Yud Tes Kislev 2022 - How did a Litvak, Reb Zalmaninu become a Chasid - G-d is in the small things

uh first of all a good jump tip to everybody it's your test kiss lift today and uh although I said it briefly yesterday the traditional Chabad wish which is actually at the end of yesterday's sheer Tanya in the luach that the Reba made the friedber made of the every section of Tanya used to say daily so at the end it says that we should have a good year in the study of see this and the practices may be Rewritten and and engraved for for success in those areas now as much to talk about it's a little fabrengan and we have a brief amount of time so just share a few nakudas and uh you've gone to a fabrina I'm sure either Shemesh or elsewhere and you might be going to another one but uh before I forget the important thing is to give the bottom line because sometimes you get into for bringing and talking you forget about the bottom line I just said this is truly here I'm here at the Chabad School in Hallandale so repeat it to you that it it's brought in a safer called shyless responses that were heard in heaven and this Rabbi I forget his name now he lived 500 years ago and he published a safer I mean it's a legitimate book it's not an Abracadabra Fly by Night uh booba Baba type of a book this is 500 years ago and it's been accepted and the river our River he mentioned it many times in the especially the Utes schizophrengans why because he writes over there that today Utah you've heard the words good news the word basura means news so he says that you test kisler today your test Kiss Live is a day for good news and he wrote that way before the balatanya the alterable was liberated from his imprisonment today um so many years later so what we understand number one is that today is a day of good news so what does it mean for us it means very simple that whatever you're going to do today and I know it's a quarter to three or three o'clock you know by you and I just said oh but you still have two hours or an hour and a half before this before the sun before it says you make today in this safe and it says you will see good news so that means both in your financial and material life from Investments to to business in in the spiritual life of tadaka and Mitzvahs and and then personally what person needs a broker for children and health and and should do him this is what it says in the safest so I just want to get that out of the way not to get it out of the way it's it's an icker what you invest in today in all aspects you will receive good news on that so you know it's it's rare that there's a day in the Jewish calendar in which a person who lived 500 years ago writes this about a cert about a certain day and happens to be right said about you this live in what context I don't have to say for in front of me I can't tell you but this is what he writes so um after this year each and every one of you think about the different things you need in your life what you want to do and and and go for it so today you just kiss live for 200 plus years and many others have been celebrating the release of the balatanya from The Vicious attack and Russian hurricane gossip that individuals didn't understand what he was doing and others like him were doing and they gossiped to the tsarist government that the altareb and his friends were were funding the the sultan the Turks The Turk the Turks and this led to his imprisonment and doubt that if it was in jail 53 days corresponding it happens to be to the 53 days 53 chapters of Tanya they're in the first section of Tanya there's 53 chapters How many days was the out there been in jail 53 days not that he wrote to Tanya during those 53 days he didn't but it says it's Divine Providence that there's 53 days but one of the stories that the altered the uh that that the previous rapper related is the following and it's it's important for us it's important to us because you know as life goes on and we look at our lives and we look at our what we did in the past and what we hope to do in the future sometimes you you you come to kind of what you your conclusion that um you know I I didn't do anything really great and I didn't really accomplish and uh you know I wasted away and that's very very negative depressing thoughts it's it's not it's it shouldn't be you know it's not something that that a person in general in a Jew in particular should feel but nevertheless that's reality so the following story The Following story will show you that it's the little issues in life that it where it counts not the big issues the big issues that's that's extra that's that's you know extra credit so what happens like this was known as Salman de liquez Alman was his name he was a lit [ __ ] now a lit fact 200 years ago was not like a lead [ __ ] today the lit the lit Fox 200 years ago were were actually um resentful of a notion of simple people simple Jews if you didn't know how to learn a piece of gamara and an homicide Rashi and halacha you were a nothing it would be tantamount to walking across the street you know like if you're also a Jew things that we're learning now the man o'clock and guess what 200 years ago it wasn't the Sodom it was