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1940 Rabbi YY Schneersohn arrives in America & saves Jewry - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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to everyone
yesterday was Tessa the day
when the free decade came to America in
1941 1940
and the thinking about it
it's really awesome it's really special
and it has a connection teaching every
one of us whether we're Chabad or not
Chabad
Judaism at the time
was to say the least
surviving
you know difficult times
we were at the beginning of the
Holocaust
and the rabbit miraculously was saved
that's a whole story for itself how he
was saved
the intervention of the State Department
of leadership of August in America
the German government
the half-jewish
soldiers and Generals
of the German Army there's a lot a lot
of details it's been written up it's
online and it's fascinating
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see pictures of him coming off the boat
a healthy man walking himself
you take a look in just 10 short years
his wheelchair confined
you could see on his face the
the hardships that he's carrying on his
shoulder the burden
naturally
with the Holocaust
in full force
and he miraculously was saved knowing
that his The Hidden somebody even didn't
were stuck
his own hasidim's own people and many
others and everyone else
it really it really bothered him
but what does he do when he comes
he doesn't take
a vacation
he doesn't say first let me chill out
what he does right away he says the
first night he was at the Greystone
Hotel he says tomorrow morning we're
opening Yeshiva Allah
and his supporters
who were behind them they they they they
felt this is ridiculous
you don't have people behind you to
support a Yeshiva you don't have
students like what are you talking about
what are you doing and they were against
him
and he basically told them you want to
work with me great you don't want to
work with me it's also fine Hashem will
provide and help
and together with his staff and
ultimately the devil came in 1941
he developed a network of 14 yeshivas
throughout the greater East Coast
he strengthened
Jewish children and public schools
through the
Wednesday hour
and the Smita Shabbos campaigns and the
Machine is
and he also
wasn't fathomed
by people from the inside
who gave him heart hardships
who had complaints
various ones including
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he saw
the end he looked
what does America need and he
single-handedly
established lapovic
if not for the Frida Kadabra
communicating and sharing with us the
250 year history the rich history of
Chabad
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we wouldn't have anything
and a few of the babbages that were here
in in New York in Brooklyn New York and
in the other communities around
Philadelphia Chicago
Etc
it was dwindling
just a matter of time
you see pictures of them
dancing at the pier and I look at those
pictures and those the video
that they they put out showing that it
warms the heart
and it it's it's not because I'm a
laborator he's might ever you know
it's not because of that it's because
here is a yeed
who hadn't seen us an effish
self-sacrifice foreign for jewishness
and Judaism and Eden
of All Sorts what do you think this
difficult did in 1929 and 30 when he
visited Philadelphia St Louis and
Baltimore
in Chicago
and Detroit
and Bronx and Williamsburg and Borough
Park
and Craig Heights and Brownsville what
do you think he did
he was magaziki strengthened
of course once he laid the the
foundation during the 1940s
and he had a person like that ever and
his other son-in-law the Rashad who led
the yeshivas to powerful people very
different people but two powerful people
helping him build
Lubavitch in America
that ever then took it to another level
but
it's not for that this day test other
this week we would have zero I'm telling
you we would have nothing
other hasidism other groups
were decimated and they had nothing
and only in the 1960s 70s that they
start blossoming
with having institutions
you know whether it was square a new
Square
soccer in Williamsburg in in in in the
mid 50s although the December cave in
the 47 but you know took a while
kleisenberg had ever
of course
but there are Yas
came in 1940 he came much earlier than
all of them
and he had those 10 years as the Reba
said his his mission of 10 years of 30
years being a rabbit 10 years in Russia
1920 1930 pretty much
10 years in Poland 1930 to 40 roughly
and 10 years in America 1940 to 1950.
so when we remind ourselves about this
day we truly could say ashrae no matter
if volcano have Fortune how lucky we are
at the abused of the god almighty gave
us a blessing and a gift
to save the rabbit and have him come to
America
and in in
as we know the famous teaching the
balantania that Michelle come when
they'll be godliness in in Taylor
attacked in the lower hemisphere I.E
America
so now it's 83 years later
and give this guy is not just surviving
but thriving
it's gevaldic really
everyone has their Yeshiva everyone has
their Rabbi everyone has their shoe
everyone has their their school everyone
has their mixer
there's competition for children to go
to this issue with that Yeshiva for this
girl's school that's girls school
but what's left is
what's left is to bring all ye eaten
including those hidden that don't know
yet about Toyota
or maybe they don't want to know about
Tata
back to the fold to the the way of a
college vertical because it's the best
way at the end of the day the way of
Taylor in the way of Davis did is the
best way
there's no better way
there's no Perfection anywhere
but the way of theta is
the best way the most happy way for you
your children grandchildren your
families forever
may they helped us the schools of this
special day of Tess other
each and every one of us will be blessed
with a shopper
see them would say a be good at beckon
you gotta erase it very well good up
making
get rid of the amolic the apathy
the doubts the questions
get rid of that because it's very
unhealthy
and then we jump in to put in next
weekend
the one day a year that's as great as
your Kipper but through the through
simcha
and not to
of course not to abuse the SIM card
through intoxication of leading to
vulgarness and and stupidity but rather
kadusha
Utada
it's a serious day
would always say if you want to make
yourself silly do it on on Tish above
but I'm putting be serious what does it
mean be serious it doesn't mean
does it mean that he means that their
reflection of day where you sit by a
student to say look I am to say
you know it should be animated with
you know the the the the the
behavior that's that's Wild and Woolly
and uh you know to date as we say in
Yiddish
it's it's it's
time to get up to get over it okay you
got to run 75 times enough enough
you sit by a suda you say hi you say
once twice
with your family and it goes on and on
and by the end you drank a lot of wine
like like it says
and you fall asleep
or whatever the case
that's one thing that's called
with a seriousness
so I I
um even though it's not so you know we
don't like talking about it's important
to mention especially not to give
alcohol to youngsters it's not it's not
a mahalak it's not a Jewish approach
it's not a Swedish approach either the
health impact it's here should come now
to be together
I'm putting been paid to be a manual
with the Red Bank