishis. Manhig, the way the Rishonim tell us, is starting to be learnt, to be taught to us in Shmos. The sefer of Shmos, that we went through Mitzrayim. If you look at the Rishonim, the Rishonim give a little bit more detailed, that it's not as simple as just borei u'manhig. There's borei, the Rabbeinu Shom created the world, and there's manhig, but there's two types of hanhaga. There's manhig hashgacha, hashgacha klalis, and there's something called hashgacha pratis, which means there's the overall that the Rabbeinu Sholeilam runs the world, klalis, general, and then there's pratis, detailed.

Metzah Hashem, as the shiur continues, we're going to learn that the word pratis does not mean detailed. That's not what it means. But that's how the world and all that speak about these inyanim, and anyone you ask in the street, he'll tell you there's hashgacha klalis and there's hashgacha pratis. Hashgacha klalis, the general. Where everybody... Rav Hutner's Netzal used to say that ruba de-ruba of the world agrees that ruba de-ruba the Ribono Shel Olam runs the world. Mostly the Eibishter runs the world. That's how people think of klalis. Yeah, the... runs the world, okay. See, everyone's laughing. Why are you laughing? Well, you know such people talk like that. So I'll tell you, even if people don't talk like that, they really think that way. You ever see how people, avadeh, the Ribono Shel Olam runs the world, and then when it comes to their own private life, there they don't think the Eibishter is running the world. All of a sudden he's not. Besides for this, this he has to take care of. This he needs to be in charge and be on top of the situation, okay? Hashgacha klalis, overall. Hashgacha pratis. Yetzias Mitzrayim. I keep on saying Yetzias Mitzrayim, but I mean shibud, the galus of Mitzrayim and the redemption from Mitzrayim. Is teaching us hashgacha in general, the hashgacha klalis, that the Ribono Shel Olam is in charge, He is the boss, and He runs the— or is it teaching us hashgacha pratis? Which one is it? We just said that Bereishis teaches us Borei. Shemos, Yetzias Mitzrayim is teaching us manhig. Manhig klali or manhig prati? So the truth is, there's a lot in the Rishonim, almost like contradictions in the nuances of the Rishonim. What is hashgacha pratis? Not even clear what hashgacha pratis is. We use the word, the term. Today everyone is writing pamphlets, hashgacha pratis, and to look and to see hashgacha. What does it mean, hashgacha pratis? So there's a whole world out there that believes that hashgacha klalis is for goyim. Hashgacha pratis is for Yidden. Even have hashgacha pratis, correct? Right? Rabbi Yaakov, am I correct about that? People say this, right? No? That's how people say. I think that's what everyone thinks, right? Everyone shaking their heads. There could be nothing more further than this than the truth. There's nothing— this is completely not true. To come and say that goyim have hashgacha klalis... And that Yidden have hashgacha pratis, it's not emes. It's not true whatsoever. And yetzias Mitzrayim and golus Mitzrayim was there to teach us not only hashgacha, but is there to teach us hashgacha pratis, which we have to still define, and that not only the Yidden have hashgacha pratis, but that goyim have hashgacha pratis too. Okay, so we have a lot to talk, because we know that Yidden have something more. That's clear in the Rishonim, that what the goyim have, we have something more than just what the goyim have, hashgacha. So wait a minute, wait a second. Borei, manhig, hashgacha pratis that the goyim have, so what do we have? So let me backtrack a second. How do I know that goyim have hashgacha pratis? Maybe the whole world is right and I'm crazy. Maybe it could be. A lot of people, they say assertions against what everyone else thinks, and they'll, to the death do us, till death, they'll fight for what they believe in.

So, you say, listen, you're a yachid and everybody disagrees with you. So the truth is, I'm not a yachid. This has nothing to do with me. I don't know these things that well. I'm being honest. I'm not this great philosopher. I'm not this big enough talmud chacham to know all the Rishonim about the principles of faith. But I trust, and I have emunah in chachamim. I have emunah in chachamim, and that's what the chachamim tell us. Briskerov, Reb Chatzkel Levenstein in his shmuzin writes clearly that people think goyim don't have hashgacha pratis. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true. It's not true. Goyim have hashgacha pratis too. It's not unique for Klal Yisrael, hashgacha pratis. The Ribono Shel Olam is Boreh, the Ribono Shel Olam is manhig, and He's manhig hashgacha pratis for everybody, the whole world. Now, if you look at the Rishonim, it's not clear. See, this misunderstanding or this assertion is based on learning the Rishonim. ... and all the other Rishonim on the topic. So how do we know in conclusion that this is not true? So the Briskerov says, because you'll read the siddur and halachos like the siddur, halacha k'siddur. Now, which siddur? Now, I don't mean this in any way to be this or any political or anything which is— But you know, today, Baruch Hashem, the Artscroll Siddur gives you all the halachos. And there are people in the shul that always say, Well, halacha is like what it says in the siddur. That's it. The siddur. The rav could say one thing, and the balabos is screaming, Yeah, but look at my siddur. Look what it says over here. It says over here in my siddur, right? And the rav is going to laugh, and he's going to say, What it says in the siddur, you have to understand what it says in the siddur. Where did the siddur get it? There's different minhagim, there's different... right? So when they say the halacha is like what it says in the siddur, I don't mean what they attack the rav with in every shul, It says in the siddur. I don't mean that. What the Brisker Rav meant, that it says it in the siddur, in the ani maamins. And what is the first ani maamin? Ani maamin emunah shleimah shehaborei yisbarach shemo, hu boreh u'manhig l'chol habruim, v'hu levado asah v'oseh v'yaaseh l'chol hama'asim. So it's clearly, it's l'chol habruim. Halacha k'siddur. That's how the Brisker Rav used to say. These are complicated shailos. Yes, there is some hashma'us in the Rishonim. It's not just thought up from nowhere that there's no hashgacha pratis by goyim. No. Yes, there are places which it seems to allude to this. Says the Brisker Rav, you'll link clearly the ani maamin in the siddur. And there it says it's boireh u'manhig. It doesn't say for Klal Yisroel. One ani maamin, and for the rest of the world, a different ani maamin. It's one ani maamin across the board. ... u'manhig l'chol habruim. ... Rav Chatzkel speaks this, that hashgacha pratis is for goyim, for the people of the world, as is for Klal Yisrael. What is hashgacha pratis? We need to understand this, because we do know clearly that there's something unique for Klal Yisrael. That's clear. So let's understand what hashgacha pratis is. And Shibud Mitzrayim was supposed to teach this, and not only teach it to who? To us, Klal Yisrael, but it's l'maan yeidu, l'maan teida, that the whole world should know. The pesukim are clear that Mitzrayim should also know Ki Ani Hashem, that Mitzrayim should also know hashgacha. But not just hashgacha. Now we're learning what does it mean, hashgacha pratis. Let me show you hashgacha pratis in Mitzrayim for the Mitzriim. The Alter from...

