The C.H.A.B.A.D Secret Is Out - Tucker | Spin The Edge | Gershy Schwarcz & Rabbi Getzy Markowitz

[music] >> Welcome to another special on Spin the Edge. My name is Gershon Schwartz and I'm your host on Edge. Yes, today's episode is in English. But for those of you who don't understand, buckle up because it's an exciting episode. Today we are answering questions born out of my own curiosity. Cuz when you travel the world, right? To the most obscure places and you need kosher kosher resources, who do you turn to? They are always there. What gives them the strength to uproot their lives, leave their comfortable communities in America, South America, London, Vienna, wherever they are, right? They move to places like Hong Kong, India, Japan, or even join US servicemen on navy ships during wars. All for what? To bring you closer to Hashem. Tucker Carlson recently said that has a secret about building the third in and I want to know the secret. That is exactly why I brought Getzel Markovich from Montreal. He's a from Montreal at Luke. And I don't know what to tell you about this guy but I can tell you one thing. There's no words to describe his his heart. He his his life is dedicated to bring people closer to Hashem. And love Hashem in his Torah. So he's a insider. And he's going to give us the secret. He also runs a kosher supermarket that gives families the ability to afford with almost cheap cheap groceries to be able to afford their lives. The secret is out. Enjoy but before we dive in, okay? You don't wait until your car breaks down to change the oil. So why would you wait until your body does? I don't understand this. Everyone thinks these shots for weight loss are only for people who are already overweight. That's a big mistake. Kosher skinny shot isn't just a treatment. It's training. They're there for you. It trains your body to burn better, balance better, and stay fit before things go wrong. The science works ridiculously well. You don't have to be overweight to use it. It's for anyone who wants to stay healthy. But if your doctor already gave you the talk, you definitely shouldn't ignore this. Call Kosher Skinny Shot today. 845-456-8924. Again, the number is 845-456-8924. Mention on Edge and get a good deal. Time to get healthy again and the only side effect, you lose weight. Okay. So today's a little bit different. I know on the schedule we had only one speaker here but you know, from one became two. We'll see. I'm not speaking over I'm not doing any talking today. I am. That's just a little bit. To get him to talk. I feel like when he's on his own, you know, he talks. He gives a speech. He gives a but uh I feel like there's underlying details that everyone wants to know about him or about what he thinks, you know? What he learns every single day. So um I curated a list of the do's and the don'ts and I took all the don'ts and that's what we're going to talk about today. Getzel Markowitz um is today's guest of honor. I have a question for you and we're going to start with that. The title of this show, you actually spelled it out just like Tucker Carlson did. How about I don't know who he is anyway. He's the guy Tucker the guy that gets paid by the Iranian regime. That that guy. So he he wrote Tucker Carlson, that's it. Yeah, I was I was debating with my family but how do you I'm sure I'd appreciate if you let me get myself in trouble. >> [laughter] >> The question that was boiling in me for the for the whole of really was I know you're an insider of and you can tell us the secrets but uh he disclose he he said like Chabad c h a b a d it's an organization a movement. They do great things. But um you got to question it sometimes. They are actually speaking about building the third temple, destroying Al-Aqsa on on Temple Mount. Okay, tell us the blueprints. What's going on there? What do you know what do you what we don't know? I already made a brocha so I'm going to We discussed doing that in the pre-show but I thought it would have more of a I'm sure. First of all, thank you very much Gershy for hosting me on your podcast. And for all of you, we don't see you on camera but there's quite the crowd here. We could say there are thousands. Thousands. Sure. First of all, you didn't speak enough about himself. So we hope to get that at some point Don't worry. Yeah. And also we are at of course we're also entering the second days of Pesach which is the theme of Messiah and Gullah Yachad Shiftei Yisrael which is of David Ben Yishai and we're at a program where we look at this eclectic and diverse crowd. Diverse in appearance, the same in on a soul level. It's one of the most beautiful programs. We've been spending together here for a few years, you and I. Yeah. And your family. The share in this figure is good. Amen. And It's a very special place. We have a lot of questions. So let's get to the questions, the answers. You didn't like my buying time? I I liked it but it's a preparation. So you asked about How do you pronounce his name? Let's not get into that, please. I mean he he pronounced Chabad pretty well. Yeah, so that's one thing I want to say that this afternoon the president of the United States put out a statement which he tends to do when he really likes someone. He lets the world know that the individual has a low IQ. >> [laughter] >> For a fellow with a low IQ IQ is the only pundit online who ever spelled Chabad correctly, pronounced it correctly with a hes. He actually said It's actually very interesting. Chabad. Yeah, in case you didn't know. Okay. So I I I I want to answer your question. I heard the question. The question was that Chabad has a plan. A secret plan. A secret plan. To build the third temple. Okay. [snorts] So Okay. Let's talk about that for a minute. So first of all, I have an issue with Tucker Carlson. Now Tucker, I know you'll be watching this. He only speaks Yiddish. He doesn't have a low IQ. Tucker Carlson is one of the most formidable personalities in media. Okay? He is a force to be reckoned with. You've seen some of the titans stand up against him and I formally invite myself to try to have that conversation with him. My issue with Tucker is the following. He took on Judaism and he chose Chabad as his scapegoat and there's a reason for that. What is Chabad? Tucker. I'm talking to you. Chachma Bina Daas. Which is which are the three faculties of intellectual experience and processing. Which means a very rigorous, very deliberate intellectual mental process to arrive at conclusions. Particularly in what we call in the service of the oneness of God to truly understand it and not perform our Judaism or state things out of an emotive place. For someone who is so brilliant it actually reminds me when I was in I was in once in Boston for a couple