Hey Teves Farbrengen - History of Didan Notzach in 40 Min - write to Ohel & buy Seforim Today

it's hey davis 35 years ago today is when jo uh a non-jewish judge a glaucia judge judge charles sifton made a ruling that the library of the friday belongs to the babbage and hasidim and it's not a personal it's not a personal uh family loom that doesn't belong personally to anyone in the family and thank you and i want to just bring you back a little bit because i don't know if anyone here was there janice might have been there but it was a very strenuous time for for the rebbe never in the years that we knew him from 1941 on was he so stressed to the point that he became you know he became sick he you know he lost weight he was fasting he was going the court case took basically one month in court every day and every day buses from crown heights went to manhattan to brooklyn whatever with the downtown brooklyn to fill the courthouse and it wasn't a large room so you know they had a guy you know who can go in you know because it was a small room and then ever went to the oil every single day and i think it took 30 days or so and of course they never would not eat only drink something when he would go to the oil that means until five six o'clock when he would come back he basically fasted for 30 days and i know it's hard to believe but that that's what happened and he lost weight and it took a toll on his health and and and the rabbitson and others you know were pleading with him but uh with that if you made up his mind about something you couldn't change his mind and all of this was seen during the fabranians when he spoke publicly about it the first time he did was you based tomorrow's 1985. before that that ever called in uh a few of the rasha shiva and a few of the leaders to his room and all they would say is that every so everyone knew that something's happening but no one had any idea what was going on so they asked the people that were called in why were you called in so they all they said is you'll hear about it at the fabrega youth based thomas there ever said he's going to speak about it publicly and and it only towards the end of her brain and after hours of sichus and a mimer and everything else that he's did he share the pain and he said he's going to speak about it briefly and just what's relevant to the public because there was much behind the scenes that wasn't relevant he felt and of course he didn't speak about it and basically said that three people went into the library and they took out swarm of the the library some of them were very expensive ones and they were going to sell it on the market but they said they're going to sell it on the market and there ever said two of the individuals already returned this forum it happened to be they were too bohering one of which i know the other one i don't know and they they weren't doing it in cahoots i think with the individual the rebber's nephew barry garrary who took the expensive books that he knew he could sell on the market for a very good price because he needed money at a time and his mother who felt she she is an inheritor of the library as her father's son the previous setup is the daughter so between her and her sister the library belongs to them and she felt that she made a deal with her sister that they had a discussion that at any point they could you know take any for him as long as there's an agreement and and then you know and then then use it for whatever they want and she gave permission she felt legitimately to her son she doesn't have to ask by the rabbits not his that ever said that the whole basis in the argument is incorrect because this belongs to the congregation of the chabad not to any individual in the deposition which now is going around there's a clip if you haven't heard it i can send it to you it used to be online maybe still is but they have it now on whatsapp where nat lewin the lawyer from uh silver spring maryland from potomac maryland who i know personally and he was the lead lawyer in the case he asked the rep the the rabbits in kaya mushkar their abba's wife he asks her so to who did the swarm belong to to uh uh or to your father so she said it belongs to hasidim because the the rabbi belongs to hasidim and those the famous words became a slogan and a thought process in in the world of chabad that are now for a moment i want to share with you with with what rabbi yo khan my rabbit my teacher my mashpia taught us when he spoke publicly he was given the mic and asked to explain what took place briefly so he explained that this was a spiritual decree one that was even greater than utas kislev it was pretty brave to say that but betas kislavi explained was an attack on hasidis right they must not didn't were scared of what khasi this is they didn't know what the cynicism they felt it's a a coat and it's going to bring people away from uh torah he said here hey tavis it wasn't an attack on kassidis it was an attack on the on the river it was an attack on the figurehead one second on the figurehead of hasidim and qasidas yes my ship in question that is the day when the second time that dr rabbit was in jail he was released if i'm not mistaken no it's hey hey the hanukkah i believe the fifth day okay uh i think we discussed this last year david we have come to discuss this anyway i think there's anyway the point is no i think it's okay it doesn't matter anyway the point is is that i think it says talking about this about that day how exactly what you just said that on um youth base you you just kissed live it was an attack on hasidis but then you'd excuse me on the second time that the authority was imprisoned right it was an attack on him right like personally exactly exactly that's exactly what you said right thank you right right so so so but but i want to explain that the the previous ever passed away in 1950 he was talking about 1985 35 years later what happened