Chabad & Friends: Episode 4: Working Together

so Malaysian welcome to kibarim friends episode number 4 working relationship I'd like to share with you the history and the lesson from a most recent letter that was circling on the auction block the letter is from 1959 and it's signed by rabbis Gary by Mario kirari known as the Raja the Lubavitch should have his brother in law and the previous Lubavitch should have his oldest son in law he was the director of all the Habad yeshiva s-- it was also signed by Rabbi Avram common Ovitz of the mirror Shiva throw Shiva the mirror yeshiva and by rabbi Aaron Kotler the receiver of base mother's guevara BMG known as Lakewood and the letter was sent to Rabbi dr. Heath Hook Lewin the father of the noted attorney NAT Lewin after the Holocaust in 1952 a Jew by the name of nothing Goldman established the reparations committee in which through an agreement he got the West German country to give reparations to Holocaust survivors with the atrocities the Holocaust and part of this was known as the claims conference in which they also funded in addition to funding individuals who had lost their relatives in the Holocaust and it went through the Holocaust was also to fund yeshivas organizations that were in Europe and were decimated destroyed but they and they came and some some of them came to America and they reestablished their institution so for example the Lubavitch even Habad yeshiva was in russia time to meet Mila Babbage in the city of the Babbage and it was ultimately destroyed the mirror yeshiva was destroyed and they escaped together with Labov achiever they ended up in Shanghai and then in America and Brooklyn era bar and couplers you see with the platicas Shiva was also Russia and decimated and he made his way here and he reestablished his klutzy Shiva in Lakewood known as base medical area BMG so these Russia Shiva rabbit rabbit Rory karmana woods and common ovitch and Cutler they they established what was called the vada yeshivas a committee of yeshivas in which they were representatives of all the other yeshivas to get funding from the claim from the claims conference in hebrew it was called the Edith Tish looming the committee for repayment reparations and although not from Goldman who was the director wasn't full a full from Jew he wasn't from Jew but he was very sympathetic and he put on his board of the claim of the of the camp of the committee dr. rabbi dr. Yitzhak Lewin who was a shy bateria mitzvahs and who had a empathy and a feeling and understood where the achievers are coming from so in 1959 the letter states they write rubbish kirari common ovitch and Cutler tooth rabbi dr. you took Lewin they asked him to go to nothing Goldman and tell him that they were told they would get a hundred and sixty thousand dollars towards funding of the various yeshivas for that year but they only got when he received a hundred and thirty five thousand and they're asking for the additional twenty five thousand which they desperately need and they're asking for Lewin to intercede on their behalf and bring it to the attention of Goldman and since Lewin was on the committee they were hoping that he would look favorably at this and be able to give them the additional $25,000 what happened it doesn't I don't know it doesn't say but when I saw this letter it brought to mind that here we know that during the 1940s there was there was disagreements ill feelings issues between robbers kalman Ovitz and Cutler and the previous reputable years of youth kook of the bhavish and I've written about it in my in my book lakewood on a barrage at length so if you're interested in that topic I suggest reading that book that work but without going into any details nevertheless when it came to working together for the benefit and betterment of the yeshivas starting in the 1950s they all got together and Rabbi Gerard who was a son law of the frida caliber and a brother-in-law of the river found it in his heart to be able to work together with people who opposed his father-in-law in various ways but for the betterment of the the achievers he put that aside and what we learned from this is that even when we have disagreements with others at times you have to put aside your disagreements for the greater good work together I was told by Rabbi Moshe bogie milski who attended some of these meetings in the early 60s and he said that he remembers once rabbi Kotler cetera Berger Ari he asked him what does Labov it say so whether he meant Allah by the terrible abolishing movement he didn't specify but what does Labov it say and the meetings by the way were in Borough Park these meetings between rather his garage common of its Arabic cutler so here it is you know were so many years later but the message is vital put aside your disagreements for the betterment of the cause and go on living the Shaolin the shall the peace and tranquility and xem help every one of us to be safer to have Shaolin Vishal the peace and tranquility in our lives putting aside arguments of disagreements of the past and working together for the betterment of the entire Jewish people