20 Av | Livestream with Rabbi Shais Taub and Eli Marcus

All right. Good evening. Um, we are live. All right. I'm gonna make a >> How you doing, Ellie? Are you making too? Okay. How you doing? Good. >> Fantastic. >> Excited. >> I am excited as well. >> This is almost where it started >> the Yeah. >> after. >> Oh. Oh, you're remembering our original uh big program produced by Manak Ben Shimon. It was a Ben Manak Ben Shimon production. Yeah. Um that's right. And he was involved tonight. He a little bit of involvement. Yeah. He helped us uh a little bit with the marketing. He's he's humble. Okay. We have these gorgeous study guides. This is just one of the things that uh Manakim was uh the brain power behind. At any rate, if you want to get the uh this gorgeous I can't help you out with the physical copy unless you come down here to the Soul Words House half a block from the aisle. But if you want a virtual copy, a PDF, go to soulwords.org of5785 and um get your study guide. Okay. Um, so I'll tell you something interesting just to begin. We have a very full program tonight of learning and neonim and inspiration and hopefully of fulfilling the Reb's request which we're going to speak about. The Reba has a very specific and personal request from us on this evening. But before we get rolling, I want to just share something interesting interesting um hashkah. And that is that last night when I was preparing the the text um I uh went to what I they used to call it Twitter, now it's called X. And there's this guy Elon Musk. I think he he bought uh he bought Twitter. Um, so his his tweets go to the go to the top. Um, trying to find it. Anyways, I see that he posts announcing Where is it? Where is it? You have it here. He says announcing that Starlink is now, you know what Starlink is? >> It's a internet. They >> Yeah, it's highspeed internet and I guess it runs on satellites from space. And the point of it is that places that are you can send it in the group chat is bump it up in the group chat. Yeah. So Oh, I see it. I see it. Okay. So that places that are remote areas that are sort of uh not so uh connected to the internet. So that's what they do. So he posts Elon Musk at 1:23 a.m. last night New York time. Starlink now available in Kazakhstan. Wow. Just Yeah. So I, you know, you could like repost someone else's tweet and comment on it. So I just wrote related to 20 of No doubt. I'm sure Elon Musk will see this, but um I wrote that's what I wrote because it was very clear to me that it certainly is related to first of all you and I both know it actually it is possible that because of the ina they could have actually arranged that Starling be set up in Kazakh. It's not so it's not such a remote possibility with the you know people involved over there. They they they you know maybe they uh got it done before they showed up. But even if they did or they didn't the point is we all know that the internet exists for one reason. We know this because the Debbie said about technology that it was created all technology was created as a tool for uh for Tory. So the only reason the internet exists is in order to be May Fitz mayonus. And so the fact that on the eve of on the 81st y site of the reb's father the starlink became available in Kazakhstan. It's just uh uncanny you know the protest the the providential timing of it. So certainly we are connected to those who are in Al Mata right now and in fact I have it verified and confirmed that there are people who are watching this this stream right now live in Al Mata. So here we are a half a block from the aisle and there are people who are I don't know if they're half a block or however they measure but whatever but who are there near the Deb's father's and there are people all over the world right now who are all connected together and that's the point is that wherever we are we are connected we're connected to each other through the sadikim who unite all Jews together like it talks about in pediga that all Jews are connected and the way we connect is through dus to the sadic. Um, also just for fun, I'll mention that somebody comment, you know, Twitter is very toxic, very toxic platform. >> Yeah. >> A lot of trolls. Yeah. >> So, I got lightly trolled. >> Uh, somebody commented on my tweet and said because I wrote connected to 20 of No doubt. That's it. I didn't explain what 20 of is. So he wrote, "Yes, the day before the yard site of Brisker and I looked it up and Raim Brisker's yard site is 21 of but that's more because you know what it made me think of famous story that the Reb told that his father before he became a communal rabbi, he went and he got smika from various different gel had including brisker and there's a famous story that the way that the brisker would far perspective rabbitic uh the the rabbitic candidates was that they would sit with him in the in the bezdonel where people would come in and ask shilas and it was shabas kalamite sukus and somebody came in and said we didn't make an arov and we have a suka in a shared courtyard So, we have the surrounding partitions, but we didn't do the actual adv ceremony, which is the shared food. Um, what should we do? Because we can't not eat in the suka because you have to eat in the suka, but we can't carry to the suka because we didn't make the adv. What should we do? And asked the father to answer to Pascin and he said the suka itself is an adov. Adov means combination or mixing. And the suka is the idea of the makif which includes all Jews together. And when that happens so that is your so at any rate the point is again the theme of a whether you're in Kazakhstan or you're in Cambury Heights Queens or you're in Crown Heights or wherever you might be Lakewood or uh who wherever you're tuning in from. Um just I know the people I've got texts throughout the day from people who are tuning in from different places, different communities, remote areas um from Schlim and Arada. Wherever you are we are connected and uh God willing we are going to going to learn something and again to try to fulfill Hashem to fulfill the very personal heartfelt request which we're going to speak about. Okay. Um let's speak a little bit about actually can we pull up the the first slide you all if you can pull up the first slide that would be helpful not from the study guide but the slides yeah the full uh no he's controlling I'm going to tell him perfect okay so this is the Reb's savad. This is the Reb's holy handwriting notes that the Reb wrote on a letter. The letter was a what we call a mikvali. Mikovi means it was a general letter meaning it had a certain template that was the same for everybody but then it was also there were individualized portions of it as well. It was drafted mutza tishabove tshin mdaled summer of um before the 40th yard site. Okay. So if you could just show if you could just show the next Okay. So this is what the actual letter looked like. And if you look in the bottom where it the PS that is okay. Very good. That's the zoom in on it. So that is what the Reb wrote in his handwriting. I just want to look at this just slowly here. Okay. They've written on the side of you know PS. So of that year remember what year we said 84th yard site that was keep it out. Keep it the thing on the screen. Okay. That was a shabas. was a shabus 40 years. Okay, let's go slowly. The Reb is speaking about himself in first person and upon me is the duty and the great merit. Okay. So the Reb says I have a duty and a great merit to do what? To advise and to request etc. The Reb is saying it is his obligation and his merit his great merit to advise whom? Us to request from whom? From us means etc. meaning the Reba could have written more language to express the the the earnestness of this request, but the Reb left it with two two verbs. At any rate, so the Rebe is advising us. He's speaking to us and requesting from us the following that they should learn, they should study from his meaning from the Reb's father's tyra at the his at the gathering. Okay, that's what we're having right now at the soulward's house. Have a block from the oil. We're having a gathering including all the people who are gathering with us virtually online limoid. So we're going to learn comma and to donate to donate we're going to also give you an opportunity to donate to participate in soil to learn and to donate on this day in uh memory of his soul. Israel. He was miserish. He sacrificed himself for spreading out Judaism among the our among the Jewish people behind the iron curtain and through that through his work doing that or rather through our um fulfilling the request what did I Oh, I skipped the line. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you, Ellie. It's good having a musician who also reads Hebrew. Okay. Through this, through his work standing up for Jewish observance during the dark days of communism. He was held prisoner in uh in prison venish lolus and then he was sentenced ultimately to exile and he he did not leave his exile he passed away in golus that's where he is and there that's where his resting place is in his golus in the place of gullis in in Kazakhstan al- mato may his merit protect us and all the Jewish people. May they live and be well. Okay. Excellent. So, the Reb has requested advised and requested that we learn mit from the Reb's father's and to give daka. I'm going to tell you right now, ulad is the easy part especially. We made it easy. We have a link for you. It's57words.org/ / uh5785 and it's very easy to donate there to Kan Levy which we're going to speak about more in the in this program why specifically it is meaningful to donate to Kan Levy Yitzk not just because has the deb's father's name but we're going to speak about the origins of Kvitzk uh in this program but at any rate to to do the uh the click of a button uh lil to turn is going to take a little bit more time and effort. But with this beautiful study companion that will be uh that will be more accessible for you as well. But we want to explain that learning the Deb's father is no small feat. It's not the most I would say, forgive me for saying it this way, but like user friendly. It's very challenging. First of all, it's written under conditions where the Debb's father was writing in the margins of the few fodm that he had. So the language is very tur cryptic. Okay. But even when you look at the Reb's father's writings from before his arrest which basically let me let me give you a overview of what we have as far as uh and um what we have is from before the arrest basically only letters