Klolei Hachinuch by Rebbe Raayatz 1898 - #1 Introduction and history

right this is the latest english volume that uh that produced several years ago but there are other versions so if you don't have this one and yaakov i thank yakova he got us to um online hebrewbooks.org he said i think he sent a link so anyway but an introduction is necessary what is this uh safer we're about to study this treatise so in 1898 fresh news had an issue in the yeshiva you know he was the manager he was the what he would call the administrator of the yeshiva working for his father yeshiva was established is the official name of the laboratory yeshiva many times you you'll only hear it as time and today because we live in a uh in a uh you know modern world uh sometimes you'll hear it do you go to time hey they won't even say time which is the real full name of the yeshiva of the brand of chabad yeshivat yeshivas is now the the the the rebel assad added the name torus emes to the yeshiva that he established in 1911 in hebron and subsequent to that it moved to jerusalem and today it's called tyra samus but tara samus was a division of taiwan for whatever reason he chose the name uh torah samus in inherit israel then there's another name for the yeshivas called me was a name given by the previous rabbit to the yeshiva what they call in in the yeshiva world yeshiva katanos the the the she was for younger division so the name that the the previous rapper suggested and used in the 1940s when there were many of these type of branches was the brothers of the tremendous so we have turmeric is a it's it's part of the verse in simcha's torah we dance with the torah i believe it's the fifth hakafa when we say the supporters of the sincere ones help us and the rebel ashab and that in 18 um in 1898 1898 he stopped over there and he said this will now be the name of the yeshiva in other words although he established the shiva high elo 1897. it wasn't until uh almost two years later during hakopes where he actually gave the name to the yeshiva before that it was not called them because they had no name i guess they called it yeshiva the babaji yeshiva the name came on on simplest torah at the fifth dakota after they read the world before they read the the the section and at that time that abraham said those that learned those students that learned in the laboratory are called tamim which is the plural for the word tamim so you might be in a shul and you'll hear a gabba call up [Music] his name is not tommy his name is and he's not he's not a rough he's not a ralph he's not even a mystery he said he's a bucker but if he learns in the indian shiva some i'm not this is not the way it was when i was growing up no we were called up by her name but today you know everything gets uh more advanced because they're more sophisticated and the greater see them today so so today you might hear in a school someone's called up and then his name when you hear that that means that he learns in okay so here we have a yeshiva that was established in 1897. who did the rebel ashab at the previous rebbe who were the students that first that each that were that established the yeshiva and these students were by large students who came from chabad homes khabad homes and they were very learned and how old were they 18 to 20 years old that's how he stabbed in other words he didn't establish a hater at that time he did not establish a yeshiva katana he established what you call today a yeshiva godaila a base madrid for 18 to 20 year old students that's what he did and they were they were very knowledgeable in gemara and talmud their knowledge of siddhis was minimal now you're probably wondering wait a minute if they came from authentic la babbage khabad families why didn't they know hasidis at 18 to 20 years old and the answer is they did know you know tanya some look the torah they they they had basic understanding of ideas but they weren't immersed in hasidic thought where they studied it daily for hours this that concept of studying hasidis in alabama yeshiva through um three to four hours a day at that time in by the rashad when he established yeshiva he established that that two hours he studied before chakras and two hours before you go to sleep that never was in chabad because the aid there was there there was no official yeshiva although the tsa said already the third rabbit had a yeshiva but it was it was maybe you could say uh you know under the guidance of that samadhika and his son-in-law i there wasn't a emphasis on hasidis learning in a formal way i assume one could learn what he wants and things like that and to be part of the curriculum in an organized way with a rebbe a teacher and a mashbiya i i don't believe they had so it wasn't until their ashab who revolutionized the system within chabad itself and because of various reasons one is that the haskallah had crept into the best of the yeshivas i think i've told you many times that in 1892 the velashan yeshiva that was opened for nearly a hundred years closed and the reason it closed contrary to what it says in various uh books that are printed in your library probably and in the dave's kodish library and in other libraries the reason that cole closed is because the students became masculine enlightened many of them most of them to the point where they threatened don hola and you're talking about people like brisket and then it's if and and others and they basically caution them and warned them that if they do not allow the reading of haskallah books in the yeshiva they will make revolutions and rebellions and and a lot of trouble that coupled with the government demanding that the yeshiva system study russian uh writing and speaking and and