The Sicha one cannot forget and where he was when it was said, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel - 5783

foreign [Music] and I want to start to share on what is for me a personal note 31 years ago tomorrow afternoon I I think it was a Tuesday but I I Wednesday but I'm really not sure foreign and in those days I taught 10 periods a week done a lot and I would come in the afternoon and I would teach whatever two or three periods to the girls and the alarm sounded around 3 30 in the afternoon the same allowed that alarm that rings out of Shabbos when the rabbit spoke a secret it would ring usually they were not surprises If Today bespoke sees us in the middle of the week they were usually after my div it was uncharacteristic for the debit to speak after it happened occasionally I remember that everyone spoke 10 after 11 in the morning also but as a rule that every spoke after maidev and um it was Wednesday 31 years ago tomorrow at 3 to 25 or the afternoon I was right out of the next block the alarm sounded I was on the second floor I ran down to the basement to the office thinking I'm going to run across the street and they tell me by the time I get across the street to see who's going to be over then I was already talking so I remember standing in the office of the secretary right there in the office he was standing I was there the other teachers came downstairs the girl stood around and then bespoke how long were the Sierra 15 minutes 10 12 minutes wasn't very long and as the rabbit is talking I'm thinking this is not normal it's absolutely abnormal as they never talked it just doesn't sound right and I'll tell you why in the summer of 91 and certainly once nun Bay started that means the fall of 91 into the wind of 92 did Abbott developed a style of speech which was really very difficult to follow he would start talking about something he changed the subject change the subject again change something into that but he would never go full circle that would just touch on things we would mention things and he would start a conversation and they would say oh they don't understand this and said this but he never went full circle he left you open-ended so what ended up happening that winter was that the people writing the secrets I do a lot of guessing because it ever would start a bunch of different subjects and never finish them we now know that many many of the subjects that have been started then were ideas that he had spoken about at length in earlier years and if you would if you knew the earlier conversations you were sort of able to figure out what they never wanted but the rabbit developed a style of speech where he would start a subject and he would change the subject and never never go never finish you just moved up to topic which is an hour and a quarter and you're looking to say for a circus and the circus 15 to 20 Pages you want the Harry at 20 page fabranging out of an hour and a quarter and the answers because the lab is spoke cryptically he spoke in riddles and the people who wrote the transcripts especially those that would edit had to think what that ever means and write it up even though that ever didn't say it explicitly send it into the debuffer Edition for editing edited then they knew they were correct if they didn't edit and I made changes they knew they made a mistake this was a style of speech that started somewhere in the summer of 91 and it certainly became the standard once nun base broke that which is the year of the stroke did Emma actually said at one point that he's doing this and he even explained why Debbie said my custom in the most recent time is that any idea that comes to my mind I immediately mentioned that I've actually said publicly and there's a precedent for it it says in spotted that the message at the same manager the holy imaginative is Rich that when he would speak if an idea came to his mind he would immediately throw it out and the rabbit said in the in the most recent time any of that account my mind I immediately put it out there and um and that episode The reason I'm doing this is because I want to bring the ideas into the world and you'll like you know whatever you say over and over and over again in this period give a wise man a finger he'll figure out the whole hand there's a style of speech which went on till the stroke probably six or seven months so it's an afternoon and the leopard turns around and he says we're standing a week before thank you which seven days where you try you you must write accent for each one so it's one week left of the preparations for youth so it's a very very appropriate time for us to focus on the need to prepare for ourselves for your track which is the style because someone just was telling me a minute before that even though they never didn't say it we all thought that it ever meant it we never talked about you attract to us he wasn't talking about the freedom he was talking about himself and you tried as they did that everybody became this is a time for us to pay more attention to our his cautious and so forth and so on and then it ever starts talking and the parts of the shavua foreign speak about we're already holding what's today today is Tuesday of ADA of of bright I get I I it must have been by then also I don't know how it came up that it doesn't deposit Hashem you're going to speak to Padre your brother Adam is going to be your spokesperson because money should have made a complaint like we did last week in the class and he had asked for saying it's hard for me to speak I can't speak at all and Hashem says to Maisha I don't care how to see you to speak you need to do the talking and Adam will do the explaining