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Eli Rachlin's words based on Reb Yoel's teaching, Shaar haBitochen, Simchos, Shidduchim - R C Dalfin
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say a art or
something come on come on come on give
me a breather Dental lecture no no no no
this say
something um okay I'll say something
it's not related to uh not directly
related to suus but I guess it's
directly related to every day um it's
actually from
uh ran which I I started learning on the
um on the recommendation of Dophin um
and talks a lot about a havy sh and I
just want to talk about just one small
point of show maybe like an application
of it um and of course everyone knows
everyone knows the words you should love
someone um like yourself and usually
when people understand this they
understand this as you should love
someone um as much as you love yourself
um so you love yourself this much you
typically love other people less so you
should try loving them up to the same
amount which is very very hard of course
but that's the that that's the idea you
should try loving someone um at the same
quantity as you love yourself and um Yan
explains actually that Koka doesn't
actually mean it l some as much as
yourself it means in the same way that
you love yourself it's not at all a
quantitative thing it's a qualitative
thing and what's the central difference
about how you love yourself compared to
how or how you relate to yourself
compared to how you relate to another
person it's not how much you love
yourself it's that someone loves someone
else let's see someone uh admire
somebody and they say wow that person's
amazing I love that guy whether it's he
amazing at sports he's amazing if that's
what what he deid love he's amazing
because of something that has incredible
value he's such a nice guy he's so nice
he smiles at everybody um or he loves uh
you know a God or gar say wow in in and
he gives he he knows how to get the
greatest
year even though those are all loving
someone for a worthy thing and there's
nothing wrong with that but that love is
dependent or that admiration is
dependent on something else the person
does it's what does that person do for
me now even if it's completely good
thing a person inspires me but even so
person who inspires you it's still some
you're you're love them essentially
because of it's t you it depends on it
depends on something and most of the
time when we think of love we have for
another person it's what do they do for
me even if even if it's not selfish it's
not selfish he he inspires me to be nice
to people because he does nice things
selflessly to people right um and admire
him that way for example but when a
person loves themselves the love for
themselves is qualitatively completely
different because it's Nate it doesn't
depend on anything unless someone has
unfortunately an underlying pathology
everyone really loves themselves even
people say oh I hate myself I hate
myself for doing this they really I mean
they might be a little depressed and
then what you know what are they always
see like in uh movies or TV shows or you
know someone who's being talked off the
ledge and and what they tell them about
they tell them about how they tell them
they appeal to the fact that person
really does love himself You' got that
that that you want to keep living and
you want to keep doing these things so
that part wasn't old KH saying that by
the point is clar clarification yeah
that that qualitatively a person starts
with love for himself so this is by the
way also the reason why if someone does
and and so just so the point is that
that's that that type of of um love
which is which is
qualitatively you you say I myself I I
have no choice but to love myself I'm
not going to hate myself I'm going and
and that's something that that is is
automatic as for whether I've have
anything to admire or not admire turns
out that sometimes that of course leads
to admiration you know because you like
yourself you like what you do but the
truth is that that it it it's inherent
and one area where I think this can also
be um can be applied is when it
when um when a person does something
wrong and you tend people tend to give
themselves the benefit of the doubt or
they or if they even if they say okay I
did something wrong but they tend to
move on with it they'll say okay I did
something wrong it wasn't the greatest
thing but that's not that's not who I am
I just I made a mistake I I'm I'm going
to you know um and by the way that's
kind of the same thing that we say
before before Rashana and and yum Kipper
right we say that the world can't be MK
B right as sees the world can't can't be
Sky B so what does this what does it
really mean it means like what and we
know that we need because we're
basically saying in front of K we know
we did all these all these things that
are wrong but don't let that Define us
so we so we did something wrong I mean
not that that's a catchall excuse it
doesn't excuse the behavior but points
we still we still say that's not that's
not who we are so because that's the way
we look at ourselves the reason we use
that excuse right is Al because that
that's the way we look at ourselves we
say I'm a good person so I made I made
mistakes so the truth is that that
looking at someone else quality
qualitatively the same way we look
ourselves me also means so it's not that
we forgive ourselves or we give
ourselves benefit out because we love
ourselves x amount or Y amount it's
because it's it's innate that we love
ourselves um and that leads to that of
course leads to um the idea that we
therefore try try giving ourselves
benefit doubt so the same is true with
regards to to other people that one way
to come up to come to uh you know I
think to a higher madrea in terms of
being able to give people the benefit of
