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Chazal report (Shabbos 10b): H-shem said to Moshe, “I have a great gift in my treasury, called Shabbos. I want to give it to Yisrael. Go tell them.” Let’s analyze this for a minute. You heard that someone has a safe. What do you think he has in there? Depends whom. A guy who makes minimum wage, most likely is guarding nothing more than a plastic cup and a bottle of cola. But if they say that Baron Rothschild has a safe, that’s a different story. The man’s breakfront holds trinkets that whole families can live off for years. Just imagine what he has in the safe! What if Shlomo Hamelech had a safe? The Navi tells us that in the days of Shlomo, silver was so common that it was almost worthless. It wasn’t even considered money, due to the prosperity of the time. People used it as counterweight on a balance scale. If Shlomo, absolute monarch of the richest kingdom of all time, had a safe, what must be in there!

There’s a beautiful allusion to the fact that all blessing, material and spiritual, derive from the energy of shabbos. The Torah records Yaakov’s blessing (Bereshis 49:20): M’Asher shmeina lachmo, v’hu yiten madanei melech. Food from Asher will be rich, and he will serve the King’s delicacies. Which letters precede those that spell ‫תבש‬ in the Hebrew alphabet? ‫ ש‬is preceded by ‫ר‬ in the alphabet, the ‫ ב‬is preceded by ‫א‬, and ‫ ת‬comes after ‫ש‬. These letters, ‫ר‬-‫א‬-‫ש‬, spell Asher. So the word Asher in this possuk refers to Shabbos. Now it can be read:

Not Rothschild, and not Shlomo Hamelech, but none other than Hakadosh Baruch Hu himself, has a “safe.” What could be in it?

“From Asher [preceding Shabbos, i.e. bringing shabbos in early,] gives us rich food [an outpouring of our material needs]. And he [shabbos itself] will serve the King’s delicacies [will provide a fountain of spiritual blessing].

Chazal revealed to us two items that were kept there. One is yiras shamayim, (Brachos 33b) “All H-shem keeps in his treasury is a storehouse of yiras shamayim.” The second thing is shabbos: (Shabbos 10b) “I have a great gift in my treasury, and it’s called shabbos.”

It’s well known that when Rav Chaim Kanievsky is asked, how should one strengthen his observance, he usually says to bring in shabbos a few minutes earlier. This is because all blessings, material and spiritual, come in the merit of keeping the holy shabbos.

H-shem said to Moshe,

The Bnei Yissachar gives us a fascinating gematria. The Torah commands us to love H-shem, with all our heart, soul, and possessions. The words used to describe this, the phrases:ahava b’chol lev; ahava b’chol nefesh, ahava b’chol meod; add up to exactly 702... the gematria of ‫תבש‬. It works, I checked it.

“Go tell the Jewish People that I love them so much, that I want to give them this great gift called shabbos. When they were in Egypt, they labored through 39 tasks, and now I am giving them shabbos, on which they will rest from doing those tasks.” The ultimate redemption depends on shabbos. Health depends on shabbos, forgiveness for our mistakes depends on 14

shabbos, and everything a person gets throughout the week, all are shabbospowered. Shabbos is the fountain spring of all blessing.

Some people would like to tell H-shem, “Look, I’m really very grateful that you gave me shabbos. But I happen to be a very busy person, and I can’t afford to lose a whole day of work every week!

Not that I would ever do melacha on shabbos, chalila, but there some things that are not exactly melacha... like talking about business, for example. It does say ‫רבד רבדו‬, and Chazal tell us that it is forbidden to discuss work-related matters on shabbos... But what can I do? I’m tied up in my work – I can’t not discuss it for a whole day!” Let’s tell a little story. There was once a dentist who wasn’t doing too well. He had very few patients. People saw that he wasn’t very busy, figured he must not be a very good dentist, and avoided him. His numbers dropped even more. Our poor dentist was out of ideas, and called his buddy to ask for help. The fellow said, “Listen up, here’s the plan. Next time someone calls for an appointment, tell him there’s nothing available till next week. Then book him for a very specific hour, as if everything else was taken. Next patient, schedule for the week after that, and so on. In this way, you’ll get a reputation for being very busy. The dentist followed the plan. It worked! Soon everybody heard that he was a busy dentist, and how hard it was to get an appointment to see him. The phone began to ring off the hook. A few months passed, and the friend who came up with the idea called. He complained of sharp toothache and asked for an appointment. The dentist checked his schedule. “I’m so sorry, but it looks like I’m booked solid for the next few months... I’m sorry, I’m really busy...” “I’m so happy you are busy, but let’s not forget who made you busy!” Hakadosh Boruch Hu gave us a precious gift, called shabbos. Can someone say he’s too busy? Does he remember who makes him busy? The hospitals, sadly, are full of bored people, lying there with nothing to do, looking for ways to pass the time. Yidele, if you are busy, remember who made you busy, be grateful, and be careful to keep shabbos with all the details and particulars!