but you need to speak you need to speak as animal Translate and that ever said that the Republic was unable to speak and he was also handicapped in many ways and he was so ill that the doctor said that they don't have an explanation for how they ever lived the last 17 years of his life that ever said and he he said that there's actually a story of a doctor who was a professor that everybody says a professor is more than a doctor that went into the previous level with a complaint how could the abuse to take away from a person whose whole role is to speak dividend a person whose whole English because see this and the image it took away from the power of speech he's unable to communicate verbally that was defeated I have a tape I have an audio or the feeling that is speaking it's so terrible it's so upsetting it's worse than you could imagine if you could imagine how bad the Freedia could ever sound it it's worse it's impossible to understand the word it's a it's impossible the feeder Camp is the physical limitations were extraordinary and then they never said but it was always in spite of his handicaps in fact the fact that he couldn't talk and other limitations that he had and all of medical ailments he was always be similar and he says the lesson of this is that when you have a situation is unable to speak he had the message we have to speak for him we speak for him we speak for him we give highest to him we add to his life and to his success into one and so forth this was the secret what was out of Counter about the secret is that Abu repeated himself and repeated himself and repeated himself you're talking about a period of time we're not on the devil didn't repeat himself never didn't finish a thought he would start a conversation move to the next conversation move to the never go full circle the circles were impossible to put together because the devil would start subjects and never complete them all of a sudden it's a it's an afternoon here from the beginning I said why he said he said why himself while he's doing it that anything that enters into his mind he wants to bring it into the world oh why he did it that way at this time I don't know I mean it sounds reasonable but here it's a week to your chat which if you think about it is about seven weeks for the stroke the stroke was on a Monday this was probably on a Wednesday and the Debbie starts talking about the fact that feeding him couldn't speak and that it didn't make sense because I shouldn't speak the whole even if it happens to speak and of course he said that nevertheless so happy and that was repeating himself and repeating himself and as soon as the shield was over I ran upstairs with the girls I sat him down so I will tell you people but this is weird on the spot this was very very strange it was incredibly incredibly strange that all of a sudden in the middle of the afternoon the rabbit speaks and all of a sudden he's got all day in contrast to the whole style of speech that entire year that repeat himself two or three times or more and he made a simple point that the rabbit can't speak and nevertheless and we have to speak on behalf of that ever now you understand yourself that when the stroke hit which was and this was so it's it's two months minus a week approximately later they see her all of a sudden became so unbelievably important in other words when it ever had the stroke we understood that that ever then was talking to the idea that Crusaders speak on behalf of that it became very very obvious so this is a moment in time that I'll never forget you know when I was growing up I grew up in the 1970s which is a few years ago when I was growing up the people of the generation before me the cliche was do you remember where you were when Kennedy was shot that was the LIE do you remember when you were standing when Kennedy was shot every American I remember where I was the the event of the death of Kennedy Kennedy was a a breath of fresh air Kennedy was was the he was the future and in so many ways he was a great president he really was a great president he was a great man he had big cases but he was he was a great man Kenny was a great man he was a big person um and he was killed boom boom boom was shot dead and every American who was past the age of eight or nine or even six or seven will say I remember when I heard it it shook America it was very very core so you have your moments I have my moments in my relationship where I remember the event I remember where I was anyway but this is one of my moments that I've always said this is one of my moments I'll never forget where I was I was standing downstairs we didn't have time to cross the street the Sierra was very short and at the time I felt that it was very odd and strange and subsequent to that obviously when this date comes every it's 31 times it's 31 years since tough Shin pay gimmel when the gimlet comes I certainly stop and I reflect and I don't think I'm unique I think anybody who remembers that see her says remember you remember it because it's it was so clear that the devil was telling us what's happening I have a former acquaintance former co-worker he's older than I am by many years close to 10 years older than I am who said that the debit spoke exactly the same thing um a few days before his heart attack in 1977. um which you could probably look up I never did but Debbie spoke the same idea that felica was unable to speak and he didn't have to speak on behalf of the rabbit huh yeah but it was still 1917 you didn't know that I had a heart attack in 770 you have a straightest kids live what are we celebrating did everybody recover his heart attack so the heart attack which may not tell