MBD Weekly Chasidus Shiur #2

Yeah, you're blessed. Israel made in Israel unfortunately. So this week unfortunately my my my sugar famous cousin Ari Klein passed away. My wife is sh He was instrumental in introducing me to the Reb many many years ago. Yeah. I came I came. Yeah. Get closer. He actually met the Reb once at a he was singing at at a singing at a what? He was and the Reb was and he walked all the way afterwards to ask for a bomish in the beginning when the Reb came to America in the the early '7s and the Reb gave him and he was he some somehow he connected he got attached to the Reb and I met him that that same week on 13th Avenue used to be a famous restaurant the Cats brothers Bobby Cats I don't know if you guys don't remember probably but it was a famous restaurant that was the the the chtop where everybody used to get together matzah. So I bumped into him over there and he said to me, "You got to come see this. You got to come see this. This is like different different than you've ever seen before." So Shabas is the when we got there was in the summer time towards the end of the summer and after the Reb sat down to learn the fifth dimension maximum. And was like was like so humble and simple. He was like very I stayed there till 7:30 in the morning because the rebal and dimension and after he finished the seeing the people. My brother-in-law was going to Israel the next day. I went home 7:30 in the morning. I couldn't fall asleep. I was like, "What just happened?" I was so blown away. I had a friend from Isis who was here. He had a big problem. He had to run from from the there and his family was stuck in Isis. And I said to him, I'm not going to say his name. Said, "Come with me next week, M Shabas. I guarantee you you're going to have Rushia came along and uh he waited till the end spoke to the Reb and the Reb didn't respond. Reb said to him, "You'll hang around over here. You'll have Yeshua." He started coming every day to dab. After a few days, he said to me, "You got to come. You got to come." The dabbling is like the dabing was whatever it was at 4:00 in the afternoon was early most of the times it was like just before sh I started dabbling every day and he mentioned a few times he went over to the reb mentioned his situation and Reb never never responded he walked in with a didn't mention anything about his problem he just wrote the names of the family And the Reb said to him, "You're gonna hear good news this week." So he u few days went by and he got a phone call from his wife. She had applied several times for visas to come to America. She was always denied. Could be he was on the blacklist. And suddenly she said she applied with a group of other people and she got confirmed and she's coming right after Shabas. She has tickets. has everything. So the reb was in the mikvah at the time by the lind's room next door said go down to the mikvah right now get the you got to say right now he ran down he ran down to the mikvah he ran out to the mikvah and told the rebba that his wife just called that she's coming shabas before shabas she's coming they said no no Sunday ah Sunday I know that was the beginning of his uh yeah what was shabas again how did it work 4:00 in the afternoon how it worked I can explain But besides he put his thoughts until 4:00 in the afternoon. Yeah. Yeah. So when what was in the morning then? There was no morning there was no night. The reb used to sit which is for the he every night with a sack on his head and sat on the floor with a big box full of ashes put whole the whole room was full of ashes tons of candles sat down on the floor by the and used to cry and cry Fry for hours and hours and hours. Fry for hours. I saw it. Of course I did. Yeah, sure. I lived it. Once the reb had come home, he was in Los Angeles for a while. Came off for Pes and you don't say, you don't say, you don't say nothing. And um the first possible day for the was after was Sunday morning. Sunday Sunday on Shabas. So the Rebi used to fast every single day for 50 years. He fasted every day. He fast as Mos he didn't eat corn's bread. He didn't eat the corn cockish cake. He fasted for 50 years. every single day said and you think he that he looked at the watch when when it's time to go eat. No, when he finished and then he saw the people sometimes it was 2:00 at night, sometimes at 3:00 in the morning. That's when he ate once a day. So this Sunday Shabas Shabas used to eat so much food for Shabas that it was just impossible. He wouldn't go he wouldn't go to say as long as his body was not completely empty. So Sundays usually was a bad day. That particular Sunday he couldn't get ready never deviated from his stuff. He was he would dus 2 o'clock in the morning but was putting tremendous pressure on him so he had no choice but chakus he was very upset about it the next day Monday the was getting ready to go back to Los Angeles I stayed with rebone went into used to he got dressed he opens up the door and he says you know what they did to me yesterday and beg please leave me alone today so I understood that today is going to be fireworks I stood behind the door and he was was crazy he was crying such bitter tears he