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Elul Farbrengen w R Dalfin - Paradigm Shift - Lubilya Nigun explained - Do I really love G-d
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job without me
paltillo mentioned
that
he's thankful bro
he's thankful
to uh
babachireba
for sending
his emissaries to the campuses
and everywhere else that he met khabad
and they
brought him to a point
where he's at today
so i'm gonna i'll start with a story
and i'm gonna try to take you into a
different world than you're at right now
so you have to kind of leave
try to leave your
mental
state
because this story happened
a hundred years ago
or more actually probably a hundred and
ten years ago
in the city of la babbage you heard
khabad
the babbage is synonymous with chabad
the city in which chabad was for 102
years
which cultivated its philosophy and its
ideology
was the city called lubavitch in white
russia
bailarusia today it's called
and they had a yeshiva there of the
babachi yeshiva
and the bhavati yeshiva was such a
yeshiva that
groomed
very very no very very
special students
who became
guides mentors and teachers to many many
years many jews throughout russia and
throughout ukraine
and later when stalin in the 1920s began
with his
edict of closing jewish institutions
talmud torres schools mikvehs haters
he um
he the previous rabbit of yoshitaka
four-hour rabbit
the sixth rep of the babbage he
he asked for a group
of 10
people
who would be willing to sacrifice their
lives
to continue teaching toyota
in
in russia ukraine although
they might be killed
and
it hurt their family and they gave their
lives
by making a pact
a packed with the rebel and we know some
of those people
some who survived
and some who died
and because of them
lubavitch survived and made its way
later through
surviving the previous rabbit that is
nazi germany and holocaust
and he came to america
and chabad began in 1940 in brooklyn new
york
was acquired then bought
the building belonged to a doctor who
was doing illegal abortions at the time
was arrested and he was in big trouble
and they were looking to sell the
building and exactly at that time
the labacher has found the right
building because the previous rabbit was
in a wheelchair and he needed an
elevator to go from his apartment to the
second floor to the downstairs to the
shul so this building 770 was
picture perfect for what they needed
and from 1940
until today
the building of 770 which paul thiel
mentioned earlier i believe is the
symbol
of chabad
in america and for the entire world
but
you know
you have to know where you come from you
have to know your roots
if you don't know your roots
it's a problem you have to
know your roots
and hopefully learn to appreciate your
roots where do you come from
young people
and i was once young younger
you know
the the mindset is we're going to live
forever
and we're going to conquer the world
and and we're going to accomplish things
that no one has accomplished before and
that's very healthy and it's very very
healthy but at the same time
there are roots
and the roots
of
today's chabad
are the roots of what the
the rebels and khasid did 110 years ago
and now to the story that's an
introduction
so in chabad we have something called a
masbia
a masbia the in the jewish world is
something we have all know the russia
shiva the head of a yeshiva right
in khabad they coined a phrase and not
not only a phrase a word but actually an
individual
who was called the counselor the
spiritual counselor
for
the students and in hebrew that's called
mash pia mas m-a-s-h-p-i-a
the mashpiya usually was an older person
who came from a previous generation and
therefore he shared with the new younger
generation what he saw and learned from
the past
one of the mashpin in the babbage was a
jew by the name of
rabb michol
berliner
and he was also called rebecca
he had three ways how they he came from
a city called neville
and this red michael was a very very
uh
pious individual hasidic individual holy
individual he was so holy that although
he was blind towards the end of his life
the fifth the baba cherebo founded the
yeshiva decided to hire him to be one of
the mashpeem in the yeshiva although he
was pretty much blind
and money was very tight of course so
the administration came to the web at
one point that he said
we don't have the funds to feed the boys
and to pay our bills and you're hiring
someone who's blind half-blind he's an
old man
and that ever said
and this is what i want you to hear that
ever said just to see such a person is
worth every
dr every amount of money and everything
that we pay him which wasn't much of
course it's worth it because
just look at this man and you will
be your best
so this is the type of individual in the
clothes
postscript it's friday afternoon it's a
winter
in lubovich and the winter in lubavitch
is not like snow in new york or boston
boston gets lots of snow
but a winter in la babbage meant you
couldn't walk on the on the on the
gravel on the on the dirt roads it was
and in comes a visitor
he comes into the yeshiva basement to
the study hall
and it's already 12 one in the afternoon
everyone has gone already back to
prepare for shoppers because you know
shop is i think in 330 fords already
shabbos
everyone's gone
there's only one one person in the in
the in the study hall one person
rebecca
and
the visitor
looks at him
but he can't see him you know i couldn't
see him because he was covered with a
tallis
his head was covered with a towel
because he was still praying
he was davening he was darkening for
hours because he was so pious and so
hasidic and so religious
this visitor who just came and made it