all this time in other words why did they wake why they wait till 35 years later to make their their attack and their scheme and their plot and do whatever they did in 1950 already there were two sisters and a huge library maybe not as big but very valuable was left and the answer is that at that time they decided because the wound was still fresh let things be just as it is and and sha in other words let everything remain in and we won't deal with ownership and that's the way it went for years and years and years and there were times when our the rebel wanted a safer and he needed get permission from the head librarian who was also a secretary of the previous river to get the safer and this of course incensed hasidim they were very upset but they could do nothing about it because their rebbe didn't do anything about it in other words the river capitulated to the silent agreement which we're going to just let everything ex to use the expression let dogs lie quiet and dormant right and it would have continued that way it would have continued to that was passing you know it would have been what happened here is they went and they took swarm out of the library out of the domain of 770 and they sold it onto the market on the jewish book collectors market here the rebel felt this is not what we agreed to and here i must stop it now because it will just get worse and worse because now it's a group is foreign next month it's a second group on and on and on and at that time that ever explained that the islam don't belong to us individually they belong to the community of khabad so no individual has a right to go and sell it that's why yes but i'm sorry it's incredible i just wanted that i'm trying to understand i mean i came a little bit late i'm sorry i had to i'm a little bomish work but my question is is that when you're referring to that the replica didn't he didn't uh um to deal with this issue until much so much later what what was the the major before the whole thing with the books where was the split and who was the split with the split was with the mclachus was the the the the the rebber sister-in-law and her son his nephew they never agreed to accept the rebbe as the rebel of the babbage from 1951 on they were against it not that they didn't like him they liked him but they felt that there's an older brother-in-law her husband and his father and if anyone were to be the uh a rabbit in a in a figurative way it should be him and frankly i argue that they didn't want anyone to be they wanted it to be uh a triangle the rabbits in muhammadin or the previous rebber's wife should remain on top as the husband as the wife of the previous brother to the right is the older brother and to the left is the brother brother-in-law son-in-law and to the left is a younger son-in-law and each one has institutions that they that they that they manage and that's it you're talking about rabbi rabbi and his wife her name was khanna the grandson the only grandchild of the previous s the only one yeah the gerraris had one child whoever had no children this is the only one so so the chanagarari and his uh and her son didn't and even rather gerard in the beginning but two years after he changed he gave himself over completely to the rebel he they did not accept what thousands of casinos said this is what we want they basically went against everybody but the way they did it was in a in a way that you know okay listen you guys you can do whatever you want but we are family so you know you could do whatever you want but we we believe that this is belongs to us and therefore but but she had a sister the rabbits and kaya mushka the rebbe's wife and their sister didn't feel like she did so they agreed to keep it just the way it is and they remind sisters and they were such close sisters they saw each other every day and they spoke to each other and like mamish and this and this issue of the the library was never discussed in a sense or or you know put just quiet but then in 1985 because barry her son needed money because he lost money i think he invested in stocks and he owed money so he figured i'll sell some of the books that's in the library they're worth a lot of money to collectors and we'll have funds and uh some say that it wasn't even he who came up with the idea was his wife that's another story about her barry gray's wife she was the daughter of a husset who was one of the closest kassid in the previous rebbe it it's it's you know and and who also you know so she you have to understand barry gerardi and his wife they became not religious at a certain point and and there's a lot to talk about and it's not for the public you know they they were not following the previous rubber and and and orthodoxy and hasidahs although in their own right they thought we're the biggest hasidim because we come from the schneidersons and we come from the goraris and we come from the rio what they call gesha the the root you know the real essence but practically you know they they they left the university and and you know whatever they didn't cover their hair and shave the beard i don't want to go into details but it's all written up you just got to read take out the books and read and you'll find a lot of it in my books because in most books they won't tell you the truth anyway so you know barry and his mother gave permission come in take some books sell them you know this thousands of books what are you gonna sell a hundred books and you'll make some substantial money for example one one hug other that was handwritten i think with illustrations it was from 500 years ago and la how the vatican was dying to get that into paid top dollar and it wasn't the rebels library it wasn't the previous rebels library and that was one of the books and somehow he knew about it or he found out from collectors and he took that haggadah and he put it on the market now that book probably can get a hundred