finished started from again for yesterday he did a double head what was he doing in the he learning kabula learning He He was 24 hours connected to Hashem, but didn't matter what it was. He had he had his Oh, he had his things. He had this. He once told me that he once told me that when he was u when he was back by back home, he grew up. Huh? You know, he needs [Music] you know I want I want someone to say nephesh means you give away your yish to someone else to give you goof to sh maybe somebody else. Yeah. So I was I was once with a rabbit at and he was coming we were coming he was coming from a wedding heading from and being there I've seen his aid is crying for the I wanted to see him by by the as we're leaving I said rebal response no response middle of the way like a half hour into the Amen. Ask again. No response. We get to say some you want to come with us. He said I'm scared to go there. I said what happened? I said it. That tells me last time he was there the secret was a cipher who was in charge every Friday to check the secretary's very name. His name was Bianca Klein. He went on. This was way before people were able to enter in the tunnels and stuff. He had the keys. So, so I offered him to take him inside. Said when I went inside, three pillars of fire shot out of the wall. I ran for my life. I'm scared to go back. So I said to him, "Rebel normal people go." Because did me a big favor. He said, "Okay, I'll come." came out of the car. He didn't look up. He was looking down on the toilet the whole time. Was flaming red. After two minutes, he says, "Please take me away from me. I can't be here. We finished." I asked him to bench me. He benched me right there. And we left. On the way back, I said to him, "Rebel, would you once in your life want to say in this place?" He said, "I I'll never survive it. So my brother-in-law Ari getting back to my brother Khaznari Klein he's the one that introduced me to and I own great but not only that but he also I was very shy you can't you can't see it but it's true I I I really my nature is very shy and uh although I grew up in a musical family I'm one of four brothers I'm the only one that never wanted to sing. But I was very close with Ari. We used to play around. I played the keyboard and he sang and we we one day I used to hang out with him. He he has he had two three weddings a night. We sang at your father's wedding by the way. You know that myself sang at your father's wedding. That's why he's so happy. [Laughter] Yeah. So anyway, the uh at at a particular wedding, Yoshi at a particular wedding, he was singing there and he sees me in the corner of his eye and he grabbed me with Kayak, gave me a microphone and made me sing, forced me to sing. The rest is history. What took away? They didn't take away the but Yeah. So he should learn. [Music] Yeah. So let's see the first part was of the and beautiful beautiful safer. He has stuff on the Oscar just came out. I think the whole thing on the Yeah. On his the metal excuses lately failed. Listen, after after the after the article came up with it with Mishnayas, there's no excuse for anyone in the world not to learn Mishn. I don't think not learning what had a problem with understanding the English for me at least. You know, not the art school is going to help it. That was also regardless. No, but heavy heavy there. Very hard stuff. He's almost there. Almost there. But I once asked the reb was talking about I once asked him what age he started saying. He said he was 17 years old. So from 17 to till 100. He was 104. They don't for sure. I'm 406. The last few years he was very shocked. 80 years. So we have a a young man here. His name is Suli. We all know him. Yeah. His grandfather had a murder kimas with the Reb. The Reb was traveling to he. He didn't want to miss one night of the plane missing a night. He couldn't couldn't do that. So he stopped off in London and uh his grandfather had a brother Lipchitz who lived here in America and he used to come a lot to the Reb and he recommended that his brother in London will host him hosted him. Shabbas that broke the tables even labored. But before he left, he went with a quiddle asked for and all his all his and at the end he took out one of these big English coins, the big fat coins, picture of the queen and he asked the rubbish bench to him. So the rubbish bench is for him and he kept it in his little pocket all the time. Fast forward a couple of years, he bought a new bought a new suit and he didn't remember the thing was there. He hung up the old suit in the closet suit, right? We all know that especially when you come from the alter and pesak and pesak he gave the new suit to clean and he wore the old suit. He was a diamond dealer and he walked into the bura to one of the offices to do business before before Pes. A guy walked in a guy walked in with a sh shot him in his chest, but his finger was scraped and nobody understood what happened. He hit the coin and it ricocheted off his finger off and it hit scraped his finger and all his life he couldn't open his finger because of that. But his heart was saved. His life was saved. That's what today. Yeah. Otherwise he would be Yeah. Msum