הרב מאיר דוד שמואלי - תיקון ליל שישי פרשת נח תשפ"ז

We are now in the month of Cheshvan 5787. This is exactly the memorial for my grandfather, Shmuel ben David, who lived over 100 years, a great Kabbalist , a great righteous man, he dealt with blood, his merit should protect us, things will be heard. We thank Hashem for the grace He showed me on this day, exactly two years ago on this date, and for all the mercies He has done, is doing, and will do for us and all the people of Israel. The things we say

will be a protection and defense for all of Israel, especially the Torah scholars, specifically for Nofar Parcha , Parcha bat [may her grace be the main thing], a perfect person, a healthy woman, and also Alon the son of Rachel, may he also be healthy and whole, Kafat bat Shoshana, Yosef ben Rachel with Miriam, Noa bat Tiferet, Kochava Yaela bat Esther, Meir ben Ben, Hodaya David ben Simcha, Avner ben Chasham.

Anyone who needs salvation, with the help of the Blessed Holy One, may they have all the salvations, all the supporters, the helpers, may they be supported. So this time, as we said, what is it to do things for the sake of Heaven? It is the beginning and the end. They say that when they asked, they saw Rabbi Shteinman at age 17, who escaped, escaped from Brisk because they wanted to draft him.

Then someone saw him studying in minus 10 degrees. He was studying, and he said to him, "What are you doing?""Studying Torah, what will you get out of it?" A 17-year-old boy said, "I don't need to get anything out of it.""I am studying Torah, connecting to the Holy One, Blessed be He, for the sake of Heaven," and from that he became the Rabbi Shteinman we know, it is written explicitly. In the Bach. The Bach writes that they did not bless the Torah at first, they did not think to connect to the Holy One, Blessed be He, the Holy One, Blessed be He, the Torah, and Israel are one.

And now the greatest rich man, Elon Musk, if we bring him to repentance, if he is a Jew , he is his friend. What do you need? A yeshiva like this? What do you need a neighborhood like this?

What do you need hi-tech salaries for Torah scholars? What do you need? There are orphans and widows. Take, what do you need?

Someone had their house burn down . Do you want a new house? Take. I want the best.

>> For Torah scholars? Take everything, Torah scholars. I want a hall made of gold. Take.

You want to study in the hall. Take whatever you want. Just take . Be happy.

Just make a phone call. Who is this person? He could be here today, there tomorrow. He could be rich today, me tomorrow.

He has no insurance at all . There was a great rich man here in development; he would claim that he supports the entire Thursday night [ program] here, 2,000 NIS is a sneeze for the place, surely one can support it. That is what he thought he was doing, but he had millions, hours of millions, he and his money went to atonement, not worth a shekel today. These, these are the traditions you do, this is what you hold onto, He is there , He can open up in Heaven.

You are happy, you have someone, He will give to you. And we do not connect to Elon Musk, not to Trump, not to Bibi, not to anyone. We are united, connected to the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed is He, the true Wealthy One who has everything, lacks nothing. Connected to the Holy One, Blessed is He, we are the happiest, most joyful in the world; we are with the truth, thank God.

What are you worried about? They say there was one yeshiva, the Chazon Ish, the Chafetz Chaim cried, needed a supervisor, needed a supervisor, maybe there's someone, your yeshiva will rise like Rabbi Yerucham will raise the yeshiva. And the Chafetz Chaim writes on Chol HaMoed an urgent letter, a telegram: Do not take him for a Rabbi. He came, what happened, Rabbi?

You praised him so much? He says: He came here on Chol HaMoed, started crying to me about his luck. A person who cries, why can't he lead a public? You need peace of mind, someone who trusts.

The complainers lose everything. Connected to the King of Kings, the Holy One, Blessed is He. For what purpose? It is there.

Shechinah me-afra, not just to study for the sake of Heaven, but to raise the Shechinah from the dust. Whoever thinks about this, the way opens up for him. I knew him for 40 years, 30, at 30, Rabbi David Batzri, he was a human being, told me personal things that are forbidden to tell. It doesn't happen in this generation that a person has miracles.

Such things don't happen, it's from the ancients that it happened to him. What does he say? That there were youths in the paths of Shmuel, in the paths of Nehardea, he would see every person, know all his sins, what he had sinned. He wouldn't say it, he wouldn't say it.

