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So being that is the day that we finish we finish safer kadisha and we finish uh the alterb instituted that we should make a kaduka sashas and we do that from so we are going to start with the um I guess with the words of the rabb of safer and I'm going to ask our cayenne uh zam and sak to make the sem Please come up. >> Salmon. >> Okay, we're going to keep this short so that we could get on to the main fabinion. The last yesterday's quotes that talking about how a Jew ought to love the and that the love should be one where we intend to gain nothing from it not even the highest spiritual levels and how he repeats what he heard from the alterb when the alterb was in a mode ofos that I don't want anything I don't want your talking to the I don't want Not your ganed, not your haba. I want nothing but you alone. And this I guess the Reb hopes that when we make our way through hayamy, we will a little taste of that. Uh something that we will take to heart for the beginning of Yim. I want to just share the Reb's introduction to Hayamy when he wrote it originally and a quote that the Reb quotes before he begins the actual hayyim. In the introduction for the Reb repeats what the freed wrote to him as an instruction for developing the small booklet the small calendar at tshin gimmel would be that the yumpt of which is the rash for the study of kabad and that should develop a calendar beginning from until the coming year which should include the learning of kumish with rashi to hill after shakas the way it's divided for the 30 days of the month and a structured set of learning tanya to be completed from this year until the coming year and the reb also includes inim various menhagim of kabad and various teachings from the previousb and his father and the other to conclude And with that I'll start also the very short before before includes us saying a oneliner from the letter of the where the writes in the troubled times that the world finds itself the birth pangs of Msiah and the entire world is trembling and Hashem literally has set a blaze to the walls of Galos and it It is therefore the duty of every single Jew, man, woman, old, young, to present themselves and I guess on a day-to-day basis with the question, what have I done and what am I doing to lighten the birth panges of the through Mashia? I want to just make one one line from the beginning of and that will be the be the the start which which always follows the in the in the in intro to the which is a letter from the that the wrote to theim in 1901 when he was not in lab for the YT of and uh because now we have the letter that really teaches us what is the three words I want to share here are what the quotes that the teachings of are he hemp that the teachings of the teachings of are in fact the actual teachings of the is something that we have to understand on the day of that it's one long chain it's one continuous chain of the teachings of the bash and certainly the teachings of the time. >> Thank you very much, Salman. And may it be a good start in learning living with it and especially learning the shas as the first uh time that was made was for the and we're going to ask Shim Rosenberg to make a semiferadish. >> Thank you. Um so just real quick before I uh get into the um actual summ just put it over here. Um couple years ago here upstairs Bol it was Sister and a dear congregant of ours who I I was hoping would be here uh Penny um in a moment of uh absolute clarity and connectedness as is known to be Bul on Srara. Um under the influence deeply of everything that is Srcastara. Um, I was convinced to take on learning a daily Tanya. And I think all of us here in the room, well, let me take that back. A significant portion of us grew up around this around Tanya. It was not in theory a new idea to me, but to take it on to make it something that was personal daily was very new. Um, and it was it's a small change. It's not something that's big. It's not something that's going to change your life immediately, but incrementally, little by little, as you take ownership of it. And I think that that's the key to actually manifested into a a working way um of life is something that's uh extremely important. It's not just something to say and check a box and I did myas for the day, but to actually learn it and to apply it and to put it into daily uh application is something that's uh very important. Um you know until that point I think uh Tanya to me was Paracclimate Bays until the two dots because that was the KNAS of the day. Um I think we can relate to that but it it it it little by little became something that uh you know really really transformed. Um Tanya is not something that you finish. It's uh when you make a CM on Tanya it's it's you're closing that cycle. Um and as life comes on, if you are applying it properly practically to your daily avida, as the new year comes and as you apply it in a new way to the new circumstances of life, it it becomes a totally new thing every year. So by far from this being a seamment of of completion, it's a completion of this cycle. Um and hopefully the beginning of many many more for certainly me, hopefully everybody else here. Um so with that, and 50% off. Shameless plug. What's the code building fund? Okay. Okay. So, everyone knows that um the students of the mitzvah have two components of it. There's the internal side of it, there's the external um and the spirituality, the mitzvah and the physical act which it requires. So the externality of the mitzvah of Shabas is the sessation of physical activity just as Hashem ceased making the physical heaven and earth. So the internal dimension of Shabas is one intention is one's intention of the Shabas prayers and during entire studies to cleave to the one God. Shabas as written it is Shabase. This is the internal level of the mitzvah. Shabas is the element of remembering. Zakar is a is an active present. It's not a theoretical of past. The inter dimension of the element of observing is refraining from speech about material affairs. Just as God ceased from the 10 utterances through which the physical heaven and earth were created for one opposite of the other speaking about material affairs on chabas is the inverse of the rest an elevation that a Jew secures on chabas through prayer and terror study. Um would like to wish everyone and uh >> should be a good year. >> Okay. And thank you very much Ab and everybody knows the name of the alterb was and uh the reb mentioned many many times goes on the two parts of tra and that's a part of nigla and part of and therefore I guess we go from Tanya we go to the Indian of nigla we'll go to gimar which the rebba wanted that it says in Tanya in the last part of tanya that we should make a kuca sashas so I'm going to ask Pakars Ravl Pakarski to make a seum ana makus Marus I believe and with that we'll have a completion of a good everybody. You hear me? >> Um, so we're going to make a simus. Uh, it finishes off with two very famous stories that most of us I know with the five Tanayim Rabilo, Rabbi Elizabeth Aaria, Rabbi Yeshua, and Rabbi Keva. Famous story. They're walking uh in the Roman by the Roman Empire. They're about 120 mil 70 to 80 miles away from the port city of Polei. >> That is the bay of of Naples, Italy. Uh and they hear the port city hustle and bustle. Things are happening, a lot of commerce, a lot of money. And they start crying. And Rabika starts laughing. They turn to him and they say, "Why are you laughing?" He turns to them and say, "Why are you crying?" He says, "These idol worshippers, these people that offer to false gods, they're dwelling in security and tranquility. And us is burnt in fire. and we shouldn't cry. She goes, "That's why I am laughing. If those people, Hashem blessed them with this, how much more so to those that follow his ways." We will conclude with one more story with the same five rabbis. Obviously they were good friends and they were walking in Jerusalem and they see they get to Haratim Mount Scopus and they can see with the destruction of the basic they tear their garments they do crea as they get closer to the Harabias they see a fox that walks out the area of the keshakadashim and of course the four rabbis start crying And Rabika starts to laugh. They're like, "Why are you laughing?" He's like, "Why are you crying?" And he says, and they say, "The place that it says, a non- priest that comes here will die. It's so holy the and now foxes are walking there and we should not cry." He goes, "This is why I laugh." The Pik says, "I will have two witnesses who describe the future of Mashiach." And Hashem says, "It's and the Gomorrah asks, "How are these two people witnesses? One was the first B mikdash, one was the second B mikdash." Rabbi Ka explains and he says that one N's nua is dependent on the other person's nua. is will be plowed will be destroyed and foxes will be walking around a devastating time and is there will be a day when the old men and women will be hanging out in the streets of the times of Messiah and unless the nevu of the destruction happens I I was worried until that happened that the of will not happen. And that is why I am laughing. They respond to him. I'm going to finish in Hebrew. They said, "You have comforted us. You have comforted us." What? First Kadesh and then I'll say I'll say something two words. for amen. Say a quick >> Yeah. Say a quick thing. >> Quick quick thing. A quick Hadran in the year 1965. It was at two minutes at this spoke about this of will be a time that the old men and old women will be hanging out in the streets of asks this doesn't really seem you know according to the laws of And there's another says that you will hear in the streets of doesn't really seem to match the idea of so what does this mean? So first he answers that says that it's talking about after and therefore at that time the will have made peace with us and therefore we won't have these issues anymore. But the says what do we learn now from this is our life teaches us how to live. What do we learn now from this story? So he says you see in the later generations what happened is now they building schools for the Jewish girls. Back in the day it didn't really happen. They're building schools of Jewish girls just like the boys. And as well you see women that are out there in public service strengthening Yiddish termitas obviously in a modest way and in the right and the proper way. He says that the realize this is the only way to save Yiddish at this time. And he finishes off by saying that even more so you see that thear is connected with the mitzvah. just to reach this of one day. Now the women have to go out into the streets just like the men. But obviously in appropriate and right way and bring to the world and that that year was and it spoke about the uh and it says but that that Miriam went out and she went out and she sang and explained that that it means that she she uh used musical instruments. The point was that she went out just like the men but she did it in a modest way. She didn't sing and she did it with the same power the same strength and if it says just like the the first gula with the women the of the con will