over there. The miracles were like, "Mom, it's under the table." We'll talk about it. Got to leave something for some for some other time. Like crazy stuff which I saw with my own eyes without my glasses. Shabas same letters. A person has to be embarrassed from the Shabas with and to remove all the from yourself. How can a person come to Shabas? in the we're in the butts in the the the garbage like we see by Esther you know she said we can't go into can't go into the king said we'll fast said fast for three days and couldn't go there because he was wearing a sock sacklo for three days so we see from there that three days before shabas shabas called Shabasa. The says that Shabas is called a Mala and every Shabas we have a and it's a queen Shabas and that's why we went to the color is only seven days. So it can't be the same color from last week. It's an eye color. So every week is an eye color and the three days before and three days after the colors in the middle. So she's she has from the Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday is the mitv the middle of the week. Thursday, Friday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and the three days after. We know that uh Monday and Thursday connect Monday and Thursday connected is the so Monday and Thursday we read the safer to because that's why we read the safety on Monday and Thursday because naked Monday and Thursday that's why you had a coin today. So a person has to prepare himself. You have three days to prepare Wednesday, Thursday, Friday on the Monday, Tuesday. So we have to drag on the we got on Shabas [Music] being that we had such an exposure to the light of Shabas. It takes us three days to continue it and then we start the three days to preparation for the next Shabas. We know that had seven seven had seven all the middle one was always burning and that's says that when Shabas gets gives the for the whole week That's the source of all that we get all week comes from Shabas. So if you're tapped in Shabas, by the way, if you ever heard this before, what the uh the ben benes says that whatever you learn in Shabas is worth a thousand times more than you learn in the week. If you learn in Shabas, you learn the thousand. You learn an hour in Shabas, you learn 10 hours in Shabas, 10,000 hours. Not normal. We have such a privilege. They didn't sleep on Shabas is not allowed to sleep. If your if somebody puts you to watch can't go to sleep didn't sleep at night. Adono was the fourth child of David and he tried to overthrow the kingdom. So it says there his father never rebuked him. He never said to him why are you behaving like this? That's why he became so bad. He didn't speak. He didn't rebuke himself to say Shabas. If a person comes into Shabas and he feels the Shabas and he's embarrassed the way he behaved the whole week and he realizes that to behave like How can how can I come? How can how can I face Shabas and I want to go to the next Shabas days after Shabas? He remembers that next last Shabas was and he's looking forward to the next Shabas doesn't act that way because he didn't rebuke himself. That's why he got to that level. How we doing? Somebody stole the clock, by the way. We're doing amazing. I think I think I know who. I can go all day. You put it in the mid. It's here. It's 8:45. Oh, yeah. 9:05. 9:05. 9:05. 95. We have time. There's no rush. No. 5 minutes. Of course. Can I leave a coin? until until tomorrow. Okay. Maknaf was the enle of BMT was a was a sh but there's a beautiful s from him and a lot of from his his grandfather. So this week's par it's good to pay to pay attention. It says three times on the word of they travel. Oh, three times repetitive. He was aem should lead us. should lead us just like a death. How old is your son? Son is one one. He's walking already. Yes. A little bit. A little bit. That's exactly what we're up to now. So what happens when a child starts walking? His father takes a couple of steps and moves back and moves back and moves back until he starts walking. Yeah. His father teach him to walk first. He takes him with his hand and walks him a couple of steps. Let lets him go. He moves himself back. He wants the kid to be able to walk on his own. He gradually breaks him into walking. He does it several times. palm and every time every time he moves further back he wants to make sure that he's walking he can walk on his own without even going back is our very very fundamental when when Hashem brings a person to feel the sweetness of Hashem somebody gets he gets He gets ignited. So the beginning fire and Hashem brings him closer automatically. Nothing to do with what the person tried. Hashem gives you a present. He brings you closer. It gives you a taste of he wants you to do it on your own. So he moves away and he wants you to take baby steps. So first Hashem takes you up to the highest level. He gives you a mish and that's where you can reach. That first gishmak that a person has the way to hashem. That's where every person can reach. And then he drops you all the way down. And now you start walking slowly. Leads us like a little baby out. That's when a person is young. He starts serving. We're all young. Young