Maamar Byom Ashtei, 1971 #1- History of Maamar. Rebbe's 20th year, 71 new institutions- RC Dalfin

So good day. Today is um Vador. It happens to be the yard site of the Reb's brother-in-law, Rabbi Shayo Gerari the Rashag. I've made a clip uh I'll send it to you Mr. later a little bit about his life. But the mimer we're about to learn in the same safer we're using lessons in my mim. We're on page 184 and it begins with usher. On the 11th day of Nissan, the prince that brought the sacrifices was um was the the family of Usher to the tribe of Usher. So let me just uh before we learn inside the text give you just brief history. There are p several pages of uh explanation here that Rabbi Elio Talur translated wrote um but the historical part's important he didn't mention this and I will and that is the reb on the 11th of Niss his yad is his birthday 1971 that it's 20 years from when he officially accepted the leadership of Kabad in 1951 He accepted it. In other words, invat but from 51 to 71 is 20 years. We there's a a rule brought in the Rambam and brought in the Mishnand and brought in the Rambam that at the age of 20 a son inherits the father. This has to do with the laws of inheritance and it's called So there is the existential idea of inheritance in which 20 years is a milestone for a successor. Be it your son, be it your daughter, because we're talking spiritually now, not hookically. Okay? Now we're going over to the spiritual ramification of the concept. 20 years in in giddishkite in Judaism in terra is a significant number. So this minimer debis said 20 years from when he assumed the leadership and I I I mentioned that because I want you to have that in mind as we learn the mimemer because at the end it should become clear to you how this mimemer is not just another discourse that he said on his birthday but in a in a way it's a foundational mimer that that that opens opens up for us what he wanted his objective as being the labereeba in America post Holocaust and I assume that that's one of the reasons why it was included in this book lessons in my murm because they chose like pivotal myorim you know the maka we learned before in the first of 1951 these aren't just discourses that he said which he did but they have a greater message and I so I don't know why Tower didn't mention it in in the introduction that he wrote uh I guess because it's more hearsay you know and I'm sharing that Eban everything I've said to you that Ebban didn't say openly you know in between the lines you put two and two together you you could come up with this idea and by the way we see we see a similar idea in a mime that the previous said in 1940 actually um it's printed in the mumm of the previous it was 20 years after he became reb there's some very uh foundational concepts for his leadership and so too we go back to the rebab and we see in the mimer that he said 20 years after he became reb we find a similar a similar idea. So we have a trajectory here of three raim three that that the the 20 the mimer that kind of um sets the the goal and objective uh is is is 20 years later in the rishimus of the rebba in his uh diary in that so you know that that we call rishimus he talks about this concept he by bringing a story that he heard from his father-in-law about aid who said to the Reb, "Oh, you're now 20 years old. So kind of you you're you matured and you've re reached a certain plateau in in regard to his the saying ofus." So we have a a a precedent for this concept. That's one point. The next point is this minor was set in 1971 on his birthday. The next year on his birthday when he actually became 70 years old, right? Because Reb was born 1902. So in 1970 he launched a very important program which also is associated with his objective and vision for American jewelry and and and not just American Yiddishl and Kabadis and all that and that and it's online and both they have now I saw a translation in Hebrew and in English and he said he spoke in Yiddish 15 minutes in which he launched the idea of he said you came here to thank me and you I've gotten received letters of thanks for my birthday I became 70 years old so if you want to do something he says open up at least 71 new institutions it was called Iron Olive Moto And that became a um a uh a goal by every especially theim and the the ones that were already out there which wasn't many but to open up a new institution a new and the Reb said that he's giving 10% of the expenses and he said usually you give the 10% after you you raise 90% then you get 10%. The Reb said and he smiled that this he's he's going to give the 10% now and he kind of was alluding to that he's forcing the hand of Rabbi Khadakov was sitting right there to his left and looking at him who was the finance minister of the Reb he had to do with the you know the books the finances the money to give anyone that opens up a new mid and sends in the information and it's it's verified he's going to give 10% % of the expenses and that's what happened. And the Reb said then that if you if you if you if you make uh 100 misters or more no problem but at least 71 institutions. So that was a year exactly a year after this mime was said. So between this mimer the 20 years of his anniversary of being a rebba and his 70th birthday. So that whole year in other words he's going into his 70 this mimemer he's going into his 70th birthday and what does he end what is he kind of end up end up saying on that 70th birthday in you want to give me a birthday gift open up another institution for mitzvah so that's why you put it all together you you see the very very great importance of this period in his life and and there's other things that we we we could we could look at and and think about to see the significance. So, Bar