also be with the women. Thank you. [Music] David, welcome. >> So, you're going now. >> Means a lot. [Music] All I need is a diet coke. >> Coke. >> Yeah, that's it. >> Not even the diet coke. Yeah. [Laughter] [Music] Yeah. [Music] I am [Music] Okay. to the Messiah, to those who made the and to all of us because we all made the the both and the and the should give us strength to continue every day to live with the daily shim and uh not just to learn it but to to apply it. Uh so first of all I'm not going to welcome people because that's my job. M Why don't you welcome everybody? This is the president. This is the president. >> Everybody please say. >> Okay. Over here. >> So um Mishi asked me to come for bring here which is in many ways the the Kabad house to the world. Would you say that Mishi? In many ways >> was your donate link. Okay. Um so we we we were talking about what what do what do we need to talk about you know what does the need to hear and uh in consultation with Mashiam the conclusion was that we need to uh refresh our memories perhaps and hear the story. Let's keep it basic. Let's hear the story. The Mitler Reba had a son Rebnim who was actually considered to be the official Utesv storyteller and every utes when they would fabang the Bav would fabang so no would tell the story and they say that if somebody would enter the room in the middle of the faban if it was a I don't know what constitutes a a hush of a guest but if it the person was a hush of a guest then would start over again from the beginning of the story. So you let me know my who qualifies probably, you know, you look at the Excel sheet and you let me know if somebody's worth backing up to the beginning of the story. Um the story of Yutteskis really it begins with uh the histoalus of the magid because utasis before it became the uh yagua of the alterb was the the hilula of the magid in tulammed gimmel 1772. too. But actually, we could go back even uh further and uh the uh Rabiel's father had a safer uh vicipur which is out of print which uh would love if it would be back in print. And over there it says that the Balsham, you know that the the alterb's parents and were close to the BMP. Apparently the BMP who intentionally never allowed the Alba to see him. He was at the and he saw he didn't he didn't alter didn't see the BMP. He was um he asked who is that? They told him it's Zeta. It's your grandfather which ultimately the Balsh became the alreb's spiritual grandfather. His rebrea is like a father. So the balsha was very involved in the parents of the the alterb's uh the way that they raised the alterb. Also they were given instructions that he shouldn't be overtly told about the balorus. He should find it on on his own. He actually even he had Mhammed in the town of Labavich. Interestingly enough, because the Alterba was a Reb in Leosna and then later in Liadi, but not in Labavich. Labavich became Labavich later, but the Alterb actually learned in Labavich with a with a Mhammed of Labavich. And uh he was also uh he was also a follower of the the BMP of but the apparently the alterb's conception was under the guidance of the BM the BM gave instructions to about uh the alterba being conceived and the date if you know everyone knows famously the alterba's birthday is which is the same as the the bal's birthday but if you do the math so nine months before is so it's really also the conception of the alterb the stalkus of the the mag the conception of the alterba and of course the yeula um the story of the the imprisonment begins it's hard to to pinpoint where to properly say it begins But certainly a couple of years before the actual arrest, it was clear that trouble was brewing when the Tanya was printed. You probably know when Tanya was printed because uh people many people remember the 200th anniversary in uh 1997 was the 200th anniversary. So when the Tanya was printed in 1797 the alterba was pushing that it should come out and uh it didn't it was late it was a day late and alter was very concerned about that and later on it was understood that printing the Tanya at a by a certain time was meant to push off the oncoming negativity. ity and that because the tani was printed not the time that the alte wanted so uh it was not effective in that and then uh the next year 1798 was the the passing of the vil nagon and that actually marked a change uh for the worse in the hisagdis and the opposition toidis to a certain extent the opposition toidis was reigned in um by the vagon there was a there were certain limits to how um to what tactics the opponents would would stoop to during the the life of of the gone. And then after his passing sort of the those restrictions uh were off and uh the opponents ofidis resorted to much lower tactics namely the msira the informing on the alterba which we'll talk about which led to his imprisonment. So the year that the alterba was arrested and imprisoned. So now we're talking about um 1799. It was already very clear before Roshashana that something intense was happening. There's a whole strange story about actually that summer. Um it's a story that's that it's in the rishimas that the rebba heard from the fidicba and the reba writes about it in the rishimus. It's a very strange story about monkeyus and it seems to be unrelated to the arrest and the imprisonment. But the reba says that the fidicba told him that whenever this story was told this strange story about it was always told as a precursor to the arrest and uh imprisonment in short very very strange story. There were a couple of sorcerers like uh witches in uh in a town called Palotsk. And they would they enjoyed putting curses on Jews. And apparently most of their curses had to do with humiliation. Like they would get Jews to take off their yarmaka and sit there with the uncovered head and you know religious Jews who would then be mortified afterwards. And this was the type of harassment they were involved in. At any rate, Schmo Monkis who was a of the alterb he was famed for his very colorful personality. And there are many many stories of Rebonus that we could tell. But uh Rebul decided he's going to take on the uh the sorcerers. So it was in a cret. It was in an inn. And he came over to them and he they they told him stay away from them. These guys are dangerous. But he came over and started making conversation. Apparently they started speaking religion with him. They got him into a religious discussion and then after a while they started asking him what do you think about kishov about sorcery about magic and uh he knew where they were heading and then they said how would you like to see our magic? So he says yeah sure. So, they said, "We would like you to uh drink a special cup of vodka, and we're going to have it tested out that there's nothing physically wrong with it. We're going to someone's going to inspect it, and they're going to say you they're going to verify this is regular vodka, but we're just going to say a few words. We're going to whisper a few incantations over this vodka, and you're going to drink it." And says, "That's fine, but then you you have to drink my vodka." So they made the deal and they took the cup and everyone inspected the cup and it was just a regular cup from the bar and they went and they did their hocus pocus on it and they gave it to them and he drank it and he was fine. And they were very uh surprised because I think uh apparently they they they thought it would kill him and he said now you have to drink my cup. and he gave them each a cup to drink and one of the two uh kish makers died later that night and the other one died the next day. So apparently Rashashana whenus came to Lejna the alterb was very very serious and he even confronted about why did you do that why did you get involved in that the who was a child I think he was nine years old at the time he was still under the alterb's talis during teas he said that my was you know the alterba raised the tamak says my was very very serious like agitated like it was a it was very concerning and then later left and then he came back for Yim Kipper and apparently there was like this massive flock of ravens you know like crows that were blocking his way and it was Kipper and he had the Davin Mina out in the field because he couldn't pass through these ravens And then eventually the alterb was in shul and he he said somebody go get and he sent I think Isaac and Pinz had to go and and the mitb had to go and get uh and bring him and then he didn't even dav in the alterbas he dav somewhere else it was a very strange thing and uh so that the the fba told the what the reba writes in rushimas that whenever this story was told strange story then the end of the story was always and this all took place the summer before the alterba was arrested meaning to say that there was a connection I'm not going to make up interpretations in fact tonight's more about telling the stories than giving commentary but that's that's the story and that's how it was told now even simasto that year we mentioned we mentioned yim kiper but simto Simo is still Simo. But that year even Simo was very very somber. And in fact, they had already come for the alter and he he snuck out of the house and he he hid in the cemetery until they left. But then he knew they were coming back. There's a famous story. It was Isra when he was arrested. the the alterb actually consulted before he allowed them to take him. He consulted with monks, the aforementioned and the alterb asked should I allow them to arrest me because the alter was deliberating whether or not he should he should consent. So says to the alter very yeah he as I said he was a colorful personality. So he said it in a very funny way. He said, "What difference does it make? If you are a Reb, then nothing they can do to you will hurt you. And if you're not a Reb, then you deserve whatever they do to you, for you're having deprived so many people of their pleasure of this world." Now, I said I'm not going to get into commentary. I'm just going to tell stories. But this barely qualifies as commentary. What does it mean? The alterba deprived so many people of their enjoyment of this world. See, this is not muser. Muser will come and tell you how little value there is to the physical world. And it puts it down. It says all physical things are temporary and they rot and they fall apart. You should picture the day of death. That's not what is elus. It's talking about godliness. But the point is like this that when you learn enough and you understand the nature of reality, then automatically without specifically putting down material pleasures for their own sake, you kind of get the hint that it's not really what life's about. And even if you want to enjoy it, you can't enjoy it as much as you would if you had been ignorant of what teaches. Like they say, ignorance is bliss. So the alterb was telling people too much of the truth. And it after you know too much of the truth, you can't unknow what you know and that's it. You can't go back to enjoying it the way you used to enjoy it. There was uh a couple of bakim. They asked the guy, "Excuse me, sir, are you Jewish?" This happened. I remember this when it's this happened in my days. I