doesn't mean age. Young means when we f the first connection when you get we get stronger and more powerful even when you're already into the the into the par you're already connected it's the same thing there's ups and downs and ups and downs and ups and it keep on going up not to be asma says Yeah, you'll see no he can never give up is regardless when the kid the kid baby is small regardless in every day even in every single day in every sadic has the same thing he has sometimes he where he's more connected more in tune and sometimes where Hashem yes makes him walk come to me come to moves away from you. [Music] hides himself like the famous has a famous has famous song don't hide from me that's what he's talking about don't hide from me give me open up open up and he does he does an effort to go higher and higher and he gets closer in other words If through the down, if through the darkness you come to the light, it had to be dark to be able to come to the light. So all the downfall that a person has is for you to go higher. So that's the that's his grandfather says, "Give cover to your wives. is you should become rich. Yeah. No, I think says the god said to the wife if you give to your wife [Music] give to your wife. [Music] So if you come to forgetting that you have a dark you have a dark moment you have a dark moment. So the is come to a great moment. So so appreciate the downfall that you have and through that because through that you come to a high level. So a person has that moment of darkness. Don't say forgot about me and he abandoned me. No no no no is that you should become you become greater a greater light. The builders who were moy they didn't like the certain bricks but at the end these bricks became that became the foundation how can how can you look down at the at the moments fine let's go to the next piece what's the story of You got who didn't d huh? [Music] No, he didn't now. Good. You remember? So I said kadeshm [Music] very cold. No, it's not. It's very cold. I don't want push and pull. Yeah. [Music] Now we see the fish but the shouldn't get the solution. Don't focus on the solution. Don't give up. Focus on the up and then all this up. Look forward to the greater up. Can't wait. Yeah. There's no greater feeling in the world that being close to that. That's the best high in the world. The best. By the way, I I my my had a cousin. Unfortunately, he was a heavy heavy drug guy. He was he was doing he was so crazy never he wound up in the bar. His mom is craziest. He was a useim after the war. A young kid he wound up in Montreal and he became a heavy drug addict. At one point in life he cleaned himself. He got clean and he opened a business in New Fountains up there. Was open for six months. Six months shopping and six months was the only store in the area. Made a lot of money. This was going on for a few seasons and at the end put it back in the rains. I was I was in Montreal with the rebel and uh while the reb was seeing people, I ran to my father-in-law's house. My father used to live in Montreal just to grab something to eat. He was there. He liked me a lot. He gave me a nice that nice wedding gift kit. He says to me, I I you got to take me into the river, but you know, my nerves are shot. I I can't stand the line. Got to get me in right away. So, I went there with him, opened the door, took a minute, told the reb his basic his his life story and he got on his knees, got on his knees, said he want the reb to bench me. Reb put his hands on his head and benched him. He never touched a drug in his life ever again. I met him a few years later in Los Angeles. He became a shamus in whatever he um he told me that all the highs that he's ever had in his life, he never felt as high as whenever put his hands on his This is This is cousin like my cousin. Is that a he lived through the war? No, he lived he was like 15 16 years old after the war. Oh, he's a big boy. He lived in the point of drugs and that was the highest high. [Music] So anyone who wants to go uh cleanse himself go to the tea and they say whoever put your hands on my head though I can't put the hands can't like do an extension the extension talking about heavy drugs he was so he was so out of his mind with the drugs he was once walking down 47 street you know the windows the big windows with the crazy diamonds and stuff. He was so ne so kuckoo. He stuck his hand through the door. He grabbed grabbing his head. He was bleeding from head to toe. The trail was following him. 2 minutes later he was he was arrested and he was deported. He was deported to Canada. Could never come back to New York. Never. That's what drugs does to you. He ended up shamish. Yeah. That's the main part. He ended up shamas. He never learned in his life. He made a seas. He made himself a mitzvah cuz he didn't have during the war. He didn't have it's all about when you go up down it's 98. It's 918. Now let's do the stickle. You finished two weeks we can catch up. Okay. Hey, I'm here all night. So let's go. So the next piece on the left side hey person goes up to the he has an aliyah he's not allowed to read the in the olden days when a person had an ali he was he was a balk but his