uh letters that the Reb's father wrote to the Rebe and even there when when it was not written under duress it wasn't written in uh difficult situations But it's very deep. It's layer upon layer. Very mystical, very obstruuse. And you need to be a cobalist to to unpack any of it. So how much more so the later writings which will explain to you how how we have them, how they were recorded, how they even exist. In 1939, the Debb's father was arrested. They came it was it was before Pesak. Uh they came at three in the morning and uh there was about a year I'm going to tell the story very very briefly but there was about a year of interrogation and imprisonment. Um at the end of this year the sentence was was gullis was exiled and the deba's father was exiled to Kazakhstan to a place called Chile not Chile the country in South America but a town in Kazakhstan called Chile and that is where the Reb's father spent most of his uh between 1939 1944 that's where he spent most of his time in exile. At the very very end they went to Al Mato which is where ultimately the father was laid to rest. But most of this time was in this place called Chile. Chile did not have really a Jewish community. Um it was very very remote. It was very removed from anything Jewish. Uh it was very challenging as far as the lifestyle there. They were they didn't even have their own home. Who Who's there? Rabbit Khana on her own free will. She picked up and she went with her husband when he was in exile and they were renting uh space in a in a in a like a one room house from a a tartar family and they they were mosquitoes and it was they she talks about the mosquitoes and it it was it was not pleasant. At any rate, the Reb's father was a person who was his entire life was Tyra. He was always learning to and he liked to be madam to come up with his own novel insights into actually it was very painful to him uh that he couldn't write because I'm just to explain to you how Spartan the the situation was they didn't have paper and pen he didn't have paper and pen so it was actually writes about this in him in her memoirs which were published not that long ago that it was bas B Nissan B Nissan of course is the um Yhila of the Rebab and the Reb's father turns to his wife and he says it's B Nissan. Um it would be such a a good time to to teach now teach whom? Like there's no one there. There's no one to teach. Um there's no students. And the rebba actually spoke about this once at a reban makus says talks about gullis about mikl you know cities of refuge says that when someone goes into exile so the cities of refuge have to give them a livable situation. So it says the gumar says that if somebody is a teacher then they have to give him a yeshiva he has to have his talmid otherwise it's not life he has to go there and live how can you live if you don't have your talid so the rebba lamented and said when my father was in Chile he didn't even have talid he didn't he didn't have his yeshiva he didn't have so he which was which was life itself now just to explain to you how much that was a basic need for the deb's father I'll I'll continue telling the story so this was bas nissen and and he he lamented I don't have anyone to teach at least you know I would like to be able to write if I don't have talid if I can't give a shir I I would love to be able to write but there's no pen and paper so Rabbit Khana went I I guess there was some type of a town I don't think it was much of a town and she was able to procure for the first time pen and paper and she brought it back to him and she describes that when she brought back the pen and the paper she also brought back bread on the same trip. This was the same run into town. She says she gave the pen and paper and the bread to her husband at the same time. He hadn't eaten in a very long time. They did not have they didn't have uh normal food there. She said that he ignored the bread even though he hadn't eaten in I don't know who how long, but he grabbed the pen and paper and and it and enlivened him just to to have this to finally have this channel to be able to express all of the the profound Torah thoughts that were that were coursing through him and he was able to write. And she says she saw how meaningful that was to him, the opportunity to write. So then what did she do at that point? She started making her own ink. And in fact, you can see, we'll we'll look later, not right now, but uh at one of the pages of the margins of one of the that father had, and you can see how the coloring of the ink is very like inconsistent because it wasn't normal ink. It wasn't like professional ink. was uh herbs, plants that the the rabbits Khana boiled and she she made homemade ink for for her husband so he could express himself. So what I'm saying is the Torah that we have from the Reb's father. First of all, it's very deep esoteric stuff. Second of all, much of it the stuff that we have from his time in exile is he was writing much of the time in the margins of the few that he had. He had a Zoyer, he had a manda, he had a Tanya, he had very few whatever whatever he was allowed to bring, whatever Rabbana was able to bring him later. So obviously then when he's writing in the margins, he's writing very sparingly. He's he's he's being very careful about every word. Um and so it's even more cryptic and difficult to read. So it's not exactly easy stuff. And and that's on top of the fact that the Debbie's father was was speaking on a very deep level, very high level. They say that uh one time the deb's father was giving a shar this was back in uh in Yakatrinoslav. So or maybe it was in Nikolai actually this story where there were they were earlier. So he was giving a shir and one of the balabatim I guess couldn't hold himself back at one point and he said like who understands like who can understand this and the Reb's father pointed to the Reb and he said that boy he understands which is of course very inspiring as a to hear that but then if you stop a second and you think how intimidating that is that basically we're talking about Tyra uh that the Reb's father is saying, "Yeah, yeah, you guys don't understand. Yeah, the Reba understands." So, and yet the Reb's specific personal request explicitly to us is Leilas. So, we can't get ourselves off the hook. We can't just say, "Well, nobody understands it. It's too it's too lofty, you know. Lad'll will donate, but lil too much." No, Lomite, we're going to learn. And not only we're going to learn, but uh we're going to understand, God willing, and hopefully even to apply to apply to our lives and to understand how precious this is to the Reb that the Reb expressed an incredible uh emotional connection to the printing of these works. I mean, I didn't even tell the rest of the story. I told about the miseridus neffish of how Rabbit Khana provided the ink and the misus nephesh of of the Reb's father writing in the margins of the books. How did the books even get out? When the Rabbit came out of Europe, she couldn't bring the books. She was afraid they'd be confiscated. She couldn't bring the books. She left them with somebody. They were actually in they were in Moscow. And um for years when the Reb was in America and the Reb knew also. And so the Reb and the Reb were like they knew that there these books existed. But first of all, you're talking about this is in the 50s. So the the communication I'm not I'm not just talking about the fact that we lack the technology for communication. I'm talking about the fact this was behind the iron curtain. So everything is being watched. Especially, you know, if your name is Schneerson, everything is being watched. And so they didn't even really know where the were. And then what happened is basically the story is long story short that there was aided rapa alto and he was the one who arranged it that he heard the rabbiten speaking about it and so he knew it existed and so it was around it was like 59 60 so he started this this project of getting locating this photo and getting okay so one thing was they located who had it was actually a relative of Rabbit named uh Kugvant so he had it but you have to understand it would have endangered him for them to contact him and in fact uh Rapina asked the Reb should we speak to the Israeli consulate to maybe get the the books and the Reb said no because it'll endanger and you can't do it. So there was a whole thing that they basically they had to have somebody go into Marino Rashul in Moscow and go over to this uh Rabincian and basically say have the books and he didn't even answer the level of danger and and there were informants everywhere even in Schul especially in Schul he he didn't even answer what happened is the next day he just said go look in a certain room in in the shul he had basically said I've been seeing had left the in a certain room in the shul that's it and then um so there was so this yisha he got he got the books and then they got the books to to then there was a whole thing because when they got the books to the is the the Israel library said that it's like a national treasure and it has to go into a museum which was not the intention that was not the point the point was to get it to New York to get to get it to the Reb. At any rate, they finally got it to the Reb. And um these works were not published until after Vish. Vish is of course the passing of the Rebana passed away in Tsh which was 1964. It was the last few months of 1964. So, she didn't get to see them published, but she writes in her her memoirs, how much she hopes that these works will will eventually be found and be printed and be studied. And so, you think about that, how meaningful that is. We're going to study, God willing, we're going to study from the Reb's father's that this was something that the Rabbana was my for that father was my son for this something that they hoped for. This was a dream that we would have these texts. We'd be able to study from these texts. And it was with great sacrifice that we even have this opportunity. Sacrifice and miracles. And plus we have the Reba's personal explicit request to us from so that is asking us to learn from his father's obviously that's uh a very important thing. It's unambiguous. It's very clear that that's what we should be doing and hopefully that will be meaningful to us understanding the the history behind it. What did he say? H Yeah. No, we could show it now. Israel, could you pull up actually? Yeah, it's neg. We could pull it up the the next slide after the last one we showed. Yeah. Because in the in the so that writes how he passed away, his father passed away in Gulas. Yeah. Very good. Okay. So this picture, I'm not sure what year it was taken, but you see here that there's there's no structure. There's no oil. Um it was very very much later. Anyone know when the oil was actually they started to build the structure? Late Ma'am's very good. It was 89. Yeah. Parisa time. So that's when the opportunity arose. So for uh you know 40 years there was no structure around it. This is what it looked like and um it was even even maintaining the grave was not without danger because obviously it was everything was being watched everything was being scrutinized. Okay. So we have our work cut out for us tonight to uh limo on this day on this auspicious day and in so doing to fulfill the personal request and to uh fulfill the dream of the that the father's titer should be should be learned. Um dug right into it. Yeah. Okay. Anyways, that's some background. That's probably enough talking for now. We do have Ellie here, so I shouldn't waste the uh opportunity. Yeah. >> Um Yeah. So, how you doing, Ellie? >> Great. >> Really uh really really fantastic. big host to be part of this and uh a lot of great uh a lot of fascinating uh fascinating uh ideas and stories that uh new for me. I'm sure it's uh new for others. So, thank you for sharing uh sharing so far. It's time for niggan. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. V. Yeah. >> Because the reb called it his vad, >> right? his father's sing. >> So we'll sing uh I think it's not directly related to but uh from the Reb's uh mother's uh fathers uh which is uh the >> it's one of the taught >> one of the 10 that the Reb taught. It's the actually the fifth that the rebba taught on and uh we know that it's from the reb's grandfather because rabbi label rasin from in Morocco >> by the way the copy of the kali that we showed I believe was was his copy >> yeah label raskkin from Morocco yeah >> and the rascans were in alata >> right okay his his family I Yeah. Yeah. That's the connection >> of uh >> that's where they crossed paths I think with uh >> right they were very helpful >> parents. >> So after the uh after the Reb taught the niggan he went to visit rabbis and she asked know what's uh which niggan did teach this year >> and he he sang the niggan and she said oh this is my father's niggan. This is my father's niggan. So the is here and uh it's almost ready for getting ready for the shiny kipper. [Music] Noboch. [Music] Oh no. [Music] Oh no. [Music] know sing along. Say I come [Music] from day [Music] to Oh, [Music] they Oh, [Music] y know. Oh, y know. Beautiful. [Music] Beautiful. >> Thank you. >> Um Yeah, relax please. That's the the the like the chill out room. That corner there. >> Kheni. Yeah. It's for people who get over stimulated. They can go sit out there in the corner. What? when you tell me to pick up speed, it actually uh distracts me and makes me slow down because I forget what I'm going to say. So, thank you very much. It's all calculated. Everything is The fact that I look distracted, confused, and overly casual is with an incredible focus. So, just don't worry. I'm very, very aware that it's 9:38. Everything here is calculated to the tea. And you don't look this relaxed without, at least I don't look this relaxed without being hyperfocused. Do you guys know that at home that I'm hyperfocused right now? And I look relaxed, but I'm not. And now I'm going to engage in seemingly spontaneous light banter with my friend Ellie. Hey Ellie, >> Rabbi Rab, how are you? >> I'm doing well. Have you ever been on a live stream before? >> I uh we were Do you have amnesia? >> We were just here a month and a half ago. Yes, we were. Bakasham, I think, God willing, we're going to do a um is it Manakim? Can we announce Vish? We could troll it, tease it a little bit. Vishn >> perhaps. Okay, we might be doing Vish. Manak, please don't get nervous. Don't get nervous because when you get nervous, I get nervous and then I slow down because I forget what I'm going to say. When you relax, when you relax, everything goes smoothly. Okay. Thank you very much. At any rate, Ellie, >> yeah, the live stream. This is a lot of uh >> you know, there are people watching in Alata right now. >> That's what I heard. >> Elon Musk made the Starlink in Kazakhstan. >> They Yeah. They don't have to use Kabad's internet, you know, clogging the uh the Wi-Fi. >> So, nobody nobody can get through to anything else maybe. Okay. Um we were talking I'm not going to pretend that this is like totally uh spontaneous. We were talking earlier about an incredible, I guess, archival uh piece of of history. It's an edition of Mariv newspaper from Israel from March of 1977. And actually, it's uh it came out in honor of the Debb's 75th birthday. And in this Well, you could you pull up actually the whole Yeah. Okay. So that's that's what it looked like. So there are a few articles here in connection with Debb's 75th birthday. Um but specifically >> Oh wow. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's a whole page and there are a few different features on the page. But then there's specifically you see in the bottom left corner the Yeah. Go to the next slide because it'll zoom. Yeah. The bottom left corner is who is that? Vardina Schlansky. >> Vardina Schlansky. Vardini >> was the Reb's uh her parents were the Reb's neighbors. Uh they shared a uh they their um the two apartments there was a hallway they said she says there was an open door >> between the two uh apartments. >> I heard they were on the ground floor and sometimes they would jump out the window >> and go onto the street or on in the courtyard or whatever it was and then jump back in the window to the other apartment. Okay. >> They would go in and out of each other's apartments through the by going in and out of the windows. very very close >> when they were kids obviously. >> Yeah. As children very close. Uh and they were um Miss Vardina's mother and Rabbit Khana were second cousins. I think they were second cousin's brother Aram Schlansky. He was a very famous uh Israeli poet. >> Poet. Yeah. >> His name was Aram David. >> Named after a David Lav. >> Oh, okay. >> So that that was their grandfather. >> Yeah. Yeah, that's their shared ancestor. And um >> Verdina or or Raza in Yiddish was a very famous pianist and apparently she was composer as well and apparently even as a child she was very talented, musically talented, >> right? And you mentioned how there's like an open door policy between the two uh apartments >> specifically that of his parents' home was like uh it was a kabad house really. It was full of all types of visitors of all backgrounds, all levels of observance. It was like humming with activity. And she writes in this article about an event. I think it sounds like it was maybe was a Fabangan or something or >> I think she writes that uh her she had her older brother uh calls him Dove. Dove was a uh also was a singer. I think he sang opera and she writes that he uh he woke her up in the middle of the night and she said come uh he says to her come uh come play some nigun for for Raberson. Migun, >> which means by the way they must have had a piano in the apartment. >> Guess so. Yeah, >> apparently or at least on that occasion. >> So yeah, that's it's so we see there's also there's a her she writes that her father was also a composer. So there's a lot of musical talent in the family. Um >> hence the Ramono which is Yeah. Yeah. >> Just tracing that. She writes something there really a beautiful memory of of her childhood. She says that she for whatever reason as a child she was afraid of fire and she says that EB's father is the one who helped her get over her fear of fire. How did he do it? Such such a beautiful I mean it's it's a parenting lesson. It's a it's very inspiring and it's uh there's so much to take from this. She was afraid of fire. So he called her over during Havdullah and invited her to hold the candle and she said she was afraid but she saw how regal the Deb's father looked and how how majestic he was and she knew she could trust him and she was honored to be given this this duty of holding the candle. What little kid doesn't want to hold the candle even if they're afraid of it, you know, it's like such a coveted thing. I want to hold the candle. And so he he helped her get over her fear by giving her a giving her a schlick, giving her a job, putting her to work, which is >> she describes I was listening to an interview, an audio interview. >> Oh, really? on uh yeah it's on not sure what the what with maybe it's connected with with this article and she describes how she describes how beautiful just how their appearance and how the Khan dressed in a in a you know extraordinarily just and she describes how to her looked like Mashiach >> just had this this regal appearance >> that's what she said like Mashiach Beautiful. Beautiful. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, >> and yeah. So, her brother wakes her up in the middle of the night. Yeah. >> To play >> uh some nigun. >> Now, there's there's sheet music there, which I can't read. >> So, she wrote uh I guess for this article, she wrote out the nigun that she played. One is a slow niggan >> or she calls it a she calls it a sad niggan. They don't have sad niggun. >> Um and this niggan, it's a very well-known niggan. Uh it's attributed to the generation of the alterba and um it's the niggan of [Music] >> should I sing it? >> Yeah. >> The whole thing. >> Yeah. Do it. >> Anything you do, do it all the way. >> 100%. Oh, in Oh, oh, oh. [Music] Oh yeah. Oh, not down. Oh, down. Oh y [Music] M oh boy you down boy you [Music] know I don't I am not I Oh my [Music] m I lad. [Music] I la [Music] you down. Oh yeah. You [Music] My m That's the niggan. >> Beautiful. Beautiful. >> We'll get to the the second niggan, >> right? There were two tun. Okay. So, you're going to keep that a surprise. >> Yes. Okay. Surprise. >> All right. We're going to find out what this You said. She called the first one sad. >> Yes. >> I think she said the second one was happy. >> Yeah. >> So, we don't know what it is, but second Nigon is a happy associated maybe with the Reb's father. We'll find out. Okay. We'll find out. Okay. All right. Let's you ready for a little? Can we learn a little learning? Okay. So, you have your booklet over here if you do. I mean, if you're here, you have your booklet if you're at home. So, you can pull open your PDF. And again, you can go to soulwords.orgof57. So, this