mean, this is the the 90s. So, the guy screams at them, "Get away from me. I hate labavatures." And they said, "Excuse me, you know nothing about Labavich." I don't I don't know anything about Labavage. When I was a teenager, my parents sent me to learn in Labavich. So, I think I know what I'm talking about. So, then they got scared. Oh, no. How did he get traumatized in Labavage? So, they said, "What happened? Why do you hate Labavage?" He says, "Listen, I'm not religious. I do whatever I want but because of the stuff I learned there I can never fully enjoy myself. So I hate labavage. So tells the alterb listen if you're a reb they can't hurt you. If you're not a rabbi then what right did you have depriving people of their sob consented to be arrested. It was a Thursday. It was a Thursday when he was arrested was a Thursday. It was actually already Thursday night. It was the night coming out of Isra and uh so the next day obviously was a Friday was an ad of Shabas and uh it was 10:30 a.m. and the Alterba was already concerned about traveling on Shabas and he told them to stop the wagon and they refused and then all of a sudden the axle broke. They couldn't go any further. So then they went uh and they fixed the axle and after they fixed the axle, Alva told them, "We're not going." And they said, "No, no, no. We're going. We're going." And then the horse died. Then they went to they had to go to town and they had to get a new horse and they brought the new horse. And then the horses wouldn't move. They wouldn't budge. So at this point, they saw the Alterba is in control and they said, "Listen, okay, we understand you don't want to travel on Shabas, but can we go to town? At least can we go to the town? We'll stay in a hotel. We'll stay in a normal place. The Ala said, "No." They said, "Could we at least get off the middle of the road? Can we pull over to the side?" He said, "We could pull over to the side." Yeah. And they pulled over to the side of the road. And Mold Alter, who was a Mashiaim, he lived in Neville. And he he said that that tree or that that that the spot that they stayed on the side of the road, there was a tree there. And it was outside of Neville. And the people in Neville knew where it was. And he used to when he would fabul would describe that spot that he had seen that spot and there the tree there was very uh very healthy, very robust and that was the spot where the alterba spent shabas on his way to prison. Okay. So they bring the alterba to prison. And uh we should mention that before he left the aliba left a note on his desk and they found that after he would left certain instructions verbally and also he left a note on his desk. So the note on his desk, the Reb spoke about this was he just wrote a PK from Kufud, you know, from the long uh chapter 119 of Tumi ministers, you know, government officials are are chasing me for not meaning they're chasing me, but they're not going to get what they want. uh uh from from your but from your word I fear. And the Reb spoke about this saying that this is not just the alterba, this is every yeid that you should know that even if the Sodom if the powers that be so to speak are god forbid pursuing a Jew, it's it's for not because they don't really have power. They don't really have the control. That's why from Hashem's word is what we fear. We only fear Hashem. And that was the alterb's approach to his entire imprisonment. And this is also the approach of every Yid that uh there's really no one in control. Only Hashem is in control. We have nothing to fear even from Sodom and all types of powerful people who seem powerful but really everything is in Hashem's hands. Verbally the Alterba gave instructions. Uh he told them that um his brother-in-law I think it was his was his brother-in-law Reb is Kaix should go to uh Petterburg. He said you should go straight there. He said you should go straight there which becomes relevant to this story later on because he literally went straight there. He didn't go home to even get his passport. So he didn't have papers and he didn't even go to to change clothing or to even to pack clothing. So and this becomes pertinent later. Uh and then he told another um who's actually one of the uh from Kabad. We should speak about Kabad in a second because that is very much involved in the story here. He told this that he should go to the and to bring a pawn and get a bra from the bed. Um maybe let's back up just mention quickly kabad when mendaler who was one of the talmid along with the alterb who was one of he was one of the senior tid men also called mendel vitskar after theus of the magid the alterb treated mendel as a rabbi and then when mendal went toro the the the alterba wanted to go with him. He actually wanted to follow him and he made the difficult decision not to go to remain in in Russia and to lead the community in Russia, not to abandon the community even though he wanted to go follow. After that happened, the alterb started as a way of supporting the uh aliyah which was basically who were leaving Russia who had they were very poor in Russia and they were going to and they became even more poor because there was literally nothing there. there was no way to to make a living and they were basically dependent on ona and so the alterba created kabad in order to support that community first it was in uh and then later invaria actually there's a there's a story a well-known story the rabb told that when mendal haraka was invaria first he was infas he said it was too intense for him too much light he had to then he had moved to somebody started a rumor that Msiah had arrived and apparently it started. Somebody uh went on haram and he was uh sounding aer and the rumor started. So by the time the rumor came to Tvaria they were saying he heard the news from you Msiah is here and they told it and he went to his window in his house in Tara and he opened the window and he stuck his head out and he gave a smell and he said oh unfortunately it's not true Mashiah is not here. So that when he would tell the story, he pointed out first of all this shows you the incredible spiritual sensitiv sensitivity of Ra Mendel that he could smell. He could just give a whiff and you could tell if Mashia's here. But there's there's a there's a detail in this story, a nuance in this story that you know you would miss it if it's not pointed out to you. The deb pointed it out. How come he had to go stick his head out of the window to smell? And the answer is because in the Mendele's house, it always smelled like Msiah. He was always living with Mashiach. He had to smell outside, see if the world had caught up yet. Unfortunately, he hadn't. So maybe we'll we'll talk about this this who was uh he he would collect funds for Kabad and he was the one who was dispatched to the bed. So he he comes to and uh it's a very interesting uh discussion or interaction that they have. One thing is the asked was was the alter disturbed and so the rabbi said externally yes internally no sok says what does that mean he says well I say externally yeah because he he forgot his slippers his panto he didn't bring his slippers when they brought him to prison you bring you know you can bring a bag you know bring your overnight bag so he forgot his slippers but internally no he wasn't uh disturbed because he remembered his taliscent fill so the the vicha says ah there are litak cooked good like by the mag they would call the alterbak in this case he didn't mean the alterba he meant the alterb is most of the tamilida mag were what we called paleer and they referred to the alterb and the alterbidum as litox culturally they were Lithuanian they had a different accent like when the alterba came to me and he he added there's a story he said y instead of g y they had a different accent different culture different temperament different style so he said their litak the the litvak perceives well like the liked that he said that that was a good uh Good cop. Good insight. So, uh, apparently that the the the Badicha was smoking a pipe and he says, you know, with this pipe I could burn down Peterberg. What does that mean? Like I guess like in California they had like the forest fires, you know, you try to figure out what starts the wildfires. Some guy with like uh cooking chicken on a grill and makes a whole forest fire. What did the vintage mean? I could burn down Peterberg with a with a pipe. He didn't mean he's going to go like you know Smokey the Bear only you can prevent fire forest fires he's going to go light fire to Petber he meant in a you know in a in a miraculous way and interestingly the says is and he doesn't like makim he doesn't like transcendent spiritual uh miraculous stuff he does everything but it has to be normal has to be natural which in general was one of the big differences between the pale approach and the d of kabad is that miracles were sort of downplayed or even avoided so meaning say that al theicha was saying there are spiritual ways to get him out of this you know we can do some some spiritual stuff and which by the way again I'm refraining from any commentary but perhaps maybe could be the monk story with the with the kishv perhaps Perhaps a similar thing is in play there why the alterba didn't like that meaning to say we try to stay away from that stuff even though you know we're able to do it but we we don't do it. So the the the accepted this like that basically the alterba has decided this has to play out and this is an important theme by the way to the whole kisliff story that they the alterb is clearly in control the entire time like even bad he consented to be arrested but then spiritually for sure he was in control. I told you the story how he stopped the wagon. I'll tell you a story in a minute how he stopped the the the ferry boat. So the altar is clearly in control and yet he wants the process to play itself out naturally as much as possible which we'll speak about because actually the Fredba this is not my commentary the freed explained why that was maybe I'll tell the ferryboat story and then we'll come back to the berdicha story this is all a little bit uh stream of consciousness here um the ferboat stories like this when they would interrogate the alterb so the prison was on one side of the river and then the the courthouse where he would be questioned was he had to cross the river. So when they brought him across the river I assume this means this was I mean he was in prison 53 days like I said he left and he was there until yasis. So I'm I'm assuming this was after Zion Kislv or maybe it was after Zen Kashan. It was one of those. It was one of the times you say kdish lavana. So it could have only been two two of those months. I never heard which one of the two it was. But the alterba wanted to say kdish lavana. And he told the ferryboat captain to stop the boat and the guy refused. And then the alterba did something and he made the boat stop and then he released it and he says now you stop it. Now you stop the boat. And they went back and forth like this. And finally the guy says I want a brah I want you know the reb should should venge me. So he says fine I'll give you a blessing. No in writing in writing. So the al