3 Tammuz Farbrengen with R' Shais Taub, R' Yussie Zakutinski, Benny Friedman, and Nachi Gordon

[Music] is [Music] foreign [Music] know [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] he [Music] i [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] a [Music] me [Music] yeah good evening it's 28 years since the original kimotamos in this generation on their world calendar for that matter it is 27 years exactly a year later when a contingency from the five towns walked to the oil on shabbos and met me in a mobile home in old montefiore and the rest is history somehow i was convinced we were convinced my wife and i to come here and start chabad 27 years ago and it is truly an honor to be able to get together here to reflect on what gimel tammuz the third of tammuz means to us we have to thank our host i want to thank the anonymous sponsors who graciously gave with their whole heart to make sure that this event can take place in full glory as well as to thank the schecter family for enabling us a temporary expansion of the khabat center borough hashem miraculously khabar does have all of the surrounding properties and hopefully very soon move ahead with the next step and stage for that matter if you wish to dedicate it let me know no not all at once anyway um want to thank for the centerpieces jerusalem florists thank you so much for giving above and beyond all the time all the time and for that matter for this evening i wanted to thank our mc nachi gordon who from the day khabad opened was part of chabad together with your family and uh we remember the good old days in the storefront rabbi taub our scholar in residence who always shares on a regular basis hishirim his clarity his thoughts whether it's a monday morning monthly or for that matter soulwords.com ongoing shiorim as well as a dear friend rabbi yossi zakatinski and family and to mention loosely translated that we want to really know the true qualities of the son-in-law and i'm not objective i'm both you look at the father-in-law and it is the shatsman family who are the pioneers of our chabad center thank you so much and thank you for the expansion of the family that you brought along greatly appreciate it it was 28 years ago that i had this huss the great fortune and honor to be the valkyrie for the rabbit read the torah the last two portions that the devil was physically with us and for all of my colleagues many friends that void of gimultamos just becomes more real every day at the same time the expansion of the debba's work his legacy throughout the world is above and beyond we see you today more than ever when it comes to time of this nature obviously we're going to be hearing the naboo addresses in a letter that speaks about his father-in-law that way in connection with his father-in-law's anniversary of passing and that is to reflect on the life and legacy and his that which he instituted and to make sure that it continues his unconditional aware unconditional love for every single individual for that matter the idea is that he suggested that we learn on a daily basis and his casters simply reflecting and connecting with heaven in our case we have the oil around the corner in addition to obviously learning from the devil's teachings i do want to thank our partners today it was a joint project from soulward.com meaningful minute of the five towns of and the thank you hashem community thank you all for this great inspiration and i really again want to thank the partners who together encouraged us to make this happen thank you very much without further ado i'd like to call up our mc nachi gordon take it away thank you thank you thank you very very happy i did not need to introduce the rov because i still don't know how to pronounce the last name so i really got spared there also i think the only reason i'm involved tonight is to bring down the beard average so why else is there an mcl i bring in right this evening is all about commemorating the 28th yard side of the rebba my namesake many know me by nakhi but really it's mendel a little bit undercover but here we can show our true callers and it'll be an evening of negonem of devre hezek from words from away taub robert zakatinski some of the most talented you know uh leaders that we have on cholesterol today but first you know i was thinking over shabbos first one robert taub called me to be involved in an event like this i saw benny friedman and i was thinking it's it's so interesting because my great grandfather rebecca gordon is buried right next to the rabbi by the isle right before you go in and next to him is his son is benny's grandfather of shaolin bear gordon so i felt something here tonight both of us being able to be involved in an event like this commemorating the 28th yard side of the rebbe i can definitely feel that both our our grandfathers my great grandfather and benny's grandfather are here with us tonight even though they have incredible real estate over there by the isle but they're here tonight in merce hashem this this event this gathering should be as close to the nishamas hashem of the rabbi what can i say we're we're we're here to honor one of the greatest leaders of our time aloha so let's kick it off with a niggin from bendy freeman i want to go ahead and sing a called the dog shitzer negan that the gordon family the city where we came from in jerusalem [Music] foreign [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] da [Music] uh [Music] me [Music] we [Music] oh [Music] alone [Music] come on [Music] is [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] okay [Music] me [Music] okay [Music] one more time everybody [Music] me oh [Music] thank you everyone for coming thank you so much it's a real pleasure to be able to sit up here i feel extremely humbled and it's a privilege of mine to introduce rabbi taub who will be speaking now someone who from my understanding has been a big part of putting all this together i invited you you invited me that's true that's why i'm here that's why i'm up here i but i myself got to know each other a little bit over a podcast we put out together we really got deep if you want to listen to it then go listen to it meaningful people yes some meaningful people but uh for now we'll we'll hear some words from rabbi and by the way how to pronounce the absolute's name it's it's wallawick in five towns it is and i want to mention another thing you want to know what the rebbe's costume is there was a flyer for tonight and the ram zalman who is the love the murad of this shul was not on the flyer and this is the rabbi who gave probably the most famous speech any rabbi gave in the past 10 years he was the one who was yeah yeah it's okay he spoke at the the embassy in jerusalem he was at least that day the most famous rabbi in the entire world and when it came to the flyer said absalom and you're not on the flyers it's okay the word the rebels on the flyer that's all that needs to be on the flyer so that's uh bitter there everything is bashkaka protest everything in hashem's world is meticulously orchestrated even when we don't know how and it happened happened that our gimel thomas fabrangen isn't taking place on gimel thomas gimmel thomas the rabbi's yard site the third day of the hebrew month of thomas is shabbos this year but instead we're doing the fabrega tonight is it tuesday today monday monday monday monday but the but it is right okay today is seven thomas fabregan the 28th day of the hebrew month of seven which has a very special significance this is the day in 1941 that the rabbi and his wife the rabbits safely reached the shores of america they were leaving war-torn europe they had been living in france and uh they came here to new york and the rabbit began to work for his father-in-law for the previous rebbe and began building the institutions and the organizations that became the the groundwork for everything that they have accomplished here in america and all over the world i'll tell you something interesting a lot of people don't know even khabad insiders the nebba came to america twice because in 1947 after the war his mother rabbit