He would always say about my father, a pillar of...if you saw what stood above him, you'd say: this is an angel in this generation dressed in a body, run to receive a blessing. He didn't know my father, I never studied Kabbalah with my father, nothing. My father didn't teach Kabbalah, but how do you know? He went and cried: Here, here the Shechinah is, look!

Don't you see the Shechinah? The things are surreal. When he wanted the land, he bought land, there's no such thing as building on the whole land, there's no such thing in the world, you must leave a few meters from here. The owner of the land is the government.

He said: I will arrange it for you. He disappeared, gone, he has no phone or anything. He says he went, he told me that I went to the Kotel, I said: Creator of the world , I need the owner of the land. He is just standing praying, he is at his right side, says to him: I'm looking for you.

He says to him: Yes, did it open up? He says: True, I will keep my word. He says to him: I want all the land. He says: Where?

It's the government, need to pass it through offices, need permits, connections, need to give here, give bribes there. He says to him: Listen, I want it today . He says to him: What, today? Where do you live?

He says to him: Today. He said okay, the Rabbi tells me: Come, on that same day I received all the permits. Have you heard such a thing? This is just the beginning of the miracles.

This is nothing. God performs miracles, and everything goes for him at levels you can't even imagine. Why? He was with God like this, so God was with him like that.

Hand in hand. Who brings the Holy One, blessed be He, joy ? The Holy One, blessed be He, is with him. No problems with livelihood, no marriage issues, no health problems, nothing.

Whoever is with God has nothing to worry about. When I was a yeshiva student, I studied in a yeshiva that was "the best in the world," in double quotes. Everyone told me: No one will marry you. Secondly, I barely had a penny to get married; I had almost no money at all.

I only studied; I didn't do anything for money, no side jobs or anything, just sitting and learning Torah basically. People asked me: What, don't you have a good job? I only study . A friend of mine told me: How are we going to get married?

Forty years ago, there was extreme poverty. There were no loans like today, it was very difficult. Making 10,000 shekels 40 years ago is like 200,000 shekels today , and we had nothing. My parents didn't have it, his parents barely had it.

We both got married; a year went by, then another six months later, I met him. What's going on with you? He says: I made a wedding and I owe 10,000 shekels . I told him: I made a wedding, I didn't have 10,000 shekels—maybe, maybe 1,000 shekels, and I have no debts and have money in my pocket.

Do you know why? Whoever walks with God and knows I am with Him hand in hand, He will fix all my problems. Even when a person marries off his children, Rabbi of Zevil, when I opened the yeshiva, I told my wife, Rabbi of Zevil says: You can test God, there is a treasure in heaven for weddings, He will send all the money. And that's how it was, all the money arrived to marry off the children.

It's not simple; the Holy One, blessed be He , has a way to provide; those who fully trust in the Holy One lack nothing. There are many yeshiva students, abnormal people, thinking about academic studies, and he thinks: I will do this here, I'll do that, I'll chase after it. No! Whoever studies, all the money comes to him.

How? What is "how"? Can you ask "how" of Him? With God, there is no "how"; God has endless resources, it only depends on faith.

Whoever believes in God, here is a tangible example: last week for Rabbi Yoram Abergel's memorial, 4,000 people attended. A man who barely flies abroad , barely speaks to donors, just serves God every month. Basically, they reached 4,000, today they have 5,000, how? What, do they know them?

All the oligarchs, who even knows them? Which oligarchs? Who are they connected to? Not connected!

He brings, why does he want to support 4,000? I heard Rabbi Gal Cohen say: I, I give 2,000, what a shame? He says: It's a shame for an Avrech to get 2,000, he says every Avrech needs at least a little something, 3,500 to 4,000 shekels. He has 100, 180 Avrechim, I lectured there a few times, he says: I, for next month , I decided like this, every Avrech gets 3,500 shekels.

He stands there, says: I registered 3,500 for everyone, plus Kollelim and more, thank God all the money arrived. Why? He has faith. If there is faith, there is blessing, the Holy One, blessed be He, only dislikes a complainer.

He cannot be a Rabbi, he cannot be anything. A person says, it could be the best match, the best house, he complains. Why? He doesn't believe he will receive it.