wrote a blessing for this non-Jewish ferryboat captain which actually this the ferryboat captain went on to become I mean I because of the blessing he went on to become much more than a ferryboat captain. became very successful and he lived very long and there was a actually who was the rav of before the Reb's father and he actually saw the kotche the the holy handwriting of the alterba this this blessing he was in the home of this non-Jewish pharaoh captain's son and he saw he had this uh blessing Um I think he had it framed on the wall. So that the alterba gives him a blessing and uh the guy stops the boat and then the alterba says so the said that I heard this story since I was a kid but I never understood why it had to be that way because clearly the alterba could stop the boat on his own. Why did he have to get this non-Jewish captain to stop the boat? And especially in exchange for blessings, like why did he have to do that? And the says, "As I got older and I learned, I realized the importance of of making a dwelling place for Hashem in this world, which means engaging this world. And if you avoid the world by using miracles which sort of sidestep the process of nature then it doesn't have the refining impact on the world and that's why it was so important to the alterba that everything should go through channels of nature. So the fidba said that explicitly about this story about the kdish lavana on the boat but you could imply it to the entire imprisonment that the alterba wanted it to go through natural channels. In other words, that in the end the non-Jewish officials who were interrogating him and who were um deciding his fate that they should make a decision based on their own reasoning and their own understanding to to acquit him that it had to go through that natural process and indeed in the end and I'm jumping to the end of the story when the alterba came out of prison he wrote three letters one to the one to the one to And this the letter to the the was all about the incredible effect that the imprisonment and the trial had on the non-Jewish officials that there was a kesh that was made in the eyes of the non-Jewish government officials and toba like this was a big deal in other words again I'm trying to refrain from commentary but la just to make it more relatable you talk about heyis which is our utesis the fact that that that a non-Jewish judge, Judge Siftton, was able to to to understand what is a reb and what are the implications not just in inos but Alam Hazashmi in in a secular court and secular law like that's a major that's a big deal that the world is becoming more refined. That's what Mashiach is. Msiah is the world is catching up with with Hatsilos. So but without becoming it stays a world and yet it becomes receptive to Gadusha. So apparently this was very important in the whole experience that it should all have an effect on the world and it should work itself through natural means. At any rate we I was in the middle of telling you remember where we left off five browser tabs ago. So this was by the the bed and he had to bring him upon. It's a famous story. I'm sure you heard it the so uh the the says okay what's the Reba's name? So you know like the Reba used to say you know what what's his name and his mother's name. So he says I forgot you know he knew the alterba's name he forgot his mother's name. So the opensh and opens to the saw that there's shv means grain and also means hope in mitim meaning when he prophetically sensed that he would be reunited with in uh in mitim. So also mean is limitations could be prison. He says, "Oh, Schneerben Rifka." So the the knew now why not Ben? Because the was a sadic. So he knew but it had again there had to be some know in in Tava. So he looked at the he looked at the the PK shif and he gave Abra. Okay. So back to the imprisonment. Now the Alter is in Petburg. Why in Petber? Because that was the imperial capital. We're talking about uh you know Tsarist Russia talking about uh when the capital I mean it wasn't Moscow that was the communist capitalism Peterberg which was called Petberg then after uh the thesar Peter so at that by the way who was the zar at this time Paul Pavo um they bring the alterb into prison Now, right away they knew that he's a holy man. They knew he's he's different. The charges were serious charges. And by the way, how did the even know the nature of the charges? They only knew it secondhand through certain clues. They knew that when the Alterba was arrested, he was picked up in a certain carriage, this black carriage that was only for like highlevel prisoners for capital offenses. So they knew it was a very serious charge just from the the vehicle that they picked him up in. The charge in fact was treason. Now how did they come up with a charge of treason? This was the mass. was what the opponents of this uh came up with the the the ms that they devised basically they had a legitimate paper trail that the alterba was sending money to this we know it's undeniable at the time was under Ottoman rule the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire were adversaries so the opponents said that the alterba is sending money to support the Ottoman Empire. So that was that that was the the charge and that's the the crime is treason. Treason punishable by death and that was the intention that the opponents ofidis were trying to get the alterba killed god forbid. So the alterb is being brought into prison and the charges are are treason. He he understands and the place where they kept him also was for for high crimes. So the alterba asked the guard who brought him into his cell. He said, "Let me ask you a question." Because the alterba didn't know. Maybe they're bringing him to execute him right there. You know, summary execution. He doesn't know. Maybe it's going to be like a a kangaroo court. Maybe just a a foregone conclusion that they're they're convicting him. So the the alterba asks the guard, listen to this. He says, "Let me ask you a question." He had to be clever. He says, "When people get out of here, do they ever give you a tip." Al is trying to find out if people ever get out of there. If he says to him, "Do people ever get out of here? What are you being nosy? I'm not I can't divulge that. I don't know." Al says, "When people get out of here, do they ever give you a tip?" So the guy says, "Well, to be truth, some do, some don't." So at that point the alterban knew okay so there is a possibility of a quiddle over here. So they brought the alterb into prison and right away the guards and the all the the interrogators they they know that he's special. They know that he's different. He's not a regular criminal. Apparently at one point the zar himself wanted to to see the altar and he dressed like a regular government official like a regular you know bureaucrat like mid-level bureaucrat and he comes to the the cell and the stood up for him and Pavle says why are you standing for for me I'm you know who am He says, "You're the king." He said, "No, I'm just a regular guy. I'm not." He says, "You're the king." Why do you say that? And says, the gum says that that the earthly kingship is like the heavenly kingship. meaning a king is a reflection of Hashem's kingship. And he says, "You came in here, I felt a special awe. It was different. It was it was not the same feeling I got from the other guys. I got a different feeling. You know, I I know what I'm feeling over here." So the Zar was very very impressed. Another story which is a very very well-known story about one of the ministers, one of the officials who came to uh question the altar but really he ended up becoming a mushba of the alterba. He was he he was receptive to to the altar's guidance. He asked for the altar's guidance and teaching. And this official apparently was fairly well-versed in the Bible. And uh he comes and he asks the alter but what does it mean in Genesis when uh after the sin God comes to Adam and Eve? He says or out art thou whatever it says. You know probably said it in Russian anyway. So what? And uh so the the albba says he didn't want to startle them. So the guy says, "Yeah, yeah, that's Rasha. That's what I know that I want to know what you say." So the alter realized like this guy is uh not stam, you know, he knows he knows. So al before he answered him, he says, "Can I ask you a question?" He says, "Yeah." Okay. Do you believe do you personally believe that God's word is applicable to all people at all times in all places eternally? The guy says, "I personally, yeah, I do believe that." Now the alter asked him that question because the alterb was about to interpret this you know the famous ayo where where are you in a way that's not just about alder marishian it's about each one of us it's very personal so the alter want to vet him first to make sure he's even receptive to something like that because you know if he doesn't if he's not open to that kind of way of learning tyra maybe he would say no no no that that that's too homalytic I'm asking What? Why did why did it happen for Odin? Why did Hashem ask where are you? But he saw the guy is open to understanding to is really eternal. But there was another level to that question. The Alba knew and how did he know? Okay, that's another browser tabot we're going to come back to in a second that he was on trial for you're going to say you just told me 10 minutes ago he's on trial for treason for funneling money to which was under the Ottomans. That was the calumny. That was what they came that the the opponents ofidus came up with. That wasn't the real trial. The real trial was in heaven. I'm going to come back to that. I'm going to come back to the the trial in he in the heavenly court. The point is the alterb is on trial for spreading which is heal. Okay. One of the major fundamental ideas init. It applies to each one of us. So if you read a story about other, it's not just about other, of course it's about, of course, it's a real history, but it's not about other alone. It's about every one of us. And it's not just something that happened in Ghana. It's something happening right here. It's happening in Brooklyn. It's happening in 2025. So when the alterba asks this guy, do you believe that everything in tora is personal? It's applicable. It's relevant. And the guy says, "Yeah, I personally I do believe that." So the Alterbu was relieved because to him it signaled there was a a softening. There was a a possibility that Bash would prevail because even this non-Jew who's interrogating him seems to be receptive to some of the major concepts of the BMP. So the guy says, "Yeah, I'm receptive to that idea." The Alba says, "Very well. Then I'll tell you, what does mean? Why does Hashem say, "Where are you?" You know, Adam had just sinned and hashem is like where are you? Like look at yourself like take stock of yourself. What have you done? And and that's what Hashem is saying to every one of us at all times. He says for instance a person lives x amount of years and the alter named an exact age and it happen happened to be the exact age of this non-Jewish minister and and Hashem comes to that person and says you've lived x amount of years a where are you up to like where are