of years. And when the of Harvard established the new building Rabbi and Zarchi in Cambridge so so Alan Dershowitz Oh. He he wasn't on my show yet. No, he wasn't on his show yet. He's he's busy with Pierce. So he he came to speak and he said at the establishment of the as he says, all I could say is that after some 300 years of Harvard's existence in America, we're finally getting wisdom, understanding, and knowledge. I remember that. That was very Okay. So what I'm saying about this fellow, this character which you brought up is if you're going to take on the movement then be intellectually honest. What he's saying isn't true. It is true. It's true. All truth comes through this perversion and and in in a twisting of facts. So what he's saying has truth but he knows very well he has fact checkers. He has producers. He knows what he's saying. So what he's saying is not what he's saying. How does it work? First of all I hate to break it for you. Anybody who's watching. There's no like Judaism and then Chabad. >> [clears throat] >> There's something called Shulchan Aruch. Last I checked, we don't have our own. I mean the had a very big hand in in producing the Shulchan Aruch. But there's something called Shulchan Aruch and that's how we all as strive and work our very hardest to abide by and live our lives by. And Torah is the source for everything. Now I will recognize that perhaps much as you want to have a statement from the White House, you see not necessarily what the president said. You know, he doesn't say much this one. The you see what the press secretary says and I'm very proud that Chabad for hundreds of years has been on the forefront of ensuring that the message of Judaism gets out there to the world. Is that a fair statement? It's a fair statement. So that's why he takes on Chabad. So I don't know if you have a follow up you asked me about this guy. follow up is really what I mean it has shaken up a little bit like the world of let's put it the the Jewish organizations to battle anti-Semitism. You know, they looked at it as it's a terrible thing that he brought it up and he made us look bad. I've seen those statements. Yet the obviously I mean the you know, us not just everyone. We all looked at it like seriously, we say it three times a day and more than three times a day. Every every person every single thing every single verse of our like being is is building all the time. So that I I know. So obviously it's not such a great but people are afraid. Why? I don't know why people are afraid. I tell you why they shouldn't be afraid. Go So, back to the president. >> [laughter] >> I was telling >> Remember when you said people are afraid? Why you bring Why you mention the president? Okay, I'm just interested. >> So, so how did he win the first election? The media gave him free face time. They didn't stop. They put billions of dollars into talking about him. He didn't have to spend any money on his campaign. And [clears throat] that's how we have a new simple hall coming to the White House in I think I'm going home. It's a litigation now. >> They are limiting it to a five-piece band. I want to make that >> [laughter] >> They didn't pay for sponsorship, so don't go ahead and The Rambam who really gives us the the real breadth of information on what you may say Mashiach is, what it isn't, how we get there, how we arrive there very speedily. Amen. Amen. Tells us something which a lot of us did not see because this is a bit of a controversial part. For hundreds of years, I think some 800 years there was a censoring of this part of Hilchos Melachim. And it says the following. The Rambam says, can everyone hear me in the back? I know they hear me in Monsey and Monroe and wherever this is place in but a louder. The Rambam says that we owe a debt of gratitude to I'm going to paraphrase cuz I don't want to mention all of the characters but to the Christian world and to the Islamic world. We owe as a Jewish people a debt of gratitude. Why do we owe a debt of gratitude? Because although they mended, not mend, they they they meddled rather with the facts and the details and the personalities and the the redeemer himself, they spread the message of something called Mashiach to the entire world. We didn't. They took our our work and they were mefits to every corner of the world that there's a concept called utopia, there's a concept called world peace, there's an idea of an individual who is an individual who is a bringer of redemption. Now, some of those details, you know, Yeshkin is not exactly how we see it. But when you look at it from that prism, you start saying, "Hmm, what is Tucker doing, Tucker?" Tucker. And maybe I'm >> [laughter] >> And maybe And maybe we're lucky that he's not being intellectually vigorous because then what he's really doing is he's prompting us. "Oh, you don't like what I'm saying? So, what's your version of the story?" I look at him like free campaigning. He's coming out there, the rest of his team, and they're talking about the Yidden a whole day. A whole day. Remember the the story about the two Yidden in 1933 sitting on the park bench in Deutschland? I don't remember >> Sitting One of them's reading Der Stürmer. Not big fans of the Jews, Der Stürmer. I don't know if they changed but so his friend comes over and says, "What are you reading Az Az Zeitun? What are you reading Az Az paper?" I'm reading an anti-Semitic paper. "What should I read? You should read the Jewish papers." Which by the way they're giving out in the front desk in case there isn't any left. The Jewish papers. So, what should we do with the Jewish papers? Open the Jewish papers. What does it say? The Yidden are being kicked out of the Shtetl. We can't be doctors anymore. We can't be lawyers anymore. We can't be employed anymore. We can't be in universities anymore. We can't have any real positions anymore. You open this paper. The Jews run the banks. >> [laughter] >> They're running Hollywood. It says this is an inspirational message. >> [laughter] >> Sure it is. So, when Tucker gets up there and says, "You know that they think that he's going to be Mashiach." Yeah, no, red durch die Indian. >> [laughter] >> Give us more bread. No, a bisl mehr, a bisl mehr. What are you saying? You know that they're going to build the Beis Hamikdash? Yeah, details because I got to tell you, Tucker, I put out my Shiurim and we put out podcasts. You got a lot of views, by the way. This man gets a lot of views by the Hashem and he and and his other Yidden in an incredible way. The Shita and the Dibur. So, Thank you. I'm like, "This is very good. Can I give you your lines next time because you're reaching an audience I I so far can't." That's how we have to look at it. And now we need to know what