thousand dollars just for one hunga you know so you're talking about collectors items that worth a lot a lot of money by the way he did not take any of the writings of the seven rebbe's he didn't take any which is very interesting i think it's a very in other words he and deep down he knew that in 1985 that this my uncle is the labacher and the writings of chabad belong here so he didn't take any of that he took swarm other books okay anyway how did he how did he physically take him i tried to understand how did he get access to take it without anybody okay okay good question the librarian the chief librarian was someone by the name of raphaim lieberman hayem lieberman was born i think in 1899 and he was very close to the previous river he was a personal secretary he never married he learned in laboch but he was a very strange person and he was a bibliographer he was a a real scholar of of history and writing but he was strange like he never married you know it was it was like people couldn't but that he was a trusted man of the previous heaven after the fleet of grabber passed away for 35 years he used to eat every night supper in the gerardi's home in 770 on the third floor he didn't have a wife so she made food and he would come and eat and he became very close to them he had the key to the library so when hannah when when hannah garari the the the previous set up his older daughter-in-law told them open the library and it's hers he listens it's hers he was just a librarian so he went in and took out the books very simple he had the key or he was open the door he went and he took anyone out that's it yes yes and they they said that this the fantastic work because they webcam above the door and they saw that he was walking in and taking the book down right right the rebels the rebels said that miraculously they ever said that that they were caught you know on camera walking in and walking out with the books yeah anyway so there ever makes yes motion good question technical question what happened we know this farm after the ruling so we saw this we see the pictures of the van pulling up and second the ribbon secretaries taking the boxes of the books into back into 770. were all the safari um were able to they were able to get all this farm back for example i'm not sure for example yeah like you mentioned the example that the i know that most came back maybe all if not most i guess i don't know the answer if everything came back but i believe most yeah the two bakarim that also took books they the rabbit said they returned right away whatever they took um and uh with the rebbe's alarm and involving the community uh by breaking the news to the public and the rebels said whoever holds one of those books in their hand is like holding a bomb that was a that was the rabbit came out of his mouth it's on tape and when people heard it you know even people who had items from the previous rabbit that was given to them for example the frida you know in russia and off the tail velvet can tell us it's very cold in the winter he used to wear a footer mantra a futermanto means a a very thick coat with uh fur i think what's called a footer mantle the previous amber had one of these and it he brought it he brought it to to to america and he gifted it to um his nurse manya who i told you many son used to live in beth shemesh remember i told you that i don't know if he still does i met him in h kodish manya gifted it to rabbi shalom bear shapiro who lives in crown heights sir of showing bear shapiro after the hearing that rebels work that whoever has an item or swarm from the previous rabbis library is holding a bomb he wrote to the rebel here's the i i have a i have the coat i was given the coat maybe i should give it back and they never answered that's not what i'm talking about you got a legitimate gift from the nurse who was gifted the coat by the previous celebrity and and the family it's hers and she has a right to give it to you and it belongs to you but i'm just saying that the the fear that we heard from the self you're holding a bomb in your hand no one wants to have a bomb that will can explode and will explode so this alarmed everyone including the greater market and slowly but surely they started to return the books and the rebel was very uh particular because rabbi is almost wanted to pay some of the people who bought the books for the books and they never said no no not not one cent they have to return the books because it belongs and and and and they have to work it out with the sellers you know so i don't know how the all those details i think there's you know if every not everyone agreed so i don't know maybe it could be that some laboratories paid some money quietly i don't know you know i don't know about that i can't talk about it but i could just tell you what their episode but i want to get to the point because so they never he basically went to oil for 30 days and the judge said that he'll give a decision but it's going to take several months because he needs to study the case meanwhile he he was dealing with a uh uh criminal uh case a murder case and it was pushed off not just for a few months it was pushed over for a year so a year later or so on hey davis right now we're talking about 1980 right 1986 the verdict came down from sifting that the library belongs to the community the citation that he used for his verdict was a line in a letter that the previous lever wrote to the librarian of marx mr marx at at um at the evo the evo is the yiddish institute which has a large la or or jts and that was not a from institution but they weren't well jts i'm sorry thank you the jewish theological seminar which was under the conservative movement and the three clever writes to him in 1943 i think and he writes them he says that you know my books that were in poland and russia and all that he says it belongs to the community i'm not saying it exactly but