An Evening of Tribute: Marking the 100th Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Rashab נ״ע

good evening and welcome to an evening of tribute for baseness on 100 years from the historic us of the Roberta Schwab fifth Rebbe of Chabad tonight special online vibranium and gathering is in the merit of a speedy and complete recovery for observe Yehezkel a cane been mindle hashem should send him and all those in colleagues all in need over a for right now a speedy and complete recovery many of us had plans or I'd had least thought about how we were going to spend this day amazed Nissen a hundred years a hundredth yard site of an Aussie and those plans obviously did not come to pass a man trapped and got locked robbed a smash of is full of ish nevertheless here we are through the aid of modern technology and the a booster was mock timber for at least to this macchia the mark of isolation and allowed us to to connect at least virtually thinking about our situation now in quarantine or self quarantine or isolation while we're trying to observe baseness and causes one to think about rabbits and Kaunas memoirs where she describes being in gullies in exile with her husband on baseness and it's difficult not to think of those passages for one who's read them let me start though to describe how she describes the very first baseness and the the day of the Estelle cos itself while they were still in Modena poppy troughs before they were into exile she says the news came and her husband that Eva's father was devastated he began to grieve beside himself in tears and immediately sidam would come to the house and all those who were sympathetic to see this and eventually the house was full of people who were there all in tears crying morning I had some kind of Rights it was interesting there was one particular guy who was a free thinker a modern guy secular Jew and he showed up and they weren't sure exactly what he was doing there it wasn't religious in any way and he sat with them and he started crying and it was crying somebody asked him why are you crying he said somebody who was so important to so many Jews is worth crying over and in fact had some kind of writes in her memoirs how after this Jew got up and he left the her house somebody could see that through the window as he was walking home he was still weeping uncontrollably having some kind of also writes about two different years in exile one in Chile and one in in Al Motta where they were living in exile and she describes how her husband but of his father at one point he said hi his basement oh he did a bit and then she saw how all of a sudden he wanted to express himself he wanted to do something proper to mark the day he wanted to express himself through through I see this but he didn't have a pen to write with he didn't have anyone to say a minor to so he said thinking will have to suffice and he went into a deep meditative state for over an hour and he thought about the rabbit ashab we are isolated to a certain extent but Barra Hashem we're not alone we have this god-given gift of technology to connect with each other and not just to think about the rabbit ashab which surely all of us will do throughout the 24 hours of the art site but we will also have a chance to speak to express ourselves tonight's evening of tribute is going to focus on the last year's the final period of life leading up to the Estelle cos but before we we fast forward to those years I want to give just a very brief background this is not a biography we're not going to be able to speak about everything that happened in the life that ever - AB - discuss all of the accomplishments and the contributions of the rabbit ashab as a leader would take many many many hours and even then it would obviously be insufficient we're going to focus on just a very certain period but before we do I want to give a basic background very quickly the rabbit a shot was born off - tough - tough Alif that's 1860 and by the time he was 21 he was orphaned his father that Emma - the fourth Rebbe of Chabad passed away at the young age of 48 years old and after that dilemma - Abba refused to take on the mantle of leadership he had an older brother dubs Amin aren and for 11 years for 11 years after the passing of the river Mirage that have been a shot refused to accept the naseous finally later after the Rizal left town so that I'm at a shop accepted being rabbit and in his 38 years as a dabeh Deborah Shah delivered mm my modem over 2,000 my motives say this and in a certain way we can say that the enduring legacy of the rabid ashab was the contribution to to see this there was novel that we're going to talk about diminish I'm later in this presentation the the rebel Shabbos known as the Rambam of Casillas just like the random took the vast sea of Terror chappal path and he organized it he systemized it he put every subject where it belongs so to the rabbit ashab took this vast sea of Titus Exodus and explained and organized systematically different so gears different subjects within cities we're gonna speak about this immense a sham toward the end of the presentation but I want to continue with the biographic overview related to all of the prolific cities that the rabbit ashab wrote would also be the establishment of yeshiva for the purpose of studying Exodus or yeshiva which incorporated within at the study of considers the yeshiva team ketamine was founded on tests of a low tough nation on Zion and the novel thing about the yeshiva was that there had been sitting you shivers before but this was a yeshiva the actually had cities as part of the curriculum that within the schedule of the day as part of the learning there was a time for studying cities and studying cities in a manner of de book