Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Newsletter Parshat Naso (Beha'alotcha in Israel) 1 of 11 In This Issue Naso (Behaalotcha in Israel) June 17, 2016 Visitors - Life Events Rav Amos Luban & Rav Yoel Rackovsky in NY next week! YNA Grand Siyum - Video and Pictures! Dedications Quote of the Week - Rav Bina's Speech at the Grand The Grand Siyum was once again dedicated by Mr. and Mrs. Siyum Abraham Levine l'ilui nishmat Rabbanit Taube Korn z"l, Taube Farewell Letter 5776 - Yehudit a"h bat Avraham Yitzchak amu"sh. Ilana Scheiner MEET RABBI DR. JOHN KRUG A SPECIAL FAREWELL HaRav Nebenzahl on the Parsha - Naso Staff Dvar Torah by Rav Yitzchak Korn The Story Of The Jewish People by Rav Shai Gerson - Sefer Shoftim Tehillim List Links yna.edu YNA Kollel.com Ask Rav Nebenzahl Elisha Porat, our long-time Director of Student Life has decided to Suggestion Box 'graduate' from the Yeshiva. Words cannot adequately express our Alumni Update Form Hakarat Hatov for all of his endless Mesirat Nefesh for the Yeshiva and it's Talmidim over the past eleven years. We wish him Bracha Contact Us and Hatzlacha in all of his endeavors. RavBeinishGinsburg.com SephardiParty.com ShabbosYeshiva .com Visitors - Life Events Reb Zev's Visitors Parsha Riddle Nati Stern (Yefet, 5766-68) Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Newsletter Parshat Naso (Beha'alotcha in Israel) 2 of 11 Who am I? Mazal Tov 930 for Adam Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh would like to wish a mazal tov to: 520 for Noach, The Dibrot and Mitzvot, Moe (5764) and Laura Davidovits on the birth of a baby boy. Yosef's Sale and the Avot ~~~ Last week's answer: Plain and simple, Riddled with hints, Send Us Your Announcements Derived out of context, Secrets within. Please, if you have any smachot or chas v'shalom, less happy occasions, let our office know so we can keep everybody updated. Pardes (Torah) Contact Reb Zev Join Our List Rav Amos Luban & Rav Yoel Rackovsky in NY next week! CHUG Sunday June 19th at 8:30 PM Rav Amos Luban & Rav Yoel Rackovsky will be at the home Sammy Rauch, 155 Harborview So., Lawrence NY. LUNCH & LEARN IN MANHATTEN Monday June 20th at 12:00 PM Rav Amos Luban will be giving a shuir at a Lunch & Learn in Manhattan at 200 West Street. For more information and to reserve your Lunch please email [email protected]. Advance registration by 8:00 AM Monday morning required. (It takes a few minutes to get through security, so please come a few minutes early.) They will be in for a few days and would love to hear from you; please call them at: Rav Amos 1-646-217-9551 Rav Yoel 1-646-220-2017 YNA Grand Siyum This past week, YNA traveled to Mitzpe Yericho to celebrate their annual Grand Siyum. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE HIGHLIGHT VIDEO Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Newsletter Parshat Naso (Beha'alotcha in Israel) 3 of 11 CLICK HERE FOR THE PICTURE GALLERY STUDENTS WHO FINISHED MAKOT 8 TIMES STUDENTS WHO FINISHED A MESECHET FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS YEAR Quote of the Week Rav Bina's Speech at the Grand Siyum Birshus Harabbnim Shlit"a, birshus Moreinu veRabeinu Harav Yaakov Katz Shlit"a, all the Rabbanim, Yeshiva staff, talmidim, donors, and alumni, My speaking to you now after such beautiful dancing can only destroy the evening. Oren Neiman Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Newsletter Parshat Naso (Beha'alotcha in Israel) 4 of 11 had a very good line: tonight is like Yom Kippur and Simchas Torah combined. I would like to add that this is also a Matan Torah. As Harav Katz said, when you arrive you did not even realize that you had a Jewish soul, you did not understand the meaning of the commentary on the Sefas Emes: Elokai Neshama shenatata bee tehorah hee: "my G-d the soul You placed within me is pure". There is something very pure about each of you regardless of how well you may or may not have done this ear. Each one of you has within him a very special soul, the "chochma" is to recognize it. Yom Kippur can only be performed by a Kohen Gadol like Moreinu veRabeinu Harav Katz. As my Haredi friend said to me, G-d is not in Ponovezh at Neilah but in only one place - in Netiv Aryeh. It never fails, but every year one of the boys comes over to me and asked me how much I pay Rav Katz to cry. Simchas Torah, the Zohar writes is each of us being in the cheder yichud