something like that and the judge oh when that lewin and the lawyers had a private meeting for their ever to hear the rebels view of why this isn't an inheritance of an individual in a family rather it belongs to the community because you know in a court of law you have to present your argument and just saying i'm a jew and i'm a husset and all that it ain't flying you know so they were struggling with a legal argument and position something that they can present that they felt would legally convince a judge and make a solid argument and it's the rebbe who cited this letter and he told them to look into this letter and to use that argument and you know you know their lawyers they they don't have to listen to the rabbit they want lubavitchers they want hasidim of their evil and matt lewin um saw the rebels point and he was the lead lawyer and he did use that in his up for his main argument and when the judge sifted and made his verdict part of the verdict he refers to that letter as support and proof that this belongs to the community and not to an individual so here's an amazing thing there's thousands of letters of the previous letter wrote thousands and i would ever picked out a new one letter one line in a letter that this will can convince this is the argument you should argue i think that's a phenomenal you know not just inside that of a sadiq but also of intelligence of how there ever was such an intelligent person that he understood in in logic what can convince a judge a non-jewish judge and that's why after the verdict came out the rebel wrote that this is the day in which even the federal judicial system if they saw that this belongs to the community meaning that they recognize that this is a special special uh day and the rabbit said this is the celebration this is the specialty of this day so this is what i want to talk about now there's two things today what do you have to do today the rabbit said in 1986 after the victory says he's going to the oil to report about the verdict to his father-in-law and anyone that wants to write a settle a note to the ohil he'll take it to the oil for prayer there thousands and thousands of chetlar came like 10 000 came that day so it's 35 years later i'm encouraging you very strongly to take today a few minutes you can do it through the computer there's ways of sending in your pond your pig your nephesh to the oh hell today while it's still light it's still light by you guys you know try it if you can't get to today then do it tonight but this is a day of br of opportunity for breakfast that's what the rabbit said so i'm just repeating number two that ever said that people today should learn from svarim buy swarm buy books buying books today we need to do something with slaughter and books whether it be to take out books and to learn from them whether it be to purchase jewish books and swarm whether it be to bind old swarm that are torn that need to be bound those are two practical things that that ever said this day celebrates and what we understand from the second point is that they ever said why is it from on high that this was this decree took place why it ever said it seems like because we're not using enough this forum in the library they're sitting there and they're not being used so by extension they said that if we were to use more our swearing purchase foreign today to do things with jewish books and swarm were correcting we're correcting the issue that that brought the decree this is what the rabbit said i'm just repeating so what would you say today about everything that you can get on the app no i don't think i that's not that's not that's not having a safer in your hand i i don't know but i'm i almost feel knowing the rabbit knowing the way he spoke and the way he thought holding a safer in your hand is not an app you own a safer there are one of them if so in one of the 10 campaigns is buy a smallies forum not buy a smaller apps buy your smalley swarm so you know this is i yeah i'm convinced that's that's what they have apps are good things i'm not you know we all use apps and but we're talking about filling your house with jewish books taking out the books that's why i've always encouraged all of you to have your own swarm i i've even gone a step further to tell you these sheets and handouts i don't like that have your own safer if you want to make notes make it in your it becomes yours it's it's a treasure you know look let me so so rebbe can you can you send out because today in big challenge they're open till seven can you send out which swarm you think that we're gonna do in the next few months and then this way you know we can make a tikkun today then today you know okay okay i could send out i mean i mean i mean most of you have but the safer that we've been using because we still have it's three volumes we've only really used one volume but um yeah i could i could send a note it's not a problem but when the kunda is the nakuda is that that when you oh and the celebration after the verdict was seven days of you know what what some might call parting but the chains and dancing but then i want to tell you something then there was an issue where they wanted to depose their rabbit there was some kind of issue after this a year later i think and they also got a positive verdict in their favor and the rebel was going to the ohil and everyone was waiting outside as he was going to leave to the ohil in the afternoon and he started to he was very upset and he was telling off people what are you doing to go inside and learn and everyone got so scared everyone ran away it's on video and that too was very shocking because for the rabbit to get so upset we also it was very surprising and what happened over here so the way hasidim explained this is the first luchos that moshe gave us were with much fanfare the first victory of haiti base was very much with a lot of fanfare singing etc but then the lucho