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Rosh Chodesh Kislev Farbrengen 2021 #2
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Reb Mendel: Whole, Half, No Mentch
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where a person is there's always
something there's always something that
can be done no matter what the community
is like
there's always a need it doesn't matter
if you're in the ukraine
if you're in alaska junior july
there's always a need because people
have needs the community has needs
i was thinking how i was just when i was
walking past there i was very and i was
i was moved by it
i was moved by it and i think that it
just
it just i guess what i want to share
is that uh
this you know i i listened to that i
don't really
know i don't know if you did on sunday
night i don't know if you listen to the
live broadcast
no sunday night was the okay was the the
guinness look
if anybody i i personally thought it was
a beautiful program my entire family
watched it
everybody you could see it on you can
see it online in different segments now
but
the point is that um one of the things
that was spoken about
is just how we this especially this
these
this last you know many months
how we how many challenges we've all had
but that the key is to take the word
challenge and substitute it with the you
with
with the word opportunity how
we have to take challenges
that we've all had and turn them around
around 180 degrees and view them as
opportunities
absolutely how can we how can we grow
how can we help others grow how can we
help
wherever we are and i was just
i'm just sharing that thought because i
was thinking about
yeshiva there that meets in the combat
show
how like yoni just described it for guys
who
you know don't fit in well
what what a beautiful thing what a
beautiful
beautiful thing and that's like that's
like
and it's it's real and um
it was a challenge that was turned into
an opportunity
right before i forget i wanted to say
lechayan you'll need for your father's
ability for shalema and your
father-in-law
both should have refused leima take you
from a yacht immediately
healthy and happy and
in i was
i was also thinking just in line with
you were saying moisture
uh hilo you know shared a few days ago
some of you might have heard it that you
know he has a daughter and a son-in-law
or son or daughter i forget which
in katsurin
so if you ask the barbecue he would say
hillel your son son-in-law and daughter
are the shlokhim of qatsrin
and you're like and you laugh like you
did now
the truth is that's what that ever
taught that was crazy
you don't need to be in a book you don't
need to have a medal you don't need to
be an official but the sense
the sense that wherever you are you need
to think about another yid and
what can i do to to augment yiddish kite
wherever i am that's being there
is a husset really okay
the rabbit wants wherever you are and
whatever you're doing and
in your in your community
every day there's opportunities for
sliches but one minute there's an
official trio
and they're from eden what do you mean
what do you need me
every person is indispensable
every person is unique that i've been
said so many times and the previous
labor writes and is my mother
what balabaton can do and see
through her protest rabbis and kailua
people yeshiva
because we're not that we're not in that
domain of that space
but someone who is in the business world
someone who is in the business world and
someone who
who meets so many other people
i'll never get to see those people
because i'm not in that that world
so when we talk about rashford kislev
you talk about the kennedy talk about
this idea it's a mindset and
and i i if i have i would say it this
way that before
this last rabbit hour rabbit alabama
before his leadership this wasn't even
the mindset
in chabad there was a mindset of of
helping
you because of obviously israel right
but this mindset that you're a
lamplighter and you have a
responsibility and what are you sitting
on the couch get up and do something
again
that that drive and that responsibility
that that ever created in those 42 years
that he that he taught
taught world jewelry what it means to be
a jew
and you see this in his conversations
with rabonim
and rebus and laymen and balabatim
and politicians it's a common thread
throughout
every one of his conversations is
what can you do for
hashem for yearn for judaism for to make
the world a deal
and that comes from an essence that
comes from from
from from from from bree from living
from living life i repeat to you what i
told you that
mendel's vert that's so powerful and
important to rethink and relive with
if a person doesn't have parnosa
struggles with parnosa
they're still a mensch they're still a
human
but they're missing panaso which it's
it's not comfortable it's not
and but there's still a mensch if god
forbid
a person is missing their health
they're a hal birmensch they're a half
of a person they're not an
entire person they're a harder match a
half a person
and if god forbid a person is missing
their
mood their drive they're not a mensch
they've lost their humanity
the drive and and and and the drive is
independent
of health money and everything else
it's something personal and deep within
a person that no one can take away from
the person
no one as long as the person is
breathing and living
we see people who are so sick and people
who are so
downtrodden and and and have difficult
situations but they had a drive
and they pulled through whether they
pulled through
temporarily or pulled through
permanently
but they pulled through the drive and
this is
the kuda that we need to live with this
heidi's kisliff
this whole is about this nakuda
light bringing light into the world
we're learning in the reminder of
all about our machiavelli
and details but it's all about light
right
hanukkah is about light your this kiss
lives about light
what is light light illuminates and
light is warm
illuminate the world and make the warm
and make the world
warm make the world geshmaq make the
world as the rabbit
said once uh you trot it's bossy ligani
it's a garden with the roses and a
pleasant
aroma it's a beautiful gishmaka plate
it's delightful
now of course you'll say but wait a
minute i could
i could look at the negativity and and
um
and and what's it called the point is
that's not that's not where it's at
that's not where it's at
anyway hebrew everyone should have a
good
bench
and we should we should all see mashiach
with our physical
eyes no fantasies real
and we should we should know that we're
one
and one people all of us claudius
and we should embrace each other and say
more lechayan
what did the rabbi think what did the
the rebbe or the previous rabbi
say to do underscore like any special
kind of
no cause rashford's kiss live is like
i think the only chabad yanto you know
festival day in a
celebrity day uh celebratory day
that the the red that came from it
didn't come from him
so he you know what i'm saying we are
celebrating that his life was given back
to him so
if that's a good i'm glad you asked that
so again it's really
it is us it's every individual so the
rabbit didn't say do this or do that
it has to come from you from us
have a great day tomorrow we will start
again with the the mind
take care bye