the doubt or even those times that we
say Okay person did something wrong but
even so I'm going to still relate to
that person as a very very good person
who happened to do something wrong and
not not say that defines it makes him
into a a bad person is by really trying
to actualize this
idea being try to treat them with the
same kind of attitude that uh that we
treat ourselves think
it's before I forget you remember a name
MOA
Goldstein yes or
no
you know the whole story with I what he
told
me so you say say the story I'm not
going to say the
story okay I I don't know I don't know
the whole story but if you see him give
rev I I see him I see him now ative he
just he just lost his mother 99 years
old yeah yeah it's a happy story and a
very sad story that
I'm I know the happy
part that's it anyway but but he asked
me to send your
regards so yeah he was
um he start out he um his parents put
him there was one year when the opened
up on Ocean
Parkway the very first year they sent a
group called Bucker and to be the senior
bucker who was learn the didn't this
that I was in that group yeah and the
father and
Par
is that he had a couple of and he put
him and long story short I was learning
with my this what it became very
interesting and yeah but there's another
part flat the flat Bush part the
Flatbush flat yeah he said he had recess
he was learning a
flat and he says he him and his friend
during recess they opened the door and
they saw someone they walked in and they
heard they didn't know who it was him
was t t he gave a she and and his friend
listened and it just week afterward week
he came back and he said because of that
he ended up going to the Yesa that's
what he told me yeah story no so
so all good that's all good
exactly okay it's time for I got toan
that the teacher
you
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ready you're from Poland or he's from
Poland you're from Poland from you're
from Poland a this is ukraini not
polish
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words
[Music]
[Applause]
what's going on over here
my father comes to America in 1958 my
father's from Romania survived came to
he learned the famous in and
L and in 1958 he makes his way through
France he was six months by another
famous and he wants to go to the re he
wants to get married and he wants to
make a
living comes was on a boat and there was
a I just heard yesterday from a friend
of his that there was a
famous P pocker
unfortunately and whatever L my father
had and some others was
gone he met he met actually a on the
boat named gel Berger gel Burger look at
go if you goar you look at that those
the MERS of the I forget the name May no
not May no the to
anyway anyway so you'll see his name
he's a he was a very wealthy man a
businessman from London and he was
s so he he was on the
boat and my father says to him he didn't
know what he says to him he took away my
money I don't have I eat ker I'm buy a
soda says can you give me a few dollars
can you give me help he says I don't
want to give you because you give you d
a minion and you included not religious
people if you can
include in the minion call them Wicked
people to make up a minion you don't
deserve my
money my father said what are you at we
don't have a minion on this we
barely made a
minion and he says you know what I
observe the way you
do and you D can real sh he says I can
see you're
I can see that you went to yes you can
real God-fearing so I'm going to give
you but I have a condition condition is
when you come to America you have to go
see the
S he
was
father father needs to eat he needs a
few bugs she was
penniless so he says
okay make a long story short my father
worked when he came to New York he
worked for PES he worked in a s mat
Baker in
Williamsburg who came in the
middle so he end up seeing the
S that's not what I wanted to tell you I
want to tell you
is comes to Yesa and Thursday night you
know it's mishar night bage you know we
also learned too heavy in the morning I
learned here Maran for two and a half
years till one in the morning I was sing
away in the
gar then we went
but I would go to sleep something 56 in
the morning lay down and 7:30 8:00 we
were to be
up so so he comes in Thursday night and
his friends from Eric that came earlier
and they're singing this nigan that I
just sang For
You
Love Maya my
love work
K very much I really love my
job I recall being in at this at the
spartic temple on wilsh bua in Los
Angeles and Dennis Prager was speaking
there were a thousand a thousand young
people in the room I'm not kidding was
full of young people boys girls you
know Dennis prer
asks who here keep shabas not many
people rais their
hand he says who here would like to keep
shots and then he ask the question who
here can say they enjoy the job that
they're they have and they get paid for
it not many hands went
up able to say you love being a dentist
and you make a from that it's a that's a
great
thing I really love my job what job are
we talking about
exactly question is when things don't go
our way when things the curve ball is
thrown you know it's not the fast ball
and it's not the fork ball it's a curve
ball and all of a
sudden save me where am
I can you still say I love my job
you still say I love
the so listen to this dialogue in the
nigan itself Ellie listen
listen I love my I really love
it do I really love my
job I did
sometimes sometimes
don't
it's normal it's normal to have fakers
it's normal to have questions it's
normal to doubt it's normal you learn a
piece of you understand what tell it's
normal it's not it's not normal not to
have
one that's what says in chapter
27 someone who says how can it be that
these thoughts fall into my mind these
foreign thoughts these disgusting
thoughts says you're a
bver who are
you who are you you're a regular little
man what
