Farbrengen 12 - 13 Tammuz , Rabbi Yossi Paltiel Florida 5785

Hello. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Morning. [Music] name. My mother just named his daughter. But my mother's name is also >> it's like like is [Music] >> I do appcate yes and I don't get it. Yeah, >> I'm an idiot. were trial and error. >> I I uh this is round four for me. >> I bring Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday night and tonight. >> So I'm out of material and I'm out of steam. Nothing left. >> There should be a remembrance of them all. >> So wait, so wait, so wait, so listen, listen, listen. >> Save the best for last. >> It's a new energy. It's round one. >> Exactly. Every got new energy. The V is I don't like to repeat myself because I get bored of myself. I get bored of myself. Even when I don't repeat myself, but certainly >> when I repeat myself, I get bored. >> So I was sitting in a car traveling here from my last gig. And I put on a recording. Someone had a minute of the Reb's voice. You know, they put pictures over there. I wish I could find it because it's it's just very powerful. The Reb is talking about the previous Rebesh, you know, the sacrifice >> and the risk to their lives that they took and people died. I mean, it's it's not a joke. Yidd killed because they were spreading Yiddish. My my my father's my father's father had a brother who was much older than he was a T. He was with Yanko Val Yankov Pantella Jang Palil if you will. He had five sons. When he died my grandfather said Kadesh for him had five sons. He had seven daughters and they're famous is his anical. There's there's a lot of that are cousins of ours. But he didn't have a boy. He had five sons and his brother Kadesh for him. And they were not just killed in the war. Some of them were killed the war but some of them pussa died in the gulags because they were the oldest actually learned in labavich is one of the few fathers and sons they were the few fathers and sons that learned in lab itself one of them was my father's uncle and his son who was my grandfather's nephew but he was older than him um >> wonderful >> so there was pash a lot of it was a very serious event of So the in this little clip is saying about the the difficulties of the >> and then the chokes as he says it's easier to risk your own life than to send somebody else into a dangerous situation. >> Wow. >> And the Reb says it with so much emotion. I'm not going to say pain but a lot of emotion. You want to risk your own life, that's one thing. But to send somebody else into he it's much more difficult to do it yourself. And this is what that did. This is what that did. >> I want to tell you a story that I wasn't planning to tell, but I want to tell it. There was a Jew in Montreal. >> What is it? >> There's a Jew in Montreal whose name was Abh. Oh, >> in the morning is named after that. Rabbi Hersh knew the whole TA by heart the whole TA you know and he once did with theb marathon through the and the said to him this is the story that goes around let's talk said okay this is where I get off the train is this I don't know by heart you know until the him and the were exchanging quotes about the topic. >> Let's talk to him. >> They were talking the story is that he sat behind >> and he became very close to the Reb all the time and he said to the Reb that I know that the Reb is very busy and I can't waste the Reb's time. I'm asking that the Reb should talk to me and learn him once and then I will never bother him again. And the Reb agreed. They spent hours. I heard from a friend of mine who heard from Rabbi Shapiro from here that the topic was making Abdullahan coffee. Don't ask me why. >> Wow. >> And they talked and then the the went through the whole tit all in memory just quoting all the sources that relate to this question. And the said okay now let's talk and said this is my train runs out here. When the Reb met him the first time, the shines from one end of the world to the next and the Reb told this to Rabbi, >> but he's he told the Reb that I I particularly enjoy the the notes in the >> Yeah. Yeah. And the Reb got so that he learned I can't say it. He was invited to visit Romania in the 60s. He was a firm rav was an orthodox. The Romanian revolution was happened in 56. So the Romanian dictatorship which lasted about 40 years um was 10 years old. It was a very difficult it was a very a communist countries go Romania was very tough. Something interesting about Romania was Romania had a chief rabbi. His name was Rabbi Rosen. Rabbi Rose was aid. He met the Reb several times. The Reb spent hours with him. And Rabbi Rosen said to the Reb, "I know that so many people want your time. I I don't need to spend the sobba to him, how many Jews live in Romania?" >> 50,000. >> So he said 40,000. So the Reb says, "For 40,000 Jews, I have three hours." He spent a lot of time with him. Um and he worked with the accident to Romania. There's a family called Heber. The old man Hebber lived inabad and he picked himself up inabad and moved to Romania officially to be a but he was doing in the 80s and very difficult times. Anyway, Rabbi Hersburg had was invited to visit Romania >> with a whole delegation of rabbis, but it was an invitation from the state which meant that every step they were going to take was going to be watched. They would not really see the real Romania. They would see the Romania they wanted them to see and they would of course they would not be able to be in touch with real suffering, real Jews. So Mahersbang asked the Reb if he should do it and the Reb said absolutely you should and you should bring along all kinds of holy stuff and of course you should forget your forget your muza and you know that kind of thing. >> Wow. >> And the warned him that he should understand that if he interacts with the Romanian Jews and he's not careful, he's going to leave the country and after he leaves they're going to punish them >> like the Iranians are doing now. You know the are angry at Israel so they're killing Iranians. They're they're they're showing how strong they are by beating up on their own citizenry because Israel made a mockery out of them. A bush and made from them exposed the tiger for being paper finally. Anyway, I had to say that. How could I? But it's true. It's hysterical. >> Better when you say there's 25,000 Jews in Iran. 25,000 Jews. There's more Jews in Iran than the whole side of the whole. Yeah. That many like hundreds. >> No, no, it's thousands. Thousands of >> anyway, it's a different conversation. So, but told you should go, you should take this trip, >> but that he should be extremely careful >> and and if we come back, he should report back to the Reba. So, he went and of course they were led around by the Gabi of the main show. The Gabi was an agent of the state and they were shown whatever they wanted them to see and they would talk to the Jews that they were supposed to speak to and they went to several cities. But there were moments where they were able to get away from the control, you know, and to really to meet real Jews and see real suffering and have real conversations. For Abby Hersbro, who had been living in in the West for by that point for 20 years, it was a very moving visit. Akit said he came to Sam remember it was only 10 years after the revolution it wasn't 50 years after the revolution and he met with a pis the whole his wife was wearing a hat on top of a you know like the meaning of >> and he had children with beautiful came from they looked like >> the story made me cry when I heard his head >> and he he lived in one of these Romania he was the only from Jew in the city. But he was he was everything, you know. He did the he did the mitzvah, he did the weddings, he did the he buried people from cradle to grave. He was everything. He got stuck in Romania after the war. >> And he was still in Romania. You understand? He was still in Romania. And he had done enormous good for the Jewish people. But he felt like he had paid his dues, especially considering the fact that he had children and he was very worried about his children. >> So when Abhersbang visited Romania, he he managed to pull him aside. He managed to pull him aside. >> Arthur, >> his name is Aaren. One second. So he he met this man got him away from the prying eyes of the official dumb and he told him I want you to understand I have lived here since the revolution. I am the everything. I'm the I'm the I do the I do the everything Jewish who was on here is me and I have a wife and I have little children who don't have a single playmate there's no there's no gnish and I feel like I have paid my dues you know I've done my job and I want to leave Romania I want to go to Israel I want my children to be around Jewish people but I can't get out of the country he says I know this one man who can help me get out of the country and this is the lab he was of course not Please, when you return to the west, go to the labb and tell him about me. Tell him the price I paid and the deeds I've done and that now the rebba has I I 10 years I gave of my life to serve the Jews of Romania under Chiaesco. I need to get out. Rabbi Hersbrung comes back to New York and you must remember HSN knew the had a relationship with the he had numerous conversations in private and he went to many Fabangans. He went into the Reb and he reported back on his trip. The Reb was interested in every detail in every community and who he saw. You know how the Reb used to collect information. He wouldn't give you anything, but he would the Reb knew what was going on everywhere. He he had connections everywhere, but he would never give you any information you didn't have. See, he talk in circles, you know. So, you met anybody? Yeah. And and he you came to the person who he knew and he would start asking you questions. You you were never sure who the Reb knew. But the never gave you information that you didn't have. It was one of his tactics. I saw an interview. He was very afraid that he would give the wrong. When you work with the Reb, you knew one thing that what goes in doesn't come out. That was it. The Israelis, they said to the Reb, you know, we're on your team. You can talk to us straight. The Reb never gave you information you didn't have. Anyway, they went through the whole visit and it was finished. He tells the Reb, "Now I have personal messages from a number of people who wanted me to communicate to the Reb." And he goes through his list of of requests and so forth. And he gets to this man and he tells the Reb that I met a with a pis and a beard and his wife is wearing a and a hat on top of the and the children look they live in. And he said to me, "I have been the of this community for all these years. I have to worry about my children. I need to get out of Romania. the only person who can get me out of Romania is the I need the Reb to help me. So he tells this to the Reb and the Reb puts his lowers his head >> and the Reb kind thinks for a moment >> and then the Reb raises his head and the Reb tells him >> in Yiddish I don't understand that I don't understand you. Jesus fled the previous would actually send Jews to such places if he will leave who's going to make the who's going to be the who's going to write the who's going to write the who's going to help people all their religious needs and their community their support and he finished this whole uh uh statement with the words vir how could you ask me that I should help him leave those were the words that the rebba said rabbi hersburg knew the rebba well he had met the rebs and hers when he would tell the story rabb said I didn't meet the rebba till that moment I knew a great scholar he was a lot of fun he was great to talk to he knew ka kouli was a great sparring partner for a mind like rabbi hers but the respons responsibility. I should help him leave. How could you ask me that? I have an acquaintance who lives in Montreal and he told me that visited Montreal and Ado when he traveled he stayed in hotels. He didn't stay in people's homes except if he had relatives. He when he had relatives he would stay by relatives. So this man is a nephew of his or a cousin of his. So when he came to Montreal, he stayed in his house. He told it to me himself and he said to him, I want to meet Rabi Hershbrung. I want to meet Rabi Hersh. These are two I mean two supercomputers, you know, two go. So he made an arrangement that he should meet Rabi Hershbrung and he took him. So Rabstein was considerably younger than Rabi Hersh. So they he came into the house, they shook hands, they started to talk. He he was dizzy. He he had no idea what the conversation was about. They were talking and learning and it was the title was flying around. You know the books were floating through the air and they talked for a very long time. At the end of the conversation they turned to talk about theb and both these men had very deep relationships with the rabbis. So was literally a he wrote in his tombstone nothing. His tombstone says nothing like open he opened up the the gates of for thousands of people and he was connected with his whole heart and soul to that's all it says in his he wrote it himself he was really aid he was a giant of a man but was his was his spiritual father so my friend told me that the minute they start talking about the he got very quiet and the pusher didn't speak. They stood and they stood and they stood and they stood. So finally Rab Hershbrung said, you know, we we knew his mind. We knew how much ta he knew. But he carried the entire world on his shoulders. The whole globe was on his back. And this we we we can't we can't we can't relate to. We can't understand. Anyway, I I I'm telling this story just to make the point that I wanted to say before that the Reb I I just heard this recording on the way here that the Reb said to risk your own life for Yiddish is a lot easier that to send somebody else to risk their lives for Yiddish and that the previous Reb did that the previous Reb had the authority had the authority had the right that's what the words had the authority had the right to tell a man with children and a wife to go to a place of almost certain death and to spread Yiddish to do what he could to keep the the embers of Yiddish alive in the Soviet Union at that time. And this is the yumpt of Thomas. This is really of Thomas. But I I want to see if I can go in a different direction. I don't know if this is going to work or not, but I I would like to try a different spin of the Thomas story. When the Reba previousb became his father left him a will. The Reb wrote a will which we have not seen the will. The will is apparently very scholarly and very long. One page of the will was disseminated by the previous. The rest of the will has been secret till this day. It's still not seen. The will was written 105 years ago. And even though the best of him this no one's ever seen in the library. >> It's in the library. >> It's in the library. And the freedom can be carried with him and it was not publicized and I understand it's a lumpish will it's a scholarly will about for some reason the will that no one's allowed to see except for the page of practical instructions which the maf page which the previousb disseminated publicized he you read how the shab is telling the previous what he wants him to do and basically says continue what I did strengthen continue the the spreading of talk In other words, what we would call old kabat, classic kabat, that in every kabat community um they should have a in the morning a few times a week on Friday night in the winter time and a shabas afternoon in the summertime should learn with the people they should have a shabas in the winter time they should make them homes there should be a there should be you know what's the the structure structure of the Kabad community with the leadership and the organization and the the what was >> not >> the what's inside >> the [Laughter] He's trying to damper it a little bit. >> Wait one second. Listen. The Reba becomes the becomes. He became in the middle of a civil war. A civil war that alone took the lives of tens of thousands of Jews. It's a terrible civil war. There were three different teams competing for for the for Russia. And they shared one common interest. They all hated Jews. So whichever army was in your town at that time was beating up on the Jews. That civil war ended approximately 1922. When that civil war ended, then began the consolidation. You know, they were very organized, the communists. Their revolution was a very successful revolution. They consolidated power. They centralized power. They didn't localize. They centralized power. They believed in holding on to the country. And they began to destroy religion. They closed shs. They closed yeshivas. travel. They closed churches and all of the houses of worship of every other religion as well. They closed the mikvo. And of course, if you were a a a man of the cloth or a woman of the cloth, if you were a you or a mikah lady, for example, you were now officially a parit, >> a parasite living off other people. Why? Because you weren't working. Wasn't a job. Muhammad wasn't a job. That was for the for the unemployed. So they lost their part, lost their homes. >> Sounds like >> the were extraordinary. The tests were very great. >> Those guys give to everybody. >> One second. The became aba. The previous became in 1920. His father passed away shabas. His first was the next shabas afternoon. Took him to seven days. As soon as Shiva was over, the said right away very different than our it took a year to come. The next shab. Wow. >> And he began to do what his father told him >> to strengthen the yeshiva and to concern himself with the the strengthening of the kabat communities all over Russia. But it didn't take long for the messages to arrive that everything was falling apart. Raonam started running away. All people of prominence became the targets of the state. And if they can get out of the country, they ran. So I mean we all know the story realized that there was a vacuum of leadership of religious leadership. He sent around people to do reconnaissance to see what's going on all over Russia. And then he began to plug holes. If left he sent a young man had left. And a lot of these men were his students. Some of them were extraordinarily great. >> Was