Charlie Buttons passed away, his agendaless self, brought smile to Rebbe - Lag B'Omer - RC Dalfin

A good night of shabas to everyone. Sundays the brothers. Monday is never too late. Friday of the upcoming week is last night. Charlie Buttons passed away 80 years old. This yed was a very interesting yided. He attached himself to kaba to the rebu. He had buttons on his hat that he wore and it wasn't hat. It was an interesting type of a cap or so and he came to every sham and bris and cran he was a fixture a beautiful fixture. I knew him from 770. I also knew him from my own daughter's wedding. He came in his wheelchair. He he was rehabilitating at a facility in Williamsburg and my daughter worked there and helped him of sorts. And you ask yourself a question, what's the what's the what's the message here of such a ye wore, you know, these overalls. He looked so different and he would go by the Reba and he would make the Reba smile. He would speak at times in 770 and on one hand there was a lot of fun you know but on the other hand there was a very serious message here very important message don't judge a book by its cover. Look deep inside. Read the inside. And not only that, read the footnotes. I always say that about my books. If you want the best part of my books, you should be reading thoroughly line by line. In between the lines, the footnotes. Charlie was one large footnote. He was a footnote in the life of Judaism. He was a footnote in the life ofism. What is Judaism? What is what isism? And here you have someone who looks different, sounds different, feels different and to some feel strange and weird. And you can easily dismiss such a person. You can easily say, "Cut it out. Come on. Become normal. Get with it. Clean yourself up. Behave better. Get a job." After all, that's the that's the the normal way. That's the way we do things. But with Charlie Buttons to see the way that Eba had a smile on his face from seeing Charlie. How many of us brought a smile to DBA's face physically that you could look and see? How many of us? Very few. Yet this strange weird individual that some feel that he's he was that way. He was able to accomplish it. And you know why? Because he had no agenda. And the Reb saw in him his puress sh there was no agenda. I am this type of a Jew, this type of aid. I'm dressed this way. I'm dressed that way. He was all heart. He was all loving. So in the merit of his nishamba, today is his funeral out of Shabas Kesh at 7:70. It's passing 7:70 about 11:00. I encourage everyone to understand that all of these special things of next week, a yard site, pesi lag, they all are founded based on one thing, a Israel. True. Aas Israel. Part of abashis is talking to someone and for bringing and bringing them in and educating them. But if for some reason they don't gravitate that way, they don't go that way and they remain in their own box. Love them all the all the same. To love a fellow Jew just the same as you is the basis of our holy tal. literally don't don't try to sophisticate the message because then it's the wrong message. So this is the thoughts that I have this morning after hearing and reading about Charlie's passing. Every one of us should really how wonderful, how good it is to sit together. The message of here it is a week before today is a week before there's an individual who represented the and I could say that the community of Labavich in large at least the crown heights and embraced him and helped him and was so happy when it came to a bris and a shalom and a wedding and a sim. So let us all learn from this and begin with our own family, our spouses, our children, our grandchildren. The world is evolving. There's a lot of things happening and some of it is isn't great. It's Mishagas. It's really weird and strange. It's contrary to some of it, right? So, you can easily be dismissive and easily be disappointed and easily fall into a depression. Like, where is this world going to? What is going on? Wars and fighting and killings and and and and murderers, savages. And then on the political scene you have tariffs, you have upheaval in so many things. The Reb always would say the word the world is shaking and trembling. The world now is shaking and trembling. It's it as I'm talking it's shaking and trembling. And it's not from a it's not from an earthquake. It's a different type of earthquake. It's a spiritual earthquake. And teaches that whenever there is negativity, it it means because the negative side works twice as hard because there's a tremendous opportunity for kaduca for holiness. So that's what we have to focus on getting that holiness. Have a great chabas only good things made of Charlie Buttons. I think his name was Sadik. That's what they wrote sadik and he was a ley sadik aliy have an aliyah bring a smile to us and he should go to the rebba together go to the msiah's chamber and say it's time to come we need you now please come chabas chabas good chabas