He loses out, he is standing, he is standing ready to receive it any moment . He has no faith, he has nothing, nothing at all. Rabbi Shtelman used to say, in the winter term one can tell a Torah scholar. We have six months, it's not five months, we have a leap year.

And the truth of Torah, I tell you, I have no doubt that decades ago we were protected. Why? The power of Torah hasn't looked like this to me since the destruction of the Temple, such a generation. Tens of thousands of Torah students that I saw in the north and the south—two directions.

Every Kollel there, some in the north, in Tirat HaCarmel, had about 50 Avrechim, and in the south 70 or 80 Avrechim, and the head of it all is a simple man, unknown, nothing. They are all young, you see he has, he walks like a pauper, enters the study hall, you say: What is this? You stand here, another study hall. Two full study halls and everyone is receiving, may the evil eye be averted, another place full of Torah there in the south, and it's not Netivot, no, it's a place, hard to say its name, and thank God you see Torah and Torah, the whole land is Torah.

So where is Mashiach? Is there anything stronger than Torah? Look at what the Zohar writes about the Torah. We all know that Torah is, how are they treating it?

Comes a legal advisor, hits against, strikes at the Torah students, hits. What, how did we reach such a thing? One thing: we study Torah with interruptions. This Torah has no, has no value.

You could have the best electricity in the world, but if the wires aren't connected, there will be a disconnect in the lines, the wires go for 100,000 kilometers, but there's a break, nothing will help, nothing will help, nothing at all, there is a disconnect in the middle. We must commit to three hours of continuous Torah study. Two hours I was there for the Blessed One, up to Bat Yehudit in the south, in the north already five times, four times. Situation.

There was no cure for her condition, but thank God for good deeds, the situation was at the highest level of the disease, the highest, in the head, and the treatments were terrifying. Last week he told me: "Father, I have really given up." This week, thank God, the Rabbi’s student is there, Rabbi Kochi from the north, He helped me with a conversation there, he said: "Whatever you say, Father, we are doing now." I told all the Torah scholars here, three hours of continuous Torah study, no drinking—drink

before that, I don't know what you'll have on hand—no leaving, no phones, nothing—three hours, 40 days, 40 days. I just called the girl's father, he says: "A drastic change in the girl, a drastic change, the infections are gone, everything, everything." He tells me: "Her stomach was like a laboratory, tubes coming out from here and there, God forbid, all sorts of troubles, the doctors didn't know," he tells me: "A huge change." After the scholars signed, I shouted: " Strong, gentlemen!""No Mincha prayer!" They come, they come to

the houses, Mincha, the kids are waiting, the masses—no Mincha. I tell them: "Until everyone here signs, there is no Mincha here." I said, this is for her, and also for the Rabbi and the soldier Menachem Stern, son of Rachel, that he may have a complete recovery.

The two together—I have already done it for him three or four times, miracles happened there. Why? What did we do? Holy names?

Practical Kabbalah? Nothing . Only continuous Torah study. Certainly one must yield to one another and things like that, we see wonderful miracles.

And this is the message that is considered for kings. Go, a person wants a match—do 90 days for two hours; you want children—90 days for two hours; you want a house—90 days for two hours. There was someone who wanted [a place] in Jerusalem, he had a million, two million, wanted a 4- million-shekel apartment at the entrance to the city. I was in the middle, like a madman, I didn't pay attention.

He tells me: "Rabbi, I will sell, I will go, take a mortgage." I told him: "Yes." Suddenly: "Hey, tell me, what are you?""Mad." He said: "But what do I, what do I take upon myself?" I told him: "You take upon yourself 120 days, three hours, three times." You do the segula of 40, 40. I just said: "Who says it will happen?" They say three months, they say months, 40, 120, I am just leaving, and not entering. He says : "Tell me, what's going on with you, Rabbi?""Give me a hand, give, give a hand!""Rabbi, congratulations!""Today I am closing a contract." Today, a scholar who lived in the periphery and had an apartment worth a million or something, bought an apartment for about four million at the entrance to Jerusalem. What happened?

He took upon himself—Yitzhak, wait for me two minutes, three—he took upon himself that he accepts continuous Torah study. This, friends, the whole country like this, continuous Torah study. Here, you are now sitting here, take it upon yourselves. We come, we learn, speak, there is no history outside, there isn't, people are learning.

