Background to my Interview w Reb Zalman Schachtar 2010 #1

so good morning to everybody um this is a introduction and background to the 12 clips of the reps almond interview that i did back in 2000 i'm going to post the first clip with this background as a sample and if you care for the other 11 clips you will contact me directly so the interview was done in boulder colorado i flew there from new york i stayed with the sleek rebel pesach shiner a childhood acquaintance family friend here in borough park babaji shleaf there and the sole reason that i went was because zalman was on my radar for 25 years since i was a buffer a student in yeshiva and i heard that he was a 770 student from 1941 and then he was sent to schliches in 1945 of 46 to new haven to open the yeshiva there so it amazed me that from there he kind of left chabad and started the renewal movement this was very very unprecedented and i really wanted to get to know this person but more importantly i wanted to evoke and awaken deep latent feelings in him of his youth and his association and connection to chabad to lubavitch to the previous rabbit of yesterday and i believe that was accomplished i also wanted to awaken a feeling of chuva that those issues that were contrary to halacha and terror there was almond wood at age 85 when i interviewed him would would say okay now we need to take all the teachings and all the people and somehow bring him back to tata and halacha and that was really another kavanaugh another intent of mine whether this was accomplished or not i don't know one thing i know is that aid isn't after his passes on isn't gone and whatever needed to take place took place and now it's only good from here on so let's begin where absolutely when he tells me at the beginning he says he says a trilo he says a prayer he says it's brought in certain swarms certain writings and he says may the spirit of ruacha kodesh be present means a spirit of holiness it's very debatable whether it's applicable today even if we say and we accept that it is applicable today it doesn't mean that every excuse the expression tom dick and harry has it and it doesn't mean that rebelment has it it doesn't mean that i have it it doesn't mean that you have it so i'll let you decide but the implication of what abzalman is saying is that he's hopeful that ruach hakodesh will speak through him i didn't comment on that at the time because every person is entitled to their beliefs it's very obvious that rabzalman thought about it and believed that the spirit of holiness the dish speaks through him if not regularly at times and whether this is so or not is not for me to to the say i'll let you decide but that's what he alluded to in the very beginning when he mentions and he also says there's als he speaks about the chain he's talking about the chain of the laboratory bayonne from the outer river the balatani eruption zalman to the previous rebel for sure and the rebels i believe the rebbe as well because he was connected to both although as he says later on in in various ways he considered his rebbe the previous rabbit and naturally because he grew up with him from 1941 until he passed on to 50 those those are the years that he was in yeshiva and he was his emissary and there was a heart relationship and emotional relationship so you know when when sleima karabakh rip slammer passed away that was almond came to the uh to the casket at the lavaya at the funeral and he said this is what they say he says shlaimer go and tell the rabbi that we are his hasidim he meant go and tell the previous rebel where he said it actually we we are his hasidim so although he had tremendous respect for the rebel and his learning and and many other things and then i would show him closeness as we'll talk about the upcoming clips nevertheless i would say that his debut was the previous reboot then he talks about on the clip he talks about his background and basically to sum it up um his petrilineal ancestors were belzer hasidum of the holy belzarebas not only evident okay who passed away in 1957 and eric's israel in israel but going back to the sacred div 150 years back with the belzer perebbis but he does say something interesting which i don't know if you picked up on he says there his father i think his name was schleimer he says already was more modern i assume that means that he didn't wear strymol he didn't wear long pairs he didn't wear beckasha long frock black frock and uh you know uh knickerbocker black socks as is the traditional garb of belzer khasid i doubt it and i think that's a very important few words that he says of zalman to put things in perspective and for us to understand he came from an open-minded type of home so yes his father was orthodox in the strict sense of the word but nevertheless he wasn't you know as we're saying yiddish a heiser belzer husset you know a passionate belzer husset they just came from europe survived the war were newcomers to this country and first of all the belzer rebel wasn't here so who did you have at the time you had um the previous rabbit abusive yitzchak you had the major cerebral the cappuccino you know a few rebbes were around but the the bulk of hasidic judaism was not was not here in fact it wasn't there either in europe it was decimated unfortunately and then i transitioned there to throw the guerra became there the belzera became there so his father wasn't you know this um strict passionate active belzer closet and he was more open to zionism arab zama talks about how in the morning he went to a zionistic crader there in belgium or wherever he was and in the afternoon he went to like a more froome program and then finally towards the end of the clip he talks about where he met what later he became to know was the rebbe in belgium and he saw that he called them the moroccan the moroccan learned with a algerian scholar and he said that this moroccan didn't speak much besides learning with him he didn't you know talk and and with people in shul or bass madrish and it he it struck him he was uh he was drawn and attracted to him which is also an important thing to understand that zalman as a seeker you could see that this this this man in his youth was a seeker you know he wasn't satisfied with status quo and he identified in the rebbe that this quiet obstructive man who's dressed so you know kind of with the times you know i don't know if he says it but your brother at the time i think wore gray it was stylish um and you know it's this individual that he has his eyes out i mean who is this man you know why is he so quiet and here he's learning with this hmm and i think this is also important as he begins his search for hashem vis-a-vis we'll continue in the next clip again if you want to get the future clips you need to contact me directly thank you