russian studies etc which of course the yeshiva was a very frugal yeshiva didn't want to do that so because of those reasons they shut the doors and they never reopened the doors they then transferred to slobodka and you know kamenetz and mir and and all kinds of yeshivas popped up but the main yeshiva in the 1800s for the lit for the litvisher world was velocity and it was a very powerful yeshiva and many great talmud came out of the yeshiva but never haskallah ruined that yeshiva here the rashab only five years later in 1897 with his son the rayats they say were opening yeshiva the elderly when they heard that they were opposed to it and they said you're out of your mind you see that velocity just closed down because haskell crept into the yeshiva system and dominated you're going to be able to make a yeshiva where that's not going to happen you're in the same vicinity and you're dealing with the same issues and the same students okay you have maybe students that come from hasidic background but nevertheless we know that there was already a breakdown in the late 1800s in the most hasidic families too because of of of us said i i hear you i i hear you but the yeshiva that we will make my son and i will make we will create what he called naira's in english we translate that as lamplighters students that not only will be sincere and committed and will reject her scholar but they'll actually ignite the souls of other students to be like them and he said those that want to help me help me and those that don't want to help me have a nice day that's what kind of powerful man that ashab was that although he didn't have a penny to his name he said this is what we're doing and he did it and he had two or three supporters wealthy people and they helped him and he started his yeshiva and he created these tamim and they did not fall into oscar were there battles in the yeshiva there were but as i've told you over the years we've been learning he had he took a very harsh stance and he had to sometimes throw them out of the yeshiva and burn their books in the yeshiva based medrash i mean you can't imagine how this was a mach a pandemic that was going on in russia at the time and that ashab was forced to do things that he would normally not do because by nature he was a very kind person but in order for a scholar not to continue he had to put an end to it and he and he said what will be the tool that will give these students the ability to fight the system of ascola have been learning it informally we're going to organize it and just like you learn the murrah and tysons and rashi mfp and you and you and you and your merfolko you use people and and you argue back and forth until you get clarity the same way i want the students to learn hasidis and that too was revolutionary yes hilo so would it be fair to say that this was sort of the first curriculum in casinos yes not only fair to say absolutely there's not even a question nothing it's not even a question within the entire hasidic world there's not even a question yeah okay anyway so he he um he says hasidis will do it now who's gonna teach us we're gonna be the teachers i've told you this too but i'm always fascinated and i repeat it he chose two people who yet were from the time of the tremors eddie she talked about 1850s 40s 1840s 50s elder hasidim one was named rabbi granam esterman in chabad we call him granum he's known as grena and the other one was named repenta kugel who was known became known as hendel so we have granum and handel they were men with white beards elders see them removed from the world you know i mean and they're gonna be the mushroom to teach and inspire these eighteen to twenty year olds that's what the rebel ashab said and why do i say it's fascinating because graham was really a hussain of his father of the time teddy and his father not of him and nevertheless he felt that only a person coming from the past will communicate the essence of khabad that he got from the past to the new generation so although he doesn't learn my hasidis and i'm the current lubavitcher i put myself aside for the betterment of the students and he chose groenham repando who by the way happens to be a relative of my wife's family and a mental foot of us that whole family so that handle he was he was able to make the transition from the tsa machete to the maharaja and to the rashad you know some people i'm going to use an example that's a little colorful if for whatever reason they end up with a second wife for whatever reason some people are able to transfer their feelings and commitment to their second wife as as to the first and some cannot even if they're married it's not the same in fact very rare in the in in the world of of rebels and hasidim to be able to transfer your allegiance to the new rebel as you head to the older brother and one that's able to do that has us a special virtue okay so handel it seems like because he was the previous rabbit calls him hearts he was all heart he was a heart hustle he wasn't really this intellectual hazard everything was heart emotions and yet he was chabad so he was able to give over his heart and his feelings to the new young rebber who he was older than by quite a few years the rebera shop and these two are the educators okay the yeshiva starts with these these these i think 17 or 18 bahrain there's three different uh gears of 17 18 or 20 whatever 17 to 20 bahrain and in eight a year later now 1898 not eight you know it started in 1897. the rebel shop says we i want that some baharim some students to go to learn in a city called zhembin z-h-e-m-b-i-n which wasn't far from the babies right the yeshiva started in the babbage and he says what i'm going to do is send granum