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age eight to the my mirror is
this is a mimer that the previous rabbit
said tuesday night before rosh hashanah
this is during the hi the time of the
holocaust
so you need to look at this mimer with
that that
that being the background because the
previous leather
no no this was in america the previous
labor came to america in march
of 1940 so this is like a year and a
half later
and the holocaust was well on the way
and
the rebbe took it very personally he
suffered from it
you know it didn't help his ill health
as he had anyway and
nevertheless he said hasidis and he
wrote hasidis
and he had a magazine a newspaper called
akri of akdusha
i told you about this in the past where
he
the whole purpose was to strengthen the
faith the ammuna
of of eden because many hidden were just
dropping out and they couldn't
understand how a loving hashem
can allow such a thing to happen and in
fact
i'm writing now about the bhagavad-gita
and its relationship with khabad and
it brings to mind the
another a background that people don't
talk about it because we're
60 70 years later right
but the the bubba rebel lost his first
wife and children only one
son survived naftali who replaced him
when he passed away in 2000
and he was a a decimated
man a decimated person
very very hurt you know
and shabbos i was walking the street and
someone saw my
two clips my tributes to rabbi stein's
house
so he he approached me to discuss it
with me and
talk about it so i would i told them
that i'm
now working on writing about puzzles
so he said you know if you want to know
about the bubba forever after the
holocaust or
in the holocaust and that period that a
certain person who lives in borough park
was like 93 or 94
and he knows everybody from from the
past
including rebels and he said you know he
didn't want to say much he said you know
it wasn't easy for these rappers as well
it wasn't easy they they were challenged
it was uh
we shouldn't know of it hasta hoyoloy
so the rabbit the previous rabbit was
one
of very few rabbonim and saddikem
who were in america during the 40s
who europeans including hungarians
galatians and polish
who look they who who were
froome might have been struggling
in certain areas you know
and they looked at the rabbit to feed
the kid
as an address
to give them solace and give them hope
and give them answers you know one of
the
one of the uh very beautiful
expressions that i heard over the years
from various people not just
laboratories
was that the previous rabbit was like a
father
he was like a a a concerned
loving father who
feels the pain
of of the person of the people
a because he went through that pain
although it wasn't
really i mean it was he also wasn't the
holocaust in the very beginning
and the bombs were flying and he had
many miracles he could have been killed
easily
but even and even before that his
experiences with stalinium russia we all
know
the hardships so it wasn't like a rebber
who came to america let's say the
kapishna sireda
you've heard of the word you've heard of
that red or the piana rather
or yana rebbe they came to america
before the holocaust
so barak hashem they didn't experience
the holocaust
so a petitioner a husset a yid
when he would speak with them they they
couldn't communicate
the same uh mercy because they didn't go
through the experience not that they
didn't want to
but it's just part of nature that if you
didn't feel the pain
you don't know what the pain means okay
that's that's
just a fact of life and it's not a a a
negative against a person it's just a
fact
the previous rabbit it's very
interesting think about it
he had both he felt the pain for sure in
russia and even in the holocaust
those two three months that the bombs
are flying on warsaw and
their stories upon stories and details
upon details
it's it was real it wasn't you know oh
he just got out in the beginning
no he didn't get out in the beginning
you know the all of warsaw was
was was ultimately that was later after
he left but in the beginning
i i was on the street i was on those
streets where the bombs flew
and i saw the new big buildings and i
said the address doesn't seem to
corresponds they told me because the
older actors the
the bombs leveled the the the buildings
and now you have new ones
or the great synagogue of of of warsaw
you could look at it today guess what
it's not a synagogue it's a big either
hotel or a big beautiful building
like a times square building that was
the exact spot
where the the the nazis you mocked your
mom
bombed that whole thing leveled it to
the ground
so the rabbit went through this the
previous rapper so then
when i saw a kluisenberg closet a little
shady came to see that i've been to talk
his heart out
that ever felt spain and they
and that's why they came to him even
though they weren't labavich i'm saying
so what i'm saying is
besides that he was exotic and he wore a
big uh you know um
sputtering and and and put them in a
in a comfort zone that they understood
and
and liked and felt good about it was his
fatherly human feelings of what he went
through
that they felt that he can relate to us
and this is why the satmar
this is one reason i'm you know i'm not
saying it's the only the
rav the big sadder the sacrament who
turned
you know hungarian judaism upside down
by bringing the shrine on the becca
into the streets of williamsburg right
in the in the
late 40s and 50s and and took people who
were beardless and got them to wear
beards i mean on and on and on
and today they have their empire and the