you holding like h what have you accomplished how far along are you in in your mission that you were sent here for and a person has to take stock and he has to ask himself 12 where where am I really holding? And the guy was extremely impressed with that explanation. I mean it resonated with him and he actually became very helpful to the alterb after he was impressed with that answer. Um he says how can I help you? So the says listen don't even know for sure if I'm alive. They don't really they don't know where I am. Um, I want you to get a message to someone. He says, "Now listen, I told somebody to come straight to Peterberg." Do you guys remember from 25 minutes ago who it was? Who he sent? >> Huh? Very good. Kazik, who was remember I told you, he said, "Go straight there. Don't stop anywhere." So, he didn't have his passport. He didn't have a change of clothes. So the alterba says to this non-Jewish minister, I don't know where he's at, but I know he's got to be in Peterberg somewhere and he's going to be dressed funny because he left the house without a change of clothes. So look for a Jew because the guy says even I know that this is like a rivalry and snag them and I can't tell the difference between you guys. So I don't know if I'll be asking one of your guys or one of your opponents. So the alter says look for a guy who's dressed funny. So raising in Patber, he doesn't know what he's supposed to be doing there. But um this uh non-Jewish minister comes over to him and he says to him, oh he told him his name. He's my brother-in-law. His name is Raisro. So he says to him, "What's your name?" He sees a guy who's dressed funny. He says, "What's your name?" And remember, he didn't have his passport. So he had false papers. So he said the fake name on the papers, not the name that not his real name, not. But what what can he do? He's say he's claiming he's this other name. So the the the non-Jew says to him, "You're a liar." And he walks away. So he the the non-Jew comes back to the altar and he says, "I think I found your guy, but he's lying to me." Alba says, "Yeah, he probably doesn't have his papers and that's why he's going by another name right now, but try to find him again and you know, ask him again." So meanwhile, goes to the inber. He tells them what happened and they said, "Listen, I think this is trying to get a message to us. If you see this guy again and he asks your name, just tell him the real name." Which was obviously risky. And so it happened. He saw him a second time. He said, "What's your name?" So immediately that the the the nonju didn't say anything. Obviously this is all very hash. He turns around he starts walking in a way that if knows he's supposed to follow him and he walked behind him and uh the guy goes up into a house and he opens up a window and he throws a melon. Some people say a watermelon. I don't I don't know why they say I I I don't know that it was a watermelon. It was it was a I don't know what kind of melon it was. It was a melon. throws a melon out of the window and so catches it, cuts it open and there was a note from the alterb that said and the Reb says in the when his father-in-law when the when the told him that he told him that lion twice and this was the note they knew this was the alterb and this is the note that he's alive and this gave them a great deal of hope because it's confirmed that he was alive. They didn't know. They didn't know if he was alive. Okay. Now, in the meantime, the alter is being interrogated and he was given 22 questions to answer about his teachings, about what is it that you're telling your followers to do, and are you leading them astray? And are you making them be weird people who are not going to be uh make a contribution to society? And uh did you start your own religion? Because that was illegal. You were not not allowed to start your a new religion. Why do you make them pray so much? Why do they pray so much? They asked a lot of other wh why is malus the lowest spir? That was one of the things that bothered them also. Malus because that's the kingship. Oh, you're putting down the king. You're saying Malus is the lowest of the spheres. So you're putting it down. They ask 22 questions. The alterb said some of these I can answer verbally. Some of them are so complex I can only answer them in writing and I have to answer I have to write it in kesh. So there was a whole process of translating the answers. Oh you gave me ice even. >> Thank you. They sent the translations. Apparently, the Hebrew court translator was located in VNA. Now, the name, you know, of the town VNA should like raise some alarms. Like, that's the bastion of opposition. That's where those who came up with the liel against the Alterba. That's where they were centered. But that's where the translator was. Now, the Alterba when he left, one of the instructions he gave is that someone should go to VNA. And this did not know what he's even doing to villain. He just knows he was sent there. He starts hanging out in the shuls and he's just start, you know, starts listening. At some point he hears someone say, "Hey, official papers came from the imperial capital from Peterberg and the local translator is translating them." So he realizes it has to do with the alit of his case. So he goes to the translator's house. Translator is not aid. He's not like a serious misnog, but you know, he's he's from VNA. And uh the the says, "Please, please, please do not falsify, do not incorrectly translate these documents. This has to do with the Debb's trial. It's a it's a capital offense. It's a it's a life and death issue." And uh so the guy says, "Why would you even say that to me? Why would you even tell me not to falsify it? He says, "First of all, do you know the process?" They have two translators, me and another guy. So, they'll check the translations against each other. So, I I couldn't falsify it if I wanted to. But second of all, he says, "I'm a man of truth. I despise falsehood. I would never falsify anything." So, and he says, "And if you don't believe me," he says, "I already know the people you're talking about. They've already been to me and they're actually supposed to come here tomorrow to talk to me. And if you want you can hide and listen to my meeting with them. So the next day the comes and he hides and then the uh msnagdum who came up with the the whole msid in the first place they come to this translator and they start telling him you're doing a big mitzvah. You're going to help us convict this person who is uh who's a bad influence. And so he says to them how am I supposed to do that? Don't you know there's a second translator? They'll just check the translations. So they said, "Well, first of all, you're the main translator. The other guy's like the secondary one, so they'll rely more on you." And they said, "Second all second of all, um, Hebrew is a very flexible language. It can mean a lot of things. So just you're going to massage it a little bit and you'll translate the way we tell you to." So he's like, "Okay, fine. No problem." They leave. The comes out crying. He says, "You told me that you're not going to do what they say." He said, "Yeah, that's what I told them. Don't don't worry about it." He says, "I told you already I would never mistransate, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to do two versions of the translation. One version I'm going to show them when they come tomorrow. The other version you can watch me is the one that I'm going to put in the in the post. It's one I'm going to send to to Petterburg." And that's what he did. And he authentically translated the Alterba's letters and uh or or test I guess I guess you call it an affidavit. I guess is that's the yeah technical term for it. By the way, those documents in the 90s with Parisa became public and they were discovered and you know they're real court documents. The alterb is this is not like some um you know madeup story. This is like real history. We have the documents. We have actual court records of all all these proceedings. Um, another interesting thing that happened when the Alterb was in prison, because the non-Jewish officials were so taken with him and so respectful of him. So, this was 1798. There were new maps coming out of North America and there were very basic maps. Obviously, they didn't have like aerial photos. I I think they might have had hot air balloons that could, you know, maybe go a couple hundred feet in the air. There was no everything. The maps were just from boats that would go around that was the they show the contours of the of the the shores and then the land would just be however much people could could walk. But you know there was obviously huge amounts of the continent that were not discovered. So they brought the alterb a map and uh a map of the new world, a map of what what they call the new world of of North America. And uh they asked him what he thinks of it. So Alba says it's wrong. So they say what what's wrong about it? Now I I looked it up the maps back then in the 1790s. So if you know a little bit of geography, not even a lot of geography, so you know that um Canada's really big. It's really really big and it goes up into the Arctic Circle. It goes, you know, goes way up there and then then it stops and then there's like water, you know, the South Pole there's Antarctica. There's a whole continent down there. The North Pole it's water. I mean it's ice caps, but there's no land there. But you obviously in the 1790s explorers couldn't get access to that area. So as far as they knew it just goes forever, you know, they would I I don't know how far north they went, but they would keep going and going and going. They just said it goes forever. So on the 1790s maps of North America, the land mass just goes forever. It doesn't stop. Just goes forever. And alterba looked at it. He says it's wrong. And they said, "What's wrong about it?" He says, The world is shaped like a base. This one of the reasons there's a that speaks about why first word of is base because the world is shaped like a base. Why is the world shaped like a base? If you imagine the world, you imagine you're you're facing east. So um south is on your right, north is on your left. Like in the mdash right the is south and the is north is so the northern side is not closed and the goa says why it says because if anyone will ever come along and claim to be god so we'll say to him listen don't even create a world you don't even have to do that to prove you're god just finish the unfinished northern side of the world you don't have to like just just put the icing on the cake. You don't have to bake the whole cake. Just put the icing on the cake. And obviously, no one's going to be able to do it. And then you'll see that he's not God. But the northern side, the alt says the northern side isn't finished. So these maps have the land mass going all the way to the north pole. That can't be correct. It's got to be open on top. And this is in the court records, but it's in there's a safer from Munchan I always call him called Migdal O. and uh he he was a historian and he got in the 90s when these court documents became uh accessible. So he translated a lot of these