there and handle remaining lubavitch it's not really clear why he wanted that but it could be that since gurena and and and hendel were two different type of people grandma was the intellectual and and and handel was the emotional one maybe felt after seeing for a year how the students are developing that it would be best to to separate them i don't know but that's what he did that ashab you should know micro managed this yeshiva to the t he was on top of it through his son this gave him constant reports of what was going on and they were on top of each student and they wrote reports and it came a time where the masjim had issues with some of the students and what were the issues they really didn't want to learn questions they grew up learning gomorrah even though they came from alabama home some tanya something good to terror but they really wanted to learn hasidis right so so so um so so uh they had an issue so rabbi it sort of growing and what do we do we have a problem here for the previous setup i'm sorry to the manager so he went to his father father what do we do they're not interested in hasidis serious learning said i'm going to give you a treatise of letters that i wrote 10 years prior in 1888 i'm going to give it to you and you take that and make it into an educational manual and for three months that ebb rasha did a previous remember used his father material that he wrote 10 years earlier and that was sent to his brother alone i'm trying to find out why and no one knows so far why what was going on in 1888 that he wrote those letters and treated us to his brother-in-law i don't know why but that's what he says he did and he gave that to the previous rebbe ten years later in 1898 and he spent three months and he came up with this treatise called chloe the principles of education and guidance yes moshe sir i'm just going to go back in 1888 the rabbi rayats wrote the rebel is his brother-in-law who which which which brother-in-law okay okay he married a sister of the rabbit i believe her name was i think okay okay so i don't know why it doesn't say why what was going on then that he wrote those letters you know so i don't know but he took he said to his son i'm gonna send you that you take that develop it make it into an educational manual so that the previous lab three months with drafts going back to his father and his father editing it and finally i believe in ello of rachel munres and ellen 1898 the manual was finished he then gave it to the two mushrim the manual was first was written for the mashpeem for the teachers who were to use that as educational tool an educational tool to succeed in getting them to work better with the students so that the students want to learn hasitas etc so you need that you need to know this in the background that it you know it was kind of written to begin with with a very focused agenda nevertheless what's the name of this of this safer clothing clothing what does clutley mean they translated english as the principles in hebrew the word clearly means claudium rules but generalities in other words this the name and and i i by the way i don't know if the frida krabi chose the name or the rashad i assume that ashab was the one that substantiated the name because everything the previous rabbit did he was working for his father needed his father's approval and so i'm sure that ashab again maybe the previous rabbit chose it and he approved it but that's the name so the name itself is indicative of a general manual which tells you i'm giving you the claim now it's up to you too mush bm and teachers to articulate it in details so when we when when we learn this you'll see some general rules and later he kind of breaks it down a little bit but some things remain general because he did not in a sense for whatever reason write a manual which is all spelled out and i would say given the chabad system is he wants them to use their seiko their brains their intellect to take the general rules and apply it appropriately to the situation on hand because every situation is different so if you were to say you know you must do this well that's in 1898 who says it will apply in 1998. so by writing the rules the klim he says here are the claudium and if you study this klim and you understand this claudium you will know how to apply it in any situation and that's why this treatise becomes relevant today although it was written over a hundred years ago it's relevant because it gives general guidelines for education and guidance another point not only is it relevant to the situation of him to to understand the students where they're coming from oh i i an important point i didn't say so what what is the kind of the one line what we call the marketing the tagline what's the tagline or the mission statement it's a prosecution i believe educate the lads that you could you could summarize the entire country entire essay in that one line that in order to succeed with a student you must understand the student and understand that each student is different than the other student and you need to give a system of hinok of education that's appropriate for that student and which might not be appropriate for the next student and boys that's a that's a lot of work that's why teachers rebbies should get paid a lot more because a proper educator isn't just putting everyone in the room and just giving one share i mean that's you know in a way we do it it but then you have to call the student over and break it down with him individually and see what where he's coming from and that's what he does a lot of in this treatise the previous rabbit talks about where was he born what was the home like was it wealthy was it poverty was it a expansive