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Maamar Ze 1929 #1 - History of Maamar said on Rosh Hashana in Brownsville - Purpose of Creation
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if you want to just take a few minutes
before we begin the actual mimer
uh
tell you what the mushroom what the
objective over here is
the objective is to learn tighter
and to learn taita in a group setting we
call this a
kylo they're large kylo lim
and small kylo lim kaila means to be
inclusive
so when when jews sit together they
study tighter together they're all
united and included hence the name kyle
we'll learn
i'll give a share
two or three days a week on this the
first 9 30 to 10
then you'll study with a partner
javarussa
review that shear and continue
learning the mimer
and then the last half hour
you'll learn with the havrusa the co the
kit
or the code of jewish law i want to
start with the laws of
ello
on 28th
semicolon
and then we'll go back a bit hashem to
the beginning
and i'll give once uh
once a week uh a share
on a contemporary halloween issue it
won't necessarily be
connected to the actual text that you're
learning it might or might not be
that's
my general structure for this program
right now
what'll be later
see you know if there are more
students and
we'll deal with it then and i'm open
suggestions after the share of while
while you know you could talk to you
about your ideas
i want to give you a history we're
learning the mimer that the previous
rabbit said rabbi yosef hits hook
in 1929
in hebrews toughly sadiq but the english
state was 1929.
thereby the previous rebel
came to america in 1929 for
september
september 12th 13th
he came
for
two reasons one
to strengthen
the yiddish kite the level of observance
amongst
jews in general and
people came from chabad families from
russia
and we're now in the united states in
philadelphia in in in baltimore in
chicago and st louis
and he traveled that entire year
visiting them
that was one reason why he came
at the time
they
the ones who came over
had
found that their children were moving
away from religious observance
and they felt that if the rebel would
move to the united states and they knew
about his difficulties in russia when he
was forced to leave a 1927
russia
they felt if he settled in the united
states
a he would be
mo he would accomplish much more
personally
as a hasidic rebbe as a lab
and and b
he would really make a difference to the
student to to the to their kids
and that's why for example there was a
big push for him to come to to come and
settle in chicago
the two main
competition cities for the rebels
settling were new york versus chicago
he had some very strong supporters in
chicago and he had agreed initially on
the i to the idea after this year that
he spent traveling
and then all of a sudden he makes a
u-turn and he he goes back to he goes
back to
the riga where he lived at the time
in 1931 and his secretary writes
a fake and writes to rabbi israel
jacobson who was one of the um
in in new york who was
the lead of the communal activist and he
writes to him that
i've changed my mind
we don't really know at the time
why
that was the case but i investigated
this and wrote it in one of my books at
great length with many details and
sources
that
he came to realize and he says
the people here in america including his
his his his people his hasidim or or or
or people who work i see them of his
father and his grandfather
they mean well
but they they they look at me as a
fundraiser
i'm not a fundraiser i know how to
fundraise and i know how to do it well
i'm just paraphrasing
right
but that's
i'm
was i'm a son of the rebel ashab the
fifth rabbit
and i have a job what's my job
to teach siddhis
to inspire jews with the teachings of
siddhis
and he says there's little interest in
that
and therefore i've changed my mind i
will not come to america
you have to read his words because
they're so powerful
in a way astonishing but at the same
time
it really tells you what the job
of the barbecue river is
teaching see this to eden to inspire the
nishama
and
just to you know build a you know have a
building and have people and then and
not
and and and then it's it's it's about
you know finances and things like that
he said that's not me get yourself uh
get yourself a fundraiser you know get
yourself a director
so he changes his mind
while he was here during that year in
each and every of these cities that he
visited
he said hasidis in addition to meeting
people in which which in what's called
yeshida's private audiences with people
and he spoke publicly he also said my
moral
hasidic discourses which we're going to
begin learning soon one of those my
moral
he was brought from the boat
where he arrived
to where i live called boro park
brooklyn
that's as crown heights you all know and
his neighborhood called borough park he
came there because
rabbi elio simpson
was
the was a rav there of a shul and he was
