Shemini Atzeres and Simchas Torah: The Gaon’s Simchah, Ahavas HaTorah, and the Joy of Olam Haba

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This Torah class is brought to you by TorahAnytime.com. Now the emes is, it's yadua that the Rishonim, the Acharonim, the Rabimim, it's supposed to be inyanim of shmirah, shmirah min hamazikin. So what is it? What is all the inyanim of shmirah in it? What is it? It's a ta'va, these are gershe inyanim, you know, to come and you have to be emes and mekubal to understand all these inyanim. But it's like I have a sefer for Rav Pam, that's something pashut eicheit, you know, simple. So he said a simple deher. You know, it's interesting, we know that the daled minim is keneged all the different parts of Klal Yisrael, all the different sugim in Klal Yisrael. So why taka do we do it through minim of flowers, so to speak, you know, a tree and an eitz? Why is—if the kavanah was to get four different types of, so you could have done many other ways. So there's gad an interesting chinuch. The chinuch says that Sukkos tomid flowers. It's an interesting chinuch. The chinuch says, Vesamachtem lifnei Hashem. It's meyuchad to the daled minim. U'kachtem lachem bayom harishon pri eitz hadar, kapos temarim, u'smachtem. It's mashma אפעס the daled minim is more vesamachtem than anything else, which means the ikar hadgasha of the vesamachtem was written by the daled minim. Zogt a chinuch fabreng. A peldike zach. He says, like flowers, mesameach adam, it makes a person happy, you know. He says to his son, Flowers. That's all it is. So I said, ken zayn, the Ribono Shel Olam, you know, we come to Him on Sukkos, tzi lulav and esrog. So the Ribono Shel Olam is, oy, a good guest, you know, good oirach, you know, good... For a guest, you go out of your way, you give him dvarim hamesamchim. We should be happy. It's flowers, you know. Really, that's what the chinuch is saying, not more than that, right? He's saying that the Ribono Shel Olam wanted, vesmachta, that we should be happy. Meileh, mekumta eintz the Ribono Shel Olam mishtub. So he gives us dvarim hamesamchim. He says, as if a guest would walk into your house, you would give him ... to make him happy. You would do things for him to make him happy, comfortable. Ever see you go to someone for Shabbos, so he'll put you out, you know, in the hachnasas orchim package, you know, a cake, mit a coffee, mit a flowers, you know. He's telling us to give. Oh, so you're not—so it’s a patacht me both ways. He's telling, he's giving it to us, usmachta, that we should be happy, and we're giving him, lichora, right? That's lichora the pshat. To say there's got to be something deeper, you know, you're making for the dollar minim, lichora, a flower shop, you know, it's all about flowers, you know, it's got to be more than just flowers. So I said over a vort like this. Yesh eina dehal. Av Gifter zatzal used to say over all the time this ma'aseh. And there was a hakdamah to a vort. And Rav Gifter always saw that this maaseh goes together with this vort. What's the vort? The vort is, he would say like this: Shteit doch, suga baShishan, that for nida, the Gemara, the Chazal fregen doch, what stops a person from doing chato'im that nobody sees? It's private. The yetzer is a suga; it's fenced with sheshanim, with flowers. Rav tells the rav, zecher tzaddik livrachah, you want to make a fence? Make flowers. You have to make an iron fence. You got to make it as a—what's the pshat? What does it mean, suga baShishanim? It's not a good example of protection. Imagine a guy, instead of putting up an alarm system, he puts a bouquet of flowers. He's not going to the house the next day. That's called pirtzah korel l'ganav. You're not going to get a bigger pirtzah korel l'ganav than that. He sees flowers. So he said a vort from Telzer Rav, and he was magdim the vort.

Vot mitamais. He would say all the time, I heard this from many times, many, many times he said over this vort. He said that the Telzer Rav, who was the Telzer Rav, and once you understood the Telzer Rav, then you can understand the vort, the teretz that he gave. Who was Telzer Rav? He said the Telzer Rav was killed by the Nazis. The Nazis came into Telz. They looked for the rabbinah, for the Rav. And, farshteytz, Telzer Rav was sitting in the bais medrash learning. So they came into the bais medrash, the Mizrach vant, he was sitting over there, and they were ready to kill him in front of the whole am ha'eidah. So the sheigetz, the Nazi machshem, he turns to the Telzer Rav and he says, Hir rabbinah, you know, Rav, rabbi, hir rabbinah, avu iz dein Got? Where is your— you believe he's going to save you? He's going to save you? Telzer Rav tells us about a mitzvahs. That's the shittah of Telz: gevurah, shtarkkeit, a mitzvahs. Stood up with the mitzvahs, gevurah, and he said, My God? Not my God. Es Gott fun ganzen velt. He's God of the whole world. He is dein Gott oich. The day will come and the whole world will know, ein od milvado. Sheigetz was so angry. The Nazi was so angry. It couldn't be masig that he didn't even shoot. He took the barrel of the gun, hit it against the neck of Talzer Rav, and he cracked his neck, and that's how the Talzer Rav is out there. Rav Gifter always was magdim the teretz to the kasha of Sukkah b'sheishanim is d'maaseh. Only the Talzer Rav, yetz farshteyst, vers Talzer Rav, you'll understand the teretz that he was able to give such a teretz. What's takke pshat in Rav Gifter? What's takke pshat? But let's get to the teretz, and then we'll see efsher, farshtein the maaseh mit the teretz. Talzer Rav had gezogt, Sukkah b'sheishanim is the pshat: when somebody sees something beautiful, and farshteit, the sheinkeit in them, he can't destroy it. It's impossible to destroy it. There is no koach in the briah to destroy. Once you chap, marech, see what it is, farshteit vos it is. That's even a bigger shmirah than putting up metal bars and metal fences. By Klal Yisrael, the Torah, mitzvahs, the Ribono Shel Olam, the Torah is a sukkah b'sheishanim. It's beautiful. It's like flowers. And that's the shmirah. Once you chap the sheishanim in it, mechayev that you should be shomer it, you should protect it. Eh? ... Tzaflufel, tzaflufel. Tells the Rav, tzaflufel, mamash tzaflufel. But the Rav gave the warrant. Gave the warrant to say the tachzach. Again, you know, it's years and years later, I always thought, what did he want? Always, he always would be magdim the vort mit a maaseh, to understand the vort, afn visn, that Telzer Rav is geven, and he would say the maaseh with the Nazi, with the amitzus that he stood up to the Nazi. Hechzak that the hev, and I understood that the Rav was saying something. You can't break when there's hakarah. You're makir, you're machshiv something. No force in the world can stand up against it. So Telzer Rav, Torah was a segulah by Shishani, the Ribono Shel Olam, mitzvos. Nothing, no pachad, no matzav, nothing could stood strong. He was fataitching the gevurah as mefashet.

Protection. U'mezat dem sheinkeit, u'mezat dem emes, that protects against all mazikim, so to speak. Nothing can break through. It's about hakarah. It's about understanding. It's about appreciation. And when you appreciate—when you appreciate—no, no, it's closed. It's called a kinderlach. When you appreciate, ... in Torah ווערט a סוכה בא שישים. ... There's no way to break through. In the face of anything, it doesn't work. I understood, Rav Gifter was farteitching where did the mitzvos come from. In the Torah it says, ... There's nothing. It's the biggest protection to anyone that wants to be ... You can't destroy that. There's no way. No force, no koach, no nothing. That's ... The daled minim is keneged, the Medrash says, keneged all the different types of Klal Yisroel. Shteit doch klar that the shaking of the daled minim, what are we saying? ... It's to be shomer us, ... What are we telling the Rabbeinu Shleim? The Chinuch says that it's flowers. The Chinuch makes, from the daled minim, flowers, right, like we said, right? Shein, it's wonderful, it's beautiful, v'samachtem. Es ligt in dem. Es ligt a tieferkeit. Sugeba Shishanim ligt in dem. Az me farshteyt, di sheinkeit fun Klal Yisroel. Az me farshteyt b'remez, the kapis temarim, the pri etz hadar. Me farshteyt es. Mimeila, it zu samachtem. Un oich iz me zogt tzu der Ribono Shel Olam, you have to protect. Ribono Shel Olam, dos is Dein Klal Yisroel. We're giving the Ribono Shel Olam back the Sukkah d'Shishanim. That's how I vertaicht, to lakachtem lachem bayom harishon. We're taking and we're saying, Ribono Shel Olam, Klal Yisroel is azoi vi a bouquet of flowers. Mimeila, Ribono Shel Olam, you have to protect it from tlalim, ruchos ra'yos, whatever inyonim of the daled minim. I wasn't going to start with this. You started to ask me a little bit before, un nefshi b'she'elta zeh, that this is a good hakdamah to the shiur for tonight. Harachim, chashivus, chavivus, Shemini Atzeres, Simchas Torah. Let's talk about Shemini Atzeres, Simchas Torah. What's the avodah of Shemini Atzeres, Simchas Torah? Un az me farshteyt, vos vil Shemini Atzeres fun undz, un vos iz Simchas Torah. It goes to hakarah. And I give this a chavivus to Torah and mitzvahs, as we'll talk in a minute, okay? So tonight, geit mir reden, mitz Hashem, what is Shemini Atzeres? What is the Simchas Torah? And soon we're going to talk why Shemini Atzeres is Simchas Torah. Hekliben, why it was chosen to be the day as memachsim Simchas Torah. Un noch amol, I just want to chazer, remember the sugya by Shishani. This is the hakdamah, tells the Rav's sugya by Shishani: haracha in the chavivus, in the sheinkeit. And das is Klal Yisroel. Klal Yisroel is, to them, Torah is Sheishani. We're going to talk about this in a few minutes. Beriches, u'farshtein Simchas Torah, un farshtein Shemini Atzeres, un sugya Torah in Shemini Atzeres. Keren ohrin meit katan, daf ches amud beis is a shailah: how could you have Simchas Torah on Shemini Atzeres im avin simcha b'simcha? ... Das is Shemini Atzeres, yontef, un das is Simchas Torah. What do you do with ein me'arvin simcha b'simcha?