what brings the P that's why you created
to battle to struggle to to to to
sometimes win and sometimes lose so in
the N there's a
dialogue I love my
then you
say do I really love my
job we don't mean you know this work
that work me do I really love being a
parent do I really want to raise a
Jewish Family do I really want to be in
a Yeshiva do I want to really be and all
that and the answer is I did it did it
did sometimes I do sometimes I
don't is that an answer
that only makes the question stronger
then comes the second night to the
second night to the if you listen to the
Nan and the voice goes up and
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deep one two three I do love my job you
know why then you're talking to
sh when your soul speaks there's no
questions that's what a nigan is I told
ell I was going to teach n explain a
little
ner a nan aabad nan in particular isn't
just a nice tune with good lyrics and
good sound and good
beats n
is soul the greatest composers were you
know the hour that were composed by in
Russia and
Ukraine these were ye who who ding into
hasem they poured their heart out
in it it it it wasn't just you know they
decided
at you have to cetch like this and when
it comes
to you have to CCH like that that's not
the way it
works that's a that's someone who's
trained in music and can sing
great the whole idea
of is the feel a certain
way famous story I said it over today
but right believe this fellow hears that
his
friend is in big trouble he owns a
Tavern by a poer but non-jewish
uh land owner and he says to him you owe
me rent already six months you don't
bring the rent by now and happens to be
before you
Kipper you're going to the hungry dogs
goodbye you'll have they'll make nice CH
out of you for you know you'll be
finished thisle hears this say I have to
save my friend when is there a better
day to raise some money that of you
k he goes out like we have in Brooklyn
Ocean Parkway you know a lot of Russian
Ukrainian Yen NE
the they they know very little and then
and they're playing cards poker or
whatever they're playing over there
dominoes but they're all
sitting they're all sitting there so he
says I'm going to go ahead of Y Kipper
and collect money for my friend to pay
the rent he goes there and they see a
yle with a beard and payers and you know
all that yamak and they
say what do you want I want somebody to
help a he says you want money no problem
you see this glass this is wine we're
going to fill you up with v and get it
there and you'll make a br cuz you make
a br and if you drink that up we'll give
you a few
dollars he drinks a cup of
VOD they give him the money he's still
short he goes further down he sees
another group of K playe he says I need
some more money for Stucker to help the
year they said oh we s it you drank yeah
we're doing the same thing we're going
to give you more money but you got to
drink another cup he drinks another cup
and then he drinks the third cup and now
he doesn't know where he is but he has
the
money he tell someone or someone else
who he knew he says here give the money
to this person so you should pay his
rent but it's in ker tonight wait a
minute he doesn't know where he is so he
says where should I take you take me to
Sho take me SHO
you're drunk you're you're you're
intoxicated gunon put me on a bench in
the
back and let me sleep over there at
least I'll be in sh while being said
that's what they do they put him on he
know everyone has
AAL it's awesome
time everyone Lo is crying and tears and
this it's really in
he wakes up from his shiters half
sleeping over there he wakes up and he
sees everyone standing with the tow us
up so he
says right that's what we say get
up in his mind he start one
standing they wanted to eat him up and
throw him out and break his bones you
drunk you Shen and believe to take off
his Towers don't touch him he just an
knowed a decree that I couldn't know we
delayed K because I saw a decree in our
community B and and I was ding to and
didn't go it didn't
go when the heard saying that
this he
said anold the
decree cuz he
jumped
from he jumped all the way to
what's the
point you have to be
right but when you connect with your
heart with your to the you can go
directly
from again I'm not advocating don't come
to that's not the point point is where
are you where and that's what a n is a n
n a slow n
puts a person into a a different frame
of mind and for that you don't need
recipes and you don't need others you
could be walking by yourself or you
could be in your own room and you close
your eyes or you open your eyes and you
sink to yourself you go into uh you know
whatever trans no trans whatever I'm not
talking about you know a metaphysical
you know ideas I was there and I was
there and at a life body at a body
experience I'm not getting into all that
it's also true and there's also times
for that but we're not getting into that
now this this
isite the potency of a laav this
my father heard his friend singing
Thursday night in 770
1958 so my father asked them what do you
guys know about a job you yish
expression you know that means you're
bench pressing
I don't mean waiting waiting lifs yeah
about you're sitting you're sing you're
learning very good you're in the
Yeshiva I he went to work to make a
living He
shited I remember when I was a
child he worked in the the factories in
in KN factories in the Burgen Street and
other places with rats and mice don't
ask double shifts at night to make a few
dollars for his family so they should
have a
so he should have a paros he should be
able to pay tuition as much as he can
and bring home food Etc
right here there is
no you have to press a button now and do
this now and decide this now it doesn't
work that way all of that is very
conditional you see there is a Judaism a
t that's a conditional