I'm going to let people open up the PDF if they're at home. >> soulwords.org /hoff5785. You want to open up the PDF and make it big. You know, you can make your uh YouTube window one size, you can make your PDF window another size, you can put them both on your screen. Okay. But we're also going to share it. So you you can do you can do both. Okay. So can you pull up you said I'll pull up be the slide before you go to the booklet. Can you pull up the slide right after the um Schlanssky sheet music? Yeah. And just show Yeah. Very good. Okay. So, what you see here is the Reb's father's Tanya that he had with him in Chile. And like I mentioned, he only had a very few and whatever he had was with great miserus nefish that it was brought to him. You see here the uh the handwritten glosses, scholarly notes that are in the in the margins. This is a VNA edition. It was printed about 100 years ago. And if you do, by the way, have the physical booklet, it's roughly about the same size. Um, what how many centimeters? >> About about we have it on a semi-reliable source that it's about 20 centimeters. So you if you could if you can see how I'm holding this, this is about the real size of the Tanya. It's so it's amazing to see. This is an image of a Tanya that the Reb's father was was learning. while while in golus. Yeah. You see this? How big are these booklets? >> 8 and a half by 11 folder and a half, which means can print. Oh, you could print it out on your computer and then you could have you could also have the experience. Okay. Where are we going to hand them out at? We have a hundred printed. Okay. So, where are we going to hand them out? Call. Okay. You said I'll pull up the slide again. Okay. Thank you. So you can see it's very vivid and we want to thank the library of a good kabad who gave us access to this incredible image and also our dear friends at Cayenu who were the first ones to publish this faximile in their companion last year which they printed and they're the ones who hooked us up with this. So we want to thank them as well. Look how you can even see the um the stitching. You can see the like the thread in the binding. It's amazing how how vivid that image is. Okay. So, go to the next slide, please. Yeah. Look there. That little circle, that little it's like a a notation mark right before the word mayapom. So, right before Maya, there's that little circle. And then you so I'll go back to the full screen. If you look on the side, the left margin, you'll see that same little circle. See the circle is by the Maya palm. And then in the margin, that same circle is there, which means you know that's that's the citation. H okay. So go ahead. Advance to the next one. And Right. Okay. So there you see it. We have we we flipped it on the side so you could actually see it. >> Right. Go one more. And it's even more zoomed. Ah, there you go. Okay. And there's that little circle. And you could see, okay, we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna we're getting ahead of it. So, we're going to learn this. Okay. So, here's what we're going to do. I'll pull up the the PDF, the um study companion, please. Okay. All right. I'm getting a lot of uh action over here. What are you nervous about? >> What? What? What? Manakim knows too much because he was involved in printing it. So, he's he he knows exactly where it's supposed to go. Okay. But it's all going to be good. We're >> And he's over tired because he's working for three days non-stop. Do you want some uh Diet Coke, by the way? Okay. All right. You got fruit over there. All right. So, pull up please the beginning of the um of the text. Pull it up for me. Next. Next. Very good. Okay. We're going to learn. We're going to learn. Now, just go forward. We're going to go back in a minute, but just go forward for a second. And I just want to give you a glance at the Tanya. We're not going to learn every line of the Tanya right now, but I just want to give you a glance. This Tanya, which is from the Reb's father's Tanya, is peric of Tanya. It's in the middle of the perk and it says, and now from this, we're going to understand what it says in the gamorra. Now, before we're going to learn the Tanya, we're going to go back and learn the gamor. Gumor is naga. But before we learn the gamora even I just want to give you a little context what's happening in Tanya in Peric Desv so that we can appreciate what the Reb's father is contributing. Okay. So Pedigbase introduces the ben. Oh by the way there's a story about that. You guys know the story about that. somebody I forget who it was but he was a tom in Labavich inim labavich labavich and he says that the rebba's father came to yeshiva and gave a tanyir and the whole shir I think it was like two hours was just explaining why per yud starts the habeni instead of habeni He said the whole she was just explaining the vavv from vahabani at the beginning of pedig base. Okay. So in pedig base ala introduces the ben vahen. Who is the ben? But we learn in pedigimal he's somebody who has the same like meaning his mid his mind and his emotions are they have an orientation toward sin but his garments of the soul thought speech and action. as thought is considered a behavior albeit a behavior you engage upon in your own head. His behaviors are like the behaviors of a sadic. So the benon is this person who has inner conflict because on the inside he's like a Russia but on the outside he's like a sadic. And what we learn is the fact that the bane experiences conflict is not a bug, it's a feature. In other words, it's not like, well, he has conflict because he's not a sadic. Still has a yet. Oh, but you know what? Alba figured out a way for him to feel good about himself. He wrote a book called SH in him that even if you still have a yeets, you can still feel like, you know, you're not a loser. No, no, no. What we come to find out is the fact that this person has a struggle that itself has value and the fact that he is pushing up against something is precious to Hashem. And this is what happens in Pedesv the alterb says by the way you think that the fact that Ben struggles and it's you know It's a lot of hard work maintaining that that perfect appearance. Behind that perfect appearance is a lot of inner torment. That itself is the glory of the bayonet because it means that he's working. And in theory, if you could get away without having to work, let's say somehow it's just gave you a day off or it took a day off, that wouldn't be a good thing because the struggle has value. And the alter backs this up from a gamura that explains the value of the struggle. Okay? So it's not that what is our accomplishment? Our accomplishment is that we accomplish in spite of the struggle. It's that too. But the kesh of Tanya is or at least here this is the struggle itself is an accomplishment. It has inherent value. Okay. So let's go. You said I'll pull up the gum because the the says so let's let's learn the gam first. The alterb is assuming that we know the gamur. So let's learn it. Okay. and kaga das base we have rashi in the in the uh go back go back one very good okay bar little conversation here yeah and you see by the way the Q and the A that means the question the answer okay what does it mean what it says like quotes a says, "I saw the difference between the between the servant of God and the one who does not serve him." But asks a question. It's redundant. Sadic is the righteous person is one who serves Hashem and conversely again redundant. The Russia is a so why does it say the same? Why is the PK the verse in the Nvi saying the same thing twice? I saw the difference between the saddic and the Russia between the andade. Sadic is Russia is a same thing twice. Okay. And for a I'm going to let you in on something. No, there's no Russia being spoken of here. Actually aad and leavad are both two different types of sadikim. Now by the way it doesn't mean someone who doesn't have a actually it means here. But at any rate they're both good. They're both doing good things and are both doing good things. So now you have a question. Why is he called? He's not serving Hashem if he's doing good things. How could you call him not serving? Okay. So the explains you cannot compare someone who learns his pedic his lesson 100 times to someone who learns his lesson 101 times. He reviews the lesson 101. So you have one guy reviews his lesson 100 times. You have one guy learn he reviews his lesson 101 times. Guess what? a 100 times review guy, he's called didn't even serve Hashem. The guy who reviews it 101 times. He's serving Hem. Okay. Now, the question that you're going to ask is probably the question the Gota asks. So he says to them, you're going to really tell me that because of one time, the difference between the hund and the 101 that makes it or breaks it that makes a difference between and he's serving and he's not serving. That's what it comes down to. one time a 1% difference and he says in yeah I that is precisely what I'm saying he tells him say lamad go out and learn from the donkey market from the Uber drivers it's a known thing that if you travel 10 para we'll talk about what A par says in a second. It costs a zuz. We'll talk about what a zuz is also in a second. You probably know the zo from the kadia. So in the donkey driver market, if you would hire a donkey driver to take you on a trip, if the trip was 10 para, you're going to pay a zuzar par. But if you go 11 betray zuz now you're going to pay double. You're going to pay two z. Okay. And just to make this a little bit more relatable. Manakim and I did a lot of uh research here to pull up some actual these are researched double and triple check numbers. These are not AI generated. There's real human research went into this. So first of all what's a parsa? A para is 8,000 amis. You're gonna say great. What's an amma? Well, it's mleus, right? So, we have different opinions of the amma. By the way, how many amas are we from the aisle here at the soulwards house? Do you remember? 274. 