Mechayeh. Iz mukhach fun this kereneyes kasher, behechrech, that it's hainu hach, mechayeh. It's not stam mit genumen tzvei simches and mit dos tsuzamengeleygt. Shmini Atzeres shteyt doch vayismach ... Simchas Torah is simchas haTorah, and oyb Chazal hobn dos tsuzamengeleygt, the pshat is it's hainu hach, and it's not me'arvin simchah b'simchah; it's a gufa, mechayeh. If you have to say, the fact that mit genumen the simchas Torah and it's gelegt, they put it in the Shmini Atzeres, it must be that the Shmini Atzeres, the simchas hachag, and the simchas haTorah is al tzeis. Pshat, famous Yalkut Shimoni. The Yalkut Shimoni, the end of Parshas Pinchas, goes on the pasuk, Nogilah v'nismechah bach. Fragt the Yalkut Shimoni, vayismach, in any idea, I don't know what the simchah should be. Should it be b'yom? It's in the day. Zogt der Yalkut, no. Bach. The simchah is, Shmini Atzeres, the simchah is bach. So right away you see it's not b'yom. The first thing you see from the Yalkut Shimoni, that it's not the yom of Shmini Atzeres. It's not the yom. There's something else about the Yom Tov that's mechayev simchah. What is it? So let's see what the Yalkut taka says: Bach, bach b'Torascha, bach b'yeshuascha. Un beide zachn darf men heysber. Maaseh shtei bach. Nagilah v'nismecha bach. So if you don't want to make the yom, so it should have said, Bach b'Hashem. So what's the she'eilah, vayter? So how did it turn into bach b'teirascha, and then it turned into bach b'yeshuascha? What does it mean, b'yeshuascha? What does it mean even? It's peshat. Yehei, rabosai, sheinah. Good, you're right, okay. It's not nagilah v'nismecha bayom, but it's nagilah v'nismecha bach, right? So bach, it gedav blaiben. It should have remained bach b'Hashem. Good. Which is taka a lot in the Zohar, in the Rishonim. So the ktanah with the Ribono Shel Olam, chedvah with the Eibishter. So that it should have been the teretz. That should have been the maskanah: bach b'Ribono Shel Olam, good, chedvah lifnei HaKadosh Baruch Hu, lashon of zahar. But you see, it's not enough. Even the bach is not the Ribono Shel Olam. That's not what it remains with. Vos takke pshat? And where do we get b'teirascha, and what does it mean, b'yeshuascha? Pashut, pashut she'eilah, mamash. T'chamedesh, Chazal, vos meinen de Chazal? What are they saying? What do they mean bichlal? You want bach, the Eibishter zog. Bach, the Eibishter ish bayom, good. Zohar, that there's a chedvah, a sudah ktanah. For twenty minutes we could say ma'ar mekomos that there's shemini Atzeres, the Ribono Shel Olam, tzamin, Klal Yisrael, kasha li pdaschem. They all Chazal, good. Aber vi farshteit men the bach b'teirascha? Bach bishuascha. What does it mean at all, bishuascha? L'teiretz is, Yisrael, aveirah, v'kudsha brich hu chad. Bach, the Eibishter means Bach in the Torah. Bach, the Eibishter means in Klal Yisroel. You can't separate it. It means it's all together. So, Bach b'Teirascha. Chazal are farteitching that the Bach is only through Torah. It has to be through Torah. There's no other way. Az ich ken azoy zogn, if I'm allowed to say it, mitzvos is an emtzai. It's still not Bach. Mitzvos brings a person to the Eibishter, teshah to the Eibishter. And we can talk for an hour about this. What are mitzvos? It's a shmues far itself. It's an avodah for itself. We'll talk about it one day. Spend our whole life, mitzvos and dikduk ha-mitzvos, so to know what it is exactly. It's avodah. Avodah. In this medrash, it says Bach means b'Teirascha. And what's bishuascha? Efshar. I'm not saying, I don't think it's so, it's so, 100% glatt. It's the only pshat I could think of. Bishuascha means...

Klal Yisroel. To means, Klal Yisroel, yeshuah of Klal Yisroel. Bach, we're celebrating, the Ribono Shel Olam b'Teirascha, u'v'bal tzidah chelek, v's'dav zayn a Klal Yisroel ein melech b'olam. It can't be without the... So, mein, it's bishuascha. It has to be, it has to be. The simcha is the Ribono Shel Olam b'Teirah mit Klal Yisroel. So it's Bach b'Teirascha, Bach bishuascha, un a todah, mein in Chazal, and this is what Chazal meant: Nagilah v'nismecha bach. Good. Lomir farteitchen. Let's get clear. What is Bach bishuascha? And keep in mind again, he spoke out the vort from Telzer Rav, sugya b'Shishanim. It's in the Shem Tov. And in Fakert, he was saying, Rav Gifter was saying that the Telzer Rav, der Yid sh'boi, the Yid in the Telzer Rav understood the sugya b'Shishanim, and a Yid ken es farshtein. That's really what he's saying. Saying a meyredige zach, that the goy ken dos nisht farshtein. He can't maskim zayn that the whole musag, the Torah zol zayn Shishanim to Klal Yisroel. He doesn't understand. In a matzav goy, in a matzav where he's ready to kill, he's ready to give up his mesiras nefesh, un dos is badir sugya b'Shishanim. Fakert. That comes from a deep, profound understanding. You know, people go to war. They give up their lives for a cause, right? The cause by Klal Yisrael is Sukkah b'Shishan. That's what Rav Giftitz vataychi. Yid is ready to be moser nefesh because he sees chavivus. He sees what Torah is, the rachav of Torah. And this becomes, nogea lanis mechabach. What is the simcha of Yid? What's mesameach a Yid? And the Torah says, narbach, when the bach is nar Torah. Und dos is bishuascha Klal Yisrael, because only Klal Yisrael could have this. And I'll soon show you these mamish goyims. These are all mefurashe goyims if you understand what the goyims are saying. So let's begin with goyims. I'll give you, bezrat, an entree of goyims, smorgasbord of goyims, okay? There's a very famous Gra in Mishlei, perek lamed aleph, pasuk chaf hei. Oz vehadar levushah, vatischak lyom acharon. Oz is Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Az eiz zogt the goyim of the pasuk in Mishlei, Oz vehadar levushah, vatischak lyom acharon. Hadar is Sukkos, like we find, right? Pri Etz Hadar, the minim from hadar. Vatischak lyom acharon, shemini Atzeres. Zogt the goyim. Atischak, vayeinach. It's min yetzeres. Havos, vayisach sameach, and the ganze Torah is for Shemini Atzeres. Atischak. Habeisai, let's talk the pasuk, Vatischak. You know what the translation of vatischak? Vat... vatischak. Vayitzchok shetzchokos ali Elikim. Tzchok, tzchok. It's a lashon out of the gishmakes. Why are we using tzfridn, happy, simche, with the lashon tzchok? It's really a different lashon. The goyne is saying vatischak. Tischak is to laugh. It means something different than just simche. Davstein, oys v'hada levusha, vatismach liyoyn achrei. Simche, those tach simche. Vayisach sameach. It's going on simche. It's going on Shemini Atzeres. What it means, vatischak? Vatischak is a different lashon. Tischak means gespielt, mata gespielt, oysgelacht. Vatischak tzarah b'kirbo. Oysgelacht, kemat. You have to know, what does it mean vatischak? The lashon should be vatismach liyoyn achrei. Vayisach sameach. What is the goyne...

