CHAZAQ's Torah Talks #178 Rabbi Moshe Yosef Friedlander - The Light of Rav Shayele Kerestir

main thing kindness one of the biggest things is is to give food for people and I'll give you a little story it was like I'm a kble cabalist who came he told AB I'm going to teach you how to eat a so he was constantly begging told him listen I have my own way I give food for people and this is how I bring down the is so it's similar toini but they say was building a under 20 years to bring back people to 12 years not even one person came back aini opened these doors to get food thousands said that Rini brought back thousands and thousands of people from food from bringing the giving food for people this is how he bring it [Music] and welcome to Tor talk kazak's program with special guest we have with us RAB MOS y freedlander from Cher Hungary welcome thank you very much for joining us on kazak's Tor talks and we're gonna be speaking about sh fromer and uh before we uh discuss about the r if we could discuss a little bit about your background and the great work you're involved with my name is Mander M frander my father's name was ABD freedlander my father grew up in chis after the war they went to Israel and afterwards they came to America I was born and raised here in America I grew up in sat and mono but Christi was a part of our life so I grew up constantly hearing stories from a and what happened over there plus my grandfather which I'm named after she also a freedlander he grew um he was a part from aba's um Legacy over there he basically wrote a lot of umur and stories from basically most of the stories today's days which we know from what happened he wrote it down from my grandfather my grandfather yes as we say he preserved sh's name a lot and and in the old days a old person walked on the street and he met another person what was his question in yish where are you from so my father said chis so everybody every Hungarian Jew had a story from ABA so I grew up listening to that stories and that's your connection till today and that's my connection till today and that's the connection now from clis TOA basically that brought back r alive so that's the Shila that's the question how is it that the impact of sh became so it's a 100 years since the able to understand yes and today you know there's the signs there's the pictures it became with understanding became much more widespread how would you say that around 10 years ago it's not even 10 years um I decided to build a m in Hungary there was nothing over there I went there with a friend of mine we bought a place and we started building a mikah but we were there we started going there often and and what was the mat what was the situation there when you went there uh there was barely nothing wow for sure food wasn't there not only over there because we were the first one giving out food in Europe there was places where you had cold um refrigerated food you had the packed uh food from meart and whatever stuff like that but food fresh food there was no such a thing in Hungary but all the but I was there while we were there for a day or two three I cooked we had a little we cooked a little food for ourselves but every day some people came in so we started bringing more from New York one day and that that happened around 10 years ago right one one day we were there for a week actually and it was the UT out from son-in-law that Friday so we were prepared to stay there for shabas as well he's he's buried in adelene he was the Delina roof so we brought along food to cook for shabas and there was a little uh Motel bed and breakfast kind of of a little place over there and we rent to the few rooms that old lady asked me if um why I didn't buy her place I told her you you were asking too much money so she gave me she told me give me a number how much you you want to pay for it I gave her a number I thrw a number she said no problem no I said okay the condition is I'm get getting the keys now and whatever you want from this place you're taking out tomorrow morning she did it wow that was Tuesday that was Monday B Tuesday night we cooked already over there there was a little kitchen over there we cash it it and we cooked dinner we had over 50 people eating that night dinner over day wow so that was the beginning that we decided we staying open unbelievable unbelievable but uh again the impact today all over you know there's people building houses in in this neighborhood over here you know they put by the by the green fence you know when you're building a home there's green fences with permits and this permit and that permit there's a picture of putting up permit from over there so what's what's the reason for that um the reason from that for that is we're going to go in more to details what did right and then we're going to go backwards with that but from then from that time people started coming we started making noise you put it out it didn't go the regular way in the media whatever but we put it out on whatsapps and whatnot people started coming how far away is it from New York more or less it's uh the problem is there's no straight flight but so you have to take a flight with a connection so it's between 8 hours and more depends what kind of connection you have w but uh the old days it was like 8 hours straight now currently there's no straight there's no Straight No but in the past there was a straight flight got it8 hours away so you were saying I'm sorry so you started getting the word out and people started coming people started coming and as soon as people came they saw yesh and they brought they saw salvations they saw their prayers answered and they brought more people and everybody whoever was there 10 years ago now there's thousands of people coming through that person wow so it became the most popular place as far as I know and now I'm quite involved in Europe I see what's going on all over it's the most popular visited place by Jewish people in that area well unbelievable not only