274 am. Okay. Um, so one opinion which is the one that we follow is and that's the small on the smaller side about a foot and a half. And then we have the Kazan ish is a popular uh measurement for the amma. He's on the high end. Uh he's closer to about two feet. At any rate, so if you calculate, everyone says a para is 8,000 Amas, but different people measure the amma differently. So depending on which opinion of the amma you follow, so a para is on the low end 2.39 miles. I'm not I'm not going to say the kilometers, but uh there those who are in those who are kilometer people, it's written here. Yeah, you can find it right here. Um and on the high end, a parsa is 2.9 miles. So it's anywhere between 2.39 and 2.9. Now you got to multiply that by 10. So 10 parsa is 23.9 miles uh on the low end. Let's just, you know, to keep it simple, let's just do the low end because he was a and we follow him and we're gonna just we're gonna follow. Okay, on the low on the low end. So he says 10 para is 23.9 miles. Now I wanted to find something that was 23.9 miles because I want to make this relatable. You know how much time I spent on Google Maps? But I did this for you guys because the Reb said limo and we got to learn. We got to take it seriously. So how can you? By the way, I heard a great story. This is what kind of inspired me to learn this way. Other than the fact that I'm a big fan of visualy tora.com >> I'm a but I don't go to the website. I I get this I get the hard copies. Yeah. So I'm a big fan of like being mamish, you know, bringing it into a tangible way. But there's a great story. Yankee Sachs who's in Dick Hills told me that when he was a bar mitzvah he was in Yehiddis and the Reba asked him what he's learning and he said he's learning Kdushin. So he asked him the first mission in Kadushin and how many ways does a woman get married? How many ways does she get out of marriage and so he said the three ways that she's uh acquired? So the asked so he said um pro um and dinner. So did then he says yeah but how much is that? So he says, "Well, you remember this?" Yeah. Okay. Of course. Yeah. So he says, "Uh, so the Reb says to him, he was from England. How much is that in pounds, in pence, whatever?" You know the you know tell in the money that you live with that you spend how now obviously this is not going to be mad and isa but the point is if you're learning and it says a currency you should know how much that is in the currency. Okay. So at any rate, a zuz is a certain amount of silver. Uh so the according to the spot, the silver, but they call it the spot. That's the lingo. The uh the value of a zuz today would be about $5.86. Yeah. So that's cheap. So I figured out what is 24 miles 23.9 miles from here to the Verzano Bridge. And by the way, who can tell me what does the Verzo bridge have to do with the aisle? You can't think you know Ellie >> say no. Well, when Kabad came to America, when the Fidik came to America, they needed to buy a uh a plot when the when the Fidikba's mother passed away. >> Very good. And they couldn't uh because of the because the Fidb was in a wheelchair, they couldn't find they couldn't take him over the bridge. >> There was no bridge. The ferry it was only the Debb didn't want that to have to go on the ferry. So they have to find a >> Yeah. So that's why they started the the labavature section in old Mont Fiori because there was no Verizon. >> There is there is an old Kabad Khala in Staten Island, >> right? That's where it would have been. And that didn't want to use it. So that they chose of something that you can get to without the ferry because to get to the older cemetery the one that all you know the yidden >> um used that was Staten Island the only way to get there was a ferry. There was no ver the Verzano Bridge was built in the 60s sometime. Okay. At any rate so I calculated it from the oil from where we are right now to the Verzano Bridge is basically 10 para. Now that's going to cost you on a donkey in the times of the Gamada how much >> which is approximately >> six bucks. Okay. >> 586. >> Very cheap. Yeah. Okay. >> It's going to take you about five hours. >> I I I I'm not sure how you know I tried to calculate it with you know you can calculate in Google Maps a bicycle. I wasn't sure if that was similar to the donkey or more similar to walking. I have no idea. Yeah, you're probably probably right. Probably will take um all day. Oh, you know what? It does take all day because the hilo mill is a time amount. Yeah, para comes up when you make how far out of the city do you have to be of para at any rate. Yeah, it it is basically a whole day of of traveling. It's it's like seven or eight hours of walking. So, um, 10 para from here to the Verzano Bridge for six bucks. Now, imagine you tell the guy, "You know what? Let's cross the bridge and get off at uh, I don't know, like Coast Guard Academy or whatever that thing is there." When once you cross the Verizon Bridge, >> what's it called? >> Father Cap Father Capidana. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Um, and then you get off and he's like, "That'll be two zos." You be like, "What? I just asked you a minute ago. You said it was one zo." Yeah. Well, we just crossed the threshold. We just went over We just went over 10 para. We went 11. So, if you imagine if you go to the Verzano Bridge, that's one. You cross the bridge and then you get off at the first exit. Now you're paying double. Ah so back to the gamut. The point is he says if you learn a hundred times that's normal. That's flat rate. If you learn 101 times now you went past the regular threshold. Now it's double. In other words what does that mean? Let's say it in simple words. that one extra time after the first hund times can be worth as much as the entire first hund times. That one extra time has the same value as the first 100 times. And that's the difference between and okay now with that background let's open up the Tanya. you saw. Can you open up the Tanya next page? >> Yeah, please. >> I don't know if it's work. >> I don't know if it's working working harder or if it's just that this is the economics of it. This is called a normal thing. It's like you go to Union Car Service. I'm not trying to give them a plug, although they should send me money now or at least give me a free ride. And they have that chart, right? They have the chart in front like JFK $35, Newark $85. I don't know. Price probably went up since I was using. But um so that's like there's flat rates for things. It's a flat rate because remember anything up until 10 Par is going to cost you even if you go less than that. >> Yeah, it's a flat rate. But once you go >> once you what >> so once you go Rashi says once you go past what's called a normal city trip now you're in a whole new category which is another fair equivalent to the original. >> No that's he's that's what they did. That was that's how they did it. That's what uh in Bville that's how the donkey drivers that's how they charged. Okay. But as we're going to learn, there's very deep significance to all of this. None of this is random. The father is going to bring out there's spiritual significance. Okay, let's look at the go let's look at the Tanya now. Okay, let's learn the yuan. Okay, so take a study guide. Open up to page uh whatever it is. Okay, give him a study guide. Now I'm reading the the words of the Okay. Now we can understand in context of what the alter taught us about the definition of a benon is being someone who struggles and that his struggle itself has inherent value. We can understand what the goto was saying that the guy who learns a h 100 times is called he didn't serve hashem but if he'll do one more time now he's serving hashemic in their day it was considered normal it was just the regular thing if you learn something you learn it a h 100 times mashuk like the Marshall where going a 10 para trip was considered a normal thing. So they're similar to each other in as much as learning your lesson a 100 times was considered normal. Going 10 para on a trip was considered normal standard, right? But once you go over even one now you're getting charged double because it's more than what they were what their habit was more than they were used to. This time, this one time, this 101st time, where you're going past whatever your habit is that you became habituated from your youth or that one time has as much value as all the first hundred times. And not only it's as valuable, it's actually even greater than than them because that's what gets you the title. Now you're serving Hashem. Okay, beautiful. That's the Tanya. Now, like we said, the Debbie's father writes a mark by May upon him, that little circle. Okay. Um, you sort even back up just so we can Yeah, look at the little circle there. See that little circle? May I p him? And then show us the closeup of after the full slides. Oh, you have to go back to the full slides. Okay, don't worry about it. Okay, don't don't go back to the PDF. It's fine. I want to just keep moving. So, go to the next page. Yeah, next page. Oh, this is it. Okay, fine. All right. So, it's fine. Let's go into now the Reba's father's words written in the margin of his Tanya. Okay, like it's written about where's coming from? The Gumar doesn't mention any. Tanya doesn't mention any. So this is the father's kesh like it says about that what do what do we know about that they learned to in fact they had a partnership and y would learn to villain would do business they had a mutual benefit a symbiotic relationship it says about who were now where is that look in the bottom of the page where we have theim we have so these areim from par this is when Yankee initim before he passes away he's benching theatim he's benching his sons and this is the of okay let's look in the the lok let's look at the words okay you see in the very bottom of the page fine so [Music] is a you can translate a bony donkey bane he crouches between the boundaries, the borders. He's traveling. He's a donkey. He's traveling. He saw a good resting place that it was good. Vasa audits in the land that it was pleasant. And he put forth his shoulder least spoiled to bear the burden. And he was a mass oade. I saw different ways of translating mass ovid. Some translate even as an indentured servant. A mass is a tax. An ovid is a servant. So a mass ovid is like an indentured servant. Okay. What is it talking about here? If you look in the rashi, we didn't include the rashi here, but you can look in rashi on this p. Basically rashi says that this description of yaka as the donkey putting his shoulder to the load to bear the load. This is the the symbolic or the the visual representation of his Tyra that how does learn to not just he learns to but he carries it like a donkey carries a loader like the zor says that a person should apply himself to like a like an ax to the yoke and like a donkey to his burden. So this description of as the donkey carrying the burden is a description of someone who is not just learning to but he is carrying a heavy load. He's pushing himself to study which fits