court documents and that was one of the thing that's how do we have this story? We have the story from the Russians themselves. This was a discussion they had with the alterb and they showed him the map. Okay. At any rate, 53 days the alterb is in prison and as we know 53 days of imprisonment corresponding to 53 chapters of Tanya Gan proim. Don't think that the zarists were so poetic that they said oh you know would be really cool sometimes. By the way I've even heard people say oh after the alabeta came out of prison he wrote 53 chapters of Tanya corresponding to each day he spent in prison. What are you talking about? Tanya was was published two years before the imprisonment. It was Ashka that for every pedic of Tanya he sat for a day and then came the release the we should mention the last question in the interrogation the final question interrogation what does it mean in the end of pedal of Tanya when it talks about the and that the what does that mean and uh the smiled. He didn't say a word. He just smiled. And the spoke about this. One one meaning of that was the alterb was saying to them in so many words without words. He was saying listen everything you asked me so far. I explained it to you so well that you believe it. Now you're asking me to get you to believe that you have no please do yourself a favor. I can do it. Do you you really want this? They were like, "Yeah, it's better better not to know there's but there's another interpretation which is that sima breaks barriers and through his joy through that smile it wasn't like a like a you know like you know sometimes a smile is more like a like a manipulative type of thing like no it was a genuine it was a it was a smile of Simka and uh the joy of that smile sort of took away any of the intensity of the moment and they were like yeah forget it. you know what it's all good was acquitted was released and they said where should we take you so he said bring me to Mortler who was one of the inber we're going to we're going to finish off Modka's apartment and we're going to then you're you have 45 seconds to think of a niggan mishi 45 seconds to think of an niggan think of a good one it better be a good So the alter they bring him to that Modka's apartment and they brought him to the wrong apartment. They brought him to the right building, wrong floor. They brought him to a misnag was harassed. He was screaming at him. Why did you change the That was the main thing. He was harassed. Why do you change? And uh why do you say kesser? Why why why don't you say? And they didn't know where to find him and they all of a sudden they hear the screaming and they came in and they saw them snag it screaming at the alterba and was going to hit him. The gave him a sign like no don't touch him. Don't bother him. And in fact he says I'm going to honor my guest. It would be an honorable thing to to have a cup of tea with with I mean honor my host. I'm going to have a cup of tea. The alterba drank a cup of tea. Later on, the altar said, "The three hours I spent in that apartment were more miserable than the 53 days in the Russian prison." It's a good setup for a niggan. Yeah. I am na. Ah yeah. [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] Most [Music] mo [Music] Yeah. And yeah. I [Applause] [Music] am [Music] Muslim. Muslim [Music] Where are you from? 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What are you talking about? >> I'm talking about time in >> when the French were coming. 1812 was 1812. Napoleonic wars were 1812. Yeah. >> Yeah. We mentioned earlier in the story that uh the alterb knew that he was in he was on trial because he was spreading. So how did he know that when the alterb was in prison he was visited by the balsham and by the maggot by his reb and his rebre and they told him that there's a trial right now in heaven. It's not you're not in prison be. Yeah, there were informants and there was a whole liel, but we know that everything that happens down here is a reflection of what's really going on upstairs. So the the alterb was on trial down here because of the send sending money to to but in the heavenly court the trial was about spreading the secrets of the Tyra. So the bal told the you're on trial right now because you're disseminating what are called they're called secrets for a reason and you're spreading them out and that's the trial right now and it's being deliberated. It's being uh weighed right now in the bezila in the heavenly court and it's going to be determined whether or not to stop you or not. Like if they want to if they decide you're not allowed to spread the secret to they're going to stop you and that you know meaning to take your life. So the alter says if I get out of here what should I do? Should I stop? They said, "No, no, no, no. If you get out of here, that means that you were acquitted in the heavenly court, which means the heavenly court decided that you're allowed to spread these secrets. And if that's the case, then you should do it even more, should spread this even more." And in fact, we see that's what happened that the style of the alterba changed marketkedly. Vasidim referred to the style called No Petber after the Petersburg episode meaning after the imprisonment after the acquitt before the imprisonment the altar's style was very turb and flowing and he's revealing more and more and more. So interestingly the federba was in Peterberg. I mean he lived in Petburg later on when he was rabbi but in the times of his father in the times of the rabb visited Petberg and he actually gained access to the cell where the alterba was kept and he saw the cell and he came back and he reported to his father the rabb and the rashab asked him was there space physically was there space in the cell for three people to hand and he said yes there was and as the rebba explained what was the rebab's question to the when I mean we have a mess that the alterb in prison was visited by the bal and the mag but they were already they they were already they had passed away so maybe what does it mean they visited him and a vision maybe but when the rebab asked Was there space for three people? What that means is it wasn't a vision. It wasn't a spiritual thing. It was a physical thing. Meaning to say that the BMP and and the and the mid returned to their bodies and physically visited the alterb to speak to him and to give him directions about about the imprisonment. Again, I'm holding myself back from commentary. There's so much commentary that can be made here. by what that means about the importance of the alter trial. What that means about it's ability to return to the physical world at will. But let's just stick with the story. There's a glaring question and did I didn't I'm not smart enough. I didn't come up with this question. The asked this question. If indeed the trial here on earth was because of of a trial in heaven, if you know a little bit of history, it seems that that trial already happened decades earlier and was already I mean was already settled. There's a famous story alter when he was still at Talmet of the Magged was in Mesich visiting the mag and he was walking down the street and there was a paper flying in the street and the paper was a paper with withidus on it. Now you have to understand when the balv taught this the balv had 60 shishim mag had pishnim he had 120 tid obviously both of them influenced tens of thousands of people but we're talking about real tid people who were considered actual disciples the bal of would not write down out of reverence for the because it's secrets you don't write it It's enough that you get to hear it. You can all write it down. The mag would write it down. Kar had been by the bamb and I guess you call this a little generation gap. He was an old-timer and he says to the alter, "Look at what you guys do. You causeidis to come to disgrace because by us we did not write down by you guys you do. And now look and he pointed this piece of papers flying in the gutter are flying in the gutter because of you. So the alterb answered him right there on the spot with a parable. It's a now famous parable but at that time it was you know pierish. This is this is this is the source of the parable. Alibabus says, "Once upon a time there was a king and the king had a son. He loved his son. The son got sick and the son was dying and nobody could find a cure. And then there was a wise man. He came in. He says, "I have a cure. What's the cure?" "A gemstone. You crush it. You pulverize it. Mix it with water. He makes a medicine. He drinks it. He'll be cured." Great. Where's the stone? Get the stone. Uh you have the stone. Where? Go get it. No, it's the centerpiece of your crown. So the king says, "Well, go do it. It'll save his life." No, no, but you have to listen. First of all, I don't even know if it's going to work anymore because he's so weak. You know, he has to has to take it orally. He has to drink it. He's so weak. I don't know if he can swallow. You're going to smash the gemstone. It might just all dribble down his chin. Second of all, do you understand if it doesn't cure him and now you destroyed your gemstone of your crown? And now you're out the crown and and and and a son. So the king says, "Doesn't matter. If I don't have a son, then my crown symbolizes my kingdom. my whole kingdom is for my son. So smash it and and if one drop gets into his mouth and saves his life, it's worth it. And that's what they did. So what's the nimchil? The king is Hashem. The son, the sick son is the Jewish people who are going through a period of spiritual crisis. It was a time of spiritual crisis. Meaning in retrospect, we say, "Oh, it all worked out fine." Yeah. Now you can say it all worked out fine. At that time it was it was it was a real spiritual crisis. God go God forbid it was a like a a moment in history where things could have gone a very different direction. And in order to save the Jewish people a drastic measure had to be taken which was to take the crown jewel. The crown is the Tory. the centerpiece the the most beautiful jewel means which was up until that point you know kabala was taught in secret that talks about in in talks about that this is something you only teach one person in a generation and even then you only if he understands it already on his own and these are secret stuff and now you're going to take it and you're going to put it out there and uh most of it could end up on the floor, right? Because the king's son is so sick, he's going to drink the drink, but he maybe a drop will get in his mouth, but most of it's going to go on the floor. So the was saying to that was the calculation, the calculated risk that Hashem took. Yeah, you're right. Papers of flying in the gutter, it is a disgrace. It's a terrible thing. But if we don't allow this calculated risk, then the king's son will die. Meaning the Jewish people cannot survive without this. It's a very important concept that see this was not revealed to the world for fun. It wasn't because it's like, oh, it's exciting. It's inspiring. Oh, cool. Cidus is life and death. It means if I I mean, again, I'm trying to refrain from commentary tonight, but if you would ask me personally like why do I learn this? I don't