of item and people hotel medium meaning through discussion and with teachers and mentors and guiding and teaching classes and this itself was a novelty which we'll talk about later in the presentation the name team could mean by the way was not given right away the Shiva was started didn't have a name yet was given the night of some cos theta just a few weeks after its being founded and based on the head there the time Academy ma'am hey xie na then the the night of simcha Schneider said this should be the name of the yeshiva and the students of the issue of are called Timmy moon there's also a famous seeker we should mention call hi Yates a mill chemist based Ovid which is sort of a a time capsule if you will was delivered in 1900 at a tumultuous time sort of the entry of the world into the modern era and that Emma - I was speaking about all the winds of change that are going on in the world at that time particularly for the Jewish people and outlines and lays out a course for enduring that change and standing up to it and and not compromising and this was an incredibly important message and we see historically the influence of the students of of Temkin Tamim him and and the students of the students those who were influenced and inspired by the Deborah shops courage and leadership during a time of great instability in the Jewish world but the the the the part of the rebel tribes life that we're gonna focus on tonight is just the last few years and that's really in a way the story of World War one and the communist revolution in Russia so let's slow down and we're going to focus now on this period of time starting from the summer of 1914 until the spring of 1920 a little less than six years world war one began with the execution or the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Hungary and within a few weeks of that time there was a declaration of war formally made and that occurred untii shabbath dish above was a day of great calamity historically throughout the ages for the Jewish people World War one was certainly a calamity for the Jewish people in addition to all the havoc that war brings as well as the persecution of the that always would occur when society was destabilized we know that World War one really didn't end when it officially ended there was a little bit of a ceasefire and World War two was the continuation of World War one in World War two we know for the Jewish people was the most devastating era at least in the modern age for the Jewish people World War one brought with it of course the danger of fighting the front lines the actual warfare but in addition to that and this is something that's not as well known there are societal changes that come with the onslaught of an invading country Germany was at war with Russia or Germany at that time was called Prussia so Prussia was entering Russia and interestingly a lot of the a lot of the situation in the times of the rabbit ashab with Prussia coming into Russia was very similar to the first Arab of Chabad the alte debe when Napoleon was coming into Russia how was it similar well it's known that many Jews were actually very happy when Napoleon was sweeping across Europe because he was a liberator he was bringing emancipation and even the Alta never conceded he admitted that in the short run things would be better for the Jews at least materially speaking but that spiritually would be devastating that Napoleon was an evil force similarly when the Prussians were coming into Russia many Russian Jews welcomed this they weren't particularly fond of the Tsar and they were happy they if they thought that the Prussians were more modern maybe more liberal more open-minded and historically speaking for many Jews actually there were certain immediate benefits that at that time but that every shot was very against Prussia and especially against the Kaiser himself kaiser wilhelm ii in fact it's known that the naboda shop along with the FIDIC Arriba had seen Kaiser V alone they had been in Russia and they had been in in Prussia that ebony shop used to travel for health reasons he used to go to different spas different places for treatment so he'd been in Prussia he'd been in Berlin he'd been in the in the major cities there and actually at one particular on one particular occasion Vilhelm was giving a speech and that ever - ah was standing with the Frieda could ever with him and vilhelm locked his eyes on the two of them years later when World War one broke out the nebbish have said to the faded campuses do you remember when we saw him remember when he saw us and his face turned white do you know that even at that time that that that that anti-semite was already thinking of all the evil that he was going to do meaning that the some ways at least by masiva as a plan all of the the horrors of World War one were already brewing in Wilhelm's mind when that Emma - ops oven in in Germany years prior there's also a story that's very interesting to tell not regarding the the Kaiser himself but the kaisers chair and the kaisers desk in the kaisers pen this is a story that the the feeder could have been told on a couple of occasions and it's recorded in the safer a circus and it involves the debited shop and the vinegar number we're in a park and they sort of like a special VIP park where you had to have cloth on your shoes you were you weren't allowed to walk there with regular with boots and the fact the Finnick never says that i guess maybe they gave out certain cloths that you were supposed to put on your feet before you went into the park and they didn't want to use the cloths because they were worried maybe it had shot us so he said they tied their handkerchiefs around their their shoes so they could go into the park but then there