the answers are because my phone I was about to say my phone blew up but in today's climate you don't want to My phone, good thing I didn't say it. So, my phone was full of messages on that day. And every I tell you we're on we're I'm on a lot of groups. A lot of Shluchim WhatsApp groups, Chabad rabbis, non-Chabad rabbis, different groups. Everyone was being I can't believe people are asking me, "Do we actually believe this thing?" It says Thank God, we're back in business. >> [laughter] >> Free advertisements. Yidden are asking questions about Tachlis Brias HaOlam as to why the world was created and what space Yiddishkeit actually takes up in our tradition and what space Geulah actually takes up in our tradition. So, just to correct Tucker so he could be prepared to take me on. Uh-huh. Let me tell you how this works, my friend. We don't I don't know if you've ever seen Jews in Home Depot. We don't We're not good at the building thing. >> [laughter] [clears throat] >> So, the way this works is we really work hard on bringing Mashiach. You know how we do that? And that's why I'm afraid of what you're saying. We perform deeds of goodness and kindness, intellectual rigor in the study of the divine. We try to extend ourselves in self-sacrifice to help our fellow human, not just our fellow Jew. All people to be a light unto the nations. It's an exercise. We try very very hard. And we are taught that if we do that enough, the meter continues to rise. And if we do it, there's an individual, a actual person called the Melech HaMashiach who is also the young lad from the Davidic dynasty who's going to arrive on the scene and he's going to be Lochem Milchemes Hashem. He's going to fight the wars of Almighty God. I'm like really talking straight to the camera. You should talk to the people. Yeah, to the people. In the camera as well. >> Yeah. Truth is this column might Tucker's probably not watching this. Anyway, so One minute. Oh, good. And this Melech HaMashiach, sorry, Gershy. No, it's okay. is going to fight the wars of Hashem. He's going to be me'orer Yidden and in that Tzkufo, we call him Cheskas Mashiach, which means let's use American language, the president-elect. He hasn't been inaugurated yet. He is the apparent, the presumed Messianic personality but then he does something remarkable. He brings the Jewish people home to our eternal homeland, the center of the universe, Eretz Yisrael, and then he builds the Beis Hamikdash. He builds the Beis Hamikdash. So, this individual builds the Beis Hamikdash. Now, there also happen to be two opinions on how that works. Does he actually build it or does it descend from heaven? Beishas Hashem Yisrael. Exactly. >> And how do the rabbis correlate make that work? Correlation, yeah, I know. They say that he's going to place the doors. These are custom-made doors. They're very heavy. So, they were shipped in and after it descends from heaven, the Mashiach will Place those doors. >> place the doors and that will be the finishing touch on the entry point into I know you have a follow-up. So, therefore, let's just be intellectually honest. Okay. Send me the freaking Shayla. Yeah. Ein Mevatlin Tinokos shel Beis Rabban Lebinyan Beis Hamikdash, which means we do not disrupt the Torah study of children, of school children, for the building of the Beis Hamikdash, which I think means that if there's a construction project happening, the Beis Hamikdash is being built and we need a couple of hands on deck. We say, "Kinderlach, come. Close the Sforim and come learn." We say, "No, no, Ein Mevatlin Tinokos shel Beis Rabban." We don't do that. Why not? Why not? [snorts] Because dos gufa You told me to speak English for your crowd at home. Go ahead. Dos gufa that is Binyan Beis Hamikdash. The words, the sacred words of Torah study, each word builds a brick in the Beis Hamikdash. Each act of Ahavas Yisrael, each act of Jewish defiance, which is another word for observance, builds the Beis Hamikdash. That's how we do it, pundits out there. The shovel-ready project but we're not getting ourselves dirty. Okay? It's like a Jewish story. Yeah. >> [laughter] >> Delegates. I want to hear your follow-up but then then I I I I have you I have a few more things to add if you don't mind but Go ahead. Uh to this because we're going to get back to the We're going to circle back but first I want to Speaking of the secret is out. Okay, now we have that. The secret is out which was literally the title of this today's class. So, I want to dive in a little bit into the secret of Chabad. Now, I know that your job, right, as a Shliach, you've been doing this for I don't know how many years. We will get We'll get there, don't worry. Ask the question, we'll know. Um you've done Kiruv Rechokim a lot. Rechokim means say you've you know, you make Kiruv people, bring them closer who were never there to begin with. Okay? They don't know what Shabbos means. They never grew up with Shabbos. I'm asking you a different question. How about come visit our circles? The Hungarians, the Polish Chassidim, Romanian Chassidim. From where I come from, I see a lot of a lot of our young, you know, friends and family members, you know, kind of choose different paths from what they're taught and brought up. You know, they're brought up with Tischin and Rebbes and and Chassidishe learning and and but then they drift. I mean, what do you call drift? They drift away and they, you know, choose different paths. And how All of them? No. No, some of them. Like for example, there's this one instance, I'll tell you about a boy who proudly left and he filmed himself eating a uh you know, working at McDonald's and eating a hamburger a cheeseburger sorry in McDonald's onion kipper and he posted it with like proud. And he spoke a half broken English and all that like Yiddish you know. So my my question is to you like this don't you think there's a lot of work for a rabbi like yourself to go look there and bring them bring the those who brought up closer back again. That's really first of all I'm very sorry to hear about that Yingle that our brother sounds like he's probably I don't want to make assumptions for other people but probably sounds like he's in some deal of pain. Cuz that's quite the statement. Let me go backward you said something and I told you that I speak Yiddish and I speak Lashon Hakodesh but you use the term that I was not raised with. You said Kidush Hakodesh. So you should know that that is for external use only. In Lubavitch there's absolutely no phraseology. In fact until I went out to do whatever Kidush Hakodesh is I never heard of the term. Let me explain to you what I mean. Go ahead. There were Gedolim who came by the Lubavitcher Rebbe >> [clears throat] >> at the Brochos line as I call