the literally the literature and it was basically the common Jew who was involved in learning and deafening despise the simpleton and guess what most Jews were simple than that if you think that in film that 200 years ago most were not a simple it's a big mistake we always talk about vilna vilna vilna the Villa going and then a few of the and his people that was the exception to the rule most eaten it were working and was struggling to make paragnosa and and didn't know how to learn much and didn't go to know Yeshiva etc etc who went to Yeshiva the the few anyway so out that ever out there ever the balatanya that we we look up to and we learn from he was a little [ __ ] and the free I'm sharing you what the free the character says in the secrets not my own made up the dresses that he had the same mindset as the lit facts regarding simple Jews when I learned the secret because I heard all kinds of things but when I learned that inside it's like I said wow I see it here black and white you know this is who the founder of the of the web anyway and he came to a Crossroads in his life and the crossroads wasn't about whether he should become a businessman or a sports player or sitting yes even coil the crossroads was should he go to vilna to it to extend his learning of theta by the great going of illness or should it go he heard about known as the magadh of the bed of mislich should he goes there to find out what it means to Daven to pray and the altarama made a very simple calculation to learn he says I think I know a little how to learn you know how to learn very well so if we'll go to Phil navaram we'll get more learning okay but tadavani said I don't know how to Dougie I don't know how to Dove because darpening is is it's a whole different it's a whole different avoid it's not just saying words it's not just translating words it's an experience that you know is Transcendental and meditation and reflection and and the heart and the tears and the and and and and and the joy it's feelings but feelings of of of of godliness within the context of prayer so the altariba says if there is a rabbit if there is a person that can teach me how to dive him properly and how to get how to be motivated to serve Hashem better through prayers with governing I'm going to him and he goes to him as rich it comes to miss rich and he sees that most of the day the hasidum there above and he starts asking what is davening to tell him hey tell them a little more and now that was a very busy man he had a schedule going to give mother and Shalom he was known as a lawyer and he comes to the conclusion as much as I I would like to know more about how to dive into Hashem I'm not willing to give up my learning because you know when you're sitting a diving into three four hours you're not able to learn me those hours are you not able to learn good morning it takes some time I could tell you I could tell you from personal life over the years real davening takes a lot of time it's not uh just dive in with a minion like a diving like we all Darwin this morning very nice with that what the menu we got a big star but the real Davin is to go Way Beyond then it can take an hour two three it's a whole different experience if you haven't done it I suggest you taste it once and you might actually like it and do it a second time so the out that ever said no I'm sorry as much as I'd like to find out a Daven but by learning at the feet of the magnet of Ms Rich I'm going back I'm going to remain Elite [ __ ] and that's it and and everything else they were trying this wasn't that the lit folks weren't with the leadership minds they were real Yiddish Minds and he leaves as he starts traveling home again I don't know if it was outside and how far people ask me this yesterday I said the story doesn't say but as he's starting to travel back to his house enlargement he remembered that he left his shawl his child he came with a shower was a little cold so he went back for his Shout that's when he went back to get his show when he came in to get a show he heard the Magid discuss a a section of the talmud in Hulen with with with a very complicated section Castro's of an animal with with someone else and he listened to tentatively and he heard genius and he said wow if this is the market I'm staying here so did ever made once uh once a bit more than once made a very important point and that is that what kept the outlet and what got him to become husted and become the alternative was when he heard the niggler when he heard the kimono when he heard the genius the the doctor but speak about and all that Apple learned from this story that they wait to to bring a litch rocket anyone that's not yet hadn't yet had this was the lyric scissors to start learning cities is through gamara yes you look I just want to say uh it strikes me that's very strikes me um because it was a it was learning a piece of piece of Zohar uh that brought the market to the valentov okay so that was one thing that ever said and and in other words and the Practical lessons not so much for us but maybe our children grandchildren or others you know these the babadook and they they like to you know they want to go and share cities