History: Reb Yoel's outreach to Baalei Nigla in 770 during the 1960s - New vort from Reb Yoel

i remind myself of our machia one of the things that is not spoken about or maybe not known even is that as being part of don hola say yeshiva the administration of the bhavat yeshiva in various at various times in various positions he was called upon by the rebbe through the senior mashpeem and menahalim jacobson of the mentalic to assist particular students at the time in the fifties and sixties into the babachi yeshiva bedford and dean and 770 there weren't only the bahrain students there were also bhakra that weren't chabad that didn't come from the barbecue homes they came from hungarian homes polish homes romanian homes with fisher homes but for sure they were much less but there were a few and the han holla wanted them to become the bodhich they're learning in other words but they didn't do it like uh become the babbage they did in the sense of in the adler way in a refined way and who do they call upon in particular was rabbi mentalik for nigler for gemara he was with his smarts and his warmth and his siddhis kite and also the fact that he didn't have to take attendance and give marks on tests and discipline the students that wasn't at all his job description so naturally it was much easier for a student to feel good about him because he didn't kind of demand anything of you except lyrics at this asked me your questions so he was he was able to have the freedom and the ability to to be like buddy buddy with a with a student you know but nevertheless the the the the other administrators uh of the yeshiva wanted that these non labor these boys from alabama homes should ultimately become of the rabbi and the baby should see them and the lyric citizen go to fabregan's and in particular if they saw someone was a kaylee someone who was like you know mukshar someone who was had the the smarts had the heart had the the the sensitivity to go in that direction they put they they put more emphasis on that type of a student it's right it's not right i'm just telling you the way it was and the way it is in many yeshivas and i could give an entire lecture on how this was in the literature she was going back to slobodki and berlin uh this is not my hidden this has been really documented by nathan kaminetsky in the making of a goddess and um trust me it was a lot worse than where they actually you know uh deploys to get the better bakarim the better students they yeshiva and those that weren't so great they didn't mind that they went to other yeshivas it was a whole ceremony but we'll leave that for another time i've written about that and and uh i think it's a very important uh piece of historical information regarding the yeshiva world i wrote about it particularly in my book rabbi hutner anyway so there's one booker and i happened to meet him this week the the younger man that has already he's older than me and he told me that at his wedding that y'all came it was in borrow party you know and after the wedding if y'all sat down if i bring you talking about you know 11 twelve one in the morning and there were a lot of laboratories because he learned to serve a seventy but he you know he didn't become uh a hazel above church and they didn't marry alabama but your wife but uh very fine uh so he said that was for bringing he says and and he was for bringing with with me and and about me and and he said this this vert and this is the line it says a soldier from the iceland and you have to teach him how to shoot the gun what position what height you know what angle that comes from a superior from a from from the one who trains the soldiers albert elaine but the shooting itself the actual shooting that is required and done only by the soldier that no one can train you how to do you have to shoot i'm thinking about this words what a what a rich verse what a deep insight into everything that we look to do in our life you can have great teachers and great rabbis and great parents and great employers but when push comes to shove you have to do it only you can shoot no one can shoot for you i was saying this to this individual this is after he had he was asked to do a mitzvothans with the collar with his collar and he didn't want to do it because he was he was already very you know lubavitch in a sense that the minhogem he accepted and this was this is not a mini khabar to to do a mitzvothans with the khala with the with the with the bride but he because of his parents in-laws he didn't want to rock the boat and it was a sensitive issue so he went over for a second took the the handkerchief and and just gave a twist to the right in the left and went and went back and if y'all happen to see this and this flipped him out but flipped them out that he when it was for banging this was the good in other words certain things only you could do and if you come to the termination this is not what i want what i what i want to do because it's not the right thing for me as a labacher don't do it he he didn't didn't specify the way i'm doing that and i know you're going to think probably well it's going to cause uh you know mach like this and it's not going to be shalom and they're just getting married i understand and and it's an issue but let's take it away from the particular situation the message is no one can teach you sorry no one can implement your lebanese kite in your city only you you can have teachers and mushvian but at the end of the day it's you that needs to shoot and when i was thinking about this i reminded myself of another student in the 60s at 16 he really asked me her i i know him and very learned and he told me that learned with him for many months gemara in the afternoon because dan holiday yeshiva the older administrators asked nabil to put his eye on this booker to be mccarthy to siddhas to bring him close to the cities so this is uh what we we see uh the the cut at the point i was saying earlier that uh radio's job in a sense was to reach out and and show these you know strong bali [ __ ] the strong students of gemura who have less interest in siddhis and fabrenians and the rebber to be mccarthy of them and with this bucker he learned and the person told me that bureau is a buckinghamshire that's what he that's the conclusion he came to it's gimbal thomas in a few weeks it's a time to to to really think about what what can we do and what will we do for our river and only you can do it only we can do it no one can do it for us i mean hashem help that as we light the menada the monado within us the neshama we should we should endeavor to make ah a sole resolution to make a change within to anything that smells of politics and macholikis and fights and and argumentation and divisiveness don't go there leave it alone forget about it and just go be so just go towards the goal tells us that is the goal nothing less and we're doing a good job at it but we can do a better job the high-end everyone should have uh gevalda geshabas and zaikazu foreign