sinchana was living in paris she had actually been living in a dp camp in germany poking pines germany and then she was in paris that father had already passed away unfortunately he was exiled by the communists he was targeted and uh oppressed as a as a leader an anti-revolutionary leader was living in paris and that ebba went 1947 to get his mother to bring her back to america and it's very funny in those days they could not tell you what date a ship would land because it depends on the wind it depends on a lot of things so it was there was like a window of a few days that it could happen and what date did the with his mother in 1947 arrive again in america the same date same date so you gotta figure there's something important about that date and the fact that ever spoke about it in uh tafsin lunalife in 1991 that hoff casivan is a yam zakai it's a meritorious day and we know it's meritorious because of the things that happen on that day and the rabb explained what's the the idea of it's not just what the rebe and the rabbitson were fleeing from we all know they were escaping the holocaust they were escaping war-torn europe but even more than that it's what they were marching toward the destination specifically america and that have explained the significance of coming to america civen is called in toyota's called the third month nissin is the month the jewish people left mitraim that's the first month year is the second month seven is the third month and the idea of three is the idea of melding opposites or you want to use philosophical terms thesis antithesis synthesis you have one idea you have a counter idea they seem to contradict each other and then comes a third idea that's bigger than both has room for both and can harmonize them in spherus we call it acid which are opposite and then tifares which is harmony it comes and it brings the two together the two extremes so what is seven seven is the month that represents two seemingly contradictory extremes is the ultimate truth ain't mulvade that there's nothing but hashem or beresha's borderline it's that hashem created the heavens and the earth so which is it and if you ask a jew a question is it this or is it that what's the answer yes of course yes the idea of sivan is harmonizing those opposites that they're both true the spiritual and the material the infinite and the finite the soul and the body and that's why torah was given on schwarz the sixth day according to the sixth day of sivan because sivan represents that harmonization of those opposites toyota is the ultimate harmonizer of the opposites it's spiritual tools for refining the physical world the angels wanted to keep tata in heaven speaks about this and hashem said no tata has to go down to the world to embodied souls so that they can do physical mitzvas that the ultimate spirituality is in physicality you say the vilna gone on his deathbed his talmidam were around him and he was crying and they asked him why he's crying could he be afraid of judgment i mean he didn't waste a single second he was learning today his entire life was he crying he wanted to stay in the physical world why for a piece of kuggle this is what the villenegon wanted what's he crying that he's going to live leave this world he's going to go to a ghanaian what what should he be crying for so he says to the talmudim he grasped his tallest cotton and he held on to it he says i'm about to leave a world this physical plane where for a few copics you can buy one of these this wool garment and you put it on your body and you thereby fulfill the will of the infinite one and now i'm going to a world to paradise where for all the treasures of that world you can't buy one mitzvah so the whole point of matantoro of the revelation at sinai is this what we call hebrew milo the harmonization of the spiritual and the physical so that i'd explain like this coming to america wasn't merely running away it wasn't just fleeing the holocaust coming to america was a strategic repositioning of the center of judaism to the khasi cadre you know what that means the lower hemisphere see we think of the globes that we use in school the north pole is on the top the south poles on the so arbitrary why why do you put the north pole on top everyone knows the top of the world in fact anywhere you go from any point on the globe if you go there it's called making aliyah what's the top of the world and it says the holy land so really the top of the globe is eretz isro the land of israel when the torah was given it was given at the top of the world in the same hemisphere as the holy land the sinai desert very close to israel and then there's the bottom hemisphere the the the other side of the world where toyota did not reach at least in a revealed way jews generally speaking for centuries for millennia did not live in those places really only in the past 100 years where there was this mass migration to the underside of the world i wish i had my globe here on my desk in my office i have a globe i specifically bought a globe that spins both ways not just one way but it spins both ways and i put arizona at the top so i can see how america when you put arizona at the top america's on the bottom so that ebb explained like this that coming to america was this the ultimate expression of this marriage between spiritual material of high and low and he explained it like this that when you want to lift a building it's actually a muscle from the altar from the balatanya from the safer called there's a mimer embracious and there's a yiddish word there that al-taraba uses lever a lever a lever chicago we say a lever i don't know how they say new york but a lever a lever they say lever over here too yeah okay i don't know i honestly i had to remember i had to remember how to pronounce i used to say roof and my kids thought like you're gonna know what a roof is they say roof now i taught myself to say they thought you were barking at them they thought it was barking yeah or i would say i would give me a can of pop and i switched i switched it over to soda anyway a lever a lever so the altitude in earth says why does the neshama the pristine holy pure soul why does it come down to such a low place not a low place the lowest place the physical plane to be in a body beset with temptations and distractions and alma deshikra all the the falsehood of this world what is it what is it needed for so the altadebu says a martial he says you could lift the whole building if you use a lever you got to get up underneath and then you can pry it up from the bottom so when the soul comes down to the physical world by doing physical mixes in the physical body it lifts up gant said restaurants all of the worlds even the heavens the spiritual worlds get lifted up because if you lift from the bottom then you lift everything so that ever said similar to this idea coming to america america is crazy in the lower hemisphere you come to america to do judaism so that your judaism lifts the entire world and that was the rather style the american style what's the american style it's a whole new style i'll get into uh the whole history maybe some other time but uh now he mentioned his illustrious uh great-grandfather you know he was one of the people who were able to transition to the new americans he was not he was inductions he was not from america but he was able to do the american style not everybody you know that ever took a hairpin turn not everyone was able to hold on to the for the ride it was a radical new way of being and one of the things with the american style is rugged individualism you know the cowboy riding into the sunset doing his own thing and that ever said shlokham you know it used to be you want to be close to whatever stay right here don't move they never did the opposite go away go far and they never took the american attitude of going out and conquering and being your own man and turned that into the ultimate bittle the ultimate selflessness the ultimate surrender the rabbi said think for yourself figure it out think critically i give a share in igris kudish the rebbe's letters i made a whole career