us a few days before the rabbit spoke the same theme that he's not able to speak on behalf of the river so for me the fact that this date became available for us to Vivia tratt um is Meaningful very meaningful for this reason so um I chose to start this talk with this point um that every cross it speaks on behalf of that and by speaking behalf of that himself explained you add to the life of the devil had the health health or whatever you allow that ever to do you allow that ever to do what he needs to do and I think there's another Factor when we speak the words of the devil in other words when we are Laboratories as we should be and we travel around the world we meet people or we have an opportunity to give a class or to give a talk or to speak citizen assure or whatever the circumstances and we have an opportunity to teach the world that ebb is teachings and in effect we become his mouthpiece become his Prophet we speak the words another very very real and serious effect is it creates a connection between us and the rabbit strengthens our bond our history by simply doing for the rebe what so to speak the rabba cannot do for himself and I think that's very very important I'll share with you something interesting um I was in Montreal a week ago week and a half ago and when I was there I spoke to every group of boys and girls in the city it was they named schlepped me around like a like a donkey on a nose range um anyway one of the groups that I spoke to spoke to Yeshiva Boys one with some groups the boys overlapped I saw them one of the months a boy asked me why is it so important to learn kitas a boy asked me why he's a very sincere boy but he was asking honestly why is it so important to look he does so I said to him the Joseph attack was seduced by the wife of patifa and it was it was a serious test for yesterday to the extent that there's an opinion in Rashi based on the commodity of course yeah she says what do his work so one opinions means his business as the accountant of pretifera or patifar and other people he could go to an Aveda foreign in the window he sees the countenance of his father and he was afraid to violate that trust he was afraid to do something which would cut himself from his fathers he ran away and there's a beautiful Remus by the way and I I said it to the boys and one boy asked actually to write it down who refused he refused to sin ma'am it's five letters a shall us is like three pauses so three poses it's trap so you read it three times so they said Russia Davis and if somebody wants you write it down you'll be happy to do it you read the five letters well if you remember I've known five times the countenance of his father opposite him Joseph if you go into that house and you do that sin your name is going to be erased from the breastplate of the 12th was afraid to contaminate his soul it works perfectly if noon so I said to the boys after this temptation and after almost falling in controls himself doesn't know an Aveda and his name is the righteous Joseph he wasn't Sadiq where did he get that strength from from his father so I said to this boy in case you ever need extra an extra battery because the HR is really winning that comes to my sketches to the river was saved because he saw his father's likeness in the window we connect to the rabbit we had Quakers when we do what he said that's why he does is important and that's why rambam is important all of those things that we do because the dev is said to do them strengthen our his clashes to the yankovation and we should never be tested but person has a test and he needs to dig deep the Coit has to overcome that test come from the river and it's strengthened who listens and follows the instruction that the rabbit gives the hero is of that ever so to me this idea that said that he needs to speak on his behalf when and if we have the opportunity in the schools to speak dividend I'm going to speak to the Rebus Toyota's teachings there was wisdom that was world view besides for the fact that we're fulfilling this particular hero which they never gave 31 years ago tomorrow afternoon he almost said explicitly I'm I can't speak you have to speak for me it creates a special bond between us and that's a wonderful idea to be more connected to the river is is really really it's really really a good idea to do everything in our power to have a relationship with that ever as far as huge fat goes in the few minutes that we have left I I guess I'll say this the mother says well known says which means the the biblical path The Sun Shines and the sun sets and the Yamada interprets actually before the son of one tana and it's names of individuals that the day this one died this one was born this one that I just was born there was a continuity of Taylor there was never an interruption actually before the son of one sets the son of the next one Rises oh I mean there's always a debit there's always a Sadiq who whose responsibility it does is all of us the Jewish people and there's another gas which means one kingship does not overlap with another kingship the width of a hair meaning when one level passes away and the second ever succeeds him that succession even though there is a process by which it's brought out a whole year but spiritually it's spontaneous the moment one rabbit's son sets the son of the next River Rises and this is you attract your trat is the skier right the ski means the setting of the son of the remedayat and it's these The Shining of the of the son of the revenues and our 11. let's see the rain of course a lot of you are thinking excuse me sir there was a gimmel Thomas I don't got a good answer for you people I don't got a good answer