T tell you a story with salic actually
we said we're going to tell few stories
it's in this this for in the books but
just just
brings
in's father was the RO of the of the of
the city right Ra was a son
of Sal was a own
right who was the
b in in
the which was basically
aab it was aab
comes up he's about to blow the
schaer he can't even put the schaer into
his mouth because he's crying and he's
in
tears the
for totally
shattered the r says this I'm repeating
what he
says says
stop
cuz Hally it's not a time to cry and he
brought a from from from lul you go say
when you take a lul and you make the he
theka right you also cry he said no he
said well the together the bis you know
the G of the Mitzvah the the essence of
the Mitzvah is you're not allowed to cry
that's the way the bris T you so he told
them B you could tell the B whatever you
want this man man is not putting on a
show no one told him cry
now he's start he's about to blow and
you
realize the
responsibility the tears come
automatically it's not a game here he's
not conditioned there is a yish GU
aish that's a conditioned you dis that
does not and the both are
fine but if if if you want to understand
more what is
this especially the way
understands it's a heart expression and
you know like I said before is the
closest thing right with with
with and everything else the was was
yesterday
right test you test right you test
sor
yeah yesterday
right
what that's right
so wisdom understanding intellect and
all
that but if if you think that a real a
real
is saw my own father-in-law who was I
think a friend of your fathers you
know they were they were they were very
deep people but they were very heartfelt
people they were very heartfelt people
Mish Mish they had a a broad heart you
know it's called BR
shaft the BR shaft which means
brotherliness it's not about I told you
a ver you told me a ver and it's a ver
and F that's all
true it's about brotherliness
what do it
saying my piece of bread is yours like
mine and we say first yours then it's
mine it's a whole different it's a whole
different it's a whole different
experience needs to be experienced needs
to be experienced we talk about what are
we going to do today the kids the the
this with leaving and all the issue with
the I I I firmly believe that if we saw
today more of this experiential yish
kite where it's in the bones it's not
just in the cup it's not just in your
head how much you know but it's in your
bones and when you hear something about
a ye you can't rest until you help to
yeat then you see a living organism of
of of Judaism of
T the story with the r also the story
with the milk
right someone didn't have
money it gives him money for the
Ares so wife
says's wife says he gave him a lot of
money how much does it cost a few
bottles of wine
whatever he gave him a big b he says
believe me if he's asking that he
doesn't have money for wine he doesn't
have money for M he doesn't money for
fish he doesn't have money for for for
meat he doesn't
have thing you got to understand
yourself and that idea of the
brotherliness that what we we feel each
other as brothers and sisters
as that was a central theme in kabad
theology it's not spoken about a lot but
I'm telling you from the in side that
made
the that made the and it and it made it
by the way not only when he was a when
he was broken and shattered and needed
but even when he wasn't give you another
example so the same AAL that I told you
about her great uncle right he said of
bring 19 1940s 43 44 there was
another you probably do
before
user s they called it s Yeah Usher made
a lot of did very well in the black
market and Russia he made good
money
Usher
so come
to that mendle was in charge one of the
people to raise money for the yeshivas
for the underground
yeshivas the mle knew that Usher does
very well my told me this my father told
me the story he was there
firsthand so he says to him says to
him Yesa needs
money give money for the Yesa so he
takes out and he gives some money that M
says to
himer if you don't put down He said I'm
saying if you don't put down all of the
money I'm going to wipe the floors with
you in front of
everybody in front of everybody and he
was best friend with
Usher he was best friends with Usher
they used to learn look in 770 upstairs
when he were best
friends he didn't CR he wasn't speaking
at him he was speaking with him he was
he was being malal he was he was
revealing within Usher to overcome his
inability to give it all
away that's
a Aid is not someone that always goes oh
Ellie you're the best you're
great say me Rabbi doin you're the best
you're the best I don't need to hear I'm
the
best when
we used to say and I went over to him
once I said this that he said find
someone in the Yesa who can give you
good muser but really means it one guy
the guys are in
Yesa one friend if they really mean it
they're not talking at you they're
talking with you
so this idea of brotherliness doesn't
mean just in the C of it can be
sometimes the C of you need someone to
knock out knock some sense into you it's
all right it's all
right you know what they say if it's hot
in the kitchen get out right but you
want to be in the kitchen then you
better stay there and and be ready so
and the was that way too salv was that
way too he was very tough very very
tough
his
son after he lost after d lost three
people his wife his
brother and his mother in 1967 all
within a few months of each other
devastated so the year or two after his
sonim listened toir and he says my
father it's not my
father my father told there was a Raging
Bull in the A Raging Bull in the CL
you could not you try to fake it and you
try he tell say the
g so he had like three I was told by
someone who saw his he had
three he would give someone who said it
and and and admit it he didn't know it
he wrote down didn't know but he said