I mean, obviously it's not simcha, simcha the way we understand simcha. It's more, it's something different. It's vatischak. What is vatischak? So the emes is, the goyim, in Tikunei Zohar, tikkun nun ches, says, you know, we know the Tur, that all the yamim tovim are keneged avos. Sukkos is keneged Yaakov Avinu, vayeshev. What does it mean, yetzeres, though? That in the Tur's statement. That's not, right? Chag is regel bifnei atzmo. So the goyim, kedushasoi b'Torasoi, b'gadlusoi. It's being meoirer a good shaylech. The Tur zogt doch the yamim tovim, Pesach is Avraham, and then you have Shavuos Yitzchak, and then Yaakov is Sukkos. Good. So what does it mean, yetzeres? It's regel bifnei atzmo. Who is Shemini Atzeres? Dovid HaMelech. Says the goyim, it's Dovid HaMelech. Dovid HaMelech. Dovid HaMelech is tamed them. Regular vav. Regular vav. Dos, dos, dos vos the heilige yeshivos mistam. The regular vav, the makavah, dos... Remember the sukkah... I want to talk to you, chavivus haTorah. Let's talk. Let's talk vos meint ahavas haTorah. So what does Dovid HaMelech... Vos a shaychus has Dovid HaMelech. So, so far we had a goyin. We had a goyin that's vatischak l'yom acharon, shemini atzeres. We have a goyin that it's Dovid HaMelech. That's called nachash tikul goyin. In the deres Eliyahu, the goyin, ... perek aleph, pasuk yud aleph, lamnatzeach al hashminis. Ooh, shminis. Shminis, shemini atzeres. Sagt der the Kinor in the Beis Hamikdash was shivah nimin, was seven strings. Dovid is malka meshicha, has to be Mashiach. It's eight strings, lamnatzeach, and that's what it says in Tehillim, lamnatzeach. Dovid has a new harp, Dovid has. Dovid has the harp of lamnatzeach al hashminis, a harp of eight strings. ... This is a shiur about how to make the guitars and the violins are all made by Fender. Fender is the company that makes all the klei shir today. ... But the truth is the klei shir of strings are not made by Yamaha, they're made by Fender, okay? ... Dovid HaMelech, vos tut zich op? ... eight strings, seven strings, vos tut zich op do? There's ... in Tehillim, ... yeah. Okay. What I’m saying is, like I told you, my mahalach always is a chiddush from the Rebbe of Pam, that game pashut. Remember I once asked the Rosh Yeshiva of Pam about something ... chavis al bavos. The Rosh Yeshiva said, These are inyonim, ... mashteh. For simple people like me and you, we have to have simple bitachon. ... This is what he once told me. ... There’s a certain way how to bring the gantze chayus alavavos. So, it was all farshtein kipshutei, there’s gadlus and pashtus. Okay. So let’s work on gadlus and pashtus in these ... inyonim, okay? Mashiach, ... Baal geitn lernen, rabbeisei, ... shmini Atzeres, and the simchas haTorah, ... it’s keneged Olam Haba. Can I read you the ...? Like I said, we’re gonna have a lot of ... ... Naaseh rav, ... sameach me’od b’chag haSukkos, uv’yoser b’Shmini Atzeres. Ki hu yoser yom simcha mikol yemei ...

It's more simcha than Sukkos. This is al pi hasod. The omrim piyutim, the Rina, the Kol Zimrah. Then at the end he brings that mamish, the goyim was sameach me'oid, b'reivois, v'chedvah, v'chachmas adam ta'ir panav, ki lapideish boyeres, u'misapek karei. Meiredik. You know, by the Rebbe, Simchas Torah is a big zach. By the goyim it was even more, okay? Mamish, they danced. Unbelievable, okay? So in the peirush, they bring down over here from the goyim. V'chein amar, that the goyim was mosif to this inyan of simchan on Shemini Atzeres. He said al pi sod, Yom kadosh v'simchah, shekol zayin yemei achar hakabanos, neged zayin umos v'zayin tzaddikim, asher lo kein Yom Shemini Atzeres, shehu dugma lOlam Haba. So it's a tong in Olam Haba. That's a maaseh. Shelo yisarev zar b'simchaseinu. Keep in mind how I explained to you shuga baShushan. Remember how I explained to you? Keep in mind that I explained to you, Matziach al haShemini is Mashiach, David, v'stutzachop. So vilichoplen yeder shtikel fun the goyim. I want to learn up every line here in the goyim. The simchah chelek is doch pashut, okay? Meiredik b'simchah, meiredik, good. And who bigger than the goyim that had simchah, that verstanden was Torah is? Iz zayn b'simchah. Shteit zich, lo tahavanah, lo takarah, iz men b'simchah. Pos vila neged einum, soylam v'ayin sarim, pos vila mitam. Un der teretz is, olam hazeh. He's trying to say the rest of Sukkos is about this world. U'ma she'olam, and again, pashut, chaneinu, ken l'gain in tifniyonim do. Diras arai, diras keva, olam hazeh, this world, good. Aval b'shmini Atzeres, not about this world. Shmini Atzeres is about something completely different, from an ander velt. That's what he means. Lo kein Shmini Atzeres, shehu dugmas olam haba. That's what the Gaon means. The Gaon means that it's not about olam and this world. Shmini Atzeres is about olam haba. ... In pshatim, vos meint. Then he says, ... simchaseinu. Rabosai, lamed mazbizayn alle Gaonim. Let's explain all these Gaonim. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh ... Torah. I say this all the time, over the years I am baruch Hashem, because no other pasuk, no other person spoke about Torah like Dovid HaMelech spoke about. Nobody. Nobody. Not Moshe Rabbeinu, not Yehoshua, not Aharon HaKohen, nobody spoke. Zmiros hoyu li chukecha. Torah is zmiros. ... Good Chazal zogen, it's a tiny ... but l'maaseh he said it. What did he mean by it? Zemer haTorah, shiras haTorah. He spoke about shiras haTorah. He spoke about, about Ahavas haTorah, ... limud secha. Motzi Shaal Rav, ... simcha v'simchas haTorah. We'll talk about that biur. Just won't talk about melechs yesodos. You don't find it in the Torah. Dovid HaMelech mechadesh, vi medaf lernen, vi un vos iz lernen. It's unbelievable chiddush. ... We'll get to that. We'll get to all the pesukim, and we're going to farteitch it. As a matter of fact, in Sukkah's gufa, their inyan from Dovid HaMelech's shirah in Torah and Dovid HaMelech's simchas haTorah is mefurash both in the Rishonim and both in the Acharonim. In Hilchos Lulav, perek ches, the Rambam brings it down, the inyan of simchas Beis HaShoeva. Sheyismach adam asiyas hamitzvah, the last Rambam, he quotes Dovid HaMelech. V'ein gedulah v'kavod ela lismoach lifnei Hashem, shene'emar...

HaMelech David mefazez u'mecharker lifnei Hashem. Dovid HaMelech was the first one to mechadesh, tanzin a pschveisa, b'chol kochoi. Dovid HaMelech's chiddush, to point that is why didn't he even regret kegedem. She said, achrayis, v'nikleh b'ezemself. Dovid HaMelech didn't see a bizayon in it. Why טאקע didn't he see the bizayon? The teretz is, zayn avodas haTorah outweighed everything. Even the Shem Melech, the din melech, the kavod malchus. ... She was ... she held that ... nisht. And he held kavod haTorah. Kavod haTorah means ... Everything comes bursting out. Remember the lashon, and if I forget, go back to this lashon, you'll remind me, okay? Mefazez u'mecharker means that ... plots from simcha, plots from simcha. You talk about plots from simcha. Mecharker, mechazez means that he plots from simcha. That's the pshat. And those that were around him couldn't understand, what's he doing? What is it? ... mamish getanzt. And remember this lashon, ... And remember we're gonna get back to Vatischak li ... We're gonna get back to all these ... ... like a plain kin, like a child that dances, mamish ... Vanikleh. She looked at him, ... kavod hamalchus, ... She got punished for it. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh me'inyanei de'kisedes. I want to tell you the shailes. We say in Lecha Dodi, asei l'man... Moshe... asei l'man hamelamed Torah b'chol klei shir. It's one of the shailes. It's referring to Dovid HaMelech. Dovid HaMelech taught Torah b'chol klei shir. Meir de'kadish. You have the... It's one of the shailes, one of the things we say. Asei l'man, asei l'man. It's in the slichos also, asei l'man, do it, asei l'man. Hamelamed Torah b'chol klei shir. What does it mean? Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh Torah klei shir, and he was melamed Torah, to teach Torah with niggun, zemer, in geshmak, un simcha, hamelamed b'chol klei shir. Now let's go back to the matzeich al hashminis, the kinnos of Shmoneh. It has to do with Dovid HaMelech. Let's learn it. You have the lashon, melamed... It's one of the lameds, it's one of the lameds. What's the pshat? Pshat is, matzeich al hashminis. Dovid was mechadesh that there's something l'maalah from a regular geshmak. Yeah, you wanted to quote it for the oilam? Go ahead, nu. Asei l'man, it's asei l'man. Go in the sefer, nu, you'll find Dovid HaMelech, nu. Ya Moshe ... nu? All right, good. Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya. ... it has to be by the ... you know, let's see, by the ... Okay. ...