Kelim points out something so interesting. You know, the Mitzriim, they got hit terrible with tremendous makkas. Every makkah could have killed them. They should have died from every one of them. Imagine you go into a hospital and they take an X-ray of your stomach, all right? And guess what they find? Grasshoppers and, and, and, and, and, and, what are you gonna call that? Frogs. I don't mean like in France after they're cooked and eaten. I'm talking about live frogs. What would the doctor say? Wait, I gotta take another X-ray, right? So something—you can't live with, right, in your bloodstream having live frogs in there, right? It doesn't click. Something medically is not clicking here, huh? Every makkah should have put them away a long time ago. Not one of them should have survived and lived through any of the makkas. Says the Alter from Kelm, the Ribono Shel Olam gave them a precise makkah, just enough, just enough to get them, to put them away, but not enough to kill them. You know, makkos 39, what do we do? We evaluate exactly till—mamash, like the lashon of the Chazal is, makin oisoi ad sheteitzei nafsho, mamash till a hair's breadth, till a hair's breadth with such precision, enough to put him in bed. That he's, that he's, what do you call that when a person is, is critical? No, not crippled. No, when a person is, is not even critical. No, when a person is, is... whatever. Okay, you lost a moment, that's it. I gave you a chance to be a professor in science and medical, and you lost it. Okay. He's in critical condition, yet he hangs on. That was with precision, says the Alter from Kelm, to teach Mitzrayim. When I do something, it's exact. I think that's the kachatzos, chatzos. The Eibishter was showing chatzos. You know what? You could time me on it. See, here I shouldn't give this mashal. I was going to give the mashal here, but no one knows how to tell time. Look how they come late to the shiur. They don't understand. They don't know the concept of time. They're probably thinking, how did the Eibishter do chatzos? They probably think, ka-chatzos. They probably thinking, of course ka-chatzos, because it's probably two, three o'clock, two hours around chatzos, huh? That was mussar, by the way. Chatzos is chatzos, and you got to come on time. What do you mean, huh? It has to be precision. Okay. They say over that they once asked a yekke sheyid, Is it twelve o'clock? So he looks at his watch and he goes, No. Yes. No. A second ago it wasn't twelve o'clock, now it's twelve o'clock, yeah? So the fact that you're laughing means at least you get it. I thought maybe you wouldn't even get the joke. That's how bad it is here. Okay. Point being, point being, rabbeisai, Rabbeinu Shleilam showed pratis, exact. Not only that the Rabbeinu Shalom runs things, but He runs it exact to the cheshbon medukdak. Okay? Good? Yeah? Okay. And this was a lesson to the Mitzriim, and of course to us who saw this, and that's l'maan yeidu ki Ani Hashem. This is part of boirei, manhig, pratis, hashgacha pratis. Precise. Specific. Pratis. Detailed. Now, is that really what it means? Let me tell you another example. There's a beautiful, beautiful vort from the Meshech Chochmah, gevaldige vort, hafla v'fela, mamash hafla v'fela. When you have a beautiful vort from the Meshech Chochmah, I love it. Listen to a Meshech Chochmah, rabbeisai. When there was makas dam, when there was makas dam, it says clearly, Paroh saw it, meh! Not a big deal. Vayashas libo, he went into his house. He didn't pay attention to the whole thing. Tell me, he didn't need water to drink? What about him? So I always thought—

Look to myself, he probably had in the basement a full, what do they call that, of whiskeys. He probably had, no, his own bar over there. That's also mussar. That's also mussar. I know a lot of people that, if in case, chas v'shalom, there was no more liquids or drinking in the, they'd have enough to live off their—give me the right word—in the basement, a wine. You know what I'm talking about, where the schnapps and all the drinks are. That's also a side slide mussar, I would say. Some people have an entire bar in their house. All right, so I was doing—he had a bar in his house. Meshech Chochmah gives a different pshat why it had no effect on him. He says, a meiredige chiddush: dam, the makah, didn't take effect in his house. Why? He says, if you look at Chazal, Chazal say that the Mitzrim had to pay for their water. He had to pay for their water, and that's how the Yidden got rich. Pari didn't have this issue because he already paid for his water. He brought up Moshe Rabbeinu in his house, and he was already on credit. It's a peledike Meshech Chochmah. Yeah, yeah, hear Meshech Chochmah. Listen to a Meshech Chochmah. The makah's dam lo hayah b'veis Pari. It wasn't in Pari's house. V'keivan shelaku b'mechir—why? Because since they took it with, im kein, rav hamechir. He already paid big money. אשר נתן פרי למשה, שגדלוו תוך ביתו כבני מלכים. לכן לא היה במימי ביתו, שלא נפחו לדם, ולכן לא שייך ליבו גם לזה, ופשיט. ... says, very pashut. I know you believe me, so what? So what? The Eibishter expected you should believe him too, but he showed you inside clearly. ... showed clearly. The makkas, it's on the top over there, that little piece on the right, left side on the top. Brought to your other page, the other page, right there. Can't miss it. It's screaming, look at me, it's meiredik. Okay. So what do we have? We have a meiredike zach, meiredik, huh? So we have a meiredike pshat ... that what? That Yetzias Mitzrayim was boireh, manik, and manik bashgacha pratis. It's precision, it's exactly, right? Mamish, you can't. You see that the Ribono Shel Olam made cheshbonos. I'm going to give you the makka till here, not a drop more. I'll make a cheshbon. It's, you have to pay. Pari already paid. There's old scores also. There's old cheshbonos also. You know, we say, ... We sing this every Friday night, right? Lu yichyeh gvar. What does lu yichyeh gvar shnin alfin mean? If a person would live shnin, years, alfin, thousands, still lo ye'el gevurteich, b'chush b'naya, with the cheshbon of the Ribono Shel Olam. What does it mean? You know, Asarah harugei malchus made a big protest. You know, today in the news, everybody's protesting everything, screaming. Everybody's smiling. You're not going to the big protest today in JFK? You're not going? Oh, there's big protests everywhere. They don't even know what they're protesting, but whatever it is, ... everyone's running the same. Which protest are you going to today? Which one are you going to today? Oh, that one looks... Okay. What's the protest? There was a big protest in Shamayim. What was the protest? Ribono Shel Olam, Asarah harugei malchus, how could you do it? How could you do Asarah harugei malchus? How could you do it? The malachim complains, Zu Torah v'zu scharah? The Ribono Shel Olam says, Be quiet. And that's a nice way of putting it. It was stronger language than that. It's what the mothers tell the children, Don't, you're not allowed to say that word. You... be quiet. If I hear one more word, I'm going to turn the whole world upside down. Echzer es ha'olam l'tohu...