it. There happened to be dollars there too but it's really about Brochos that's what the line was really about. Okay. >> And they told the Rebbe that he should have this I'm paraphrasing to be Mekarev Rechokim until 120. Beautiful Brocha. The Rebbe responded something to this. Said we say Horeini Mekabel Olai Mitzvas Asei Shel Bi'ahavto Lerei'acha Kamocha. To love your fellow Jew as you love yourself thyself. If they're like you how do you call them Rechokim? If you're a Hanacha if you're a Shtel Mechatchila is doesn't a Rechok I have the magic sauce and I'm going to hopefully sprinkle that sauce on you. Like my children do at dinner. Then you're all wrong and then we lead to the other problem the Kidush Hakodesh. Okay. It's not a matter of how we view the people in our community. It's how do you see another Jew period whether they're the guy who's coming from working at that fast food restaurant that you spoke about? I won't mention it cuz Pesach don't eat Chometz. Or or it's someone going to to search for let's use that analogy for that fast food for a hit to feel something. He just wants to feel something. So you have to right away ask yourself what is this thing and then I'm going to ask you another question. So why should Chabad enter now? You're saying I get this all the time and it's actually very offensive. >> Yeah. Not from you. It's like It's like people come to me with these NDAs. Okay not actually NDAs but the way they're doing I have a nephew. Right or I have a daughter or have a this maybe you could talk to them they're a little Uh-huh. Tell me why? What what what do I have that will help this child? You know you you do in the Kidush Hakodesh. So you're seeing two things. You're seeing this child as a Rechok. Secondly I don't want to have you know a negative intent as they say it. >> Uh-huh. But how do you see me now? Was the message that Chabad had or that rather Yiddishkeit has and Chabad Chassidus has figured out how to articulate good enough when they were at your Shabbos table? Were those Rebbetzins good enough in your seminaries? Were those Rabbis good enough to give a Tanya? We're not in the 70s anymore Kinderlach. This is this is real stuff we're on battleground and it all starts with the Hanacha who is your kid? Who is YOUR SPOUSE? WHO ARE YOU? NOW [clears throat] WE'RE IN CRISIS mode now we're going to address it. You're you're you're approaching it completely wrong. You don't have a battle plan. So your contingency is momish like off the rails. Good answer. Thank you. >> [laughter] >> Okay. So I think we covered that part. I mean there's a lot of questions there is a lot of questions but um I feel like this this You mean to say on the record as a member of that community >> Okay. I'm a member of that segment of my community. >> Of that Okay fine. >> community I want to say those people. Yeah yeah right. Yeah. We're all one community. 100% Klal Yisrael. No. You just said it's covered so we're covered we're good. We solved the problem? We didn't solve the problem. >> gotten so far on reception here in where we are but we solved the problem [clears throat] of feel >> what I think it's time to talk about Rabbi Getsel a little bit just a little bit not too much. I mean there's a lot of stories about it. I'm you know sitting listening to him all throughout Yom Tov I was very curious myself as an SSH guest and and by the way shout out to SSH for allowing us to host this. Um it's great yeah. But and Allison who momish make every single one of us feel like as their guests. Yeah. Yeah. So now I want to So now your Zayde was in the fruit business. Your uncle's in the fish business. My fish My uncle is on the fish business. My great uncle is yeah. Great uncles. And your brothers are also in the fish business No your bro your brothers are other things. Okay fine. You have a brother in in mortgage and finance. How does a rabbi like yourself get out there no fish no nothing and oh your father delivered tomatoes I heard as well one of those things. So how do you get from fish fruit fish tomatoes and mortgages to a rabbi? According to what you just said sounds like I can afford to. >> [laughter] >> When did you know what happened when Thank you to our advertisers. >> [laughter] >> SBA Loan Group. It's a good one. So now let me just let me let me I'm going to para I'm going to I'm going to start again the question not not from the intro but I'm going to continue the question where I actually missed a few details. You know he's not he's not just a rabbi and a Shliach he's also you know Smicha. He's done quite a few Seder Kadishin am I right I don't think I think yeah a lot actually. I've done quite a few. So my question when did you start this? How old were you when you started it? My first Seder Kadishin? Yes. I think we had a mock wedding in day camp. >> [laughter] >> So that's how you practice I guess. You know what you could you could this is your show. I mean this is my show but this is your show. >> [laughter] >> Go ahead. I could talk about myself. Um and maybe there will be an opportunity to do that. Right. The real question is why I got into what I got into. So first of all the Zayde that you mentioned you know it's not as if like everyone came from you know a business family and I decided to be the black sheep the family and disappoint everyone >> [laughter] >> by going on Shlichus etc. I'll tell you that on my Zayde's Matzeiva which is right when you come down towards the Lubavitcher Rebbe you you it's you spot his Matzeiva there's a big dome there for Licht. Uh-huh. It says what it says on many of the Matzeivas there that a lot of his children that Zacha to have Dor Yeshorim etc. A number of them Mishluchei HaMelech or Shluchim Melech HaKodesh Ad Melech HaMoshiach. First of all what's his name? Mention his name. Yechiel Michel Raskin Michel Raskin of Raskin's Fruits. Okay. Now that is a Chos in Lubavitch that that we were raised with that parents want their children to move on Shlichus. Okay? Now it's not limited to you actually moving out to Tasmania. Right. Okay. Now what that means is you mentioned my brothers. Yes. My brothers when they're in their on the show in their shows a lot of people here say oh you're that one's brother they advertise and on me and so they have famously two things at their at their display. They have piles of millions of dollars which I've never actually checked if it was real or not. And the second thing they have is Tefillin. There's no such thing as a Lubavitcher young man or young lady who's not always in the framework of Shlichus. Even when you go into work in the Welt in the world in the Chumrius you're there because you're really special forces because some people have to do it from the pulpit others have to do it at the negotiating table. Wait a second. How old were you? How old was I when >> Yes. When you when you when your parents allowed you set your I mean you know set you on your mission or you set yourself on your mission. Bear with me for a minute I do apologize. 