Chof Zayin Adar 30 years from Rebbe's illness - Unprecedented Growth - transforming bad to good

so good morning we're learning we're learning the mai mazakura molech this is barak hashem the 19th sheer and you can see them all on youtube or wherever else i guess anyway today is a special day why usa it's a special day first of all because every day is special but more importantly today is 30 years since that ever had his first stroke 1992 of zion other reshape you're probably wondering what's so special about that it's pretty uh sad because from that day on that epic didn't speak you know maybe he said something under his mouth tongue and you could hear it but basically he didn't speak so what's the simcha so first of all who says it needs to be a simcha what do i mean not everything life outwardly looks like a simcha it's a simcha because it's what the vista wants and if you if you accept hashem then it's the good the bad and the ugly it's all part of the plan but at another level it is a special day because numerous things were seen in the aftermath in the aftermath we looked back and we saw that in a way that ever saw this day coming on some level you know it's just a simple example that year 1992 30 years ago on hope zion other was a sunday night on monday like today and that ever went to the oil so he gave out dollars and you can see it online they have the clips of the last time that he distributed dollars was club zion of the region and um he gave out dollars and he also had his room cleaned what do i mean in general what would it what did it ever do all day people asked that question what did he do did he answer letters all day no if you read thoroughly the introduction of rabbi missa mendel to this letter in the spirit which i've told you about and encourage you to read that introduction because he was the one who took dictation from the rabbit and you could trust what he writes there and then and and he he was the individual not rabbi groener not rebecca dictation and he prepared the letters so he's telling you what he himself did so that's considered a primary source not a secondary source so he writes over there in the introduction to the letter in the spirit he writes over there that that abbott did not spend most of his day answering letters three times a week he took dictation and that's what and for several hours during the day and that's when that's the amount of time that he spent on letters that's what mendel writes then mendel took him home and prepared them sent it back brought him back to the red but then the set let's say he came sunday i think sunday tuesday and thursday he lived in long beach new york which is near far rockaway so he he he took dictation sunday he had he had a secretary in long beach she prepared the letters tuesday i think when he came back he gave the letters back to the river the river made edits on those letters he brought him back to long beach and when he came back on thursday he brought a second version the final the second version to the river and usually there were no more edits and it went out but it could be that even on thursday after the second edit uh the review there was still an edit and then he would send it out that's the you could check it over there but that's my recollection so this was this was the normal procedure for years how mindell and the rebbe did dictation and the letters and by the way it included letters in yiddish letters in english and even letters in russian and french okay i'm not sure about french but in russian mendel was from russia and he knew russian the then there was uh three to five six times a year where the rebel wrote general mikhtaven they were called inclined he wrote to all eden and it started will with albany uber israel to the sons and daughters of israel those letters had tremendous amount of footnotes because those were let's say for rosh yamano iraem and pesach and schwes and sometimes and hey and hey man that results yard sight so there it was more of a clean message with footnoted heavily mendel wrote up the letter the rabbit gave him dictation also and the rebbe added all the mama claimers that i i'm not sure if i don't think mandela added any the marmot claims whatever mar mcclain is the references the rebbe added the footnotes mendel put him into the letter okay so that's a separate issue those are mcdovenk you'll see all this in the introduction to mendel he really gives you a clear picture uh a clearer picture of the situation now why am i telling you this because um in a sense all of this uh stopped right well this stopped because the rabbit had a serious stroke a very serious stroke and his ability to communicate in the previous way mentioned uh was not possible anymore so from 92 to 94 when he there was the histogram the passing of tama's communication was done through the secretaries by mary rabbit rohner he would go into the ebony any and and he would say so-and-so wants to know if they should do so and so is should he do it or not and and the rebel would either go like this or like this and then he would and and and and then he would ask again so so the does that ever mean that he should not do it in other words he wanted to from both angles both the part of the brain that can say yes and no and the part of the brain that can respond to like a question so the is the rebels saying so and so he did it from from both because my from what i understand this way there's little room to uh to debate and challenge the response so for example the famous hurricane in in miami i think you know during those years wherever labor shock hero it's also online you can hear him himself say they they gave the order to evacuate miami and and he and and many has and the baba just didn't because rabbi groener went into the rebel and he asked the rebbe and the rebber you know shook his head and then he asked again the second way and the rabbit shook his head so is the rabbit saying that they should not leave miami and the rev said yes i personally had a chance to ask a uh two i think two neurologists [Music] you know whether they thought that the the rebbe's brain was functioning at um you know