was like a VIP section within a VIP section and that was only for the Kaiser that was like the the velvet ropes you know that was the the the kaisers own personal area it sounds like it was some sort of a gazebo or some type of like a structure there in the park and that Emma Duchamp told the fugue of me says I want to get in there make get and make sure you know take care of it so the figure could have the bribed the guard bought him a drink and then he gave him the change from the drink and made sure that the guard should disappear for a while and then Emma Deschamps sat at the desk you sat in the chair and he took the pen the Royal pen of the Kaiser and he wrote it was a part of the Hampshire comic loved one of the well known him shaken and he wrote the beginning at least of the minor the Gaelic ish maybe slavey and he told the the feeder could ever afterwards that the Havasu das that he got the break kite the relaxation that it brought sitting in such a sumptuous setting in the and the Royal gazebo with the Royal desk the rel chair the Royal pen he said that enabled him that give him that gave him the the mental space so to speak to begin to write that my merit but the rebel Shah was very opposed to to the Germans what he felt was a modernizing influence and and similar to the Alpha demo being against Napoleon that Emperor Shah was a little bit on his own in being opposed to the oncoming Germans but the main reason they left Lubavitch was because of the fighting it just was not safe to be there any longer so after 102 years of the word Labov each being synonymous with the cities of Habad there every shop had to pick up and and leave not just the town of his birthplace but the town that was identified with this unique movement since the times of the Miller habit but it was impossible to stay any longer and so they moved and before they moved what was there ever a shop dealing with assembling dicks of him the manuscripts this was very very important they would think about generations of an obey him in this town in this small town and there were all these manuscripts acidic manuscripts that hadn't been printed hadn't been copied and that were in the holy handwriting of the rebellion so this was this was one of the primary occupations that ever the shop during this time was assembling these manuscripts and and getting them out of labovick and bringing them with him now he did not manage to bring them with him to restore at least not all of them and in fact they were thought to be lost it was thought that many of them were lost or most of them were lost and then with perestroika with the opening up of the iron curtain they were actually discovered in 1990 and that ever spoke about the need to reclaim them and obviously that's a situation that's ongoing and we should hear good news about that immediately and then in rostov the Roberta shop was very much involved with organizing the manuscripts that he had that he had with him so during that time was very much even though it was a time of great upheaval and and and you know being moved from his from his from Lubavitch from the place associated with his leadership and having to relocate but the debitor shop was extremely immersed in citizens at that time and in fact even in the last couple of years not only the damaja shop continued to write Exodus but he became extremely prolific in in in in tougher hims 1918 there was a minor for every Shabbos for every single Shabbos and then into fresh I in tests in 1919 there were 79 my mother that means more than a miner a week and this was at a time of the most tumultuous destabilization now there was no travel it was not safe it was wartime and because there was no travel there was no communication they didn't have communication back then like we have today especially in Russia I was more primitive than elsewhere in Europe so there was no communication as communication required travel in those days so there was and to a great extent there was isolation and people didn't have news they didn't know what was going on so exceed them who were still up in white Russia they didn't know what was going on with did a better job and then that ever - op in in their stuff didn't know what was going at least be da Stockton with with Siddim and they didn't necessarily even have news about the war at least not reliably and not not very quickly so it was it was a it was a time of great isolation and and yet the Roberta shop during that time immersed himself in insidious in a way almost unprecedented even for him even for the Rambam of exodus who was so prolific and then produced so much see this in the years prior now the situation got even worse because in addition to World War one right in the middle of a World War there was a revolution there was the communist revolution and all of the upheaval that that brought and then if that's not enough for you there was a civil war and there were different factions there were different parties among the communists themselves vying for power now the party or the faction that we need to know about are the Bolsheviks the Bolsheviks were the ones a multum Utley who were who were victorious and took control and they were notoriously notoriously anti-religious and these were the ones who did have a - sha'ban and all see them and all you didn't had to worry about the Bolsheviks were fighting but eventually they prevailed and they came into her stove they weren't originally in rest uh but then they arrived in her stuff and that was in avis of tough race pay okay talking about the winter of Tavis of tough race pay the Bolsheviks arrived in our stuff now from that point on okay we're talking about Tavis schrott other Nissen we're talking about the last four months of the debitor Shabs life