community was a little shtetl these are things you're going to see talks about because to understand the student that darkly you will give you more success so he's telling the the so he's the freedom that is saying to them you're telling me you're not succeeding and getting them to learn how citizens you're telling me that they are having they they're they're not they know they don't have great obedience and things like that so the rebel asham the previous rep is saying you don't know your students you haven't studied your students you're just a teacher shining light and you're a great teacher and you're great you have great knowledge and feelings for hasidis and all the in the hasidic way but you didn't assess properly the student because you don't know him so get to know your student you'll have more success that's the the foundation of this country's before we go inside any questions okay let's go let's turn to um the first page okay translation and commentary um what i'm going to do is i'm going to start on page 21 and when we finish i will review page 18 and 19 because that's really uh it's it's a synopsis of the 17 chapters but it's really meaningless unless you understand re understand learn and understand the chapters so we'll get back to we leather to 1819 yes was the original written in a kurdish or was it written in yiddish it was written in russian and i'm glad you asked me about that because that's something else that i meant to say i forgot you're gonna the way this is written is not like any other document in chabad this is not written in a yeshiva hebrew of the time and probably not even today it's actually written in a very sophisticated hebrew and literary style very unusual and this is a question that people have thought about for years i saw one uh writer who says that maybe the reason it's written in the sophisticated hebrew and and literary style is because it was the counter the haskola daskola was printing in hebrew books and literature and it attracted the youth because it spoke of us the language was rich right so it could be that the previous weapon that ashab decided in order to get this across to the people at the time and the students we need to you know write it in this uh unusual uh sophisticated hebrew and and uh you know literary style but that's the thought it doesn't say anywhere why it was written this way but you will notice in the hebrew it's written in a very different way than any other you know not only document probably any other document of the time it's not yeshiva hebrew okay but it was written in hebrew 21. so it's interesting he calls it a mimer i don't know if he means here acidic discourse but he does call it mimer uh again the english translation of much of of of much of this is not literal so we're gonna read the hebrew on your own if you want to look at the english or sometimes i'll refer to the english that's fine but i'd like to focus on the actual words of the rebel so my merclaudia this is a minor of the general principles of education and guidance aleph the caption the title for the first paragraph is the field the torah of education education and guidance is an entire torah it's an entire um treatise an idea with many laws many details mustafi which uh come as a result of lipid to have proper preparation and proper conduct in other words what is he saying in this first line and a half that is not something you get by eating bagels and by sniffing uh you know other people's ideas it's a torah schleimer you have to study it and you have to know that there's many details and when you study all the details of education this will create hakshara preparation from the word kashar and it also pre-create han hada from the word la mahani conduct in who will this create this this will be the result in the educator of madrid and the guide and also the hain mizad it will also created in the educated and in the guided meaning the student they too will benefit in their conduct and in their preparation when they will benefit from these um laws the these tyrus lama of hinok it is a great responsibility okay and it's a hard and heavy service with great effort and diligence the agias nephesh effort of the soul the ideas buster and effort of the flesh that is required in underst in studying and understanding so the previous level says if you expect a free and a quick ride in mastering education you're wrong and this by the way corresponds to secular writing and educators we have a plethora of manuals and books on education uh from dr spock to whoever the latest contemporary educator is right and uh it's rebbe says well in yiddish look at his words avoid the kosher vader there's no quick rise here it's hard joini to be a successful teacher is hard a successful parent is maybe even harder but be a guillot zuma one second your decision be a guillotine if you'll work diligently and hard then you'll schritz and not only schwitzing of your body but you just nephesh your your neshama your soul will be invested to the point of your gear you will have good results yes yeah you see yeah the word uh understanding the second line mister theme what of that land of that word the root is the root is his typhus there's a word used in hasidus khabad his typhus his tough foot the the hebrew is the i don't know if it's the root but um just for a moment what's the english word they use here a comprehensive discipline many principles of improper abundance general education treatment so he doesn't really he doesn't really even know he doesn't really address the word but it comes from the hebrew quran what right one man that's why i told you before you're innocent that you know it is very difficult to translate this treatise in a literal