this part of the blood pact? the the blood pact was made with nine. But he didn't just use nine and use hundreds. Those nine were his were his were his lieutenants. They were leaders of that. Uh >> how did he justify putting them in danger? >> Okay, that's a different type of >> it's it's a we'll talk about it soon. >> Who says to justify it? >> Anyway, this is the story. So there's a famous quote for the >> There's a famous quote for the which is really where I want to go. I don't know how this is going to work, but I'm going to try. That the previous Reb said early on in his there's a called you all have heard of the book of Yesh there's a famous you know that there were 10 songs in the beginning with and then you have the song of of and then you have those are four in the and then you have and then you have there are 10 songs the 10th song is the 10th song one of the nine songs it's called it's called it's chapter seven and it it describes a man who has a vineyard and he has to tend it he has to get rid of the weeds and he has to keep it protected he has to look after the grapes the whole beautiful song and the spirit of The song is that this guy gets busy worrying about everybody else's farms. And the the the uh the most poignant statement in that pic is I said to the whole world I just didn't do my job. I didn't look after my own vine. I was so busy helping everybody else. I didn't look after my own vine. And of course when you read it in the Na'vi, it's a lament. He's he made a mistake. You know what I'm saying? It's the first job you have to do is the job you were given. And yet he's going off doing other jobs. So when you read it's not considered a comp it's considered a criticism that he that said it about himself but he said it about himself with the full understanding that he had no choice. You know, printing a is more important than printing a even know that you there's no there's no calendars they have to come first. So the Reb became busy with things that as he would say were really not his job because there was this vacuum and he didn't get around to doing his own business. And there's a there's a I think this is a difference between the and the rebba sort of didn't even worry about it. But the himself up about it. The >> wished he would have the opportunity to be a reb like his father was and like his grandfather was. The opportunity really never came to him. maybe a few years in the late 30s when he was living in Poland. It was it was the closest thing to the old you know they were learning and ding and they were removed from the world and he was able to enjoy that moment. There's a very interesting letter, a fascinating letter from the Reb from the Reb. For those who are not familiar, if you're a reader and you and you understand Hebrew and you want to read a a really powerful book about 15 years ago, Meris published a volume of letters. The entire book, it's volume 15 of the previous Reb's letters. The entire book is correspondence between the previous Reb and the Reb and the Reb and his wife. These letters are personal letters which the Reb and the Rebson had carried with them. There's like 400 of them of which they published 200 and change and the Reb did not want them published. >> They're very personal. >> The if you remember then at that time some people wrote some books trying to portray the Reb in a negative light. The people who were saying that the reb became because he was a failed engineer. The engineer didn't work out. Okay. Second best of I mean if you understand that this I I knew a man who was close to the to the said to him once about being a it's a cursed profession. Nobody chooses the job of being ab be live on public assistance and don't worry about the whole world. But this so lab had no choice and that's when they commissioned Tushkin to write his book the Reb >> and they published these letters and in these letters you see how incredibly involved the was with the all the time in other words it wasn't like he became because he couldn't do anything else he was the number one of his father-in-law and he served him but most of the correspondence is from the previous side the Reb's letters they have just a few little quotes here and there the value is predominantly the previous Reb is writing to the Reba And one of the things that appears in that book is that the previous left Russia and he settled in Latvia because that was the country that helped him immigrate from Russia and he stayed in Latvia until he became a Latvian citizen. The day after he became a Latafian citizen, he moved to Poland and that Latian citizenship saved his life. When the Nazis came to Poland and they were looking for the Vund Rabina, they were looking for the holy Rabbis, the Reb, the Fed's apartment had a sign on the door that read, "I know someone who saw it with his eyes. >> The people living here are Latafian citizens." And the Germans and all their evil, they respected treaties. You know, they were still at peace with the Latians, >> but they called him the Vunder, >> the the Bel and the Get and the Babe and they called the Vunder. And the Nazis were looking for them. They were hunting them. They wanted to humiliate them. The Vunder. Yes. money. So, so that wrote a letter to his son-in-law to explaining to him why he's moving to Poland. He he had spent years deciding where to live. He couldn't make up his mind. He was in Israel. He was in America. He was all over Western Europe. The was looking for where to settle and he finally decided to move to Poland. And he writes to the de the reason I'm moving to Poland is because I want to be near Tyra. I want to be near yeshiva and tyra there's nothing in the world more important than that and that was the final basis for his decision. It's a private letter from the previous to theb he says this is the this is really the only thing that matters. I need to be in your so those few years theb was the closest thing perhaps to what he had in lab. But aside from that, I mean, he he just had so many other responsibilities. There's aid who's now passed away. I was sitting in the giving a and he walked in and when guy like Adelman walks in, you close your mouth and you open your ears and that was the end of that. He took over the fab and he told me an interesting thing. He told us a very interesting thing. The previous came to America in March. Yeah. Adish Tessa Sheni of 1940 and he immediately started doing what he needed to do. He didn't he didn't let the sun set on the first day in America before he started doing what he needed to do. The following winter our had not yet arrived. There was a tish, there was a sort >> and the suddenly says, what does it mean? In our richness, there should be no deficiency. There should be no loss. Now, these are words. What he was trying to say is, you know, we're kabad. our our tradition is so rich and deep and sophisticated. And what are we doing? We're teaching children, you know, we're we're making Shabas. We're walking street cling placards. Keep the shabas holy. Give your child a Jewish education. And of course, that was far more important. It and it still is. It's very simple. There's and tul and with all of its beauty compared to saving a Jew from is tel no question about it no one we all understand that but the says I don't want the kabat to suffer >> that's what he meant with those words and he began a tradition >> that every Tuesday the rebba was not well if he getba he'd come downstairs in an elevator with his wheelchair and he would go into the room that is now ourb's us and he would sit at the desk that is now our Reb's desk and he would say I've heard from people that the Reb did not like to sit at his desk. He only sat behind his desk doing and he always sat like this on the side because it was the same seat where the sat wasn't the sat on the other side of the table. He never sat behind his desk. >> Wow. >> Except by Huh. for the >> I can't hear you. >> The understanding is the previous sat at that table >> and said see this every Tuesday for like eight or nine weeks and we have the so here's another example. I'm sorry. >> No. When when there was in his room privately he sat on the other side. >> He never sat behind this table. Never. Right. He sat there. >> He never sat at his desk because again I heard this from people who who understand. Nobody knows. He didn't tell anybody but the understanding was he couldn't sit in the seat with the rebat said. So the had this you know there you have to do what you have to do >> wasn't that by also >> the what >> in the in the freed by the by the >> so he sat in the same seat that he sat in during his previous Yeah. >> But that was never the freed's office. >> Yeah. But he didn't seat sit in the freed seat >> by the same. >> Yeah. He sat he sat in the seat that he sat and he behaved as if the was physically present. He wouldn't move a mus. >> So this is another part of you know you talk about is a holiday of it really is it's a it's I think it's you can define it precisely as a latter day. >> If you understand Khan it's exactly what it was Khan. This is the answer to your question was a decision made by a couple of by and his sons to fight and die a losing battle. >> There was no way the largest army in the world a bunch of kayim they think they're going to win or then they're going to win. >> No, they expected to die. >> They went to fight and die. Their attitude was >> some things you need to stand up and fight for. I mean my my cliche line is when someone starts up with the Jews, God has to defend them. When someone starts up with God, the Jews have to defend them. And that's the difference between which is why Pudd never dreamed they would survive. The nest of Kanek from a military perspective is unfathomable. The few guys who had absolutely no military training fighting the largest and the best trained army in the world and they won. >> So how what was the justification? The justification is and there's no nice way to say this. Some things are worth dying for >> and it was a principle. It wasn't dying to win. It was dying to protest. The rabbi says I I was once in a very uncomfortable position and I was too young to know that I was we had in Crown Heights an event this goes back 33 years a woman was murdered in her home. It was a few weeks before the story >> Mrs. She was literally murdered. She died to sanctify the name of God. She died to sanctify the name of God. The Reba took it so personally. The Reba couldn't get couldn't come to terms. Was so upset that we spoke about several times. The Reba actually said in one of the talks, I better stop talking because something not good may occur. You're talking two weeks before the stroke. The Reba went to her and he stood. He was exhausted >> until everybody passed. It was a The Reb took it so personally that all my then I was asked to speak at this. You know why? Cuz I was then 26 years old and nobody older was crazy enough to take on that job. Like a stupid idiot. I didn't realize that you're supposed to defer, you know. >> So I spoke for the whole community. >> Wow. >> And I had to research it. Yeah. So I looked to the you should take it out since you asked the question the is a masterpiece of mitzvah right the really is the it's the same mitzvah but the adds detail and reason timing >> and one of the 630 mitzvah is this is the mitzvah of of keshm means to give your life to sanctify the name of god in public. So I took out the and I read it and the brings what we know from that and other places that there's five levels of midnight, if it's public, if it's spiteful, if it's for pleasure. There's all kinds of rules, but all five levels have parameters. You know, you can die under these conditions. Under these there's always a point we say, "No, no, no. You live and you don't die. So the brings this down and then he writes there are certain personalities and he gives the example of who know when you have to break all the rules. >> In other words even the ru theic rules of when you're people like they have the authority to say this the doesn't have any borders. And that's what the fid did. I mean that's the only answer. The firm had the authority, the moral authority. He was a big enough sadic to take the responsibility not just of putting his own life at risk, >> but everybody else life >> say you go down. >> Yeah. Well, he he didn't say that, but that was >> he told the guy to do the brisk >> that tomorrow he's going to have to get a different mile and he sent another mile. >> But I want to like I said this. So you based we have a yam >> but everybody respected [Music] >> I'm sorry >> all the guys >> nobody was hurt >> none of them that were involved in coming out >> right >> but so Many died. So many died. I mean that's the previous personal story. >> Yeah. >> People were not hurt. But you know how many lost their lives? >> They have no idea. >> Before the reb was like did he tell wasn't there like a barting to the freak that you're going to be you're going to live a very difficult life. >> There was much more than a burning from the time he was 15. His father was raising him for this. >> He was 15. But anyway, I don't want to talk about this. I want to talk about the other side. The previous always said, you know, but still but still we we we could not do what our business is because we had another business. But our business is our business. And this is a I think I think this deserves attention. Maybe I'm wrong, but like I said, I'm all fabangan out. I did all my speeches. I'm out of material. >> So I want to see if we can have this faban. Yeah, >> you know >> the previous Reb and our Reb saw a circumstance that required action and this action had to come before anything else. So they put aside what really was their purpose in this world to do it. But they never gave up on that purpose. They simply said, "We can't do it, but we're still Kabad. We're still we're still everything that Kabad inspired and taught and preached and believed. But unfortunately, there's something else which is supplanting it, but we're not giving it up. We're still and I want to have this. I want to try. Okay? I can't have it without you. I'm not gonna do a one-handed clap. You know what I'm saying? But I this is a another version of you know I don't want to say what would have been but I just said it because there's nothing in what would have been what what was meant to be is you know with aisha runs the worldish wanted these and go figure out what needed all these but that's not the question the question is a a relevant message for us now I think the relevant message for us now is that I better stop talking so we can sing because I'm getting a little carried My grandma passed away two weeks ago. She's from the Soviet Union. This your father's mother? >> My mother's mother. She she her mother died when she was five. Her father was drafted to the Red Army. Was shot in the eye. She was put in an orphanage. So her nama she had a very difficult life. She wasn't a pastor when she was 40 years. She moved here. She became a plumbing engineer for commercial buildings. >> Not speaking the language. And she raised she and her family beca, you know, followed in in the Reb's ways >> and she was happy. You're my my [Music] [Laughter] Today we are Yeah. [Laughter] [Music] You [Music] la. Hallelujah. Yeah. Tell it. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. [Music] Yeah. [Applause] [Music] I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la. [Music] This is the wrong Thomas. >> How does Thomas go? >> Singing it all day. >> Thomas, how does Thomas go? You know, it's more than my [Applause] My [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah. La [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] la [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yal Yeah. la [Applause] yeah [Music] [Applause] hallelujah Yeah, [Applause] [Music] yeah, yeah. La [Applause] Oh yeah. [Applause] La [Applause] [Music] yeah. [Applause] [Music] Do I know that guy? I know. Do I know that guy? >> Do I know that guy? >> Yeah, of course you knew Brody. >> Do I know that guy? No, his name is Brody. >> His name is Newman. >> Brody. >> His name is Newman. >> Maybe that's how he went by. >> His name is >> Did he go by Newman? >> How? >> But he was in your achievement. Yes. >> Oh, that's what they call him. >> He's the bishas. >> What? >> Hello, Brody. >> On video. >> Okay, say it again. I'll do it. I'll be happy. He's going to record it. >> He's going to finish the whole shot. Why? Cuz God gave him the might >> and the daddy. He'll tell you later. Like from Seinfeld. >> No. >> Like from >> from Boston. >> From Boston. >> Oh no. He said I shouldn't have come. >> Are you kidding? Are you kidding? >> What's more fun than getting more fun? >> Ah, you finished shot already. You're on the second time around. That's a good call. >> Newman from Seinfeld. >> I don't even know who Seinfeld is. >> I know. Not such a compliment. >> You know, that's like very like you know like No, it's very Yiddish joke. Carish. I can't believe I put that one on. I let me let me uh >> you have you have no >> dude that was so good. >> I wanted to ask you a Torah question. >> What is your name? >> David Weissville. >> You got to ask them permission to ask. >> That's why I was raising my hand. Nobody ever heard me. So I thought if I asked you this isn't a classroom. It's not a classroom. >> So ask the whole room. Ask the whole room. >> Let's hear it. Let's hear question. >> Let's ask a question. Say, so you got to go back in time. >> And it says David >> Weiss. Hi every via >> Texas via via Hawaii. >> Via I came through Houston. I came through for Lauderdale today. >> So here's the question from Shock. It says that Caleb and Yosua got the other spies lands. >> It says they lived on their lands. >> So, but how did that work? And I know that the land was divided a few ways. Those that left got an allocation. Those that arrived got an allocation. They got a third allocation because they got the properties that were forfeited by the other 10 spies. But no one does it say how did that actually work? We divided the land by families uh the tribes and then by the size of the families. I >> I have a very serious question to ask you. >> Is that your biggest problem? >> It was my problem from two weeks ago. >> Is this your biggest problem? I >> I struggle with my >> You are so lucky. >> I was about to say that. >> So the first answer to your question is I have no idea. >> Go ahead. The second answer to the question is what you're saying is correct because that would mean that he would get 12 little pieces. >> He got 12 little pieces one in each which of course he didn't get but he got the whole city of >> that was Caleb >> right >> but that's because he went that was a different >> No no no no it was part of the same he was given one piece of land but a far larger piece and he was entitled to >> as an as an heir to the land because that's how it was redistributed. So you're going to say so how they deal with the real estate that he didn't get to the other tribes these are technicalities but that's the fact that's the answer you got a very very large piece in one place >> what does the rebb say >> theb says that you should worry about >> God bless you nice to meet you but wait a second come here young man I have to ruin your life too >> hard please check me out visit my website you have Any questions? You can send them to me. No. Free of charge and I'll try to answer. >> You have to bend down. >> I did. I did. What's your name? >> Met you before, right? Where's your shred? Where's your shred? >> You didn't know that? I I've been answering your father's questions. >> I just asked on a chat. >> He didn't know. >> I have to. >> He didn't know. >> Well, I know what your father's been in touch with me for 15 weeks. They're talking emails. 