father still do this in some places I think that's why today it's Because of this 100% he's not allowed to read the until he says first made when he was learning interesting. He has chosen this toy and he made it holy and he he wills his those who do not the ones who labor for not the ones who learn to only those those who do those who lamb that was all part of the he'll explain just says This is when he when he learn about doesn't make cuz he's not he's not he's just doing you a favor. You know that kadush is also the same thing the mitzvah is the see the kadush himself. But the mitzvah when he got married, he did. You're looking at me. He does. He does. It makes the turn. When you when you awaken the the the you have to make a you have to make a clear people every day someone has a good time good but the comes they come to I'm out it happens some people the is to make from it you have a good rot don't let it fly by. Do something with it. Make a do something with it. It shouldn't slide away. It shouldn't slip away. What's the How do you make out of how do you make a was the first Did say did you test all the others? We see that Hashem took us chose us to take us out of a different nation. We were we were we were intertwined with the and he took us out and created a nation took us out from one nation. The whole tus of taking us out of was that we should become one should become love to one another and to respect one another and to be one nation. He took you out as as multiple to turn you into one. If a person separates himself, he thinks I'm so great. I'm going to be bleed to this guy. Who is he? Everyone, every looks down at everybody else. Everybody else is gone. He's blind. Blind to one of his eyes. He only sees doesn't see the good. relation. If a person is agus is aud the the little on top of the ud the isma and the is also called in it's called and when there's a connection between there's a connection between and it's the mid of a person of a personal we'll get into it more more details as we go along so you can some of the stuff be easier to understand but I once had a reba sometimes you know we don't know what he's talking about he said listen to it acoustically eventually it'll settle in so sometimes there are certain concepts where listen to acoustically so he says so the the is called the because the lev and the is inside the mid you see on a person when it comes out personal person's person's balance but but the is so if a person holds compared to someone else is a po in the UK and when a person is his brain is messed up so all the come out of the all the other that come out of the moy are damaged because he damaged his brain You know what a person has brain damage? Oh, so when a person his eyes are damaged, he can only see the other person's faults. He doesn't see his own faults. says when my aus pile upon me so I can't see I can't see can't see the other person's mindless when a person sins so we know that when a person does in a certain he cuts off that part of that a becomes cut So if a person is talking in his eyes, we spoke the other the other week. So that so his eyes don't see anything good. They see only like wearing dark glasses. Everything is dark. The is the king of the whole body because any any other part of the body if if you chop something off still live. The chop of a limb, a hand, a foot. We saw a guy walking around here limping for a couple of weeks, but he was was fine. But chop of the head. That's it. The brain, the heart, and the liver. These are the most important parts of a human being. If if these parts go fighting, you're done. The heart, the brain, finished. So if a person damages his eyes because he looks he looks at the other person looks down at the other person he becomes blind can't hear what he's supposed to hear. He doesn't realize that the is everything. It's like when he was being chased by his son who tried to kill him he was running from with his entourage because he said either I'm going to kill him he's going to kill me this lost situation. So as he was running, one of Shalom's descendants, Shimra, cursed him and he threw stones at him, what did Melik say? He was he was a mel. He was allowed to kill him on the spot where said Hashem told him now to curse me. So he realized that Hashem is and it's not him, it's and that we all in our lifetimes we have This guy did something, that guy did something, but it's a big mistake. Nobody does anything. It's all but somebody gets you upset, you have to realize is testing me now because it says in that before Hashem wants to give you something great, I send you a test. If you pass the test, you fly. You fail the test, you messed up. But it's never too late. So we have every single day is a new day. Every single moment is a new moment. We say every day chooses us every day to now. He says today now you're my new my child if you're a child how many how many times did you forgive your son over and over and over again wait till he gets a little older he's a coin will take who is the one that caused everything that starts looking into he goes to psychiatrist the psychologist he's going to tell me what to do go to the go to the toy he wants to