from in a literal sense it won't make sense so the okay by translating this but nevertheless what what does the word mean the word which means a result of his typhoon means a result of okay so now he said look go back him which give give itself out express itself its result is to create proper prakim it literally chapters pieces but it means ideas of preparation and pirky and other proper chapters of conduct thank you very much you're welcome okay before we finish um i i want to hear from everyone what was it clear avi yoni yes yes so remember we were learning before facedown a few months ago maybe even about this thing when you learn gemara so you said like you should like there's a word i forgot what you used to get it she said there's something about schmitz but you used a different word for schmidt uh oh i use the word in the yeshiva world they'll say harder than her are you hurting are you hurting right the same kind of uh absolutely it's the same idea your gear your gears effort and diligence so in yiddish it's horrible you know when you have it when you get all excited and you're thinking and you're working and you're a little bit while you get perfect but it doesn't literally mean it means her what yeah they use the word style you know but styke is not the literal meaning of the word anyway um yaakov any comments gekko sleeping okay avi obviously clear okay you're good y'all is it clear thank you okay okay you know i i i need some feedback tonight i just don't want to you know if something's not clear and you need more commentary explanation ask me and i'll try to do it yes marshall what do you want to say i'm just going to say this already is fascinating raising a question in my mind you know we have today we look at today 100 years later more 100 years plus later than when this was written we see that the shiva world in general in general across the board yeah amongst all kugim right is is like wow right but but we don't it's rare at least for me it's rare when i hear about a institute or [Music] learning situation set up to train muhammad to train muhammad how to really to be a real educator yeah but but i i don't know how it's in there to throw but i know here chabad in crown heights they have an entire uh organization that and i know who runs it and they have you know meetings and you know again they they they it's recently new they've never had this so and i think it's not only there's more i i just see there's more that are are doing this but but again again you see the problem is in large yeshivas this is so difficult where this can be more successful is a like you say training the educators but you imagine someone who went through a training session like this comes into a classroom with 25 boys or 25 girls it's very difficult to go you know during the course of a day and it's a difficult thing in a smaller yeshiva and that's why smaller yeshivas are so much more popular now and it's an excellent thing that there are small yeshivas yes it cost more probably tuition wise but nevertheless it gives the mechanic and the educator and the student the ability to accomplish more of what it says here you know but this is a revolution and you should know that this was used i mean again he writes this in 1898 they started to use it in the yeshiva and we see we know those students and we have their great grandchildren alive today and we see clearly that something worked and remember you have to always remember you're fighting against enlightenment toscala or today you're fighting against the internet and the and the gadgets and all can sit still and no one hey and everyone hates to read and people don't write anymore you know so we're confronting that issue today they will come right so you have to you have to put that into perspective so just as the battle was against haskell at the time over 100 years ago now we have another type of battle but with this type of an approach you he says you will have success and and we and they had success then otherwise yeshiva would have closed up and the khabari it never closed up they had to run away in 1815 they went to kramerchuk in ukraine and then to the stove and the yeshiva the yeshiva today is a continuation of the yeshiva never closed captioning not definitely available but as he says and that's in that second paragraph it's a lot of work and um you know and i what i said before about paying teachers i really meant it because if we could if we could create such a teachers and educators they're worth every they're worth more than they're worth everything because they will raise a new generation of leaders and healthy people you know what i'm saying so it's an investment i mean and that's why you know um we need to invest in education you know it's popular to vest to invest in a cabaret house or in the face uh outreach organization everyone you know it's all important college campuses it's all important i'm not saying it isn't but as educators you need educators and not everyone is an educator and in the past as some of you know who are a little older you had in talmud taurus in america and it's so inaudible i'll tell you one of my grandchildren has a a rebbe the rebbe picked him up or pushed him you know and it's like and you can't get through the ramp he's been doing this for 30 years the kids are wild no question about it you know but hey you know and it's very hard to change an old horse excuse the expression you know so we have issues you know this is this is part of the issues um hopefully we will uh understand this and share it and um you know it will benefit us but again it can also benefit us as parents and grandparents okay we'll learn tomorrow again have a great day and that's here so thanks