Farbrengen 5 TEVES #3 Stories. We see the Rebbe in our work for him, Rabbi Yossi Paltiel - 5786

is going to for me even if he says isn't there if you have pa you become sober that's what he said what he said >> yeah walks in you straighten up quickly >> exactly Rabbi Fuks told me this story Rabbi Fuks was my teacher >> 50 years ago this year >> what Rabbi Fuks taught So whenever I would see him in the street, he would stop and tell me a story 20 30 years after I was in his class. >> So one of the stories he told me it this is a very very terrible way to mention Kamisha Bavis. Rabuk was the only guy who was able to be a with the uh with the other guy in the story of Kamisha Betavis. A he was smart enough and B he was humble enough cuz he was very hard to deal with. He went to the Lev, right? He went to his >> He was his. He was his >> talking. He was his. So >> talking about when he was like >> Yeah. In Poland, they're about the same age. So because he was he was took him to the house. Yeah. Come to my house. Come to my house. But his house would defab his house. So folks saw things that most people didn't see cuz his inv house came to the house. So one of the stories that he one of the things he saw was as follows. It was and there were two sukas. There was a private suka and the public suka. The suk for everybody and suka for the family. The private suka was very beautifully decorated. Really? >> You walked in the finest crystal by old only rabbi who lived like a poor man. It was well the didn't live like but the rabbi lived like an man. You know what the rabb like an man like Meny Simon Zangun told me >> Simon >> Mendy Simon our Mendy Simon >> that his father was by M profession he was upholster he made curtains right. So when they built the apartment for dabba debson in the library so he they called him to choose to make curtains for the apartment. So the debison came incredible taste she chose the fabric and they allowed the design for the apartment and then the rabbitson says to him we have not put curtains up on our home since we moved in. This is the 1980s so maybe come to the house and maybe put curtains. See K we took Meny with him. How old is Mendy? 7 8 years old. He told me the story himself. You don't have to believe him. I'm tomorrow. You'll ask him. >> They came to the house. No, it was earlier. 82 83. >> Well, you don't hear. You're not MEANT TO HEAR. YOU WERE busy talking. You're not going to know it. SAVE [laughter] >> when he talked he interrupted me. He didn't talk to the neighbors. He talked directly to me said so she came to the house he measured all the windows and the Ebson chose fabric and he had to give an estimate. So he called them a few days later gave an estimate and the Abbott said I'll call you back. She called him back a couple days later and said, "I'm canceling the order. We can't afford it." >> That's the end of the story. >> Oh my god. >> There was no cheaper fabric. There was no donations. There was nothing to talk about. >> Ebson lived on a on a budget. Whatever they earned, I mean writes that ever earned $16,000 a year. $16,000 [laughter] a year. 6,000. He didn't keep 9 to5 hours. 16. And it never changed. The price never went up. He says to his father, Joe Tulskin says, "Dad, isn't the guy do a raise?" What's the answer? His private stuff, you not let him read it. Joe said Touchkin has it in his book. His father was the Reb's accountant. He saw how much earned the had an income of her own. Islam was more than the Reb's income. But live if there was no if they didn't have the money, didn't buy it. They live much. But the Raim didn't live like that. Only the Reb lived like that. Which is interesting. It's so interesting and it's so consistent. Anyway, so he told me, Rabbi Folks, that he was in this private suka and it was beautiful and it was Poland. Poland was a poor country. They were the best mashko, imported mashko, expensive, expensive mash. And the Reb walked in, he was then called with one of his buddies, one of his, one of close friends who was a close friend of the Reb, but you may remember him by the name of Zam. He was he was he was and in he was one of the most important people in making was a big he really was he was extremely close to the they were push friends they had a together they learned together they sat down and I don't know how to say this I'll say it the way he told it to me uh and >> but they didn't drink like you drink. You think you know how to drink >> glasses one, two, three. They were drinking in a way that a normal person would just plots >> and folks is watching this you're talking about mentioned this is a whole the whole business of drinking and we get we drink we get drunk real people get drink they become realer >> but they drank a lot of mashk in a relatively short amount of time and then Somebody walked into the suka and went over to the said was calling. So fuk said he watched this stood up straightened his gle and he walked straight and he shouldn't have been able to walk