and here's where I want to slow down even more and talk about what transpired some of the amazing events that transpired during that time the last moment of the rabbit ashab is known as gracious game a Moloch that moment was delivered on Purim poor immune owes you dollars you're Dalit either so you're talking about literally two weeks in a couple of days before the remedy shop systolic us you're talking about in that Kufa right when the Bolsheviks have arrived in our stuff and they're trying to establish control and they're trying to show who's boss and they're extremely anti religious they made up they made a curfew in town you were not allowed to leave your house if anyone can relate to that and you were not allowed to gather I think I relate to that and that a bit of char going to fabric for poram well just the decision to filleting for poram in that situation was extremely courageous some people even thought reckless the fee decrepit describes voicing some uncertainty I suppose we can say I'm not sure if we can say it that way but expressing some type of hesitation to his father regarding actually holding the plum for bringing and that ever - AB told him Hub cane Maidan ished don't be afraid Miravalle and gongs design we're going to be fine we're gonna be intact we're gonna be whole complete and then he said it main ished Osman Valen GaN design but had they had thought him I don't mean that we're gonna be intact we're gonna be fine in a room within a room you know hidden away sequestered it main I mean as medieval in God sign that we're gonna be fine meet the god SIA its SIA when he splashed us with the whole spreading forth and and going out sort of you know without having to hold ourselves in without having to quiet things down don't worry we're gonna be absolutely fine and they held the fabric and they held the gathering tension was very very thick and in the middle of the gathering the bolsheviks showed up with a search warrant at that evidence house that's what the gathering was they were they were in his house he had to be at home everyone had to be at home and they went to the door and they told they told the Bolsheviks that Eva's busy right now you got to come back later just that just that took audacity so they laughed and they continued to fabric and again I don't know how to describe this but the the free decrepid describes expressing apprehension about the situation and then to top it all off the rabid ashab started raising funds for the yeshiva for tenkan Tamim 'i'm now collecting funds that itself is an offense that that's that's like you know a crime during wartime and they were collecting money and they're putting money on the table and they had maashjay'eh their single high and there was masks on the table and the photograph was concerned about the money on the table and the mask on the table both of these things enough were enough to get them in a lot of trouble Bolsheviks weren't they weren't joking around I mean there were violent bloodthirsty killers Bolsheviks came back and this time they came in and the rabid ashab said yeah their food is a mission is Paul I'm not I'm not afraid of them not bothered by them he said we're gonna say I'm I am exid's and the feeder could ever wanted to put the money at least under the table at least you know show some maybe even the the Bolsheviks saw it the least you know show some respect you know and that evidence happens it's not leave it on the table I mean it's a miracle I mean what we're describing here is a miracle it's not normal thing that the Bolsheviks should come in and see a gathering in a house money on the table mosque on the table it's it's not normal that nothing happened it's not normal that everyone wasn't arrested or at least you know you know that did even worse than ever the shop said they're gonna become completely nullified they're gonna become completely yeah but on the vote oh and don't worry about I'm gonna say I'm I'm like see this and they're gonna be completely nullified and then the repetition have started to say the moment gracious gamer Moloch and he's saying the minor with the Bolsheviks there and he said the home I'm in and the Bolsheviks left mama Janisse say Nixon overt miracles and this is the last moment that we have from the number two shop it's also the first moment we have been defeated grab it then after the Estados the and after the Shiva the first moment that the the physical episode was a reiteration of the my Mauritius grandma Moloch now I want to talk also a bit about briefly some of the things that happened during those lasts that that those last month's there was actually an opportunity for the debitor shop to leave her stuff there was a plan there were of sluggers in Russia very close to Ukraine it's actually done on a river which I believe it leads into the Black Sea and on the other side of the Black Sea is Turkey so there were Georgian government officials who had some type of offices in Rostov and they also were leaving and they were going to relocate to Turkey and with special connections they had and with money from a small girl area who that ever the shop said about that of Shmuel Zion keshan is mine cash in his pocket his wallet is my wallet so that was all arranged that they were gonna leave and in fact the famous picture the one and only picture that we have verified of being that I'm at a shop where does it come from that was those those that last period those last days that was a photograph that was taken for a passport photo in order to emigrate to Turkey and on the day that they were supposed to leave and the Rebbetzin Shanna Sarah had agreed to it and everything was everything was prepared everything was ready and in the last day before there was supposed to go that