Qahal

It's in general.

Have I given enough to HaKadosh Baruch Hu? Have I given enough to my Kehillah? Have I given enough to my family? When in doubt, give.

So, So I'd say along the same logic, But yet that's not what the Mishnah says.

So the Gemara says, He says, don't bother me with this.

The second point he points out is that the Jewish people in the Torah are called different names.

We're called B'nesar, and we're also called Kahal or Am.

Kahal means congregation.

Am means nation.

If you look when Moshe is commanding Yeshua, it says, You'll bring this nation,

This is what the Kliyakar explains.

You have Bnei Yisrael, which is a reference to Zerav, Raham Yitzchak, and Yaakov, which are Ma'aminim, Bnei Ma'aminim.

And then you have Am or Kahal, that's how he explains it.

And basically, we do what we can, but eventually, we definitely need the siyat ha-dishmaya.

And yeah, this is what, every time I'm in front of the Amud, this is part also of the preparing, the spiritual preparation, to remember that I'm here, definitely not for myself, but first for the Kehillah, and to understand my role as a shliach tzibur, and yeah, asking for Hashem for his siyat hadish maya.

That was very beautiful.

So maybe two more questions before we wrap up.

Melody's ideas for Shabbos Shevebroches, for Shabbos Bar Mitzvah, for Shabbos Hanukkah, for Pesach, and basically all year long.

The 300 ideas are for Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur.

It was very important to us to have different kind of ideas from different, you know, not just Kalebach, but Avram Fried and Yishai Ribbo, and Simon Garfinkel, and really different things, because basically every Kehillah is different, every Chazan is different.

And one melody that can be great for one place will be not that great for the other.

And, um, when you have a lot of, uh, uh, British elites, and this was the case elsewhere, heavily in debt, uh, with the Jews keeping them afloat, well, you, this is how you explain this kind of, uh, uh, you know, the letter from, from Queen Elizabeth.

Um, but I think the best way to understand the Jewish system, I'm gonna refer to the Kahal even though it technically it's abolished, but it's still organized along those lines.

It is a, an organized crime syndicate.

Um, and that's why, you know, h- you have huge numbers of idle Jews who are living very well.

Well, how could that be? You know, they're living from smuggling, all kinds of rent-seeking, they use bribery, everything is done within the family, within the, uh, within the Kahal.

They're not, for the most part, subject to, um, the external courts.

Um, and someone had to have been aware of this.

He set about exposing and explaining the kahal system, though a little bit late, since the kahal had already been abolished.

And his objections to local halakhic differences are seen in a truva that he wrote long before he came to Eretz Yisrael.

He was asked by the Jews of Pleven, nearby where he was in Bulgaria, whether the Kehillah should follow Ashkenazic stringencies, chumrus, in shcheta? And he said, no.

It's a communal matter, and Ashkenazi Jews who'd immigrated to Pleven have to now abandon their customs and adopt those of their new home.

In fact, Rabbi Vadi Yosef has this opinion regarding anyone coming to Eretz Yisrael.

to be a cult and which can also cause danger for children or even adults or any other thing like that.

Can you explain the difference of a cult and a very strict religious community? Because there's, you know, you were talking before about a Kehillah and Chassidus and a

Rebbe and Chassidus.

And people are confused.

The first thing which is very easy to see if it's a cult or it's just a strict Kahila from Kahila and it's not a cult.

The first thing is, let's say I'm a part of a from Kahila.

If I make my decision one day in the morning, I don't want to be a part of this Kehillah anymore.

It's my own decision.