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Opening Words 4 Chief Rabbis and Senior Roshei Yeshiva 1 2 Opening words 4 Chief Rabbis and Senior Roshei Yeshiva Opening Words 8 Rav David Lau, Rav Yitzchak Yosef, Rav Yisrael Meir Lau, Rav Shlomo Amar, Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, Rav Avigdor Nevenzahl, Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Baruch Wieder Ahavas Yisrael 1 Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, Chief Rabbi Dr. Warren Goldstein, Chief Rabbi Saul J Kassin, Rav Hershel Schachter, Rav Shimon Alouf, Rav Ahron Lopiansky, Rav Yissochar Frand, Rav Yitzchak Berkovits, Rav Moshe Heinemann, Rav Bezalel Rudinsky, Rav Michael Rosensweig, Rav Mayer Twersky, Rav Menachem Penner, Rabbi Leib Kelemen, Rav Aryeh Lebowitz, Rav Shay Schachter, Rav Ben Tzion Shafier, Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz, Rav Doron Perez Rav Judah Mischel Bein Adam Lachaveiro 1 Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau, Rav Melech Biderman, Rav Moshe Weinberger, Rav Yaakov Bender, Rav Moshe Hauer, Rav Zev Leff, Rav Gershon Ribner, Rav Yosef Zvi Rimon, Rav Eytan Feiner, Rav Shmuel Weiner Galus/Geula 1 Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Rav Asher Weiss, Rav Mordechai Willig, Rav Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Rav Ephraim Shapiro, Rav Steven Weil, Rav Joey Rosenfeld, Rav Jesse Horn, Rav Mendel Blachman, Mr. Charlie Harary Personal Growth 1 Rav Berel Povarsky, Rav Noach Isaac Oelbaum, Rav Shmuel Brazil, Rav Nissan Kaplan, Rav Ari Bensoussan, Rav Moshe Meiselman, Rabbi YY Jacobson, Rav Yisroel Reisman, Rav Menachem Leibtag, Rav Shalom Rosner Tisha B’av 1 Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Rav Yosef Chevroni, Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen, Rav Yonasan Sacks, Rav Shmuel Fuerst, Rabbi Jacob J. Schacter, Rav Noach Orlowek, Rav Professor Avraham Steinberg, Rav Moshe Taragin, Rav Shraga Kallus Woman Speakers 1 Rebbetzin Yemima Mizrachi, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller, Rebbetzin Feige Twerski, Mrs. Sivan Rahav-Meir, Dr. Yael Ziegler, Mrs. Miriam Kosman, Mrs. Esther Wein, Rebbetzen Lori Palatnik, Mrs. Michal Horowitz, Rabbanit Yael Leibowitz, Rebbetzin Rena Tarshish, Mrs. Shira Smiles, Rabbanit Shani Taragin, Rebbetzin Smadar Rosensweig, Rebbetzin Dina Schoonmaker, Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner, Mrs. Esti Rosenberg, Mrs. Chani Juravel, Sarah Chana Radcliffe, Mrs. Faigie Zelcer 3 Opening words Shavua Tov! Gut Voch! My name is Reuven Taragin. I am the Dean of Overseas Students at Yeshivat Hakotel in Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh and I welcome you to today’s Yeshivat Hakotel Vayichan Ahavat Yisrael Program. This Year’s Unique Shavua Shechal Bo Today we begin the shavua shechal bo (the week that leads up to Tisha B’Av) during which we intensify our aveilut for the Beit HaMikdash and our yearning for our ge’ula and return to Eretz Yisrael. The fact that this is the first time in (most) of our lives that we cannot travel to Eretz Yisrael only intensifies this mourning and yearning. This is why it is so meaningful for me to be able to speak and learn with you today from this very special place opposite the Makom Hamikdash- the place where the Beit HaMikdash once stood and will iy”H soon stand once again. The Centrality of Ahavat Yisrael Today’s program is iy”H a big step towards realizing this goal. We all know that the Beit HaMikdash was destroyed because of Sinat Chinam (baseless hatred). Achdut is a basic and central Jewish value. We do not have a right to live in the city that unifies all Jews if we do not see ourselves as brothers, all children of Hashem and one people. Today, though, we are talking about an even higher level- Ahavat Yisrael. We are commanded, not only to feel connected to each other, but also to love one another as much as we love ourselves. There is a difference between feeling part of one family and actually loving our family members. This higher level is not just a hidur mitzvah (an ideal). It is basic to our Torah and Mitzvot. It is not just one of the 613 mitzvot, it is what Rebbe Akiva called the Torah’s klal gadol (great principle) and what Hillel called ‘kol hatorah kulah! (the entirety of the Torah!). It is no less than the cause of Churban Hamikdash and our galut! Achieving Ahavat Yisrael- Loving By Learning From Each Other All of us consider ourselves Torah Jews. We do our best to fulfill all of the Mitzvot and Halachot. Ahavat Yisrael, though, is a huge challenge- an area that we all need to improve in. The question is how we do so? 4 I think that the answer lies in appreciation. We love what we like and what we feel enriches us and makes our lives better and more meaningful. If we want to love each other, we need to learn from each other. And there is so much for us to learn from each other. Ben Zoma teaches us in the mishneh in Avot that the chacham is the one who learns mikol