the truth some would have said it and do
it very well and someone who said it and
thought and said he knew it and he
didn't know it and he didn't prepare
well he wrote down
liar very sharp there's no there's
no you think he didn't love him he still
loved him but the point was that who are
you kidding what did you prepare I told
you to prepare the Garra and you know
I'm going to call on you cuz he can call
on anybody in the classroom all that
tained after he lost n of his three
close his wife his mother and his his
brother Sho he he he said he he wasn't
the same you know but but in his good
days in his good days he was fired
fire I would say it was much more fire
than was also fire people think that
always want like this to you it's not
true when you needed to sometimes get a
a good zets you got the
zets if you can't handle the zets you
can't be in the
kitchen you got to be able to handle the
zets but a good good educator knows when
to zets when not to zets how to zets
which words to use you know what I'm
saying who do you criticize who do you
argue with some of you love some of you
care for some of you don't care for go
do it any way you want who cares about
you someone you really care about you
die a lot you argue you
criticize hopefully it's constructive
criticism not the empty criticism but
you care about them it bothers
you so when you
learn and there's no shortcuts to
learn told you Ellie told you you got to
learn if if you're interested in this
Mah you have to Simply take out the
books and learn no DHA and no sermon and
no faan and no teacher yeah we're you
know there's a lot of good things and
it's great but you got to you have to if
you want to know G you got to learn the
gar Tash and and everything else
otherwise okay they tell a story ell
story of uh not of of nickelsburg
another big sadic I remind myself I
forget now always tell it over go out to
the story listen to this
story
balat became enamor with another
sadic
now there was no such a thing as we're
jumping and playing rebis we're going to
this re one day and this Reb another day
and yeah that's a good spectator sport
everyone's holy and everyone is good but
you're something talks to you right so
in
kabad you know unfortunately you hear it
sometimes from you know people or
younger people and they're
derogatory but the truth truth is it's
wrong but in in in sh there's a sh
here I'm not going to go into because
the world today is not a vessel but you
know what they make a joke they say
there's the boo The Bu je no not the the
the the bre La car
right they have a
acak look
everything is good good
good but a person sorry you're sh gets a
fire from if you're really going deep
into your soul it's it's it one thing
talks to you so
for to all of a sudden go to and not
just visit and and respect but
identify with a with um another
it was problematic for them one of
the of
the
decided to go to another sadic if I
forget now the
name and he comes back and he says to
his
in whatever wherever it was and he
says fire the man's on fire the
this person's is
mish it's really
fiery and and he and he and he starts
kind of intimating he wants to kind of
go over you
know
so his
friend
um I wish I remember his name he says
they say to him
of the re the great from so he says he
says so Fire by
so
Brent the
brento himself is not on fire it's the
rebi within that's on fire that's
not
you have to be on
fire is a pointer he gives you aah he
gives you but at the end of the day you
have to do it and if you don't do it
then you could be the biggest seemingly
and it ain't you it's
him is on Fire Within you you are
asleep so this laage this is
a it's a heavy
M but when you learn and sit and talk it
out
with
whatever you will you will you will get
there you will get there so therefore
you can't say how will I look in 10
years from now if
I how will I look in 10 years how how
did I look 10 years before if only I
kept you know that standard and not
allow the gosh to SLE me down everyone
has to go through their own there's an
English word cathar
catharsis cathartic experience a
paradigm shift everyone has to go
through their own inner turmoil to bring
out the best say
sing and you sit with others and you
learn that's why
ell learning is galic but's learning has
to express itself in a play Mish and
it's not for me to tell you the P Mish
you and each one of us here has to on
our own this come to a point what's my
PO
Mish that was his PO Mish at that
time yeah and I'm not saying
that some people begin with the
other people begin with different things
and again does one have to to as we said
in the early in the beginning does one
have to I don't want to be alab no
problem there was a some of you might
have heard of
him fall
short I think it was a contemporary of
his father's so he once came to Lakewood
cuz he was a relative to the
former Cutler's son-in-law new name
was I don't remember the name they
divorced I don't remember the
name anyway so he was related so they
let they they had a respect for him he
was also going he spoke to he spoke to
the so
so he what's it
called he came to Lakewood was
takus a few hundred people in the Su
Lakewood
oh and he's looking around and he says
to everyone you all think I came here to
Lakewood to make you the babure or you
have it all wrong you know why we got
enough theab trus in 770
we don't need
more we have our own and I'll add to
that we have our own
problems but he said if you want to see
a ye who means what he says come visit
the if you want to see a Jew who means
what he says in his yish is a then I
urge you to come take a visit to 770 and
meet but we're not looking for more
laes so everyone says yeah you guys are
looking to prize and make no we're
looking for EMS
EMS there's a famous
goes where do you get a little
truth the and the re shared commment and
Ali they were both