full capacity or a strong capacity and they told me yes um but they were not the actual uh neurologists of the rabbit so um i'm not sure if i don't unless i forget now but the the bottom line is i'm not here to to to argue that point i'm here to speak about hosai and adorition to say that in every helen in every negative there's a positive the old rule that we quote considers constantly the descent is for the purpose of the ascent and more so yes my [Music] i just want to add i can't i can't help but add that um in asia kodish there's a fellow davins in the show i don't know if you met him ramadan when you were here his name is schneider but he is a speech therapist right father you've heard you know what i'm speaking about yeah you introduced me to him i introduced you to him okay so his father i had the privilege of having him here in my studio he's been to visit you know where my pajamas many times right he came to my studio and he he was the one who was called by the rebels secretaries to come and help to facilitate the rabbit in terms of communication and he told me some unbelievable stories about his interaction with the rebbe um [Music] absolutely fascinating i i i encouraged him just as a side note yeah but it was i encouraged my friend's father who i spoke with i encouraged him to have like videos taken where he shares this i don't know if i i'm not sure if he's done that yet or not well he his father has videos up inside the room no no no no no no no no no his father i encouraged his father uh-oh his father told me to have them recorded okay so today is 30 years call them up or send them a whatsapp i'm serious today and please remind him and encourage him and say it's it's about it's time it's 30 years later no and by the way this is this is this is relevant for the next hundred years because this is a very sensitive issue and it's very debatable you know i'm i'm i'm in the loop you know what i'm saying so you know there are plenty of people who in i'm not talking about outside who said so it's ridiculous you know the rebel was a serious stroke patient he didn't got you know got to know what he's doing you know on and on and therefore his advice at that time is is is not uh it's not uh it's not good because it's not it and and and look the fact is label label shapiro by shapiro stayed in miami and people left the hurricane did not hit him and his house did not crash and he's still alive and functioning but um but the more the more proof we have from people like that who work with the rebber it's not rabbi dolphin speaking to to a group of heaven you know who are all you know excited and into it and all that this is a a doctor you know professional so it's it's really very important um but but again so what's the the the kuda of zion zion adoration so my question the question is a cloudy this is a question when someone has a loss whether it be god forbid a death whether it be a loss of property whether it be a loss of money with a loss of a spouse whatever whatever the situation is right whatever the situation is how do you how do you celebrate it and and and um the fact that i saw that the bavaria were all calling for a day of prayer and unity on today's day means there's a way to celebrate it that's that's helpful okay so i'm just talking personally i think that every loss every loss in this case the loss the stroke which impacts the person's health hashem knows about it hashem is the one that gives it to a person so obviously he wants the the person and the people who respect the person and the and us who have a loss of family know that to grow from it not to become stagnant and depressed you know and negative because that that's not helpful the whole purpose of the corpse amigos is the growth factor and let's learn from rabbi akiva at the end of the sector's tinus right that you'll remember the gemura the rabbi akiva's walking with some other sages and they see fox and foxes wandering on the on the temple mount right there right right next to you guys and they're all crying that the mother says oh you look at the curtain look what's happened to us and abi keepers laughing so they turn to be a keeper how can you laugh you see what's happening the desolation the embarrassment the hashem and that is the gomorrah it's not a if hashem fulfilled a prophecy that he warned the jews that if you don't get your act together and you and you continue sinning and having sinners and all that i'm going to destroy the base i mean and he did how much more so there will be the rebuilding because we have so many prophecies prophesizing the rebuilding of the basement we made a mamish and he says that's what i see in the destruction and they answered it you have comfort of us akiba you have comforted us it's the exact same question and answer that i'm asking ourselves today a negative happens such a terrible thing foxes are walking around people scaffolding the sky people's carpet from people people scaffold energies roll everything else in your face they don't care who you are and what you are comes longer to be a kiva than ever of his generation and says he got to look for the positive and the commander says on tish above as soon as the bais amigns were destroyed israel right sanhedrin abram the savior mashiach was is born on tishma it's a gemara so of course if you want to learn the gamora and say it's not literal and the kimono you know and all that then i then then you better check out your belief system because i can show you many gamers and you and why why why do you believe other gamora is not this kimora is ridiculous if the mother says it mashiach soul is born on tisha buff now that soul has to be revealed so this is called zion odor taking a few minutes from the sheer because it's 30 years it is a a milestone and on one hand it can be very very depressing and sad and what we learn and what we know is that every difficulty has um a positive side to it and the positive side is that in these last 30 years what the world and what chabad has done in yiddish kite and potato mitsu was amazing i'm thinking about it you know when i went out on schlitz in 1984 to california to marin