adam- from all people. We have what to learn from all people, even more to learn from all Jews, and the most to learn from all Bnei Torah. If we want to strive to love all of Hashem’s briyot (creations) or at least all Jews, we should at least find the way to learn from and (through this) love all Bnei Torah- people who share our core values our commitment to Torah and Mitzvot. Too often we focus on how we are different instead of on how we are similar, instead of on the core values we share. We know and understand the hashkafic differences between the speakers in today’s program. These differences are (of course) important and emanate from the fact that Hashem created each of us as unique special people with perspectives as different as our faces. Our disagreements continue because we lack Nevi’im to tell us how to view current events and a Sanhedrin to pasken halachic shaylot. Ahavat Chinam begins with the decision to focus upon (and build our relationships off) the 95%+ we share and agree upon instead of focusing upon the 5% that differentiates. It is learning, like Rav Shimon Bar Yochai and his son Rav Elazar, to see the beauty in those carrying two hadassim for Shabbos instead of burning those same people for their shortcomings. The Vayichan program is an important vehicle to help us accomplish this because it is the platform through which people from across the Torah world (geographically and hashkafically) share Torah together. It is a statement about our being one Torah community and our goal of loving (by learning) from one another. Baruch Hashem the Pre Shavuot program had over 125,000 thousand ‘attendees’ which made it the largest learning program since Ma’amad Har Sinai. The thousands of emails and texts we received afterwards expressed tremendous excitement and a sense that an Achdut movement has begun. We at Yeshivat Hakotel have done our best to build upon this. We channeled the excitement into a committee of community volunteers (representing over 100 communities around the world) who have helped us in the planning and preparing for today’s program. In addition, we have expanded the program in two ways:- by adding a Hebrew program (that is taking place now in parallel) that unifies Hebrew speaking Rabbonim and Mechanchim and by adding additional types of content to today’s program- mental health professionals teaching us how to achieve Ahavas Yisrael and tour guides taking us to places connected to the churban. 5 The core of the program remains the same. For the first time in 2000 years, Nine Chief Rabbis from around the globe, Leading Roshei Yeshiva, Rabbonim, and Mechanchim from around the world and of different hashkafot have joined forces to present Torah to the whole world at once- in the spirit of Vayichan Sham Yisrael Neged Hahar- ki’ish echad b’lev echad. Thank Yous Before introducing the Chief Rabbis and Roshei Yeshivot, I would like to thank the many who have made today’s program possible. First off, thank you to the over 110 speakers- the Chief Rabbis, the Roshei Yeshiva, the Rabbonim, the Mechanchim, the Mental Health Professionals, and the Tour Guides who identify with this achdut vision and are translating this identification into action by making the time to speak despite busy schedules. All the speakers are speaking pro bono. A special thank you to Dovid Lichtenstein and his team for interviewing the parent- children couples. I think it would be appropriate for each of us to thank each of the speakers for the Torah they are sharing and the achdut they are expressing and helping create. May our letting our leaders know how much we appreciate their support of this achdut initiative encourage them to continue making the effort. Thank you to Shlomie Dachs, Rav Avraham Fried, Eitan Freilich, Rav Benny Friedman, Hillel Fuld, Shlomie Gertner, the Maccabeats, Abie Rotenberg, Nachum Segal, and others for their pre event videos. Thank you to Rav Jonathan Caller, Rav Daniel Fine, Rav Michoel Green, Rav Ariel Shoshan, Rav Gidon Shoshan, Rav Gil Student, and Rav Hanoch Teller for helping develop the program. Thank you to the over one hundred community representatives who have advised and helped advertise the program. Thank you to Binyamin Klein for building and maintaining the website and to Leah Rubin for creating the program fliers. Thank you to Hadassa Bennett for being our Director of Media. Thank you to the national partners around the world including the Orthodox Union, Aleinu, the Office of the South African Chief Rabbi. Thank you to the over one hundred and fifty partner shuls, schools, yeshivas, and other organizations whose names appear on the website. Thank you to our screening partners- TorahAnytime, Yeshiva World, Arutz Sheva and others. 6 Thank you to Jordan Lustman for coordinating the speaker representatives and volunteers. Thank you to Elisheva Adouth and Hannah Karben for producing the weekly Shabbat Ahavat Yisrael Chovrot.
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