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If if if you if if we believe as we do that our children in utero hear what's happening and they're affected this was the aroma in my house cuz this is the aroma of a Chassidisha house. So we grew up the Marshall this time my grandmother would send us to Manhattan to bring Shmurah Matzah to Pesach Yid. She once met when she was at the jewelry and she bought something or or there's a cart there's a Yid who pushes a cart see if he's still there bring him Shmurah Matzah. It's how we're raised. Now I know what you're asking. You're asking to excuse me sir are you Jewish? Cut. No no no no. So no. Yes yes and yes and no but yes. >> When did that start? How old were you? First time I probably went out on what's called Mivtzoim. Mivtzoim Mivtzoim means the Rebbe's Mitzvah Mitzvah campaigns. Go put Yidden fill in Neros Shabbos Kodesh, which my both our grandmothers were very involved in Eretz Yisroel. I don't know. Single digits. I probably accompanied my father on such a mission. 14, 12? >> My No, not 14, 12. I'm not I'm not that old. So >> [laughter] >> So uh >> You were like, okay. I mean, I'm looking at the Lubavitchers in the crowd. How do we explain this? This is This is going to be interesting. Yeah, when you're 5, 6, 7, you you get paired up with a bochur. Sometimes that's your older brothers like me. Really? And and you get onto the subway. And you sit and you go on what's called a Mivtzoim route in Manhattan every Friday. Thank you. You're a wonderful guest. And um and you go to the city or wherever you're going and you have your route, which means these are your neshamos every single It's amazing. week. So since I'm a very little boy, I used to go with a with a a bochur. It's It's Zevi It's Zevi Detteris and Mendel Lieberman. We went to Canal Street Station. I knew this I knew I knew two systems on the ground. I knew the 770 system and I don't mean it's the way that's being taken. There was a system before this system. And the New York City subway system. You know, I'm talking very excited about that part. The concierge. Okay. >> would go on Mivtzoim. And then you were yoidish to that route from that bochur. And then you gave on that route. So I remember we started on Canal Street. We move our way up to Lafayette. We take the train to 34th Street and then we put tfillin on Yidden there. You ask yourself, why would you break it up? It's two different sides of town. It's very simple. The pizza store was on 34th Street. >> [sighs] >> So you know, we didn't want to you know It's It's just interesting because as as a young child growing up, you know, in England actually, my parents, if they would hear me say, "I'm going out to the the tube, the underground station to put on some I mean, to find some Jews and maybe ask them to put tfillin on or shake lulav or something like that." They'll look at me like, "You're not doing that. There ain't no way you're getting out of the house like that. I'm No. What do you mean going to the tube underground?" Was ich dir as ich dir sagen in underground station. It doesn't work like that. So where I come from, this is obviously very like it's I'm not just talking about the you know, the subway. I'm talking about You You went to obscure places in the world like I don't know where in Asia, Middle East. Where did you go? As a bochur. Those were top secret operations. >> [laughter] >> Tell us more. >> I asked you not to disclose. Well, I went I went to a lot of places. The very first time that I actually traveled, so first of all I went as a bochur to shluchim in the tri-state area. You know, we always It was a thing like, "Oh, does the shliach need help?" You know, let's go for a Shabbaton to the shliach. The first time I actually made the move, Mendel. Mhm. I was in Melbourne, Australia. Oh, wow. In the Yeshiva Gedola there, with Rav Colman. And I had a cousin Chana. Chana was a then a student a student a teacher in the preschool in Tokyo, Japan. And she had mentioned she was going home for Pesach to New York. And I guess the shluchim there were looking for a bochur or bochurim to bring to help them in their Seder Pesach. So they were looking for a post smicha bochur, which is basically 22, 23 years old. I was about 17 and a half at the time. [clears throat] And she said "Bring my cousin. He's right here. He's He's right here in Australia, which is about an 11-hour flight." So >> [laughter] >> Okay. I went to Japan. Yes, I feel that way. >> gave me an incredible shlichus the shluchim the shluchim shluchim kemay say um Rabbi Mendy and Chana Chana Sudakevitz, real heroes because today there is a bunch of Botei Chabad in in Japan and a mikvah and and all sorts of Jewish establishment there that just not to be believed. Phenomenal. And they had me run their Seder for a few hundred people. Wow. And it was quite the learning curve and it was quite a shlichus and it was the most beautiful way to be home for Pesach. And then the following year, they were invited by the US Navy. They were invited to have Sedarim on the US Navy base in Japan in place called Yokosuka, Japan. Originally supposed to be Okinawa, but then tension started rising on the peninsula, so Okinawa said that they're not going to have the rabbis. So we went to a place called Yokosuka, Japan. Okay. The home of the USS Kitty Hawk. Oh, wow. Today it's the It was replaced by the USS George Bush, I believe. Oh, the one that's there right now. >> and uh So the next year they called me and said, "Would you like to come back to Japan?" On American soil, though. And we went my father and I, we went to be the visiting chaplains. We were not enlisted. Thank you for your service. And it's very important we're not enlisted. It's But to watch who the people who are enlisted is amazing. We went to a Navy base and give private Yom Tov certain and shiva mitzvos bnei Noach and shiurim in chassidus and koshering people's little apartments and visiting sailors that couldn't get off of the boat because I told you it was a difficult time then. Wow. And it was actually beautiful stories. I could talk about this for hours. >> Right. And from there it was a gateway to Asia for me basically. As a bochur I started hanging out in Asia. The shliach in Hong Kong recruited me with the permission of my Yeshiva, which is a very important thing to mention. Yes, that's what I want to ask you. Like how I told you before, my parents would never allow me as a young bochur to go do these things. The question was, why