Hashem when I don't think I don't know if anyone here I don't think anyone here is 70. Maybe Hillil I don't know private but what do you want to say? >> I'm 72. >> 72. Okay. So, >> cat's out of the bag. So, so regardless, you know that >> yeah, those of us that are climbing the ladder getting towards 70, the point is that the number 70 is very significant and um and and it's significant in the sense of on one hand you could say look this is LIKE YOU'RE STARTING TO GO DOWNHILL you know and the by the way in that said people have asked me says uh am I retired hiring. What am I GOING TO DO NOW? HE STARTS OFF THE SA THAT'S THE WAY HE STARTS OFF the talk. He said what WE'RE GOING TO DO NOW IS WE'RE GOING TO START WE'RE GOING TO START SOMETHING NEW A NEW INITIATIVE 71 NEW INSTITUTIONS. So it's a lesson for us in our life that Hashem gives us health the age and he said oh he said this he also said this he says age DOESN'T GO BY THE passport it's all in the you could listen to you should listen to it doesn't go by by the passport that I'm I'm 70 now it's time to retire to play more golf to to to you know etc etc now is a time to build more Yiddish guy to learn more and help more Eden so this a a an introduction to this mimemer and at in in the mimemer he will he will talk about free will which is an important concept but more importantly he's going to come to this point of do you do you serve God for your own benefit or for God and that and that's a central theme in many of his discourses and many ideas of because the BMP taught nothing there's nothing besides God but he goes really into it over here in in a beautiful way. So let's actually start learning page 184. On the 11th day of the month, the each day uh there were there were sacrifices brought identical. And this is to the tribe of Usherish. I'm sure your son Usher knows about this nightmare. It says in Medish, listen to this gul. All the tribes were called by their name in conjunction with the liberation the gula of Israel. Number one. Number two, they were also called by their names the tribe of Usher, the tribe of Don of God, etc. because of their praiseworthiness. So these are two separate things and this is a med. Let's continue. Usher was called Usher for the purpose of the Jewish nation's redemption as we say quote which means and all the nations shall praise. The word is means praise you Hashem for you will be a land of desire says Hashem commander of the legions. Yeah. Next page. Then the measure says so we see clearly that the name is associated with which word? Ash is fortunate. Right. So the idea of of gul is a fortune is is a gaval gazak it's a great THING AND THAT'S WHY USHER WAS GIVEN THE NAME usher then the med says well shame come why was usher called usher from the perspective of praiseworthiness says the medish quote you would say this three times a day fortune is the nation that is to him fortune's nation that god is his god there is no good fortune only because the Jews chose God and so too hashem chose the Jewish nation to be his nation for therefore when usher came to bring the sacrifices the bringing of the sacrifices by the by usher was for the I was in connection with The CHOICE that Hashem chose us the more than all all other nations as we say you chose to be a nation. That is the end of this long medish asks the and we must understand in the beginning the med says the fortune of the of Israel is that we chose God. Next page 186. And the fact that the medish also says that we that Hashem chose the Jews seemingly if you when the medish is the meaning IS THAT'S AN ADDITIONAL POINT. The main thing is we chose God. That's the main thing in this medish. And because of that, WE ARE WE ARE FORTUNATE USHER. WE'RE FORTUNATE THAT we chose God. THE FACT THAT GOD CHOSE US IS TRUE of course, but that's not the primary message of the med. That's what he says. Nevertheless, right after this, the med says the the usher that the name usher is a reference to the fortune of Israel. The says they brought their sacrifices because of God's CHOICE THAT God chosen us. That's the Reb's first question. THE REB IS QUESTIONING THE MEDISH. It seems to be a contradiction. The medish, it's not it's not two meanings to the word usher. It's a contradiction because the the the second part of the medish says that that the REASON USHER BROUGHT THE CARB CARBONAS IS BECAUSE HE WAS giving thanks, praise to God FOR GOD CHOOSING US. Wait a minute. A moment ago you said that the main reason is because we chose God and we are lucky. So make up your mind is is the usher is the fortune because God chose us or because we chose him. That's the Reb's first question. He's questioning the not just language but the the flow of the medish he seems to say is a contradiction. Okay. Number two. Second question, we also must understand choice is applicable when two things are similar. or when when two things or or or when each one OF THE THINGS HAS something that the other one doesn't have. So therefore, you don't know which one to choose and and you compare that to the the God of the goim, the non-Jews. How can you say the Jews chose God? There's no there's no comparison. So too when we say similarly the Reb's question is when we say that God chose the Jews are above the non-Jews in in in this in this sense. So, so the is questioning the concept of choice. God choosing us and us choosing God. It's not a choice. It's it's a it's a simple matter of the addresses this and he says that when it says that he God chose us in us he chose from amongst all other nations and languages who this is not a reference to the soul because as far As the soul is concerned, there's no comparison. But rather the choice was in the body. In the physical material body, corporeal body is