Difference between Rebbe and R Soloveitchik in Celebrating Father's Yahrtzeit

[Music] father what greater kiba dhaba aim is there for us to celebrate this your site to celebrate it by looking at who he was when he was where he was and how it all played itself out here in america through our debut and what he left for us to continue now let me begin by saying that i thought about an interesting comparison rabbi salavait of joseph verstappen the head of yeshiva university known as rav thereof his father was an emotional salvation a son one of the sons of raphaim salvation known as briskey now michael salvage was born in 1879 and he passed away in 1941 i believe on dalat they believe he it's cook schneerson was born in 1880 and he passed away in 1944 on huff of so one lived 61 years i.e and the rebbe's father lived 64 years so both were from the shtetl from russia one came to america and passed away 10 he carried i think he came in 1929 rubbish elevation he passed away in 1941. reblavic had a very hard life in the sense that um he remained with his people in russia at some point there was talk about him becoming a rav and eric's role i think i saw a letter even in chicago they wanted him as a rav but it never it never came to be rabbi salavaitchik on dalat and his father's your side would give what was called the yard site to russia the yardside lecture two thousand people filled lampard auditorium in the in the washington heights and you couldn't get a seat standing room only and and it was a phenomenal phenomenal experience i spoke to people who were there and uh half of the russia was halacha and half was agoda and travis elevating was of course such a charismatic speaker an orator and it was a production there was a tremendous production there are tapes of it and i encourage you to listen to some of it and you'll get a glimpse just a glimpse of it but yet it was relatively a solemn docile event everyone kept quiet pretty much and the rev spoke yes and he entertained you for four or five hours tremendously entertain you or longer he had that ability our ebba celebrated side every year from i can remember as a young boy in the 1970s going into the 80s as a teenager as an older student what a fabregan and at a fabrega fabregan there is life there's energy there's lechayams there's niggunim songs there's frailer kite animation it tells you something about the rabbit and it tells you something about the bladey yitzcook and again i i i don't say this god forbid to put down the love in any way because it's not it's just different the rebbe celebrated together with hasidim and anyone else that wanted to participate and listen with a fabregan so the fabregan becomes the huff of that's the way i grew up what is kofov we didn't travel to al-ma'ata and god bless those that have the funds and and do that but we didn't go anywhere in fact we were usually in camp kanye's role in parksville new york we were in camp as boys and we would come in and at the fabregan by shemptov and the staff would put us all together and we said and then i've asked us many times to sing a negan and it was it was beautiful the fabregan compared to a russia a sermon a lecture is a very different energy so that's something that i want you to think about as you listen to this clip and think about the specialty of the day another point and a little more historical the rebbe's father reblavik was a going not only a going in kabbalah as the rebel himself wrote but are going in england talmud a agonizidis and also a going in leadership he became after the frida karebe was forced to leave russia in 1927 he became ostensibly the kind of replacement for the rebbe there now i say kind of because the rebel was acting in full force from riga and then from america from poland and from america but nevertheless nevertheless who was the the the rabbi who was hands on who had a a bold personality and he didn't give in to the wishes and evil of stalin and his people the kgb the encounter was oblivious to us single-handedly and he didn't need people to support him and to say he's good or he's bad or he's nuts or he's he's great he did what was in his opinion the right thing to do and we saw this by already here in america as well he didn't look for people to agree with him if that ever felt is the right thing he did it and he took that he took that from that lady yitzhak from his father yitzhak was a yidd who had masitas nephesh who had self-sacrifice for yiddish guy in the hardest of times and the proof is the proof is that in 1939 they finally got to him and they sent them away for hard labor and because of that for five years later in 1944 he died from uh illness starvation and other such issues which cut his life short and that ebba says it and the rebbe is not ashamed to say that my father died in ghosts in exile where he was in alma ata which is was a a little village it was boiling hot with insects and and and such things all over and disease and typhus and no food and his mother that had his mother his and their blade ex-wife rabbits and conditioners the self-sacrifice she said i wanna go see my husband and live with her although she could have lived much much better in much better conditions elsewhere and she was with him till the end so what we see from this and what we take from this historical reality is the importance of standing up and this was a mainstay in the fabregans that i spoke about as as i was growing up with the rep in the 1970s the fabregas were very animated and the rabbit of course always had his father's naked and many times he had us see them repeat it 10 times and he would make with his head motioning that we should really get into it and repeat it again and again this day huff off the rabbit will also make a see him on a massager on a track date of talmud which is customary by many on a day of the yard side of a parent to do that and that's what he would do so here we are 2022 tough shampai bays so many years later and we celebrate this special day of rebelliok we have barak hashem his writings some of his writings at least and i believe it was 1970 what the rebbe said they should be published they just a few years before that they just got a hold of them they came from russia somehow and the rebbe had them published and he started to explain one of his father's comments on the parsha each time that if a brain got a shabbos and usually he would say my father wrote very shortly because of a shortage of ink and he and he wrote in in a most kabbalistic way and he didn't really share and explain what is the practicality of it and the rabbit deducted from his from his from his father's writings he deduced from his father's writings what the relevance is in the practical world and this has all been printed and that too is fascinating because here were writings that could have been left unknown or even if they were known you know why print them it's kabbalah it's very capitalistic well the last few years a chavruza of mine slammer hamburger and myself have been going through the rebber's father's letters to the rebel of the wedding uh and my havrusa put out a few swara a few books about that and i could tell you in delving deep into these things is fascinating to see his breath and length and depth of torah all of torah coming together in a one or two or three page letter is fascinating citing from the talmud here and referencing it with the concept of kabbalah here and they are and then showing how the alta rebe and his hasidis says it his way my once said after studying rebelavic's writings and teachings very well once it was published he said everything of rablavik has its core has its source in hasidis he didn't make up ideas he just used his vast knowledge of mysticism of kabbalah and he and and and from that vantage point that he that he shared his knowledge of hasidis may god help hashem help that this day we take the [Applause] and we learn more of an oblatey it's looks terra his teachings and we implement it as that ever shared with us over the years and it's printed and through this it will be the kids will be resurrected with everyone else through the coming of mashiach because of kurdish amendment