a chabad hosted he was a student of his
father's
and he was very close to the previous
surrender and he had just opened a new
shul
in 1929 and he inaugurated it with the
rebbe's arrival
and the rep and it had three floors i
believe and the first floor was the
shule the second floor
was the residence of of the previous
simpson but he gave it to to the
previous rep
if you uh watch the living torah of the
rebels arrival 1929 you'll see he's
standing speaking from a porch it's that
house that doesn't exist anymore on the
corner of 14th avenue and 46th street in
brooklyn
it used to be that that that property
was housed since it was it burned down
and it changed but that's where he was
anyway
he
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then
for rosh hashanah of 1929
he went to brownsville brownsville is
another neighborhood in brooklyn
and brownsville was known as the
yerushalayim at the time the jerusalem
of america
because brownsville had hundreds and
hundreds of
orthodox rules many of them hasidic
shoes as well some large edifices
buildings
and basically anyone anyone anyone
everyone that was anything in the
community lived in brownsville okay so
it was like the the hub of orthodoxy
so it was suggested to the river
that borough park is a nice great place
but you don't really have
the jews that want to hear your hasidahs
and that need to hear your qasidas so
why don't you go for rosh hashanah over
to brownsville and he listened
and he went to brownsville
there in a show called a goodis
which is lubavitch
on 195 watkins avenue and i actually
went to brownsville a few years ago
trying to find the building
not only is the building not standing
it's now projects
but
the uh
it became a like a mirror of you know
like uh you can't you don't there's no
cars there's buildings and just walkways
but that was actually where that shule
was and
hashem there's still a jew in quran
pesach goldman who was my eighth grade
rep in yeshiva
who grew up in that show
and online you have pictures and i put
it also into the book so there ever
and
said
davin did that true
and he said a mimer
the second night of rosh hashanah after
myraf that is the mimer that's right
before us
so i've given you the history
of the mimer
and i feel it's important you know in
yeshiva we don't learn citizens this way
we just open the book and we start
learning
but
i believe if you understand the
background of the mimer
the the history of the miner
it adds to
some of the things that are going to be
said in the mimer he's speaking to jews
in brownsville in 1929
and there were about thousand i think
there were two thousand people that
listened to this mimer
the mimer again is about roshana but it
has a very practical
what we call aveda part to it
and avoid them means service and
practicality
the truth is
all of siddhis including the most
intellectual ideas which we call
haskallah
intellectualism
has a practicality to it but you need to
explore it and find it because
the rashaab the rebel ashab the fifth
regular babbage
he said you know basically say the
arable bunny there are four sons
the the
the russia the tom and cheney de alicia
who is the russia
someone who doesn't you know who doesn't
want to follow is not interested in
following god's commandments and torah
rashab said yeah maybe literally that's
someone who's a russia but i'll tell you
who's the russian he said the russia is
someone who's a mosquito
a mosquito meaning he always seeks only
the
intellectualism of the text
and that's what interesting you know the
spheros the emanations and his house is
different than this and
and if that's all that he's looking for
the rashaab said this is the fifth
labacher i consider him a russia
i know you know it sounds terrible you
know but what he meant is that if you
learn siddhis
paraphrase if you learn siddhis and and
the objective of learning to see this is
to to know another mimer and to be
smarter and all of that that's not where
it's at
it's also important but the objective of
this is avoid
to refine ourselves and we all need
refinement there's no yi that doesn't
need refinement if someone says they
don't need refinement don't talk to them
i mean you know stay far away from them
the the basic element of yiddish kite of
terror is avoider so this is my muram
that's why i chose this volume and
recommended that you buy it is because
they they've collected at least the
volume one many of the avoda mymorim of
the frida kahraba
and
humbly speaking uh if i may say so
i think we should be learning these my
moral
i think that all shules and rabbi should
be teaching these my moral
these
other my mora and believe me i've
learned them and i
know quite a bit about them
it's nice but this is this is real so
let's see what he says okay i'm gonna
read the the text and go on and then and
and if something and please ask this
isn't the you know a lecture this is uh
learning a minor with you
page
34.