in that area all over Europe all over Europe and we have all kinds of people I know people that go yeah course from all kinds of backgrounds we have had people from Iran came oh from Iran they came through London and they came over there so as soon as people saw Yes they came more and more and the more yes you see more people are coming and what it is it's basically sh said if we going to going to continue his work basically to give Food for People you're going to see can the are going to continue so I guess we started this place and people see yes and his legacy is continuing it it brings more yes it brings more it brings more people so back then let's discuss the R's lifetime uh the rabbi was known for just having like inviting guests or just having a home that was open what was the greatness I guess or the root of the greatness of been main thing was kindness and it doesn't matter which way one of the biggest things is is to give food for people and that was and I'll give you a little story there was like I'm able cabalist who came told I'm going to teach you how to eat a letter so he was constantly begging told him listen I have my own way I give food for people and this is how I bring down the issue so it's similar toini what they say was building a 120 years sent him specially and asked him to build a 120 years so people to bring back people to yish kite to judism to Judaism or not to Judaism to there wasn't Judaism but to and 12 years not even one person came back opened these doors to get food thousands said that R brought back thousands and thousands of people from food from bringing the giving food for people this is how you bring back we could relate atak we have all these cure of all these programs that we're trying to bring these you know children from the public schools bring them into after school programs and teach them about Judaism and yish so one of the main ways of inspiring ing these boys to come and to come back and these children to come and come again is that we have not peanut butter and jelly but sir Gish amazing good yummy food which is obviously very expensive but at the end of the day you know this is food is your language and you bring them in this way and then little by little because just to make it clear it's less expensive this way maybe it's expensive for you expensive for the organization but it's not expensive for clis that's right 100% because it brings back a person when early enough then CL is not spending a lot more money for different things it's true 100% And we see it today by us we have constantly stories I had this story middle of the summer one Sunday a boy arrives comes to me Rabbi freedlander you don't remember me but I was here a shabas one and a half years ago I didn't keep shabas I heard these stories all shabas and I heard didn't look if someone is keeping shabas not keeping shabas he brought back everybody I decided I'm going back to Yesa I also made a promise if I'm getting engaged I'll come back to say thanks this shabas was my o I forgot to come back so I forgot to come back and sh this I was thinking I didn't go back to so I came now to invite him this week is the wedding wow so we we seeing this kind of stories in constant basis unbelievable and not only that people didn't have children people didn't have Pusa and all kinds of different stories people were they were sick we have this interesting story there was a go who came to me a few years ago she actually came from New York but but her mother and her brother they all live in Budapest so she arrived one Sunday um it wasn't a Sunday it was the middle of the week she arrived with them in K she called me up before she didn't have a passport I should help her she came there on there and I have a over there who speaks yish learned yish over there and he also had a story from sh so he told the stories so her brother started crying a go started crying he said my son has stage four cancer Loy and his but is paralyzed and the doctor say that he's going to die in the next few days what can we do so I told her we building a wall we building a sporting wall over there said give something and go up sha and tella that I helped you place and help me she sends me a message of so she did it she sends me a message a few weeks later good morning my friend I just want to let you you know that a miracle happened this morning my nephew's brain tumor disappeared wow and we have seen such stories hundreds if not thousands wow unbelievable and we seeing stories people are coming down people are sending we have our lines open basically people could call in any time forit to sending names are without money they don't have to pay for it nothing and people pray sending see at the cave at the grave site that hasem through this sadic this righteous person should answer their prayers that's what that's what is being done so going back to I'll tell you this in Hungary there was a big his name was the he was once on the train with his president and the was in the same wagon as him was there with a lot of people and he gave tick he gave and cake and whatnot so this President of this is asking the what is with he's giving out food and people see a is so the told him like this I guess he was expecting some negative answer so the three things the world stands so if you take one of that SS they take one of that and you you take it over which did so the W is his and so he could say and do whatever they want interesting story happened afterwards that this guy didn't have children for many years so he turned around to the so the is also learning so the re took the the am from to maybe can I have a child so he told told him if you promise me not to tell no one as long as I live you'll have one he had a child after you but talking about that we see stories and miracles in every aspect we have seen people who they didn't have children for many years many years 7 9 10 15 17 and they came there and after the year they had children we have seen people where they