county north carolina northern california we had maybe five five six looking in northern california today there are 30 slogan in california i'm just saying yesterday they had an event this past shabbos in crown heights it's called sea teens khabar teens there were several thousand teenagers with rabbis and leaders and i looked at them yesterday they had a program you could look at them my daughter was watching and i looked at it for a few minutes and and my heart melted you know girls wearing pants some boys who don't look you know religious but wearing the yarmulke and what are they saying i play soccer and my coach and i'm excellent my coach wanted to promote me and he said but you have to play on shabbos and i told him and this and i said i don't play on shabbos i'm not gonna play on shabbos he said okay and he accepted me and he says and i play with my yarmulke he's saying this in front of on screen and and so others are talking about marrying jews and i'm saying to myself like you know here's the new generation these are all these teenagers they're going to be the future jews of the future right and what are they committing to and again they'll have a lot of challenges because you know the they're just going into the world but if if they could say and and walk around with a yamaka and maybe coming from enough and not maybe coming from a non-religious home and maybe today their parents aren't still religious and they're walking around with a yarmulke in a public school in that to me is a revelation that that to me is and it's not just one it's hundreds and thousands world over from brazil you can't imagine from ukraine i don't know how they're getting home in russia there were there were groups represent representative teenagers from and by the way there's they have them on two sides of the aisle there's a mercits i mean you know this not with a barrier but they separate them on two sides what do i want to say i'm going to say is that you would talk about making a idea a home for hashem so in the last 30 i didn't when i went out of sleekers there were no seatings and there were no seat kids i'm just saying you know friendship circles and on one hand you could say what does that have to do with kabbalah young israel does it asia torah does it oh you does it what is god doing nice social work the answer is first of all hashem everyone should do it but what i heard is that what i heard is loud and clear the message of siddhis wearing a yama in other words i didn't hear the rabbi speaking about uh you know go and visit someone in the hospital and then and and you know do ticking no lump not that that's not important but i heard loud and clear mixed outside don't marry a non-jew that's what i heard 30 years and i'm telling you that's a result of 30 years that the that ever from his stroke till his passing and on it the message that he left was guys you're on your own now temporarily till mashiach comes and we all come back and and the soldiers took the message and they're doing it you know i don't know if you could say this and but it's like the ukrainians now i mean i saw a guy i don't know if you saw this image a guy rushes up to try to stop a tank a tank is going through the streets over there and a man and they stop they continue i mean they could have ran them over you know why not but i'm saying the the the the braveness of of of of you know amateurs regular people to fight for the country that's the deal what do i mean that's coming mil mata la milo that's not being in other words i care for my country it's my country i don't need someone to give me a medal i'm gonna fight for my country that patriotism was created in chabad in in these last 30 years that the the the kids the teenagers as they grow they become the future leaders and representatives for yiddish guide for froomkite so yes i'll tell you another thing i'll tell you another thing i think another thing there's a singer his name is barry webber barry webber he's either a a supper or a was sober or vishnutser or see there's a guy with the peace right i met this fellow with my daughter here we remember it may assure him about uh six seven eight years ago and he was he just was was coming on the scene as a beautiful voice i i remember i remember was walking in the shook and they assured him okay i i met him like you know said hello because i and my daughter you're into this the the from music stars so for her to see barry webber was a big thing okay he performed yesterday and i'm i'm saying to myself these guys from you know the sophomore and all these guys 30 years ago 40 years ago they would only have negative how can you sing if they're girls on one side boys on what and what is this guy speaking about mitzvahs and actors and i believe that the next time i see this guy i want to hear from him like i've asked cantor healthcart the world's greatest cantor lives her next block who's also very close to chabad like what what do you see why are you so i mean listen at the end of the day he's getting a paycheck for singing okay let's let's call a spade a spade they're getting paid for what they're doing but at the same time you can feel there is a feeling and i asked the health card this question and he broke down in tears he said what the babbage does for you no one does including my casitas he's a garrick husset i'm convinced barry webber will say the same thing you know because when you go out of your little closet whatever that closet is and you see the larger jewish world if you're just open enough to to take a look and maybe it's going to rock your foundation that it's not the way you were taught either or in the community and there's uh a larger leadership world that needs yiddish guide and wants yiddish guy and and lubavitch is one of the groups or the forerunners in providing that you know i wouldn't be surprised that barry webber one day sends his kids to alabama's institution he told me that i wouldn't be surprised you cannot not be impressed yes my barry weber i just realized this when he was starting to come on the scene within the last three four years he he he made a really neat video i'll try to find it