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Reb Yoel Kahans History - Secrets from an Insider
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so
i ask for 15 minutes of quiet if it's
possible
i also ask those people that are
learning now to come over in honor of
yourself 15 minutes it's time for you
all all of us see this and what you're
learning
whether you knew him or you didn't so
stop your learning and come to the table
and listen okay you're not holier than
him i promise you
it's not not for my honor it's for his
honor
and i'm very serious
there is many things that can be said
about this person
but i would like to just give a little
history to understand the person you
need to know the person
from their youth otherwise
you really don't know the person and
even then
you know how much time did you spend
with the person etc etc
hashem i was okay to spend six years
learning with him
from 1978 till 1984
and i spent many shot buses at his table
while i was a student at bucker and even
afterwards
as a a married man while i was ashleigh
so
and we had serious conversations
not only about hasidis
and hasidis kite but about
what you would call the current events
of the day
within and without lubavitch now
many of these things cannot be shared
for the public so you won't hear them
from me
but but but you'll have to read that in
the book that i'm coming out with him
it's a chef
that's the way we get you to buy the
book anyway
anyway the book is not ready yet when
it'll come out
you'll know about it anyway anyway
was born february 14th friday february
14th 1930 in moscow
his father
known as folly khan
another way of saying rafael
lived moved from russia with his father
abort shalom khan
to poland for porsche it was very
difficult in rusland and russia
and it was a little better in warsaw and
they moved
in that to that area and later on for
whatever reason they moved back to
russia and moscow several months after
he was born his father
was sent to siberia for three years
for activities of disseminating
yiddishkai taito mitzvahs throughout
the region grew up
for the first three years of his life
without a father
that's a fact in fact there's a jew in
crown heights his name is replacement
galpirin
and abslaimer galpin is related to a
famous chabad costume known
as kalik or
they would call him in lubavitch
he came from a town zuravich and if
yankovic was like a soul
brother to pholikan to the fuller khan
and galperin
said to the oil that he knows about this
relationship so the bureau said let me
tell you what i was told
and what i remember you understand he
must have been two or three years old
and he tells him like this
one one pace of night
we see the ankle in our house after my
earth and he's conducting the seder for
my mother
and for us uh three or four
sisters and and he was the youngest
he was the youngest of all all the
children and uh he's leading the sailor
so later they they and he came home
after 11 12 a night to his own house
and he said and he said how can i make a
say that for my own family
if folio's children don't have a father
there to make a sader for them so
the hasidim the le baba chucci and the
russian lubavitch exceed them
the feeling of love and togetherness was
it was
very very strong anyway so
this is in 1930 was born in 33 his
father's release he comes back
1935 they get permission together with
other laboratory families like the uh
karasix and and the guraris and
coachmen and different families to leave
for energy snow
they get they get permission to go to
snow
the three the caribbean then was in
phukelsdarf pukulstuff is a village or a
resort area outside of vienna
actually it's it said in austria but
anyway
so the the fallen took the children
and to the fleet of cadaba for abraham
and the fleet gabba benched them
then they went to the station what yes
yes yes or he was a little boy was five
years old
then all of a sudden they're at the
beginner train station
heading towards artistro and who shows
up
hour ever and he says that
his father-in-law that frida kadepa sent
him
to bring a gift for the children and to
give them
chocolate so rabbi
rabioil's relationship with our rebels
started
in 1935 when he got
the chocolate from the river and that's
a family story that's been repeated
i spoke to guter gansberg if your sister
was married to the of gunsberg and
she told me the story
what i'm sharing with you and i heard it
other times but
she was older yes she was older so
that's 1935 then they get territorial
must have been about 10 years ago once
in history it was a 770.
and after that kuffus in the rep his
room
rabbi oil would always go into the
haider the room of don hall of the
administration for those that know 770
it's a small little room
you can't imagine that everything came
out of this room
mentally everyone
you know huddled in this room anyway
when the raskins came
next to the toilet small room
anyway in that room many decisions took
place
i'll cope on him
listen i asked for 15 minutes then you
can talk it's okay
i went into the room because i know and
mayor harlock used to go in and there
was like
it as the years went on less and less
people in the good years
you know he would take musca and fabren
a little bit
but then you know things slow down
because of his health and his age
and he told me he told me the following
he says the kansas
you can't imagine the poverty the arm
kite
was a given by my titan on the siding
in tel aviv in ramadan the poverty that
existed by us when we came to eritrea
he said with this and he
and he almost cried he was like so i was
like
it was so pow deep and and painful i
could feel the pain
from him repeating something from
1937-38
okay 1938 the frida kaderbah
writes to the see them and beresham to
the
laser curacao it was a big film with
rokham he learned
and the rebel writes you should start a
yeshiva
okay we're starting yeshiva they started
the yeshiva
at sixteen the cover of cook and the
reason i know the address is because my
daughter was a shloka there made a gun
an international kindergarten in the
same location
that rabbi learned him when he was a
little child
and with a folly khan was a malama
sixteen rahav rafcook
and at that time it was called what
in tel aviv two blocks from the ocean
at that time the it was called the
because it was because it was right next
to the water
but it changed anyway so that started in
1938 they started the yeshiva
then they had a second building a second
property where the as the bakram got
older they made another yeshiva and
that's where the shale broke you heard
of haim shalom brook
brook he was the rosh shiva the mashbiya
and that's where he and other great
minds and regular bakrim and everyone
learned together one of the great minds
was
and recently when the oil went to
uh to tell it to
years ago he wouldn't go to any of these
places only at last
since gimbal thomas he told me once that
he decided
that whatever the the shliyak or the
rav