15 years for a long time. 15 years. >> Not 15 years, but a long time. >> 15 years. >> 15 years maybe. >> Since I've been in Yeshua. >> I'm 18. >> I'm 31. 12 years. 13 years. Benji. Benji is a scholar of the >> guys. Chad every week. Amen. Amen. Maybe we'll get Yazi, Rabbi Pal here. >> How do you say it? >> We'll get him a Dach. >> He anyways ends up here. You end up here anyways for two weeks every other week and then I go back. >> Two weeks every other week. >> You just Morty Morty. >> Oh, wow. Who did this? Make us three. >> I'll commission that. >> I got $5. >> Okay. I'm setting I'm stepping out on a limb. >> In other words, everything I say from now on >> is likely to be not true. But I'm going to say it anyway. [Music] >> It's likely to be not true. There's aidus that's called gur is a bigus. It's one of the biggest in Israel. It's one of the biggest maybe it's the largest is the longest. >> No s is a whole another thing is ghetto is this is Russia there. They're different than their question. >> The Ghana dynasty is goes back to there was a time of >> Gus is very very it's very large. I heard from people who knew that in the good old days in G on Yamiff on Yam who was there were between 40 and 50,000 G I didn't see it the men I read the book >> I'll give you the new original >> in English or in English I want to have the Hebrew the original >> if you can find it just tell me where to pick it up you don't have to send it to me >> I'll give you the English >> okay so listen listen listen for those who don't understand the was what they would call in the Soviet Union a counterrevolutionary. The Karbe was a major thorn to the kidic culture, the Tish establishment, but for a very very good reason. And it's a beautiful story. It really is a beautiful story. The Bashant came along, the holy bash came along and he made revolution. He challenged the status quo, right? He tipped the apple cart. He um criticized not the fridge. He criticized the the leadership, the establishment based on the idea that we've become too comfortable. You could go back to times of especially in especially Lithuania there was so much tyra. You have no idea it was a very religious world. It was a world filled with tyra, filled with shim and so forth. But there was a don't bother me and I won't bother you culture. It was it was there was a complacency. There was a there was a there was a normal to it. >> And the bash came along to say normal is mediocre. There's got to be a fire. >> And the fire means that you need to be the individual who's to use plain language. You're serving Hashem with truth. You're not serving Hashem with your community standards. Ems and of course this is one way of explaining I'm not saying it's the only way why the magden was so reactionary to was challenging them it was it was an affront to their integrity people learned t day and night and he come along and say saw it okay how kabad saw it is a different question but that's the lens that the medler looked through >> and was extremely successful was extremely successful. For those who care about history, the golden age of ends in the 1860s, when you're talking from from from the 1860s, from from let's say until 1860, 120 years, all over Eastern Europe, was a fire. It swept the world. Thousands and thousands of people were swept away with the fever of what was the fever of we're going to be real Jews. Not not that the others weren't real, but we're going to have that fire where we're not going to be the we're not going to have a a beautiful culture that's very religious but complacent and established and fixed. This was the the way that Mandela Katsky and his predecessor whose name I'll mention momentarily >> saw the theidic revolution and what happened. We created a new normal became what it fought against after two or three generations became established. But now we do other things. We have funny hats. We eat food with our hand. We sing songs. We dance. We sit around. We get shaky. We dance on the table. But all of that became the new normal. You understand? In other words, the the I'm an individual and have a personal relationship with the abished and I need to and have a hunger for more. >> There wereim who felt that became what rebelled against. You understand the the personality that represented the status quo more than any other was the you heard of him and his opposition was his own disciple who's called the same name. The reason they call him the is his name was the seer of the same name as his >> no no no there was his tal theesh was a tower of the and he loved him and respected him he never stopped loving him he never stopped respecting him but he didn't like >> because became a center where everybody came and for every real fighter There were a hundred you know they were believing they were wonderful people but he saw becoming what fought against. See he made a counter revolution. It was called it was called he passed away before he passed away before the and his you know the name right and his when you read about the life two things become very apparent at least from my lens I have reached a stage in my life that I have adult children who challenge everything I said you know you used to be I said whatever I said was god Well, the truth is not whatever I say is automatically not true. You can ask Newman. He'll explain to you the way it works. Whatever I say, I sit at my shabas table. I make a statement. So one says t you're wrong for this doesn't. So then you start arguing about why I'm wrong. And I I keep quiet. They watch him fight. It's delightful. But my kids all know better than me. And you know what they t do and I'm so lucky. If everybody should have a table full of children whose biggest problem is that they disagree with their father about what cynicism, >> this is what happened. I'm very lucky. I really am. But I I can't open my mouth at my shabas table because right away Mendel has something to say and my youngest son who's the brightest of the whole bunch makes some kind of joke like who really cares, you know? But it's a good conversation. >> But my my angle my angle is I I I read the book of the my son bought the book and I read it. >> Two things. The kat was an incredibly successful man of k was extremely all the real great until the holocaust >> in pand and all the great until the holocaust were the >> and in his mind in his own mind he was an abject failure. He set a bar so high. He set a bar so high that even Sadikim couldn't meet it. You know there's a whole story about the KK isolating himself. Part of the reason part of the explain explanation why the K is because he said I I failed. He his were such big sadikim. They were such serious servants of God. And of course one of his Achilles heels was that they were going to be lumig. He didn't he had this business. I'm busy dinging the biggest they ded all day long. They had to be otherwise he wouldn't turn in that direction. The was an extremist in every way. He was extremely successful and in his own mind you understand but wait listen there no one is going to debate that the kuska was a radical said about they were they were co-generationalists they lived at the same time kusk passed away in 1864 that passed away in 1866. They were the same generation >> and they knew each other. They corresponded. They were very different types of people. >> You said the customer >> they knew. Yeah. >> How are they sim similar? >> No, he didn't say that. >> No, no, they knew each other. They lived at the same time. >> That his whole was like before the was given. Meaning he set a standard that only one person can meet. Nobody else is a failure. anybody falls out that nobody needs you and that's it you know black and white there's no gray >> does it share anything about like their altercation when they met >> I I sh was supposed to come generations before and and he told her no you should have come much >> like and and they spoke about each other got along you know >> but when the kuska passed away his students continued his traditions. None of them was radical as he was means middle of a road. Community means a bunch of people belong. Is is so personal. >> Sois is it really is you know the his relationship to the is absolutely incredible. All of his children died before him. The had 13 children. They all died before him. You know what they died before him? a of the he was a tower of he went away from the to the and the kept on asking is where is he nobody would say a word and after he asked a question a bunch of times he said he ruined for so many shabbases for me and I'm going to ruin this story you're not supposed to tell in public >> I will ruin this every one of his children died during his lifetime on a shabas >> he took his to the little kids and the kusk was hiding in a closet. didn't even come out. He was such a you know and he I mean I don't know if he's called or not but he's certainly one of the the representative of that approach which is why I you speak to I don't know >> what kind of to speak to but I mean I remember who were proud of the fact that they had a a you know that had that sharp wit they they see themselves as the successors of the kudsk the consequence of this Because this is here say this I've heard this from people I've never read this in G had an element of toy I mean how many get the first was the second was his grandson the third was the his name is he passed away in 1948 during the war >> his three sons succeeded him one after the next the basis And then the current is the son of the so it's what's five generations of >> the was aid of >> who was aid of who was aid of who was a who was a lot of generation. So get had get had a radicalism to it. What was the radicalism? The same as labavage 2:00 in the afternoon guys are putting on the tone. >> What was the I was getting ready for Ding cuz that's how it was in K. You didn't d when the clock came up. You d when you were ready you know this this honor is this honoris. This is the wonderful story. There was a Yid whose name was a I would imagine you heard that. Yeah. He had a son whose name was a was not a metab was a he was he was the father-in-law of the you know how much old he was one year. The lost his first wife. >> He married you and you know who was the brother was they were the same age but he married his daughter. They had children together. All the famous ciphers are from a 8:00 was a was a was a >> the was aua the was in the language was a bit was a gone the greatest the ever said that there's nobody alive today that can reveal how great of gone the is but he was he was a bit he was he was a humble humble humble man you understand >> I don't know Why came up? Why did I mention >> story? So was a big misnel. His son was a real critical and he still believed that belong to a that they're not religious Jews and the whole thing. His son was a becom. It was terrible. the father and the son and the grandson was. So becomes said to his son and he said to him that you have to invite your son to spend the shab you have to host him for the whole 25 hours the shab has to be by you know I can't stand you he set for him >> that's how it used to be he for him you know he was a real but said so he sent his letter a son shivah shah you have to come for the whole shabbas for shabas you have to come so his son writes back papa I promise you you don't want to spend the shabas Tuesday will be miserable enough shabas is going to'll destroy you so he says listen I'm not interested in having you it's my father said shabas is shabas so he showed up for the same but again you must understand you you push have to understand what this means what it means means there was no concept. There was no concept >> of Yeah. I just ate crackers. I made a maz. How many words is it's nine words? How many times have I said in my life? I don't know. 10,000 20,000 50,000. I don't know. A lot of times. Yeah. >> So, did I think what means and what means and what means and what means and what mel means and what means and means and means and means? No, I didn't. I'm I'm admitting I'm admitting forgive me, father, for I have sinned. You understand? I made a brah on the crackers. I said all the words. I probably said them in order. I probably said them slow enough for them to come out clearly. And I thought, yes, I'm making a braha about eating cake. >> But in Katk, you didn't make a braha unless you focused on the finished. I heard from people who knew in America a five minutes and the guy was always went to the bathroom a lot five minutes. You imagine every time a sus 5 minutes you're going to stop drinking water for the rest of your life. >> I heard that was the reason they called the kadesh the kadesh because >> no because every time he did something it was for the first time. >> Right. Right. See, but this was the Rand created a whole movement of him. Hello, I need your attention who their whole idea was, I'm a servant of God. There's no such thing as saying a I got to eat crackers. I'm talking to the I'm thanking him for his food. How can I pay attention? So by the time he got by the time he got to eat the food, the food disappeared. You know that the was making the chicken ran away. But in Kusk in in Kusk, this was a in other words if you came to the I mean the fact of life was the average guy could not be a you go you have a nervous breakdown. The only people who could last and cost more than 10 seconds had to have very strong brain especially physically very strong. had to be tough as nails because the pressure and the demand and the standard was extremely high was was was a was was a he was a the grandson of so he became a of of now his father invites him for shabas now what happens on Friday night I'm asking you a question what happens on Friday night huh your wife makes benches And if you're a nice guy, you stand there watch you take the matches away so she should think that you love her. And of course you do. One second. One second. Yeah. Then you run to get in time for and I don't know what you do with a minion. Then some guy says you talk or whatever. I don't know why. Then you and you sing the beautiful and everyone sits there and things are flying around. And when the is finished, you get through, you go home, you make you eat, you eat, you eat, you eat, eat, you eat, eat, eat, eat, and then you go to sleep. Why? You get up in the morning. So yeah, invites his son for shabas and his father, his son wants, I'm telling you, papa, this is really not going to work out. It's going to really this going to be a culture shock like you never saw. >> Coup of shabas. >> So they go to show their mother bed and they go to they go to and so then there's a little bit of a break about this and starts pacing the room. What's he doing? you know, I I I go I want to go away from weekday and I want to go into shabas. So I take off big whatever that means and I have to put myself into a frame of mind that I'm in it's a and he's going through this exercise of of of of consciously going over from the week to shabas how much time does that take huh the answer the question is as much time as it takes says father they learn so whatever they did his father might have and the egg is facing the room. Why? He's figuring out how do you go away from the weekdays and he come in to shabas. By the time he finished transitioning to Shabas, his father went home. His father waited for him. How much you going to wait? Okay, I'll wait. I'll eat the fish. You know what I'm saying? The whole Shabas meal is waiting for the guy showed up 6:00 in the morning. Why? Because till 4:00 in the morning, he was going away for the weekdays and coming into Shabas. Then he had to say Shabas, which takes forever. Then he got the Shabas took about 10 seconds. Why? How much time take to eat? You know, there's there's all these mal there's a whole variety of different fishes. >> Take so much time. Bite. >> He had a bite. That was it. >> One bite. One bite. >> So, he had a bite or two or three or four. Back there. Bottom line is he made Abdullah like 10:00 in the morning on Sunday. >> My I had a grandfather. I had a grandfather. >> Was he upset? Was he upset label? >> He was furious. >> Oh, >> but didn't he go to concert? >> One second. One second. He I had a Ze who was a American born. My mother's my grandfather's grandfather was in this country. My family is country since the 1880s. They've been from the whole time. >> It's amazing. They were not the Babana. They were connected to if anything was a very straight he lucky ones. He he was born in 1918. My grandfather was he actually learned. There's a lot of stories about that which is not for now. >> But my was a very straight shooter. He was a fiery and he was one of those people who who suffered everybody. He wasn't he wasn't the guy who judged you know