EMS I'm telling
you and I didn't go to Wu and I'm not as
talid I wish I would have heard a Shear
from him but I didn't have the SE to go
to hear a Shear of his but in
researching him and studying him and
interviewing people who knew him he was
isus the was an
is you know how many
people stories upon Stories the rman
brothers very wealthy you know and from
Toronto so they when there was a
certain between laage and others he side
with the others whatever I
don't and they heard about it said I I
he wanted to give $4 million for every
Jew want to give a
dollar he wanted to give a dollar the
gave out dollars so the the one of the r
wanted to give the Reb 14 13 14 million
doar for each Jew in the world
that said he's not interested because he
was very upset with him at the time at
that time at that time doesn't mean
later it wasn't a change there was
what's my what's my point my point is
that EMS EMS truth EMS is a is is
something that is is very
very difficult the cuts the famous ker
of kot right of K they said to him why
are you so such an extremist you know
the ker was a big
extremist so he said the
says the middle path what do you what
what
exactly so you know the kka
said when you're on a road in those days
no pav Road and cars who walks in the
middle of the road a horse so you want
to be a middle in middle of the way
you'll be a
horse ker went with an extreme for EMS
but the idea of EMS it's not it's not
it's not an easy job especially the
world we live in everything is Tainted
everything has a spin everything's in
the spin you
know when you
learn I can tell you one thing kidas
doesn't let you fall yourself if you
really learn to see this boy do you know
who you are and you'll be EMS it'll be
more modest and it'll have a better
relationship and better
success everyone should learn to see
this and I don't know where my wife is I
don't see her here but my wife wherever
she abashi where did she get
lost whatever I wanted her to learn with
yila and and and maybe Goldie she
learned
sh very important to learn today sh
they my wife has a two friends they
learn on the phone 10 minutes a day and
it's m brought to them I tell you I
hear I heard it from my sisters my wife
got by her sister to started in La she's
learning with two friends start learning
women women with women this they have
they in English the art scol the felt
time theab they all have you know goods
for every day
together first of all you buil you buil
friendships and you're also creating
this idea of friendship through we need
today a lot of we talk for our children
we need for we need for everything
someone thinks they they have it made
let them think again look how people
fall have to mention name billionaires
people
Gish overnight
nothing
only you have you
need and you should know encourage a lot
of people in the letters to
learn thato you have but in
particular so especially women have to
this a good thing for women to learn and
then the women bring in the into the
husbands and then talk them to the kids
and becomes a whole energy in the house
and and when you
have you to do anything right because
the fact that it doesn't seem this way
and this questions and all
this help that we should have now we
should have a rest of and then so after
the next I'm going to tell you about and
then I think
we'll how are you haven't spoken to you
in
ages
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so coming to K here I reminded myself
that I was here
here probably about 15 20 years ago I
think once for shabat was Simon made of
theab
house then I also when I was
researching the impact of communities
onim where I still here he was a friend
of Minea class
older and spend time with
him and then I once spoke here about
when my book came out on the and in here
Beth yeah I don't know where that is but
somewhere
here
the idea of e living all
over is part of our story
yes I know that U I've
heard that there's a strong
alah movement in this
community like in boan so certain
communities and that's great and
wonderful even
though tell you the truth that of wasn't
for it people can jump up and down but
re risky and admitted to it they first
came to re salvic told
what he want from
me I want your blessing you ain't
getting my
blessing finally he said go
and it's so much so much but
um for a Russian Jew like and
Sal the whole idea this this it's not
thing that also wasn't pushing people to
here so it's not that they were where
are they coming from I want to go into
that I want to philosophize now but they
were coming from that where you are you
have to
make repeats that V from
the someone came to and and he said I'm
having issues I'm told him make
here he take that the it's not just
saying that it was a that a ye needs to
make wherever he
is if he can if he can accomplish both
things like someone told me RA I
remember when I say who I remember who
it's beautiful
V and he was he had a in his house and
Al
galic and I said them what what are you
doing here you can have that in in in in
in New Jersey you can have it in
Lakewood you can have it in brookly in a
Mil Basin why do you have to come here
to have a he says if I can have the best
of both worlds why
not the
the is a truism wherever you
are and that was the by these type
of and such
people I don't see that you were against
going to I there were also issues you
know other issues but it was like where
are you escaping to where you escaping
to you know the and it's online you can
hear the videos where they came to the
rebba they were they want to
a and the rebba said to them basically
you're going to go to ex saturated with
rabbis and
teachers if you tell me going to he
going to tell aiv in the heart of the
lion where my daughter is a over there
in dis goov
Center
you're going there you got C blonds go
because you you'll t a you'll make a
difference what are you going to do in