baba rehasid them you know
both of them the bubble arab and the sac
marov
went to see the previous reboot 46
48 in those years
so when we learn a mimer when we're
about to embark on learning this my mid
here
and it's from the third night of
sleepers
which by the way another point you
should know the third layer
the third night of sliches is considered
a special slichest day
i don't know right now i don't know i
never was able to really verify
why but
in the khabar tradition and it's the
third night that's why you will find
not every year but many years there's a
maya mahasiddhis that the
samadhira bayam said shlishi the third
night before so this is such a mimer in
the year 1941
um when when the holocaust was
you know already happening so it's in
this background
that we we start the mimer so it puts up
hopefully it'll it put things in
perspective
yes yes i don't know if i i don't know
if i told you this
i don't know if i told maybe i did but
um my grandfather
all of a sudden my both my grandparents
were holocaust survivors my grandfather
never spoke about the war
and he never left the house he lived in
williamsburg
and he was the god by austria
of austria from so he was in
williamsburg
and there was the one time that he went
away for shabbos was
my cousin his grandson's bris was on
chavez
in borough park so it's the only time
ever that he left because it was a
shabbos burst
and he came and after the shalom zohar
he told my uncle
my uncle lives on parkville till today
between parkville and lawrence
he says to him he goes um i want to go
for ash but sir
they said okay so it's about 11 o'clock
at night 11 30 at night
on friday night my uncle goes to
spaziring
and and and my grandfather keeps walking
and my office where are you going he
says don't worry
i know where i'm going he walks to the
bottom of the shule
on 43rd is that 42 48th 48th
48th he walks the barbershop
and they're in the middle of the tish
the friday night dish you know singing's
mirrors whatever
so my grandfather walks into the room
and my grandfather was clean-shaven
he was clean-shaven but he wore a garter
because he
whatever he was now we didn't know any
of this nothing we had no idea because
he never talked about the work
as soon as my my grandfather all shalom
walks into the dish the rapper
and the rebels brother the buffalo
rapper's brother
both get up give a clap under on the
table
and scream out my grandfather's name
kaiser
so they come and and embraces my
grandfather
and you know and he tells my grandfather
come sit at my table
he wanted to sit with him the brother
and my grandmother so like everybody's
like looking who's this guy clean shaven
you know no no strymol no anything
so like so he says to everybody after
the was over
he said he says i know everybody wants
to know who this guy this is this guy
was my best friend and a fader we
learned together
in bubble in baba we learned together we
were harusa
and we learned in the same uh theater
nobody i didn't know the story
my uncle told me this story crazy story
yeah
yeah well you know they they it was so
painful they couldn't they couldn't talk
about it let's continue
okay so we start now libby
you all know that we started to say with
david hashem
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paksha funai search
my face espaneko hashem
your face hashem i will search
it comes
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of the milk says my heart is speaking
on your behalf hashem to fulfill
a mission that you want of me
and what is the mission is
and i listen to hashem's request
to hashem's mission hashem
and what how do i listen
your face hashem i will search
my heart comes to me low marcain
saying so so such and such which is
search for god this is the end of the
rashi
that sort of
for your mission what does that mean
what what's rashi
hinting at what is he what is he like
what is he adding you know
rashi is not made just to
add extra words so that we can fill a
page
if rashi says certain words
that means something was either not
understood
that through his wording it will become
clearer
it will become it will be answered or
something that need that needs clarity
rashi is words to give us clarity
so that ever says what is that
you understand i didn't say hello to you
i say hello and welcome youngest and i
hope you had a nice
few weeks
did you not get did you not get the the
the
you're on the list you did not get the
mimer from osha
i can't hear you do you ha do you have
the do you have the safer with you
safer how am i marina look at jonas and
look look
hello
volume three do you have this or not
attended tim right now okay moisture is
sending it to you now
so the rabbit's question is what's the
language
page eight page eight in volume three
okay you have it
okay
next time tell us you know in the
beginning i don't want you to miss any
i'm sorry
i came i came late i'm sorry okay it's
all right you're here
and you're it's special and we need you
let's go
also the first question is
what does it mean that hashem has some
kind of mission
of davada melech and and the mission is
search for me god what does that mean
although yahser hippoly his next
question is
and even more wondrous more on this
misunderstood not understood
in your place in your place god boy
lie liby my heart comes to me yoni
my heart comes to me as your
in your place loma cain to say
so and so which means search for god
what does that mean
what does it mean that the heart is kind
of replacing you hashem
what does that mean those are his
preliminary
questions so that every now