I but a shop came out of his room and he said we're not going it's not happening the trip to Turkey was was off was cancelled and small growl asked what he should do and never shop says you should stay with me so during that time as we know we discussed there was great upheaval in the world another thing we should mention that ever Shah was involved in remarkably was he started a publishing company the Ezra publishing company and that's the Tila soshim siddur that Siddha that we have the Tila soshim where does that come from it comes from these printings that were done in this in the middle of World War one and in fact the rebels had printed to see dirty one which is no Sakaki that we use and one which is no sir Ashkenazi was a tilaka shamelessness Akash chaos now let's get to the very last days in the days right before base Nissen wherever ashab took ill and the name Khayyam was added to the RAB his holy name matzah Shabbos the rabbit ashab asked for coffee so that he could make Havdalah interestingly this is very similar to the alte RIBA who also was nostalgic and I'm matzah Shabbos and also asked for coffee so that he could make Havdalah and coffee for c-style cos it's known also that the the rebus spoke about the fact that when somebody passes away ed of Shabbos this is very good it's called Simeon Yaffa why it's a good sign for him because he leaves this world and he heads right into the rest of Shabbos so that's considered good for the person who passes away if a person leaves the world mutsu Shabbos that's not so good it's a similar alloy but Emma asks regarding the Estados of the alte rabbit how come when the timeit's addict describes it he specifically calls it matzah Shabbos at least he could have like you know hidden it he could have called it eyerly a memory shame right but I mean that's a question how that ever asks it and that never brings out an incredibly powerful point which is Simon Yaffa lie it's a good sign for him for the person who's passing it's good for him to leave the world and go straight into Shabbos it's much more of a smooth transition for the soul that's leaving good for him but but since when is you this kite about what's good for you and especially an Aussie an Aussie has nothing for himself an Aussie is completely only there for his flock for his people so an Aussie would want to leave the world at the time it's not best for him but best for the Jewish people and when do we need the most help what's the most dangerous time of the week matzah Shabbos that's why we say after Abdullah altaira of the yankov don't be afraid it's a scary time just scary time leaving the the tranquility of Shabbos and going into the into the the work days a mundanity again it's a perilous time it's a dangerous time and that that's a time when we most need a spiritual boost so uh now see if he has his druthers he'll be in a Stalag at the time we know that the style Cassavetes avec even though it's incredibly painful event and it's like the this the destruction of the temple it's like the breaking of the tablets but it's also a time of incredible spiritual revelation because it's the culmination of all the work of that sadiq throughout his lifetime so it's a time when there's a special light and energy that's radiated to all those who are close to the tonic so if it's Adak can pick a time when you can radiate extra energy and extra light to those who are close to him he'll do it at the time when it's a most benefit to those who are close to him which is matzah Shabbos as we know also and it's it's actually written on the mat saver at the aisle gimel Tamas results also matzah Shabbos at any rate during that evening the finicky rabbit was beside himself and he began to cry whenever the shop said to him he's a pile is his pile is making myfun in other words you're emotionally reacting brains means intellectual power it's one of the trademarks of chabad Amaya Charlotte a low-life that even in this time of incredible emotion that Emma - have wanted his son and his successor to act with Mikan with the self-control of intellect and then close to his passing the rabbit ashab said it gained him oh I'm going in heaven now I'm going to heaven now dekes of him the manuscripts the Hasidic manuscripts the writings of Hasidic teachings laws if I I'm leaving to you now these words just just these short few words which were among the last words that the remedy shop said before his passing are obviously significant everything that a rabbit says is significant everything that another says is packed with meaning I'll just mention as an aside after the Astellas there was a fob rang in with the with the Frieda Kariba and the FIDIC rabbit was asking Siddim who knew the rabbit ashab the Casa of orphan Aladdin repeats something you heard a word that you heard from the dead and hid them being humble nobody wanted to speak up and the the Frieda grabber was saying no I want to hear something somebody please I want to hear a vote for my father tell me something that my father one once told you and finally one of the Siddim said okay fine I I remember something that did ever once told me meaning that I wish my Satan there ever a sharp he says the rabbit once told me lehayim and people smiled they laughed because that's cute read the never once told me look I am right and the feeling could have got very serious and you said meet them Cotton's look I am she builds a finished but my father's word lehayim don't don't don't play around in other words maybe some people maybe most of us yes you know they said what's the definition of a boring person you ask them how they are and they really tell you right so most of us are very perfunctory oh well you know it means we you know we say one thing we're thinking another