your I'm going to give a Shear a lecture
oh really that's 500
lectures and I know I I I was I spent 20
years back and forth I know I know the
the
area I don't have to tell you everyone
knows here you want to make a difference
a person should want to make a
difference not should want should make a
difference person ask where should I
live where should I work where you can
make a difference the says always the
people where you can make a
difference if you're just going to be
another number you shouldn't be
there I'm not talking about sh is
talking about working together with your
husband with your wife and all these Nas
all these points but what difference can
can it
make sometimes people live because their
children children not getting a good
here there's issues know you run away
there you know what we had Friday nights
I don't know if any you guys know but
the same issues like here the same
Hangouts you know you're
from you were a young boy you were a
good boy you know what I mean everyone's
a good but I'm saying you know on over
there everyone hangs out in the
park so what's the difference there or
or or or or Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn or
flatfish what's the
difference so the re and salic both
shared my humble opinion
thisa that they anti they weren't anti
alah the way people take it they were
into do here Aliah make here Aliah if
it's best for you to go there and you're
going to and you're going like you said
before it's the quality right the no
problem make
sure but I do want to say a ver about
simplest T because not only because I'm
a liar I would be a liar right if I
wouldn't say a ver about
simp I'm always fascinated about simp
why am I so fascinating simple
St simple stated to me is the day not
only culminates all the young cavor but
it really shows What You're Made Of
previous in a m t b you can look it up
know the previous when he came to
America was an ill person but there was
one year that he had better health
within his weak Health one year was 1942
4142 t b and that's why if you take a
look there's a mimer almost every
week
others young and others they remember
the come down think Monday night and it
would
say
previous so one of
them on caught my attention he says why
do we dance with
the he says it's to accustom your body
toz for a
mitvah that that that thought when I
when I learned that it it
Mish once a
year you want to shitz and you and and
this is the in other words when it gets
hot and uncomfortable you're
for the
Mitzvah the same with a menal foas it
was once 90° inad which is near Tel Aviv
over there it's very hot they have a
flat roof onad on
Yesa and the air conditioner
broke 3:30 by starts to say the the
second say there second
nigor no one's
there coming it's
boiling there's one person
there with his frog
and his caset like a little different
the black the side the side that's what
he wor yeah that was him and a few
other and he's there looking learning
something a comes
in and
see know maybe if you go out to the
porch and B will hear that you're on the
porch there a little more air than sit
inside without air condition and a flat
roof and the sun baking on us maybe then
they some more B will come in to
learn he says
what I should show them that the heat
gets me to cancel and
change a little heat is not going to
disturb the
learning he's a Russian ye a BAL neish
was but my own father-in-law story that
I always tell over just to bring out
this he once came I don't know some say
was sukus another time I'm not sure when
but he lived in Australia my wife grew
up in Australia they with the founding
families the B families in Melbourne
who's your following Sarah
bransky
so they they um he once came I don't
know why how it was a 30 hour it was a
30 hour plane ride stopping in Singapore
in Hawaii in San Francisco and then on
to New York very long today it's much
shorter still long still much you can
get a 13-hour flight direct but in those
days you couldn't do that for some
reason he didn't have food I I heard it
was
so and and he and he came into 770 it
wasn't like today going out at 770 now
the party is just starting you kidding
11:00 they're just getting warmed up
setting up they're setting up now but in
those days in
1970s Street seven was either in a su
like we are for bringing and talking
we're at home
sleeping one here one there it wasn't
770 was dark 770 was
dark and myar comes into 770 he
arrives was one one laab 770 at that
night at that time was 2: in the morning
I think 1 2 in the morning his name
was EST he was the for Russian Jews in
Los Angeles mity on Fairfax
Avenue and he's a Russian too he was a
Russian so my says to
him we have something to
eat says I haven't eaten in 30
hours
th so he goes and he says he finds him
bread bread but not fresh bread old
stale bread and he gives it to him and
says thank
you upstairs in 770 at the end of the
hall right before they call the room and
the have weddings over there there's a
little sink so he goes out to wash his
hands he starts walking to the sink and
he turns back to Nai and he says to
maybe you have some
salt he looks at my father say but it's
2 in the morning there's no one around
there's no food I barely have some stale
bread if you want salt so you can dip
your bread
salt says yeah I don't have give some
back
that's
is that's
y I'm a little uncomfortable it's hot
I'm talking to myself cuz I get hot and
I need air conditioner my wife will tell
you you I don't have the air conditioner
I go nuts what are you going next
for cuz you're spoiled you're a spoiled
a American you know what they used to
call us Americans she grew up with
Russian chocolatin chocolate you know
little chocolate you need a lick of
chocolate you know we live in a free
Society free country Hashem gives and
she gives more no question about it but