if you did things different it was good for him. He had a son after that everything um my father respected him and loved him so much. He was a very real person. Anyway he lived in Farakaway. He lived in the in the in the Rockways. came to the you heard was no question about it was but the only time he had a clock was when he benched Friday afternoon otherwise forget about it needed but in 3:00 in the wanted to mab my grandfather went to he had his appointment on Shabas 2 in the morning my grand came back from but whatever he needed he got his appointment his father said to him you know I I know famously it's this is a well-known story he probably didn't speak in Hungarian accent but that's the way you have to G had such an element by >> and even by that doesn't on time as but in the morning point was there was a genuine so this is the fact no you understand his brother went back to 10:00 No, they get they >> the is that you go to the and you you you use it as a as a latrine as a as a place for for relieving yourself. So of course long and they were deep and they were involved and you didn't want to stop in the middle of the meditation. You want to walk to relieve itself and you didn't want to interrupt in the middle. So the place where the meditation became the toilet. Simple. What happened over time? The meditations are forgotten. >> But the toilet they remember those days the only hide you at 4:00 and coffee machine. It doesn't even work. This is what I heard. I I know that I do not know this for a fact. I'm a I'm a babage. You know what I'm saying? This is the lion that we heard. It is a fact that the I'm sorry that the basis started on Shabas 7:30 in the morning and forget that was his cuz they started 11:00. >> What's the translation of >> 7:30 half an hour to 8:00 >> his brother the went back to 10:00 >> when he became but that was for 30 years. Why? Because it wasn't because he was if the basis was surrounded by for whom that avoid was real, he would have kept it. He saw the bankruptcy. In other words, there was a tradition and the tradition was about MS and the tradition about MS means you don't always show up on time. You know, sometimes you drink a little too much. But but the essence of it was I serve God. So you justify the deficiencies. Not everybody the because of the reward the return the return is real. What's a real? He's not a cookie cutter. He's not a copy. He's not the same. He's genuine. He's real. He's an individual. But when that breaks down, he says, "You know what? Cut it out. Want me learn. That's it. Learn. Don't give me my sister then. You know what you're doing. Your father didn't know what he was doing. Maybe your grandfather still knew. You know that was what he did. And this is I mean I think this what I think I just gave you a scenario. I think what I told you is accurate. >> Now you could make a case that inad we could use a dose of this. You know use a dose of this. So I got good news. There are bad news. >> You really remember the good news and the bad news. >> Which one are you giving first? >> It's the same as saying the good news, bad news. The good news and the bad news is in lab there's only one boss and that's it. And nobody else has a day. >> If I was writing the rules, if you were right, every one of us would have it. We know exactly how to fix. >> The Reb was very careful not to do this. not to do this. The Reb was not happy about the bit of but he wasn't he wasn't happy about the ding fast and he spoke out there's this mis I mean if if you want to know how much it bothered the that people ded quickly and they don't d with a minion and did a rush there's enough data confirmed facts I was in London two weeks ago I was in England I was in Manchester so there's a famous story He he valid who lived in America was offered a a fellowship to the uh I think it's called the surgeons college in London one of the oldest schools of medicine in the world he was given a three-month uh fellowship so he spent three months in London when he was there he he he was in the throws of he loved it and he describes it in his book >> and he was a professional he was he was he's a biologist ologist. He was he was never a practicing doctor but he was involved in biology in the field of medicine. He's in the middle of is sitting in his office doing his things and a phone call comes in. Ben Sh said every now and >> velvet green was was a a Tuesday afternoon was a was a was a lab by this I don't even have a beard yet but he was really into what's the reason for nobody knows. See he rolled in. Velv Green comes to the meeting. He sits down. Ben C is sitting at the head of the table. He's not saying a word. He waited for every single laber in London to show up. >> Wow. >> And it took a long time. And after they were all sitting at the table, he said, "I'm coming from the Reb." And the Reb is not happy of how our minion looks. She wants that we should all dive in together. slowly. It can't be that some guy start earlier. I mean, you know how looks. And the source of the way looks is the idea that ding is personal individual. >> I'm not ready. I'm not ready. I'm not ready. Say 7:00. I'm not ready. Sometimes not ready because you have to say or like the 14y olds. If I don't learn, I'm not allowed to dive and isolate. I'm sorry. Wait for me if you want but I got to say I can't I can't it in in a generation before this was not it was push you know you had to wander around the room and have a thought of you had to calm yourself down you had to tune yourself in so that the davining should be and the rebba says I don't like it and I heard people at that meeting there's a guy in he now is a friend of mine a friend acquaintance his name is Gdalia rman He was at that meeting. He remembers it. And he says for years after that the shul was so beautiful. Everybody ded together that wanted and Ben was a really special. >> This was in London. >> It was in London. He wanted to impress on the people how important it was. So he pulled them out of their jobs. He did it in the middle of the day and he waited till the last guy showed up. His whole speech was 2 minutes. He says is not happening with Armenian happened with Armenian. >> He was part of the blood pact. >> Yes. Yeah. He was one of the 10. He was a nine. Yeah. They say that they said to him, "You made a cover for he didn't want to answer kept on asking." >> Didn't stick. Okay. >> I I want to tell you something. There's a whole world a whole world of people who spend their lives telling the what's wrong with Kabad. That's not what this occasion is about. >> So you can save it. We can talk about I don't mind but not now. That's not tonight's. It's another It was last night's or tomorrow. >> Rabbi's emails on the card >> which I gave you. The Reb never did this. The >> never be flooded. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> The Reb Theb did not do this. Now that wait, I I can tell you many stories that that that speak to the fact that the reb understood exactly where we're holding and he wasn't happy about everything that's going on in Labavich. >> I I heard a story from one in the name of one secretaries and I have to be very careful because I don't want to give away talked about this how the the the state of in America was already like falling down the drain. >> So why didn't he make new rules? I mean that's the question. >> But the freed talk about a very open man >> but he never made new. >> Yeah. >> Oh yeah. Not not every day. But of course >> but he didn't change but he never said new policies. He never said no >> generation of zerist. >> He never said that would get he didn't do it. >> He just he said he said startle but starting. That's what he said. Anyway, but let me get to my point. My point is my point is and I I I'm I'm I'm sort of I'm I told you at the outset of this little talk that I I am accepting the fact that everything I may be saying now may all be false, >> but there's a re I Oh, I heard this from someone who was a nephew of label glo and I think heard it from label that Neo who is my wife's grandfather who was a really special >> came to the Reb New York and he said to the Reb he told the Reb that when he learned yeshiva there was a concept called Shalom had a was a there were 12 hours of learning 12 hours of learning was from 7:30 to 9:30. >> Daviding and breakfast was 2 hours, but the ding the minion was an hour and a half. >> Nigler was from 11:30 to 7:30 straight. There was no lunch. They stopped only for in the winter time. >> What? 11:30 to 7:30 >> straight. My brother told me that he once traveled with Maran foray said to him in the learn seven and a half hours straight. You didn't lift your head. >> Wow. >> The concentration seven and a half hours. You didn't lift your head. All of a sudden it was a bank. That mean you sat seven and a half hours in your seat with they didn't sit across from the table because they sat near each other because there's a lot of noise. >> And the mother was unbelievable. Unbelievable. And then 8th or 10th there was again 12 hours of learning. Wow. >> That's besides for >> drink coffee. >> Whatever they did >> whatever they did they were exceptional people. You need to understand Ariel, you and I wouldn't get near the building. Benji, they only took >> must have been some having a hard time with a little shock. They didn't lift their head. >> They fell asleep. So wait look said to the some had permission and you had to you had to earn the permission for example they were ding all day so they didn't learn there were who didn't learn at 7 made exceptions >> and then there were So the Nissan asks the why the does not institute a concept like this where a boy who's exceptional in one area so to speak can break can break out of the mold. You know I want you to know I know this from very good sources the was very particular about the best the guy told it came one minute after 11. I had a teacher who told me personally that every day he ded he ding longer. So Dav starts at 9:15. He finished diving at 11. So he went to breakfast. He came to say at 11:30. So when he went to for his birthday as the tradition was he told this to the and the said I don't understand says at 11:00 nigler. He's a big he's a real serious guy. So he told the reb but I d until 11 and I don't understand he told me the rebba ranked me out you know what it feels in the de's room alone it's you and him and balled them out so I stopped eating breakfast he continued diving till 11:00 he closed the open the gum that wanted you on time to the minute he was very particular guerelic one of the most important looking his whole claim to fame Well, he came here from Israel >> and the Reb told him when he arrived, keep the sedha precisely and he would drank plenty of alcohol, let me tell you. But he kept that religiously. He would never miss it. He wouldn't come at 7:31 ever. His whole favoritism of the Reb of Milan and the Reb spoke about him and his wife like as if mish they were king and queen of it began with following a simple directive time to say and he was very particular about it. So said to what about this rule of breaking the rules? So again, I heard this from label's nephew. I did it from the nephew and the said I can't do it >> because any modification I'm going to make in the is only going to make the problem worse. But then added these words which means in English I will not make a policy of breaking the order because it'll only make him worse. But if a boy has he'll understand himself what he needs to do. But I'm not going to advocate. >> That's totally burgish. >> That's totally okay. >> That's totally means good morning, good afternoon, good night. No, it doesn't. >> Whatever you want. Okay, whatever. >> Understand not to say top. >> What can I tell you? I want to get back to my point. My point is that could have done what the did. He didn't. He didn't. And my proposal is and this is this what I want to take. I want to take in this direction like in the olden days the fear of heaven the precise the didn't want to make a new lab he wanted to add to the old labavage now who's a practitioner of the old labavage who who didn't take it away the old labavish is true and at any time and at any place any person ach should say you know what Tuesdays I'm dabbing because it was never cancelled Wednesday I'm learning eight hours day together with Newman if it's a big deal eight hours no big deal eight hours 20 hours a big deal eight hours straight Newman >> or the other name or the other name but the point is I'm I'm I'm saying that I feel for sure. But even the did not want to make have a new normal which you could have done does have a new normal. The new normal and is there's not normal is even now it's tough it's hard it's a hard life and so doesn't go to mikvah every day. Why the closest mikvah is 40 milesi from his house. doesn't have a million every day. Why there's no minion in the city? You know, >> but the idea that the values of lab >> that that areistic of values, deeper values, more mystical values, I feel deeply that wanted to make it very clear he's not canceling any value. He's being very realistic. A he's being realistic about what he needs to get done. And we all understand it's a simple stands for two things. Two things and they both end with the word. It's really true. Now I sit in the fat of the I write checks. I tell myself I'm a great guy. But if you learned, if you learned in you learned in Maran, if you learned in any lab that you know that says the truth of you, you were brainwashed with a value that says you are needed for somebody else. >> It's not it's not a nice thing. It's the foundation of our community. Our community is built and that's what guys do. I have a son who's And he's a geek. He's more geek than I am. And I'm plenty geek. >> He's a nerd. >> A nerd. But he insisted on going. >> Wow. >> Him and his wife. Neither of them could talk about a whisper. >> Those have the best success. >> Barl. >> And he ran. But you know what? >> He works so hard. He's not a geek. >> I know. But if you knew him, he couldn't talk about a whisper. >> He should have been a He couldn't leave me at rash. He should have been a guy riding. Oh yeah. >> But he wanted to go on and they waited and they waited and they waited and they waited and they got a and they're doing well. I mean they're near in Philadelphia. They he's struggling financially terribly but they they do incredible things. >> No >> because this is Labavich. >> Whenever you send the campaign I donate. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Thank you very much. And you help my kid. You can have my heart. Help my son. >> My god. >> You know how hard he works. >> He reached out to me personally. >> I I'm very happy he did. I'm very happy he did. But he's such >> I remember him in Montreal. >> He's a big lamb. My son will be him. You go into his basement a pile of sw. But god forbid anybody should know, you know. >> But but he divined. He just learns when he has free time. We're just never but this is who we are. But the Eban never said we're canceling anything. Why? one guy who wake up one day and say I am a I teach little kids alab but you know what I'm going to dab why it's a part of who we are nothing was taken away I think I think this is a different but it's a legitimate stretch if you if you think about theb's vision I I I tell you the truth I'm I'm don't like the words's vision because it smells It smells from modernism >> that somehow is selling out. I'm a member of the Reb's vision. I'm not one of the But the Reb has a vision. And the Reb's vision is that there will be a time that are going to be and are going to d because the Reb is going to create a superman over time are going to be made bigger because the Reb wants it. He gave the kayak for it and he didn't compromise any of it. M the kids in yeshiva you go to all they talk about is so why you learn they're supposed to supposed to learn it's not justified it's not acceptable but if your whole day you're thinking about so the is quote not that important but it's wrong ultimately the is going to mold us into people who the whole old and the whole new are going to be blended together into a into what we call a tim And you see it more and more their kids who go on. If you I have a son-in-law, he's he's he's extraordinary. >> Yeah, he's extraordinary. The guy when there's a free minute, he doesn't learn >> killing it. >> He learned you know him. >> He gives >> he learns like he doesn't have any time. >> It's an extraordinary blend. It's >> this this is what the Reb is trying to create. super people. It's not like we're we're cool and we're mad and wear nice ties and makes nice speeches. We're the old and the new are going to be merged. It's the Reb is this the Reb's vision. Forgive me for saying absities. This is the Reb's vision. The kids will figure out that they're not a contradiction. You go on and your whole life becomes forgive me living licking the behinds of a who knows who for a couple of dollars and when you have a free minute you open up you have a free couple of hours you do this is a different version of the story the lamented it more than the does it's true the complained complained the alien So you know how these words mean. Now you can sing it. [Music] He has your first He has your last name as his first name. [Applause] My name He Nana [Applause] la my La [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. Nal [Applause] [Music] the God la. [Applause] I >> I think I think we're close enough to serious [Music] I think we're close enough coming to an end. >> No, no, no, no, no. I just want to No, the show I want to see today. No. Okay. No, we'll wait. We wait. That's I feel like it's like we got to wrap this up. >> Not at all. I just had so far down. >> Say that again. >> No, no, no, no, no. Okay, no. >> No, no, it's not true. My philosophy is [Applause] okay. No, cancel. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] I let it [Applause] hallelujah. I [Music] Hey Yeah. Yeah. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Like yeah, [Music] I love [Music] I'm like, "Listen, You know, there's a guy here in the club. [Applause] I love your such a Oh my gosh. I get [Applause] [Music] what I [Applause] I [Applause] head on my [Music] My [Applause] eyes [Music] I can't [Applause] We Yeah. [Applause] I [Applause] shall. [Applause] Hallelujah. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] La, [Music] you know. Can they can [Applause] Hallelujah. [Applause] You know, you know, A no [Applause] la. [Music] [Applause] As the shine stay by the king. [Music] la. [Music] I yeah [Applause] la Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It yeah cuz I [Music] [Applause] give it Cuz I give it. Cuz I [Music] [Applause] I do. I do. I do. Cuz I >> I'm not joking. I am not joking. [Music] >> To say dirty jokes even though they're very funny to me. >> How many years ago was that? >> Apologize to yourself. >> Last year. >> No, we go back a long time. We're old friends. >> You know that you're going to do what I'm saying. The sh is no. You're going to be 70 or 80. You're going to have teeth. You're not going to have teeth. The ears are going to work. Do it now. >> It's not a process. It's a decision, man. It's a decision. There's nothing standing in the way except what [Laughter] >> you have to understand. I love you anyway. That's the problem. If I didn't love you, I got angry at you, maybe you would actually do something. >> But I promise you, I'm not going to do I don't love you that much. >> I will never I need it. I la. Oh. [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Hallelujah. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] Yeah. Yeah. I Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody They're gone. Yeah, you got picked up by my cousin the other night. two is too much. It starts to stink. It starts to stink. Funny. Yeah. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] Oh my goal. [Applause] Hallelujah. Oh yeah. Yeah. [Applause] always tell us the dirty joke. >> There is no dirty joke. [Music] that are really selfish. Make it lower. I'm still trying to figure it out. >> I was just reminding you already knew. Give me my body. >> Young man in the back. What's your name? What's your name? >> He was Oh. So your father is my brother Mendy's friend show Malaysia. I got regards from government from Melbourne, right? >> Some of you some of the guys in your family listen to in I know it for a fact. You have a brother in I love everybody who loves me. I don't know why but just one of those funny stuff. Well I love I loved you because you love me. Oh, you're sweet. You're son. You [Laughter] >> It's a whole another concept. You know the video, right? >> You know the video. Yeah. With with my great she went by was in a very difficult place. So she tells the she is is trying very hard to be good. >> He was always >> It's on video. He sent it to me. Your father sent it to me. >> Your father's amazing. >> That's true. I'm saying your father your father gets pleasure pleasure from feeding people >> from giving helping people he loves helping people it's an amazing it's an amazing >> it's an amazing club it's amazing time Can I bite if I can have your attention? >> You guys s talking for Domin. >> Don't worry. Just there's plenty left. There's plenty left over. Don't worry about plenty left over. I I want to speak about one thing and maybe another thing after that, but we'll start with one. Yeah. >> Newman, don't get nervous. >> His mother's Newman. >> Oh, mother's Newman. Who ever heard of Brody? Newman. >> Your mother's Newman. >> His mother's Newman. >> Who knows about Who knows about? We know about this kosher, which is Brody. That's funny. Now, >> who knows about Newman except for Jerry Seinfeld. >> I just want to tell you a story. >> His mother's name is Newman. >> His mother's father's name is Newman. His mother's father's father's name, I called him Uncle Phil. I get credit for that nickname. >> It was Phil Newman. >> His wife, yes, this is way back. His wife died in 1971 >> and he forgot to die. He probably lived his life by 30 years. He never remarried. I knew him in Long Beach and I was a rabbi of a sh >> in a in a in a in a suburb of Long Beach >> which was called Los Alamos and Uncle Phil would show up >> your Ela and he had he he he was an interesting man. He came from Boston >> and Boston >> stares like Prince. >> So one second one second one second. I thought he was Brody. >> He's Newman. He's Newman. He's Newman. His father's Brody. He's Newman. He's Newman. >> Uncle Phil. Uncle Phil told us a few stories. First of all, he made a public statement. He doesn't believe in Hawk's business. He's a bunch of BSish guy. You You don't You don't even know what you think. You haven't thought about it. You can't think until you use your brain, my friend. When you start to use your brain, you can tell me what you think, >> Uncle Phil. But he had interesting stories. Very interesting stories. Well, I mean the history your uncle your uncle from Long Heights told me amazing stories about your Bobby Uncle Phil's wife and her mother. >> She bought a car >> so that her daughter could push take her to the mikvah. >> Huh? >> She bought a car in 1920. So her daughter would drive her to the mikvah. She didn't tell her she says wait. She would go inside. She was keeping mikvah in America in those years. There's a lot >> cars in 1920. >> Yeah, >> I I I need I I can't hit him. I need over here. [Laughter] I hit him one time again. [Music] >> What' you do over here? You put the Americana. I can't even hit him. >> I don't know why you are, but if I hit you, you're going to sue me. >> He's Cuban. He's Cuban. >> If you want to share one thing, >> that means you're going to now that you asked, there's no way I'm going to share. It's never going to happen. >> Talk about the cut. 5 minutes. >> Don't tell me what to do. >> This is the Holland. >> He told me I can't sing out [ __ ] Him. I got to listen to me. He's >> but you you you know I >> myself he he got nervous >> I said it was too early >> tell them to sit back you know when a bring like this they sing the bring is over is over when people go home >> and they don't go home because they go home because they're >> I'm trying to we would have lost 10 people we replaced was very happy about it and we're good. We're good. So, listen. >> I'll step up, Rabbi. I'm ready. I'm going to make >> No, you're not. No, you're not. So, anyway, listen, listen, listen, listen. >> I just want to give an example. >> What I said before, I believe. I believe I have a a coworker who could be my father. >> His name is Rabbosski. Shovski is a gone in and in his m he's he's one of the biggest in the world and the reason expert in is because he's extraordinarily godful is not his kids told me he really means it he's afraid of God he told me he's a he told me that when He got married that Reba asked him if he speaks French. He told that he doesn't. >> We spoke from the Yiddish. I got a lift yesterday morning with a Labski, one of his nephews, and he told me that his father told him that one day the mashia, the holy comes along and says, "Okay, we're learning French." And the bak said French. I heard from people of Boston knew by heart >> not by heart. And you know what he did at his time? He taught public school kids. He died this year. I think he died this year. >> He was 80. He was 90. I read in online. Yeah. that they made for him and we don't make a spade him we don't make you our last 15 seconds every took 15 minutes the whole thing >> but Guro passed away they made an event in Boston and non labavish spoke >> I I read it well one of the non labavishers who spoke was the Boston the current probably the son of the Boston who was in Boston when he went to and he he said he was a real of the the bust said he was a real of the Aid every day he d could be 5:00 in the afternoon but he didn't d like we d but he had a bus he took kids to school to taught them holiday took them home swept the floor and he was finished with all of his stuff he was he was he was one of the rare combinations of the olden if you In my mind, >> the greatest combination of the old and the new in my humble opinion is >> you have it in the book the shel >> they made a book on they made a book it's 400 pages >> his name is he was the if you if you've seen the book the paragraphs are very the sections are very short three four pages per section you could literally literally literally make a book out of every section. >> Was his shamish >> a lot of people were shamish but he was a malik was a he was on an airplane and dominant and the lady the nurse this the steward says excuse me rabbi you got to sit down there's turbulence and he didn't even hear her rabbi you got down turbulence so one of his kids said Mrs. Listen to me, lady. He's a holy man. He's in another world. So then they had no choice. They put him underneath the plane. There's a place for the stewards to go down when they want to hide. They put him down there to D. Why? Cuz it was they had to sit down. He wouldn't sit. Not that he wasn't He didn't hear him. He was I I want to just speak about one about ideal ideal and ideal is ideal but ideal is not that because I'm who I am as an individual suffers >> and it's very we all we are >> but it's hard it's hard it's hard to be the whole package. You got to be the Reba. But the Reba gives the cobbles give the co that you know we we could spend our days and nights teaching children ales and when we have five minutes we could dive in I just want to speak about one idea one idea one of the trademarks of in the olden days was I have a brother-in-law Who's an anle from Freriedman? Manis Friedman Z. Manis Friedman's fellow was Yank Friedman and Friedman was a very special man who was Yanko Freriedman's father was a rebut. He was married a very long time. He was I have a brother-in-law who's a who's a grandson of his and he was Messiah. He officiated at the wedding. >> What was the Reb? What was his name? I forgot a story. His name was something like that. He was a big big >> No, he was actually not a So he was in sh he was in he was in during the war. He was a they ran away from the front. you know, the the the the the irony of you want to stay alive, go into Soviet Russia. It's it's so unbelievably ironic. You know, the bel told go into Russia. >> Isn't that where the riminister went >> was Russian? >> Oh, >> he didn't. >> He got close with the >> Yeah, he was he was he was a real man. meant but the who survived the holocaust told the go east the push didn't believe him so the numbers the way the bells say it is those who listened eight out of 10 survived and those who didn't listen eight out of 10 were killed but to think that you're going to save yourself by going to Soviet Union but those who went freedman's father wanted to interrupt Russia. He survived by Hashem with his wife, with his children. He came to New York, lived in Crown Heights. He had a relationship with the Reb. These are all details. But I heard from one of his grandchildren that when saw him that said this the first time I see in other words truly afraid of God you know not afraid of God of people are watching not afraid of God and but afraid of God you know one of the old values of was and one of the symptoms of that one of the symptoms that that knew. >> They knew word for word. The P knew >> and they were very very particular about keeping it's it's one example of many. There was a in Montreal. I mean you guys don't know him. He's gone 25 years. But he's a model of what I'm trying to describe. his name is a he knew the by heart he was so precise used to be very very particular about mitzvah very precise I have an acquaintance a distant relative >> who told me a story >> all right >> that he went to learnabad he came from California it never rains he went to learnabad in other words he didn't go away from here to put Pal next to me. You went away from here so you shouldn't get zested. Shouldn't I I get it. I get it. You talking about me? >> Yes, of course I'm talking. >> I have an excuse. >> Your daughter woke up. But you wanted to participate in the fab. >> He stole my seat. >> And then you see you gave it there. >> No, I got up. >> You walked up. Kick him out. >> You got another fuss and she's listening. >> Kick him out. She's the only one listening. He's not listening. He's busy talking. >> You said hold my seat. >> Is that what I said? >> Yes. Oh, is that what I did? Come on. Anyway, so very god-fearing, very precise. A friend of mine told me a story which really bothers me this story because it makes me very uncomfortable. He came from Los Angeles. >> It never rains in LA. And he had a raincoat, you know, a rain and shine coat, a single breasted rain coat. So his mother told him, you know, it never rains in LA. Take my coat. He's the same story from you. He say he's the same size as his brother. >> So his mother said, "Okay, take my coat." Anyway, he comes to and he's learning the men was very old. The foot was very old. This the following thing he told me himself. I can't imagine it. >> Thead was sick and tired of how you can be sick and tired of a mend. Men had so much personality. >> The men had listen till here. >> The guy couldn't walk. We should get those. >> So you had to walk him to yeshiva from his home. When they had to walk him back from was from the yeshiva to his home three times a day. Why? He came in the morning toidas. Some had to pick him up and take him to yeshiva. After diving he went home. At night he came back to he had to pick him up from his house pick him to yeshiva and after he had to walk him back home. But he had aish he had to stay in the yeshiva. It's like 11:00 he had to pick him up again. walk him like across the street, you know, it was a 20-minute walk from across the street to come back to say kish and walk him home. So this acquaintance of mine told me that the bakham was sick of it. But a men used to say, "I need you to walk, man. I can't walk myself. I'll pay you, but I have no money." >> What kind of are these had enough of it? >> What? >> It happens to the best of us. >> Hello. The was >> we were with my acquaintance >> and people and the has so much reverence for how could the buck for all separate story don't cut him off not a separate story >> what did he say >> anyway this boy came from California >> you know >> and a man of foot offered him you walk me from yeshiva to my house to yeshiva I'll tell So he never missed the opportunity. So he became his shamish. Anyway, it's raining inad one night and Yasi, my friend, goes and gets his coat and he brings it to the men says, "Here's the coat." The man says, "No, you wear it." >> Y says, "Listen, I'm a young guy and you're like middle age." He was like 90, you know. You should wear the coat. No shish. It's your coat. I'm not going to wear it. Then he remembered that his mother gave him a second coat. See? Ah. Ah, I got another one. He goes upstairs, get the second coat, and he puts it on the menal and they walk his and the menal says to him in the most gentle way possible, "How many coats is there with identical coats?" Oh, this coat's my mother's. It's un gender and in LA it never rains. He he told me the story and he tried to explain to me the menal tore off that coat like it was a cancer and he said no you don't understand it's it's not women specific it's not meant forget about it was it was talk about and he it left such an imp he told me the story 20 years after it happened >> the impression that it made on him the >> I was a kid I was a child >> and I didn't read English so I read Yiddish And the first literature that I read was the talks and tales. You got that. >> No, no, no, no. Not talks. The the before the talks and tales I read the previous memoirs memoirs are are absolutely they describe a world which is so it's the whole thing is very surreal. It's not it's not true. It's not real. It's it's a window into a world that's so pure and so beautiful and so holy. There was a lot of stuff in that world which are not so pure and holy but they don't appear because it's all from the predic of his eyes. That's why it's so pure. >> It's so incredibly pure. >> See it from another guy's eyes. >> So one of the stories in the book is there was a guy named you know the memo the me circles around and you get very confused. You forget who's you can't keep track of the story because there's a story with it and a story with it. A story with it a story. I remember men palila. No, I was in yeshiva with >> it's my brother. >> Your no your brother? Yeah, your nephew. >> He was like he was like changing and he said I remember my mother reading this to me as a little kid and now I'm learning it in now I'm reading in Z and it's a it's like a life it's like a life psychology for for aid. It's like this needs to be >> you know mand he lives in my >> Yeah. Yeah. Me and him were as friends. >> You're his friend. Let's take a picture. >> He told me to learn the Labavish memoirs at 23 years old. >> Wow. >> He's from Port Washington, right? >> Yes. >> And he inab memoirs. He's like, "My mother read it to me when I was 13 years old, but now I'm going through it again." And it's a whole different It's a whole This isidis in in in a in a novel. >> Okay. Have a picture. >> If he doesn't know you, I'm going to tell you. No, he's not. He's about he's finding his brother. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. I read the memoir as a child. >> The the personality around whom the memoir revolves is the father the we never get to the alter is not even born. The last lines of the book say and he was the father of the he never get to the whole thing about his father but it goes back several hundred years from the time the little village of was founded. So in the book there's a story about another bar. So there's barak vision. He lived a couple of hundred years with father. He was a disciple of the first of the four that came to Europe. It's a whole story. >> Visionaire was a young man. Young man means 13 or 14 years. They got married at 15. >> Ariel, your excuse is officially gone. >> No. Yes. Is coming. Yes, it's coming. >> Ariel, your excuse is officially gone. I'm trying to negotiate. >> Oh, you're negotiating. >> You're so busy. You should be a little more Russian, a little less American. Everybody >> else, you know, >> listen, listen. So, I read the memoirs as a child. I'm talking now an 8-year-old. Sha and in the memoirs you have a story of of visioner. Bak visioner was very similar to his father who was a teenage boy a young kid who was on his own >> who was very bright very learned and he had saying good night. >> He he wouldn't take a hand out. What's your name? Shandi, >> I didn't ask you. >> Oh, sorry. >> What's your name? [Music] >> Shi. When you wake up in the morning, try to remember that you become a big and you become a Shandi. You should marry >> who? >> Anyway, so I read I read the story. >> He was one of those guys. He was on his own. He was a teenager. He would sit and learn day and night and he ate bread and water. Mameish. >> When he ran out of money, he would take a couple of jobs, earn a few pennies, and he would write to go back to Med. One of the vision's jobs were >> that there was an al there was a widow >> who lived outside of the where he was studying >> and she needed somebody to come to her farm a couple times a week to collect the milk and the eggs bring them into the town and sell them. There was a couple of was a prophet he would bring he would go to the farm He'd pick up her milk, he'd pick up her eggs, he'd bring it into the market, he would sell it, >> he'd bring her back the money, and she gave him a couple of pennies and this what he lived on. >> So, think of me not as a as a n 59y old man. I'm 8 years old >> and I'm reading the memoirs in Yiddish that Barak vision went to the to the estate of this almon, this widow. She had little kids. She wasn't alone. and he picked up the milk and he picked up the eggs and he went to the market and he sold it. At the end of the day, he brought back the money of the sale to the to the lady to the Elman. By the time it got there, it was winter. It was very cold. It was very dark >> and he comes to the states and he brings her the money and she says to him, you know, why don't you spend the night? It's so cold, so dark to go back to the town now is dangerous and uncomfortable. Sleep here. You go back to morning. So he says, "Okay." He lays on the bed. Remember, there was no sh because you had children in the house. And I'm eight. I'm reading this when I'm eight. I don't even understand what I'm reading. He wakes up in the middle of the night and he had a for a moment. He thought what you're not supposed to think. He opened up the window. He was sleeping in the buff. He had no pajamas. >> He jumped out the window. He rolled in the snow >> in the freezing winter night, came back into the house, put on his clothes, ran back to the city, never went back to the almon again, lost his job. >> I'm an eight-year-old. I was naive, believe me. Hard to imagine, but I was at eight. I didn't know what meant. I didn't understand what I was reading. A guy who wakes up in the middle of the night, he has a thought of rolls in the snow. So as a child, the impression that left on me, see if I had my father, what does this story mean? But I was embarrassed to ask my father. I have so many stories with that where I would read something. I didn't understand it. But I couldn't ask my father because I'm supposed to know Hebrew. I didn't know Hebrew, no Yiddish, I know nothing. But I couldn't ask. So it took me 25 years to find out information that all I had to do was ask my father. But but this is one of those stories. >> That's why you're so telling me >> it Yeah, of course. Me, you and me together. >> It's it's I I grew up and I understood what it means. I don't understand what it means to roll in snow in the middle of the winter that I never tried. >> And what it means to to walk back to lose your job. Why? because he had a that that part of the story I don't get. But the impression it made on me >> there's no snow in Florida. >> Huh? There's >> no snow in Florida. There's no snow. There's no snow. The whole problem with Florida is that there's no snow. >> I say the problem with Florida is that it's flat. >> It's a different type. >> There's no hills. That's my opinion. But okay. The biggest hill in Florida is the bump of the road. You're going over a bump. They don't go a bump. They have another name for it. >> They just added >> I'm saying but you see you see like this. Give me your attention for a few minutes. >> Well, now you have to be quiet. >> Ariel him from the niggan >> because to go what? >> Why cannot go on unless it's quiet. I'll start it. I think we I think those that are here now will stay so we can say this. >> Okay, we can save it. We can No, we can sing it. >> Okay. No, no, no. >> Ariel said no. >> No, no. >> I made I made him >> I made him the bias. >> No, he's not. It's not his house. >> It's not his house. >> If I'm the bias, I can assign him. >> Correct. You all >> I have to I have to agree. I have to agree. >> I have to agree. But okay, I I I I want to bring out the point >> that was I was a kid as a boy in Los Angeles. There was an old guy, Russian Jew name was Michelin >> and he had this mish. You know the >> huh? Right. He lived in LA. He must be a relative of his. He went over to every guy in yeshiva and he asked me about his film. Now I found out later my children were junk. I since bought new film I my parents didn't get me good film. They didn't know what they were doing. Whatever they practiced on me. I was the oldest. >> But he came over to me. He says you have good films and you're the best. Why? They're mine. They have to be the best. Can I buy? The guy would go around from baka to baka and put on film and make a and say why he wanted a wear film came from Russia a few years earlier he living in LA >> and his whole gishmach was to put on a better pair of film I was a little kid >> he went to everybody he went to everybody he put on everybody's film he had a he took every day the same thing I >> over the course of the time I was in not every day but he probably put on four or five pil But there he went up to every book. >> How does he know what's in your filling? >> He had no idea, but he he just decided that this it's not going to hurt him, but he made a brah on each pair. He saw this in Russia. >> That's all. >> Yeah, that's old. He saw this in Russia. Now, in Russia, the t didn't have goods film. >> So would say, "Let me try a new pair. Maybe it'll be G." You know, >> they would just they would just go around trying other people's pairs of filling >> and make a it see if it worked. >> They they get a signal. >> They didn't get any signals but they kept on trying. The point is the point is that make a point they wanted film >> and they couldn't afford film so they made a >> this guy came from Russia. He forgot that he was in America. No one told that in America everything is a joke. So he was Nebak the poor guy. He was still doing it. But the impression left on me. This story happened 45 years ago. Billy Guzman 45 years ago. >> And I asked myself why why do you ask for film? I I like and when when I got married my parents told me yasi you film not the best my younger brother good film because they learned from me where do you supposed to shop for film. So recently and I could afford it. I bought myself a new pirashi film. But my kash I'm sure they were kash but there was a value that times are the same I haven't put >> the the the the value of a no you can bring me to Florida three times then you'll spend time but that's your third time >> I know I know but that money was spent already you have to ear mark it yes >> I'll call the I'll call alco crazy. >> I got I got I got handme-down Toms. >> And then when I was 27, I decided I'm going to get myself a new pair of Toms. >> 30 days later, I got engaged. >> I'm getting all >> No, I want to go for I I >> Okay, fine. America, >> I want to pay for I'm paying. You'll give me You'll bring me a flower. I'll take a brain and I'm paying for it. >> You're paying for the connection >> because because you get a brain out of it. >> I don't He wants to brain for us. He wants to put brain for us. >> I paid for it and you come to Florida. >> No, first I come to Florida. >> Correct. Correct. >> Okay. So, we could do this one. Well, the money is already spent. >> Money has already been spent. >> Okay. Wait. >> Okay. You're right. Okay. I bought myself. >> Let me give you an example of Hello. I need your attention. >> Respect. I'm older than you. >> Hello. I want to give you an example here. >> In Europe, they used to have what we would call today eeries, restaurants. >> Yeah. Like a bunch of restaurants. Here was the deal. There was no such thing. There was no such thing >> as an eery >> with a >> There was no such thing as what? >> Eery with a >> There was no such thing as an eery with a ha. Today you have to have a ha in your own kitchen. >> Who looks at your kitchen? >> What's a h? >> What's a ha? What's a ha? >> He's g. >> Huh? >> He's g. >> No, he's not g. He comes from g. I'm also gay. >> No, you Americanist. >> That's true. Your father is crazy enough to still be Gage. You I don't know. >> I'm I'm I'm crazy enough. >> You are? >> Yes. >> Okay. He's g. I'm not gi. But hold on. Here's the deal. >> You know what the policy was? You know what the policy was? You know what the policy was? >> If you were not religious enough for me to eat your food without a >> I wouldn't eat your food with a >> Yeah. You see, if you would have finished shas twice, you would have gotten that. >> You're a little slow cuz you only completed the sha once. >> If you if you the kind of restaurant >> that I cannot eat in without a I wouldn't even eat your food if you had one. M >> other words, you read you readb would go into these place and eat. >> But you know what the kind of people they were? The food that they gave you was the food they ate in their own house. >> In other words, it wasn't the restaurant where they served food on a commercial level and they were looking for they ran out of milk, they they poured the milk one bottle into the next and it became kosher. or they ran out of some other ingredient and then you weren't looking. The mash fell asleep and the the ingredient suddenly showed up but not exactly from where these were people who fed you the same food they would eat and they were god-fearing. >> In other words, ideally a restaurant should not have cuz if it needs one I don't want to eat there. That's how used to be. That's that's fear of God. >> I'll eat in your restaurant >> if your restaurant is where you'll eat. >> But then they realize they can make money. >> Unfortunately, it's no longer >> the This was fear of God. >> That's what everyone lives for. >> Yes. I live for your >> this is what was and is >> so to speak the theme of the faban the direction that I want to take this in >> is to bring out this point that the rabb did not go away from these values he added to these values the rabb wanted to be >> business of business of I'll tell you I heard this story with names you pay attention >> guys tune Lashara, wake up. >> Cody loves, >> but I'm not going to say any names. Even though I heard the story with names >> in 198. >> Give us the names. >> You're not sitting next to me. You're at it again. >> You asked >> and your daughter went to sleep. You have no excuses. >> She's on the couch. Okay, that's your head. In 1989 there was the height of the MA against the and I don't want to speak more about it but there was a lot of people who who were really rotten to the Reb and I I would like to believe that a little bit they regret it. You remind me I'll tell you a story. It was a very very hard time was going through a very difficult time. So there was aid who and during that period of time the of the said to him I I would like you to speak to Shabas instead of me say what's in your heart about what the the the attack against the was a personal attack against them. So he got up and showed a Russian Jew and he told the story. There's nobody single there. Everyone is married, right? >> No, there's some single. >> Who's single? >> He's single. >> Single. >> Singles. Have to get out of the room. Get that [ __ ] up. Shut up. >> Newman is married. No. >> Yeah. >> You're not married. >> Newman, you're such a good listen to the story. >> What about Kobe? >> So listen to the story. A guy was fashion 24. >> A guy was in Siberia for for spreading his married. >> This is the story. >> This is the story he told a guy with. Hello. >> I'm telling you, I knew I should have saved his name. Then all the noise makers would have gone home and trust me they g above rules. Okay. >> Hello. >> That was the agenda. >> So listen >> Ariel, it really wasn't. But you know what? If it would be worth it, I would tell you the P, but you're not worth it. So I'm not going to say I will not say profanity in vain. Has to be worthwhile. >> Why not? >> Because it has to. But then it's a double. >> You have to sanction. It has to be caution. >> You have to do shafts twice. >> So listen to this. A guy is fashik and his wife calls to visit him. So she prepares herself, you know, a Jewish woman, she prepares herself to see her husband. This is a story he tells in Sh in Tel a Viv or wherever Benbra she shows up in Siberia and he's been away from her for how many years? Who knows? And he says to her, "Do you know where yub is? >> Do you know where yub is?" >> And she says, "I don't remember where it is." >> So he says to her, "We're not let it be together." >> And the guy says, "This is what they're fighting with. This is what they're fighting with." You imagine guy's been away from his wife for five years. >> Wow. >> She prepares herself. She comes to see him and he asks her, "You know where your is?" And they didn't he didn't touch her. This is this is this is >> this is a it's part of whatever didn't want to change. >> What's the >> If you don't know when you're too busy, I live with your husband. It's a dinner. >> One night. >> That's right. in the house. >> That's right. >> He has three of them just in case. Yeah, they went there in the morning. >> If it comes out 10 of them, >> you have duplicates. See, make a new one. Make a new one. Can you turn on the top? >> No. No. No. >> All over the world. >> If if you're too immature for this conversation, you'll tell me and I'll stop it. I I don't need to fight with you. >> Sh. >> That was the one. >> No. That's the >> So disappointing. That's the >> makes sense not to share the person's name. That's like a >> You should know that there are that particular now I'm telling you >> or he really didn't like his wife. The guys go on, guys. I had a nephew, his wife had to get on an airplane and travel several hours every month. >> To use the mikvah to use the mikvah >> to use the mikvah. >> No, no, no. Once once a month. >> The wife the wife. >> But but it still happens now. Pensacola to New Orleans. >> It still happens now. They made a big mah that the in the small states >> they made a special effort to build a mikvah. >> Yeah. >> So the rebba would not send there was no mikvah. You know the rebb would not send the >> if there was no mikvah. Theb didn't send the young couple would not. Now there's guys I know have students who for years every month had travel hundreds of miles to go to the mikvah. You know what that means? There's no games here. This is not a game. It's a serious religion. It's it's hard. It's hard. >> It is >> the the the idea that Labavich is a cool and chilled >> it's just a lie. It's just some of us may have our tests. But I sort of what what I decided to about tonight and I knew when I started that it's a tough cell is when you if you want to The the Reb never for a moment intended for to be matter is supposed to be extremely matter but the is the same from the doing what it needs to do to bring Mashia to so yes he has to know this person then he has to know this person he has to put on a nice whatever needs to be done for the has to be done but the the Theid is aid without any compromise. This is what they never wanted. I want you to know that you read the there was a guy his name was Rabbi. It'll come to me in a minute. He he he was an intellectual. He was a brilliant man. I mean I I don't know how to tell you this but intellectualism is dead. It's been replaced by social activism where the world besides being f it's stupid is dumb. >> But it wasn't always that way. He was a reformed rabbi but he was a very intelligent man very softspoken very intelligent. I'm going to say this as a parenthesis in in the 1840s was forced to come to a debate about the future of the Jewish people in Russia. It was a terrible debate. If took along his he took along his shrouds. He expected to take a home in a box. And there were five men at the meeting. One of them was the government agent a one of them was the leader of the reform movement in Russia. His name was Batalan Batal Stern. Another one was a businessman who represented the Russian Jewish business community. His name was Halpern. The leader of the mistag was the son of the and the leader was spent three months in he was arrested 22 times during those three months. >> Wow. >> He was m he threw his life away recklessly. One of the silver linings to this terrible cloud was that this he was a reformer. He was a modern man. He was he was what we call today a mascul. He was an intellectual but he was a refined man. He wasn't crude and coarse. There was another guy in Russia who may tell us his name was Lil. He was pushing a pig. >> He ended up getting into trouble in Russia. He ran away to America and guess where he settled >> in in Cincinnati and he started the reform movement in America. in the 1840s he had to run away from Russia because he was a guy was an animal the this was a he was he was he was the and him disagreed on everything but they were able to talk there was a mutual respect because he was pushed and the argued with him and he listened it wasn't you stupid old traditional Jew there was a respect One of the nicest stories of that whole para was it's a beautiful story that there was a park it was a government park when they came to Petore for that meeting they were being home housed in the government buildings because the government invited them so was staying on the federal dollar like in a hotel kind of thing >> and every day you had to walk to the place where the meetings took place if you wanted to walk in a straight line there was a park privately owned park. It belonged to the federal government and only agents of the state had rights to the park. Was given a pass because he was a guest of the government, but he never walked in the park. He always walked around and they argued about a thousand things. One