straight and he said you didn't know folks the feeling I had at that moment is the general is going to his king this was his I'm saying it to what you said, he said he watched it. I I started telling you a story before and I didn't finish it. I wrote myself a note. I shouldn't forget to tell you a story. My son walks from 2:00 in the morning last night from a he tells me. I said to him, it's it is it's and in our way we're all it's thousands of unbelievable including not only they never saw the reb their parents never saw the rebba and then they get it as they say in the language of the babes they get it there's a dead head there's a sense of what this is what this relationship is and what the mandate is so I said to my And I told him and my son told me something incredibly wise look through all theb never refers to as never. It is a nephish but the never allows you to even feel you're going on to who knows where. You should say okay at least acknowledge no it's not it's the it's your purpose and it's such a it's true it's so incredibly true that did never felt that when you go on is doing him a favor that's what you are this what I am that's what you are I have my is more important than your but I we have and what's What's my duty? Like the what are we needed for? This is the this is the I I forgot to me. I read I got distracted. I wanted to finish this but from what I said earlier. You know there's a lot of stories people it's unbelievable the stories that you hear with the I'm talking about now people go to the oil people have dreams people see the videos there's there's there's Gileus in an incredible way Gileus inc it's unbelievable that seeing the in our lives is so accepted it's so normal it's So every day it's everybody knows that the reb is in our life. It's just how it is. It's just how it is. I just want to say one comment on this phenomena which I to me I know it personally and and I think it's a it's not a personal truth. I think it's a it's a truth for many many people are we see the in our lives in our in other words the we we in our life we do a lot of things all of us are have complicated lives and part of that complication is thank god we're married we have children we have wives we have responsibility we have businesses we're busy people the place where you feel and see the rebba is in your work of all the things you do. There are things you do for the Reb. I I had a and I told a story that got somebody very very upset because the story I told was a story about label growner. It's it's an interesting thing. They printed two volumes called Hamas. You really have to read them because it's so authentic. You can't get much closer to the deb and it's coming out now. Um I don't necessarily agree with the method. I I think they just print the journal the way it is. They just print a diary from beginning to end and just print it. But they're not doing that. They're printing sections, you know, they're taking different parts of the Reb and his relationship with Rab Groner and they're publishing them as sections. So they have a little section over in the end of the second volume about Rabbi Groner going to the country, label grer going to the country. And it's it's so interesting for a lot of reasons. One of them is by Groner apparently did not like to go to the country. He didn't like it. He The unfortunate reality was he had a wife and he had kids and his wife was one of the most lonely women on the planet. You know if you got married to a secretary of the you knew you were second. It's very hard >> on any woman on any person. But if your husband was a mas you were second came first. That was the conditions of the marriage. And on top of that they went to the mountains. She her whole life is sacrificed. Beis the wives of the the mosquium. >> It's unbelievable the degree of their sacrifice. They never saw they never they never husband Kam Kami came home. So it's 2:00. This is this is not the story I want to tell. This story I'm telling you before the story I want to tell. It's 2:00 Friday afternoon and label's in the office. It's Ed of Tishab. Tishab Chavis or Yeah. The intercom rings. Leil picks up the phone. I'm calling him label. Yeah. Yeah. Rabbi Gro picks up the phone and the Reb says to him, he's the only person in the office. The Reb says to him, the bag of shab, >> you think you're going to go to the country for shabas? He said, "No, [laughter] >> I think there was a invos over here." He didn't like I don't think he liked it too much. But he tells that work. So the says to him, >> I think according to there's no for you not to go up to your wife and your family. There's not going to be a don't worry Shabbat. You'll make a minion. If you're very worried about a minion, there'll be a minion for you Shabas in the country for go. So he got into the car and drove to the mountains. His wife was not expecting him. He shows up and his wife says to him, she's a very sensitive lady. His wife says to him, "You know that last night I was laying