here. All right. Now watch this. Vilamas says is vilamas which we're translating as lamas o the an indentured servant. Okay. But mass the reb's father is very into unpacking the letters of words letters the gamatria everything has significance every word is building blocks. This is we we know a picabola that every every letter is a is a is a building block. Every letter is a stone. Every word is a is a house mass mecha mem is 40 is 60 me is now mas also and if you look in the on the bottom maybe let's look here at the bottom the chart v by the wayv um just incidentally I mentioned to you that the father only had a very few with him in Golus. So what one of the remarkable things is he he didn't have reference books to look up. So he's he's bringing he's incorporating concepts from all over Torah, but he didn't have those books to check. Okay. So here in it says it's the teachings recorded by Vital. All right. So look here. Pull up on the the bottom. Okay. Look on the bottom on the left. The or maybe more often you hear it as a sultan is the a not good angel. He's also the he's the angel that causes people to forget. communion that the bad angel he has power his n his name is the number 100 he has power his power extends up until 100 but if you can go to 101 Now you can't get me. Now you're out of range. You don't have to go 200. Just go 1001. Just go one more time. The first hundred times the Sam could come in and he can make you forget what you learned. But go 101. Now you're out of his domain. Now he can't make you forget it. Okay. So going back into the father meas. What does it mean? mass is 100. The sam the range within which you could forget your to the range within which you're still only you haven't even begun to serve yet. But then what does it say? O is this is the the he learns 101 times like the says is the and we're going to explain what that means. And that is not an accident that we say that like the says like we were talking about before the and that's the you thought if you learned the kaga or even if you learned the quoting the the gamar you thought that marshall was just a convenient reference point. It was just something that everyone could relate to. That's why he's talking Why is he talking about donkeys? It could have been a horse or it could have been a cow. He's just talking about donkeys because that's what they had. No. No. The Eb's father says everything is significant. It's daffa a donkey. Why? Because is the donkey. Isra the donkey is but not just stam. That's a burden. That's extra effort that makes you have to carry a load that's more than you were comfortable with. Then what happens? Let's continue here. Follow this. What's oid? Yeah, I know. Someone who serves Hashem, but it's deeper than that. It's deeper than that. You know there are different sheamos different names of Hashem. Elohim specifically is a name of Elimria. Tava is the Milo master. So here's the deal. What does do not just learning Torah but learning Torah out of his comfort zone? He's oim not just he serves hashem he's o also say this a lot of times they say with a with an ion working out a a skin processing a skin talking about like a hide like a cowhide to refine the leather to make it in you know soft to make it usable he's he takes the gures the gurus means the divine concealment where the sam can cause can cause forgetfulness but because he goes that one extra mile or para as it were or extra time reviewing his lesson now he's out of range and he's he refineses theum the concealment he refineses it that by going beyond his comfort zone like a donkey who carries the load, who shoulders the load, he takes the elim, the gura that could be susceptible to forgetfulness, and he refineses it. He he fixes it and sweetens it. He's he's makumic. He fixes and sweetens it. What does it turn into now? First of all, he's a noim. So, and that we know from the gum. What it means is all the all the toy that he was learning no longer is susceptible to forgetfulness. By the way, what does forgetfulness mean? Forgetfulness can mean a few things. One thing can be push no recall. You don't remember what you learned. Forgetfulness could also mean you forget to apply what you learned. In other words, the guy is a walking encyclopedia. If you would stop him on the street and say, "What does it say in this safer?" He'll he'll know what it says, he he'll oh yeah, he'll tell you. But when he has to apply it in life, then it doesn't know. He doesn't remember. He doesn't remember. Okay. So talks about Ganva, the thief at the the tunnel. He's digging into a house to break in and he's dvening. Why is he dvening? Does he believe in Hashem or he doesn't? Clearly he believes because he's dominating. No, but if he believed in Hashem, he would believe he doesn't have to steal. Oh, so this says he believes he doesn't believe it's it's he forgot. You know, technically if you ask him who runs the world runs the world, but when it comes to real life, he can't remember. He can't he'll quote it to you, but he but he he's not feeling it. So doesn't just mean that you can't pull out the quote. means that when you're trying to live life, you don't live like the you that you consumed like the Reb said in the famous uh letter about which our whole was based on the answer to mental we learn and we learn when it comes to actual application where's the okay so the point is oh and by the way in that letter to Mandel about the Reb tells him it's interesting I'm thinking just now. Yeah. Leady's father. Yeah. He tells him to learn. It was he was a baka. I think he was in the 50s. He was living in London at the time and he had a bad health diagnosis and he thought he was dying. Yeah. And he ended up having a whole mishbaka. He clearly lived and had but the point is um the told him when you learn and we say it and it's going to click for you. says, "Not once. Learn it a few times." The Reb is kind. The Reb didn't say 100 one times. The Reb said a few times. Okay? But learn it a few times. Okay? The By the way, 100 isn't a magic formula. The point is to go beyond the regilas. It's not 100 because >> he says be a mayhem. If I could be media in the safer shiake, which is my >> Yeah. You never heard of the safer? >> Yeah. Very good. Okay. So, He says in Tanya, I just want to be back. He says mayhemos is 100. So 101 was out of your comfort zone. But that's a relative term. So >> right, I'll tell you a great story, but I heard this from Tuvia Teldon. Perfect story that applies to this. He told me, I think it was in Montreal in Yeshiva and there was a guy there in Yeshiva who his father was a pharmacist, owned a pharmacy and the son became and the father was a traditional Yid but not F and he kept this the pharmacy open on Shabas and he was furious that his son became became a labeer because now he's not going to work on Shabas and his whole point was you know he's one of these American yen Then that era like he worked very hard to create a business his son could inherit and then the kid's not going to work on Shabas. That's all all their business is on on Shabas. Okay. So the guy came to the Reb Tinus very interesting story came to the Reb and he said what do you do to my son? So the Reba, I don't know how the Reba turned it around on him, but instead of instead of answering and like having to excuse himself, the Reba flipped it on the guy and asked him about his own spiritual growth. And the Debb asked the guy, "Are there mitzvah that you're comfortable doing?" The guy didn't keep Shabas. I don't know what else he didn't do, but he are there mitzvah you're comfortable doing. He says, "Yeah, sure. The mitzvah I'm comfortable doing." So the Reba says to him, the father came in to scream at the Reb about about his son. The Debb starts asking him, could you do every mitzvah you're comfortable with? The guy thinks he's like, "Yeah, of course. If I'm comfortable with it, if it's comfortable for me, why wouldn't I do it?" The says, "Perfect. Okay, so just do all the mitzvah you're comfortable with." And one mitzvah you're uncomfortable with. >> So the guy's like, "I could do one mitzvah I'm uncomfortable with." What do you think happened? The one mitzvah he was uncomfortable with became comfortable. And then >> the mitzvah the next mitzvah that was uncomfortable became comfortable so on and so forth until the guy became from he became sheabas and he had so much nas from this son the the yeshiva bakar okay so the point is it's not about 101 it's about as long as you're in your comfort zone then this gur this shame It could fail on you. But if you go even one drop beyond what is comfortable. Now you're transforming the concealment into revelation. Now you've got it. Now it became part of you. It became integrated. You'll never lose it. It'll become yours. Anyways, I think everybody could think about things that are just a little bit uncomfortable. or even when you're learning, let's say, you know, when you get to the point where, okay, I had enough >> and you go one extra mile and I'm going to say >> this the name of the event, the extra mile. I'm going to suggest even I don't know if you you'll accept this from me, an extra inch. Anything anything that's a >> anything that's slightly uncomfortable and now you've gone >> into the extra para Look at that. >> Okay. So anyways, from this we get just a glimpse into the depth into the richness that his father's title. But they pull up just pull it up again. You all just the image so we can see the holy image of the Tanya itself. By the way, you know the story behind this Tanya itself I mentioned to you that they smuggled out. Give me the full image. Go back to the the the Yeah. >> Oh, you want to go into the full? Yeah. Go to the full slides. >> Yeah, go to the full slides where it's zoomed in so crystal clear and pull up the the closeup of the Tanya. So yeah, what we have here >> gems from Lut Leitzk, the glosses of Ravitzker and Zatal in English. This was put out by Cayeno, our dear friends at Cayeno in honor of this. So if you're interested in learning more of the father's ta can learn this, but you said I'll pull up the slide. Um please. Yeah. Just look at that. Look at those holy letters that are written with midus nephesh with holiness purity. And now we're connecting to it >> and now we understand what it says. You see look at the look. You see it's it comes alive. comes alive and uh hopefully we'll apply it to our lives in a serious way and fulfill what the Rebecca really wanted that his his father's titer should make it to a form that it could be