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Part 13

Remembering Rebbetzin Miriam Libby Weiss, Zt”l, Zy”a Part One By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

ast week, I discussed how, with the passing of my Rebbetzin, her glow and shine is missing from the Tehillim group, from our Shul the Agudas Yisroel of Staten Island, and from our neighborhood. It goes without saying that her glow is even more missed by myself and my children. This past week, I had a small surgery to remove a lipoma (a lump of fat) from my back. On Tuesday, I had to go for pre-testing at Maimonides Unit on 64th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues in Brooklyn. Tuesday is the day I prepare for my global Chumash shiur. There I was in an area where there is virtually no parking planning to lug five seforim and my notebook so that I could continue preparing while in the waiting room. I looked helplessly at the streets full of garages with no spot to park on the foreseeable horizon. I looked Heavenward and said, “Hashem please help me.” And then I said, “Miriam Libby, you always assisted me on Tuesday so I could prepare my shiur.” Barely a moment later, a car pulled out from a parking space in front of me and I slipped into the spot. It was then that I heard my wife’s voice in my ear. It jolted me! I heard her say, “It’s the least I could do.” This was a common refrain that I heard from her. Whenever she did something from me, she would say, “It’s the least I could do.” Our tenant probably pays the lowest rent of all the tenants on our block. It’s hard for me to ask for a raise. So occasionally, with my blessings, she would go down and ask from the tenants a small incremental raise and then she would bounce up the stairs and tell me, “It’s the least I could do.” This past Wednesday, our oldest son, Nechemia, made a bris on our new grandchild, Yeshaya Naftali. I saw Nechemia crying at his son’s bris and he told me how much he missed Mommy’s presence. Whenever she would come to a simcha by the children, she would have candy for all of the grandchildren and toys from the 99¢ store, handpicked for each and every one of them. She would also load the back of the car with small stackable chairs so that the children would also have chairs to sit on at the simcha. Although if we had a granddaughter, it would have been a name for her, everybody said that she would have certainly said, “Just be grateful that it’s a healthy child. What some people wouldn’t do to have a healthy child.” When our daughter in-law, Rivki, went into labor, I reminded her that Mommy would have said, “Don’t be a martyr. Get an epidural. When you get to the hospital,

tell them, ‘My name is Epidural. Pass me the epidural.’” She didn’t want any of her children to needlessly suffer. Everybody remembered at the bris how she would tell the kimpatur, “Stay off your feet. You just had a baby. Don’t strain yourself.” At a bris, she would remind spouses to make a sandwich to bring home to their partner who couldn’t come. I mentioned before how she would load up the car with chairs for the kids. It’s interesting when I would go to get a new car lease, sometimes I would say to her that I’m thinking about downsizing since we had only one child left at home. She knew nothing about navigation systems, surround sound, leather seats, or anti-skid brakes. But, she wanted a big car so that she could fill it up with all kinds of stuff for the children whenever we went to Lakewood or with packages and books for her many chesed projects. Yet every Tuesday she would shlep back into the car all my recording equipment, while assuring me, “It’s the least I can do!” I remember when we would travel in the car to give a shiur perhaps in Baltimore, Boston, or Connecticut, she would force herself to stay awake to keep me company if I was drowsy. When I would thank her, she would say, “You’re doing all the driving. It’s the least I could do.” She would stay up the entire Tuesday night helping with the mailing of the tapes and CDs and, when I would thank her, she would say, “You did all the preparing and gave the shiur. It’s the least I could do.” Oh! how I miss her kindness her sincerity and her giving spirit. May Hashem grant us the smarts to be kind and giving especially to our loved ones and in that merit may Hashem bless us with long life, good health, and everything wonderful. Please learn, give tzedaka, and daven l’iluy nishmas of Miriam Liba bas Aharon.