in bed and I was dabbing to the you'll come for Shabas." She didn't tell him. The Reb told him I was laying in bed. You'll come for Shabas. To her, it meant so much. you know that her husband came to the mountains anyway this was so moving to him so [clears throat] he wrote the story into the you know this book this mo book just to read about him and his wife and the rebates it's just so sweet father to them he was so close to them there was so much love they were afraid of him but the wasn't afraid of him the philip shaft so when he came back after shabas he wrote the story into the rebba He wrote the what his wife said that she lay in bed Thursday night and saying oh if only my husband will come and he came. So the brought an answer and it was to her. She didn't have it easy. She raised the kids alone. She raised the kids alone. It was a very hard life. and and says the Reb wrote when you see a nest from the you have to use it as a tool to remember that the Aish is in your life always when you when you see such an incredible G that's what this was you have to make it as a that you should when when you're in a bad mood and you feel abandoned Dish is there this this becomes a proof for that that's never wrote to her to him to her whatever it But what I said in schul was that [clears throat] label used to write a duke to the rebba of his trips to the mountain. You have to understand when label grower came to the mountain there wasn't label grown's problem. It was the whole bungalow colony's problem cuz he would report to the hour by hour what happened in the bungalow colony. If the knew Sunday morning so when label came you have to behave because it was his job. So what do you do what 2 o'clock and 2 o'clock to 3:00 and 3:00 to 4:00. So label gave hour by hour. Friday before we had such and such Friday night and after women got together and he describes everything to the spir and in all the letters that he publishes. He publish in the back of the book of the second volume. They publish a whole bunch of these letter letters that answers often often but always about the never about the David never about the learn about the only about the when I read it I mean I'm a tight person I'm not a I'm I served at but I teach I put a film on yen you know but I this job I don't look for y put I find y put on the acknowledge only the so what I said in the and I think it's true is the truth of the matter is we have no connection to the we're so far away there's no kh the only is when we do what he says he didn't say we should learn he didn't say we should he said go he's acknowledging Not because is more important than diving and learning but because this is where the is responding to the he's responding to where have a connection and in our generation that's what it is. You know when the rebba gave dollars there were people who asked theb why he's giving dollars to so the said who give it to the ku go to the sit and keep saying and the said to this person really you have to reward a person for learning like come on it's obvious that's what the told that person but but I I believe that gave because if you want to talk about our relationship. We have none. None. But the Reb gave us things to do and we do those things. As small as we are and as great as he is, we're connected. That's the bond. That's the gave because doing whatever asked the saying shouldn't learn for it was very frustrating to the if we didn't learn but that's not where the cash is. The cash is time. So I said this in the guy sitting there who's a guy who's a big he learns day and night. He's a very special person and the truth of the matter is if anybody needs a kabus he needs panosa come speak to me privately maybe you can arrange you should learn t and he'll have a couple of dollars it'll be a win-win he's a special special younger man and he push needs posa and it bothered him very deeply it bothered him that I said this why I'm sure he does also but he's a person so after the fabin he came over to me and he said he didn't say you embarrass me but I did embarrass him I embarrassed himself. So I didn't answer him. He he was I didn't answer him. Shabas a couple of days after I saw him in so I went over to him and I said to him, listen I said we all have lives. We all have lives and we do a lot of things in our lives. Some of us are breakfast everything. We're not all to have that absolute bond, but we all serve. I said to him, there needs to be something in your life that you do for that. It could be, but this is not that you're learning for you. This is that you learn as a doing forever. And this is where the connection is. And where the connection is, you see the I I'm telling you that I know this in my life. I don't have miracles in my teaching. I had miracles in my when when I do what's my job, which is to teach to people. It how do you have a miracle in teaching? Okay, it's hard to explain, but I I'll give a and I'll prepare. I usually prepare and I'll give a sh which I did not prepare. It's not