of the arguments that came up during the meeting was about Kabala that the reformers was saying that Kabala's hocus pocus is making Jews nuts. We have to outlaw Kabala that we're going to make a law that allow Prince of Kabalik in Russia that was not alone. He had an entourage with him. So on the day that they had this debate about the outlook in Russia, there was a morning session and an afternoon session. So after the lunch when they were going back to doom session was walking back to the meeting place and he says to his entourage today we're walking through the park. He never walked in the park always walked around. It was a longer walk. He refused to step into the park. On that day, the said to the with him, we're gonna go through the park. And they walked straight. >> In the middle of the park, they met the reform representative. >> He was sitting on a bench. >> Did they provide him like proper food government? >> Of well, I'm sure some brought food from home. But yeah, he was sitting on a bench deep in thought. He was agonizing. He was advocating to prohibit Cabala, but he was enough of a mench to know that it was a serious question and he was agonizing over it. Walked up to him. He was sitting there deep in thought and starts to cry and quoted the about. >> Yeah. That's a said the whole quote cried and he said you can acquire your in an hour and he said to this this reformer on this issue vote with us on this one question about the permission of Kabala in Russia vote with us. He was sitting there said his peace and he kept walking. When the session started, he walked in and they put it to a vote and he voted with the he voted with not to out the study of Kabala. He was he was a genuine person. I don't even know why I brought him up. I don't know why I brought him up. That's how he was kind of >> You know what's going on in the world today? >> Well, >> what's going on in the world today is that from Jews want it easy. From Jews want it easy. You know why? Because they can have it easy. >> It's good. It's good. It's good. There's so much kosher, there's so much religion, >> but what we're forgetting is that there's a war until Msiah comes. And I know this is a terrible thing to say because to say Msiah came already, >> my friends, Msiah came, but it's dark. What can I tell you? Whatever you're supposed I don't know what the right language is, but >> there's a war. There's a when BB Netanyahu gave Trump a dollar from the Reb as a gift to the state of Israel. Mashia is so revealed it's >> crazy. >> But somehow we're still in Gul. >> The is such a he could suffer the prim the N is not that Donald Trump took the dollar. The Ness is that BB gave it to him. That's the >> That's the N. Bao gave the president United States what? or muza. >> He didn't give him Jerusalem stone. He didn't give him a He didn't give him a fruit. He gave him and it's not to be believed. But hello, on a personal and individual level, there is a war. >> And what do you say? I'm sorry. Like this is a liquid. What makes you liquid? This is flat. >> FL is flat. >> I thought I >> flat. Everybody's the same. >> Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Ariel, what's your excuse? >> He He makes Abdullah on Tuesdays. >> Otherwise, I look like I'm from Florida. >> Don't worry, Benji. In three weeks, you get to make Abdullah and Zax and get to do Kaki. When we talking about the Sunday, >> we're talking about the we're talking about fear of heaven. There is a phenomena in in in Judaism that our lives are so good that we could relax. What we don't appreciate is >> that there is a war. >> It's a war but >> and then after Msiah comes it'll be different but until Msiah comes or the language of the Babage until Mashiah is revealed or whatever language you're supposed to use. >> Trump insisted on going to the >> is a war. Trump is bringing other people to the aisle. >> Exactly. >> He's bringing other people to the making >> of the fell unreal. >> The oil is always great. forever will be. >> But Trump knows it. >> Trump is trumping it. Hello. I I got to get a word and edgewise over here. Can you do me a favor? >> Yes. We just want to talk about the Reb. >> You want to talk about Trump? >> Trump goes to the Reb. BB gives the Rev dollar. We We're talking about the Reb the Trump. [Music] There is a phenomena amongst Jews that now in America you can relax. >> I don't want to be uptight. I'm in the I'm in the business of teenagers. Okay? So I know what's going on. So you live in the real world, but I live in the mug world. The mug world is real than the real world. >> I live in >> I want to chill. I don't want to be nervous. I don't want to be uptight. I want to make it very clear. We're in goals. And as long as we're a ghost, there's a fight. >> And you got to fight. I don't want to fight. I want to chill. My mother's a nervous wreck. My father's an old fed. I want to chill. I I what I'm trying to what I want to communicate to you is that this is lab is not just lab is labavich is the for principle. You should know that I was telling you before Herbert Weiner. Oh, this I remember his name now. >> Herbert. >> Herbert Winer was a reformed rabbi, but he was never smart and he was also sophisticated. >> Was the book the nine >> it's called nine and a half mystics. He wrote a series of articles for for for a cultural newspaper in the 1950s and he he's researched all different groups >> and he also researched as part of his research he came to see the and he had several interviews several with this Herbert Wer Herbert Wer was a very fine man you see him He he may have been reformed. He may have not been religious. But he was a very he was respectable and respectful both respectful. He was a mench and he for other people and he describes his meetings with the and one of the most important details of their comment which are published now in his book and you can get them. I have my at home if anybody wants them I can send you. So Milik not Milik Winter would always talk about it. >> Um What's his name? Tushkin Tushkin in his book quotes extensively from from this her why because him you can trust if for sure a lie but when the reformed rabbi says it for sure it's true that's called history it's called objective objective history there's no greater lie than objective history but don't tell anybody it because ruin the whole university system and it's very important >> so Herbert Winer asked what is the secret of success in 1956, >> not in 2025, 70 years ago. He asked the what is the secret of the success? And the Reb told him, >> no compromise. >> No compromise. >> No compromise. You want to know why succeeds? Like said, you tell a year there are 613 mitzvah. Today you'll do one, tomorrow you'll do another. But I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm going to tell you the whole truth. >> Principle, baby. >> Principle, right? And that's the I want you to know one of the most upsetting things I ever read. There's a guy, his name is Da Zakovski. >> Oh, >> he's a former student of mine. >> He just put out the story about Nusen perhaps. He wrote many books. Dakovski Zakovski. >> One of his books which I bought and read is about four personalities and their relationships with Dear Reb. >> Dear Reb. It's a wonderful book. I think one of them about David Chase, one of them is about the >> artist lifts, right? Zach Lifitz. And one of these four personalities that he talks about, there's a man by the name of Jan Pierce. >> I don't know John Pierce, but I was at a Kabad dinner in Los Angeles in 19 80 1980 and I heard John Pierce sing. John Pierce, one of the most famous opera singers in the world. He performed the best operas. Jan Pierce's mother with a shame. >> Jan Pierce's mother was from and he rebelled as a teenager and uh later in life he got sick. He had a block of he had a he became very close to the and his story is very powerful. The story is very poignant. >> Why are you yawning? I'm going to be quiet. You talk, I quiet. >> No, no. I'm going to need you. >> I need coffee, not alcohol. >> Okay, Ariel, he needs coffee. >> Coffee, he needs >> three tablespoons of coffee. No sugar. Half a little bit of water. I I need poison. Ariel, make it. Make it. >> Not espresso. Just do it. Express. >> Ariel has the machine. >> Anyway, the boy said, "You will be quiet. I will proceed. >> You will talk. I will look at you. is into where he >> What's name? >> Ask him. He knows. >> I have no idea. Only one of us. >> Oh, who is he? Where'd he go? >> Who is that? or >> if it says about him and the bal of meeting that they would have brought Mashiah. >> Oh yeah. >> If if him and the B would have met, they would have brought Mashiah within 25 seconds. >> I reckon they didn't meet >> Toby. [Laughter] [Music] as you were saying. >> Yes. >> Amen. I understand. He's thinking. He's thinking. He's thinking. He's thinking. >> No, I forgot what I was talking about. You don't have to think that he's upset at you. >> Wait, wait, wait. >> It's a terrible thing. >> Just ask Ariel. >> Ariel. Ariel. The host. >> It's over. He he appointed me. Dear Rebbit, >> this guy Jan Pierce, >> his mother was religious. He was a rebellious. He took the 1920s, 1930s. He describes in the book how he was arrested on a shabas and his mother was so worried that he's going to get into a car, but he didn't care. The the the section on John Pierce is is heart-wrenching. [Music] The one of the most painful parts of it. >> I'm not in a rush, but if you're going to talk, I will be quiet. It's simple. The Reb wrote him a letter that they should start keeping Shabas. His wife read the letter and he wrote the Reb a letter. She wrote the Reb letter saying she started keeping Shabas. She became fruit because of the Reb. And she wrote to the Reba, "I I intercepted the letter you sent to my husband and I will not give it to him because he's not ready to keep Shabas and if he's going to get this letter where you're demanding to keep Shabas and I can't do it, it's going to destroy him." >> So she wrote to the Reb to the Reb, I I took I I did not allow my husband to receive the letter because I'm keeping Chabas his whole career. He was an upper singer. It was Chabas. It's a federal crime. >> And she wrote to the my husband is not ready to do it. So I'm not going to show him the letter. >> Rabbi couldn't see that. >> Okay. Save that for another occasion, please. >> In this section on Jan Pierce, there's a very painful story and it's pushed honest. And I I have a video at home of Schlle Schwarz Schwarzy >> telling that story from another angle. >> California >> Jan Pierce had a son who was married to >> a go >> and it killed him. It ate him up. In other words, he went through his I don't care about anything to I can't believe I was so stupid. You know, he went through the regular, you know, Jew and he went into the Reb's room with that he hired the for his go. He teach him little and he told us to and the Reb said to him, "What are you doing? Why are you confusing them? They're [ __ ] Let it be goim. It was a dagger to the heart. It was mama's dagger to the heart. But the never lied. You know the never lied. Schwarz tells the story and he adds that the next day the asked people to do interference. The reb knew how deeply heard him >> but the didn't lie to him. >> Said they're [ __ ] Let him be [ __ ] Let them be [ __ ] Don't don't don't don't. They're not Jews. You feel bad that your son married a [ __ ] I appreciate that, but your grandchildren are [ __ ] Let them be. This is not a story by it's a story about Emis. But it's it's two sides of the same coin. It's the same coin. It's two sides. So the point that I started making was that the this guy Herbert Winer asks the what's the secret to lab success? And the Reb says, "No compromise." I mean, I grew up I'm older than you. I'm older than everybody in this room. I think >> you are. >> Except for you. I think you're older than me. >> I grew up. >> How old are you? >> I'm 59. Who's older? >> He turns around. Who's older? >> 59. >> 59. Same age. Okay. Hey >> 64 >> three times high >> the first letter first letter the sent in >> it was later he developed a relationship with became very close to >> and they never pushed him never pushed him enough keep chabas >> but before his grandson his grandkids. >> Oh, I don't think so. You know his story. He got canc he recovered and he he he recognized the nest >> and he went to the he became very close. He would never refuse organization. He was like a worldrenowned singer and he was singing at dinners because he was I was at a dinner. saying because saved his life but it wasn't just made a nest of his lifeb was in his life >> and when you read this book dearb you see the nuance of it it's very complicated it's very sensitive >> it's very very sensitive it's very it's it's painful it's it's painful not because it hurts it's painful because it's so emotional it's so >> it's so charged you understand it's a very charged story >> yeah really understood what the rebba was even though he's doing all of these things. >> Yes. >> Crazy. >> And his wife his wife became shab she became frazz >> and she told theb my hus he he can't do it. >> But you're asking he can't do but pushed always pushed. >> So what did he respond to answered my question? >> What did I don't know I don't know. >> I don't know if the responded. She told the I didn't give him the letter. The letter was addressed to him not to her. So Herbert Winer asks the what's the secret to the B of successb I've said to you before I'm older than you have feet the rabbi used to talk about the idea of not lying a Jew is not a shab it's not a >> you tell them you should know the 613 mitzvah >> you're going to do what >> but you should know the 613 of You don't say there's only a couple because I don't want to burden them. You tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell say tell the truth and by the nik >> theb wanted not to lieb wanted to say the truth of and then say to the person you're not ready to do it don't do it but the doesn't change there's a story with schwartzy it's a crazy story there was a very very successful entertainer an actor or a musician you know one of the most famous people in the world and he was marrying a Jewish girl which like a big deal >> and Schlombo was going to be the misadian. >> Now because of hall complications >> they scheduled the wedding during speed >> how big an is it to get married during I'm asking you it's not that big >> depends one depends >> the point is slowmo Schwarz got this extremely prominent very frag I don't know who he was >> to marry a Jew so they get married it's it's such it's so unimportant >> the guy made a terrible mistake what was his mistake mistake was >> he showed up by dollars with his khala [Laughter] >> he came with his khala and he introduced himself to the rebba and he said to the I'm marrying a Jewish girl >> when is my wedding such and such a And the Reb says, "I don't understand." >> So he tells the Reb, "Rabbi Schwarz is my rabbi." He says, "Tell Rabbi Schwarz that I said you're not allowed to get married and this and this date. You know what? You know what it meant for to get this guy?" And the Reb makes believe he doesn't understand. The Reb didn't understand. >> Of course he did. Leb understood exactly who this man was. And Schwarzy had to think a thousand ways >> to make his his >> guys. It's almost talking for then >> to make to make him. Why? Because it's the truth. Because it's the truth. You should know. We should know that thatever wanted to do everything. It's not easy to be a it's not easy to be in any case is extremely difficult. You're dealing with people who know nothing. And you have to teach them how to be one step at a time and never lie to them. It's it's it's it's almost an impossible task. Theban wanted to tell people the truth. Why? Because the whole point is not going to deceive. The Reb used to say it's not would say you don't bring the to the Jew to the TA doesn't change, >> right? Like they you couldn't make like a Super Bowl porter. >> I don't know what that mean. >> No, there was that would say that we're going to make in their flyers and advertisements that we're going to make a pur that's a that's a that's a NFL Eagles theme or whatever you're bringing down the you're bringing the okay I don't know you don't know those things I'm saying the knew those things >> if you know you knew >> the point was that they theim sometimes advertise that they're bringing the to be acceptable for the football game as opposed to the opposite. [Music] >> It all revolved around the football game as opposed to vice versa. >> I don't know. I don't know. >> I'm going to I'm going to place myself on the couch and and I'll call it a night. >> No, don't do that. >> Mario, come here. >> We have not sung out and everything's right here. >> Let's go. Let's go. [Music] [Laughter] God. [Music] I give [Applause] [Laughter] She now from the There go. [Laughter] I feel [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] She might [Applause] [Laughter] have Jesus. Now Here come your death. [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] Now she Oh my god. [Applause] [Music] is my lion. Y [Music] La [Applause] [Music] let it [Music] You answer my question. >> What's your question? >> I asked you why there were so many people that never saw this. Sure. It's literally waiting 3 hours to go. So you answer it before with what you were saying before. You said people just they understand just to understand it's it's it's >> my brother is in California. >> I I I was there I think for 6:00 to 6 >> to be with Yeah. >> My brother in California >> he's in such a crazy place they don't even have a reformed temple. You understand? >> Yeah. I want to make >> So he told me where is he? >> In Costa Mesa I think. No, Laguna is called >> Okay. Where >> Laguna County? >> So he told me that one of his big struggles early on >> was to introduce introduce people to he wanted to play videos of the Reba. >> Yeah. >> The Reb is boring. >> Because the people were so far away he was afraid that they wouldn't be able to relate to the Reb. It was a him. >> Bottom line is he's put on his brother. >> And the people fell in love with the >> That's my brother is my brother. They fell in love with that. And he realized what a mistake it was that the