80 Yahrtzeit Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, Rebbe's father - Brief historical.overview - RC Dalfin

so this shabas shabas is the yard site the 80th yite of the's Father I'd like to take a few moments to just review briefly his history so that we could share with our family friends anding about and talk about shabas Le was a great grandson of theed his father was they believe yok was born in Panka it's a city somewhere in Russia he was born into the illustrious schn Dynasty family which is full of scholarship beautiful character mid sophistication being aristocratic and what's known as the overall bav the household of the raav beginning with the alter the balat the found found of the kabad [Music] movement was a going genius not in talm and Caba one can say that that was his uniqu uniqueness the capitalistic aspect the element of cabola Jewish mysticism he married reab she was the daughter of R mayor scha yanovski who was a son-in-law of Rabbi lavut who was a ro in nikol and she was from from there and that is after the marriage settled where his wife's family was in nikol and that's where the Reb was born born in 1902 in nikol I think today they call it mikol with an M but originally it was with a n n nikol the couple had three sons the re then a son barel shom be and a son they they had no daughters they raised their children in the most special way of T and scholarship I believe became a in 1909 in Yak love after the former the great k said Zol I believe passed away so he was hired now there was another Sho as well I think that of there was Rabbi Gman was his name and I believe y had many congregants most of which were them simple people and here's what I really want to talk about a little bit more my wife's grandfather Ral sansi I recorded him in 1988 or 89 saying speaking about who he knew because he visited him at home several times I believe to raise funds for theas and the m in the underground and he said and he was in the Sho in the house and the Sho and he said if you saw the the congregants the in the they were and here they had this go this Genius of to as their but they didn't really most of them didn't appreciate it and understand it and know it he also said that zman said that reic had no it wasn't a a means I boxed myself into being a great Rabbi a great scholar a great businessman in other words who am I scholarship who am I Rabbi who am I business this concept is called a seor and said today everything is about now remind you he said this 40 almost 40 years ago everything is you know who am I what you do and what you're known as and today especially with social media how many people click on your on your podcast and your talks and how many hits you have on and on he said at that time things were simple and AIC was simple that way and this is a lost start but we could begin to reclaim it it's very important especially those that follow in Theo in the way of kabus to reclaim the Simplicity of sincerity without fan faar without being a big knocker a big shot a big mocker rash means like you know everyone knows oh he comes in oh you have to stand up and you have to give him the front seat and on and on reic being arov there from 1939 from 1909 to 1939 when they took him away for hard labor in in in that area in Kazakhstan the Chile over there which ultimately he passed away in Alma after he was released in 1944 so he was 30 years AR of the rabbi in the in Yak in theer which is called today this was aov in fact I heard from them they didn't even call them Rabbi Le they would Rabbi Le they would call them could you imagine here is a man who was a a genius of and you call him Le but that was the way people spoke it wasn't because they were being disrespectful to their Rabbi to their R and it was acceptable then because that was the culture of the time when I say reclaim this today the culture has changed and you know and it's normal to call someone rabbi harab but at the same time don't take yourself so seriously okay don't take yourself so seriously if someone doesn't call you Rabbi har and Reb and calls you by your first name don't flip out don't get upset don't don't don't make a big deal about it and this is necessary for our mindset today and the and the youth our youth who is our future when they'll see this in us and the ones that are older it'll make a great difference a positive difference soic going back to his history would stand up and speak his mind and he wasn't scared of the KGB and Ena and the Russian authorities they wanted him for example to say that all the wheat that was being prepared for pesak was kosher and he heard about a situation where water got on it and it was it's invalid for for making matah he he said it loud and clear and he wasn't scared that they're going to lock him up and kill him and murder him and take him away if you want to do that be my guest he wrote gon you know people get divorced you need to write a get on on the day that he wrote a get he fasted he wouldn't eat the pain that he had from having to ride a get for a Jewish couple was took very seriously there's many many stories with him and his relationship with I heard from several things that she that he and his rabbit and Le may she be well heard from the Reb's mother about her husband reik fascinating to see how they they live together they ate together they cried together they spoke together it was very difficult there's some the re leaves them at age 27 goes to lrad to be with his future father inlaw then gets married and goes off to Berlin and they never see him he that didn't see him again he could have seen him 1927 that AIC was fine till 1939 but he ends up not seeing was very difficult to travel then after the BL was taken away and ultimately died from from illness at such a young age BL was born I believe in 1879 and he passes on in 1944 so he's 64 65 years he's a young man and re Han his wife is left alone they just had in kab.org a wonderful uh article written originally in yish and Hebrew I Believe by who took care of Ric and his wife during those years in Alma and uh he he records very important historical information and one of the things she writes there is about the difficulties that the rabbitson she didn't want to go out she didn't want to meet people she wanted to be alone kind of she was in a depression she lost her husband her son is not with her she's all alone in Al and with a few others tended to her and he was able to secure tickets for her to go to Moscow and she went to Moscow she agreed normally she would you know not want anything from anyone she would do it herself she had no choice and that's how she she got out from Moscow she went with theim on the Shalon on the Great Escape as it's called in 1946 I believe she made her way to France and that's where the Reba came in 1947 and took her back to America and she lived to mid 80s and she passed away in 1964 so the story ofic who yed is the shabas 80 years is a story of this this not just survival but the thriving not just a surviving Judaism a surviving kism but a thriving kabad kism in the face of All Odds and this shabas I understand there's a thousand people K Yu at his holy grave site and Fa bringing together learning together daving together praying together in Al so we who are in our shs in our communities we should take some time and really today try to read this article on kab.org for yourself and share it with your family with your friends at faans there's a lot of inspiration there it's also Theus for the benefit of the what he did for them for the Reb's father and mother and that's why the Reb was grateful to him beyond words for what he did that re couldn't do it himself he wasn't there and he felt that his his people his that reached out and helped his parents are everything to him because it was his obligation and that took the obligation as we know of K respect to your parents to the greatest Heights may hasem help that we only have should return with the coming of Mia together with our rebuild the base theen good chabas good chabas good chabas