learn it because I think it's cool. I learn it because I need to stay sane. I need to be able to function. I need to be able to face life as an adult and and citus doesn't enhance my life. It's not like, oh, I'm so great and then if I learn on top of it, then it's even more meaningful. Withoutidus, we're dead in the water. I don't just mean I mean basic menite. So, this is like this is the the the basis of this story. Cidus was permitted to be shared because it was life and death. It was life and death. And if it wouldn't have been life and death, if it would have been considered a luxury, they never would have greenlighted it. And that's what the the BMP and the Mag were telling the Alter. If they acquit you down here, it means that you were acquitted up there. If you were acquitted up there, it means that they accepted the premise that is life and death and that we cannot survive without it. And in which case, now you're good to go. Spread it as much as you can. So here's the question, the glaring question. The alterba already as a as a talmid of the mid had already, you know, there there's something in American law, called double jeopardy. I was already in trial for this. You can't bring me back to trial for the same thing. This we already settled this. This is life and death. That's it. Okay. So how come a few decades later the alterb is on on trial again in the heavenly court? And the answer explains is that it's not an all or nothing thing. It's not just you know like either reveal or don't reveal it. There are degrees. There are manners of revelation. The degree to which the bal and the mid revealed was already permitted. Butus is revealed on a need to know basis. You're not allowed to reveal more of it than what is absolutely needed because of the preciousness of it. It's supposed to stay in heaven. It gets greenlighted to be revealed down here if we'll die without it. So they greenlighted a certain level of revelation but not beyond that. Then the alterba came and he what did he do? Essentially kabad kabad means the intellect. He took concepts which are normally considered to be something you can only relate to with ash meaning ideas that are so spiritual that you can only accept them on faith and he explained them intelligently so that you could actually understand them and talk about them and apply them. that was considered going too far. In other words, if you want to talk about spirituality in a very lofty way where just sort of like, you know, in a mach way where it inspires you, but you don't really know what it's talking about, that's okay. But the alter is coming and saying, "No, no. I'm going to explain it. I'm going to break it down for you, and we're going to actually know what we're talking about. We're going to talk about an ashama. We're going to know what we're going to talk we're knowing what we're talking about." And and that was considered too much. and it was actually questioned whether or not to permit that to happen. And then obviously the result was that it was deemed necessary. Again, I'm refraining from commentary, but if I did have one line of commentary, just one line, I would say comes. What are we celebrating? were celebrating that there was a life-saving measure and it almost was prevented and thank God our lives were saved and Alterba was the one who was my son. He actually had to sit in prison and he actually was the one who was being interrogated and he was the one who was god forbid had the sentence hanging over his head. But he did it for us. He did it so that we could so we could live. Okay. Now, I told you about when they figured out the altar was something special. They would come to him. They would ask him questions. They would show him the map. They would check things out with him. One story they came to I don't know who did this, but they came to mess with him. They were trying to toy with him. Somebody came to him. It was in the afternoon. There were no windows in the cell. And they said, "Why aren't you asleep? It's past midnight. You should go to sleep." And he said, "It's 5 minutes after 2 p.m." Which it was. It was ex exactly, you know, 2:05. How did he know? There was no window. You can look out the window and see the where the sun is. Sabb explained that there are yud based siru havaya the shava there are 12 different combinations of the four-letter name that rule during the day the 12 hours of the day you based 12 different combinations of the four letters which rule during the night and every hour there's another there's another energy in the world and you could feel it you can feel what hour it is because you can feel the godly energy changing every hour. Okay, now that's a pretty cool story. What what what's the practical application of that? So in pedig it talks about learning lashma mitzvah lashma learning lash doing it for its own sake not for your own ulterior motive. So it says, "What do you do when you learn to for its own sake? Not because it's fun, not because it's stimulating, not because it's making you smart, not because you want to be able to brag and say you learned, but you're l literally doing it just for Hashem." So how do you express that intent? When are you supposed to think that? The whole time you're learning, then you can't learn because you're you're gonna be distracted with that thought. So he says it's like when they write a get you know they write a bill of divorce. So at the beginning they have to say who it's for and if they express the intent that this is written for an intent then at the beginning is enough. So he says at the beginning of learning before you start learning you should say I'm learning this for Hashem's sake. Now he says but what do you do if you learn consecutive hours? Because I know many of us have this problem. You're learning sitting, you're learning four, five, six hours noan. You're just knocking it out and as you know every hour there's a different of different of of either the orni and the it's a different ham and every hour all the toy goes back up and then there's a new energy that enters the world. So what are you supposed to do? So he says if you're learning consecutive hours then once every hour don't you don't have to think of the whole time once every hour when the changes you should have an intent that I'm learning sh I'm learning to for its own sake I'm learning to bring glory to Hashem not for any personal gain because every every time the hour changes the the energy is a new energy so you check back in get your kavana straight it's all Good. >> There's a there there's there there we do sing the niggan dalovas. So if the is uh ready we should sing the niggan >> followed by the alter is niggan that's the bal is niggan and it's also a niggan that's a has a special place at special occasion such as so uh can with [Music] Mama [Music] tell me you want me to say am Thank you. Maybe not, but I think so. [Laughter] [Music] Dr. [Laughter] My I am a [Music] Oh, thank you. I am so appreciate you guys. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] Yeah. I am I am my [Music] yeah my I am my [Applause] say [Music] [Applause] ah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Maya [Music] My [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] I la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] higher He mentioned you in the speech. >> They mentioned you in your speech. [Music] Mama [Applause] [Music] Yeah. [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Oh, you know, you know you I am [Applause] la [Music] higher and higher. I I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Higher. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Never yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] going to tell a modernday utasis uh story because I see these cards I see these cards everywhere. Um yeah Ben Shimon puts these cards everywhere. You get Manakim involved in a PR campaign. So, you know, you can everyone's going to know. Everyone's This is the Cayenne 50% off of your one-year subscription. Get Cayenne delivered straight to your door. Free shipping domestic and international for 50% off with coupon code 13 Kisl until tomorrow. I think I think tomorrow the sale is over. But I want to tell you about this card. I don't know if everyone heard the story already. I just heard it today. So, I think it's a fresh story. Um so Manakim um gave this card to a kid that he learns with at Alra. I think a eight-year-old kid, seven or eight year old kid. So apparently the kid is he likes cards. So I I don't want to like ruin it for him, but like just like a an advertising card, but whatever. He was excited. this kid in his purity and his innocence, sincerity, he thought this was really cool. So he he ran home and the kid lives in uh Queens and uh he was all excited about this card and he lives in a building and there's a new exterminator in the building. This just happened I think yesterday. So uh there's a new exterminator in the building. So the kid in his innocence, he comes over to the exterminator and he says, "Would you like this card? It's about 50% off from and you can learn and ra and his mother gently sort of says to him, you know, maybe did you ask him if he's Jewish? So the kid said, "Are you Jewish?" So the exterminator says, you know, you're one of those what do you mean? He says, "My mother's mother was Jewish." So the kid's mother is standing there. She says, "Your mother's m you're sir, you're Jewish." He's like, "No, actually, he says he's he keeps, you know, he's he's part of another religion." She says, "But you're Jewish." And uh so she called her brother-in-law to come. He lived her brother-in-law lives upstairs and get your fillin come here right away. And they wrapped up the exterminator. He says it was his first time ever putting on film. 50 years old. 50-y old guy. Uh lives in Queens. He said, "Grew up around Jews. I work for a lot of Jews. Been around Jews my whole life. Never put on filling before in my life. And now he's standing in the living room of this family and he's putting on filling at 50 years old for his first time in his entire life because some kid was excited enough to say, you know, would you like this card? Oh, this is a you look at this card. This is a powerful card. This is a cara card. I mean, not this exact one, but one just like this. Raendel Futafas used to say that when you go on and you ask aid to put on thrillin, you should know that for him, you know, that could be very out of the box for him. It could be way out of his comfort zone. And if we're expecting people to respond affirmatively to our requests that they should do something uncomfortable, you know, only goes to figure that we should be doing things that are for us uncomfortable. So what's uncomfortable? I don't know. I don't want to tell you what's uncomfortable, but you know it. Well, I should ask everybody. Let's go around. Oh, asking someone to put on fill and that itself is uncomfortable. >> Fabangans are uncomfortable. Not this one though, right? This is a safe. >> Not yet. >> Not yet. I'm hoping >> every single day. >> I don't want to say it's uncomfortable, but it's a it's a commitment. It's uncomfortable. Okay. Shan says it's uncomfortable. Um, and