in doing a poor imitation of the rebels letters but i wrote an advice column for eight years i told everyone it was an open secret what am i doing i'm just imitating the rebel style in the rabbis letters that ever wrote to thousands of people throughout the years and uh one of the things i always make a point of when i'm when i'm learning the egress the rebels letters is when you learned it up as letters that i was writing to all types of different people to a teacher to a mother to a businessman and he's writing about all types of issues could be about marriage could be about health it could be about communal affairs but one thing is when you learned it up as egotist you start to catch on to the rabbi's style of thinking and you start to learn yeshiva we call it but a regular colloquial way of talking it's a way of thinking it's a style it's a style and when we learn eagerness i always make a point to say it's not necessarily what the said because that ever could have said one thing to one person and said another thing to another person it's learning that have a style because ultimately what was the debate style not to tell us what to think but to teach us how to think and that's the american style to empower the individual to place responsibility on you to figure it out the lower hemisphere isn't just a geographical location it's a whole style of judaism it's empowering each one of us trusting each one of us that we're good and we want good things and that we don't have we don't have to be forced and we don't have to be bossed around and we don't have to be told to nullify our personality in order to do good things we could be told to the country express your personality express your individualism what are you afraid of critical thinking will only lead you to emis individualism will only lead you to a deeper relationship with the banished layla we're not afraid of those things the american stylist we embrace those things to tell you a quick american story there was a real american boy he's now in illinois he since passed on i think it was 103 years old when he passed away he's buried not far from here not old montefori but that beth david in elmont which is about four or five miles from here just go up mill road you know yeah you know where it is bet david so you know who's that you were there yesterday so you saw herman woke up no okay herman woke pulitzer prize american author he wrote the cane mutiny he was in the american navy and then he wrote the cane mutiny based on that and the winds of war and war in remembrance one of the greatest american authors and he was a from boy he was orthodoxy he was born in the bronx he was brought up modern orthodox and he was from his whole life khayim zalik hermanwalk's name was kaimzalik so uh hiyam zelig herman welcome he got introduced to the rabbi through another american boy through the head shliyak from minnesota where's benny so you should i'm sure you heard from my chef i'm sure many times benny's from minnesota and he's also a midwesterner like myself so i'm sure you heard from me she feller many times about the debbie's 70th birthday and herman woke came with a letter from president nixon yeah okay rabin came he was the the ambassador to the u.n he brought the israeli letter and uh herman walt came with the the letter from nixon so uh my chef ella tells this story that herman walk has a yakidis has a one-on-one audience with the rabbi and herman woke was from his whole life he was orthodox and he was discussing with the rabbit the prospects of what could a religious revival in america really look like what could we really expect this was 40 years ago 50 years ago i mean now you look you see what it looks like but this was in the old days and herman woke was expressing some skepticism saying look i'm an american boy i'm from the bronx i know these people i grew up with these people do you really think that you can get american jews to start to do mitzvahs good old old-fashioned religion and here hear what the rabbit said which that ever being from nicolai of being from russia actually was in this way more american than herman woke this is like the ultimate american aphorism and it's such a psychologically keen insight as well the never said to herman woke about american jewry he says i want to tell you about the american jews you can't tell them to do anything but you can teach them to do everything in fact when michelle feller when i heard him at a february and tell the story he made it even more american he said he like translated it to make it he said you know you can't sock it to him that's how much of it you can't suck it to him you can't go around in author authoritarian style and bark at people and tell them this is what it says in the holy books now do it doesn't work american jews doesn't work but you know what works teach inspire empower trust and this generation and really in this generation really we're all americans we will rise to the occasion and that was the rebbe's style and that was the significance to the rebel of coming down to america is to introduce a new era in judaism that's not from above to below it's not top down authoritative it's bottom up it's leverage it's getting up underneath and lifting not only this entire world but all the world's even the highest heavens so i'll say good job it's and uh believe in yourself believe in your children believe in the person sitting next to you yeah even the person sitting here because i'll tell you the rebbe's entire year plan hinged on his belief in each one of us that's the american style the kind of um [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] keep [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] my oh [Music] keeping [Music] foreign [Music] no you don't know [Music] ah [Music] wow [Music] da [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] foreign i'll have to make up for this i'm in a very hard position up i'm in a very hard position up here become i know people who grew up in the five towns thought it would never ever be possible for something like that to happen gideon who went to lit fish yeshivas learning hasidas having fabregan so a little over a year ago i was by the serious mashiach hashem unassuming just there with my brother who dragged me along and i was listening to ravi zakatinsky do his thing speak to the words of of torah from the baal shem tov and i was completely blown away and as i mentioned before i have strong chabad roots but the roots are sort of where they stopped you see my face you know i don't look like i don't talk like one undercover undercover not so much anymore and after that i looked at my brother yo who at that point was already you know he's well along the path than i was but myself my other brothers we looked at each other we said after hearing what we heard it's time to connect back to our roots so we decided we're putting on a kapata for shabbos each of us all my brothers and it's not just the outside that it's not just it's not like a gq story like style like oh wow kapata you know that's not the it's what happened inside of a school on lawrence avenue stopper zakatinsky spreading the words of the balsham to have an understanding that meshiach is waiting for all jews around the world to hear that call to hear that message so without further ado i would like to introduce the rob robbie rabbi yes don't believe anything you just said all right that's irish just the rubber well like you know you know how lucky you guys are he's mama sadiq is mama satsantic he's not pumped or no it's he loves yidding he loves yidding you know when he asked me if i uh if i'm if i'm uh if it's okay for me to come and uh participate a little bit and and to caution myself with uh recovery here so first of all it's at the geyser it's not the geyser so i'm not going to say no to that he also like you know it's my favorite song you know i can't say no i can't say no i'm no one to give a bracha but the anita feeler on behalf of all of us that hashem should give you continued strength continue strength carefully flying strength with all these kashas that you have to to the