עושים ... דבר שלמה. ... זה שאניס. It says clearly. ... Okay, one second. ... למאן חיוך, מחרק בשיר, המלמד תורה בכל כלי שיר. What is this? למאן חיוך. It's going on Dovid HaMelech. למאן חיוך, מחרק בשיר, המלמד תורה בכל כלי שיר. המלמד תורה בכל כלי שיר. Dovid HaMelech. ... You want to know what ...? That's ... You have the maaseh, המלמד תורה. Bechol klei shir, nu, this, megedich, hafla fela. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh, nishna le'arnen, lamed zayin, b'chol klei shir, but the answer, the answer is zemer haTorah, the shiras haTorah, the simchas haTorah. Lama tzricha al hashminis? The Maharal zokt doch that seven is teva, that's me'al hateva. Del simchas haTorah is ma'al hateva. It's not. A normal mensch hot nisht azoi simchas haTorah. There's no such thing. And soon you get to the ... b'simchas l'yisarav zar, there's no shaychus. Tzu daven ahavas haTorah, tzu del simchas haTorah, I've got no shaychus. There's no shaychus to it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. It's something that, no, no, no, it's ... it's meyridik, meyridik, yeah. Yetzt, dos zei. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh nacha nikudah. Nishnois Torah shir, u'nishno Torah is simche, sason v'noichi, u'nishno rikud haTorah, lulei seirascha sha'ashuai. Az a badati bonim. What's sha'ashuai? What's the translation of which? A tzatske. A toy. Toy? Zei retten? A lollypop. Dovid HaMelech's comparing it to a player, a toy, a matchbox car, what do you call those cars? A tzatske. Ululei seirascha shashuai. There's an interesting Rabbeinu Yonah. I'm sorry, I thought I wanted to bring it; I forgot to bring the Rabbeinu Yonah. It's an obvious. Perek beis, Mishnah yud-ches, talks about Rabbeinu Yonah, sheyesh lishtashea baTorah. A person has to be mischashea, sheshua. He brings the pasuk, Ululei seirascha shashuai, and he says that the Rabbeinu Sholelem's mischashea baTorah. A tzatzkeltzach. Yiddish is an expression, a tzatzkeltzach. ... mit Torah, and the Rabbeinu Sholelem tzatzkelt mit Torah. Which pasuk do you think Rabbeinu Yonah brings? V'hatischak li l'yom acharon. No? That pasuk. He asks the she'eilah, vos meint v'hatischak? Vos meint v'hatischak? What is v'hatischak? ... Vos meint dos? Rabbeinu Yonah already tells us pshat. It's Ululei seirascha shashuai, az a vade tibani, a tzatzkeltzach. He brings the pasuk, V'hatischak li l'yom acharon. Rabbeinu Yonah. Novus. Shmak? Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh this. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh.

Tischk liyemachrei. The goyim zogt that Shemini Atzeres keneged Dovid HaMelech. Dos iz der pshat. Good. All the yomim tovim, Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov. Good. Ober der naye chidush fun Dovid iz oyf Yaakov Avinu. Yaakov Avinu is Torah. That's clear. In Torah, there was tischak liyemachrei, d'lo leiseraascha shashuyei. That's tischa b'neionim, rabosai. But Dovid is Dovid HaMelech, and Dovid is the mashpia from the l'ma'alah ad shminess. This new, new kli shir, shminess. And so, tamtei l'mabo. Now let's discuss, let's go l'mabo chelek from the goyim. Simchaso v'yismach zar. What's the pshat? Simchaso v'yismach zar. There's an interesting levush, rabosai. Mi daf men lernen Torah? How should you learn Torah? So the Levush fregt a kasha, rabosai. We learned from what we spoke. I want to learn an interesting Levush. The Levush has a shaylah: why do we make the siyum haTorah and the hakafos haTorah, Shemini Atzeres, not in the beginning of the year? Famous kashya from Levush. Shanah, we should have started the Torah, we should have finished the Torah. Why is it by Simchas Torah? What's up with Simchas Torah? Nishta, there must be shevuos. What shevuos? What Simchas Torah? Something is... Torah is saying this, so we should have done it, finished the Torah then and started the Torah then. But what's? Tzei fregt the Levush. Mit dachtzach. תורה ... בתכלית שמחה עצומה. Avadeh, this is mamash from Torah. That was a kaf alef hakadosh. Mit daled simcha, mit—it's all emes. There was moiredike simcha, b'simchas Torah, it's all true. But l'maaseh, it was with a kaf alef hakadosh, and it wasn't in sky. The shvuos, it didn't list. What listed? In Kippur. The second matan Torah listed. Noch simchas hachag, noch simcha mit Rabbeinu Shleim, ... mit Rabbeinu Shleim. That's called matan Torah. That's the Shemini Atzeres. That's Torah mitoch simcha. ... ... bnei Torah, ... Yah, ... it's ... It's a Ramban. Not exactly, but like this ... the Ramban. Ramban says, interesting, in Parshas Emor, Vayikra chav-gimmel, lamed-vav, ... Vikartem ... לה' עצרת היא. ... עצרת. Fragt the Ramban, what's the loshon Atzeres? So Ramban says Shavuos is also called Atzeres. Says the Ramban, now the truth is, you could work a week, a month, on what this Ramban wants, because there's a lot of zachin in this Ramban. It's a lot. But let's just take out one or two poshete zachin in the Ramban. Ramban zokt— כתיב בחג המצות שבעת ימים בקדושה לאחריהם. לקח יקר רבינו בכל מקום חג השבועות עצרת. שבועות is called Atzeres, כי הוא כיום שמיני של חג שקרא הכתוב כן. שמיני עצרת, שבועות is also. פשוט רמבם. So what was the Levush's kasha? We should do it by Shavuos. Shavuos is Shemini Atzeres, it's also. Fair. Shavuos is called Atzeres because Shemini Atzeres is called Atzeres. It's Rambam. But look what he says interesting. וזהו מאמרם: שמיני רגל בפני עצמו, קרבנות, תשלומין דראשון. So interesting, this is Pesach is like the first days of Sukkos. Sefirah becomes the Chol Hamoed. Shavuos becomes like Shemini Atzeres. This is what the Rambam. וכן יעסק פסק לה, בחג, בשעה שגולים, חג המצות, חג השבועות, חג הסוכות, שבעת ימים, ולא יעסק שמיני, כי שם אמר יראה כל זכורך, והנה זה מבואר. What's me'ir the Rambam? The Rambam is saying a me'irdike zach. There's Pesach, and then there's Sefiras HaOmer.

Sefiras haOmer is yamim, tikun, it's mussar. It's yom shel aveilus. Sefirah has aveilus in it. That matan Torah, that's not the matan Torah that needs farkert. It needs Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, with Sukkos, with simcha, and that's... there's different chalamoids. There's a chol hamoed of Sukkos, which is simchah lifnei Hashem. There's a chol hamoed of Sefiras HaOmer. It's also chol hamoed. The shiva shavuos is chol hamoed. Avodas hamiddos, tikun, aveilus, it's... What is the Ramban saying? Ramban is saying there's two bechinos in Kabbalas HaTorah. There's a chelek of Kabbalas HaTorah which is kaf alei har kegigis. There's a chelek which is מתוך עבודה, and perech, and it's schwer. It's schwer, schwerer zach. And then there's another dargah, where we can come to Kabbalas HaTorah through simchah, through... נגילה ונשמחה בך. Emtzoi. A mitzvah could be an emtzoi, you're right. There's kinyanei haTorah, and there's something called simchas haTorah. Simchas haTorah means that every hitduch simchah, b'atzmus simchas haTorah, can lead to Kabbalas HaTorah. This is what this Ramban wants. With this, rabosai, I think we could say over into Santa Zach. Maaseh rav, I told you, says that it's dugmas Olam Haba. Yesh mi sheme'aretz is dugmas Olam Haba. Must be limudim Olam Haba. What does he want? It's a mefurash Rambam, Rabbeinu. What is Olam Haba? Says the Rambam in Hilchos Teshuvah, why were the chachamim mis'avu for Olam Haba? Because they're sitting, yoshvim, and nehenin m'ziv haShechinah. What is the meaning of Olam Haba? Says the ... Chofetz Chaim. Chofetz Chaim used to give a shmues before the zman. Daf uplen, uplen, from us. Vos tut zich op in Olam Haba? What's happening there? The Ribbono Shel Olam is giving shiurim. That's what's happening. So where are you going to get your Gemaras from? Chofetz Chaim said, where are you going to get your Gemara from? So today a kid needs a Gemara, he goes to a little burman and he pays, acharei ... he gets the big fat Gemara and he's ready to go. Says the Chofetz Chaim, ober dortn, detzayn kein sefarim stores. So how are you going to get a Gemara? Zitzen ba shiur by ... Olam, and you're not going to have a Gemara. Dafn lernen, lernen, vos me'learnt dort, that abgedrukt, gets typed, and you take this with you. Maybe that's what he understood. Maybe. I always understood, Ashi mi sheba l'kan v'Talmudo b'yado. Chofetz Chaim, it's farshtehn in the Chazal. What do you mean, v'Talmudo b'yado? Talmud biyado means he brings sefarim with him, plain pashut. In a melta, kunta yeshiva. Shtelt zich, a guy comes to yeshiva without sefarim, without a Gemara. Who comes to school but without books? Vos tustich? I think, from zeiden habechdushah, I heard just the story part. ... it gets typed up, and you have Gemaras upstairs. That's what he means. I think, the yesod from the maaseh, the yesod from the maaseh is, az in Himmel, der Ribono Shel Olam zitz un zogt shiurim. And this is nehenin, ziv haShechinah. There's a hana'ah, there's a taanug, there's a taanug. This is he'orah from Rav Shach. He said the Gehinnom is going to be when you're talking learning and you want to bring a raya from a Rambam and you don't have the Rambam. Aha, because you didn't learn the Rambam. Very good, very good, very good. So this is what I think the Gaon means here. The Gaon is saying, it's dugmas olam haba la'asid. Shemini Atzeres, it's dugmas olam haba la'asid, which means it's nehenin, it's mis'angin.

