#10b - Challenges are Opportunities: Reb Mendel's Nigun

Shalom Aleichem welcome to cobot and friends I mentioned in an earlier clip about Mendel Photofast the famous about my spear teaching me how to properly sing that what I call the children they give me a Louisville Anglo Abram after ich Chalet Hotel I remind myself now that he taught me another diggin on that trip on the bay bridge one - morning one of them but morning in 1989 as we crossed over from San Francisco to Oakland I drove him and Rabbi right cheek to the mikveh Berkeley at that time we didn't have a mikvah in Marin County where I was are sleepless at the time and I remind myself that he taught me another dig in had a single properly everyone every Habad person knows that in others don't know that the again I'm gonna sing the digging for you and explain it there's an egg in a famous Chabad very very deep profound they can called okay Otto kale miss Dottie indeed it is you kale God miss tottered who hides himself who conceals himself meaning Hashem is here in the world but at times we don't see it we don't feel it we don't know him and this is the way that goes traditionally oh hey not a lot o kill me started okay not Otto killed me study i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i okay not tell me started oh hey not oh I don't kill me started uh yeah I uh yeah yeah yeah yeah littered I die I so that Mendel says to me as I'm driving I'm focusing on the road he says hair seems to use that word a lot Hearst you hear me and I said yeah yeah he was our factory was our uncle fat that is the Yiddish word for uncle because my wife's grandma that was his brother Bronco Sarah Bronski was his sister so I said fat that if had did I hear you so he says McKenna's engine you could sing the song with emphasizing the Mostafa the concealment oh hey not a lot okay mister oh okay um II started and the voice is demonstrative of that concealment in other words I never Hashem is concealed me the world I don't see God I don't hear God and I'm all broken and shattered and then he said to me but the way a kebab cos it sings it should sing it is with the emphasis on the ahta okay miss that I kill miss that yeah yeah yeah yeah in other words don't and precise the miss Tati of the concealment but emphasize emphasize who is in the concealment and who is that otter you got almighty oh don't kill me stop it yes Hashem is concealed got it concealed but who is in the concealment it's you and if you know it's you in the concealment you're happy and you don't sing the song with a broken heartedness but you sing it with the jubilation with a frail of kite you sing it with a sense of the cup is not half empty the cup is half full better said the cup is entirely full because hashem is here and this is a very important lesson as we begin the new year you could look at the LAT life and your life and your situation and your family situation in your children's situation that it's Hester it's concealed where is a sham where's the Gila with Redemption where is peace tranquility we are showing bias and you can get very sad and depressed because you emphasize and see the heads there the concealment or you say you can sing the same song and think about the same idea and be so happy that you realize it's God who's in the Hester it's God who's in the concealment it's God who gives me all these issues and if God gives me all these issues they're not problems they're opportunities Messiah