with not the Bible right you come into a shoe so the lesson is begin with [ __ ] first they have to respect you to see that you can learn a piece of tomorrow you can give it to Russia you know what I'm saying I recall speaking here in the show Once years ago and there was some obviously not the barbecues I don't know if they were hardcore literature but you know and I spoke about an idea that the devil spoke about once a certain section the Gomorrah and and and someone came over to me he was from Brooklyn from Flatbush and he says I didn't know the Bible just know how to learn Komodo I thought they're ignoramuses they holding those tanyas and to put film on people that you know how to learn a piece of gamut and you know and all that I didn't know that we were taught that you guys are a bunch of amarasan so that was wonderful but there's another code there that Bible spirit all night this was an Ocean Park between H and I he only knows very well where it is the big building neither baby ship and I learned that Yeshiva so to say there was is This Kiss Live and it brings very warm Memories Back that um the the last night the skis live um he would come to fabrege from 8 to 11 with us we were about 16 17 base Madrid say if I bring with us yes then we were told to go to our dormitories or go home and because tomorrow we had Yeshiva and we would tell some of us didn't do that and We snuck out or we kept sitting there because from 11 till 6 7 in the morning if I bring the all night and I'm not exaggerating all night with the older older him the older bufferin I grab a groaner you know you had Mandy Groner come to you to speak and I think Shemesh I remember him at one of those far bringings here because he was an older bucker in the Yeshiva and then guests came from Borough Park and Flatbush and and other places and this was like the fabrangian of the year that yo like gave gave it all and and and and and his message was you know two messages Bittle and didn't humility subservience to Hashem to the point where all there is is God as we've learned many many times and spoken about and making a home and each cutest Kiss Live what I recall is because I was there for many of them he would choose either a story or or a concept and all night develop it from all sides hours and he would say well and at the end of the night you know he was he was you know very intoxicated but you know not wild but but he he had if I bring all night and it was it was a scene to be seen to 300 people in the basement it was a very special thing it was very special so one time he took this story that I shared with you of the altenebo returning to Ms Rich for his for his show all for his uh yeah thing and he said that what we see here is a fascinating thing that what caused the outlet to become accosted from being known as zombieu the litvak a little dinky shawl a shout he returned from leaving the market and going away and never seeing him again and remaining a lit fact and ultimately coming to Bella Tanya because he went to pick up his little show the small insignificant thing and review was mass but that this is the whole idea of Aid to take the little unknown and unimpressive parts of our life and make it godliness to take doctor to show and make the sure godliness and the sure part of the experience that's what the citizens about in other words until the the belshant Divine and the altered the idea was that God is kind of in the big things in a black immoral that's big Steiger you know SAS wow they're gonna stand up when you walk in the basement that's big that's important but if you know and if you know if you mentioned the learning of kids who shall not up to the serious yeshivism and and buffer him they'll laugh at you you learn the kids are sure what are you a baby you must be a baby the real boys the real boys learn the big children but but was written by schlamicgan Street in Germany at a time where people didn't have a chance to learn and they he wanted everyone to know the bottom lines he made an Abridged version of the code of Jewish law that means it's for second tier second class that was the attitude until the belchem until the bellatania the Altera became and he says you want to be a khasid you want to see what God is all about look for the small things and it's very important this because if you think about it it's a revolution within the title world the balcantov made a revolution in the entire world until the balcantov as I said the big things is what's important the Small Things is God is nothing the symbolism of the story that he that he went back to get a shawl is that and he openly stayed by the market for three years and he became the balotanya right by taking apprenticeship by the by by the market that was rich it's because of the little thing and if you need support for this it's when the title the Pakistani the small jugs right he returns Jacob returns because he forgot some small drugs small jumps I told you a story once repeated that um uh the Bible Friend Thomas friend he was still called mentor of buying in Los Angeles where I was learning there so he was invited to a wedding in South Africa they put him up at a hotel his name is Rabbi Garrison