The Torah alein, mehene miziv haShechinah. But this, I think we can explain a bit the gefild that you have to have on Shemini Atzeres, zeide, the Alter zeide, the sefarim say over that. He said, vot mir gefregt, they would ask me, for me to pick out what I want for Olam Haba. You know, sometimes you could pick your prize, your reward, right? So if I had the— if I were able to come and say, you know, I'm going to pick what I want for Olam Haba, he says, I would pick exactly what I had in this world: my Gemara, my shtender, with my paper to write my chiddushei Torah. Zelbe zach. This is what I would come to ask the Eibishter: please give me the same thing. Dos bet ich. That's what I'm asking. The Alter zeide. Yeah, it's a famous— I grew up with this maaseh from famous maaseh from the Alter zeide. He said that I would pick this, whatever I have in this world, so zach. But really, the taich in this maaseh is the Ramban: l'maan yisabach chacham l'olam haba. Efsher techte kasha shein. What's the pshat the Ramban fregt aza kasha? He doesn't understand. That's the pshat, the kasha. Now the teretz is, the Rebbe vet zayn anan, the Rebbe. The Rebbe, the Rebbe in the himmel is the Ribono Shel Olam. But you see, that was— I mean, others, what's your kasha? Az der Ramban fregt, nei, man yisabach chachamim... What's ...? You don't know what ... I ... Because whatever you have in this world, that's what Talmud Chacham calls ... ... enemies ... You have ... going to the biggest yeshiva, okay? But this, I think we can explain, b'simchah ... vaz mit der goyim. A goyishkeit shaychus to der simchah. A goy can never be masig the simchah of a Yid ... He said over a few times this ma'aseh. I say over a lot when there's hachnasas sefer Torah. Had a ma'aseh in Queens. We had a hachnasas sefer Torah, and a goy down the block, there's a goy that lived, very nice goy. I felt ... as a Yid, because he loved Yidden. I felt ... he used to talk to the ... he used to help us ... Number one, Shabbos morning we woke up, it was 6:30 in the morning, we heard from the backyard banging, and then we all woke up. He was putting in a swing set for the children in our house. And he said he was taught from the rav, from the rabbi, so he used to call him the rav, a goy, I'm talking about a Greek, a goy, that you're supposed to start off the day with a mitzvah. So I find on the day, the only problem is that they include in Shabbos. That's the only problem. So for us it's ... we're not allowed to do it. For him it's taka mitzvah, because he's supposed to be mechalel Shabbos. So I said, I'm just giving you the lomdus behind the story, you know what I mean? He woke up and he started. You have no idea. But until today, the swing set still stands. It's a peldige zach. It's a pel. Till today, the swing set—you come 35 years later, it's still there. The swing set never managed. This is like the backyard swing set here. ... It's a kiyum to it. But akol panim, you're talking about a goy that was mechasidim something? You're talking about—we used to sell the chametz and everything. I mean, I just want to make sure you understood the ender maaseh. We told him he's not allowed to do it because of amira l'akum. My father told him, I just want to make sure. He came back the next day, Sunday, to do it on his Shabbos. Okay, akol panim, yeah. See, he once saw us hachnasas sefer Torah. So he came over to me and he asked me, What's all the joyous, the jubilation, the simcheh, the ... which is really ... that's really the shaylah. This was asked by the wife of David HaMelech. This is asked by a goy. Akol panim. So he told me, ... he says to me, I don't understand it. Is there something special about the sefer Torah?

This, this, this is Bible? The scroll? Is there something special about this scroll? Is it unique? Is it new? He wanted to know if it's a pshat, something by a goy, a musig, an alte Torah, Hashem... He asked me if we don't have any. He asked me this question: Is it the only scroll that you have in the whole synagogue? I said, no, we have six of them, seven of them. I פארשטייט נישט, vos, vos. What am I trying to bring out? Some chassidishe... ...simchas haTorah. ...is to the goy, ...is. ...The mechayekim mefazer. ...The Daven HaMelech was mechadesh. The Daven HaMelech brought the Klal Yisroel, their yesod. ...Simchas haTorah... ...that's what he means. ...There's no shaychus to it. Shaychus. The whole inyan of shemini Atzeres, ...simchas... ...there's no shaychus to it. ...What does ... mean? A person al pi teva can't understand it. That's what it is. Mekub tevedik. There's nothing to understand. It's ... ...What's ...? Has ...? ...There's nothing but what's ... Yeah. There's ... is only because you're living here you can't ... That's what I'm saying. What's the ...? The ... is that you can't... Yeah, that's what I'm telling you, that this Ramban, that's what the Rambam wants. The Rambam, not Ramban, you mean the Rambam. Reb Zev Hobenman ... his sefer, it's an interesting ... beautiful ... it's changed. ... Reb Zev Hobenman was ... inyanim of drush, he was ... Yom Tov, moirid, mamash moirid. ... from the song, Olam hazeh is a gutte zach. I'm sorry, Olam haba is a gutte zach. Lernen Torah, a besere zach. Lernen Torah, nacha nacha, Olam haba is a gutte zach. Now, ... yeshivos ... ... I just know, I looked at it when I saw the ... I said, you know what? First of all, chutz from the stirah sheboi. He's starting off, Olam haba is a gutte zach, lernen Torah is a beser zach, and then you end off, Olam haba is a gutte zach. What's pshat in the ma'aseh? What are you saying? People talk a change already, huh? People talk a change already. Oh, they talk ... Yeah, they don't end off that way. So I'll go with the ... So listen, ... Yes, you know what? Beser ... the kashya ... Today everybody thinks he knows better than the ... You know, it's unfortunate. It's very unfortunate. Very unfortunate. ... and I'll be ... you ... ... Hasus ki kashya. Reb Zev Hobenman says a vort. Shame, shame, shame. Len taper Reb Chaim Volozhin. ... just from this ... made my Yom Tov, this ... Reb Chaim Volozhin ... you made my Yom Tov. ... Olam Haba. Guter zach. Learn Torah is better, learn Torah is da. ... Olam Haba. ... Olam Haba is gevaldig. What a farkert. Learn Torah is even better, because I have it now. ... Olam Haba. ... Okay. ... Tzulegen. ... Efsher, that's what he meant, I don't know. The Zeide told me a maaseh with the Chofetz Chaim. The Zeide told me a maaseh with the Chofetz Chaim. I heard it from him many times. Said that Mendel Zaks, Mendel, tzaddik livrachah, turned to Reb Chofetz Chaim, and my Zeide was by the bai, he was standing there. He said, Shver, shver leben. ... That's what they make this world into nothing, you know. Speak to ... you know.