you? And why why? Like how how did you get the Why they want me out of the house? Where's the Is there an authorization Is there a hashgacha on those? Because we know a lot of shluchim, you know, you Everywhere there's Uber, there's Chabad, literally. So you you want you want to say an inspiration thing and I want to use the opportunity of being on a on a global audience to say something which bothers me. Go ahead. Okay. There's shlichus and then there's something called a shem hamushchal called shlichus. Which means there's shlichus and then there's adam shlichus. Let me give you an example. I was once with a bochur somewhere in the Far East. That bochur was hired. The shluchim were very nice to him. And he was a great guy. And they hired him. So when the people around the table asked, "How did you come to be here?" So I explained that the shliach asked me to come. I said, "I'm not going to come if it's not with misgeres Yeshiva." So they called my Yeshiva and the Yeshiva allowed me to be there and that's how I ended up in this part of Asia. They asked the other bochur who is a chavrusa of mine till today and and I have these conversations from the face. He says "I wasn't interested in Yeshiva anymore, so I went on shlichus." I mean, the if that's what it means, the secret is out. No, that's not what happened, my friend. That's not called shlichus. I want to I want to make sure you understand that. People watching from your krais and your and and your your chaverim thinking, "Oh, this is so awesome. Lubavitcher chaverim, they go join Chabad, see the world." No. That's not how it works. There happens to be that there is a HR problem sometimes and we need extra hands and it's very nice that someone should be oisek betzorkhei tzibbur be'emuna, but that shouldn't be like, "Okay, I'm not doing anything anyway, so I'm doing shlichus." If shlichus is adam kemay say you're representing the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Wow. So I didn't I didn't leave Yeshiva to represent the Lubavitcher Rebbe. I brought Yeshiva to where I was going. Wow. Okay. That's so That's powerful. That's powerful. I have Okay, you want to continue? Uh there's a lot of countries in Asia that we didn't get to. There's one particular country in Asia that I want to get to. Um there's uh one funny story that I know about you that happened. I mean, you know, you How about you share it with the crowd? Which one? Oh, you have many. Okay, fine. Let's talk about the one with the wine. Oh my gosh, I told you the story. I'm thinking like what That That's a good story. It's a very good story. >> [laughter] >> Yes. >> Okay. You have a good memory. I told you that in my house, right? Four years ago. Yeah. So after I lived in Hong Kong for about a year, year plus under >> You lived in a What? I was a bochur shliach >> Oh, okay. >> Kong with a few bochurim under Rabbi and Rebbetzin Afton who established a presence of Yiddishkeit there. Today there's so many shluchim in Asia. And there's the schools and there's restaurants and there's mikvo'os and and you could basically live a Jewish life there. Right. And to their credit to the Rebbe's credit for sending them. And I thank them publicly because they gave me an unbelievable chance. I was so young. And they gave me a a shtella. I was a rabbi. I established a shul with them. And >> were you then? >> a rabbi yet. I didn't have smicha. How old were you then? Well, we told people how old I was. >> [laughter] >> I think the Chinese might be watching this. I don't want them to have any ideas. Um How old was I then? Probably 21. So >> Wow. We had a shul in Kowloon and Tsim It's not so young for the >> Tsui. Hartado. That's where it was. Oh, wow. >> Beautiful and it's still there. There's a shliach there, Rabbi Lieberman, who together with his Rebbetzin are just revolutionizing the place. So so proud. Great. And So what happened was, Rav Afton calls me and says, "Look, remember you used to come to the jewelry shows?" I used to go to be the mashgiach at the jewelry shows. You know, to make sure that the lab grown was lab grown and the natural was natural. No. [laughter] I used to do the hashgacha there and he asked me if I'd come. They're They're inaugurating the Venetian Hotel Okay. for the new jewelry show. So the the movers and shakers in the diamond industry, we're talking about some serious players. They were coming to Asia and they were trying the Venetian in Macau. Macau is Yeah, I know. a a small country a small island that used to be shiyach to Portugal and now is part of China system. Beautiful beautiful place, Macau. And they built a exact replica of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. I've never been to Las Vegas, but the Venetian, whatever it looks like there, they mamesh took it and just did copy paste and they put it into Macau and they built it in like two and a half weeks or something. >> [laughter] >> No, but it's unbelievable the way they built. Long story short, we arranged everything. Chabad in Hong Kong arranged everything. Solomon's meat from Melbourne, Australia coming in containers. It had to be punk leil. Is it Lubavitcher hashgacha? Not just Lubavitcher hashgacha. It had to be the people that we were catering to. Wow. This had to be beheimah. Fleish mit lamb chops. It was a It wasn't even Pesach. And it was amazing. And everything was going perfect to plan until about an hour-ish before Shabbos. Claydis, I turned to my Havurah member and said, "Did you bring wine?" I said, [laughter] "No." "Did you bring wine?" Like, you're having Havurah coming in from Europe and from the Americas and and and they're coming to a posh Shabbos. We don't even have one bottle of wine on us. So, no to do. Yeah. And then the and the It's the the other substance they had. >> [laughter] >> The the I went running. So, ready talk about running to home Shabbos, run across the Venetian to get to the general manager's office. That was more than 10,000 steps. We get to the Havurah man's office. I said, "Sir, I know that you have helicopters flying bringing VIPs. I called Chabad in Hong Kong. They're ready to bring cases of wine to the helicopter. If you could just arrange that it gets here." He tells me, "Oh, Rabbi, you are in luck." I said, "Why?" He looks at this. "Have you heard of Sheldon Adelson?" I said, "Yeah, we went to school together." >> [laughter] >> He says, "Have you heard of Sheldon Adelson?" So, I've heard of Sheldon Adelson. So, he just had I think it was a mile stone birthday, 70th birthday. He came with another Chabad Rabbi from Vegas and they made kosher and they brought their own stash for Shabbos. That's what they were doing here. They came for a Shabbos to the island. Very short, just explain who Sheldon Adelson is for