Sheldon Zeitlin takes dictation of, and edits, Rabbi Weiss’s articles. Start the cycle of Mishna Yomis with Rabbi Weiss by dialing 718.906.6471. Or you can listen to his daily Shiur on Orchos Chaim l’HaRosh by dialing 718.906.6400, then going to selection 4 for Mussar, and then to selection 4. Both are FREE services. Rabbi Weiss is currently stepping up his speaking engagements. To bring him to your community, call 718.916.3100 or email RMMWSI@aol.com. To receive a weekly cassette tape or CD directly from Rabbi Weiss, please send a check to Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss, P.O. Box 140726, Staten Island, NY 10314 or contact him at RMMWSI@aol.com. Now back in print is a large size paperback edition of Power Bentching. To order call him at 718-916-3100 or email at above. Attend Rabbi Weiss’s weekly shiur at the Landau Shul, Avenue L and East 9th in Flatbush, Tuesday nights at 9:30 p.m. Rabbi Weiss’s Daf Yomi shiurim can be heard LIVE on KolHaloshon at (718) 906-6400. Write to KolHaloshon@gmail.com for details. They can now also be seen on TorahAnyTime.com and Facebook.

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Part 14

Remembering Rebbetzin Miriam Libby Weiss, Zt”l, Zy”a Part One By Rabbi Moshe Meir Weiss

hen Eliezer went to find a wife for Yitzchak to continue the building of Klal Yisroel, he declared that the woman who would not only offer him to drink but would say, “Gam g’malecha ashkeh – I will also give your [ten] camels to drink,” she will be a worthy mate for Yitzchak. The attribute of taking notice and being concerned about a stranger’s camels is the awesome trait of a caring spirit. This was the very definition of my beloved Rebbetzin. I mentioned that recently, baruch Hashem, I had a lipoma surgically removed from my back. When one of my wife’s good friends, Mrs. Chaya Glazer, heard about it she told me, “I’m so glad. Miriam Libby, although she was so sick, used to tell me how worried she was about it.” It’s just like my wife to never have mentioned it to me since she knew I couldn’t take care of it while I was caring for her and therefore she did not want to worry me about it. But although she was so sick and wracked in pain, she still had my concerns foremost on her mind. When her end was drawing near and the pancreatic cancer was tearing her apart, I knew how much she wanted to talk to me about remarriage. One time, I remember, she grabbed both my hands and told me passionately, “Moish, listen to me…!” But I didn’t let her continue. I told her, “Miriam Libby, I have a long-term contract with you and we’re going to beat this thing.” I never wanted her to give up hope for Chazal teach us, “Ein davar omeid bifnei harotzon – Nothing stands in the way of a strong will.” I would tell her that Rav Reuven Feinstein, shlit”a, teaches, “We don’t have to pray for miracles. We just daven for what we say every day in birchas Krias Shema: that Hashem is a Borei Refuos, He creates cures.” I would point out to her that since she started getting chemo, new treatments, new immunologies, and new parp inhibitors had already come onto the scene. And I told her that more are surely on the horizon so hang in there.

(As an aside, every caregiver should know that it is most vital to strengthen the mental state of the sick patient. It is our very first concern. In the misaberach, when we pray for the betterment of one who is ill, we say first, refuas hanefesh, the health of the spirit, and only then do we say refuas haguf, the health of the body. I’ve seen in chemo labs, the patients who gave up hope were the first to die, even when their situation was not that critical.) To get back to my Rebbetzin, when she saw that I would absolutely not speak to her about the topic of remarriage, she spoke to my children instead. For example, she told my oldest daughter, Chani, “Totti is baruch Hashem young. He can’t be alone. He’s going to have to remarry and you better be good to her.” (Not that any of my wonderful children needed to be told this.) When my children would afterwards tell me this, it awed me how caring she was to speak about something that had to be so painful as she was preparing to separate from all of us. As the summer approaches and many in the tristate area are preparing to go up to the Catskills for a summer break, I remember how valiantly she tried last year to go there. Although she couldn’t take the noise and having lost over 90 pounds, her frail state did not make for a rickety bungalow stay. She told everybody how desperately she wanted to go up to the country because I needed the change. On a diet of morphine, Percocet and fentanyl, she was still caring about my R&R. Although these are very personal recollections, I share them with you with the hope that in the routine course of our daily interactions with our loved ones, we should scout-out ways that we too should manifest caring and a generosity of spirit. In that merit, may Hashem bless us with long life, good health, and everything wonderful.