Tell me, is that how the Rabbeinu Shalom responds? It's a good question. It's a great question. Zu Torah v'zu scharah? What's the answer? The Gra says the Rabbeinu Shalom did not mean, You be quiet, there is no answer. The Gra says, the Vilna Gaon, zchuso yagen aleinu, explains that that was the answer. The answer was, let's turn the world upside down. Let's start from the beginning, and I'll start drawing you point A, which meets up with point B, which meets up with point C, and I'll start showing you the cheshbona, the cheshbones, the computer cheshbones, the millions of cheshbones which are intertwined, and maybe you'll understand then. Let's start all over again. You know what? We'll go through step by step, replay with a commentary on every step. Maybe, maybe you'll understand then. That's what the answer was. They say over in the Chofetz Chaim, a beautiful mashal. A person once walked into shul, and he sees a whole mizrach of great rabbanim, talmidei chachamim with white beards, and who gets the sheni, the shlishi, the revii? Ah, this guy, that guy, this bachur guy. So he walks over to the gabbai and he says, I don't understand. You have such great rabbanim. This is who you give your aliyahs to? What are you doing? Why are you giving— He's a young guy. This guy is a bachur. So the gabbai looks at him and goes, What are you talking about? Were you here last week? Were you here the week before? Were you here Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos? They all got Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur. There's a cheshbon. There's a—it's following a system. You come in the middle, you expect to understand the system? What do you expect to understand? So this is what we are saying, lu yichyeh gevar. If a person would really live shnin alfin, which means he would see the whole history and the—still lo yeichal gevurtei b'chush, but now he still wouldn't get it. It's so complicated and complex. You know, every Shabbos in Nishmas we say, Aleihei harishonim v'achronim, Elohei kol brios. What are the rishonim and acharonim? Who are the rishonim and acharonim? What, the Rashba and then—and Reb... and Reboch Ber? That's rishonim and acharonim? What are we referring to, aleihei harishonim v'achronim? Who are the rishonim and who are the acharonim? So pashut means the early generations, the later generations. Rav Chaim Vital says, aleihei harishonim v'achronim means that when a person does an action, he can't take responsibility for more than what's in front of him, for what he did. He can't—he doesn't, you know, know what's going to be the resulting years from now from his actions. The Ribono Shel Olam, when He does something, it's aleihei harishonim v'achronim. He takes everything into calculation. And that's cheshbonaya. That's the cheshbon of the Ribono Shel Olam. Paro was learning this. He should have paid attention. Paro should have paid attention. Hey, wait a minute, why is my foreset giving me water, and why other people's foresets are giving them dam and the teretz is, wait a minute, maybe because—maybe because Moshe Rabbeinu... Grew up in my house. Maybe I haven't already credit by the Ribono Shel Olam. Etas nit farshteinen, loy sas liboi. Lashon of the pasuk, loy sas lib... He didn't pay attention. He should have paid attention. Pay attention! Hashgacha pratis. Everything is with a detailed cheshbon. And this was even for the Goyim, even for Paroi. It was lessons for Paroi. So we have clearly in the reading and in the story line of Shibud Mitzrayim, Makkas and Yetzias Mitzrayim, hashgacha pratis by the Goyim. So we still do not know what is the hashgacha by us. Yechabeisai, these are ikrei hadas. This is yesodei hadas. You know, you read the pesukim and you read the parshiyos, they're very interesting. I'm happy that you enjoy the stories about the makkas. Right? It's a fascinating story, fascinating. But you have to realize that just like you learn Hilchos Tefillin, and just like you learn Hilchos Kriyas Shema, and just like you learn Hilchos Shabbos, you got to learn Hilchos Emunah. A person has to know emunah. And you know where Hilchos Emunah is learned from? These parshiyos.

That's why I'm giving you the shiur today, rabosai. I want you to understand that it's not just a great story, not beautiful, wow, so fascinating, wow, so interesting, and this, look at this midrash about the frogs. It's all good. It's all good. There are plenty of Haggados that do that, that they take the story of Mitzrayim and they make it so interesting, like mamish Wonderland, that you can't fall asleep. I get it. Maybe it's a good thing, because otherwise the night of Pesach you'd fall asleep. Like this, it's quite—stay awake. Could be, it's all good. It's all emes. But to understand that the ikrei hadaas, just like you understand Shabbos without Shabbos, without knowing hilchos Shabbos, you could be a mechalel Shabbos without learning ikrei hadaas, without learning it, which are these parshiyos. That's where it comes from. This is the Gemara, so to speak. This is where it's based. This is where it's learned from. You don't know ikrei hadaas. If you don't know ikrei hadaas—now again, you could plead not knowing, right? Ones, shogeg, I don't know. What do I know? It's too deep for me, too big for me. They say over from Reb Chaim Brisker, they used to say over, Nebach an apikores is a apikores. Well, just because a guy doesn't know, so what? He's an apikores? But he's unfortunately an apikores, doesn't know. What do you mean? You're right. You could come and plead, I don't know if the word is insanity or stupidity or, I don't know what's the right word in English, or—plead the fifth. Oh, he's such a nice guy, because that's not really what it is. It's pleading insanity and stupidity. But right. Whatever it is, whatever it is, he pleaded, I nisht. But it's not so pashut. It's halacha. It's part of halacha, rabosai. I challenge you, ask anybody. Hashgacha klalis, hashgacha—you know what they'll tell you? Yeah, goyim have hashgacha klalis; even have hashgacha pratis. That's not what it says in Acharonim. That's not what it says. And from Yetzias Mitzrayim we learn hashgacha pratis, even for goyim, even for umos ha'olam. So what is hashgacha klalis, hashgacha pratis, and what's unique that we have something different? It's clear that we have something different. So many want to say the different levels. There are different levels of hashgacha pratis, more and less. Different levels. Huh? It's not just one level. You like that, Peretz? Yeah, it's good. You like it, it's good. I don't know. I'm scared to say it. Many Acharonim say, who studied the matter and said, What does that mean? Could you be more or less than mashgiach? Imagine a person is a mashgiach in a restaurant. Not fully mashgiach, a little bit, halfway. Tell me, if you had a halfway mashgiach in a restaurant, would you eat there? No. Okay. That's another way of saying it's without hashgacha. Could you halfway watch your child run across the street, right? Halfway. I'm not fully; I want just— That's another way of saying you're not watching it, right? I don't know. It's a complicated topic, because we're trying to figure out in hashgacha pratis, somewhat, Yidden have more, goyim have less. I don't know. So Reb Chatzkel says something, a chiddush, okay? Halacha l'maaseh. Someone asks you, what was today's shiur about? Halacha. We're learning halacha today. No, I thought Rabbi Wolk gives hashgacha shiurim. No, no, no. Today was halacha. Hilchos emunah. Emunah that the Ribono Shel Olam created the world. That's Bereishis, that we should have done in the parshiyos when we read Bereishis, Bereishis, Noach, Lech Lecha, Vayeira, Chayei Sarah. Okay. Today we have to learn, the sugya of the day is, right, like the Daf Yomi. Ask a guy, what are you learning? Learn Daf Yomi. So what? What'd you learn? How about you ask a guy, what'd you learn, Parshas Shavu? What'd you learn? He'll tell you, avert, aveirah. It's all good. I'm not saying it's all very... that's all nice. But you should be learning halacha. There's a halacha. You say the daas emunah. Bereishis is emunah, Shemos is hashgacha, right? Emunah that the Ribono Shel Olam is mashgiach. But which mashgiach? Mashgiach prati. Mashgiach prati to goyim.

