Minhag vs. Halacha: A Father's Wisdom Revealed #shorts

He says, "No, no, no. It's mine, it's I did nothing." We know that by us minag is stronger than halacha. Minag Israel k'din. The halacha is you can't steal money, smuggle in government, but the minag is that you go to the Rebbe for a bracha before you get on a plane. So, anybody who came to me and said they're going to Belgium, I just didn't give a bracha to. I did nothing. That's the type of thinking that was like everybody could see a problem and most people, and rightfully so, there are times I wish I was some of those people, I'm not going to argue, but most people are going to be like, "Okay, it's someone else's problem. It's not for me. I did my part. I did my ha But my father instilled in me and still instills in me the importance of looking past that, looking for the solution, looking for an answer. Wow. And um is he is he some some Arabish descent? Is he coming from there? >> actually has a very interesting background. He himself was born in Germany in 1936. >> Mhm. Came to America in '38. The family became very close with Rav Moshe Bick, he was still young in the Bronx. And that's where the heimish in the Tishas came from. Now, the Gluck family in Germany was the only family in Hamburg that was allowed to daven in the Yekkish shuls and in the Ausjuden shul. Mhm. Now, in Germany it was a big thing if you weren't part of them >> You couldn't get into the other one. >> to be that from my father's the family, there was enough intermarriage between the Galicianers and the Germans, even though they came by World War I one time, and my great-great-grandfather was the Bal Sham from Michelstadt. Mhm. So, because the Glucks were from that family, you know, they were allowed to be both.