people he put on the they would sit and watch. It didn't matter what he put on. the people wanted the rebba and he he felt that the people had this understanding that when you when when you show them the video of the rebba there's something so true about it they don't want anybody in between you know what I'm saying >> so there's a story that I heard the story at the time but now the story has been made very public where a very very prominent kabad speaker came the place to give a speech. >> In the middle of a speech, a guy in the back of the room interrupts him and says, "Rabbi, you're a brilliant speaker, >> but you got to get out of the way. We want to hear the reb. >> You got to get out of the way. We want to hear the rebi." And there's a story behind it which I heard at the time. >> What's his story? This guy's a nudnik. He's a professional nudnik. And part of his is if he hears any place in America that there's a a clergy of any religion that's considered prominent, he goes and he gets under his skin. He he made it his business to undermine all improent religious leaders. How he would show up, he would stand right in front of the guy, he would stare into his face and he'd under him. So in the 1980s, this guy heard about that. So he came to 77. He came early on a front row seat. He's going to teach the Reb a lesson. You know what I'm saying? Anyway, the Reb comes into he turns around to speak and this guy starts staring at the He's looking at him, looking and the Reb looks in his direction. >> As soon as the looks in his direction, what did he do? >> He looked away. You could not make eye contact with the I know that for a fact. I've seen those eyes. They were fire. They were they look straight through you and he says to himself, "My whole purpose of being here is to stare at this guy down. They can't look at him." So he starts staring at the Reb again and is looking around the room makes eye contact with him. He looks away again. Anyway, it didn't take him long to figure out that this is the real deal. You know, you can with this rabbi with this. He realized that the Reb is different. He was involved in Kabat of Malibu. And when this rabbi goes up and he's making his speech, he says, "Listen, you're a great speaker, but we're not interested in you. We want to hear the if you speak to words, good. Get out of the way. I know this from I know this from I teach. I teach boys, teach girls who were all born 10 years, 12 years, 13. I mean, the oldest boys were born 10 years. They're 20 years old. What time is this? It's 31 years ago. >> And all of them have the same. >> Don't tell me what the Reb said. I know myself. >> They don't want their teachers help. Why? The teacher is a bunch of clipis. There's videos, there's audio, there's text. And when you come to one of those kids and you try to sell him your version of the Reb, the kid says, "Do me a favor. I got that figured out by myself. I don't need your help. It's it's it's an unspoken truth. The bim and the girls don't want us to help them. Why? Cuz they want to get an unadulterated. They want to get the as the is. They don't want to get a politically correct version. And they tell the teacher, they tell me, >> I didn't ask you. You know, I always tell the same story. I have the speeches already repeated 15 times. The basis of G was very close to the the he never met the they were very close and he said that the is a perfect for our generation that's what he said but why does he scream so much why did he scream so much this comment of the made it way back to theb and theb said when he asked the question why does he scream so much the as I scream. So the not so that you hear me in the should hear me that if tomorrow someone comes along and says I didn't say it and say excuse me sir I heard the tape. So when you hear this story, I read the story in the book. It sounds like the Reb is talking about the Bim then, but that's not what he's talking about. The Bim now the watch the videos. They listen to the tapes and they tell me their mashim, don't help me. I got that. I don't need you to give me your version of it. You're you're watered down. You're politically correct. You're Leave me alone. I got my own relationship with the it's a remarkable thing that the president of the United States has given a gift by the prime minister of Israel. It's unheard of. Some someone was telling me that Shan Lipk Shipsk spoke to the last kid. He was already ill and he told the story about heads of state who were talking amongst themselves and what was the conversation how they get another head of state to go to the what's the is such a thing called MS? MS is very rare and the ms it shows itself and this whole this BB dollar you have the president a dollar and a muza it's just so interesting >> shaped as a B2 >> ah as shaped as a B2 but the point is it's a muza >> I told the stories last night I told a story that there was a lab man who had a partner who was very rich and this very rich partner was not from and his daughter was sick. She was dying. >> And he told him, "Do not write to the Reb cuz I know if I write to the Reb is going to make deals with me, I don't make no deals." And his daughter is getting sicker and sicker and sicker. So this lab decided he'd write to the anyway without his permission. He wrote to the Reb. And the answer that the Reb gave to was tell this very rich secular Jew that he should register his daughter in Bak. He didn't say in some kind of a modern orthodox school base yank. So he goes over to this rich guy and he knows this is the end of his partnership you know he told him specifically not to ask the he says listen you told me not to ask theb anyways the rebba said you should register your daughter in bak. So this who told him not to ask the next day went and registered his daughter and she she recovered and the partnership stayed. So he got very excited this and he came running to the reb that the guy listened and he put his daughter said that's not the nest is that you gave the message [Applause] the nest is that not that Trump was that BB gave him a dollar is not the prime minister of Argentina go he brings him a photo of the with him and he starts to talk about the it's It's I mean I I am very skeptical. You know BB is not Msiah. Trump is not Msiah. a hybrid of BB and Miach is aid potato not the Messiah but this whole newer We going to the oil. It's not about the oil. The Reb is not about the Reb. The Reb is about us. It's about God. It's about God. Now, I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, but what we're seeing today is clearly messianic. It's it's >> mashik. >> It's mashia. What's the What's the It's not It's not watered down. It's not diluted. It's not polit politically correctized. So so and so shall be happier. So and so be happy. It's just you don't know the very truth. How does that translate for us? That translates for us told Herbert Winer don't compromise is I'm I'm a little late in the game. I was born in 1965, but I've been around the B my whole life and I've spoken to many people. I told the story last night. I I don't want to repeat the same stories but the Reb one of the biggest issues with the Reb was the fact that in America there was an attitude that when it comes to Yiddish it's means from the outset you're careful not to be too religious and the wanted to make you do a but God said without compromise you know one of the Simpsons got married One of the Simpsons got married and the Reb went to the hall. This is 1951. They went to the hall of the gadish and they had what was called the room. >> You know, we open up the deck and they come to the hall. The Reb comes to the hall and they tell the Reba >> that the mechanism that opens up the roof is broken. So you can have the but it's not going to be. So the rabbi says, "Okay, we'll make the on the sidewalk." >> Yo, whisper lower, bro, please. >> So the rabbi says, "Let's make the the on the sidewalk." So the tell the no we have no permits. We have no permit. Some ran over to the owner of the hotel was a [ __ ] and asked him if he minds if they make the on the street. He says, "Go right ahead." So the saying to the no, we can't do we have no permit. This buck runs back in. I got permission from the owner. So the Reb laughs and he says the [ __ ] was convinced right away. The shan is us. >> This this problem >> I am telling you that this is there's a thousand shades to the story of Thomas that wanted to concern himself with every Jew in the world but not by making themselves less. The same didn't know what's going on in the world was out into the streets of But the standards don't change. The principles the shay doesn't change. And you will see that is going to be if not with me with you. If not with you, with your kids that is going to create a ye who goes out into the modern world and he's not modern. He owns the modern world. He's not afraid of the modern world. He's not afraid of technology. And in his personal life, he's a battling like why? Because that's aid. >> I I believe that this is a aud [Music] sliver. I told you this before that could have said new rules. He didn't want that. Never said no more. That was the one thing that did change was can't drink alcohol. You can't drink mash. >> Besides for No, no, the time is new. I'm talking about changing the traditions. >> Oh. Oh, okay. >> Besides for drinking alcohol didn't change anything. Why? >> Well, I said no more than four cups. >> No more than four. What's more cups? No, no, not four cups. >> Four cups. >> That's the version here. >> You have a special dispensation. You're a different kind of cousin. >> You said four cups. No. And all together it flas the river specified specifically. No. >> How much is it? Is 3 o. >> My dad said he has selective hearing. >> Your your dad has a direct line. He has selective hearing. And this is our challenge. Our challenge is to appreciate the fact that there's nothing modern about labavity of modernness, but we're not modern. How could that both be? You're modern because of your work, but you're and we suff we struggle with this. A lot of us tell ourselves you know to be a good lab you have to understand the world. To be a good lab you have to fight with the world. The only way to be a is to fight with the world. So you talk about tricks takes the whose fault was it? But he didn't trick him. You just sold him soup hungry. >> Who his whose fault was it? >> What do you mean? It was Asos. >> Whose fault was it? >> His mother. >> The woman. Just blame another woman. >> Oh, okay. >> Now I can go. Now I can go. >> She said to him, I'll take the curse and you you do what I tell you. >> So there's a whole of this someone wants to do >> where uh you're walking with another person in in the wilderness >> and you want to rip him off. >> So you're friends with him. You hang out. You wait when the time is right and then you jump on him. You don't jump in the middle of the city. You wait there's nobody else around. The involves you act like this world. You look like this world but you're not from this world. This is one of the most famous all the tell the story. Once upon a story happened a thousand times and the story never happened. Once upon a time there was a whose name was finish the sentence. He had a lot of followers who were all broke one with a lot of money and the a lot of money paid the bills and the a lot of money his name was fill in the blank. He traveled a lot for business >> and he had all kinds of people. He made lots and lots of money and he gave his money to the problem was part of his travels was to travel to Western Europe and he wore a kapat down to his ankles like the pish you know and he looked like a a bat from Eastern Europe and he felt very self-conscious. So he decided that when he leaves his territory where his reb is, he's going to change his outfit to dress more modern. He shouldn't look like an ice. But when he come back near the territory where the Reb lived, he would change back into his and the Reb never knew. Yeah. >> This went on for years. And one day he decided, I don't want to lie to the Reb. I'm telling him the truth. I'm coming to the Reb in the modern outfit. So instead of changing his clothing from the modern outfit to the kidish outfit, when he came back into the state where the was he came into the dress modern, the whole city was screaming and shouting, "Who's this guy?" And he walked into his Reb. And his Reb told him, "I used to think you're trying to fool the world. I've just discovered you trying to fool us." I might you know you you you play a game to but whom are you fooling the is on which side? This speaks to principle can only succeed if they appreciate that they're fighting with the world. If you think you get along with the world, you become a part of the world. Become a part of the world. For lack of words, you become a part of the problem. You don't become part of the solution. Fight and they fight because they're some of us do it better. Some of us don't do it as well. The Reb is going to have a generation of theers who are out in the world with all that that implies and their values are going to be oldfashioned and this is our I this is the topic that I chose for tonight is I know it's a very difficult place to go. I could have told you stories with the defa you would have been quieter cuz they're interesting and they're haunting and you feel guilty so you keep quiet. I wanted to choose this topic that the Reb created a whole new lab but he didn't take away the old one. He added to the old one. And the old one is the old one is and the old one is [Music] >> Rabbi Corf just died. You know that Corf just died. So one of the stories that's going around I heard the story when I was here last is that he got involved in Kashas in the 60s. Kashas is not kabad's business but in the 1960s in Florida if Ra was not going to give him there wouldn't be kosher so he got involved there was all over here who wanted to make a career out of kash and he was very threatened by rabbi kors involved in kash so he came to the rabbi to tell the reb got involved in kashes and a he's an amits b he lam he has no business he should just stick to the film. Let me do the kosher which is panosa and he'll do the film where there's no panosa. >> Sorry. >> So the reb wrote him a note which was recently the public >> I received your letter >> and you writed it in doing but the way I know him is if he didn't say if he didn't know he wouldn't say he knows if it wasn't kosher wouldn't say it's kosher. Don't sell me a bill of goods. I know what I sent to Florida. Rabi Weberman who passed away a year ago has a story. >> Three years ago has a story. You can see the videos on very recently store in the street. >> I spoke to him a few months before he died. He was clear as a whistle. He was amazing. How I came to speak to him is a different conversation but he was so sharp. My greatgrandfather knew him in Varaku and he remembered him and he had stories his memory was sharp. Rabi Weberman looking he wasn't officially a lab but it was more lab than he moved to Florida by the encouragement. He raised from kids in in here. He he came before Corf. He was older than >> his grandson lives. >> Yeah. His children are from >> live here. So one of Rabbi Weberman's stories was that in the south of Florida there was a who fought on everything. He was a obnoxious guy and one of his biggest fights was against the mikvah you know made a mikvah and he fought against it and every was very upset about his fighting and was also upset that other didn't help him fight didn't fight anyway he told the gates it was it was a par a few months after that comes to the he tells the he was a big he was he was a he was like gone that he's thinking of making kashes in Florida official kosher organization go upstairs. So the deb says you're making tautious why don't you include in your board that rabbi says that rabbi he's aim he's avar he's the lowest of the low he's worse than I don't know what the says so how could it be involved in conscious says you'll make sure he's kosher put him on the board I'll keep his mouth shut all he wants is guilt >> it was a he said it was bashkita he said that as long as he knows that is your what you're saying about your so you can put him on the board as long as you know that is doing the right thing he can say what he wants but the will do what he needs to do >> but the point was let him you know get his obstacle out of the way so that he can have cash the way cash is supposed to be lab stands for principle we do labavish's principle is very complicated because we there's a world I always ask myself made a campaign for I'm telling you Mashiah is not coming to do Trump's dollar is not enough go have to learn about God the spoke about this 40 years ago but there's reasons why the didn't do it the said to stop >> but save how do you teach about God >> the said to stop to show >> the said to stop I have I have a copy of the minor yeah I can show it to you >> how people still do it No, the didn't say to stop forever. The said to stop at that moment. The question that really has to be asked is why didn't they resume doing it? >> It's it's complicated question. It's not simple. But the point is you're going to teach Goya about and make sure that [ __ ] knows that there's a difference between a Jew and a Gentile and you cannot break that divide. You can't separate a coin. You can't bring together and a ley. You can't put together. And you can't bring together aid. How do you do that? >> You know what the answer is? You're made of steel. >> You don't sell out. >> You don't sell compromise. >> You don't compromise at all. And in a void, we know what that means in our lives. We all know what that means. Even the Newman who completed the sh one whole time and he's working on 54 times more. Why not? If we're exaggerating, make a big noise. Ariel, can we sing? >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Benji left. >> You're good. You're good. >> See, before we would had 50 people singing it. Now we got 12 people singing. >> The would not have stopped. [Music] Because shock different. [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] Night. la. [Music] La. [Applause] Yeah. La. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] There's more people here than >> Okay, my wife co