You see clearly. That's clear. And that's what the Acharonim are telling us, that there's hashgacha pratis to goyim too. So what's special to Klal Yisroel? Zogt Reb Chatzkel, Chatzkel Levenstein, in his sefer Or Yechezkel on Emunah, page kuf chav gimel, he says, Hashgachas Hashem is barach al kol bri'ah, v'hashgacha pratis. That's clear. But yesh l'tzadikim u'ksheirim hashgacha nosefes m'geder shmirah. Mr. Roshon watches. Shmirah. Watching protection. Watching protection. So that the Ribono Shel Olam is mashgiach, which means He's running the world to precision. That's for everybody. But that He's protecting, a special protection. It's a whole new translation of the word mashgiach, huh? When someone says He's the mashgiach—and I'm sorry if anyone does hashgacha work here, it's a great example, by the way, it's a perfect—the mashgiach could run the kashrus, right? He's running the... but He's also, what? Protecting the kashrus. He's protecting. Mashgiach has many different... Mashgiach can mean oversight, overlooking something, and mashgiach could also mean to what? To overlook to protect. So we have a new translation of mashgiach here, Reb Yankev language. What did I teach you always when we... in all the shiurim? Learn the lashon. Let's learn vashteit. There's a mashgiach that what? Mashgiach could mean that he's overseeing. And then there's a mashgiach that what? That he's mashgiach to protect, to watch. Zogt Reb Chatzkel that that's what Yidden have, that hashgacha, that the Ribono Shel Olam protects. My soul. Meoiros HaGedolim, Reb Chaim Zaitchik, zecher tzaddik livrachah, he brings the notebook, you know, like every yeshiva puts out a kovetz, a pamphlet of all the things that's learned in the yeshiva. So Novardok used to put out in Europe a pamphlet of all the things that they discussed and worked on, and they came to a maskanah. So he brings over there from Chovos Ches. In his Meoiros HaGedolim, Reb Chaim Zaitchik quotes Chovos Ches. This is a pamphlet from the Vardik that he explains that there's shloisha sugim of hashgacha for Klal Yisroel. Now, the truth is, the language could maybe even mean for goyim too. Tzadikim, k'sheirim. I don't know. I mean, we know there are kosher goyim. We know that there's righteous goyim. The feeling that I got from the reading of it, that this is the hashgacha for Klal Yisroel. Again, I know that one could come and say, well, it didn't say Klal Yisroel. It said that there's hashgacha l'chol habruim, and then there's for the tzadikim, and the goyim can be tzadikim too. But I think it means Klal Yisroel. Let's continue just for argument's sake that it means Klal Yisroel, but there's three of them. There's three levels to the hashgacha pratis which Klal Yisroel has, and let me read them for you. The first one is based on a pasuk in Tehillim, Kuf Tezayin, pasuk vav: Shomer pesoyim Hashem. Shomer pesoyim Hashem. Those that don't know anything, they're innocent, they're simple. They almost didn't even earn the special protection. Hashem protects them anyway. Beis, the second level of hashgacha pratis that a Yid has is shomer mitzvah lo yeida davar ra. That's in Koheles, ches, perek ches, pasuk hei. Then there's a third, a third level of hashgacha: gimel, raglei chasidav yishmor. Shmuel Aleph, perek beis, pasuk tes. Meyridik. It's beautiful. You look through Tanach, they identify three different hashgacha pratis, shmira, protection, hashgacha. See? See, Rabosai? There's a special protection.

That a Yid has, and that's hashgacha pratis that a Yid has, and that's in three levels. The simple one is, Shema b'saim Hashem, anashim she'ein להם שום זכות מצד עצמם, a Yid. Every Yid, Ribbono Shel Olam, you know, he's on the basic, the basic plane. You know, you walk in, they ask you, what plan do you want? Do you want the basic? Do you want the, or do you want the special VIP plan, okay? So you can have the basic plan that everybody, Shema b'saim Hashem. Hashem is watching the Yid, okay, good. Second one is, Shema mitzvah, yedei davar. You do a mitzvah, shluchei mitzvah ein ניזוקים. When a person goes to Eretz Yisrael, what does everybody do? They give him a dollar. They tell him to give the money for tzedakah. They don't realize that it's not enough. Anyone who goes to Eretz Yisrael, if he plans on going to the Kotel, you should give him a thousand dollars, because by the time he gets to the Kotel, the one dollar is way lost and gone. It's been given out. But, all right, I'm sure that l'maaseh even a dollar works, okay? Chayrah, okay? Today you give a guy a dollar, he gives it back to you. He says, You probably need it more than me if that's all you gave me, right? All right. Al kol panim, you hear, Shema mitzvah, yedei davar, shluchei mitzvah ein ניזוקים, right? Good, yeah. But then there's a third level. What's the third level? Why is everyone smiling? Am I so funny? That's what it is? Okay, I'm sorry. I didn't... I don't mean to be funny. I don't mean to be funny. I mean to be happy. I learn, I love the Ribbono Shel Olam's Torah. It's so beautiful. It's so enjoyable. Okay, what's the third level? What's the third level? The third level is, Raglei chasidav yishmor. And this is not מצד ההכנס. It's not מצד he earned it. But what is it? Because he is what? He is נכנס באמון המלך, or בשמירת הארמון. He's close to the Rabbeinu Shlolem. So what does he have special? You ever see the people—no, the people around the president get which, which new—what's their protection called? New? Secret Service. That was the word. See, finally, you see? Finally, you helped me out. All right. I guess the coffee is setting in. I guess it's starting to take effect. All right. Secret Service. Yeah. Could you imagine who protects you? The Rabbeinu Shlolem. Because of Secret Service, you're ארמון המלך. You're close to the King. כי הוא מסתופף בכבודו של מלך פנימה. You carry the—you represent the King. וכמובן שזהו המדרגה העליונה והרצויה ביותר. That's the ultimate. So we have three levels of protection, okay? We have the basic citizen. You're a citizen of the Rabbeinu Shlolem's world, citizen of the Rabbeinu Shlolem's country, so to speak, because you're a Yid. All right? So let's just say that every citizen of the world, goyim included, have somewhat protection. Maybe. Again, like I said, I don't want to, you know, blur the lines between the Yid and the goy, but whatever it is, the Yid who lives in the Rabbeinu Shlolem's world, so to speak, definitely has the basic citizen's protection. And then there is that if you keep the laws and everything—listen. Hashem says, You're a good citizen, so we give you benefits. And then there's the Secret Service for those that are what? The armoin shel melech. I love this. Bianca, isn't that beautiful? It's classic, okay? Of course, you see, if I didn't give you this concept of the citizen and the good citizen, right, and the CIA and the Secret Service, right, but this is really what it means. I'm adding this to the points, okay? And this is what he means, okay? So we have here, אמרי דגמרא, that there's hashgacha, which means that the Ribono Shel Olam oversees, but there's also hashgacha that the Ribono Shel Olam protects, okay? I saw that Rabbi Yerucham doesn't learn like this. Rabbi Yerucham. Rabbi Yerucham asks this question. He begins by saying, We know there's such a thing as hashgacha klalis. We know there's such a thing as hashgacha pratis. There's out there in the world that only Yidden have hashgacha pratis. That's not true. So what do the Yidden have that's different? We all know Banim atem laShem. Yidden have a special, special—what is their special rights in hashgacha? And he explains something interesting. He says the word hashgacha does not—

