24 Teves Farbrengen with Shais Taub and Zalman Duchman

I'm here with my good friend rabbi Zalman Duckman Fukuoka bod and we're having Bob doll at Avis for bringing in a few days early a little bit early because the rabbi is going to be in Eretz Yisroel an important and holy business for kala Habad uncle dalitai vez we're here in Crown Heights now and we're speaking about the important connection between the life's work of the Alta data and the fund the co hobbits dock upon which the Alta Revit family so it takes us back to in the middle of the 18th century in the 1770s when after the historic was of the mazurka market the Tomita market or one that many of them wanted to go tear cicero and outer level also wanted to go to very much wanted to go tear it is wrong and he actually had it out on his journey till they came to the water and the other talmidim pressed upon the outer level that white Russia or Eastern Europe needs a lever and that our travel should be the one to a leader cinema in in Eastern Europe and the after rabbit went into seclusion for a few weeks and after that he came out and he accepted upon himself to lead sitting in back in Russia region and he also took at that point responsibility for the physical for the gaseous needs of the Sydenham going Terrace is wrong you see throughout the letters printed in together sack a dish and other letters of the alphabet encouraging the freedom to support Habad support the city minorities throughout society surround the whole arrest was because of this that he was sending money tear tear all that was then under the Ottoman Empire the Ottoman Empire wasn't it was an enemy of Russia during the his time in prison he gave written testimony this testimony we have now after the fall of communism was discovered the after lab is a prison file and in the written testimony you see a very long explanation of how the outer never explains to the Russian government this obligation for every single need to support their brethren nurses wrote down every said it's not a new thing not something that I started it's something that has always been but they ought to never did it in a very strong way and they even have discovered in his prison file all the receipts and balance sheets from the city of vids of 1792 1793 1794 the letters back and forth with how much people gave this receipt is for 18 and a half ruble and this receipt is for this amount I mean I I don't know what the value is in today's dollars but it seems the fact that they were collecting it and this is only one city was to highlight that in relative terms there was a lot a lot of money that was being sent the way it was done is during the time of the afternoon but there was something called a vaca and that means weekly the system was that there was a certain amount that they had to give on a weekly basis this weekly system this is way was done in the lifetime of the Alpha Delta this brings us until the war of 1812 with Napoleon Napoleon was advancing into Russia the after never opposed Napoleon became a danger for the Alpha rabbit to stay at home and he had to travel the myth loretta writes a very detailed letter chronicling the travels of the Alpharetta from every swedish ello all the way through Havdalah tavis till after the southeast now Russia won that war there was that whole Napoleon tried to enter Moscow on the winter and he was unable so Russia won the war and nevertheless he's saying the Russian economy was devastated the way the myth whatever described in the letters were terrible in Russia and it became to a point that it would be impossible for them to mandate on a weekly basis such that the person should give a regular stipend that's when the Pushkin was born where the middle arrived is soon after they stock was soon after hostile Davis he sends out a letter told of Siddim that they should all have mounted onto their wall near their table and he says to get put in either cotton or half a carton a penny a half a penny two pennies before you eat breakfast you have guests every person should given a penny a penny a penny for women before they bake challah they should also give and also before cut before benching lift and the mid from that I may write write that they're gonna go around collecting the push kiss and to make sure to see how many cup gets and the ruble is in each one to make sure that say that we're talking giving every single day and multiple times a day and that is really the first time where we find push kiss for Carol Habad or for her and each stock in that was the birth of the Pushkin in the letter that McLean ever chronicles the travels he mentions the Sydenham that were spies without the never sent them to spy on Napoleon so there's this famous story of Moshe my flesh and when when Misha my flesh was spying against Napoleon for the Czar he was in the war room with the the generals and at that moment Napoleon himself barged in I suspected something Napoleon I guess had a method of detecting who was nervous and he walked over to my shoe meislish and he said who's the stranger your spy and he put his hand on my thigh meislish his heart which wise understood but the polling was doing and he reminded himself of this teaching that all of us in this may have shopped I lived the brain rules the heart and was able to respond in a very calm way that I'm a polyglot somebody who knows many languages and as such I'm working for your for your army and pulley and let him let him go he later moved to a tea stall and he lived in saffron and in a chevron he was writing fundraising letters okay well how about and we have a letter that he sent to Moses Montefiore trying to raise money for Moses Monty for your home and in the letter for his credentials to establish his credentials he writes that I served as a spy on behalf of the Alpharetta in for the Czar and brought it came into the into Napoleon's inner circle since the historic lows of the out there ever of cough dilute Avis Tov refine gimel or the short while afterwards when the lemon wrote that letter look how about pushed it became a fixture in every concert home it's something that all throughout each other IBM spoke about it cherished it the Freda can ever ravenous mercy even find the first from the first letters a few weeks after huge fight a few Dolloff that ever writes a letter in support of kills are bad and this Pushkin became a fixture in every in every closet own additionally you see in the photographs when there was photographs taken inside that I was when shazar came Megan came or than a bun in Russian you always see either on the table or right beside the table tell us about pushka later years and to pushka that look like this one I know that it was emptied quite frequently oh so they never had another Pushkin that at his house that was also I'm a emptied frequently did have it before then everyone to the AO that ever would regularly send a hundred dollars to pay off a bond a lot I can't say every time but many times when people would send into their Abba money the initialise somebody in memory of somebody that money that I went forward to tell us about additionally we there's checks that that I would give under different amounts different intervals to colonel Habad so their ever received a receipt for the amount that that ever gave and it said hawk had more seeds never sent it back they never asked with the IRS accept this as as a receipt in fiscal year 1990 that ever gave over $10,000 to kill hobbit in 1978 and either a few days before my father got married I never called him in and spoke to him give him a whole vision that they never had for combat to grow for it to grow and to expand and today Baruch Hashem with breakfast we have this host we helped tens of thousands of families on a regular basis there's ten thousand eight hundred families that receive food from us every single month there's three thousand people that eat in our soup kitchens every single day there are some many mothers and you segment that benefit from us we help them with with regular stipends financially help them scholastically and a whole host of other programs today borrow Hashem there's well over a quarter of a million Kayla how about stocker push this in people's homes and it's not just in their homes of people fill it up regularly and they send the money took and we send the money Teresa wrong and the Saint this is in addition to support people give through the internet but there's pushka system the same way it's operated for the past two hundred and six years supporting the out of ebbets taka that's operating for the past two hundred and thirty one years old I mean Cole Kanade is the oldest continuous operating Jewish charity in the world and it is our honor to be part of cares about and we hope together with that have his breakfast to continue and be as phonetic fulfilling this mission that the outer that was started 231 years ago every five Iranian has to have a practical outcome those who are looking for a resolution something practical to do with all this inspiration we can contribute to the outfit Eva's own sadaqa to kill Chabad coho bot has created special for tonight's occasion a link Col chabad.org / 24 Tavis and there we can contribute and bring the inspiration of tonight's for bringing into actuality and it should be a blessing and a merit for all of us [Music]