based on it by the way in a minor i was
taught by mahmoud that the heading of
the mimer the title is important so we
also actually uh say it based on it with
the help of hashem
based
on the second night of rosh hashanah
which is 1929.
new york
the the next line is the uh publisher's
line so we're going to skip that it's it
it's very good it gives you a kisser it
gives you a concise
uh synopsis of what's going to be in the
text but i'm going to go right to z
we're saying in the in rosh hashanah
this is the day rosh hashanah it's the
beginning of your actions god created
the
world on this day
it's a commemoration
to the first day of creation of so it
seems
this is a a statute uh for for for jews
for jews israel
mishpot judgment will okay yaakov to the
god of jacob let's go into the text
basically the previous rabbit says what
the verse is telling us is that the day
of rosh hashanah is the beginning of
god's creation
god's action
so right away he asks questions and also
it's important for you to know as a
general rule
in a hasidis in a minor of khabad
hasidis
we're not so interested in the questions
and we're not so interested in the
answers
we're interested in the context which is
basically most of the discourse the
questions and the answers are there
because if you don't have questions in
the beginning and you don't have an
answer at the end you know you're going
to say hey
give me a question give me an answer
so they also included questions and
answers and i i i know it sounds like
i'm belittling it i'm not be living
linging it i just want you to understand
that sometimes you say is this a
question
that it's not the question it's what we
want to get in the in the meat and
potatoes of the mimer so what's the
question over here
those are words usually commonly used in
hasidis
we must understand
that is the sixth day to creation
the elo on the 25th of ello this month
is called el mark it's on the 25th of
this month today is the 10th available
and 15 days from today
it's the birthday of the world the world
was created
when is rosh hashanah not on the
birthday of the world rosh hashanah is
in the day when man was created
six days later
the sixth day to the creation
in this regard our sages said quote
the back and and the preface the
beginning and the end the end of the
beginning you create it and it's and
what does that mean he explains
man was created elio man was created at
the end of creation
the last days
although man in his very essential
quality
is
precedes all of creation right
when was man created at the last day the
sixth day but what was god's intent with
creating the fish and the stars and the
moon and everything else
man
so technically
he was created on the sixth day but the
kavanagh the intent the purpose the
objective is kedah so that's now the
verse that says
makes a lot of
sense he was created actually last but
in purpose and objective he's kedam he
precedes all of them
so that's now that's the way that
explains the verse
his actual creation was later
he concludes his question the rabbit
concludes his question
the verse here says hello the verse says
that that that's
what
this day rosh hashanah is the initial
the beginning of your action it's not
the beginning
the beginning is the birthday of the
world six days earlier that's his
question
all creatures were created before man
so if you're talking about the creation
of man which is the objective it's not
it's not the beginning of your action
it's
okay
and as the saying goes
listen to this quote
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if a man sins transgresses
we say to him
even the net
precedes you in other words
who are you
you're a big shot you're a big guy
you're committing a sin you're doing
whatever you want hey
fella this little gnat that's a nothing
was created before you created so
what does that hazal what does that
statement of the rabbis imply
that that that that you men that that
you man come after
the creatures
and that's why when someone goofs up and
transgresses we say
hey you're nothing compare you came at
the end
you know what did they say in english
johnny come lately big deal
big deal
so this this casal that ever uses here
that cites here supports the idea of ah
the question
and it supports this question and it
continues further
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that man
has a precedence over all creatures in
objective and purpose what is that for
who kasha miss neighborhood that's when
you do what you're supposed to do
but if
your behavior
is is one
that's
antithetical to god's god's purpose
hey we don't need you
you were created for a purpose
of
if man boasts
and says hey
i am better than all creatures
but negotia aim it to aver but yet his
behavior doesn't denote
then the rabbis say even the nat takes
precedence over you the uterus is before
you
the incain he concludes this question
[Applause]
the beginning of your actions so that's
the end of the first question
is it clear if not now is the time to
ask yes
creation yeah
yeah i don't know it's a good question