to make it a non-negotiable, this has to happen. It's a It's a big deal. So, you know, is a day we have a special and uh I'm not I'm not going to do the whole cayeno plug and tell you to get cayeno. Of course, you could. It's 50% off. Why not, you know? But uh to re to renew our commitment to the daily shimm of kitas and of raam and also maybe to consider if you're learning one peric maybe yeah I know some people it sounds crazy just three proc it is a little bit crazy you're right it is a little bit crazy but there are things that we do that are uncomfort comfortable that are that feel like a big reach like a real stretch and Hashem helps and somehow somehow we manage. So if you're looking for you want to if you're inspired and you want to put that inspiration into something practical, it's a good time to recommit to be very serious. And by serious I I don't mean doesn't have to be scary. It can be fun. It can be pleasant. But >> real commitment, >> a real commitment. This is real life. This is uh this is not secondary. This is life itself. It's our life, right? Okay. And uh by the way, do you know that they have they have and it not even a cayeno? They have they have Yeah, they have they have they can learn from Yeah. Not even um whether it's a an good oldfashioned shul good oldfashioned whatever say for or you can learn it on your phone you can learn it however how whatever medium works for you but to make it part of part of your day and uh to know that that is not something that enhances your life that his life. It's not easy, but it's uh it's what we do to show our commitment. So, Shabas, all the fun stuff, >> two days from now. >> Two days from now. Yeah. Do you know that we have a very early Shabasim coming up? >> This Shabas is Shabasim. We'll see you at 8:30. Right. 8:30. >> Rambam 7 o'clock. >> An chabas. >> Taylor 8:30. Haidu at >> 10:30ish. >> Depends on when >> Vinnie. slacker >> maybe maybe I don't know >> three weeks ago I have I don't know. Thank you. very impressive. I'm from Baraka. If I want to have a meeting with you, you you see people >> very very self. Go to soulworks.org/conultations. complicated stuff. >> Can I have a telephone number? >> You can call my cell phone. I'm not getting I get thousands of calls a day. It's very rare. >> It's big business. Plus, my son is very sick and I want to know what to do. It's a lot of complications. >> Give me my number. Tell us. >> Okay. No problem. >> Calls a day. Probably two. >> 412 452 631 Okay, >> I'll send you a text. I'm going to Israel on Thursday, but thank you for the physic. Thank you. Thank you. >> My son is very sick with chronic lyme disease and cost to me millions of clarity. >> Thank you. Thank you. You have a pet. [Music] [Applause] First of all, that's the exterminator. I was the brother-in-law. What's going on? I was like, how do you know the story? [Music] >> No, just tell tell the story. You just said fill it in. Fill it in. >> You said it perfectly. You didn't miss anything. You're live. You're live streaming. Just tell him >> what I'm going to say. I don't know. >> Just tell the story, guys. What you got? >> Uh, hi. So, no, I I was just the brother-in-law of the story. It was actually pretty cool. He was the uh my nephew went over to uh just asked him excitedly. Um this this man and he said he was a born again uh Protestant, I think it was. >> Yeah, this a photo. >> Yeah, my sister-in-law took the picture uh trying to, you know, take it discreetly. Um, but I didn't want to talk to him obviously about his born again uh ways because you know a bunch of kids were there. Um, but he I tried to explain to him that there's kabato of fresh met in Queens and stuff and um he was very um uh what's the word? Um, I guess it was new information for him that he was uh a yid and that um it was something that uh he seemed like he was very much ready to um uh >> embrace. >> Um yeah, born again Jew did. Um so that was >> pretty amazing. >> Pretty amazing that my nephew had the um the he gave me the to be to be part of it but he had the um >> you put out. Yeah. That's the picture. Yeah. >> You were there. >> Wow. I was a brother-in-law. She called my sister-in-law. My sister called me. >> Yeah. Sham KVski's kid. >> Yeah. Um uh and got him. Yeah. I'm watching. Yeah. And he got this 8-year-old boy got this 50-year-old man to uh put on his phone. >> Wow. >> Yeah. >> It's pretty good. Yeah. It's pretty good story when he gets live like that. like how do you know it? You know >> that's pretty I wanted to ask you >> said hi. >> Um [Music] come closer. [Music] I can't sing because I don't know what [Music] [Laughter] [Music] >> it [Music] >> so by they want me to come back. Thank you for >> that story. So, what do you want to do? [Music] Everybody move a little closer and the fab has become more uh ysy make it more intimate. [Music] [Applause] [Music] to be live anymore. [Music] They >> had a woman event tonight that we were a part of. 3,000 women there. >> We made an event tonight. >> Yeah. >> 3,000 women here tonight. Oh, I heard about it before. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Laughter] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] yourself. Push it. Anyway, you were saying before about the about there was a kit in the time of the mid and a kit in the time of the alterba. And you know like another like what's going on like I remember once I was in Ala wasing a whole night and he was saying did the alterba have to be in jail he was in a shadus he was beyond all these things he didn't need to be for himself he could have lived a life and be very holy and and and and do what he You could be a holy person. But the and and not just that, every step of the way he asked, "Should he go to jail? Should he not go to jail?" He asked about and the mid when they visited him in jail, should he continue? Should he not continue? And the the idea was that the the whole masser was forim was foridim. And in other words, was to be something that we didn't have to be like the something that of the for who he had. It was for us and um so there's a way of learning like to to for survival like we're saying beforehand and there's a way of learning of to to to to many people the Reb told them to learn and it should be to to to to learn understand it and keep on moving. Don't you don't have to go but to pure to learn a a huge amount of >> yeah to to move to to to to like like um in the last in the last by the said to uh that that um to learn every week is like but it should be learned it should be go I think the told Mal that uh he should learn through the every week five times but he should go through it understand it and and but move it was >> yeah five times impossible but what I just want to say is that there was before there was after and there was al the There was there was of all and um and the rabbim starting with the uh with starting with with they were nephesh to teach the the benamelik that maybe a drop will go in you know but but p we have the you know Gashmas in in our times um the the Rabbi Ashab revealed uh the the Reb wrote the the Hamsh and um it wasn't printed and the Reb was hesitant to print it and he said that if it there was a Indian about printing it and he didn't want any name on it he want didn't want any sponsor he wanted everyone to be Mishnatv and that was in Talama Zion and had a heart attack. The second time it was printed was alf and was and you think about that the theidis was there to a cert my yeah they were there to a certain extent but to have to have the ofidis that's in our generation and uh the time it says in that the day of isus to accept And of course we have to learn and Rambam and we have to learn says a regular person is uh I think it says twice a week and has to learn every day but there has to be like a it has to be like a uh a sensitivity and a a value a value >> one o'clock it's five minutes but to learn there's a story of the told he said he should learn for an hour a day Soass said that after he learned for an hour and a half then he was able to start learning yet then he was able to get into it. So I'm just telling everyone that you have to be like a you have to be like a sponge and you have to throw yourself and jump into the waters of and uh and being brought to the were nephesh not for themselves but for uh for for everyone and uh everyone should in something I'm going to learn a time or learn a certain or whatever it is I have a but it's something to think about something to start uh putting our minds to anyway >> and we should all have um the the the idea of the is like a um it's a very unique energy it's a uh it's like a nuclear power like someone once asked What do how do all the how do they do that? How what do they do? How how do they do it? What's the guide? What's the guide book? And it's like you know it's very simple. So, so um you want to be you have to learn some and that's the idea of everyone and you should have make and that means so what is sometimes you'll say okay I'm going to learn something I'm going to learn whatever it is I'll take a I'm going to learn this year I'm going to learn whatever it is you'll take you take it takes my mom you're going to learn it I'm going to take a time I'm going to learn it but sometimes you could start learning the first week the two weeks it's exciting and then but means that it should be la and uh the p is in uh the practice and the main thing is we should see Exodus. Fine. >> Closing remarks >> before we go offline. Misha asked me for closing remarks. So >> yeah, for the official we mentioned that this is life and death. It's not a game. It's a dark uh golus and uh without our lifeline we would uh >> we shudder to think what would be the situation and that's all true but on the other handb emphasized that um is compared to coals and is compared to pearls. They're both true is compared to coals because when it's cold out and you have the coals burning it keeps you warm. Without it you're going to freeze. So came to the world when when we needed it came to save us to keep us warm so we don't freeze in the gullas. At the same time is like pearls. What are pearls? Pearls are not life and death. Pearls are ornaments. It's a jewelry. It's >> a luxury. So what what what are we looking for? Luxuries. Ah because we're going to a wedding. You want to dress nice. You want to dress fancy. We're about to go toward Messiah and we have to have our finest. We have to have our jewels. And they're both true because the deeper we get into the gullus, the more we need the coals to keep us warm. But also deeper we go in the gulus, the closer we're getting to ga the the sooner the wedding is going to be. And we need to have our jewelry in. we have toidis is so we're tasting already the the gul every time we learn. So it's both, you know, isidis in order to to keep us from falling apart oridis in order to take us to this whole new level beyond beyond beyond to live mashia. The answer is yes. It's both. It's both. So uh you know we should have the coals when we need the coals. We should have the pearls when uh the pearls are the appropriate thing. The main thing is either whether it's coals or whether it's pearls, we got to learn it. Hold it. Hold