and send it and he goes in his video the music video the the cinematography you see the setup is he's he's he's he's demonstrating how uh how chabad shalia behaves it's very nice it's very nice yeah i'll try to find it please please please so you know it's i i i was doing other work you know i was writing but i just couldn't help hear hear him singing and then i took a look at the my what my daughter was watching and i saw the scene and i'm saying wow and this is really amazing and and you know what it points to it really points to more actors and claudius and this is the this is the call of the hour really the more actors we have the healthier and better we'll be all all of claudia's throw i mean there's a lot more to do a lot more to do but but you know you know it used to be it used to be that what does the uh the guy or the literature guy like about chabad that he can get a free meal when he goes on vacation to niagara falls you know or he has to go on on a conference to face kalamazoo michigan wherever uh you know and khabar will be there and sold in nepal 1200 people at a seder or if you want a vacation at the bahamas or aruba khabad's right there so today you can go anywhere in the world almost anywhere and and right but it's it's reaching that it's coming out to another plateau it's coming down now where the from the inside from the inside more and more yet and see that the only way to bring mashiach is to br be makai of eden to do things for other eden and and and they're doing it they're doing it not only with their those that you know give checks and give money but they're doing it themselves more organizations are doing outreach or they call it kirov whatever the case it's really become now the standard uh a froome organization whether it be litvish or kassidis that doesn't have a a kirov outreach element component to it is is lacking is missing is is is you know needs to get get with the times so in other as much as it was a very hurtful uh situation for khabad lababaches especially at the same time it was really the beginning of growth tremendous growth it happened to coincide also with the internet boomer if you remember the 1990s you know that's when the internet took off and you remember the dot-coms and it was unbelievable so it all came together and davis there knows what he's doing he knew that listen from the 90s and on you know the kleiszner burger big sonic passed away that ever passed away other godzilla shock passed away okay 2002 but you know that period pretty much it was it was you know an end to an era of a certain by the tsadikim and the daily yeah you know we call them today tadik and good island but if you compare them to what we had trust me it's no comparison coulomb everyone's holy everyone's beloved and and hashem sends in every generation like i told you this is one guy in inert israel they call him the yanuka yeah i told you about you know i mean it's like where did he come from i mean i mean listen to him you know so they were still you know the the the the the words is israel israel is not widowed the almighty israel they were you know plants in every generation but the the loot club the what we had in the um the 20th century all those personalities it's finished it's finished just like what we had in the in the 19th century in the 80s and it finished it finished that schlicher's is finished so it seems that from for the babbage especially from the river stroke which was 30 years ago today was the beginning of of a new era an era that initially is very hard to accept and it's very difficult but in looking back now 30 years you see that it was exactly mamash what was needed we didn't learn inside today but i i felt it was important to to talk a little bit about this day because it it it's important because otherwise you say are you like what are you celebrating you're celebrating you ever had a stroke what are you cuckoo what are you what are you happy about so again i think you have to sit back and think and understand the the greater picture and that's what's to be celebrated you know and and the same is in our life when we lose a loved one when we have a a loss of shoulder in anything we have to it's very hard but we have to look at the the greater picture what what what opportunities are there now to make the the negative positive and and with that attitude um will be a will be happier really will be more successful and and and again i really learn i'm talking to myself i learned from from these these new this new this new world how to you know grow you know we could have closed up shop i'm telling you after they never passed away the psychologists the professionals would said khabar is going to close up minimize crown heights is going to become a a neighborhood which you don't want to live in and shaloma israel that's it it was good for 42 years 44 years next yeah try to find a house and apartment in crown heights and every week there's some other event with every week every other week every few weeks with guests and and it's happening happening i told you right i read somewhere in one of the uh magazines from the the casino here he says we in williamsburg are celebrating circus just walk through crown heights and suckers and you'll see that it's like yerushalayim in the base of make the simple base of shaver every night they dance till six in the morning with bands and thousands of people on the street and it's a happening place you know so hashem that we go we go forward and not to to to become dejected it's coming up now for example i blamer you know with the tragedy you had last year in that you be wrong and then followed by the tragedy in in in by the stolener yeah after also put the focus on the growth on what can be done in a positive way the fact that nebucha so many yiddan and kadashi between them lost their lives is terrible but the abuse did is behind it so what are you going to say god's terrible no we don't understand but what what can we how can we make it positive and that that should be our attitude towards everything in our personal lives too have a great day everyone we'll learn tomorrow mr shem zaigis bye bye thank you