Schusterman very fine he'd special eat anyway so he returned he thanked the uh the host for for bringing him he was very close to him he called him he came back to Los Angeles and the the host still remained there for the shadow brokers and he said thank you it was a wonderful Sim Club and he says his Rabbi and um calls him grab a system and calls him in South Africa he says you could you could thank me when I returned you didn't have to make a long distance call on those days probably in the 80s you know it was it was expensive he says yeah but I have a very important thing to ask you I left a pen in my hotel room foreign maybe you could see if you can find the pen so he says Rabbi what type of pen was a boy a ballpoint pen or a cross what they call a cross pen an expensive pen no no he says it was a like a five cent pen that you buy in one dollar a day whatever one of these stores family a regular bed this is rabbi you're calling me to South Africa I should go back to the hotel see if your pen that's worth five cents or less is there because you left it there he says yeah he says Rabbi and you're very serious people and you know both very bright he says Rabbi what are you trying to teach me what are you saying like if this doesn't make any sense so he says I'll tell you he says I was taught in hasidus that Hashem is in the small things and that pen has value and if that pen gets lost that means it's finished it's over its mission is over and as long as we could retrieve that pen and it's usable It's Not Over so therefore it's everything it's not five cents it's five million dollars because it has a purpose and a mission that still has not been completed the red that's one story another story would write when people sent them letters and it would make edits on the letters he would do it with a pencil not a pen and he used a pencil and you could see copies of it you'll see it you'll notice it's a pencil marks not pen marks the pencil starts this way and as you use the pencil becomes like this and like this and like this and like this it becomes very very that happened with actually use the pencil to where you couldn't hold it anymore in his hand so he had a he had a uh a secretary a moisture lay brush stain a European Jew and he couldn't take nothing wasn't any would not and they would put down a bigger pencil and he would not touch the bigger pencil until he couldn't use any longer that little pencil so he couldn't take it so he decided one day to bring in these Carnival pencils that you get at Coney Island you know or probably at the Knott's Berry Farm over there in California wherever you are whatever you have an extra throat a big pencil he came in and he gave it up with the pencil and he broke out with a big smile but again what's what's the message they said everything by its Sadiq until it can't be used anymore it's mission is still usable and this is the message from this story with the altered that it's in the small things in in life where it counts not in the big things in the big things it's it's very simple everyone's looking for fame everyone's looking for the grand picture the grandiose picture but in the small little things in life and I think Hillel in your you know work as a therapist I would think you you've seen this how and you you you probably suggested I I know I do in my work that people need to be explained and trained that when you do a clean attack when you do a small thing your mom is doing the biggest thing is the greatest thing that little shawl that the alternator went back for because he needed to make of it you still it was still usable and if it would be left by the market it would be forgotten about and and that's it he went and he brought it back to and he took it back and he made of it use and that's I said this that's sinners so yes see this is not fame see this is not popularity today listen but if Hashem you have that summer programming and it's you know it's glitzy and it's all that that's because the world we live in you know I was speaking to a friend about the world to live in that's what attracts people so when you give four swarim for a hundred shekel and Pringle people bring shopping carts that's what makes them come through the door they once for him and it's so cheap and inexpensive once a year but all of this we need to know comes from undercut a point of of humility and being small you talk about the river you talk about Rabbi salovich you talk about such people they were so humble so simple yet they were giants big giants of theta of yirushimaim and many others but yet they they lived so so simply it went in throughout the Salvage room at the Yeshiva University when he would teach you saw a torn couch the car that he was driven to into to you know to the airport could be a jalopy from 1965 or 1970 you know the rapper in his room he wouldn't have an air conditioner if not from a Jew named John and Jaffe who went into after she was 1960 and it happened to be boiling it was a very hot day and he said went out and he said to the secretaries put here's money and get us put an air conditioner because the Rabbit doesn't want to spend money he doesn't want we should spend money I'll fight it