It is power , it is a strength like no other in the world. As we said: "Tzohar"(light)— " Tzaar" is a constricted face, pressure. A person who radiates light, then he has, instead of trouble, it becomes a " Tzov"(a path). How does the Baal Shem Tov say it: "Come into the Teiva"(the ark/the words).

I saw today the Maggid of Mezritch says, God says to Noah: " Come into the ark," the believer and the non-believer. Ah, come into the ark . He says: If you had, wouldn't you have offered a sacrifice before Me? Before, before that, I would not have brought a flood.

He asks him, what should be done? What am I, what can I do to stop a flood? He tells him, my dear, I told you to come into the ark. What is "come into the ark"?

Come into the words (Teivot) of prayer. If you had prayed, if you had cried out, there would be no flood. Why are they saying this? Why does every Jew have the power to stop a flood?

To stop everything that is coming out of the government. Here, in two weeks, a week and a half, there are elections. Who knows what will happen? Who knows what will happen ?

We certainly want Mashiach, we want the Kingdom of Heaven. We are inside, friends, we are inside, inside the...we are, we don't know. The world does not behave according to, according to the ...according to nature; it behaves, we want above nature. What will be?

Your Torah study now, these two weeks, will be strong, so that the Holy One, Blessed be He, will not let any evil person lead the people of Israel, so it is written. That there is no power, how can we sit...that...you know that Rabbi Kanievsky, Rav Chaim, when there were elections, they had success, so everyone said: here are our representatives. A disgrace. A donkey, who are you?

Zero of zeros! Rav Chaim, all night he has his study sessions, all his sessions, all night he read Psalms, all night, they came in the morning, there is no success, because he sat with great people all night. When one Rabbi, Shachar, arrived, he said to him: Rabbi, there is a problem with the mayor, the Talmud Torah. He says to him: Don't listen to him, go, do...don't be afraid of him.

In the morning he sees miracles, he comes to the Rabbi for blessings of...I have no blessings, stop pestering me! I spent all night reading Psalms so that this mayor would not harm the Talmud Torah. Here, there is a Talmud Torah here in the ruins, 150 children. We started this from here with Rabbi Kook who was here and they opened it through the Yeshiva.

Rabbi Amnon Peretz. He tells me: Listen, the mayor, the municipality decided to demolish our place. Who is laughing? Wait two minutes.

He says: Go to the owner of the place, there is a school there, there is a mix of gentile children with Jewish children together, who is teaching there, Arab women, and everyone wants to put gentiles there, they teach the children, Arab women teach the children, and there are gentiles and Jews there together, 300 children. Thank God the place fell to them, from 300 there were 100, a Talmud Torah that also belongs to us came and took the building. What did they see? The Talmud Torah took the owner of the place who has no permit, so as long as he gave it to the gentiles everything was fine, they were permitted.

Oh, the Talmud Torah arrived: You are summoned for an investigation. The investigator, Muhammad Abujidi, is the investigator. They sent me an investigation [summons] and told the owner of the place, he doesn't understand anything, but they gave him an investigation: You are summoned to Muhammad Abidi, he is investigating you. Where were you until now?

There was nothing. He says to me: I will do it, you study Torah all day, where is the prayer? Is there no prayer ? Rabbi Tzedaka, my Rosh Yeshiva, was ...tomorrow, next week, it's Thursday, that is the Yahrzeit on Tuesday.

So every Rosh Chodesh eve he would stop the entire Yeshiva, everyone would go up to the Beit Midrash, he would say Tzion, he would say prayers, they would go up and recite the entire Psalms. Is there such a good bitul (cancellation), is it a bitul of Torah? What do you think? In the new month, the Torah students recite Psalms.

The Beit Yosef would fast with his Yeshiva several times a month, they pray, I don't have prayer. On Thursday night the Rabbi would say: We must have Thursday night so that you can do Tikkun Chatzot ( midnight prayers). He says: When, Rabbi ? He says: In Aleppo he said, they would do all of Tikkun Chatzot, they would value it, there were no disasters .

He says: Why do we have disasters? Bnei Torah do not do Tikkun Chatzot. " Easy," Rabbi Rafael would say: Easy, easy, the point of midnight, the sunrise, put on a beard, so anyway, you finish two minutes, it's over, minutes, two minutes, that's two minutes, that's four minutes. He says: Easy, easy, he is a righteous man.