That come from being on top of him, watching. Ki pashut hu, this is in the maamarim, perek ches, Reb Yeruchim, mashgiach explains, ki pashut hu she'ein inyan hahashgachah kemo shemergalim lehisbatel k'omed u'mabit. Every mashgiach, for example, a mashgiach in the store is on top of him. No, he's not top of him looking. That's not what it is. It's not mashgiach me'rachaloinos, the way we understand that he's watching. He's not distant, but he's here watching. No, that's not what it means. What does mashgiach mean? Kesher, handling. It says it, the word handling. You know, today every good person who ever stepped foot into yeshiva loves that word. He's handling, he's handling. Frankly, do you know anybody who doesn't know what the word handling means? He's handling, handling. Reb Yeruchim uses this to explain hashgachah pratis. I love it. I love it. It caught my eye. Everyone's looking, what? What? Handling? What are you talking about? Let's learn Reb Yeruchim. Reb Yeruchim says, tell me, do you have any connection to the new president who became president? You have nothing to do with him. You're right, it trickles down from his policies, but you have nothing. Rabbeinu Shalom and a Yid is not like that. He's handling with you. He's picking up the phone and saying, okay, tell me, how you do? How's your day? Go here, stand here, do this. The word hashgacha, I was looking for the exact translation according to Rabbi Yerucham, and I came up as close as I could to the following translation, but the story will help you with it, okay? I'm not telling a story, otherwise they'll say, Oy, yeah, yeah, I came Sunday morning and he gave a shiur mamish, ach vei, halachim, it's hashkafa, my head is bursting. Okay, I'll tell you a story. Okay. What is the word hashgacha? Under the care of, but still not paying attention to. Hashem's paying attention. Hashgacha, you hear? The word mashgiach means that he pays attention to something. He's not distant. He's not removed. He's mashgiach. He's paying attention. Handling means that he's involved, involved. Handling, he's paying attention. He's involved. Huh? Are we getting there? Hashgacha. Could you have a mashgiach that just comes to pick up his check? That's the only thing, he comes to pick up his check. Yeah, you work in hashgachas. You're laughing because unfortunately it happens, that there's a mashgiach that has nothing to do with the place. Could you imagine the mashgiach walks in to pick up his check, and the people over there ask him, What are you here for again? Who are you? Oh, I'm the mashgiach. Oh, that's nice. Oh, okay. Mashgiach has to be constantly involved, hands on, hands on, involved, paying attention, connected to. Otherwise, it's not under his hashgacha. It's not the oversight, but it's the hands-on that the mashgiach needs. That's handling, he's busy with. Could you imagine, Melech Malchei Hamelachim is busy with me? Busy with me? I come, I sit, I stay. A lot of times people run a situation. You know how they run it? Hands off. Let it go. Okay, mama, come to me with the big things. Hashem says, don't come to me only with the big things. Come to me with the little things too. It's hands-on. I'm busy. I'm busy with your situation, hands-on, every detail. That's called handling. That's called hashgacha. That's being fully involved. On top of, paying attention to everything that's happening with the Yid and his private life, and as a Klal Yisroel, Klal Yisroel's business, every detail, every step, every move they make, paying attention to it and involved hands-on with it. Mayridike Rebbe Yerucham, mayridik. The word hashgacha, you see? Could you imagine if someone asks you, what does hashgacha mean?

Hashem runs the world. It's so not explaining what it really is that you missed the boat. You almost missed the boat, because there's so much that could be in the word hashgacha. The closest story, you know, of course I was searching in my mind this morning, where is the story? Where is the story without a story that I'm going to like to share? Okay, so this is the closest thing I came to a story that could maybe, maybe give it to you, and I'm not 100% fully with it, but I'll give it to you. It's an experience that happened in my life. I was zoche to see and meet Reb Shneur Kotler, zichrono tzaddik livracha, once in my life. I was in Eretz Yisrael. I was in ninth grade. I was a ninth grader going on into tenth grade, the summer after the ninth grade school year for me. I was 14, 14-year-old. I was in Eretz Yisrael because my family, we used to go visit my mother's parents who lived in Eretz Yisrael. So one year I would go to camp, expensive camp. I mean, today it's even more expensive, but today it's the Joneses. Everybody does it, so everybody goes to camp. Then it wasn't so simple to go to camp. So one year we went to camp, one we went to visit my grandparents. Okay, bottom line, we went to Eretz Yisrael. My mother made the tickets to go July and August, without realizing that that year August was already, the end of August was already Elul. My father made a whole thing, I have to come back for Elul. No, no, it's a mistake. We have to change the tickets. You need to go back yeshiva. You can't miss Elul, Rosh Chodesh Elul in yeshiva. So, my father, of course, he did it, and it happened, and I was scared to fly, so I was a little bit nervous. I had a phobia of flying, rightfully so, not rightfully so. Just don't tell anybody that, okay? And it won't hurt my shidduch because I'm married already, so it's all good, okay? The kitza, my uncle said, They'll set me up with somebody heimish. In our circles, we say the word heimish. Someone heimish, what does it mean? Who knows? What does heimish mean? Someone, I don't know. I don't know. It's like the word hashgachah. What does it mean? I don't know. It means, I don't know, it means something. All right, okay. Someone heimish, okay. Comfortable with, you know him, he has the same black beard as you, white beard, he has the same white beard as you, I don't know, whatever heimish means, okay. You like that, the word heimish. Everyone has a different definition of the word heimish. Heimish then meant that someone you could feel comfortable with. Why? I don't know. It is what it is, okay. We heard that Reb Schneier Kotler is going to be on the flight. I was all excited, and I figured if Reb Schneier, a yeshiva, if he's on the flight, that's a guaranteed pass that everything will go smooth. It'll be a tremendous flight. Those days, I don't know about today, but in those days there was like two flights a week, usually, and one of them was motzaei Shabbos at 12:30, 1 o'clock. The flight was 12:31 from Ben Gurion. We came there, there's no Reb Schneier to be found, to be seen. There's no Reb Schneier, didn't show up. There was nobody heimish on that flight, okay. It was a camp that went to a moshav, and the boys had longer hair than the girls. Okay, it was an interesting mix of people, with guitars and drums and I don't know, it was an interesting... I felt, you know, alienated. I felt, you know, I love Jews and everything, but I didn't feel anyone. I could feel hangness, okay, good. As I'm boarding up, you know, we're going up the escalator, it was a little bit... Reb Shneier shows up. Shiver, Reb Shneier shows up. Don't forget, Reb Shneier used to do a million things at one time, people and yeshiva, and he was involved in everything, and he was fast. So he didn't even bother checking out. He was going up. He thought of boarding, and Reb Elkiel, and Mrs. Alman, the two children, Reb Shneier taking care of his luggage with this, and he was just going up. He just... So my mother walks over to him as he's... and I was already started to go up the escalator. So I came back down, you know, I started walking down the escalator. My mother says, This is my son. Oh, yes, sure. I was grabbed by Reb Chaim, my uncle Reb Chaim, two days ago. There was a thing from my grandfather.