learned and disseminated and and practiced. But I want to tell you about this Tanya JFY I mentioned to you that there was like how they got the others uh how Pina Alto got the others from uh the the rabbit's cousin in uh in Mina Rashul. But there's another story how they got the Tanya. That was a different by the way. You know that there are there are probably unless they were destroyed, God forbid, they're probably Morsov. They're definitely Morsov somewhere. When they came at 3:00 in the morning to arrest the Reb's father, they went through all of the papers and Rabbana says that, you know, there were there were manuscripts there and they think that when Yamakum the the Nazis came into Yakatunlav that they maybe they got a hold of it or they destroyed it. She implies in her memoirs that that possibly happened. At any rate, there are probably more um manuscripts that exist, but any the Tatana, the Tanya actually was smuggled out by a woman uh Daar Rifka Shyikovich, I think was her name. And she got it from someone someone else who had it. I think this other person, he had two things that he prized more than anything. He had the Reb's father's Tanya and the Reb's father's Kane. And it was she ended up with the with the Tanya and then she went through Ria. Ria was part of the Soviet Union at that time. And when she left, they actually caught her with the Tanya and they were going to take it from her and she broke down crying. And she said, remember the communists technically they allowed religious freedom. You just can't convert others. You know, you can't proitize. You can't promote it. So she started crying. She said, "Why are you doing this? Is my personal sithers, my prayer book." So she cried. She said, "This is my prayer book." And they let her keep it. And she was able to get it out of Russia. And that's how that's where we have this that's how we have this holy Tanya that's uh glowing with with kadusha vitara. At any rate amazing okay um yeah how about this can you pull up a uh no don't pull up the video. How about this? Ellie Yro, can you pull up the second musical the sheet the second sheet of musical notes of Verdina Schlansonsky? >> The closeup of the second Yeah, very good. Is that Yeah, that's right. What does it say? What's that Italian word on the top? >> Uh, alto, >> which because the the first one said moder. What did it say? Go back. Actually, go back. >> Oh, you're paying attention. >> Yeah, I did. Oh, mado. Marado and moderate, right? Mhm. >> Okay. So that means kind of >> slow. >> Slow. Okay. Now, and this is >> uh algre. What does algre mean? >> Happy. >> Yeah. Happy. Bouncy. >> Happy. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, this is a um Wow. >> I didn't catch that before. >> Yeah. No, I didn't catch that. So um this is uh the famous uh the Reb's father's nanop uh but interestingly the niggan if you can hear it on the niggan doesn't start where uh we today where we think it starts doesn't start from there which actually the would frequently do that it would start in aim from the from the energetic part for example. So if you if you pull the slide back up real quick. So it starts from [Music] sorry what? >> Where did she start it from? You can tell me anything you want and I'll believe you. Yeah. Second linea. Anyway, so that's uh it doesn't get to that high part until the what is it the fifth line, but anyway. So that's where the niggan this is the niggan of of >> Okay, we're gonna intro you into the niggan. Can you pull up the video that matches this? This is from of I think tough test. It's a children's rally. It's from a children's rally. The camps came in for me test. Do you have the video you saw? I think it's video number one. We haven't shown a video yet. Call the coffers. Yeah. Let's see. If you can't pull it up, just let us know. We'll skip the video. Oh, and we want to thank our friends at Jewish Educational Media. Can you turn up the sound? [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. [Applause] Hallelujah. [Applause] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Dam [Music] it la. [Music] Hey y'all. [Music] Y [Music] mighty. Oh yeah. [Music] Y. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] So we did limite the reb's request from us to learn lemade materi what was the other part do you remember >> lad >> it's going to cost you money >> oh yes >> lad Dave and to donate. Now, people are used to hearing me uh fundraising for soulwords.org. I'm not even going to say the URL. I don't want you to give to soulwords.org right now. Um don't even attempt to do that here today. There's one place we should be giving. And this is not a paid ad. This is the Reb's request. This is holy. This is a serious thing. And I'm going to tell you a story. The story is like this shin dal the started a new kin a new fund daka fund charity fund specifically to support teachers in schools that focus exclusively or primarily on lummude kesh on Torah subjects and to support these teachers who the Rebe said often work for uh very little pay to give them relief by providing them interestfree loans. That's the purpose of of the Kerin that the Reb named after his father Kerin Leyok. And the Reb tells a story about how he he he he found the inspiration to how he found the inspiration to start this uh this charitable fund. The tells a story like this. the woman a woman uh that says who would qualify as one of the noshim one of the righteous women he doesn't say her name in fact in the story he says that she doesn't want to be named reached out to him reached out to the rebba and explained that she and her husband were owed $5,000 and they were owed this amount for many years And it was very difficult for them not to have that $5,000. By the way, I looked it up. I told you to dalid. So 1964, $5,000 would be equivalent today to I wrote it down somewhere, but uh I think it was where did I write it? $49,600. Okay. So, they were owed this money, $49,600 in 2025, guilt, and it was very difficult for them not to have it, but somehow they got by. And then one day they got it, and they got it in a lump sum. Don't ask me how, but it was paid off to them in one check. So, she says to her husband, you know, until now, we somehow survived without it. Isn't that a sign that we can continue to survive without it? And she convinced her husband. I don't know how much she had to convince or not, but uh the deba says she had her husband's blessing, permission and blessing to do this. She said, "Let's donate it." Not a part of it, not even half of it or most of it, the whole thing. And the deb tells the story. He says she could have kept part of it for herself. She could have even used it to pay her her tuition, her her children's tuition, but she didn't want to do that. She gave the entire amount to me to use at my discretion. And then the marvels at the fact, he says, "Who is this woman? She's an American woman." This is what the the Reba says. "And who's her husband? He's an American man." What does that mean? They're Americans. So the Reba says they're not from a country where the norm is to have midnafish. I think it's an interesting thing. It's like if they would be Russian, where they're used to like hard living and to, you know, just being tough and gruff. Okay, I get it. You know, to give away their money. But these are Americans. Um, the Reb said, it's interesting because we're used to the Reb referring to America as a Medina. In this, the Reb refers to America as a Medina Medina that America is, I guess you could translate like a materialistic society. People here into their creature comforts. So, you have this American come imagine 2025 and and the Reb says they don't have money in savings. It's not like they had plenty of money and so they gave this away. They don't have money in savings. Imagine a a couple. It's and they have they have kids to support and they're paying tuition and all of a sudden they get a check for $49,600 and they turn around they do something totally out of the norm or might I say they go the extra mile. They go beyond what they needed to do. They didn't need to do this and they gave the whole sum to the Reb. So the says when I received that that that's what inspired me and I decided so this was 1964 this was the 20th yard site. So in honor of the 20th yard site of my father this is what I'm doing. I'm starting a ker ker levy that will bear my father's holy name. It will be for the establishment of a fund to give free loans to teachers who teach holy subjects in schools that teach primarily or even exclusively holy subjects. And the money that I'm using to start it with is this Midas Neffish money from this American woman who gave away this huge sum of money. And she did it that says without wanting to be named. In fact, she said, "Leave my name out of it. I don't want any credit for it. I just want it done. I just want to do it." So, it's a really amazing thing that this is the the origin of this fund. So, we want to encourage you. Well, we don't have to encourage you. We just told you that EBG requested from you uh to give on this day. So, let's give them a couple of ways to do it. You could go to soulwords.org/coff5785 and there's a nice big button there for Kolan Levy or you can go directly to kanit.org. Very good. Thank you. Yeah, pull that up. QR code. Pull out your phone. If you're watching this on the laptop and you got your phone, you could do go take a picture of the QR code there in the bottom right corner. And uh as it mentions there, this is brought even in Safarin Hogim. This is an official custom of to donate to Ken Leitzk uh on you can donate all year long but uh specifically on like the Reb said that uh on this day to learn from my my father's Tyra and to give uh yeah so we're we're going to share a uh which video from 1964. Okay. So this is from the where the Reb was speaking about the founding of the Kon. This is when the Reb this is right after the Reb tells the story about the woman who gave the donation and let's pull up this video right here. [Music] Fore! Foreign! Foreign! [Music] for I [Music] acqu [Music] is >> okay. One of the things that we uh try to incorporate in our I'm getting a little bit of reverb feedback here a little bit. Could you uh Yeah. Um one of the things we try to incorporate with our events here at SWAT's house a half a block from the aisle is bringing good news to the Reb. And specifically tonight we have good news to bring >> because the Reba made a very clear explicit request what he wants from us today. Leila Nandave. So um if you go to