with Hakadosh Baruch Hu. The second year guys understand what this means, the first year guys do not understand and they run away for the second night claiming "I only keep one day". Shavuos is the "hadran" for the entire year. At this gala siyum I would like to announce that thanks to the Rabbanim and more and more and more thanks to you guys, in the thirteen years of Netiv Aryeh there has never been such intense learning after Pesach. Seventeen guys (gimmatria of "tov") finished the massechet seven times. Now we are on the level where we do not need Rav Chaim's sefer, but thanks to the sefer and the Rabbanim's hard work we all understand that this is the only way to come close to Hashem. We now understand the words of the Sefas Emes in the name of the Zohar which was quoted on Thursday night - if one properly prepares himself between Pesach and Shavuos then he need not worry about Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Please capture the high level of ruchniyus you you have achieved this year and especially this evening. Thanks go to everyone - to the Rabbanim without whom no one else can do the job, to the office staff whom without which we would also be unable to accomplish what we have, to Uri Kari. You guys have no idea what all of these people are doing and how hard they are working to insure that you can develop into fine Bnei Torah. You cannot possibly understand and I give you a bracha that you will never understand. For you to understand what I am doing you will have to become a schnorer yourself. I am sure that you are not interested in being in charge of the bathrooms which means having to clean them. When you get to Camp HASC you will understand, those who are not going I hope you do teshuva and go next year. In Camp HASC you will learn to appreciate your parents for what they are. Rav Ami spoke this morning about continuing to go to shul, to daven, to learn. I would like to add that first and foremost - do not fight with your parents, they are equal to G-d. If your father does not give you the right credit card but instead gives it to your brother and sister - do not say a word, keep quiet. This is the basics of Torah, Neviim, Kesuvim, Rashi, and Chassidus - there is no arguing this point. This is the basics of "Hashem Echad uShmo Echad". To all of you guys, all the thank you in the world will not be enough - you give us the strength to continue. It is not easy, some of you call us crazy and some of you drive us crazy. It is not easy but this is our job. How are we going to do this again next year - I truly don't know, but with Hashem's help we will manage. Everything in the world requires Siyata d'Shmaya. Thank you very much - I am very impressed with those who finished the massechet, while we all know that people from New York run the world, the ones who made the siyum were "out-of-towners". I ask you do not forget for a second the pure soul you have been granted. I wish to thank not only to the Rabbanim but their wives who open their homes to our guys either for chugim or for Shabbos. I know that not all of the guys behave nicely - the Rabbanim are used to it which is why I cannot thank the wives enough. I would like to take this opportunity to thank my wife for putting up with her Israeli husband for so many years. I would like to conclude by saying that the heart of the job at Netiv Aryeh is not the Rabbanim but the madrichim. I don't think anyone truly understands what it means to be a madrich. It frightens me to think of the punishment people will receive for the way they treated the madrich. The one who suffered for so many years is Elisha. He came to the decision that eleven years is enough and it is time to go into business. I bless him that he is very successful, whether he gives to Netiv or Yeshivat Netiv Aryeh Newsletter Parshat Naso (Beha'alotcha in Israel) 5 of 11 not is his decision. I wish the best for him and Yedida, may G-d bless them - it has not been easy. I do not believe that he moved to Ir David for Zionistic reasons but rather so that the boys do not bother him day and night. In the name of myself and all the Rabbanim I would like to ask for mechila if we ever treated him in a way that was not befitting who he is. In the end of the day we are only human beings, and as Shlomo Hamelech said: "for there is no man so wholly righteous on earth that he always does good and never sins" (Koheles 7:20).