It was Yom Zikhron, and he was there, and he spoke, and he had a letter from my grandfather, safe. Okay, so he tells—he's afraid to fly, and he's a young boy, daygenish, don't worry. He grabs me by the hand, ez'n gutte hent, ich v'mashgiach zayn af em, don't worry. Mashgiach zayn af em. Mashgiach—what was the words he used? As he walks up, from the distance, from far, he screams, Ez'n gutte hent! Gonna watch him, gonna watch him, don't worry, he's good, he's fine, don't worry, daygenish. And the whole time he was holding my hand as we were coming, and then we went on the plane, and he says to me, We'll switch seats, which means the lady or the man that's sitting next to me, you switch seats and we'll sit together. He had 1A. He had the first seat, and 1B was a heavy woman, or—he looks at me, he goes, We're not gonna be able to move her. She's already—that's it. She's put in her place, all right. In Yiddish he said, ... she's—this is okay. Not moving. All right. Now tell me, was he standing there and watching over me? He's paying attention to me. He's there for in case I need anything, to make me feel comfortable. There's a word of mashgiach: I'm under the protection of. It doesn't have to mean that he's standing on top of me, and it doesn't— All it means is what, mashgiach? That the Eibishter is paying attention, personally paying attention. He's—I'm under His... Is there a word in English, tutelage, or it's the wrong word? It's not the right word? Okay, I'm sorry, because sometimes I say words in English, I don't even know where I get them from. It's the wrong word, right? Omnipresence. Providence. Okay. Your homework for tonight is, everyone go home and figure out the right word for Rabbi Wolk's shiur. You see, I'm a big chacham, like this you'll think about it. What word? Like this I get you to think about the shiur all day. Okay. Either way, rabosai, either way. Point being, Rabbeinu Shloilam takes us by the hand, okay, and says, Daig nisht. Just don't mind hashgacha, okay? That's—I don't have the exact, you know, story to mashal nimshal maybe, but it's very close. It's what I feel in my heart, that the Eibishter takes us up the escalators in life, takes us on the planes of life, the trips of life, and He grabs our hand and He says, You're under the hashgacha. Don't worry, okay? I'm there, okay? Is it close enough that I hit, that I...? I want to tell you more. There's a ma'aseh deke vort. Fully out of was labadka. That's a maydegevart. Pari had makas, yeah? He never did teshuva. Why did he not do teshuva? So the pasuk says clearly that the Eibishter warned that he's not going to do teshuva. Va'ani akhshes lev Pari. It's not going to work. He's going to be hard, and he's never going to do teshuva. The Rambam explains that what does that mean? Because he didn't want to do teshuva, then he couldn't do teshuva. The Eibishter hardened his heart that he shouldn't want to do teshuva. Famous Rambam. Rashi learns a little differently. Rashi explains that since he was matris, now he could have done teshuva from pain. At a certain point, the guy cries uncle, right? That's what it's called. Again, I'm sounding stupid. What is it called? Okay, now... You see? You see? I finally got it right. How come Pari doesn't cry uncle? What happened? Va'ani akhshes lev Pari. I make it that he should be strong, he should be able to survive.

Why? So according to Rashi's mashma, that the Eibishter doesn't want that he should do teshuva because it hurts. The Eibishter wants that he should do teshuva because he wants to do teshuva. So if he's in pain, he'll do teshuva only because of pain. That's what you look at Rashi, how Rashi explains, v'ani akshes lev pari, l'choira that's what he means. The Sippurna, and the Altav Slabodka explains the Sippurna so beautifully. It's a little bit deeper than that. You know, people think that you do teshuva because you're scared, you're frightened into doing teshuva, and there's a whole mahalach in baalei teshuva, in how to deal with baalei teshuva. They frighten you into doing teshuva. They talk to you about Gehenna. I don't get involved in shitas, so to speak. You're right, you're wrong. That wasn't the derech that we grew up with, that I heard from my grandparents, and my zeide grew up in Slabodka. Now I know why he didn't ever teach us this, because the Alter says clearly no one could ever do teshuva because he's afraid, or because he is pushed to teshuva from fear. It doesn't work. He says there's no such thing. The makkes were not there to force him to teshuva from fear and pain. That's not true. It doesn't work, says the Alter of Slabodka. Tzechelik beis, Haratzofin, he says the opposite. The point of it was to show him chasdei hamakom, the kindness and love that the Eibishter has for his creation, and that was supposed to push him to do teshuva. Vani akshes lei para? says the Sippurna. I didn't want that he should have pain, and that's why he's doing teshuva. I want him to do teshuva because he saw from the makos my love. So I took away the pain. I gave him a painkiller. Vani akshes lei para. I gave him a painkiller. So you should see, gadli v'tuvi, gadli v'tuvi, my greatness and my kindness, v'yachzor b'teshuva, because that's the only way you can really do teshuva. It's a ... devar. Paro could have came and said, you know something? From Rashi it would seem that there are people who just do teshuva because they want to get it over, they just can't deal with the pain. So Rashi's saying that's not teshuva, right? Because he's just trying to get it over with. But Rashi's not saying that he needed to do teshuva from love. He needed to do teshuva, real teshuva, not just because it hurt him. So Hashem took away the pain, and now he had to do real teshuva. The Sippurna goes one step further. Hashem wanted the whole pain, the whole difficulty of the makos to go away. Like this, he does teshuva from seeing in the makos the kindness of HaKadosh Baruch Hu. In every makah that the Ribono Shel Olam sends, there's twofold. There's the angle that one sees Hashem is being kind to him, and that's what was needed, because that's the only thing that really brings teshuva. It's ... from the Alter of Slabodka. I saw. A moydike maise from the Alter from the Vardik. How we view things in life. Sometimes we have bad situations, but we're convinced it's for our good, right? It's not enough. It's got to be deeper than that. Not that this bad thing happened for my—for example, a surgery is a very bad thing, but it's for my good to heal me. The opposite. The Ribono Shel Olam, in His wisdom and in His koach of how He runs the world, He's actually doing good things. We might not realize that it's good. Not that the outcome is good, that the actual thing that's happening has so much good in it. It's an unbelievable thing. Yeah, you know what? I was once thinking to myself something interesting. You know what a vaccination for disease? It's taking the machla and putting it into the body, and that causes the healing. Even the machla that the Ribono Shel Olam, for example, sends in Mitzrayim, it's the healing itself. That itself—it's not the machla is good for you because of...