out with the red but you order it the the the simplicity and if you've gone into that episode still see remnants of how simple the room was even his house you know I remembered Leilani when we went by when the rabbits and climbushka passed away in 1988 and we went past the river to beat the console him to say so we went through the dining um the living room and then you went out through the kitchen so as I'm going out the kitchen I took a quick look at this kitchen I thought it would be you know a nice fancy kitchen it was a 1940s kitchen like it wasn't touched foreign refrigerator you guys know those old-fashioned refrigerators it was so it was so primitive that was the Le Bobby's Kitchen on President Street in 1988 88. and it's a lesson it's a lesson if we can appreciate more of the Jordan katanim that's see this that's cedis so you know it's it's it's something that I find you know that sometimes you have to kind of fight against you have this this tiger you know oh recognition Fame grandiose who can get more hits on YouTube you know today the whole world is about popularity who's more famous than who and it's the it's the opposite of say this see this is the unknown they will the Bible that were Bucky and shots and you looked at them and you think they're schleppers from schlepperland and they were Bucky in shots I mean you're talking about great people but they were so unassuming and this is what made the balatonya out out to the episode when we learned Tanya today we start again for the beginning of Tanya it's important to know who the author who the the the who was the person who put this together and yeah we say the sad because I'm trying I'm breaking it down for for us us in in some in a detail that's it that makes sense this sadly this Sadiq this Sadiq was all about the Drone anyone want to say something what time is it so I just wanted to share this this important Dakota for you this kiss live and um it's a game soda so um we have to you know those few hours left in there to throw make a husband of what of of what we what we need and what we're ready to give to Hashem you know you want Hashem to give to you you have to give to him don't be just a taker be a giver and uh we have to go miyala Maven you know over the top over the top because this is the day this is the day the able to help that we should each have only besides tell you this good news begoli revealed you know if it's good news and it's a treasure and and and and then we don't it's it's hidden we you know a person is only a human being and um the devil always said the red boy said Michelle should come and we should have only good in the revealed and apparent way not just it should be in in in a treasure and hidden healer you want to say something I see you're unmuted so I'm gonna wish everyone a good jump and uh tomorrow Mr sham will continue learning and also again it's an opportunity to to encourage other people that you know like some of you have done and and do more to join the share whether it's live or go on YouTube it's I'm telling you you want to give someone a gift whether it's my sheer or another sheer if so I'm going to teach the citizens and teachers that well you're giving them a gift for life I told you I'm communicating now with something from teenager Jersey who grew up as a modern Orthodox and whatever and and then he was became Anthony because of all the Russian Horrors that he heard over the years and Yeshiva and stuff like that and he started to learn Tanya he started to learn Tanya see this through his son because of someone tell her Barber to camp and she saw that these people are normal and and he took David Berger's book he wrote this to me and he tore it up and he threw it in the garbage okay David Berger wrote a book against the Chabad and Mr Christian and all that stuff he told me that he took the book he tore it up happened in writing and that's and the point is it's not about tearing up a book it's about that he sees that see this is so rich and and and and there's thousands and thousands of getting all over the world all over I have to tell you and I'm at the shemish you know it's Menace your mind that I still haven't gotten to live in there to snow but from the year that I spent there back and forth It's a gold mine people are are people are ready and willing to learn see this Robert Miller's over show them invite him to give the shin and Tanya in the show and was five to ten people every week we're learning to see this and and people kept up on me for years later you know emailed wealthy see this is wealth see this is fascinating it illuminates that the mind and heart of Aid that this whole of it is Hashem is that's another another that we didn't speak about but the whole idea of going towards things with joy with freilergite you know is is not you know looking at the cup half empty always find the cup half full just one last thing last night my son-in-law tells me my son-in-law tells me there's uh if I'm bringing in an apartment here in one of the buildings uh maybe you want to go so I said I have to be in Hollywood for for one event I said well come home and I would like to go to the skis live you know I can't see myself in a bed