Why didn't you go up? How many people went up? 45,000 people went up with Ezra, yet there's hundreds of thousands of Yidden there. Had you all gone up, you would have had strong, which means the Shechinah would have been stronger. Now that you didn't go up, so it's like an ארז. What's an ארז? It's bat kol. All you have a bat kol. כדתניא, like it says, משמתו נביאים אחרונים, when the last Nevi'im died, who were they? חגי, זכריה, ומלאכי, נסתלקה רוח הקודש מישראל, there's no more רוח הקודש, עדין היו משתמשין בבת קול. And they still use a bat kol. So all you had left was a bat kol. And that's what he said, that you guys... The Oibershter doesn't like you, but look what you guys did. Okay. And then the Gemara asks a she'eilah, but רבי שמעון בן לקיש, מי משתעי בהדי רבה בר בר חנה? Would he Did he speak to Rabba bar bar Chana? He probably wouldn't even have spoken to him, because השתא מרא דארץ ישראל, רבי אלעזר, was the head of ארץ ישראל, ולא הוה משתעי ריש לקיש / רבי שמעון בן לקיש בהדיה, wouldn't talk to him, because if Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish talked to somebody, כל מאן דהוה משתעי בהדיה ריש לקיש בשוקא, if anybody spoke to Reish Lakish in the street, the fact that Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish spoke to him, יהבי ליה עיסקא בלא סהדי. They would trust that guy so much, they would give him, do business with him without eidim, because if Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish just spoke to him, that means this guy is a very special guy. So he didn't even speak to Rabbi Elazar. בהדי רבה בר בר חנה משתעי? He spoke to Rabba bar bar Chana, was in a lower madreigah than Rabbi Elazar? אמר רב פפא, רב פפא said you're right. שדי גברא, put a different person, you have to change the names. אי ריש לקיש, if this story action happened with Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, so Zeiri, then the other person was not Rabba bar bar Chana. You have to change it, because with Rabba bar bar Chana he wouldn't talk, but with Zeiri. אי רבה בר בר חנה, if the story takeh happened with Rabba bar bar Chana, he's a different תנא אמורא, and he was a חשוב'ער אמורא. He is a different person. Different person. This is his name. This is his name. His name, yeah. And we got to If you want If it's for sure that it was Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, then the story happened not with Rabbah bar bar Chana, it happened with Zeiri. אי Rabbah bar bar Chana, if the story happened, zeker it was Rabbah bar bar Chana, then it's not Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish, then it's Rabbi Elazar. Because ben Lakish wouldn't speak to wouldn't speak to Rabbah bar bar Chana. Interesting. He wouldn't speak to Rabbi Elazar, and Rabbah bar bar Chana was even less than Rabbi Elazar. Wow. Because he was so great. No, he was afraid, because whenever he spoke to somebody, that meant that he gave that guy a confirmation. Right. And he didn't want to give stam people a confirmation. So he wouldn't even give these great people a confirmation. Because some people, I guess, he could, some people he can't. Right away, dugmato, yeah. Al derech,

Reb Yaakov Kamenetsky was in the yeshiva, so I asked him to give a shiur. So he tells me he's not going to give a shiur. \"And I'm going to give you an advice,\" he says, \"don't let any Rosh Yeshiva come and give a shiur in yeshiva, nobody, nobody.\" \"Why?\" Says, \"because it's not comfortable sometimes. You guys, you do want him to give, you don't want him to give. So I'm telling you as a policy, listen to me,\" he says, \"don't tell, don't ask anyone.\" And he tells, \"I want to tell you a story. I was in Toronto once,\" he says, \"and I told the Rosh Yeshiva there, same thing, I told the Rosh Yeshiva there not to let anybody.\" Says, \"a year later when I came back, I heard that during the year, Reb Moshe Feinstein was there and gave a shiur. So I told him, 'You didn't take my advice. I told you not to.' So I said to him, so he wanted to tell me, I said to him, 'Talking about Reb Moshe, it's not stam.' 'No, no difference. Nobody. The policy should be nobody, no guests should say because you can't make differences.'\" So I'm saying the same thing here. Shimon ben Lakish didn't want to talk to anybody, should Why? In the street, obviously, in public. Because he doesn't want to give confirmation to anybody, so even the great people, like Rabbi Elazar, he was the Rav of ארץ ישראל. So I'm saying, it reminded me of that story. Why is it always Chabad goes out beyond their moves, making shiurim? Because who says we accept his advice? Who says we accept his advice? I didn't accept his advice. Yeah. Yom Tov, Shevi'i shel Pesach. Yeah, comes to speak in our shul, Baruch. Yeah, so what's wrong? I, yeah, I didn't take his advice, either. I didn't take his advice. You know how many people we had giving shiurim in yeshiva by us? No, here. No, no, bechlal. Here? No, here it's open to the street. But a shiur talking about. A shiur here, we had Rabbi Kuliak give a shiur, we had... we had a shiur. Rabbi Shavel, we had all... Whatever, I didn't take... I didn't take his advice. But his shita was and he's I'm saying here not to talk to Rabbi Elazar. Huh? He told me because then sometimes you're in a position that some people you don't, and it's not nice to make chilukim, so you embarrass somebody. It's... Oder yo, oder nisht, I don't know, whatever. I didn't take his advice. I know that once gave a shiur, I think in TA, right? He is, yeah, he went to Shaar Avodat Hashem and once to... Yeah, Shaar Avodat Hashem.

When the Satmarer Rebbe came here, not him, the... Reb Moshe, so I went to ask him to come to give a shiur in yeshiva. And I told him that I heard that I know that your uncle gave a shiur in Telshe. So, the same thing, I asked him. Says, \"No, not only in Telshe he gave a shiur, in Torah Vodaath also.\" So, I asked him, \"Can, would you come?\" You didn't want him? I knew he wouldn't, I didn't have no... First of all, because the rav is Lubavitch, he was against Lubavitch, so, like, no, he wouldn't come. I knew he wouldn't, but he tells me, \"I have to think about it.\" Two days later, I get a call from his gabbai. So, said the gabbai from, from, from the Satmar Rav, \"Concerning what you asked him, the answer is he can't come.\" Why can't, why can't? Yeah. So, this a gabbai, I think, so, so, I asked, mach, mach, you think I didn't understand why? I, I knew he wouldn't come, but I מאך זיך תם'עוואטע, I said, \"Did he tell you why he can't come?\" He says, \"יא, אבער ער האט מיר געזאגט, אבער איך קען נישט זאגן.\" Why? Yeah, he said, but I can't tell you why.