Either you'll go to Olam Haba, or something good will happen to you for your future growth. No, the bad itself is actually good. The bad itself is actually an act of kindness. Let me tell you a story from the Alter of Slabodka. And remind me, because my mind is speeding in many directions of what I want to tell you. I have so much I want to talk to you about this topic. Remind me, Vayedaber Elokim el Moshe vayomer eilav, Ani Hashem. Remind me, okay? You'll remind me? Okay, so let me tell you the story from the Alter of Slabodka, of Novardok. He once missed the train. He came late and he missed the train. So the talmidim said to him, Rebbe, you came late. You missed the train. He said, No, I didn't. I came early for the next train. It's not I missed the train, a kaparah. All right, gam zu l'tovah. You know, gam zu, this is also l'tovah. Then there's something which is a little bit different. What? Kol mah d'avid Rachmana l'tav avid. It's a different nekudah, rabosai. Gam zu, this is also good, because good will come from it. No, no, no, no. Even that is good. Mimenu lo seitzei hara'os ki im hatov. Mimenu lo seitzei hara'os ki im hatov. From Hashem, nothing bad. It's not that it's bad in order to have good. Yahadus, Yiddishkeit, teaches the Jew that even what's bad, it's not really bad. We just don't understand it. Let me tell you a maaseh degevurah. You ready? There was a great tzaddik in Yerushalayim, Reb Shmuel Haiminer. Some of the books bring him. He was considered the Chofetz Chaim of Yerushalayim. That's what they used to call him, the Chofetz Chaim Yerushalayim. He wrote about shmiras halashon, he wrote about tefillah, and he was an interesting tzaddik, a famous tzaddik. I came across on his, on the Otzar Chachmah, his diary, or excerpts from his diary. I don't know if it's his full diary. I came across it on the Otzar Chachmah, and I was taken back by all the stories, and one day maybe I'll tell you all of them, the things that he wrote there, the little insights in his private life. Very interesting, very fascinating. Different things that happened to him, the way he interpreted it. But there's one thing that I think is relevant to the shiur. He once walked into the beis medrash, and he exclaimed, Rabosai, I broke my hand. I broke my hand. I broke my hand. They were looking at him. Cast? No cast. He's moving, he's writing. It didn't seem like he broke his hand. I don't know, something was... So they went over to him, they said to him, You broke your hand? I mean, so maybe you should go to a doctor. How are you able to function and write? He says, No, no, let me explain to you. Actually, I broke the door of my house. The door of my house actually broke. So there's two ways I could have looked at it. What a pain in the neck, right? Tremendous pain in the neck. I broke the door of my house and I have to fix it, and who knows if I have the money to fix it or when I'll fix it. I had a different way of looking at it. I actually was supposed to break my hand, probably. Okay? I deserve to break my hand. So what did the Eibishter do? He said, you know, he's a nice person, Reb Shmuel, I like him. Reb Shmuel is the nacha kin. He's my son. You know what? Figure out a way how to teach him the lesson. I break the door, all right, and he has to fix the door with his hand, so he'll get the lesson anyway. All right? So to him that was called breaking the what? Breaking his hand. It's a tefirah, boys. It's a tefirah d'her. Moshe Rabbeinu comes, Lamah hari'osa la'am hazeh, v'lamah zeh shelachtani? Vayedaber Elokim elav, vayomer eilav, Ani Hashem. Famous question: Elokim, vayomer eilav, Ani Hashem. What does it mean? Rav Berel, zecher tzaddik livrachah, Rav Berel Soloveitchik, Brisker Rosh Yeshiva, said a very nice pshat. He said Moshe Rabbeinu spoke very blasphemic words to the Eibishter. Lamah hari'osa? Who talks like that to the Ribono Shel Olam? The Medrash says the Ribono Shel Olam was ready to punish him. Midas hadin was ready to say, What are you...? But then the Ribono Shel Olam realized he meant Klal Yisrael. He meant the good of Klal Yisrael. So the midas harachmanus overweighed the midas hadin. You know, Moshe Rabbeinu...

Everybody, looks good. You sing good. Heei daber elikim, Hashem got angry. Vayomer eilav, l'maaseh ani Hashem, midas harachamim. Hashem is moira on the lashon of midas harachamim. I'm not going to get angry. That's how rebellion... Beautiful vort, tiferes to hear. It's almost Chassidic in its origins. Beautiful vort. Moshe Rabbeinu, you spoke, you said, but l'maaseh ani Hashem, I'm with you. I identify with what you're saying, because the midas harachamim hears it. Here's what you're saying. Here's what you're saying. You know, rabosai, people suffer in life. People have very difficult things in life. The Ribono Shel Olam, He understands when we talk to Him in language which might not be the proper language. Sometimes we say things, Ribono Shel Olam, how and why, and we get upset. Why is this happening to us? The midas harachamim of the Ribono Shel Olam is to appreciate that, so to speak, and to understand where it's coming from. It's coming from you're crying out to Me, knowing that I'm the mashgiach. When you run over to the mashgiach and say, Hey, what's going on over here? You wouldn't do that to a stranger, because he has nothing to do with it. But if someone is involved, and you're trusting him, and you're close to him, so you speak that way. There's a beautiful story I say over all the time. A beautiful story. The Baal Shem HaKadosh had a daughter called Udel, Udel. He loved her very much. Udel. Famous Chassidim give the name Udel after the Baal Shem's daughter. The story is that the Baal Shem—someone came to the Baal Shem crying about the situation that they had. So what did the Baal Shem say? Rebbeinu Shalom will help him. Rebbeinu Shalom will help you. Rebbeinu Shalom is all the help. Rebbeinu Shalom will help you. I mean, what should he say? Rebbeinu Shalom will help you. Udel, from the next room, hears this and says, A bitate, ver vet em helfen? Pizder Rebbeinu Shalom vet em helfen. Who's going to help him till the Rebbeinu Shalom helps him? The Baal Shem was so taken back and so moved, and he appreciated so much what she said that he turned to her and he goes, That's so good. You're right. Rebbeinu Shalom, who's going to help him till you help? Who's going to take care of him till you take care of him? But guess what the Baal Shem said back to Udel. Udel, you're right, but you know who's going to help him to piz the Eibishter? The Eibishter will help him. Rebbeinu Shalom will help him. What's the point? The heart of a Jew communicates with the Eibishter, and however they communicate with the Eibishter, whatever it is, the Rebbeinu Shalom is there listening under His guidance, handling. You know, you can't walk into the head of a CEO and complain to him about the breakfast on the ground floor, that today it was late, it was early, it was this, and complaining. But if you're the son, and you talk to your father every day and he's the CEO, so you complain to him about any little thing, your krechtz, your nudgy, your kvetcher, right? You can do it. It happens. There's a contact. Otherwise, there's an enchalant. How do you, you know, speak to the superiors and speak to the people who are running the... right? There's... But if you're the son, so you kvetch and nudge directly to the ear, right? There's a nice story. That's from Baba Vereb, zichrono livracha. She'eina maaseh, she'eina maaseh, that there was a Yid who came and complained to the Rebbe... sorry, complained to the Rebbe that he's having a very difficult situation, having a very difficult situation. So the Rebbe told him, Emunah. Have emunah. Have emunah. The Yid turned to the Rebbe and he said, Rebbe, the pasuk says not like you. We say every day in davening, ... and how do we makdim to the ...? Vayeosha Hashem es Bnei Yisroel, right? Vaya'aminu baShem uv'Moshe avdo. So what do you see? First comes Vayeosha Hashem.