rabbi and all the tadikim to continue to love you and be my carving and be my car of me a little bit if you can a little bit maybe maybe we'll talk later okay one night there you go something like that i saw you i don't know if any of you have ever found yourself in an uncomfortable position i don't know i find myself in an uncomfortable position right now i i don't wear kapatan shahabas i'm the only i'm the only lit on stage over here so yeah somebody's supposed to say well undercover you know maybe there you go le mice uh to talk about the rep is not it's it's uh it's nothing i can talk about i didn't have a personalized casual stereo like the other people like the other abundant overview of hidden hat but i can tell you a story i'll tell you myself and maybe i'll try to give a little bit of an explanation to the story and we'll see where it takes us yeah so the mice is like this it's a famous mice uh one of the sidim of the balatanya was richmond monkeys social workers was known that he did funny things he was a a big avid so the mice goes that he was once by the baltani by the atarab and the baltania gave a mimer he was giving over a torah they will kill him and after the mimer was said he was such he was in such vegas and such a spy was that he quickly went over to the other side he said quickly tie me to the tree in front of the rebel's house tie me up to the tree take a guard they'll tie me up to the tree so they said rashmilla why in the world do you want to be tied to the tree so he said you know when you pass by the shoemaker's house there's a pair of shoes hanging up in front of his house to let everyone know that this is a house where they make shoes you go to the carpenter's house so you pass by there's some there's a table and chair there everyone knows this is the place where you make tables and chairs you get tables and chairs by this place by the rabba by the balatanya he may see them so you have to hang a husset up that people should know that this is where you where where a person becomes a classic so that's the question that i want to talk about just for a few minutes what does it mean exactly to make a husset just me to make a husset i understand what it means to teach torah i understand what it means that a rebbe could give over ideas to a talmud you could present ideas before talmud and the talmud listens and processes it in his own way of thinking i understand but what does it mean to make a husset like you make a pair of shoes that means there was no pair of shoes and you with your own hands made a pair of shoes there was no chair you made a chair what does it mean to make a husset but the truth is let's go a little bit more into that the very title the very description that we have of khasid is an interesting one so you know there's two descriptions there's a number of words but two particular words in ghazal that we have describing a person that's a a pretty good jew and that's it what's the difference so tell us the word sadiq is a description of someone that does sure what exactly it's truth righteousness exact sadiq means someone that does exactly what he's supposed to do not less but not more ethadic what's a hasid so husset is someone that goes left nim assures it then goes beyond the structure of yiddish guy it goes beyond what he has to do he's lefinisher so some reaction has the following question so it's interesting by the tamid balsham by all the same of the from the basham it's well known that the talmidim they're called hasidim and the rabbi is called what the tzadik so that's a little bit strange the term khasid versus it is it is a better description it means left him assures it then he goes beyond the letter of the law that sadik does exactly what he's told but not more not less a husset is a deeper a greater description that's a greater person david miller says he doesn't say show me so why in the world would all the the great rebbes be called by the all the hasidim they call them that sadiq one final question what was wrong with the old term of talmud what was wrong with just rebbe talmud why did baal shamdev and his talmidam and someone have to come up with new terminology so i don't know that's it's really like like it's i see them but like so what's the question so it's like this a rebbi talmud relationship is one that's purely about information it's about something that can be objectively seen and objectively quantified the rebbe knows uh the rebbe teaches mr hashabas to the student and now the student knows mustafa shaws message is something that even if you don't know the track day shabbos you could talk about it you could talk you could say i don't know the track day job is you can say that it's informational but you know when the urbanism gave the taran harasinah he didn't just give us information the first commandment the rabban islam said to all the jewish peoples i am giving myself over to you there are two sides to yiddish there are two things that have to be transmitted from generation to generation there's one thing that has to be transmitted from generation generation that's called information and that's that transmission of content of information of words that can be qualified classified organized and even if you don't know the words you could you could still see them on the shelf that transmission is from rebbe to talmud that's from republic to talmud and in fact we have a brice that's well known keith says mishna there was a certain way of how even maisha abano gave over information it was to aaron and aaron sons and pinchas was there there's a whole transmission of information but then there's another type of massage there's another type of transit transmission and the other transmission is not about information rather the other type of transmission is something that ghazal described which is called the mesira the transmission of say the satire the secrets of tyra what does it mean the secrets of torah what does it mean a secret for someone that doesn't know the laws of kiddish it's the laws of kiddush is a secret no so what what qualifies something halally as the secrets of terror you know what the secrets of tyre is the secrets of terrorists is is giving over the experience of being attached to the infinite one and every single jew has a certain level of capability of experiencing that of being able to absorb that experience of everyone knows hashem is great but i know something that you don't know i know god is great everyone knows god is great says information we could all share i can know things about god i can know things about judaism you can know the same things about god and the same things about judaism maybe i know a little bit more maybe you know a little bit more and we could talk to each other about that and i can say i could talk about things that i don't know like at least point to it on the shelf but what david melch is describing is the experience of elokus the object of elokus and that reality that david melech is experiencing which is havaya which is that unity that feeling of being lost in something much much bigger than you that's not anything that you can truly articulate it's not anything that can really be explained to anyone else it's something that just has to be given over it's something that somehow in some way has to be transmitted from generation to generation this inexplicable inexplainable unquantifiable experience of attachment to that which is infinite that which is beyond this is transmitted not from rebbe to talmud this is transmitted from rabbit to hasset when we when we talk about in ghazal the term khasid means that someone goes let's understand that on a deeper level the word din means that which is quantifiable then means judgment structure it fits in a certain box that's information information fits in certain boxes what does it mean someone that is connected to that which is called lefinisher then that part of a jew that's capable of what of experiencing that which is transcendent the part of a jew that's capable of experiencing something which cannot be quantified and qualified and explained and even articulated in clear words