to answer the questions he first
introduces the whole idea of bakasha
and this is relevant to us what does it
mean to search
what does it mean to request
i have a bakasha
let's see the inaudible there are two
interpretations
the first is request and
pleading trina are pleadings
she had filo which is expressed
primarily through
prayer through davenink he said it is a
great
arousal when you dove in and you get
into your davenink
whether you say it verbally whether you
say it in your heart whether you close
your
eyes whether you cry whether you laugh
the objective is hashem i need help in
this area please help me
that's trilla 101 it's not calculus
and advanced physics it's basic dominic
that's why he says but he said it is
good with a great arousal not
you just say words and you're a cold
fish
you have to get into it it's the
they're about to close the electric on
your apartment
and you won't have electric so then you
know god please
help me find some money to pay the bill
it's really real it's not you know oh
it's a nice
a nice idea that's what real darkening
is
now you see now if you think about it do
we really
do we really plead to hashem
that's number one about the kosher
concept
is fila bisouros gedolo
number two washing
the idea of bakasha is to search
right what do we do we search for hummus
you bend your back you go on the floor
you turn upside down your schwitz
to find any drop of muhammad air of
pesach
so bakasha means search
find the atsuma was great
bother with great effort
so this is another
meaning that the word bak kosher implies
because the english word yoni
of request doesn't
imply this the either of these two
things moshe right
to me request
is kind of you know i requested of you
it would be nice if you would do it for
me so the implication
is it's not passionate
it's not powerful
but there ever says in the in the hebrew
in the in the muslim indica in the ideas
of tata
bakasha actually implies not
just a um
a a request
that is passive but rather a very
passionate
request to the to the likes of a
push searching
you don't stop for a moment till you
find the answer
you don't stop for a moment till you
find the comments
so the and the rabbit now says
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and the rabbit says this too we find
when we die it should be this one
without them
is the service of the heart
but not only unison
avoid the sheba lev but the rabbi adds
the words
beto in the heart
there is the service of the heart moshe
and there is the service of the heart in
the heart
and he says in yiddish
so in hearts means in the heart
the seat of trilla is in the heart
and the manner and content of trela is
with the heart so both both
the location of tv is heart
and the content of trilo is heart
so you understand that's what he means
with
uh avoiders
and yet really expressed itself very
nicely in hearts
meet them hearts and how he explains
the whole union avoided the trilo the
whole concept of davening he listened
it's to plea to hashem
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to be successful i should succeed in
serving him
so to search and to find havana tevo
a good understanding by sogali kiss
in understanding godliness now this is
very important
you ask the average jew on the street
what is fila about they say
prayer of the heart but about what
about what i need
comes along habakkuk says you have it
wrong
the whole availability is look what it
says
i'm working hard to understand god
that's not the average person's answer
but what feel is about
as a result of understanding hashem
i'm in union with hashem and when i'm in
union with hashem
naturally health and paranosa and
everything else
is necessary to
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continue my relationship with god
by the way the rebels says this side
this explanation
in his talk when he spoke once about his
mother's name rabbits and khan whose
yard said his wolf
and this is printed already in the kute
sikhis and the rabbit had a
you know the story with hannah that
ailee
and navi thought that she was a shikora
a shikker a drunk a drunk a drunkard
right and because she was she came to
the
to the base of mikdash and she was
daving like she was drunk
she seemed to be intoxicated from her
swaying and words and movements and
everything else
at least that's that's the way the story
goes and of course she was dominating to
have a child and she ultimately had
shmula navi
so the rebound everyone spoke
about the the idea of tafila
and he said seemingly if we're you know
trilla we've learned many times
is a ladder it's the tsar says
the edge the end of the ladders
stands on earth
and the head of the ladder reaches goes
into the heaven
so you have uh you have berkshire
um
and then you have schminescer amida
the zodiac says the whole isaiah says
it's
climbing the ladder gradually you begin
at the bottom and you go
up so so
so when you reach
up when you reach monastery
it's silent why is it silent because you
cannot talk anymore
why can't you talk not because not
only because it says
talking in the sense of talking out loud
because
i'm speechless speech
contradicts the mode of amidah
speech out loud that is
silent it's the it's the void of silence
symbolized by saying the words in the
undertone
asks that ev if that's the case how is
it that we're asking for
chuva refuga parnassa
gaoula things that are very
real things that are not metaphysical
so you would think that when you're on
the left when you're up there
in athelas when you're in amida
there is no place to ask for things that
i need