didn't have Pusa livelihood and they came came there they found businesses for cheap to buy and they found penusa very interesting and interesting stories and most of the stories looks like when you think nature you think into that and you see well there's a miracle what happened now amazing it's amazing very very very inspiring Rabbi freedlander and uh this is also a lesson for every single one of us that not to just be like oh look such a bigad such a big righteous person and he did so much so much kindness but every single one of us could have that light that ore of uh of kindness to others as well you know I go to a lot of different communities I have whether it's or speaking or whatever may be I see that the picture now I understand the kitchen by the kitchen there's the picture as well because the RAB was very big into into uh into feeding people correct there's a story there boys who arrived one morning to son the second and asked them do the guys started knocking the table no no did you guys eat he ran out he brought them cake and coffee he told the don't ever ask someone if you doesn't don't be worried about the be worried about the gmas and the GM well that could to their physicalities will become the spiritualties take care of their physical take care of their wow and that you could see in what like you said by kazak you're giving for all these boys you're giving food you bring them back with that Judaism is lovely yes it is it's the best It's amazing And if you bring it out in the way what we understand today's Days you see that you could be a Jew you could have fun you could be good it's the best thing in the world 100% the the the the will come out anyway 100% very very inspiring message on a personal level we have the sh it's a happening place Kil charm I'm talking on a person level and there's always this discussion within a few people should it be open door policy where there's constantly food while there's other people saying oh it causes a mess and there's crumbs and there isn't that and I've always had the opinion we do this is to have open door let people come let the fridge be open Let There Be cookies and cakes and refreshments so it's 100% true it's very very by the way said it already in the first it's always good to bring in the people the minute they are sitting there they will D they will say omine they will say thanks and that's they're going to do something 100% they're part of us actually we are part of them 100% very very powerful RAB you inspired me on a personal level and I hope everyone that's listening and watching all over the world will take on something upon themselves as well we have a minhag we have a custom and kazak to our talks is a final message for our broad audience the final message is and before I'm I'm sorry before I'm going to say the final Message is I'm going to say what I'm going to go back to what you said open doors um like I said I'm from satma we go in uniform hats and Suits but this clis rule is not only sat orus or whatnot we have all kinds of people coming over there so our policy is basically we our doors are open anybody could come in anybody could eat is there a phone number that people could connect with ker I will yes if you want I should yeah please yeah um you could WhatsApp or text by 718 930 4859 that's the number and there's a office number as well you could call 347 4193 and anytime anybody needs a quit to send we don't charge money for it amazing although we do live on the Nations but we want everybody should have ex easy you could always come to chis come there and eat you don't have to order you don't have to pay you could give a donation if you want you don't have to give a donation nobody's asking nobody is bothering you and the idea is to come and that if you come to the sadik wants people to come if you come toad he owes your favor and then there's another thing is says what can you bring to she's not alive if says that wants you should come you could bring another person to you bring another person for owes you he owes you he's going to give it back to you he's going to pay back amazing now my final message to clis ro is like this [Music] we open the place of but it's a snowball there's no place in the world right now you don't see and it's unbelievable what happened but everybody could be part of everybody could be part of which is we learned in the pasas the previous pasas about of rovini giving food and this is basically Pas V was the foundation and from there we're learning out the whole thing from and we know that this is how he brought back all these people to Hashem to God we could all do that 24 hours you see someone on the street you see someone who needs help you help him out sometimes it's only a few words and from that you could bring back generations of generations of generations we seeing that I'm there for 10 years talking to all kinds of people from everywhere from all walks of life all backgrounds I see it back after 10 years I see already Generations so we should all be with and should help we should see M together soon amen Freelander thank you very much for joining us on kazak Torah talks Tuesday nights 8:30 p.m. with special guest uh Eastern Standard Time uh kazak org.org k.org chq.org SL live uh please continue sending the feedback it's been unbelievable thank you thank God and we want to thank of the various different platforms that host kazak Tor talks with a special thank you to our friends at Tor anytime.com also to daily giving a dollar day goes a very far away we want to thank them as well for having kazak as one of the beneficiaries and thanks to Natan bear behind the camera and the entire team and staff at kazak dedicated staff members and and employees to our supporters and board members We Are Forever grateful theab said to see Redemption with the resurrection of the Dead will be back together with all the all the rightous people in the world and we should be should 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