Comes these. Then you could tell me, Vayaaminu baShem. You can't ask me Vayaaminu baShem before the yeshuah. You're telling me have emunah, the yeshuah will come. Rebbe! In pasuk, it says, the pasuk tells us clearly, Vaya'aminu baShem. And the Rebbe said, You know, you're right. And he turned around and said, Look, he's right. He's right. You wrote this in your Torah. You wrote this. Lama ariyosa, lama zeh? The question. Many, at different points in their life, even if they don't express it, there's feelings, or even subliminally, the heart asks these questions. Lama ariyosa, there's questions, Rabbeinu Shleilam. The answer is, Ani Hashem. What is Ani Hashem? So either, like Reb Berel said, the Ribono Shel Olam understands it. He understands the aniyah; He understands where it's coming from. It's not coming from a bad place. Ribono Shel Olam's middas harachmanus understands. He meant Klal Yisroel. You mean good. You don't mean bad. You want to understand. You want to be connected to Ribono Shel Olam. It's not a bad thing. Reb Meir Soloveitchik. Reb Meir, Reb Meir Soloveitchik, zecher tzaddik livracha, the younger brother of Reb Berel, said a different vort, a very simple vort. You're asking me, Lama ariyosa? And the answer is, Lama ariyosa? Bid, chas v'shalom. Vayedaber Elokim — it's middas... no, Ani Hashem. It's all middas harachamim. It's all midas harachamim. It's an answer. Ani Hashem is the answer to Lamah Hariosa. Don't think it's midas hadin. Understand that it's midas harachamim. I want to end with the following nekudah, okay? I saw something. Press the button. Which button? Anything besides that. Nope. Nope. Nope. Okay, so let me put this in. Okay, in two seconds, it's on the Otzar Chochma. I don't have the sefer here, Baruch Hashem, people are learning it, so they took it out of the yeshiva, Baruch Hashem. Okay. Okay, now the half a second, you see, this is what it is. Okay, two more seconds. Okay. I want to translate the word pratis, and then I want to say this is just the, what do you call it, the groundwork to the sugya. This is just the basis, the start of the sugya. It's a big sugya, rabosai. Okay, you have to spend your whole life. You know, there's certain halachos that you learn from a book, and then there's certain halachos you learn from life and its experiences. Emunah and bitachon, and hashgacha, and hashgacha pratis. And what hashgacha pratis means, you're going to learn it from life, not only from book. Okay, so. I could just give you what to think about. You're gonna have to go home and go back to your lives and apply it and see it from within the story of your life. But I want to translate hashgacha we just did. We spoke about hashgacha and all the different translations that could fit into the word hashgacha. But what does the word pratis mean? So let me hear. What is the olam taich of the word pratis? Does it mean individual? Does it mean precision? So we spoke. It can mean a lot of things. Pratis means almost like detail. Hashgacha pratit. You have klalim and you have pratim. Yeah, rabosai, pashut, yeah. Translation. Let's learn pshat v'pshat. Hashgacha. So we said that simpler means to overlook and to have oversight. No, but it means even more, to be involved, right? Rabbi Yerucham, what does the word pratis mean? So you have klalim u'pratim, details. That's true. It's probably true, like we said. Ya'aseh l'chalamasim, the Ribono Shel Olam is oisuv oisu, ya'aseh l'chalamasim, detailed, yeah. It also means prati, precision, right? Special, right? I think there's another translation when we talk about Klal Yisrael's hashgacha, and that is pratis, personal.

Personal. So remember, hashgacha, we said, can have many different translations. Hashgacha can mean that the Ribono Shel Olam is the overseer. Hashgacha can mean that the Ribono Shel Olam is the one who is in charge of. Or hashgacha could also mean literally being hands-on, involved. What does the word pratis—pratis can mean? To the detail. Pratis could also mean precision, prati. Also can mean what? And I think by Klal Yisroel, it's pratis, it's personal. I saw this in the words of the Sifsei Chaim. Sifsei Chaim was the mashgiach in Ponevezh Yeshiva, a legendary, unbelievable great tzaddik. When he was sick, he refused to take any painkillers whatsoever. He went through a tremendous machlah and he suffered. He refused. He says, It's taking away from the point. He wanted to take the lessons. He says, What's, the Eibishter said I should numb it? I should numb? The opposite. Now we're not going to discuss that in halacha, or even in hashgacha, because that would be a separate shiur for itself. But I do want to point out what he explains. He says that normally hashgacha, the Ribono Shel Olam runs the world, that's clear. But then there's something called hashgacha pratis, and listen to the language that he uses. There's something called hester panim, which means the Eibishter, we know, runs the world, but we don't see. For example, you ever see who comes to your room, chas v'shalom, when you're sick. You're not going to get the big, right, the professor to come to the room. Maybe he'll come once a chodesh, or once a week he'll come. But you know that he's running your case from his wherever he is, from a computer, but he's there. But you don't get to see him that much, right? He says that's—and it's interesting how he gave this mashal, maybe because he lived it, I don't know. Maybe this was shmuzen that he was nisorer from his own experiences, maybe. But he says that that's called hester panim. You don't see, yeah? And he brings the choleh when the doctor, right? Achein yesh dargah shel ha'oras panim, which means you get to see, to speak to. What's a good doctor? Someone that you're able to connect with and communicate with, and he's there, hands on. Bam is aneh Kadosh Baruch Hu, b'chol pratei, He's hands on. That's hashgachah pratis. Mara lo kirvah, shmirah, tzumas lev meyuchedes, ulhanhagah geluyah ad l'maalah min hateva, mashal l'adam hashoyev b'veis cholim. The example he brings is the choleh in the hospital bed. Im yesh lo sham yedid tov, if let's say the doctor happens to be also a yedid, a friend, zocheh l'tzumas lev meyuchedes hamanhig lo hitpael meyuchad. The doctor is going to come in ten times a day, and he's going to make sure that you got the exact, and you're comfortable, and it's a personal— What do you call that? When a person has the refuah gimi, it's a personal... Okay, you got the point. Legabi adam zeh, ein nohegim klal al tipul haregilim. He doesn't have the regular, the regular, no. It's with a special personalized, personalized medicine, okay, let's call it that, personalized. Personal, what you need, what makes you comfortable. Any hospitals, they try to convince that every patient gets that special personalized, personal, yeah, okay. If the doctor's your karov, you'll get personal. He says that's the pshat. I think he's fatayching the word pratis. It's personal. It's personal. And the doctor comes and he's there every step, and he's there to show you and make you comfortable. And this becomes the special hashgacha that every yid has. Okay, stop over here. You've just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.