made it to the babbage and was traveling
already for a long time was full of dirt
and schmutz
and shabbos is coming
we you all know that when shabbos comes
you're supposed to look your best
act your best feel your best and be
clean
as clean as possible
well this individual's shoes were full
of mud
dirt
and he felt how could he go into shabbos
with such schmutz with such dirt
so he knew that mikhail from the two
years before when he came to visit
lavage
and he finally saw under the talis this
is the mashpavaning
and i'll ask him if he has a brush
to polish my shoes
and this way when shabbos comes he'll
have clean shoes
but he's ambivalent
because he's dominating he doesn't want
to disturb this genuine
husset who's in middle of meditative
prayer
so
he waits and he waits and he waits and
finally
he can't wait any longer because it's
now 2 30. shop is an hour and a half
i got to get ready
so he taps let me hold on the shoulder
and he says red michelle i'm really
sorry for bothering you
but i need to ask you for for something
you see he said takes his towels off and
he says sure sure what can i do for you
so he says
you happen to have a brush
so i can polish my shoes
i don't know how today but in the old
days that's the way you polished your
shoes with some some dye and you with a
brush that you rubbed it on the shoes
and you cleaned your shoes that way
anyway
so nicole looks at him and he says i
have a question before i give you a
brush
i have a question to ask you because you
know a jew doesn't answer a question he
answers the question by asking another
question
so he asks him
where did you come from and why did you
come
he said i came from
the city of moscow
it took me
a week to two to get here
okay and he says why did you come
he says because every two years i want
to spend the shabbos with the the baba
cherebo of shaolin bear at the time the
fifth rabbit
and with the khasid and i want to be at
the fabringan i want to be at the mimer
i want to i want to hear the words of
torah i want to really be inspired so
it'll give me i'll re-energize my
batteries for another two years
he says aha
so you came to labage you came to khabar
says he came to khabad
you came to chabad
because you want to be with the khasid
with the rebel with the fabregan with
the khasidas you want to be in that holy
spiritual environment
he says yes he says yes so he says if
that's the case listen to me it says
in labavich we come
not to brush our shoes
but to brush our head
explanation that's the end of the story
in khabad
it's not about a shoe operation
an activity operation but rather about
changing what we call the paradigm
changing the way you think about things
and that's why you come here to brush
away
though the way that you thought life
should be
in every aspect of life from business to
study to studying at school
from from from being religious whatever
you're
you have to
somehow make a paradigm shift and that's
actually what ella was about you know
we're in the month of ello
roshan and your kipper's coming you're
all going to run to show who's not going
to be a show i'm sure everyone will be a
true
for a little more a little less right
and young kipper is going to come
and you'll bang away i'll hate five
times
and you'll sing of in a volcano and
maybe you'll even share a tear
and elo will come you'll stand
the whole time face the ark the the
torah and the ark
you got to prepare
if you don't prepare
you do the act
we will do the act but will it be
meaningful
and number two will leave an indelible
impression on us
to make a real change
in chabad it's about making real changes
superficial changes
you got plenty of other opportunities
in khabad it's a system of changing the
paradigm
now
this doesn't mean to say you have to be
morbid then you have to walk around with
your you know your face down and never
smiling and you can't have the high end
absolutely not on the contrary
but you see them are the happiest
see them
the happiest
but it comes
from an inner happiness and that's my
question that i want you to think about
who can raise their hand here and say i
am happy inside
dennis prager is a famous jewish speak
speaker excuse me and talk show host
they used to be in los angeles when i
lived there
they used to there still is the spartak
temple people made weddings there
and they had monday nights
a program called classes for the masses
every monday night young people like
yourselves mostly single
would come boys and girls
men and women and
and um
they would have different speakers i
spoke there several times uh many others
rabbis professionals to us give the the
the attendees they paid five dollars to
get in there were refreshments and they
had a chance to speak boy met you know
men and women male and females to
hopefully make shidduchim whatever day
dating you know
and it was a very very nice environment
and the school is a spartacus it's
magnificent it's royal it's bright it's
large
dennis prager is speaking
and when and prager's really known in
l.a especially the room was packed
and he asked the following question how
many of you here
can raise your hand and say
i am happy with the work i do with my
job
some hands go up many hands don't go up
then he says to those that raise their
hand and they say they're happy with
their job
he said the following how many of you
can say and raise your hand that not
only you happy with your job
but you're happy with your job and you
get paid for it as well
unless hands went up
what's the point of getting at
we have a job
a jew a yid has a job what's our job
our job is to be ourselves
inside happy
and to make others happy and what is
happiness not drinking
not smoking
those are all
external things happiness