it's just kenya hashem i know the beauty of yiddishkait i know the greatness of god and that's not it's an experience that part of a jew that's able to experience that that's custom-made to experience such a thing that's called khasir and the job of the tsadikim the job of the rebels the bashantiv established was not just to give over information was to give over that experience of elicos now the illust the divinity that that's that the rebbe experiences is completely unknowable to the talmud you see in terms of information even if the rebbe knows more than the talmud the talmud could at least point and say the rabbit knows the swarm i don't know them so you can at least talk about that which you don't know but that part of the rebbe which is the hussit part of the rebbe the student can't even articulate anything about it you can't even say anything about that aspect of the rebels that that the level of of of the abundance of the level of god that that's that the the revi experiences the talmud isn't even able to talk to say any words like the zurich college describes it as steaming the coast demon i take into cholecan it's it's that which is hidden beyond all that which is it and you can't even say words and somehow in some way that sadik has the obligation and the responsibility that rebbe has the obligation the responsibility not just to give over information but somehow it is the trick to somehow package within the information that he's able to give over and the words that he does articulate to the students before him to somehow give over words that in those words is saturated the experience of ellicos and then when the students are able to hear those words which can be articulated and it can be qualified and can be quantified somehow in a way that that that the the student himself doesn't even understand something is changing within him and something is changing within her that somehow by absorbing within the mind and heart even the understandable words that the rebbe says the unexplainable the almost in our the the hussit part of the tzadik the husset part of the rebbe somehow finds its way in the bloodstream of the talmud and the talmud sits by the shear of the rabbi and at the end of the sheer is able to then if someone asks him what did you hear and the student can say what they heard they can say all the different ideas all the different insights they could go through all that but something much much deeper took place because encoded in those words of the revi was not just the information what was encoded in those words of the review was the transmission of that experience of har sinai which is called your god and that experience of harassing i may share being received and myself gave that over to yeshua bennun and the way moisha abano gave it over to yeshua by giving a shirt by saying words by giving over ideas but the the the unbelievable power of misha benu and those that follow in his footsteps are those that are able to somehow saturate those very measurable words with which that which is immeasurable and then when the student hears those measurable words from the rabbi they become accused from that why is it that the see them don't call the rabbi a hosted the reason is is because that term khasid which is describing that part of the person that is experiencing eloquence the student we can't even talk about what the rebbe experiences in that way of hosset all we can talk about when it comes to the revi are the words that he says the measurables the tangibles we call him sadiq but the fidish of the tsadik is that he encodes in his words that experience a velukus that we wouldn't otherwise have a connection to and so what we experience are the measurables the tangibles that sadik the surest hadin of who the rabbi is but then when we walk away from the sheer when we walk away from the torah we don't just come away knowing more we come away see them and that's how a person becomes a hasid it is impossible for a jew on their own to receive an that experience of was given to maisha albano and that experience has to be given over and transmitted from the moisture albano of that generation to the moisture bane of the next generation and that's the only way it's transmitted but the trick is that though that that you can't really identify what you're transmitting you can't really talk about it once you talk about it once you articulate what it is it's not the hussit it's not the infinite it's now finite so the trick of the of the revi is that he's able to take something which is finite the words of torah like mentioned the whole time of something that is finite but at the same time is saturated with that which is infinite and the rebbe is able to give that over that sadiq part of himself he's able to give over to his students and when the student receives the sadiq of the rabbi then the student becomes a khasir and that's what it means to be a khasit when mr monkey said that by the house of the baltania this is where see them are made is because none of us any one of us can can go to a library go to basement and you can open a safer you can learn information and the person that's authored that book or the lecture that you go to and you come away knowing more he didn't make you he presented information and you received and you learned it sort of in in your own way the only thing that could be given over to you is being a closet it's the only thing that be given over and the way that's given over is never it's never obvious it can never be obvious the infinite side of velocus can never be you can't talk about it it's a secret by its very definition it's a secret anything that you could articulate is already not that but what the rebbe can do is that he could package it in specific finite words and this is what it means to learn why why is you know why is it it's something that we find in many schools of of from balsham but in particular it's called diver le kim khan you know what's amazing about again i could i'm a little bit of a funny thing you know i'm saying you know it's like one of those things if you're jewish you could say jewish jokes right and if you're like african-americans african-american jokes so i i feel like i can say a lot of jokes i feel like i can make fun of litzbox i give the thing when i see them i feel like i can get away with it so i'm not going to make fun of anyone god forbid but it's interesting when it comes to khabar khasiris so the way it's with such a resist the length and breadth of the mamarum and the way every single nasi tri is is is trying to is not just trying is using very tangible machalim parables concepts to give over something which after the mimer is over you can say what you learned but at the end of the day what's amazing is the sacha every single mimer again i'm not gonna i'm not an expert in any of it but i'm willing to put money that anyone that really learns see this knows that the end of every mimer if someone really asks you what are you taking away from this mimer the answer really is three words anoid movade i the mimer was ten thousand words and it quoted 500 gemaras and it was super complicated went this way went that way and upside down and inside out but that's not the sakhakul that's all the tsadik but that sadik isn't coding in the words of the tsar the measurable words the immeasurable reality of aina mulvade and this is what you find by the the kayak of these people the kayak of these people their mamas change the whole world they're not afraid of nothing mom is not afraid of anything how are they not afraid how are they not intimidated how they have such confidence the answer is because they exceed them the rabbi made them see them and the experience of maisha abano what moisture received in our scene of an that he gave over to yeshua benue built her messina who was sorry yeshua not belambda he didn't teach it said mishnah we have information about how mushroom who gave a shirt but when he gave over elokus in that sheer he gave it over to yoshiba and yeshua to the zuccanam and then as they came into the navy and then to answer all the way down to the tsadikim of every