my words. They came from someplace else. It happens often and I and I feel that this words wears in my mouth because I'll say things that I that I didn't know. I don't see it in other things. You see the in the things you do for the and this is true for I mean I have students I mean just like you guys business people they travel with that film and they find people they put film out of the wackiest places. They find the weirdest Jews. Nobody else is ever going to reach them except a businessman. This these when you do something because you're because wants you to do it. This is your connection to the this is your and this is where you see the the miracles. You see the in your life in the parts of your life that you serve the I that's how I feel and it's a good it's a good policy. You know you want a better life. Yeah. You want to go to the Reba, do what the Reba wants. Cuz in that you see the Reb. You see the Reb in the things in your life that you do that that connect you that bind us that connect us to the Reb. The Reb gave all of us a job. There's not a Jew on the planet doesn't have a job is concerned. We have to do it. And if we do it and when we do it and where we do it and how we do it, it's not only this. This is where we see the we see the in our lives in our I really believe that and I believe that this is not just true for a person who is officially if you're a root where every week you meet a few and you put on them or whatever your or you bring this person to that person mat before pes in everybody in their own in their own aoid in their own in their own connection to the rabb this And if you make it more, you'll see it more. It's very simple. If you'll do it more, you'll see it more. It's I'm just making a suggestion to understand that this is this is the you see the and it's a good idea to increase these activities. I mean business people have opportunities that don't have. Everybody knows this cannot reach all the Jews in the world. There are business people that that cannot reach. You could and the only reason the reb would say the only reason you're meeting this person is you put film on him or talked about whatever it is. And that makes us that connects us to the it it culminates it reveals it celebrates this. It it literally reveals the which is so this is a suggestion. It's a practical suggestion. I I think you agree with me. I think you know that in the parts of your life where you're closest to the is closest to you. So you should increase it everybody. We want now. My wife. >> What's your name? David. >> Hi David. >> My wife works for >> What's your name, sir? Klein. >> Shim Klein. Go ahead. Shim Klein. Are you a >> Mr. Klein? Middle Klein. >> This is my website, sir. >> [laughter] >> Look up and if you like it, you'll look at me again. >> Nice to meet you, sir. My phone number is on there also. >> Okay. My wife works for federal court, a court reporter. >> Two years ago, she was doing a case with a judge, Brian Kogan. She's a reporter. >> She's a court reporter. >> So the trial of judge was Brian Kogan. She remember she looked we were talking about hate t the haters book fair 21. Remember there was a junior lawyer Brian Kogan. After she said after hours she she rang the the the secretary of the judge. Can I ask him a question? She goes up to his chambers. He said is it possible you could been this lawyer back in the hat bookkeeping? He says yeah I was a junior lawyer and he >> on our side. No, the other side. He is the actual lawyer who deposed the rebbitson. So my wife asked what what is your opinion because you're you're opposing you're the losing side. He said it's impossible that was a inheritance case. And what did he say? It's part of the inheritance case. There's no way that we should not have won. We should not have won. Then he said he said he didn't win. Barry should have won. Well, the way I've explained a little he didn't want to dig too deep with the judge since he explained how he tav became >> but what about his impression of the rebbitson's very good he he he his impression that he called him rabbi ra Rabbi Mendel and Rabbi Joseph they thought that was the rabbit wrote a letter to on behalf of the sarum and he think that that was like not a true statement that my brother said how do you think that the head rabbi I bought been lying but they have a jilt different point of view on everything. It's very interesting fact she said explain to them how it became you know Christ said >> the trial was 3 weeks Monday to Friday the last Friday of the trial was around this time we left the judge suddenly says I want to look at Mrs. position that position again. He sat down and he watched her for 10 minutes and he kept on saying remarkable her testimony deposition. >> He wanted to see it again. D [screaming] I La the camera's on. Yeah. Be careful. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I need you once in a while. >> Amen. Thank you for asking. Randy a lot to your father. All La la. Y [clears throat] all La all d.