get this kiss live at nine o'clock you don't want you to skip so I went these were younger light these were young married with a baby or two pretty much Laboratories but some of them didn't look too La Babbage okay okay and you know I could have gone in there saying hi I'm dolphin hear you with your white beard you're 61 years old like what are you doing here and oh they're smoking hookahs I didn't even know what a hook is they said is it all right to have this I said as long as it's not drugs it's all right and this guy who went poo and pulling The Vaping I don't know what's going on I've never seen this side you know I'm still primitive I I'm I'm from a different planet I guess but it does no wonder why you're in such a good mood today no but anyway I don't think it's drugs right I don't think it's drugs anyway it didn't smell it didn't smell like marijuana anyway that and and and and you know I didn't want to tell him you talk about covet each one is using I don't understand you guys are smoking from the same vaping from the same thing it's it's very bad but I didn't say anything and I just say to myself as I said that I'm sitting here what am I doing here it's like it's you just guess living this is where I am and that was a fleeting thought but the host he had a he had a a Woolen telescotten you know a nice beard full beard and and and and and he wanted to say the Magilla of your the skis live he had a Hasidic flavor from Brazil so I started a nigging as they were talking and I started a nigging and they joined then they put on part of a sholem if I bring for an hour to two another older cusset came in I don't know how he'd do about it five six seven guys it went well shared some stuff I shared the story before that I told you before and some other things and I I walked out feeling great oh this was a good experience and I could have came in there so I could have said could have just ran out I mean you know this is not my YouTube it's like putting me in in a dungeon with rats you know in a way but they're not rats and it's not a dungeon people for whatever reason you know they might not look exactly like the big husset but they're labor pictures and they feel and know that you just kiss live you need to come to a fabranging because normally they need Tuesday nights they have a share together this group but last night was Monday night because if you test Kiss Live the host called them and to come over and the tiger came over and the lesson lesson for me and I share with you is you know sometimes you go into a situation which isn't exactly a comfort zone but as a yeet and as a Christian you have to turn it around if there would say it was sensitivity imagine if I go in there and I start lambasting them you know I wouldn't get anything but a single [ __ ] and you say look how you say a story and and I saw I saw you know that the the heart wants you know the the the very much so this is my nakoda my nakoda is a positive attitude not with a negative only with a positive attitude what what'd you say the general this generation the way they do things is very different than what we're used to okay yeah okay listen listen believe me if if I lived here and and you know and then I had a a a a relationship with them more and more uh you know there would be over chain the main thing is to to to to to see the positive and find the good and augment that within the individual and when you do that the diamond the diamond comes out that's what the belshantive taught not to focus and I can't learn it can't happen he's not my orange we don't need you to say that we do not need you to say that we know that okay obviously for some reason they had a hard teen Hood whatever everyone has their issues and and and and be thankful that coming to her bringing on your disgusted and they feel that it's just this we need to sit out of our brain and be out of our brain and smoking The Hook and the shmukah and and talking and big deal but they're active you understand that's the point they're not in a club for those few hours if they go to a club and all that they're out of her bring it everyone let's improve our positive attitude towards everyone and and our children and grandchildren as well this isn't just for others our own family and our own wives and our own husbands you know we talk about the other the other let's talk about ourselves how you know you know it's a day of of telling your wife sharing is a wife a good word that you just kiss live you know to say look I am I my daughter set the table here for my young grandchildren little children and and and and you know they gave him a little grape juice we put on the the Shoppers tablecloth and with the candles for five ten minutes and I told them a story and I dramatized it you know that's it it goes into that it goes into them they'll be older they'll remember oh zadie came Sadie was here you remember he told us this funny funny story about the altar rapper wow you know we we sang part of a shovel and one of my granddaughters Hazard some Tanya they they know by wrote Tanya by heart this this is what you all can do so do it but hi and we'll see everyone tomorrow bye bye good job good job good job good jumpers