generation and and all the hasidim of the tsadikim are on that chain or part of that shall shell it's part of that messiah so what's our vaida so i don't know but speaking for myself what do i think my void is my void is like the usami says you know you shall be says whenever a person sits and learns every time you sit and learn you should imagine that the person that you're quoting from that you're learning from is standing in front of your face teaching it to you so you're learning arashi rashi's right there mamash review the rubber mom is right there why why is that so important so to give a certain covet it's not a covet issue it's because if you want to be a hasid then you have to receive from the tsadik if you want to be a hosted you can't just learn information in an abstract way just in a in a little bubble by yourself happened to be this information was written by an autumn goddamn that's not you have to receive it from aishwaryabeno and you have to realize that the people that you're receiving torah from from european to realize this that they received it from there obey him and they received it from thereby him and they received him from their abandon to myself himself and when a person has that motion when you have that consciousness and that realization that what you are learning is complicated and complex and amazing with super duper complicated details and it's all sad it's all din but you should know what you take away from that through the hiskashras and through the dedication you have by simply wishing that you could see the people that you're learning from because that's also part of it like when i go to the aisle it's always like a bittersweet experience i i just speak for myself so i go there i watch the video you know like the like the mr rabbit talks about in in a number of places already but one famous countries where he talks about like what to do by killer sadiq to akashi yourself and there's always like you know because i'm always reminded that he says over there and it's really mamish guldik if you knew that sadiq was he ever met him in his life and then you can imagine him mama's being there and he could be he could be brought back to that place i mean it's uh but i think that itself the fact that we wish we we had that saddik alive in a physical way in a physical sense that we could mamash go get brachas and aces and not even just to see his face in that way that itself that self is disgust that itself is means that when we learn his torah we're receiving from the moisture of benue that he received from and that's our collected fila because when it comes to the me this hadin when it comes to that structure of yiddishkait the measurables there's such a thing as uretha darus and the guys in the show will know that my the the two words that i hate the most are you this is those two words you i can't stand you either cedarus what is the generations get weaker and weaker as the generations go on as we move farther and farther from our sea night the tangibles of yiddishkai the measurables how much turtle you know how long is your finest right how dedicated you are it gets weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker because that's the nature of that which is finite it becomes even more finite but if a person is willing and able to be makashi themselves to what to the intangibles to the immeasurables to the holocaust that's somehow woven in those words of the tzadik that you're learning from then all of a sudden that which is infinite isn't guide isn't governed by those rules of you saddaris isn't governed by those rules and just like rabbit table said that when the rabbit came to america he was not in his full he was not in his spell by anything anyone said ah it can't be done over can't be done over here if there's yiddin what do you mean you can't if there's yiddin there tell me them they'll their potential to see them that means you can't what does that even mean that's coming from a person that received torah from aishwaryabenu so we are going to cash ourselves to the sadique ms that's leaking the generation with gaguem with the structures with the spouse we want to receive we want to experience who god is and if anyone here that's listening is thinking to himself i don't know what zac thinks he's talking about i don't know god and infinite good because you use that as a tool of of awakening yourself up of like i want to know i don't know either what i'm talking about but that but that's that hagoo for that itself i want to know what i'm talking about and that itself causes the eskashas causes the connection to those saddiquim that have it in them who the ubanishalom is hashem should help us and hashem should bless us that we shall become we should be able to cash ourselves to the rabbit to the old satiki emmas and to find ourselves part of that messiah and when a person finds themselves in that masseur of masha kibatara messina missouri yeshua then there's no ue saddaris it's the same molecules that came to our sinai it's the same helicopter that finds itself in tough shin paybays and lawrence it's the same god there's absolutely no difference at all i'll end off with a quick story it's one of my personal favorites so maybe it'll become one of your favorites i don't know well my it's a short mice to the mice it goes that there was a hasid that once came through some breast lifter and he was asked for he asked for a bracha for shidduchim gave him abraham then he started talking about shidduch and whatever and he was giving him so by the breast by his whole life with caesarea torah his whole life is his retirement serb nothing said you're making a very big mistake your life is as mysterious as jakovino's life the difference is he knew it and you don't it's the only difference it's the biggest rock in the world that hashem should bless us we should know our lives are mysterious our lives are deep and all the measurables of our lives what's contained within it that which is immeasurable that which is infinite that which is expansive that which is transcendent to be able to see with our own two eyes the return the return of the besan migda is the return of claudius authorities through albion is called said [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on [Applause] [Music] my [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] home [Music] come on [Music] my [Music] mama [Music] my mama [Music] thank you [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] everybody sing it now hey so much [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] them [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] i [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] anymore just a quick disclaimer here i love the rabbis up here and i love naki up here and i'd love to dance with everyone but unfortunately i'm in my year of mourning for my mother so halakha limits me and i cannot dance but we'll have to make up for hopefully very soon huh or not it's almost 10 30. it's been two hours well [Music] oh [Music] we're going to continue with a few more words from our rabbis here putting this together with the involvement about five towns none of this would be possible with without his efforts and i just would want to say that rabbitow has been a tremendous gift to the five towns since he moved here which is only five six years ago and the lives of the people living here have been enriched because of your presence and at this point we just asked her by taub for a few closing remarks um everybody can uh everyone has patience story right just a story in fact i told this story already right here ah if you were here at cabaret of the five towns for the shirt i told this story but i was listening to abi zakatinski talking about how meisha rabeno is not just a teacher but meisha bainu is a relationship there are a lot of smart people in the world and you know what with artificial intelligence smarts are becoming less and less rare today if you need to know something just go google it but what's precious and no artificial intelligence can ever replicate is human compassion so there's mae shirabeno