understand with his with his own brain I don't understand this If you're going to try to investigate, understand, will you ever find it? The biggest they don't know. They don't know where he is. They have no clue. Says way above everything in existence. We'll get into this some other time that where how did create the world where did he create the world before the world of course created it was nothing only I no space no time not even it wasn't even nothing it wasn't even nothing very well said in order to wasn't even nothing exactly in order to create a world and a space where we can live and exist and have a of you have to vacate a certain space, whatever that means. And they left a turn a little tiny little tiny string of elus which gives which gives us sustenance and life. We'll get into more details about this some other time. But in any case, so even they also don't don't comprehend those days. But a person is we can't even comprehend a little drop what really is. The only way to understand a little bit is to is because himself is I wrote myself into words and I gave it to my children. So the is the so when we learn to it says it says that the I think he mentioned it here one of the is everywhere the is name what does it mean what's the purpose of a name if you're living on an island one person alone there's nobody there only you doesn't matter what your name is the only t name is someone who wants to call you yeah yeah yeah but otherwise What's the point of a name's name? Every time you learn the word of say, what can I do for you? That's a it's just no matter how much you're going to learn, you're never going to get to everything. But the more you learn, the closer and closer you get to get, more you understand what is. We have we have to drill into ourselves the cloud. And the strong is the healing power of all our weaknesses. Somebody had a boo boo in his foot. Like somebody we know here in Seagate. Somebody had a boo in his foot. Couldn't heal himself. One guy came around. Take make a compress of soya from behemoth and that's going to heal you. And then what happened? A person has a which is the foundation of think is a fool but he's the smart guy and he he destroys his brain. He damages his brain by thinking that way. Why is it called in in the mid is right hand is the left hand the goof is the two feet and so that's why it's called this We can't comprehend the greatness of the before he passed. passed away before he sees. He said, "I'd rather be a foolish before. Push it. That's going to heal him. says become humble like the little grass that grows on the ground and that's the healing. What was he talking about? What was he talking about? What was he referring to? Oh no no no this is this he's saying that the person who had this problem he damaged his brain go back to this everything that happens in your life from the smallest of the biggest you get to that level it's going to heal you from your what you damaged you damage your brain you damage your eyes go back to if a person is himself then you come to if You know, it's not me. There's nothing in my life that I've done that I deserve cuz we don't deserve anything cuz no matter who can say who can say that he did enough for nobody. So whatever Hashem gives us is just not deserving. When a person is humble by himself that's when he see the god of is tremendous a person who is shuffled he sees it because it was because they were together. How can a person be together if you humble yourself? That's only be when a person is humble. Then have open eyes. You you saw with your own eyes to understand that just like Hashem opened up the skies, he also opened up the our level, our our brains and our eyes. to understand and to see that he's the only one. Make see with their own eyes. when they when they they make themselves they turn themselves into a vessel with unity with guns. Unfortunately, we're living in a world today where uh one's parties going to this party and the other party is no good. Everybody wants the other one to be like me. Why? We had a man who lived here in SE many years ago. He was a verying imam. when he moved away heartbroken. He came from his father was was a beinner. I'm not going to say his name because you probably know who it is. His son was a stolen and he had brothers all over the place and vision. So I once asked him say I mean I grew up in a certain dynasty where everybody has to be there. Why? So I said no our father taught us go find a place where you find the connection to and unfortunately in certain and certain where that doesn't matter where you have to belong to this body otherwise what why why do I have to think like you why do you have to think like me we have to think everything is one everyone is beautiful yes yes that's what it's all about yes that's Who said is better than the other guys? Who said? Yeah, it's not all amazing. All Jews are amazing. Who said that his design is something you look down at? Exactly. Cuz you don't know his you don't know his heart. You don't know his Tus. You don't know his his history. know which is bit of somebody else. When you love your friend like yourself together with you stop over here. [Music]