this was the question they're ever asked
once
you should learn the secrets of a very
important secret
and the rebel answer is basically what i
told you earlier
that ebba says that the asking for those
things
is coming as a result
of our overall bonding to hashem by
understanding hashem
and when you come to that overall unity
and bonding you understand
that hashem wants you to be healthy
healthy
he needs you to be healthy he needs you
to have parnosa
he needs you to be happy he needs you to
do truva
he needs you to seek ula because without
that
we crumble now you could be a narciss
and amida and if those needs are not
fulfilled
you're going to fall so
inch monastery through
our saying the brachus and making the
requests
those become fulfilled but not because
i need parnasso because hashem
says i need panaso hashem wants me
imagine if hashem said i don't want you
to have problems i don't need you to
have panosa
you will not have parnosa i don't care
what you do
it ain't going to work and the same is
true
cost of showing for for health and other
things
but the hamster wants us to be healthy
and wealthy and happy and
and and gazunt
so the thing what you have to understand
is says
hasidis that the ultimate idea of this
is
is godliness clear to you
like the meatballs and spaghetti your
wife's going to serve you at supper
tonight
is it as clear to you as its son
outside in betsy michelle
that's what we mean jonas
godly concepts godliness
should be so clear so understood
that it becomes who you are continuing
inside le japes williams
to search and to find methods of
rectification beholding your nerve
in all of one's matters bilivus
regarding the garments of the soul of
the nephesh
the maksha of thoughts and speech in
action
when you have good understanding of
hashem
and it resonates i like the word
resonates
the lymph node means it resonates mostly
within you
then you find methods
to correct the situations that need
correction and that's what ll is all
about
right so there is
there is the correction of
issues this month
that we we can go about it in a very
legalistic way
in a very unhappy
way it's like i have to
you know file the papers that have been
sitting in my desk for six months
i don't want to do it what a what a
boring job
but i have to do it because if i don't
do it i won't find my documents the next
time i need it
that's not happiness that's
being compelled forced
to do it the avoider of tikkun
that we need to do during ello should be
done
with a happiness i look forward to ello
i always say i love the montevello
because
we know that the melaka is basada so we
know someone is
looking for us to help us and he's there
as a regular fellow he's not wearing his
royal garments he's wearing his regular
clothing
and he has his golf stick with him and
he's
walking around in a field and he says
come on let's let's let's enjoy let's
kiss let's you know tell me what's
what's what what you need how can i help
you
with that attitude and i don't mean a
callous frivolous
attitude i mean a serious attitude but
based on have undertale of who god is
what what is hashem and what does hashem
want
then my my willingness
to find and deal with the problems
is an opportunity taking stock
is an opportunity for more growth
not taking stock is to just know what
you goofed up
on last year and ask god for forgiveness
and go into the new year with
forgiveness
yeah that's that's one way of doing it
but it's a risky way because the
tendencies
of the yetzer hura and the nepheshabamas
are so strong
that after much focus
on those my shortcomings i say forget it
forget it forget it i i can't deal with
it you know if god if you want to give
me a good year give it to me anyway i
don't have any patience
you're demanding too much of me but if
your attitude is
i i i want to understand you are strong
better and if i understand you better
i'm going to
appreciate you better and i'm going to
enjoy doing what you want
of me better then it's
it's it's a work of love
i i use that go back to that simple
example
right what is that you take out those
the garbage for your wife it stinks it's
smelly
you don't necessarily have heart
palpitations of love for your wife while
you're carrying out schmutz of garbage
but you know that this is a the right
thing to do because you're a mensch
and number two you know that this is
ultimately
also part of the real love which is
through doing cleaning up your act
and cleaning up the situation
but if you don't have that relationship
you're not taking out the garbage and
even if you are you say yeah
i have to do this for her you know what
i'm saying what did you do for me
that type of thinking so the same as
they that's why
see this says i spend so much time
on making the focus
of your davening creating the unity the
actus hashem
because when and and this is a lifelong
work it doesn't happen overnight
it doesn't happen two years it's every
because
every year every day why because the
world around us
does not support it the world around us
says nature
hedonism materialism
hashem is the last thing i want to think
about
so that's why we have to work during
davening avoid the satwila
to re once again knock into our heads
who the hamster is enlightened how
it's novado and when we do that
then we dabble with an other we dabble
with a real love
so now we understand that box through
fornite
search doesn't doesn't mean just request
search for god search for my face
yes it's work but it's gonna pay off
and that's what will continue tomorrow
any questions have a great day everybody
we'll see everyone tomorrow bye bye