come on it gets a little
uncomfortable when you dance and and
even if you can't dance for whatever
reason you clap and you move there are
people like saw in 770 they they go like
this the whole
time you can't dance whatever reason
you're
moving you're smiling you're singing You
exert your physical body for the
the the says says that's the reason we
dance with it that's one the reasons
that that institut us dancing the is to
for you want to accustom your body toit
for a
mitvah and now it's no surprise that the
says that whoever dances the 48
Hours one
day he says he says it and if the was a
bigadic says it I believe believe him
and I know it's the true that if you
dance with kav you know in Star kite in
your
dances he'll give you
aaoa whatever word you want to use not
into school not into school but you know
this
sayos all in particular so someone
struggling with
P the says
Just Dance
away it's good for it's good for me but
I'm giving you the the idea the the um
supporting the Rab's idea because when
you canit for a Mitzvah you
deserve it's not easy to sh Mitzvah we
don't want comfort and we should have
comfort and more
comfort
I remember I brought her grandfather and
his
brother-in to had Torah in
kits with my friends and we made a fa
they were both in
town and asked a question I asked him a
question who do you consider bigger the
re
today talk about 1981
881 or the alter of
who who who Who's greater so you ask you
know a real serious guy will tell you
the
AL when know her grandfather said her
grandfather said the
re but mle said actually doubted this
and her grandfather said and and her
grandfather was much more you know
thoughtful and intellectual and and calm
was very you know an educator the mendle
was more of a
fiery
talkative imposing you know he was a
real demanding the grandfather was a
different different style and he said I
remember he said the why the because to
live through everything we live through
today with all the challenges all the
and all the difficulties and and and to
be a ye and to be a and to be committed
it's
Cal y have SE went they have a horse and
buggy and a little straw to sleep
on we have all the tyers what what did
the the H said a if you would put the
Tas in a little safer like the Tanya and
you would put the a in a in in front of
us we would all be good instead you put
the aish in a little book called The t a
little sa and you put the tiers in front
of us you have
complaints so the are very real the
challenges are real when you learn and
you fa and you live together and you and
you learn together and you talk together
and you feel liberated you really feel
you feel
liberated and this explains many many
things sometimes people see some they're
a little like wild and it's coming from
a different place you have to understand
what's coming from it's coming from a
different place you know what I'm saying
so yes outwardly it might look a little
vill
wild but if you know the marcker the
source it's a whole different thing like
I said before there was salvation in the
alah if you understand where they were
coming from it's not that they're anti
Aliah what he wanted of Riskin was hey
Riskin make a FR face him in hat
or New Jersey I don't know what you know
what I'm
saying so they should
help they should help that everyone
should particularly to dance to smile to
to to clap whatever to to to you
know I was once my family we were simp
in Shai
I don't want to say witha I went into a
reala with some heavy and
everything those but they were dancing
like I don't know it's hard for me to
see dancing as I
like falling half
asleep even without Mas even without
wine your body should be moving
how could you you know it's it's the the
best day it's one day
so remember this year you know I say to
my I say always when when yum comes out
of shabas it's like one to three cuz
shabas we have shabas every week right
so we have shabas every week no look
over great next week back to
work my father always says M shabas he's
running to end shabas why is running to
get to jump into geh geham opens up M
where you running to name the minute the
clock ends I need my cigarette for those
that are still smoking or I I need to go
on my internet or whatever else where
you running to get him opens now maybe
if he delayed a little bit I'm not
talking about keeping thas man whoever
keeps it galdi just talking about the
concept the
concept got to slow down slow down I was
bash you were out I was telling the
women and the men too
that teaches you how to have and to slow
down got to go like a basketball court
right time
out
relax there's nowhere to run it'll wait
for you the same few dollars if few D
wants you to make it you're going to
make it if he doesn't want you to make
it you ain't making it you can jump
upside down and backwards and
forwards they help that first of all
rafall and your wife and Ellie and your
wife and and to everyone
else that you know
participated what's the acronym I don't
know you let it be the the year of
Redemption p p whatever anyone can make
their own you know this is the they can
TI everyone can make whatever they want
it doesn't say any much this
kid
but you know we we got it we got to get
a hold of ourselves and and and really
get moving get moving and those that are
able encourage you to to to learn you
know I gu
online can't you know you can't join
live listen just saying
uh see this again Ellie started to
learn which is you know has a head for
it and he does it as ging but there's a
lot
of
online everyone should please make
a don't forget I we
have
is
coming and we should only
have to every one of us every one of us
for our children ourselves grandchildren
in and we
should it's not just some kind of bub
Mia will come and he is coming and we
have to participate in his
coming
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