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The Mountain of Many Names

e are all probably familiar with the name of the site of the greatest mass revelation of G-d’s existence—Mount Sinai. However, throughout the Bible that place is variously mentioned under other names. These names include “Mountain of G-d”, “Mount Bashan”, “Mount Gavnunim” (Psalms 68:16), “Mount Hemed” (Psalms 68:17), and “Mount Horeb” )Exodus 33:6). Various Midrashic sources offer different interpretations of how all of these terms refer to one mountain and in the following paragraphs we will explore some of those ideas and how they relate to the holiday of Shavuot. The mountain is called Har ha-Elokim, “Mountain of God,” because that is where the Jewish people accepted upon themselves the Godhood of the Creator. Additionally, of all the potential mountains on which God may have revealed His glory, Mount Sinai was the most fitting because it had never been previously worshipped by idolaters, while other mountains were, in fact, deified by such people. Moreover, the term Elokim (“Almighty”) as opposed to the Tetragrammaton implies G-d’s trait of judgement, an allusion to the fact that on Mount Sinai, He assumed the role of a “judge” in revealing to the Jewish People all the civil laws of the Torah (i.e. from Exodus 21 and onwards).

Mount Sinai is called Mount Bashan because the name Bashan is a portmanteau of the phrase ba sham (“He came there”), as the commentaries point out that the constants n and m are so similar that they are sometimes interchangeable. This phrase speaking about His “arrival” refers to G-d’s arrival at the mountain in anticipation of giving the Torah. Alternatively, the word Bashan is an abbreviation of the word bi-shinav (“with his teeth”) and alludes to the fact that everything which the Jewish people enjoy “with their teeth” (i.e. all material success, typified by agricultural fecundity) is in the merit of their adherence to the Torah. The name Mount Gavnunim is related to the Hebrew word giben (Leviticus 21:20) which is a blemish that disqualifies a Kohen from service in the Temple (in specific, it refers to abnormally long eyebrows). This is similar to Mount Sinai whose cleanness from idolatry “disqualified” all the other mountains by contrast, rendering them unfit for the giving of the Torah. Alternatively, the Midrash explains that the homiletic similarity between the name Gavnunim and the Hebrew word gevinah (cheese) recalls the fact that at the Sinaitic Revelation, all Jews who suffered any ailment or handicap were miraculously healed. Just as cheese is 32

made by separating the most pristine curds of milk from any impurities (i.e. whey), so were the Jewish people at Mount Sinai in their purest state and nobody had any physical blemishes. Interestingly, some explain that the custom to eat dairy foods on Shavuot is related to Mount Sinai’s alternate name and its comparison to cheese. Mount Hemed (Har Chemed in Hebrew) is another name for Mount Sinai because G-d desired (chemdah) to dwell His presence upon that mountain in specific. It is also called Mount Horeb (Har Chorev in Hebrew) in allusion to the word cherev (“sword”) and refers to the fact that the Sanhedrin received its right to implement capital punishment from the Torah received at Sinai. Of course, the mountain’s most popular name is Mount Sinai. This alludes to the fact that from that place comes “hatred” (sinah). Opposition to the Jewish people (i.e. “anti-Semitism”) stems from a deep hatred and resistance to the Torah and its values. That antinomian attitude began as opposition to the Jews’ cosmic role assumed at Mount Sinai. Finally, some versions of the Midrash say that Mount Moriah is another name for Mount Sinai. The Zohar famously explains that Mount Moriah is called so because of the abundance of sweetsmelling Myrrh that is there. This is somewhat problematic because Mount Moriah is understood to be the place upon which the Holy Temple was built—in Jerusalem, not in the Sinai desert! Indeed, Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi (1075–1141), the famous poet and author of The Kuzari, writes in his song Yom Shabbaton, “He spoke through His holiness on the Mountain of Myrrh/ You shall remember and guard the Seventh Day”. By writing that the commandments to observe the Sabbath were given on the Mountain of Myrrh, he also implies that Mount Moriah is the same as Mount Sinai. The simplest way of resolving this issue is that there are two different mountains which are both named Moriah. However, some of the most prominent Ashkenazi Kabbalists such as Rabbi Berachiah Baruch Shapiro (d. 1663) and Rabbi Naftali Katz (1649–1718) explain that Moriah and Sinai are actually the same mountain, and when G-d gave the Torah in the Sinai Wilderness, He uprooted the mountain from its regular place in Jerusalem and brought it to the wilderness, only to return it afterwards.

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