Well, there's nothing. Darft ach meide zayn, as the dog says. Echadlus. You can't just ... It's good, it's a welt. It's something, you know. Don't completely write it off as ... hevel havalim, havel. Hakol hevel. Chofetz Chaim answered him, Eidem tayer. Remember, זה ייסוד הלשון, eidem tayer. Der velt oicher a velt, nor a velt. This is the world. Nor in der velt kemen lernen Torah. Nor in der velt kemen ... ... af yene velt kemen ... This is a seudah. Oylam haba. That's the loshon Chofetz Chaim said. Oicher velt, nor a velt. This world is oylam hamaaseh. They once told me that the Chofetz Chaim ... Chofetz Chaim once went to Warsaw with Reb Chaim Brisker because there was a tzavah that somebody in the hakdamah to Likkutei ... that the Chofetz Chaim wrote. He brings this person, zachah ... that he gave all his money away to the yeshivos. He was a very rich person. And he left apotropos Reb Chaim and Chofetz Chaim, that they should make sure that it gets ... That it gets to the yeshiva, his money, lachamosen. The family contested the will because they said he was over batel when he wrote it, you know, kedarke. They got nothing, and the yeshiva got everything. So they contested the will. So Reb Chaim spent weeks and weeks, weeks and weeks, to try to make sure that the will gets miskayem, because he took Reb Chaim as the chrayim of the will. Reb Chaim went home after a few weeks. He saw it was with the lawyers and zachin. It was a dead end. The Chofetz Chaim didn't give up. Chaim stood till—they made a pshara. A third of the money went to the yeshivas, and the rest of it went to the family. There was no way out. They had to make a pshara. When the Chofetz Chaim came back to Radin, he was umedik. He was very depressed. Not what we call depression, you know. He didn't come back with the simcha. Reb Elchonon was there, and Reb Elchonon asked him, Rebbe, what's the gelt? It's about the maaseh. A third of the money— that's a lot of money. Baruch Hashem, we should be happy with what we got for the yeshivas. He said all the bitul Torah that it caused, all the bitul Torah. I said he told me that he wrote his Torahs habayis in that kufa, in Warsaw. That's when he wrote Torahs habayis. Bitul Torah maybe has to be Torah, but that the Chofetz Chaim called bitul Torah, that was already on the madreigah of the Chofetz Chaim, bitul Torah. It wasn't okay. Hatter Belchanim gesagt, oder that. Reb Chaim, ... Chofetz Chaim has money ... You know what Reb Chaim answered? ... Reb Chaim answered, Olam Haba? ... Ich such kein Olam Haba בכלל. Ich’m looking to learn. I would give up my whole Olam Haba for Tosafos. So that was his nusach. For one Tosafos, I give up my whole Olam Haba. Huh? ... That Olam... ... Meili was omedik. The person who put out the main Yisroel told me that the Rosh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak said that this is the ... maaseh of the Chofetz Chaim. This is it. Because, you know, he came to get the notes. You know, they took all the ... from the shiurim that I heard, they said over from the Chofetz Chaim, things I heard from my zeide, printed in the main Yisroel. He called me up to tell me that from yeshivas Achiezer, a few yeshivas, the ... yeshivas, Rav Zalzelnik, a few yeshivas called him and told him, This is...

This is it. Vos meint der maiseh. Toisfos, you understand what a Toisfos is? ... What are you talking about? So I think that's what the pshat in the zemer is. Olam haba, what are you talking about? The Torah is a better zach. It doesn't even compare. There's not—I can't compare. Olam haba to Torah. Learn in Torah, nacha nach. Vos meint, in Olam haba is a gutte zach? Olam haba. That's what he's trying to say. Vos is the taiv in Olam haba? Vos is this? Learn in Torah, learn in Torah is a better zach. What does Olam haba? That's what it means. Maybe that's what Rav Zev Herman meant, this Olam haba in this world. That's what he meant. He said, Olam haba ... What? Olam haba? What? That's learn in Torah, nacha nach. I don't know if he meant it, but in the sefer ... he says this vort: Olam haba is in this world. Yeah, it's 10:30, I have to go. I have something that I have to ... No, no. I don't know, but you know, I have some ... Okay. ... Vayisach sameach. Vas meit, vayisach sameach. It's a pasuk, Devarim, tezayin, tezvav, perek tezayin, pasuk tezvav. So Rashi brings the Gemara, Pesachim daf ayin alef. Ach. What's ach? Ach is always a miut. So here it's l'rabos. L'rabos Yontif acharon l'simchah. Shemini Atzeres is a din simchah. It's a Gemara. Vayisach ach sameach, ach. What's the extra word ach? Vayisach sameach. Ach is l'rabos leile Yontif acharon l'simchah. Frekt the goyen, but I don't see it. Ach is a miut. Kol achin shebaTorah is miutin. So how could it be l'rabos simchah? The answer is nisht. How could you come and say that ach means l'rabos if ach means always miut? Zogt the goyen that Shemini Atzeres has nothing. It has no mitzvos, no simchah. Ach means that all it has, farkert, miut. Ach v'rak. That's all it has. Is the gantze avodah from Shemini Atzeres, there's no mitzvos, there's no nothing, nor zayn b'simchah. Vayisach sameach. Azoi zogt the goyen. Okay. Ach, l'rabosai, ai, ach b'derech klal, is a miut. Kumen tu zogen, miut nodos. Ach v'rak, nodos. That's all you have. Zeh is a tzaar, said the mevadike vort. Vis ach. Miut. A person sometimes doesn't have anything. He said it after the war. He said, We came back ach v'rak. We came back to brachin, tzhtochin. Ach is miut, takke. L'rabos, b'toch shmini atzeres, k'mo b'simcha. Even when it's ach, that there's nothing, I can't. It's the drush on the Goyen's vort. The Goyen zogt, ad heir, that there's nothing but the simcha. And he's saying, I can't. When there is nothing but the simcha, al tase dos simchas haTorah ken tzushtellen to simcha. Lulei seirascha sha'ashuai. What's the vart? A Yid has a koach that in every matzav where there's nothing but ach, he doesn't have, vitakke doesn't have what to be mesameach. Aber a Yid is a lchabachat. That's the drush chelek, drush.

נקודה. Yeah, good, ... good. You can, you can ...? Yeah. Okay, so let me just tell you over the ... because I'm ... the ... The Gaon says, Vayisa achas sameach. So Rashi says, achas l'rabos Yom Tov acher l'simcha. In fact, the Gaon, achas is a מיעוט. Achas is a ... The Gaon, because that's all you have, okay? There's nothing besides ach, prak ... simcha. Says the ... הדרושים, said it after the war. So we came back, we had nothing, but we still had ... simcha. That's ach sameach, even when it's ach, chas v'shalom. I mentioned simchas haTorah. There's something about Torah, lulei sorascha שעשועי, אז אבדתי בעניי. I want to tell you over a shtikel from Rav Shach. I say it over many times, maybe you heard it from me. Vos iz geven simchas haTorah in the lager? What was simchas haTorah in the concentration camps? He brings, he said in a Yarchi Kallah, דברי פסיכה, תשין לעמוד חס, וישם לי סגולה מכל העמים. Something special about Klal Yisrael. Try to remember how we started the shiur, that Klal Yisrael סגולה בששני. Remember the Gaon, ... לשוב. The pasuk that Rav Shach is going on, וישם לי סגולה מכל העמים. ... Rav Shach, המעשה אחד מהסיפורים שראיתי, המעורב השואה. One of the stories I heard about the Shoah, the Holocaust: הוידאי קבוצת צעירים יהודים שהובילו לתאי הגז. They took them to the gas chambers. A group of young Yiddalach, Yiddishe kinderlach, bachurimlach. ובבואם לחדש שבאו צריכים להתפשט. They had to take off their clothing to go into the gas chamber. They remembered that today is Simchas Torah. Pshach brings this maiseh. Megedik. ולפסח שכחו לגמרי מעובדה שהם ניצבים רגעים אחרי... All of a sudden they forgot that this is the last moments of their life. ואמרו איש לרעהו. They told one another, הלוא שמחת תורה היום. Today is Simchas Torah. אמנם אין לנו ספר תורה לרקד עמו. We don't have a Sefer Torah to dance. אבל בורא עולם יש לנו, אמר רבינו של עולם. ונוכל לרקד לפניו, we can dance in front of Him. ויצאו כולם בשירה ובריקודים של שמחת תורה לכבודו של בורא. Megedik maiseh, yeah? Megedik. But it's even more megedik. Not that this is not megedik, but the kook from Rav Shach, lomer, the Hagodah Lador, who spent his whole life learning and teaching and harving on Torah, שואל אני אתכם, רבותי. This is quoted word for word. This is metzutat, exact the words of Rav Shach. ... I ask you, ha'im heim meisu al kiddush Hashem? Hechayu al kiddush Hashem. Would you call them that they died al kiddush Hashem? Or maybe we can look at it that they lived al kiddush Hashem. Heim meisu b'mesiras nefesh. Did they die b'mesiras nefesh? Hechayu b'mesiras nefesh. Now listen to a gadol hador who spent ninety years of his life learning and teaching Torah. V'osah shah hayah lahem olam hazeh v'olam haba. That's what they had, had olam hazeh and olam haba at that moment. Eini yodea mah atem choshvim. I don't know how you look at this, says Rav Shach. I don't know how you... aval ani yodea mah ani choshiv. I can tell you what I think. As kol chayai hayisi nosen avur oysam rega'im shel osher v'ta'anug shehayu lahem. I would give up my whole life just to be part of those moments. He listened, Rav Eisel was tutzachakta. Rav Shach, the mehabed Torah, the gadol baTorah, saying that he would be ready to give up his whole life just to be for that ta'anug. Ein la'arichah b'kesef.