thank you that says that this is where
you should go
we need you here he went and he didn't
didn't make an issue of it but years
before it wasn't that way we're not
going to go into
that whole psychological issue and
practical but that's that's a fact
so he went to nebraska and he met
without paparski rebecca
now bethansky is the son of abdullah
pvarsky
and abdal pavasky was the rajashiva with
raphael brooke ramshell was more of the
mashpee and the manila and he was the
rashid
and he had a son and so he had a son so
he said like this that his father
came home one day and he said the
following
they used to call it a build his
nickname was two names
what do you think they were either
yolker
or yolic okay just for the record that
was the nicknames between
them and they were from russia the the
the
poverski was from russia and burma they
were all rushing
russian jews so he said the father said
like this
best service
knows better understands better the
gemara than absolute than slaymer
bearman and he was a gorgeous name of
bearman
so this review and we're talking now
about enigma in gemare
farshin not talking about this we're
talking about in high
in in gemara i just heard tonight
from arabia is a talmud booklet who
lives in borough park
he he learned with him for 44 years and
actually he was the first the only one
two people did kriya for the oil at the
borough park at shamra das and one was
this talmud mubik i saw it myself i was
there
and he did it because he he considered
himself that
if your if your main rebbe passes away
you're
obligated according to jewish law to
tear kriya
you know that and uh so then we have a
rabbit so you know it's a different
but he tore crease he told me what
his name is she is ralph's gross
he's a bell is a closet who's a a big
tom mcfucker anyway
so he told me that he once went
energy to speak to 200
students but medical students lawyers
bright students
and he said that he was citing gemmarus
and sam ciphers with the page number
with the line number and and
you know he hung out with him many times
so but he never
showed his knowledge of nigler but
his primary years in yeshiva was
learning nikla
then as he got older probably from 1617
to 20
he put a big emphasis on citizens
and here is another important point to
know about his youth
because because of his father who was
his father
i'll say something maybe shouldn't be on
the record but okay
there was a yid in montreal
rabbi laurie knows who i'm talking about
and he was a big big masculine see this
from the goraris
but i mean a rameshigarani's son but a
real masculine
and he was a best friend with rabbi
correct for a while
so a friend of mine is his son-in-law so
he once said like this he says
was mainstream yale is grace
follows grace
what do you think rabbi is great he's
great
but who's really great his father follow
khan
now that follow khan was not did not
have the head of rabial khan in fact
they say
that took his head from his mother rifka
his nifty was one of four daughters of
the
the the the davidson that was the family
name
what why am i telling you this
having a father like fuller khan
saturated saturated with
hasidis kite not hasid this which he had
too
but khasit sky the lifestyle everything
about him was
siddishkait and this father was his
father i'll give you another example
and people a lot of the lubavitches
never knew this or never paid attention
or they even disagreed but i want to
tell you
from what i saw and what we saw
maybe avraham remembers if he was an
ocean parkway but rabbi
used to give a shirt and see this to the
older bakren they called
him all the bakarim in ocean parkway my
days in 75 76
seven with its fee green black medley
nova scholar that group the growner
twins that whole group
and uh he would come into the room in a
new york winter
it's very cold and he wore a
coat and then he wore by the way he
didn't wear a long necklace during the
week a long frock he wore a jacket
and he wore a sweater he always had a
sweater
so before he sat down to give the tanya
shir which by the way though she
wouldn't were
two hour tanya shield him i a friend of
mine recorded them he still doesn't want
to give him out i told him he has to
give him out
they're the best tanya shooter that that
i ever heard from him
because the bucharan were good minds it
was
an intimate group it was like 30 40
heaven and
and it was real it was real you know it
details anyway so he would stand up
and he would take off his jacket now you
take off your trap and take off your
sweater and how did he take off his
jacket
the way it says in chocolate what it
says
first the the jacket the left
then the left sweater
and and not taking them off at the same
time because it's casually
right it's not good for your memories
right and then he did the right and we
ourselves we used to laugh like rebj
is is like interested in these details
and he was
anyway you know it's the the seriousness
to how loka he got from his father foley
i want to give you another example
okay i came back for huge fact the first
huge
anyone that he recognized he would give
shaolin with a smile
and all of a sudden he says to me new
and i was
never got a like a serious new and i'm
looking at him and here
the place is jammed friends are around
we're waiting for that ever to come down
it was
huge fat night was very serious you know
and all of a sudden he says no and i'm
like i want to bury myself
and then it just says no no and i take a
look at my jacket i had my left button
over my right and according to the
arizon
and and then kabulistic writings you
should have the right over the left
because right is hesita and left is
guvura
i saw that these little
seemingly insignificant things were
relevant to him like understanding of my
mercedes and
and and being with the rabbit so his
yiddish
was profound the fact that sometimes
some people saw this so that you have to
understand what you saw
you have to understand what was going on
and you have to know that there ever
was involved with every detail of his
life which is the next point i want to
get to
i have it's again i have an email i got
of a text
from someone in cleveland who is a
talmud music of the rover of yahshua
salavaitchik of robbie sullivan he
himself was a professor
at the touro and he was a talmud and he
is a tom cohen
his name is reichman so he sends me
he sends me a text and he says i had
three rebels
first one was the rob i forget now the
second one and the third one who i
discovered
later in my life was rebuild and he used
to come to the shooter in borough park
with a pen and paper shuckle away
and he became mamish
the proof is what's the proof a year two
years ago
he decided to him and his brother to
donate us a potato for their mother
so he called and have labeled all time
the machine our shoe
and he says i'd like to donate the
seifer toyota to all the barbecue
institution this is a why you
man okay and i went over to him i was
i'm a friend of mine you couldn't