thing you know how are you doing great now the way for kids fantastic how's business beautiful gay bar - mm see you later and the whole thing was on autopilot right but when a rabbit says something he puts his whole heart and soul into it so everything the rabbit says is significant and certainly something that it ever says just before he leaves this world so there's a secret liquidity circus Halleck Club Zion it's a short circuit it's only about four and a half pages and the Rebbe explains precisely the meaning and especially for us in these last words it gained him Oh Dix of enlasa mentioned at the beginning of this presentation how the enduring legacy for us of the rabbit of Shabbos is the Sidis that he left and that's and I also mentioned the the yeshiva time Academy men we're studying courses this is part of the program so now I want to bring that back and I want to discuss some of that in relation to these last words the that never speaks about the idea that tsadikim damon labellum says it matters that the truly righteous are similar to their creator in one way perhaps in many ways but specifically that when Hashem gave us the title that's not a book that I Shem wrote that's Hashem in a book the word Aniki as is known is that at Avis an acronym and no nav sheikhs Alvis llaves an idea I am the God who took you out of Egypt which is the first of the Ten Commandments is an acronym for I know now sheiks office your office I wrote myself and gave myself through the medium of Tyra so that when we take Toyota we're not just getting a class from Hashem we're getting a Shem tainha is a sham in the form of Tyra and tsadikim de Manila Batum the truly righteous do the same thing when you learn when you learn something that at sadiq said you're not just learning something he said so that you could quote it so that you can know what he said you're actually getting the essence of the tonic that sonic puts himself in his teachings or like that ever said about tal vez why does it say about the different 2:9 who are you I'm her he used to say who are you what he was I am her that's what he said he put himself into his teaching okay so if that's so if that ever - AAB leaving us - see this is like Hashem giving us Tyra why did that ever - ops a sudden loss right I'm leaving you the manuscripts he should have said I'm giving them to you right like and uh I know now she serves your harvest I I gave I gave us your harvest means I gave myself should say I'm giving body sale I'm leaving so the Rebbe explains what's the difference between giving something to someone and leaving something for someone if I give you something it's unilateral I give you something I the giver and act of you the recipient are passive you don't have to do anything the whole transaction is one way I give it to you and that's it now it's yours whether regardless of what you do but if I leave you something that only means I made it available to you you have to lay claim you have to come take it that ever points out how really this is true of all of Tara it says in the Gemara based on Russia from the first capital of tell'em about materia session half say who will say it I'll say yeah game Ville Island the in Terrace Hashem he desires and he meditates in the trailer all day and night so the the sages point out when it's his desire then it state as a sham Hashem Stella but when he actually puts in the sweat equity and he meditates in tailor day and night he puts in his own yogya then it's tailor say tailor say goes on the person his trader means the person's tailor it actually transfers over to belonging to the person in other words you have to lay claim to title you have to acquire the title you have to own it and make it yours now what's the kiddush what's novel here about the rabbit a shop if this is something we could say about all of tato what's novel here is that people would say this about studying you learn ass ugly in you learn a discussion of the sages in the Talmud and they're arguing about a legal principle and they give this case and this proof and this refutation and you have to understand it you have to follow the discussion the argument that back and forth what they call the shock Levite aria and if you don't follow them it's not yours you don't really own it taters called Muzzin called food because it goes into you then then it becomes you like when you metabolize the food the you eat it becomes your flesh and blood so everybody knows if you studying Torah that you have to understand what you're studying in order to and to make it your own but who says the same thing applies to anemia cetera mystical stuff spiritual stuff maybe for that you don't really have to understand it maybe for that you can't really understand it after all it's spiritual stuff you're learning Amara and you're learning share no gossip ah duh so I know I shared I know a part of these are relatable things it's talking about situations that I can relate to things that I can see things that I've experienced in my life okay so now I just have to work harder to understand what it's saying about those things but I relate to those things they're within my frame of reference you learning to see this you're learning about are you nice and Calum and sphere eyes and illumise neshama and semolo game come on who can relate to it maybe you don't have to put in the same type of toil maybe it's good enough to believe it I believe it I trust you I trust you you know about the guy in the show every showers the rough would get up to say it's Russia the guy never made it through intro she'll always fall asleep before the end of the draw sure one week the Rav got up to say the draw sure and the guy was already asleep through the Rev woke him up he said Yankel what are