my audience. They don't know. I'm I'm looking at the camera. They have no clue. I still don't know. Okay, good. Explain. Sheldon Adelson is a very big baal tzedakah who all of us shalom aleichem gan eden. I had this cuz actually going once and we sounded shofar for him in Malibu outside of his house. Make sure that shliach there was Mason Nevers to make sure we got past the security to make sure that he would hear shofar. Wow. A a a yid who was poshet built mosdos and his wife continues to build incredible mosdos and he owns a lot of the casinos in Las Vegas. Joking. What? >> Venetian. The Venetian and other things. So, to continue. All right. So, what happened? >> You you wanted me to bring it up, so No, no, for then they they got it now. So, so but a but but but a big personality in the Jewish world then So, he tells me, "Why don't So, he left his wine here." Okay. I said, "He left his wine here." He says, "Yeah." I said, "Is it a good wine?" He says, "Rabbi, Sheldon Adelson, what do you think?" So, I said, "So, where's the wine?" He says, "It's in the cellar, but I'm going to have to use the fob whole thing because it's we put it mamash meshufra shufra. We put it with the the stuff. I don't know these brands, but I will. And you think they'll let us use it? I'm sure that I won't get in trouble for letting the Rabbi use the wine." Anyway, it comes couple of Shabbos. We sing. I'm already drunk because I'm so excited and I exalted the Havurah and I clap on the tish and I see some names that if I told you who was there, you'd be like, "What?" "Havurah, we have a surprise for you. I don't know how business went today, but this is going to be your your Shabbos. We have Sheldon Adelson's private collection." Now, I have a flair for drama shtickel, so I made sure that the that the that the waiters the servers would march it in as I Okay, I still hadn't checked this skela. Oh. And all of a sudden, I went and in they walked bearing Manischewitz Kedem Concord grape vanilla There were more flavors there than the the yeah. Wow. [snorts] And everyone gelacht. And what we got boy, did we have a good time. And one Havurah man from Montreal, I remember, stood up and the people were just laughing and they said, "Okay. This bring us glatt kosher and l'chaim and these things and and we had a beautiful beautiful Shabbos." Wow. How beautiful that is. What's the lesson of Eidus Hashana? You ask the question this on Chol Hamoed, this time I'm talking. We'll get there. So, now let's let's let's jump to the Seder condition thing quickly. So, you did a lot of Seder condition. Now, also another thing I heard about you is that you >> mean he did a lot of Seder A Rabbi does Seder condition. Yeah, oh, okay. How it goes one. It happens to be that I I Maybe this is your question. Ask your question. >> The question is I I heard a There's a story I can't My My Rabbi is Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Rabbi is Rabbi Avrohm Laiser. He actually invented the mute button on the telephone which by the way I'm joking. So, he invented the mute button on the telephone. And um he also composed a song Yismach Hashamayim. That's your Rabbi, so yeah. Yeah, Yismach Hashamayim. But many many songs. >> The best songs come out of Pittsburgh. Yeah. So, now Rabbi Tursky also had Is she uh awesome? That's also a Pittsburgh song. >> Yeah, he made a lot of songs that people know. There's many many many famous songs from him. Now, he composed a song why? On the way On the way home from Florida somewhere um to go because somebody invited him to come and try and stop and persuade a not a Jew from marrying a non-Jew. So, on the way home he managed to do it after, you know, many convince you know, convincing and talking and everything. So, on the way he was excited. He said that Yismach Hashamayim the heavens were happy that every everything was happy and excited about it. So, how many songs have you composed? You know why he probably said the heavens are happy? Who are the aidim? The aidim are ADQ. Who are the aidim when the Eibershter married the Jewish people? Shamayim v'aretz. Why Shamayim v'aretz? Because they're perennials. They're they're eternal. They they're forever. Which aidim were going to witness and give to endow their everlasting quality into this union? Shamayim v'aretz. So, Yismach Hashamayim when a yid which only ask your question, how many songs did I compose? Yes. We have here the chazzan The the studio is saying that Fox wants to have us on next, so >> [laughter] >> The Okay, so you're asking about intermarriage work. It's a it's a topic for itself. The The reality is that in terms of myself, I was baruch Hashem zocheh many many times to be involved directly in ensuring that Shamayim v'aretz I'll stay happy. >> are happy both in creating in in in being a facilitator through our school of brothers and shidduchim and ensuring that other matches b'siyata d'Shmaya don't necessarily match. Wow. >> And what does it have to do with the secret being out as a shaila? So, okay. You you have an answer to that? No, I just want to stay on topic. >> Okay. >> [laughter] >> So, we're staying on topic. So, to end to finish to to end we have to end cuz like he said, yeah, another station wants to take us on. So, um From audience also. Question about Yeah, there's a lot of things to do today. Baruch Hashem, we have a full program. FFHAS you know, prepared and We can't always keep up with everything. There's a lot to ask. We could sit for hours. But the last and final question and to to to seal the day is the, you know, the one question. Throughout the years and throughout I mean, history really, the Jewish the Jewish nation has gone through a lot. But somehow a few hundred years ago it all changed with dancing and laughing and joy with metaphors with sholom and chassidus basically. What was the Judaism before? I mean, was it dry? Like, what happened? Like, how Why does Why is Why now? First of all, I don't I don't think that it's fair to say that Judaism was dry. The contrary, when you look in Chazal, we see that there were there was hiskals, there was hashra'as hashchina, there was there was revelation. There were children who who who had nevu'a. There was there was a Torah that people just knew it all. So, I I think that we went we were downgraded a shtickel with the churban obviously. And what do you mean by dry? The Even Ezra dry? Rabbi Akiva? A Kol Kitzvei Kodesh Tillei Tillim Shel Halachos? Wow. Was was I asking a question just to hear this? So, so again, so there's a difference between a restoration project Ugh. and a you know, additions. But what you're asking is connected to Told us about Sham Tev. And I'll be If if we're keeping this time frame, then I then there isn't enough time for this, but we'll