as the teacher the one who knows everything teaches us everything we know but then there's also meisha bainu the lover of jews the one who doesn't just know information but he knows us he cares about us that's what i got from your from your words so i'm just i'm just going to tell a story the story involves a couple an israeli couple a very secular we're not jewish we're israeli type israeli couple a and they were so disconnected from jewish life that they moved to hobart tasmania they were both academics they were both professors michael and atara they were both doctors phds you know you know what you get when one phd marries another phd a paradox thank you paradox okay so they moved to hobart tasmania the farthest place you can get from a jewish community precisely because they had no desire to be in a jewish community and when you know it they show up and the first day they're there some strangers show up at their house and say we heard that your israeli were from the jewish community center they found them and uh they said to mikhail this extremely secular israeli jew they said to him we're from the jewish community center of hobart tasmania and congratulations you're our new rabbi he said i don't believe in anything i'm not a rabbi they said but you have one thing that none of us have you read hebrew he said it's true i do i'm israeli i read hebrew they said good you're hired so he spoke with his wife about it he said you know i don't believe i don't believe in any of this stuff but i want to be a good neighbor and if this is what they're asking us to do they want me to come and read a few prayers in hebrew so i will uh i'll indulge so mikhail started to be the ad hoc rabbi of the hobart tasmania jewish community center and you know what happens when you start you think you think you're just going to get involved casually and then uh one thing leads to another and i can quit anytime i want right now they started falling for this yiddish kite thing now at first they rationalized it they said it's it's purely cultural we don't believe in it but we have children they had children at that point and we want our our children aren't israeli they're growing up in tasmania um they won't have a jewish identity if we don't observe some type of ritual so they started friday night to make kidus and they had some semblance of shabbat but we don't believe in it we don't believe in it we just want our chil our children to have some type of jewish identity but again you keep that up for a lo for longer they say yeah there's an expression if uh if you hang out in a barber shop long enough you're going to get a haircut so eventually they fell for it and they became believers the problem was this was hobart tasman you understand where tasmania is if you think australia is the other end of the world tasmania is an island off the coast of australia it's really the end of the world and this was 50 years ago there was no internet today i've met jews i've met people who live in i met a guy who lives in a trailer park in nebraska and every day does rambam with josh gordon benny's uncle because today it's a connected world but this is 50 years ago if you lived in hobart tasmania that's it you had no way to connect there was nothing you could go online you couldn't research anything you couldn't even get books so one day atara says to mikhail i don't understand i want to serve hashem but i don't know anything about his torah now i'm looking in the torah they had a humash that's what they had and i see that any time that the jews needed something they would go to moshe okay so i see this is the template this is how it works she says to her husband she says she was standing in her kitchen in hobart tasmania and she starts weeping and she says to him i want to serve hashem and i don't know his torah i need moshe to come and teach us where is mocha effo and she's weeping she's crying and the husband mikhail he doesn't know how to to comfort his wife i don't know i don't know and he leaves the house and he goes to the jewish community center where he's the rabbi and he sees someone standing in front of the building a very strange looking figure a jewish man with a a beard and a hat tits is hanging out a real rabbi and this rabbi comes over to dr hassafe and introduces himself my name is rabbi gutnik from melbourne australia says you're a rabbi he said yeah i'm a rabbi he says i have someone who wants to meet you right now and he grabs rabbi gutnik this is rabbi khayim gutnik and he brings him back home and he comes home and he says to his wife you wanted it you got it here's a rabbi and she had so many questions she was so thirsty she wanted to know literally everything she knew nothing and he stayed and he answered questions and questions and questions and he kept up a correspondence with them he went back to melbourne but he kept up a correspondence after a while the family realized that really hobart tasmania wasn't the place for them and their children so they moved to to melbourne melbourne is an established jewish community their schools and schools so they moved to melbourne and they became a regular family in the religious community in melbourne to the extent they were so their children were so uh well adjusted there no one even really knew they were the family that used to live in tasmania that's not how they were known they were just known as a family in the neighborhood so one day one of the sofi children a girl by this point she was a teenager already so this was some years after they had already moved to melbourne she's talking to her friend rabbi gutnik's daughter nina and mentions you know before we moved to melbourne we used to live in hobart tasmania and rabbit goodnight's daughter says you know i know something about hobart tasmania i once had an experience with hobart tasmania i i remember a bunch of years ago my father the rabbi got a telegram from brooklyn new york from the la bambacher debit that said you're doing a wonderful job with the jewish community in melbourne but what about outlying areas like hobart tasmania my father did not need to be given any clearer instructions than that he immediately went to the airport and he flew that day to hobart tasmania he didn't know who he's looking for he didn't know where to go he lands in hobart and he starts asking where are the jews until finally somebody says i think there's some type of a jewish community center and he marches down to the jewish community center and he stood there and he waited until who did he meet whose wife atara was crying in her kitchen earlier that day weeping efo moshe hashem send us moshe to teach us and in brooklyn new york maisha rabenu sends his like the gemara says that an emissary is oneself because some jewish mother in hobart tasmania is weeping in her kitchen because she feels isolated and lonely and lost and she's crying for guidance what's the godless of maisha rabeno mesha kibaltera missinai everyone knows that gordon my friend told me you have to confirm from him that have haim cool is the one who sends his schlier that day because a jewish mother is crying in her kitchen in hobart tasmania so this is way bigger than just rav and talmid teacher and student this is about someone who loves and understands and cares about you i remember one time i was at a shava brachas i told her i'm telling you one more story but now i see everyone's comfortable and i need benny to think of a niggun anyway so i was at a shava brachas for a cousin of mine not a laboratory cousin it was in manhattan the carl bach show in manhattan and it was about 20 years ago i remember i was in 770 and i took the subway from crown heights into manhattan and uh i was sitting there and there was a jew an older jew sitting next to me and he says you're a lebovacher i was the only laboratory there so uh he says you're a libertarian i said yeah he said i had you hidden i had one-on-one audiences with with the laboratory well someone tells me that i'm interested i said tell me about it so he said like this he said back in the 1950s in the 60s i used to go to jamaica on business so every time