compality. Your hands look the same. Your nose looks the same. Everything is the same between the body of a Jew and a non-Jew. And yet God chose the Jewish body. So the alterba has an astonishing uh insight into pira chapter 48 I believe in Tanya 4849 and um SAYS THAT THE PRIMARY CHOICE of hashem in us is not in our SOUL BUT IN OUR BODY. So the Reb says in other words, so we could answer our previous question by saying by using the alterb's explanation. Sob has an issue with that. Let's look further. We need to understand the words of the fact that externally the Jewish body looks identical to the non-Jewish body. THAT'S NOT an explanation regarding God Almighty. Why not? Why not? In other words, WE LOOK THE SAME, BUT GOD KNOWS THE TRUTH. So what do you mean he chose? He chose us over the non-Jews. THAT'S THE WORD CHOICE. THAT'S WHAT HE'S QUESTIONING. It's the wrong word. God didn't have to make a choice. HE DECIDED HE WANTS THE JEWS. NO PROBLEM. A choice. Hashem doesn't know the the EMS. We So this is WE DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. You look at a Jewish body and a non-Jewish body. Okay, imagine you don't have a beard. You don't have Yamaka. You can't tell the everyone looks the same. Hashem made the goof the same. That's a So the human being doesn't recognize the ems. BUT HASHEM KNOWS THE EM HE'S THE CREATOR. SO IF HE HAD IF HE'S THE CREATOR, WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE CHOSE US? He didn't choose us. It's it's it's it's uh the expression in English it's a uh um A NONSEQU IS THAT THE YOU KNOW IT'S like it's he knows the panmas. So the is questioning the language used in the medish that god chose the Jewish people. Let's go on. So to understand this he says we have to preface a it says God is my portion says my soul listen to this medish a beautiful medish this is a a parable there's a a mushel to a king they came into a country and he was he was accompanied by his people meaning he was accompanied by dukes pre preets deputies and commanders whatever different type of ministers one of them said I'm going going to latch myself on to the dukes and another one said I'm going to latch on to the prefix the um the other and a third one said and I'm going to become close. So in other words, each one decided TO LATCH THEMSEL ON TO A MAH, RIGHT? The minister of culture, THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION, the minister of finance. You become close to the minister of finance. They'll give you more money for your for your organization and your and your and your operations. There was amongst them one very shrewd person. Omar and he said, "I'm not going to latch myself on connect myself to the deputies to these makers. I'm going to hang around the king the why the for all of them are here today and gone tomorrow." But the king never changes. That's the Now comes the moral. There are non-Jews nations that serve the sun. Some serve the moon. Only serve Hashem. This is the meaning of the verse. Quote, Hashem is my portion. Next page 190. So says my soul. the that's the end of the medish says the gnome the questions on this med seemingly why do you NEED TO HAVE A A SHARP SHREWD fellow even someone who's not sharp even a young child KNOWIX THAT THE KING IS GREATER THAN THE DEPUTIES WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT TOOK A IT TOOK TOOK A WISE, SHREWD, SHARP GUY TO REALIZE, "NO, NO, NO. I'm not going to hang out with these with these others. I'm going to hang out with the king cuz the king is where it's at." Says, "Be you need a for that. You need to BE SHARP." ANY CHILD COULD TELL YOU THE SAME THING. He's the king. So therefore, what do you need to have this shrewdness in order to choose the king? That's one question under the also another question. the um even if the if the Duke and the others would be permanent and they wouldn't you know be here today and gone tomorrow how you move but it's self understood in other words what's THE REASON THAT THE MED SAYS WHY THE SMART GUY chose the king over the THE DEPUTIES BECAUSE THEY'RE HERE TODAY GONE tomorrow and the king IS NOT SAYS AND IF THEY WERE HERE TODAY WHAT IF THEY WERE HERE TODAY AND I'M SORRY WHAT IF THEY WERE HERE FOREVER THEY DON'T they don't change you still want to choose the king THE KING IS THE king so what's the medish the reason that the MEDISH GIVING GIVES seems to be shallow seems to be wrong that's what his second question especially based on that says on his shoulders and above meaning he was above the rest of the nation meaning that even the the shoulders of the kingd which refers to the emotions which which is drawn from intellect within the head and and below that is above the normal intellect of the of the rest of the nation. A king, a king's midos, you hear this, a king's emotions ARE GREATER THAN THE REST OF THE NATION'S intellect because he's the king. And when you say that when when it says by that from his shoulders above he was greater than the entire nation we mean to SAY EVEN THE GREATEST AMONGST the nation the deputies if so says second question on the medish that he shares here is why does the medish why do we need to give this reason that the reason Why the PIC THE SMART GUY CHOSE the king over the deputies cuz they are here today gone tomorrow. THERE'S NO COMPARISON. EVEN IF THEY WEREN'T GONE TOMORROW, who cares? This is the king. We'll stop here. This is the the So these are the questions and tomorrow we'll start learning the the the explanation to everyone. >> Yes. Yes. And in the in the notes for this section, it refers to a safer called or I'm not familiar with that safer. I know I have Torah or but not or >> Torah is the name given to the third of his his Torah is called or Torah. 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