He says and then he did the Thursday night. We are his students, this was his merit, we continue in his merit, he loved it very much, he made a testament, he didn't want anything, only that it would continue on Thursday night, that's what he requested. We are by the power of that righteous man, we are here by merit. No speaking, sitting, sackcloth, jumping out of "Bein Hazmanim"(vacation period).

That is not how we learned, there is no "Bein Hazmanim". What is " Bein Hazmanim"? It is idolatry! There was no such thing in Sephardic Judaism, "Bein Hazmanim" started, as the Steipler says, from the modernists before the Holocaust, from the weak ones, the weak boys, they introduced the "Bein Hazmanim".

Look at the Steipler explicitly, it’s all the great ones; also Rabbi Avnstein writes about it at length, as does Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Luvitz in his book of moral talks, and Rabbi Hevroni writes the same—they all write this. But what? Today, everyone asks what they will say , what they will do during the break between terms, who will come to his yeshiva? So everyone follows everyone else; everyone just follows everyone else.

But there isn't one who says, with an Ashkenazi head, "My dear friend , I am not with the crowd, I am with the truth." Here, let’s see what our great leaders say; this thing is an abomination, he fights it. What is " between the terms"? They go out, use prohibited devices, all sorts of things —everyone is supposedly strong. What is this, "Jews pretending"?

We are not talking about the great ones; we are, thank God, studying Torah here—Torah is our life, we have it. A great power, we don't rely on anyone. We mention everyone who is here; we need joy and protection, but we must know we have great power: let everyone take upon themselves consistent study, the eternity of Israel, and Tikkun Chatzot. Here, thank God, there are books here —it’s no shame.

On the contrary, the Steipler commanded that Tikkun Chatzot be held at his place; it is very important for everyone. We will also hold a raffle; this is without a vow for whoever does it. And now we will recite Pitum HaKetoret. It is written so in the Zohar.

Rabbi Shimon says: Come to the ark—this is the holy Zohar. Everyone should read a little Zohar. Rabbi Ben Zion says: Whoever wants understanding in Torah should commit to reading the Zohar for a few minutes a day. Rabbi Ben Zion says: Let him study for fifteen minutes , he will become sharp in Tosefot, and he will understand all the commentators in depth.

He asks, why is the mind blocked? Why don't they read the Zohar for fifteen minutes a day? A person reads, and it is said, "Open up for him all the minds," they will open; he will have understanding, he will have memory , with the help of the Blessed Name. May God grant heavenly assistance so the Western side won't have to close the Talmud Torah, may they not have to close, with the help of the Blessed Name, heavenly assistance.

Through Rabbi Peretz, may all our prayers and all our Psalms protect them. May He protect the Yeshiva, may the entire orchard of Torah be in its place, with heavenly assistance for the students, and may we see the redemption of Israel and our righteous Messiah. Heavenly assistance to those who study Torah; may there be an abundance of blessing and goodness, with the help of the Blessed Name. Whoever has not returned to the yeshivot, let them return.

Whoever has fallen into iPhones, Heaven forbid, Heaven forbid—there are many who look righteous, Heaven forbid, who have phones in secret; it is forbidden, we must protest against them. Rabbi Shteinman says they must be thrown out of the yeshivot, because this is Heaven forbid, it is like cancer, Heaven forbid, like metastasis, may He bring them all to repentance. So whoever has one, let them repent to God—neither the boys nor the girls—that everyone should come out of the impurity, boys and girls who have nothing, no yeshivot or

seminaries, may He open doors for everyone, with the help of the Blessed Name, through the sweetening of the judgments. The Cohen family, whose mother passed away in the camp, may the soul of Oshra bat HaSaraph bat Golsan Miriam be with us now, watching over all the children, as well as Meir, David, Oshra ben Odaya, Odaya bar Tabka , and Yehuda ben Oshra.

All those listed here who are in need of salvation, may the Holy One, Blessed be He, grant them all the salvations in the world, and may they be healthy and complete in their service to Him, Blessed be He. Anyone we have forgotten and for whom we have not prayed, may they be blessed with God's help. Now we will recite the Pitum HaKetoret with true desire and will, with warmth and devotion; there is warmth in the heat and beauty, Amen, may it be His will, may He be our Lord.