shatter then we got the second set of the glucose the commandments and it says there was not with fanfare was rather quiet the second time that the verdict came in that ever didn't want kind of the feeling oh we beat you we won over you now which reminds me and someone asked me this just now in shul here chabad uses the slogan the don not we were victorious where did this come from so the rep himself said that there's a madrish and the measure says that there was a shin dalit there was a devil like a negative force that wanted or hurt a jews in a certain city and the rabbi announced bring your pots to all the jews bring your pots and pans and to the water and we're all gonna make a lot of noise and we're going to shrink scream and our noise will outdo the negativity of the shin balance the rabbit said that's a madrish so the rabbit said what the implication is that there was some kind of negative force trying to hurt the jewish world and the jewish community in the khabar community and the verdict is the analogous to what the matter says that they said we won the but as i told you that the detail and it's interesting another one more thing i want to tell you when the rabbit came to minha after the verdict was announced like you know two o'clock in the afternoon or so one two o'clock and minhyun 770 the rebel were davin at 3 15. he came in and he gave to dhaka to children as he did every time on his way in and he outwardly you didn't see any emotion and i mean the place was not know exactly five thousand people did not you would think the rebel would make with his hand and then nothing like nothing happened which is very interesting in other words there's jubilation there is victory but god forbid to look at the downfall of your enemy of your family of people who go against you that's the way i understand it you know in other words this by the river wasn't a personal thing me versus you my nephew against me no this was an issue that from on high there was a decree here and there was an uh about the rabbit being the baby about the community being the laboratory community and the verdict substantiated the rebbe is that sadiq and the head of the babbage and the community is a legitimate community and that's it but not to go and poke the eyes out of the opponent and i think it's a very important lesson in life you know we we have issues people with us us with people you have to be very sensitive not to poke the other person's eyes out and even when you win and even when you're right be very careful not to embarrass another person by saying i see aha i told you i'm right and you're wrong you know and all that so i think it's a very important lesson of how to serve and by the way it's a hassan when your enemy falls don't rejoice okay so how do you balance that i don't want to talk about how do you balance that with the sense of victory the way khabad sees it is the victory should be in inside you and do something about i just at the end before i went to the came here i banged on the beam and i told them ladies and gentlemen you know you're celebrating hey davis you have to know what you need to do and all the fantasies and all the fanfare you leave somewhere else you have to do those two things that have been said you should you know encourage you to write to the oil if you want to if you want that broker and number two to to learn far and buy swarm of buying swarm that's it that that is the meat and potatoes everything else is secondary the endian it's all nice but if you don't have time to do that and you just have time for one thing to do one thing do these two things of writing to the oil and and and getting a vowel swarm today on some level so i just wanted to uh you know share some of these thoughts on a special day like today because it's it's really it's really a an opportunity and who doesn't need a bracha every one of us for whatever children health parnosa you know so take time right to the oh hell today and and make some kind of connection to swarm today what did you want to say now yoni yeah okay so first of all can you can you send i'm sure there's a link right there's a link that we can just send something directly to the well is there i i i don't know maybe moshe someone knows i i don't know these things that i'm very i'm running around today i i don't i can't i don't have time but more important isn't it like the reason why on we don't say hollow is so that we have that because of hashem destroyed all our enemies right so we have to have a sensitivity yes so it's kind of that kind of thing yes it it yeah but yes but again it is a day of of celebration it's it's a happy day but but you know even at a hat listen we stand under a hoop and we break a glass like i told my class here yesterday who is mournful and and who is upset standing under the hooper everyone's happy but we just broke a glass for the destruction of the basal mignos that's that's part of our jewish experience you know you you have to be you know modest modest controlled you know the tendency is when you when you feel victorious and you you know you feel big by yourself oh what what does taylor teacher yi be humble even at the time be humble avram are you familiar with this history that i share today avraham yes i am baby yeah um looking good okay uh valvo anyone have a question what motion is just a book sale at chabad today yes yes there's a book sale what time to start yes yes yes there's a big sale i sent pictures it's uh he sent it to the group go go over there take a few minutes bring your children i'm right next door okay bring you to but share this with your children and grandchildren this isn't just for us this is for others and friends what time is it now i don't have the watch what time is it 3 23 3 23 okay so hi i am everyone next week we'll start a new mimer i'm going to let you know sunday mr shem uh which mimer the kai and the kayam should only have sim chris okay