and i haven't seen it actually
asked on citizens but
it's something to look at what i would
also do is
you
take out that passage and to look at
them first from there maybe they add
something that can explain that
yeah so i gave you some homework
invite them
yo
another question
mark is it clear
okay
what does it mean
that the day of rosh hashanah is a
commemorance a remembrance
to the first day of creation
of creation
[Music]
it's called elio the beginning of
creation
remembrance of the sixth day when man
was created
the what the god who who wrote the verse
in the torah
was was you know skimpy on words if he's
already writing words and giving words
he should have written the right words
what are the right words that the sixth
day is a commemoration as he caught on
memorializing
the yomashi to the sixth day not to the
first day
for the same right if the choice of
words say it correctly don't say it
incorrectly that's the second question
beyond me you're following
mao liyam
and what is liaison
what does it mean
to the first thing so that's the second
question question number three
another thing needs to be understood it
says
a law for israel a judgment for the god
of jacob
this latter part of the verse explains
the opening
the reason
that that rosh hashanah which is on the
sixth day of creation
the day when man was created
and we don't
say that rosh hashanah is special
because the world was created happy
birthday world
claim
the verse is saying like this
you know why it's called keyless
massager although man was created on
friday right on the sixth day
not on the first date
because there's something significant to
hoaxley who mishpochah of
god judging
the statue laws
let me finish the
simile in the movies
says i don't get it
i don't see the connection
how does
shalom how does the the the
yakov how does that explain why it says
obviously that's what the verse is
trying to do but the rabbit's question
is i i don't explain the logic okay
question number four
[Music]
then it says regarding the
the the countries
who will be judged
by the sword
who will be judged by peace
right
russia ukraine swords
those swords that started over there it
was february forget when right
already last rosh hashanah there was a
judgment in heaven that there's going to
be two countries that are going to use
swords
that's what it says right here
i mean that's it's
quoting the verse
the azales show
if you come across throughout during the
year
two countries who are living peacefully
that's coming because hashanah god
decided hashem decided they should live
peacefully
then he says further as a lot of savior
which country should be
should have hunger and we should be have
plenty
of
pokedo
and creatures are remembered
for life
meaning that there should be life
you know a person passes on and things
happen the tragedies i'd have to tell
you
it's all
preset we don't know
but rosh hashanah is the nerve center
that has everything
that's going to happen throughout the
year
the noise of the tech when our second
line of 35 the noise
that so the overall concept is that the
day of rosh hashanah
it has an association to the beginning
of creation
so so this is the way he's explaining it
the fact that
there are
things of sorts and peace hunger and and
plenty throughout the year
that's all decided
on rosh hashanah so what what the verse
is doing is if i understand this
correctly this is what it's doing
you're right
you're right you know man the emphasis
is man
right
but
creation of man on this on on
on
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on the sixth day of creation but
nevertheless
the impact impacts everything in the
world
so this is an important the kuda
important point
that
all of the world all the non-jews and
everything else everything is determined
if someone asks you a question
someone asked you a question
are non-jews are gentiles
judged on rosh hashanah
is there
any correlation specialty of rosh
hashanah to
the gentiles in the world what would you
answer
what'd you say
yes
exactly exactly
that's that's that's what he's saying
here but we're just clarifying it
so
when we talk about the reish hashanah
being
the the beginning
the beginning for mankind
it's not just for years
you know
i'm not i'm not
going into you know halloweekly and
i'm talking about
in the global
metaphysical world we understand clearly
that this is the case and as you said
and that's what he's saying here it says
valentine's boy omar
okay
nevertheless
although
it's true that register has an impact on
all of the world
what's the emphasis
other man
and therefore the lazy caught on the
involved
so in other words
what he's answered now this question
that he asked before why does it say a
remembrance currently
and not as accordingly involved and i
believe what he's answering without
really elaborating so it's brief and
cryptic
what he's saying is that
that
man's impact impacts
creation
and creation begins from the first day
so that's why it says it caught on the
young region there are different answers
to this question of different discourses