say it's very very very briefly as it relates to today. And it does There's a there's a It's very important you ask this question. I don't know if you realize why you were prompted to ask this question because the Baal Shem Tov talks about how in the last days of Pesach, he teaches us is the ideal of the Hashra'as of Melech Hamashiach. There is the the feeling the aura of the Melech Hamashiach in the air. And just like the first days of Pesach were about remembering so to speak the past or reliving or re-engaging with it or recreating it, now we go back to the future in the last days of Pesach and we start living where we truly belong. Which is not here, but here. In the times of Mashiach Tzidkeinu. So, in very brief historical terms, you had then a time called Tach v'Tach, which is 1648-1649, I believe. We had Bogdan Chmielnicki. Uh You know, people here are talking about our our our roller coaster the past couple years. Like, October 7th, I don't think we we've processed it. Imagine chas v'shalom as happened October 7th happened every single day in bigger proportions. So, in other words, whatever we in the lap of luxury are experiencing in in 1648 and 1649, the Yiddishe Kehilos hundreds were wiped off the face of the earth. Period. In the most gruesome, grotesque ways matter I'm I'm ever. Hundreds of thousands of Jews lost their lives. Which means for Pesach purposes, let's just dive into this for a minute. Every neshama there were 600,000 neshamas. And every neshama is a neshama of all of us that can have so many neshamas come from it. Look how many worlds spiritual and practical, were destroyed and never got to to to to be here. So, after that terrible destruction, there was a spiritual destruction because there was there was there was a ray of hope. Shabbetai Zevi came onto the scene and managed to con- convince great swaths of Jewish population that he was the Messiah. And he wasn't. And and you know, we're being told we have to stop. The point is so that we could all go home or something like that. That the Baal Shem Tov came. And the Aibishter gave him a name, Yisrael. Which is the name of every single Jew that is Yisrael, he or she who wrestles with the divine. And he came and he whispered our name in our ears. And what are you saying in Mishna and he woke us up into a whole new era, an era where all these ideas were no longer closeted and sequest- sequestered. They became theologically, intellectually, emotionally, practically present in our lives. So, obviously we'll have to continue that point of the fabrengen. First of all, so to end to to seal the deal, to finish the today's show, um I always ask every one of my guests, "What can I personally learn from you as a person?" And that's it. And that's how we'll finish up the day. And your guests answer these questions? Yes. Some of them take a little time. Now I'm going to watch your show? Go ahead. What can't we learn from anybody? Not from you. I'm asking specifically Rabbi Getsl Schlitze. I'm asking Go ahead. First of all, choose which podcast you agree to go on. >> [laughter] >> Okay. So, a second thing is we have to learn from every single person. The Baal Shem Tov taught us that we have to anything that we see, experience in any one of our senses is there to be a hero, a derech in a beta session. And that's true of people. You run into people. People are little stick up the height in this world. This time. You meet a Yid you can learn so much. Especially in a say toiv. See many Yisrael. So, what you could learn from me is what I learned from my father and what he learned from his father, to be very curious. To live a life in wonderment and wanting to take in and meet people and learn and figure out how someone else can take you to the place where you're supposed to be. So, by the way, you can learn from them. Ashkocha Protis and to just embrace it. I want to end with one thing because we're going to finish. Talking about Ashkocha Protis, this is the last nekuda. I saw a vert right before we came into the studio. That we say Oimer Dovar a Mendelbaum Yitzchakman. Oimer Dovar b'shem Oimeri may be go l'olam, yeah? This might be my drasha tomorrow, so don't tell anyone you heard it. Translate it in Yiddish. What it means if you say something in someone else's name, you bring goola to the world. So, first of all, I want to say that a lot of things that I say are other people's names, right? There's there's some great great great mashpi'im and personalities out there that I am absolutely I don't learn from you. I'll tell you who I learn from. Obviously I have Yossi Jacobson who who we have a very very close bond b'chlav, but I consider him a virtual rebbe. And then he did [snorts] No one has Reb YY, yeah? Yeah, his street name is YY, yeah. But But But He he he was he was Rebbi he was Yossi Jacobson growing up. I mean Yossi Jacobson. Yeah, an unbelievable I don't think we've even begun to I don't think he even stepped foot on the stage yet from what kind of unbelievable human being this man is. Well, that bride with some very big talmidei in Or Sameach and I like to mix it up. In other words, there's Torah by Yidden. And I saw a beautiful vert. So, that's a Oimer Dovar b'shem Oimeri. You got to say a lot of your sources. Yeah. Number two Really? So, all day we should be walking around saying, "You know who told me?" I mean then I'm telling you right now if we operate that way, there'll be a lot of loshon hora. Okay, you're going to end up saying, "This one told me this and this one told me that." Then we're going to lose control. So, what does it mean? Zachte Heilige Marala, beautiful thing, ladies and gentlemen. Oimer Dovar b'shem Oimeri. If you see a dovar, if you see a very big thing happening in the world, don't think, "Okay, happened to be." You know, we know how to fly a fighter jet and these type of things. B'shem Oimeri. This is the Yad Hashem. This dovar, this great It's good. That's the going off stage music. It's >> [laughter] >> Everything has been But I'm a program. If you're If you're playing this on Sefira, that's a problem. Okay. >> [laughter] >> Yeah. Oimer Dovar b'shem Oimeri. And that's why it's unofficial. I'll tell you one last nekuda. This is my last nekuda. L'chaim u'l'vracha. Shkoyach. Thank you so much. Lichtikin Lichtikin Yom Tov. Should be k'mei tzeis'chem mei'aretz Mitzrayim mar'eh nifla'os. The president said today that civilization is ending there, yeah? Going to be wiped out. Yeah. So, first of all, no one should be harmed, but what that means is that civilization as we know it, obviously. Obviously he didn't edit what he wanted to say, but civilization as we know it is going to change because Messiah's coming right now. Amen. Amen. Shkoyach. Thank you so much. Thank you, everyone.