soulwords.org of so not only can you donate there's a link there to donate took but there's also a I don't know if is it possible to pull up the site. It's not possible. Okay. Um, but you'll if you'll go to the site there, there's a uh there's a form to fill out. You'll fill out your name. Um, I'm just going to pull it up on my computer so I can look at it. So of 5785. Yeah. You know what? Wonder if you'll see this. Yeah. So you go here. So up here on the top there's a button donate. Up on the top is the button donate to Kennyok. Here's here's the video. Um, and then oh there's the PDF. Beautiful. And then yeah, you're seeing I have 20 tabs open now. It's true. It's called ADHD. Okay. And then you see here where it says good news. If you participated in study and or charity on in accordance with the Debb's personal request, submit your name to be read at the Debb's. And we're going to we're going to play the video one second. So here you have the options. I participate in honor of the devis father. And you can check off in study. So if you were learning with us, you can check that off in charity. If you go up here to this button and you donate, so then you can check off both. And then you put you put your name ben or bas and we'll bring your names to the to bring good news to the and in fact theb when he would and of fabangans when he would remind people and encourage people to give tok mention the concept of bringing their names to bring um at the aisle and We actually have a video from uh Lammed Base. [Music] Foreign [Music] speech. Foreign speech. Ali, I believe die. I believe die. Say die. I believe [Music] die. Say die. [Music] You can see [Music] everyone should be get benched. Amen. >> Amen. >> The extra mile of brahas. You go we go beyond our comfort zone and we get a extra measure of braha beyond and beyond. Okay. Um, I want to share one last important idea with uh with all of you to help us sort of appreciate the EB's father's self-sacrifice. Um, I'm going to tell you a story. So I think it was Tshiny Base a couple of years after the beginning of the Nissas Rabbit Khana had a photo of her husband that was taken just a few weeks before his passing and she showed it to David Rascin. We mentioned the Rascins earlier. We mentioned label Rascin. They were they were in Alata. She showed it to David Rascin. I think also um Maisha Groner and she said actually showed Davasin and she said it was torn and it needs to be restored and the Vascan said Misha Groner is the one who knows that Mala either he does it or he knows people who do it. He's got a guy can restore photos. So they restored the photo and when the Reba came to visit his mother and she showed it to him. So David Rask and Mashona were actually hiding and they were watching and showed the picture to the Reb. And apparently the Reb had a difficult time recognizing who it was and said it's it's your father. It's from right before his passing. Apparently, it just it didn't look like him. And um maybe you throw maybe you could pull up. Yeah, that's that's the picture. And if you look there, Saviad Kce have his holy handwriting on the bottom that says Adeni AI question mark with a question mark. Meaning that sing is that zal? Is that my father of blessed memory? He had alfi. Yeah. Zosha. Four letters. Yeah. Alf zmed. Question mark. Is that indeed him? Meaning the rebba was like questioning. Now, apparently the Rebe and and by the way, the Rebbit when when he after he finished looking at the picture, he put it down face down. Maybe it was hard for him to look at. I don't want to speculate, but that that's the fact they say he put it down face down. Um later on, however, I guess the deba did feel it was his father. So when they put out the latana in tin, I think so which we just learned from. Yes. Um, the Reba asked them to include that picture and that was the official picture. Now, here's the rest of the story when they put out when Lak put out in I think it was Nun Alf. So remember we said that they built the oil in Alamata in in Mammas you know in the Pistroka times the Gorbachov times when things were like thawing out. So a lot of opportunities started to open up there was more access. So in Toshan Alf in 1991 I don't know the whole story behind it but they had access to the police file. Basically it was a it's a mug shot. It's a coarse way of saying it but that's what it was. By the way, the al the picture of the alter we have is also they say is a police sketch, you know. So they had a picture was a police sketch, a mug shot, but and it's it's this famous picture that everyone's used to. But here's the thing, that's when they arrested him. So in 1939 when they arrested him, that's what he looked like. And by 1944 before his passing, that was the picture that we saw. So when they brought to the Reba the new picture, there were certain things that had to be adjusted with it because remember it was it was not taken by friendly people. It was not a wedding photographer. This was taken it was the the father was under arrest. It was a serious thing. So the photo had to be retouched a little bit. But um when it was ready to be publicized so then the Reb accepted it that that's this is this should be publicized and then it was the Reb's own idea actually and he told Lahak and I believe it was Kim Shbrook was the one who arranged this all that um they should put both pictures when they put that what's it called the man tok when they put out that uh cafer So the said put both pictures you understand the old picture is the late it's it's counterintuitive the old picture meaning the picture that we had first that's actually an a later picture. This is in 1944 and then this is quote unquote the the new picture but this is actually five years earlier before he under had you know underwent all of the the suffering. Okay. Okay. So, and the Reb himself said that they should print both pictures in the uh and I don't think that I've explained why to show both, but I think it's understandable. It's it speaks for itself. A picture says a thousand words. And first of all, you see the beauty of the father, the majesty of him. And you know, you say Verdin Schlansky says he looked like Messiah. Yeah, you could definitely see that. Um but also the sadly you see the justosition but that is the that's the miser nephish that is the sacrifice for yideshkite that the reb's father had to endure and it should be an inspiration for us and should be a for us and also it should uh motivate us to treasure all the more the title that we have for him that was written in a state of midnafish and brought out in a state of mida snafish and the pens and the pages were procured with msida snafish and everything about it is oozing with masidus snafish and our masidus snafish is just uh that when you're learning it so when it when you're done learning learn another few seconds learn another few seconds more than what you feel like learning and that's that's our uh 101 times that's our elim So leomide we did we did we learned and you can continue learning and I remind you again about this incredible uh book from to learn more of the gems from it's it's got beautiful English here everything explained with with footnotes and also lad give and give generously and I'm not saying you have to give uh $49,600 uh but you know that is how the ketan started it started with uh with a donation that was above and beyond. So that's uh you see there the QR code. You can scan that or you can go to keteritzk.org and then please fill out your name on our form for the the names to be brought to the aisle. Um yeah we have let's play it one way one last video. It's also from tough test. We played earlier the aus niggan from the children's rally tuft test. Um, this is also from this is a a children's rally from the the campers. Um, and there's a niggon here that is associated with uh associated very very often associated with tish or with but actually the incorporated also into as you'll see in the video that says already we can we we're in that uh in the already getting ready for for the new year and this is a actually I was just speaking to my friend Yasi Khadukov who was one of the composers of this nigun. um in tin remember this is uh after the rabbitushka passed away so the rabbi was deting in his house um apparently when the the camp came in it was not the regular camp it was like the extra like the twoe program or something so when they came in they heard that the had spoken on shabas the previous shabas about benching each other already in in not you don't have to wait L and so they wanted to make a niggon and they tried different melodies. So Yasi Khadakov was involved and also should mention Bor Alam who was one of the composers of this niggon and they they grasped upon this niggon and apparently um it was a it was a very big kiddesh first of all even that they were singing in the house generally at least until that time there wasn't singing in the house you know um and then when they sang the apparently says that it was the first time the Rebu was seen showing something like a smile after the Rebu was going up the stairs after David and the kids started seeing the which the encouraged and showed a like a a happy look on his face. In other words, it was something that made the happy and then became associated with this time of year with and obviously ol and all the stuff that's coming up. Anyways, if you could pull up this video. Great. [Applause] Good. Sh. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Michoch. [Music] Miss [Music] Thank you everybody for joining us everybody from all over the world those who are using Skynet and Kazakhstan and Al Mahhata and everyone everywhere else and you saw pull up the slide one more time we just want to make sure everybody has an opportunity to give pull up the slide for giving yes excellent thank you remember also to give and also to fill out your name so we can bring to the good news always we should be able to bring good news we should always be benched with uh with all good things you participating to all of And uh oh yeah, share the video if you were inspired. So yeah, tonight is cough of and it's going to continue all day tomorrow. So if you were inspired by this, please send this around, put it on a WhatsApp status or put it on a chat or send an email wherever it is. Tell your friends about it so they can be inspired and so that they can also fulfill the Deb's personal request. Mideave and uh be the recipient of braas and to be able to give the rabbi good tidings, good news. Okay.