this is what he says over here
yes i see it a little bit different
you you say diff you you see the shot in
the mind but different or you're wrong
go ahead
in online keeper each person is being
judged by himself like specifically a
person
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yeah but how do you see that in the
words of the mind
uh it's just kind of like build up to
that
but you act again you're saying the text
you see it in the text yes yes because
he says
he specifically says not that the
the person is being created by the world
if so that means i can conclude that the
world is being just not the person right
so the work is being judged on rosh
hashanah as a whole
yeah but i don't see you mentioning
young kipper here at all
ah you just wait okay yeah okay okay i
hear you
thank you
now we need
this objective to be realized
right there is
potential
means actuality how do you bring
something from the potential to the
actuality
says the actualization
of this
is
because of the jewish people
we jews
are responsible
to bring this
issue to the world
we have an object so in other words when
you're in shoe under shutting
down you're not only darvening for
yourself
you're pressure davening for the entire
you're simply dabbling for the entire
world
and and and of course you're not just
thinking about hey am i gonna have a
year of life am i gonna have a year of
struggle am i gonna have a year of
accomplishments
that's also important let's not forget
about the self
because a person needs to be healthy and
successful with everything else
but but but it's much greater than that
that's what he says here so he says here
all the medinas and everything else is
totally in the aveda of israel
and this is the way we explain the
continuum
of zeha
and all ideas of countries and creatures
and and the world will be shrill
it's in order
to fulfill
the purpose of creation
and like i said before the rubber saying
this in front of a few thousand people
i was thinking about it he doesn't let
them go home anyone could leave
it was after my roof
what are people most people do have to
admire
they say uh
etc and they go home
here comes the barbecue he comes into a
shoe he's a visitor
and guess what
they respected him so much that they
stayed
and this isn't a short it's not a very
very long discourse but i'm convinced it
took him 45 minutes
he holds them up for 45 minutes 1929
rosh hashanah
because he delivers a message and what
is the message at least at the end of
this the first chapter
is that i like you know i see it in the
words
you know
start thinking and understanding that
your impact is greater than just
yourself and your shule and your rabbi
and your wife and your kids and
there's an impact that astronomer makes
in the world and you the individual yid
davening
and and asking hashem
for a good year and everything else will
impact the greater world that we live in
that's the end of the first chapter okay
yeah go ahead
just a little louder please
i was you know those things that were
created on the banished martial arts
yeah so is that before
other parishioners created or after well
the commentaries you look at the
commentaries there
some say it was before
but look if you wanted a real proper
answer take out the
of the mishnah with the bhartanura
and i believe it's discussed over there
that's the proper way to answer your
question i didn't give you a proper
answer because i don't have the text in
front of me so you need to look into it
but my recollection is that some say
that that
the
reminder
you know
that's fine for you to ask you're saying
a bible is usually not the venue
to
you know
it's another thing that i should have
said before
the teachings and study of hasidis
is not musa and it's not perique office
not that you'll say i know that
let me tell you what i mean
see this some people ask what is see
this give me a a one line a one liner
what does see this
and you really need to have an answer
because you walk here north miami
there's all these from eaten old jews
all around you
you you want you tell me to learn to see
this let us see this no answer let us
see this
see this is the study of divinity in
hebrew we say the study of el ecos
is a study of man i once asked by my
spirit of your khan
about the safer
um
so i asked him
you know kind of what do you say about
it i wanted to hear his opinion he was
the
the foremost uh
teacher of
this
so he said i didn't really look at it
much you know he studied because he
decided
muslims for him he didn't spend time but
he said someone showed it to me once
kind of here you know take a look at
this what do you say
so he told me this line and i'll never
forget he said
i just glanced at it and
he's and he uses a lot the word
means wholesomeness
perfection
wholesomeness of man
you know what you see this is not
them
nullification of man
subservience of man
so that
all of and believe me
anyone that says otherwise is a fool
it's holy holy holy but nevertheless
there is a mahalak there's an approach
what's the mahalaksh
you're looking to be complete
what is the result of that
