Reb Yoel's First night RH in shul and house - Rebbe's 1982 RH Maamar and its Impact

the last shabbos of the year tough shin pay aleve we're going into tough shin pay bays some say the year is an acronym for tahitian us [Music] [Applause] full of blessings ladies and gentlemen it's down to the wire it is down to the wire as we say in classical colloquial english it's crunch time so what is it about this shabbos that's that's crunch time so i want to tell you a few stories with raby oil that i saw myself and the rebel rosh hashanah i want to talk a little bit about rabbi and the rebels rosh hashanah so as i've mentioned in other clips i had the schools i had the merit of having private time private conversations eating privately with rabbi oil and rabbits leia at their home many times when i was a baker when i was a student yet in yeshiva and even later as a married man when i returned from schlicher's for different weekends and different things i made it my business to visit them and to spend time so this was rosh hashanah i believe 1982 tough shin mem gimbal and uh invited me to come to his house for the sudas yamcha for the yamcha meal the first night of rosh hashanah now in classical chabad tradition the first night of rosh hashanah is a very holy night now what do i mean very holy night every yomtiv is holy and every region is holy but by allah see them the first night of rosh hashanah see them with darwin longer they were diving at barricas they were down in belvedere they would see this longer they would reflect and meditate and in a way it was a very somber night a very quiet and still fullness night you know in the series of the friday rabbit talks about the the the energy of the world i mean this it says in the kabbalah in dalton everywhere it brings in together 14. but the energy of the world is dormant retreats back to its source the night the first night of rosh hashanah and we through our blowing of the shaffer and davening we reinvigorate it it becomes a new energy for a new year but at night the world is uh coasting the world is coasting and who knows if hashem will recreate the world in the morning the our rabbit would dabble with the minion and he didn't spend he didn't stay after the minion or or darvin much much slower where the minion finished and they waited for him to finish this was a the conduct by the rebel ashab and the previous rebbe in nineteen i think forty four or forty five tough shin shanghai the frida kadabadaban is very long for two three hours including a very long monastery and there are buckets of tears they will see them who told me this rather like it's a growner and rabbi label posner the israel gordon many of them you know they were students then and they remembered vividly it left such a powerful impression for these uh american boys or you know american cultured the babachir 770 bahrain students anyway but the rabbit didn't do that at least not what we saw nevertheless that doesn't detract from the tradition what a rabbit does is we we learn what we what we need to from it but the rabbit said himself many times it doesn't reduce and detract and diminish anything that rabbi him and khabad khasid did for years and years and years so i wanted to see how rabbi yo my mashpee is dabbling rosh hashanah knight as a curious student and a close student i i felt i want to see this so he was sitting i found them sitting in the hedersheini in the small room next to the basement upstairs in 770. that's where that time we learned and the next room was like adjacent and for those that didn't have a place in the in the main room they'd learned over there shabbos jumped if there was a there were mignon there later you know different times anyway dominion downstairs finished and i knew that burial had invited me so i i went to see where he is and simultaneously as i said i wanted to see how he's darkening if he's darkening longer and all i saw was he's sitting on a bench as i came into the room from the corridor the long hallway upstairs in 770. and he's sitting just with his his eyes open not his eyes closed and just looking and thinking and looking and thinking and not speaking to anybody totally elsewhere totally elsewhere and and whether he noticed me or he didn't i don't know but i noticed him and i couldn't kind of keep my eyes on him for too long because then you know he would notice me or i i it would feel very uncomfortable so i like you know i'm i i pretend that i'm looking for a safer on this or that i i maneuvered around the room a little bit and checking him out from all angles and the the the total uh vacus the total meditative state of reflection and contemplation i i i saw in in in his face and body posture sitting there while people are passing to the left and right and back and forth and some are talking and he's just elsewhere that's what i saw myself then we came home and there was the suda i don't recall if anyone else was there it might have been i was the only one there at the time and i remember thinking to myself that probably um he's not gonna speak because many many people don't speak the first night of rajashina the rabbit didn't speak except very little at the su that you know and and p and shmuel and rashad were very careful to ask only a question or two and and really was pretty it was pretty silent and quiet well debio was normal he spoke to me and i spoke to him and he spoke to his wife not about nonsense but about the concept the concept of mela carnation of the king and this it was really a um a very torah-oriented spiritual conversation and that too was very very eye-opening for me you know sometimes we think oh we're going to be so holy and we're not going to talk to anybody if you have a guest you need to be pleasant you need to say hello i need to make conversation but make the conversation rosh hashanah night of more rookney's more torah conversation i never saw on him i never saw in him what we call the shtick we used to call it and we call it superficial nonsense you know that wasn't him he was like i've said before it was ish baina noshim he was a person amongst people and a very very sweet person really if you got to know him he was such a sweet delicious individual who who exuded honey mamish azizkaite as we say in yiddish a pure z skype but you had to get past the the the outer you know you and and if he saw in a student or in a person that they're really genuinely interested in in indus in learning in davening in being on avid hashem he allowed himself to be open and