i would do a business trip in jamaica i would check out the jewish community it was a small community less than a minion and then when i would get back to new york i would report to the la bava churba about the jewish community in jamaica so i asked him a dumb question i said you just told me you know like you're not a laboratory but like why would you report to the lava chureba about what's going on in jamaica and he looks at me totally deadpan and he says who else would care and it hit me all of a sudden that's a rabbit base yo that the head feels even what's going on in the pinky toe and is affected by what's going on at the pinky toe there's a teacher that's one thing it's a very important thing and there's the message but then there's maesha of bainu and isabel like the zayer says the extension of motion every generation who doesn't just know a bunch of information even holy information but who knows you and cares about you but i want to tell you something i'm not even talking about the churro right now that's not my point i'm talking about you who will be the zadies if not we you think that i'm telling you that the godless of allah is not what he knew but how much he cared about people no what i'm really trying to say and i'll spell it out is that what makes each one of us great is not how smart we are nobody needs another smart person smart people are a dime a dozen like i said artificial intelligence is coming to replace all the smart people you know what will never be replaced human compassion human compassion is only more and more precious and rare and i'll tell you something people don't care what you know until they know that you care that was a meaningful minute right now gordon he always knows how to find this by the way you've been tracking mentally the sound bites here right how many sound bites am i up to in this three or four okay he knows how to take out the think about the people in your life let them know you care spend time bond with them find out what what's going on in their life gimmel thomas is coming up don't just talk about the rabbi and what made the rabbi great be the debit the rebbe's greatness was and is the love of every individual jew so don't just talk about it i'm sorry i want to beg to differ with one thing zakatinsky said it was all beautiful but one thing he said the shlochim which makes it sound like the official shlokham of the rabbit i want to expand it i want to agree yes and and i want to expand it it's not just the slocum that ever had this view of every single jew of this generation that you can be the one who cares you can be the one who reaches out to somebody else to the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world there was a forensic psychologist for the san francisco police department jerome motto he did an interview in the new yorker magazine and he spoke about the fact that he used to do the forensic work when people would jump off the golden gate bridge unfortunately was very common and he would have to prove there's no foul play how did he do that he was a psychologist but the person had already jumped you can't interview them exactly at that point he would have to retrace their steps and prove that they were god forbid in a frame of mind where they wanted to take their own life so basically that was his job he used to go and look at people's history and their background to see what happened right before they jumped so he said he got so used to this he saw so many hundreds of jumpers that he became numb to it he said there was one story that shook him and he could never shake it loose he said one night they found a jumper and they went they they found id they went back to the the the apartment where the guy lived they found an address they walk into the house they found a note on the dresser he said i've seen that a hundred times a note on a dresser nothing new but then i read the note and it completely shook me to my core it said i'm walking to the bridge now if one person stops me on the way and says hello i'm turning around and coming home do not underestimate the fact that you can be that person for somebody else you don't have to be smart you just have to be compassionate and the rebels saw each and every single one of us as i'll say something i don't know if it's too bold maybe i'll take it back tomorrow but people ask me how come the labacher didn't leave a successor rabbitson had no biological children i mean obviously they knew i mean plan come on maybe it's not a polite question but i've been asked the question many times and i'm going to tell you my sincere answer most certainly left a successor you and when you learn that it's not just the godless of the torah it's that you're being deputized tagged you're it it's on you shall adam commissa you are now the deb is a representative to know and to care and to love a jew and that means i'll spell that out in really simple terms first of all charity starts at home know what's going on in your children's lives be the rabbit in your home that your child knows like this guy knew something's going on in jamaica for the 10 jews who lived there who else would be interested other than the rabbi when your child has something interesting to share they should come to you and not have to run to their friends because if they're not sharing their personal lives with you who are they sharing it with and what morals and values do those people have who your children feel bonded to you just got to pray that maybe they're good people so number one is be the rep in your home be the one that everyone in your home your spouse your children knows cares and then build on that bring your filling with you when you go to the grocery store bring it phil in to work you go to the mechanic and you're waiting for your car you bring it filling with women bring tea lights in your purse you cannot leave home without a shabbos candle lighting guide and delights in your purse reach out to a jew and then when you get in you get you get used to that i'll give you expert level expert mode you could be makati from people come learn to see this with me come to the oil with me let me tell you about a jew who loved every single jew and let me inspire you to be more like that jew and love every jew that you meet the rebel left us marching orders and that is to seek out in love every single jew in your home in your neighborhood in your shule at the gas station at the grocery store at a business deal wherever it may be online social media wherever it is until we bring our entire family home [Applause] foreign [Music] that's terrible [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] i [Music] i [Music] i [Music] i [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] i [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] thank you so much for everyone for coming that's all we out have a great night thank you rabbis zakatinski and thank you thank you great really unbelievable beautiful audience thank you benny friedman i know you had a rough trip in your jet lag for martial and yet you made it you found it in your schedule to be here you made it possible thank you so much i want to thank the auxiliary police and the police department and the mayor of our village for always encouraging community events yeah a fabling and does create light that's the nature of a fabling not only biruchni's but bhagashmi's too it goes together do i want to remind all who ate and drank they say and we will have a minion might have inside not only my concern about all of us having admired but on a personal level unfortunately i have to say kaddish if you can help me with the minion inside we'll be there i'm looking forward to many more fabregans and the ultimate trebling that we're all waiting for with the coming of mashiach we'll have a fabling in here and about two o'clock we'll take a walk to the oil feel free to join us we have a few fabrians along the way planned as we get to the oil go before shabbos go after shabbos the oil is not only a place where we go to ask but a place where we go to connect to enhance and to simply live the life that we should be living