more eye
now of course
they say
it's important to be clean it's
important to have alacrity to have
cerezus of course
the question is
does that push the i button the ego
button and even if it's a if it's a
refined ego but it's still ego
i exist i am important
or
do we look to find
do we look to find how you're only
important because god wants you to be
important so we emphasize the bitter
the subservience of man the
nullification of man that's it
and that's why hasidis is about the
divine
only divinity only alicus
is
bereft
stripped from from yesh from ego
everything else has eagle everything
else has ego
and god made it that way god hakadosh
made the natural world that everything
has a condition conditioner definition
so when you walk into when i walk in
here and if i walk in this way you see
me a certain way if i take this off and
you see me this way you see a different
person right because i'm already defined
and you're defined so therefore
the definition
triggers
the application
the only thing that is definitionless
is the abrasive is hashed
hashem is pure
hashem doesn't have a definition as soon
as you box hashem into a definition
he's not god i remember zom posed there
of his own polar show and told us he
spoke once i heard him
he said a jew his father was a rabbi in
pittsburgh
so a jew came and he says i'm an atheist
i don't believe rabbi
i come maybe to pray on roshan and i
hold it is but i don't believe
so he says tell me what's your idea of
god and he tells him he says you know
if my idea of god was your idea of god i
also wouldn't believe
we
we create god in our image so we put him
in a box in a definition and then we
have issues
don't put god in a box so what's this
sid this is a type of study and you know
you didn't see it as much today but as
you go into the mimer every minute every
discourse
you walk out saying like
you know
i'm only significant because god wants
me to be significant so with what am i
showing off with what am i
in yiddish we say a word commander for
the word command commander
what am i like
who are you
and that humility
that bittle is what see this about
so there's shlaimus
and there's bitla or them
in other words from the from from
this perspective
man
as an opinion maker an opinion sayer
with be stripped of god
god's instrument
is worthless is useless
and
this takes a lot of you know
understanding a
so you need to learn the text
and b
you know
praying with these ideas thinking about
these the ideas and living these ideas
and in no way and in no way does this
mean i should walk around like a
schlepper i should walk around broken
and it's wrought and and you know no on
the contrary look at the river
look at the little battleship but look
at it
the rebel came from a shtetl
nicolaius
a little bigger restaurant
he went through the 1905 japan russian
japanese war he went through he went
through the first world war he went
through the second world war his brother
was killed by nazis yamashima
he gets married god doesn't bless him
with children he comes to america he
survives the nazis it's a very difficult
50 50 first years of his life very
difficult
and there's a lot more in america
right
anyone
that attended
and some of us actually married and
being by the pharmacist but even if you
see if i bring it online or you you hear
a clip but you hit
no one for a moment think that this
laboratory was a person who didn't
believe in himself
because he had healthy self-esteem
he believed in hashem
and he lived god he was a walking torah
it was a walking tighter
so walking tighter means of course
you
access
your independence
but it's godly independence and that's
what i see this is
so that's why
you come across
discourses where it talks about the
spheros the emanations and this level
and that level
uh my meshbia morristown hillary
remembers our spirit of melee feeble
i remember the first time you said the
story it's it's it's not a story it's a
vert that i thought was fascinating
i still remember it
he says the hasidim of that said the
third rebbe
of la babbage the first one that was the
third rebbe of khabardonez
so they would say
what's the difference between now
and mashiach's time
the aha
what's the aha
and we'll see we won't we won't hear
attilus and bria and spherus and all
these kabbalistic ideas
aha
we learned this
in kylo
on a tuesday
in miami
and it was a concept that either i got
it or i didn't get it or i thought it
was ridiculous i thought it was great
whatever
shia
the realization that divinity that
really costs
is endless
and that's why
when you when you the the
sevik said right eliot
if if i were to know you god hey yes eve
i will be i would be like god how could
that be
how can you be like god
so what did you see them say
not elo if
when you learn see this
if you can be godly
when you learn siddhis
and you're immersed in this
then you are a stick god a piece of
godliness
and and that's that's that's the
importance of see this okay is that uh
what time is it i don't know but they
take your habits and let's learn some
some other title let's see what's going
on