No way that you can chops up with money. ... It's a loshon over there. ... There's no harchakah. Zeh shaveh kol hon sheba'olam. It's worth more than all the money in the world. Kach haYehudi dos hayid. Dos hayid. And that's how you ... Yisroel ... mikol am. And that's what I'm telling you is, b'simchas ... is ... There's no shaychus to ... There's nothing. ... In Torah, in ahavas haTorah, in simchas haTorah, in mesiras nefesh for Torah, a goy has no shaychus. The yesod from Simchas Torah, rabosai, is ahavas haTorah. The avodah, rabosai, is not מן חיצוני, but פנימי. A body you can dance, and ... אבל what is a ben Torah supposed to feel on Simchas Torah? And the תרץ, rabosai, is it's not only חיצוני dancing, but it has to come deep from the ahavas haTorah, from simchas haTorah. And I'll show you where I understood this from. The most ... where does the din rikud come from? Where is the inyan of rikud? First of all, ... on Yom Tov. Good, b'chsid... ...אבל למעשה, ... doesn't dance and מיט דא מול טאנצן. So, the Rishonim are asking this kasha. Some, for some reason, Simchas Torah, that's it, forget about the Yom Tov. Same parents told his wife, same parents. That's ... Exactly. I can't ... I don't have it in. I understand you're right. It comes natural. I can't. I can't. Let's go with this mahalach. ... So the Brisker Rav ... Rabbeinu used to say it over from the Brisker Rav. Rav Chatzkel Sarna asked this to the Brisker Rav, and it was a whole shakla v'tarya. What's the ... on Simchas Torah? So the Brisker Rav said a vort. ... means lifnei. Whenever there's a simcha, lifnei, it's always ... Keitzad merakdin? Lifnei Hashem. David, he brings the lashon of the Rambam. He always quoted that Rambam that we quoted. David was mechakeh ... and the Rambam brings it, lifnei Hashem, and that's for the ... So whenever it's a lifnei, it needs a ... Okay. The Brisker Rav said he's maskim because of a diyuk in the Rambam, but he had a different mahalach. He said there's two types of simcha. He said there's one simcha which is simcha, shira, zemer, and then there's a pe'ulah, a pe'ulah of simcha. Right, the Brisker Rav. The shirah, and then there's pe'ulah. And he said, sisu v'simchu. I mean, I don't think he shtelt to the sisu v'simchu. He learned it like this, that the sassu v'simcha, that's what he said. Sassu v'simcha. Sassin, he said, is pe'ulah. It's a goyin, I know it's a goyin, I know. Pnimichitzoni, I know. Sassu v'simcha. So sassu means outside, and simcha means pnimi. So I wanted to use this, sefashei, we use a lashon, sisu v'simchu, sisu v'simchu satayra. It's one of the piyutim that we say, sisu v'simchu. What's the sisu v'simchu v'simchas haTorah? Both things, because the avodah isn't just tapichutz. Using this Brisker Rav, the Brisker Rav learns that there's a sassu v'simcha, so there's an inyan called sisu v'simchu. So I want to shteltzu something very interesting here. The simcha chitzoniy needs to come as a result from the simcha pnimi, the burst out.

Such happiness. U'meiltzan hacheshbon. That's pshat Dovid HaMelech danced in such a way. There wasn't a cheshbon. It wasn't that he made a, I'll calculate. S'geplatzt simcha by him. S'geplatzt. He burst. That's pshat, the goyin, the goyin, he bursted into ahaves. There's an expression in English, he broke out into dance. What's pshat, broke out? What do you break out? What does it mean? That's what it means. It means the simcha, the simcha, the simcha, it platzt. See, so simcha, simcha, you need both. It needs that the person bursts into simcha. I found a mekor by an adam gadol, this vort. Not with these ma'amar mekoimos. Rav Shimshon Pincus, zecher tzaddik livrachah, yeshiva me'or Yosef, was a great tzaddik. He said a me'orerdike zach, mamash, it shmoozed me. I had such a me'orerdike ha'arah, I thought. He said someone once asked him, why do we dance by Moshe emes v'Seiraso emes, up and down, jumping up and down, right? You know, if anybody saw it, he thought it would be strange. I mean, l'choirah, if you think about it, that's, azoi tanzen, shpringt? What shpringst du? So the emes is, you know, hakadosh baruch hu mekara lessa, because there's a reason why we do it. It has to do with Bnei Korach. Bnei Korach, they went down, and then they went up. Says it opened up the thing. I mean, I say, meinach, I mean, I מסתמא in sefarim, but I always understood it that way. Says the Medrash, they were jumping up from Gehenim. They were up and down, and they were screaming, Moshe Emes v'Seiraso Emes. It's a Medrash. That's where the Medrash comes from. Moshe Emes, because that's what Bnei Korach... They were screaming. They were falling into the Gehenim, and then they were going up, Moshe Emes v'Seiraso Emes. רבי שמעון פינחס... צדיק... He's saying, Heilige kuk, he's saying, Heilige neshama, he's saying, ... He says, We're bursting out. He sprint, sprint, simcha sprint. He says, Imagine if you swallowed hot coals. You jump up and down like a... ... says, ... come ungevant... You burst by the Torah, by the... you seize the Torah... ... Moshe Emes v'Seiraso Emes... See this Gehenim, that there has to be—it's an expression of this... the simcha. This, rabosai, I think we could say a meiredige zach. You know, the Yalkut says, ... Bach is b'osiyos haTorah. How many osiyos haTorah are there? It's beis times chaf. It's forty osiyos. He says Bach means—he says, b'osiyos haTorah. It's not beis chaf. Maybe that's what he meant. Maybe that's what he meant, the chaf-beis osiyos. I forget. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Chaf-beis osiyos. First of all, ... b'chaf-beis osiyos, what does it mean? What's the taich? It's a medrash, פירוש מדרש, ילקוט שמעוני, פירוש ילקוט שמעוני. Twenty-two osiyos. Tidua, in the lita, as they used to say over, this is alven meltza, used to sing a song Simchas Torah. Osiyos: kametz alef o, kametz beis bo. I do it here in the shul. We do it. Reb Yisrael Zalman, in Eretz Chaim. I do it here. We do it here in the shul, Hoshanas Torah. You remember it? You remember? Yeah, I see. We do this. Bad in the sheet, and the sheep. Tzayin Kedoshim. You never saw that ever. That's Chassidishe minhag. Tzayin Kedoshim is a Chassidishe minhag. Let's do it, Tzayin Kedoshim. Tzayin Kedoshim, we do in the shul in Westgate. I'm saying, but the osiyos kametz alef o, so this is alven. It's famous. It's a famous niggun from Reb Yisrael Zalman. Now, I don't know the exact niggun, but we do it: kametz alef o, kametz beis bo, kametz gimel go. The whole thing of patach also? Yeah, patach, we do every... What's the pshat? Tachlis is chavivus haTorah. Torah is chaviv. It's like a kind. We become children on Simchas Torah. Tischak li b'acher. Kametz alef o, kametz beis bo.

This is like a child, chavivus. So the Chiddushei Harim used to go visit his Alter Rebbe. They say Reb Ber. So there's a briske taich in it. They say all the rabbeim have shitas haTorah is min ha'emes, have shitas nisht. Of the Alter Rebbe is chas v'shalom. But for this reason, for Zalman Rebbi, because his Torah is emes. No kashas. Okay, so. Ich hob lib dem maaseh in Panimdiknecht. Zichron, the first person to teach him Torah. He remembered the ziskeit, ershte tog, kumen tefillah, kumen bais. Who's makeit toif in it? Who's makeit toif day one, for the first limud, for the first aleph-beis? Kol yemei chayav. V'das chavivah alav haTorah. Medem rabosai, kemitzogin, and to santen daher. Simchas, simchas haTorah. What is simchas? Unzer simchah mit der Torah? Pashut, that's what it means, right? It's our simchah with the Torah. Mi'dach tzach, the Torah is mesameach eich. Because we're mesameach with the Torah. Torah is sefridn, kutche brich hu v'Yisrael chad hu. The chibur alein, Torah davka Klal Yisrael. Azoy vi Klal Yisrael dav Torah, dav Torah Klal Yisrael. You know the famous lashon, Torah, Torah, chanani. We ask the Torah to ask on our behalf. ... Chofetz Chaim. My zeide's shidduch with my baba was Reb Elchonon's. It was his idea. ... Landinsky, the zeide told Reb Elchonon, I don't know why, to stay away. He'll take care of it himself. I don't know why. I asked my baba, and my baba said she doesn't know why. But the zeide says, I'll take care of it. Reb Meir said he was Rosh Yeshiva in Radin. My zeide learned in Radin. For some reason he wanted Reb Elchonon involved. I don't know the pratim in the maaseh. Reb Elchonon came and said, ... Reb Meir .... Reb Meir's oldest ... by my baba, and she lived by him. She lived in Radin. Reb Elchonon came. My baba told me she doesn't know why. The zeide ... and I even have the letters, the way the zeide read the shidduch to my zeide. I have those letters, and he tells her how גדול the baba is, and you have to do the shidduch. He was mamash in every pray. He promised him his house also, the house in Radin. He promised him that I'm ready to give you my house. That's the nadn I'm giving to you. I have all these letters. It's an interesting history. Al kol panim, so when they went to the Chofetz Chaim, this was said over by Mendel Sachs. Mendel Sachs was there when they went over to the Chofetz Chaim, and they told the Chofetz Chaim that they're thinking a shidduch from Reb Meir's .... So Chofetz Chaim thought a minute. Yeah, maskim, .... And he said something very interesting. He said— They took, they ... from ... Europe. They reprinted eight times, b'chayav. It was famous. It was a classic, a classic sefer. Even in America, for the first few ... Some sechtas. Mesechtes was the Ohel Moed, the mesechtes years ago. Some mesechtes was a sefer. Kitzur. So he said that Reb Ber tained that what's the gadlus? The gadlus is the netziv. It's in Reb Ber's sefer. It's in sefer. It's in Reb Ber's book. It's brought down that he said that. I mean, Reb Brus used to say it over. Reb Brus used to say over the maaseh all the time, that Reb Ber said that he was also in Volozhin in the same tekufah as the Beis HaLevi. And if em hot men gezogt, there's a halbe ilui. Reb Ber said by himself that they said about him that he's a halbe ilui. So Rav Hillel David once explained to me, what's the nusach a halbe ilui? What does it mean? So he said that every ilui has two things. Ilui, I don't know, chashuv, meshuga nechad. So a halbe ilui means he has the learning and not the meshugas. Rav David told me it was a nusach in Europe. So he said about himself a halbe ilui. Heisem from the ... but I still wasn't matzliach to write sefarim. You know, Reb Ber, the sefarim were not so klar, and ...