you sleeping for I didn't even start yet he said rabbi I trust you I trust you maybe when it comes to Pia Mia Sato spiritual stuff that no one can really understand I trust you I trust you right I I'm sure that's what it says I'm sure that's what it is I'm not questioning no no you'd have to prove you don't have to explain it I trust you in fact that I was something very ish Mack here never says I finish VH Lima that ever says in the sea huh that that's the meaning of Kabbalah what's Kabbalah Kabbalah means mysticism right Jewish mysticism Kabbalah right so what does Kabbalah mean Kabbalah means a messiah means it was mokuba each map each that someone received it's a tradition Kabbalah means a tradition but Kabbalah also means accepting so that never says maybe we can say that's also why the level of side of the secrets of Toyota panini rotators called Kabbalah because that's the attitude people had toward it historically I accept it no but do you understand me I don't have to understand I accept it I'm sure it's all true I'm gonna be shorter so the hitch was did habit of shop came and he said no we're gonna understand this don't tell me all the him a look of that spiritual stuff no we're gonna understand it now the truth is this is what the Alta never started Alton ever start to see this Chabad Mikan coming at us to understand Cygnus ok but as we know each nasi in each generation pushed the envelope he took it even further so for sure the alte debe took spiritual concepts which used to be considered unattainable and he made them more relatable on an intellectual level but then ever Duchamp went even further than that and this is what we're talking about at the very beginning of this presentation remember we mentioned that every shop was called the Rambam of Exodus he organized and he and he systemized everything he explained all the different concepts and we also mentioned that that bit of shop started to yeshiva Tim Cook to me that had say this is part of the curriculum those two things are really really really hallmarks of what that every shop did that was so unique one organizing being around bomb of Sidis that every shop said this this is what he wanted he said I want that people should learn a subject of sickness the way that they said a study a subject in Talmud what does that mean then when you're studying the chakra of Italia a back and forth and you don't understand what happened didn't you go find out you go ask you a workout and you figure it out and if you don't understand you can't sleep people are learning sickness and they're inspired by it all it's very beautiful no no it's not beautiful it's not inspiring understand it what does it say and in fact it never mentions over there that it's not enough to just be able to understand it you have to understand it so well that you can say it in your own words you have to be able to say it in your own words and that's the hallmark of truly learning something properly and in fact that is where you see the difference between I give you something and I leave you something I give you something you didn't work for it I gave it to you okay so I plop it in your lap serve it to you on a silver platter I leave it for you means no now come take it now you got to go you got you got to put in some effort lay claim to it so that ever says it's like a teacher who's talking about something to a student that the student could never understand on his own the teacher could eventually just give it to the student what we call spoon-feeding right but in that case the student would never be able to say it in his own words he would only be able to repeat it in the words that the teacher used but if it's I leaving it for you which never describes as the teacher forcing the student to work and understand it with their own mind with their own brain then what will happen is the student will be able to say it in their own words I heard somebody say once that they met that of his brother besouro isleib and they were having tea and talking cabal until late in the night and you know like three four in the morning they were going through say their stylist and at one point that his brother said I got a stop now now I'm using the Shires lotion what does that mean I mean it's the whole night that Eva's brother was discussing all the levels to say there's sorceress but he had his own words for them when he got to the point where he was just using the words from the sire this is that now it now I don't really know what I'm talking about just quoting now I'm just saying what it says in the books how high can we get and say there stops was using our own lotion right but that's the point the point is I don't give it to you I leave it for you I make it available to you now lay claim to it acquire it own it make it yours oh and this is also the idea of a yeshiva the what's a yeshiva yeshiva is what's the whole point of view Shiva you have D book of aadum and you have people had tell me them that means you discuss things you talk it through you figure it out together you ask questions when you don't understand you go ask the mentor and the mentor explains it to you and then you don't understand the mentor and you demand a better explanation and then you go repeat it to your friends and your friends say now you don't know what you're talking about and then you go back to the mentor then you come back and your friends say you still know you think this is the fun we have in you Shiva right so that every year who's ever learning you Shiva knows the joy of doing that with a Gamora with their asha with at a service with them out of sha what that every Shopp innervated was you can do this with a my mercy this that we can argue like real Jews about understanding what it says and the