for you other than to say this is what we got you know the future passed away there was it ever we don't say they never passed away we say Gibble Thomas which is a euphemism for whatever you wanted to mean bottom line is that every sun is shining and people who are honest and objective even people say in many many real ways it's shining brighter than the child 31 years ago when they never spoke and um we use you attract the date began to shine as a day to focus on the significance and the meaning and the message of that Rising Sun I'm sorry for using a Japanese illusion okay um what is unique about that ever I will say this to you above all else in my view I don't think there's even a question about it above all else what's unique about them over to the band before is that is defined because see this is defined by you bringing another Jew close to God for six Generations was defined by getting yourself closer to God there is no doubt that it ever changed that Paradigm in an absolute way that have been spoke and said and repeated and pushed and insisted and was impassioned see this is being makata of somebody else in the very first moment no matter before you thought about yourself first and if the devil would say go be my kind of another person you have the right to say to them I'm not ready people call somebody else I'm still being read to my kind of myself and then I will take it in our generation that's God himself spread it out but mashem was not you and me if you're a hospital and you felt it and I ready for it you would say so in our generation without this the hasidus was defined fundamentally by being the kind of somebody else in the very very first moment Bosnian in 1951. says got the whole world to call Hashem by his name right so Allah says announced the name of God that he's one with the world to call so the rabbit said there's a rule in chess whenever you have an artiquity right like we have every day in davening don't read it the way the person is written reading it differently it's one of those elements articulate the rule of I'll take whatever the past says I'll take any you read it both ways so I think your mother says about God and the Yamada says do not read that he called elevation he got other people to call says both ways but they never flipped it never turned it upside down and he said these words I'm saying Yiddish meaning you want to be closer to Hashem there's only one way bring another person closer this is what we call it's not a cliche at all it's a real thing it's just a it's serious thing we call it Seventh Generation the trademark of the day rashvi is that we bring ourselves closer to Hashem by bringing a fellow Jew across the shop I think there's no doubt that that's a foundational approach to say this to life to our generation and the psychologists will probably give a very very good psychological reasons why they rebe after this method it's just it's just the call of the hour we live in a time with that Yama volcano it's a fine of an egg but like they never said when there is a fire and you have water but the water is sewer water you don't say well it's going to make the fire smell if you can put the fire out you put it just make sure it's not kerosene the fire is burning and if the fire was burning 70 years ago it's burning today to put the fire out and the idea in order to be my kind of yourself from a kind of somebody else I'm just say two more points and I'm gonna stop another critical attitude of that Abyss also very foundational and very emphatic and repeated thousands hundreds of times is the idea of simcha the rebe wants each one of us to work on Joy not that we should win the lottery and be in a good mood and therefore we're happy a junior all the time even when things are wrapped and from the simcha from the joy we have the courthouse to overcome the tests the joy is not a response to life you're not happy because life is good you're happy so alive should be good and it's a foundational teaching of that needs to be said about himself my nature is by nature I'm an introvert by Nature I'm a more sad man and I completely change my nature to be simra because this is what I need to be in our times and that every man dead for all conceited for Jews for human beings the idea of being and joy is the only thing that figuratively make it works if you're fake being smarter you make it you'll lose your job fake being rich so you make it to end up in jail you're fake being happy you can actually become happy yes and one final Point another idea that ebb is which is also foundational and the psychologists would also have very good explanations for why don't think so much just do if you're not sure what to do just do something do action action action action and don't think so much about how it's going to look and how it's going to feel how it's going to sound and if it's right and if you thought about it is so right about these three points it's mamish the appropriate pill for Our Generation stop thinking about yourself think about somebody else you'll be better off one of the biggest diseases of our time is everyone's stuck in their own head you're busy think of myself all day long stop you want to live a life think about the next guy you want to be careful today be my kind of someone else that's number one number two you gotta be positive and number three three get to the bottom line as quickly as possible don't Elijah have to get caught up in hush brightness and in concerns and in worries and in uncertitudes do okay there won't be to attract the ABC says one second to be mashiach or else yeah what or else what are we gonna do okay good night everybody thank you for listening [Music]