He attributed the hatzlacha of the Beis Aharon that he was meshamesh the Netziv, which is a chiddush, because he said an interesting thing. He said, Nishta zicher nisht meshamesh geven dem Netziv, haboich, aber nisht azoi mitelt azoi di Beis Aharon. He says, mamash yadoi lo mosh mi'toch yadoi, the Rebbe, the Rebbe of the Beis Aharon, the Rebbe of the Netziv, which is an unbelievable chiddush, because Reb Ber, he broke away from the Netziv; he went to Reb Chaim. It's a big limud by the Beis Aharon. Even if you have a different derech in learning, it doesn't mean... ...you have to be careful. People don't realize this, you know. It's interesting, there's a letter. It's in the Reb Ber book. Mamash, this is his ksav yad: Naftuli Elokim niftalti. That's Yaakov shlogging with the Netziv. Naftali, Naftali Tzvi was the Netziv. Naftali wrote it to his mother, Naftuli Elokim niftalti, which means he fought. It's a lashon of fighting, shlogging with the Netziv. And he says, he says, he attributed the gadlus, which is pak emes, because the Alter Zeide copied the Netziv and everything, his peirush on the Megillah, because the Netziv, the Shaalos u'Teshuvos, the Meshech Dovid, his derech in learning, and on the pshat, on the blatt, was the same derech, the Rebbe. Yeah, that's Reb Chaim Ozer, the famous Reb Chaim Ozer. Al kol panim, he said that also when they went back to the Beis Aharon, they told Reb Ber said, so he said, it's emes. One year when the Rebbe was niftar. He says, I didn't stop crying. It took me a year, a whole year to get over the netziv. And then after I left, we went to Kovna, we went to the Yitzchok Chaim. It had the netziv, yeah, okay. So the Chofetz Chaim said, Reb Ber tainit, it was because of the netziv that he was zoche ich tain a sandwich. That's what the Chofetz Chaim said. I remember Zaks used to say it over. I taina, the Beis Ha... wrote his sefer on Bava Kamma in jail, in jail. He was taken because his book gets communism, so they took him to jail. One day, you know, the right time, I'll tell you the whole, the whole... Without a Gemara. What? Without a Gemara. He wrote without a Gemara. No Gemara. I think the story is he had a Gemara but nothing, just a Gemara and a paper. He didn't have a shas. He had nothing. He didn't have a shas. He had a Gemara, a peh, a double-shul peh. Al kol panim, so tremendous mesirus nefesh. Chofetz Chaim uses a lashon: HaTorah machzeres al eilu shemosrim nafsham aleha. The Torah looks for those that... You see, as a nusach, HaTorah machzeres... See that the Torah machzeres. What does machzeres mean? Torah looks to come to Klal Yisroel. Divas denetziv chidden, the Torah, the Torah is sefridn mit zei. Just like we love the Torah, the Torah is mishtashteh with Klal Yisroel. It's also shashua. That's already in Zohar, that the Rabbeinu Shmishtashea with Klal Yisroel on Shemini Atzeres. It works both ways. That's tzis in Simcha, Simchas Torah. So what's the avodah l'maaseh? Avodah l'maaseh, the avodah say is ahavas haTorah, ahavas haTorah, ahavas haTorah. And every Yid b'etzem has this ahavas haTorah. That's the taich. B'sumchos lispoz zara, a Yid has it. You have to let it come out. Let it come out. Uncheshbonos. That's the pshat. Once you have cheshbonos, it's not going to come out. It sparks, bursts out. This is the mishtashea, mishtashea. This is the Shemini Atzeres. This is the davar from Dovid HaMelech. Shemini Atzeres keneged Dovid HaMelech. Dovid HaMelech was mechadesh ahavas haTorah, rikud, simcha. So the rikud is the taich. It's not rikud, it's a ked. It's the ultimate expression of simcha. Breakout, break out into a dance. Let's see the lashon of the Gaon, and we'll end with this lashon. Hu holech lifnei haSefer Torah, sameach me'od b'rov oz vchedvah.

Chachmas adam ta'ir panav, ... be'erech, u'mesapek kafel kaf, u'mecharke b'chilois. Dovid HaMelech. They're borrowing the expression of Dovid HaMelech, mecharke b'chilois, which means the ... billig, if I'm allowed to use such expression. V'achasim hameshorerim, achuz am hu achrayim. U'k'shehuchza sefer Torah l'Aron HaKodesh, shu lo yehaseh meha kol kach, rak k'mo shehayah yontif. What does he want? I thought he was b'simcha. It's a whole different ... Torah is ... it's mecharke b'chilois. It's a whole different yesod of simcha. There's simchas Yom Tov, avada there's simchas Yom Tov, avada. But it's not this mecharke b'chilois of Dovid HaMelech, of lifnei Hashem. It's a whole different ... And that is nogea in lifnei haTorah. That is nogea in lifnei haTorah. That is a regular ... So this rebbe says, that's avodah. This is avodah. It's taka b'seichel. So, ... for simchas haTorah. And it should go with us all year. It should take us all year in ... of simchas haTorah, so zoche zayn taka, Hashem yantish simcha. ... That's why I went back to — that's what I was saying — the ... in the Torah. It doesn't say anywhere that ... with the Torah, all night. Lifted. Because he was doing davar hamelech, the Brisker Rav. מצד שני, we'll try to hold the Torah and make a... I tiny even another nekudah. If you take a look, it's interesting. ואחר שים המשוררים אחוז, אמרו אחריהם. That was tznius. People want to be the center of attention when it comes to these... He wasn't the center of attention. He was the eved in front. He wasn't. It's the machnidrik. Loshon Rambam. What's the loshon Rambam? ... ומייקל גופו. What's meikel gufo? I don't know what the translation of meikel gufo means. נקלותי, איך זיך מכביל. He did things that... Loshon Rambam. He would never do that. That's what I'm trying to tell you. The minute it was over the Torah, then Simchas Yontif came into play. Simchas Yontif became the avodah. ... Simchas Yontif has a tzurah. This has no tzurah, yeda Rambam. וכל המייגע דעתו וחולק כבוד לעצמו... To complete his batlus. I always learned that's pshat in the goyim. The goyim didn't make that he's dancing. There's a whole mahalach by chassidim that the Rebbe... I'm not saying the same, but from the goyim I think it's meduyak not that way. For the goyim it's meduyak that he wasn't the rav, the rosh yeshiva, the Rebbe. He wasn't that. He wants to make his daas, v'choilek kavod l'atzmo, mischaber beinam, mekomo, choteh v'shoteh. What's pshat? The Rambam, choteh v'shoteh. What's shoteh? Chozer. It says the lashon. He becomes a choteh v'shoteh. Why is he a shoteh? The teretz is gadol. Huh? So what is he? What's the shoteh? So there's two pshatim in the Maggid Mishneh. One pshat is that somebody that doesn't—he's so involved with the simchas Torah... No, but he says, if a ked, whoever's megis da'ato, he is a chassid, he is a choteh. Whoever doesn't, whoever's mechabed himself, then he becomes a choteh v'shoteh. What's the v'shoteh? I want to farteitch this vort. Could you imagine that a man, zeh, a moiredike simchah, yeah, at his own chasunah גייט טרינקען by the bar. I'm just going to know. Imagine a guy by the chasunah, he goes to the bar, bar, metavshushi, meta... חמרא, חמרא. Which means you missed the whole nekudah, you missed. You missed the emes'te simchah. That's choteh v'shoteh, yeah.

Lamed v'amal teda lifnei melech. Takeh, it's a pasuk. The Rambam's by Yad. The Rambam's by Yad. I'm asking the Rambam's by Yad. Huh? It's by lul. It's by lul. It got this by Yad. I know it is by Yad, but l'maaseh he brings this thing. He brings the, Davar mechakeh lifnei Hashem. He brings this pasuk. L'maaseh, he brings the pasuk. That's avodah. Takkeh zocha zayn emesdikeh chasyan. You've just experienced another Torah class, brought to you by TorahAnytime.com.