the warmth flowed and i saw this rosh hashanah night so here is here here i walked away saying look here is like the paradigm hosed you talk about 200 years here is this hostage that comes from a pedigree of sydney medellin from generations and and and see them were close to the rabbi and see them who had mercedes never his father befall that folia had seen this nephesh self-sacrifice for yiddish guide and here is kaiser the person who was communicating and who set up and arranged hasidis of the rebbe from the very beginning you would think that he's you know you know crying and and and and not not wanting to be with people rosh hashanah night it could be he cried and it could be he was elsewhere but all i could tell you is what i shared with you and to me this felt so wholesome because there's an expression in yiddish so gut until light be godly and be a mensch be human the combination of both for a moment the year that year 1980 to rosh hashanah that have been set up and i recall that this mimer was based on the frida krab the previous lab is of tough shin gim of 1942. and it's a very very hascalla dikamai mahascala meaning the mimer itself lends itself to intellectual ideas in a very deep way and the concept that's discussed there is levels of russian levels of god's will with wanting to be king how wanting meaning the absolute will that is not generated by an outside force but comes from within god anyway there's a deep concept and there's many details and it's it's known from the uh the more difficult discourses of hasidis to understand and the rebbe said the same opening phrase as his father-in-law said uh how many years before 1943 tonight in the 40 years earlier it says 40 years later in the person understands what their teacher really meant what when they taught it 40 years back based on what it says in the toyota so the rebecca hazard he reviewed that mimer and i remembered the 770 those that were intercities were it was 45 minutes it was a very long mimer and it was profound and deep and and nothing i i i managed to where i was where i would stand by fabregan across the river to the to the right to the left i was able to creep all the way up because it was jumped i wanted to hear it well and i got very close up almost next to the bureau over there in the shell in in the in the way that between the two benches where people were sitting they would rise for the mimer but there was like an aisle and i was able to go all the way up to the all the way towards the front and i was able to hear the mimer hashem well and it you know it was fascinating now yes i you know i was um 22 or so and it was it was it was fascinating but to say that i understood all the intricacies of the mimer i didn't but i saw that the turnover are talking about the mimer and and i could see that something here is going on and then when i went with him to have another sudo during the the after i think was my soy rosh hashanah or maybe the following shabbos i forget when and he reviewed the mimer it was govaldi he reviewed the mimer this was my recollection of the rebbe's mimer tough sheen mem gimmel in 770. of course the rabbiskiyas we've spoken about and people have spoken about it i don't have to tell you and one last thing is that when we say capital uh till in capital 24 not mismo david which is capital 23 but with david mismar it's brought from the abiak of them when you say that it's malaya that everything belongs to god and that god fills the world you will be zaika your merit to have parnasso an abundance of livelihood and pranossa throughout the year so here we have a recipe for concentrate for high success strong success in panosa but it requires kavanagh atsuma strong cavunda when you say that psalm after this monastery rosh hashanah nights both nights and then you'll keep her the night also after mayreef so it's an investment in a boy's side that is worth the the return uh so too that ashab says if you dance with um great great excitement and great um zest uh simchristaro the main thing is that we should uh prepare ourselves the last few days and then go to the oil if you can't get there to send a pigeon fish to ride upon upon abundant mercy for yourself and your wife and children and friends and and anyone else that you should be in the cedar we should we should be aroused to chuvash leima that's what we add that's special in this pond and this letter out of rosh hashanah when we when we write to the oil or go to the oil and we ask to and defeat the cadet to be to be to be our advocate on high to bring the the petition notes upon him today says that ebba would walk in with with bags and the secretary carrier bags and then they would bring it up to the bema and they were on the beamer when the rabbit blew the schaefer with his talos over his head it was awesome awesome awesome and the rebbe's face turned red when he blew and it's a whole uh we need a whole clip for itself to describe the rubber's face and the blowing of the shaffer around upon him it was and then when he went back to the beam he turned around i believe it says in kabul the baltic are the one blowing the shaft we should see everyone he would turn around slowly looking everyone in the crowd abbasai all of this exists still don't think it's gone it's not gone it's here because it's what you make of it you can be with the rebbe in 770 this rajashana looking at him and he looking at you and hearing the schaefer how can i say that how can i say that the answer is it's a mindset if you work and you and you toil and you study and you meditate and you reflect that's who you are the famous vert sham atanimsa the thought of a person that's where the person is not where physically you land your feet and your body and your house it's where the makshava is the thought of the person are wishing everyone with good bench to your partial gosh me as good health better health happiness from the children and grandchildren even for everybody tremendous amount of paranosa and the ikea kingdom should come in a revealed way that we should be able to say hines this is mashiach and point to him and take us and he'll take us to yerushalayim and we'll be safe all together as one nation one people which is the theme of this video series of bringing eden together whether your chabad or your sakmer or the lit fish or yes fardham or you're not yet religious we're all one people go with simha come with simha and we'll see each other very soon because of amish 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