Massachusetts Boys Ask Role Models 'Who Is the Rebbe to You?'

Who is the Reb to you? >> The Reb number one is a saddic and the Reb cared and loved every person and that's what I try to do. >> Who is >> when was the first time you met the Reb? >> I think it was Yud Thomas Fbran maybe 1967. I remember my mother bringing me to the entrance of 770 and those my father was sitting at the Ferbrangan and I was passed all all the people were squeezed into the benches and I was passed over a hand by hand to where my father was sitting. A few years later I remember sitting at the Fbrangan and they were singing was very lively. It was pro most likely Shiovois and that was the first year that they made a song a niggan for the Reb's capitol. >> How do you connect with the to the Reba? The Reb didn't want to create followers, but the Reb wanted to create leaders, right? So that's what the Reb wants us to do, right? Learn with somebody and learn with somebody that they should learn the olive base, for example, and that they should teach the olive. >> What advice do you have to students who want to connect to the rabbi? >> I would say by watching videos, by um hearing from rabbis that were there, they could probably describe better what it was like. Personally, I enjoy listening to different podcasts that I'm hearing from different that talk about their experiences that they had. I would >> What teaching of the Reb most inspires you? >> That the Reb writes in is that a person we can be in this world for 70 or 80 years just to do a favor for a fellow Jew. Therefore, when an opportunity comes our way, take that opportunity and and and and do it to understand that the Reba that each person was important to the Reba. I mean, obviously, it's to study the Reb's teachings and to follow the lessons. You don't have to even study teachings. You read stories of the Reb and you find over and over that the Reb answered people reminded them to do. He said, "Are you still doing?" And uh so we know that that's important just from that we know that that's important. So to be able to learn kittas for example um but the in the very first um mimer basilani when the rebba I'm sorry in the very first fbrangan and mimer the rebba um accepted to be the rebba then he he said that things are going to be different now down he said I'm not going going to be the Reba and everyone's going to rely on me to do all the work. He said, "I'll be the Reba, but from now on, everyone has to get involved, too." And there was a new idea and that's when he started to demand that the people learn Tyra and uh and and go into so it was a whole it was a new concept at the time and the Reb demanded that each of us get involved in Hafata that means to to not only to learn but to teach and to educate people and to work with people to visit people whatever it takes to bring people closer to yishkite. >> What teaching of the rebba inspires you most? with the way the spoke about a Jew and then of Yid how a Yid is connected to Hashem no matter what and the way you look at a Jew and Hashem looks at a child a Jew like like his only child and to look at the nishama the soul of a Jew regardless of all the externals >> has never met the rabbi how would you describe the rabbi to him >> the Reb cared personally about each person, the Reb. If >> a student has never met the Reb, how would you describe the Reb? >> Everything that you could imagine. Um, a sadic, a a scholar, um, you know, a leader, right? The greatest type of of of of of leader. But again, like I said before, the Reb was in in a way different than than other leaders. The Reb didn't want to just create followers, right? The Reb wanted to create leaders. That's why, right? We're commemorating the 32nd yard, the 32nd yard site of the Rebotas and Kabad is stronger. Every year it gets stronger. There's more going out, right? Cuz that's what the Reb wanted. The Reb wanted to touch every single Jew, connect with every single Jew, and that's what we can all learn from. >> Thank you. >> Out. So your God.