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Chabad & Friends: Episode 4: Working Together
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Rabbi Gurary, Kalminowitz and Kotler; Rabbi Dr.Yitzchak Lewin and Nochum Goldmann; Lakewood, Lubavitch and Mir Yeshivos
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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