is from the inside what is the same
period of us ethics the fathers
if you're happy with what you have as
little as it is or as great as it is
you're a happy person and with that
i want to teach you a negan that you
know we don't have much time to
fabricate tonight because there's a
meyer event and i'm sure people have to
go to work tomorrow
so this is just a beginning and
at another time we'll when there's no
time constraints we can operate much
longer
[Music]
and this my father heard 1959 and
770. he came for merits israel
he's coming to get married to work and
make money to support a family
and to see the rep and be with siddhim
and to learn or ever he wants to do
everything
1958 actually
what happens
he comes into 770 it was thursday night
moisture not like tonight when right and
his friends from merchant stroll that
already made it to america because many
people left israel left there to throw
because the economy was very difficult
the opportunities that there are today
were not then
and
he heard hears them singing a song which
he taught me and i'm going to
sing and teach you if you'll be
attentive and and and take it in okay
first listen to the song and then we can
maybe hum it together and then maybe
even
sing it together the song has a few
words in it
some of you might come from russian
background so you should know
lou lube yeah
right lubavitch what does lupa mean in
russian
[Music]
right who doesn't want love everyone
wants love
lou belia
maya
[Music]
let me sing and then okay i'll teach it
to you properly
[Music]
hey
that's the first eye to the eye
now goes the second eye to the eye
and your voice goes up and deeper listen
to the voice
[Music]
do
i really love
my job
do i really
love my
job
sometimes i do
and sometimes i don't
[Music]
love
love my job
years ago this week
king george
in jerusalem the sabaro pizza store
is bombed i'm sure you've passed that
corner and probably ate in that pizza
store
how do you love god
when a bomb falls on a pizza store in
jerusalem
how can you say i love god
and then at the other time other times
when you have great things happen in
your life you say i love you
so there's a there's a query there's a
question
do i love him or don't i love him
the negan that i just shared with you
is telling us the story
the story begins with a question and if
you don't question yourself
then you're then you need uh you need a
good fight
because everyone has a question is there
anyone doesn't have a question
is there anyone here that could say
that they always have it rosy and great
no
so therefore
you ask yourself do i love my job
and
and then you answer sometimes i do
sometimes i don't
and the final resolve is
but when i
when i reveal
my neshama
my soul
i really love my job so let's now sing
it together a little faster
but the
[Music]
hey
hello
[Music]
hey
[Music]
hey
[Music]
hey
[Music]
yes
[Music]
what is dear to you
what is there to you palpia what is dear
to you elecus godliness
godliness
godliness not women and not music
godliness
not beautiful women
okay
god's not there
god can be there but it has to begin
with god
oh yeah
anyway say look higher
and i see that there's been an upgrade
in you since i saw you last
you have now a full beard
[Music]
whatever it is one thing i want to tell
you is that you made a good investment
thank god they got you committed you
know why you made a good investment
because it says in the zodiac days
it says in the holy zoya
that a beard is
the the dick
that means that means that means it
strands strands thousand people bringing
[Music]
you guys got first dibs on the
sandwiches in the back so you all
[Music]
okay
most of you guys just heard my story the
people that were here i want to share
one pivotal moment
pivotal moment that was a game changer
in my life okay this is it
and i'm going to give a full detail i'm
going to give it my all everything
and and i think this was such a game
changer in my life
because it's
it differentiates between
um
between a haasen
[Music]
when i was choosing we spoke about my my
life story when i was going uh when i
first got to maya note
and i had the opportunity
when i got back to cincinnati
when i got back to since
ohio and um
and i plan to go to yeshiva for a year
there was people there was a lot of
wealthy people in the cincinnati that
offered me different opportunities and
they said it's like yo go to asia kodesh
they said go to asia torah and after
that and other people
they have the best view they say go to
asia torah that very nice view other
people say go to har no it's very nice
a lot of different opportunities guys
you hear me in the back yeah
i'll stay on here i don't mind do it
i didn't pay for the square footage
i mean actually it's hashem's credit
card so
that's it uh anyways guys so i'm i get
the crown heights and at this point in
my life at this point in my life i don't
know what you're achieving to go to i
just went to maya note for six weeks i
was very inspired but i come back to my
community and my community leader is
like yo go to h go to age i'll pay for
everything
i'll give you 15 grand i'll pay for your
cell phone i'll pay for your your
chicken wings i'll pay for your nights
out i'll give you a whole stipend
everything is paid for it
sounds like oh it sounds very nice you
know you know kabot on campus never
offered me that you know
so i get back
and uh they said maybe you should go
back to israel go back to israel go try
out these yeshivas so i went back to
israel for uh six weeks i went to every
single yeshiva one by one
uh i went to asia
i went to uh uh i'm sorry
i keep getting uh
i think uh because i'm also very
connected emotional weinberger very
sweet
uh i went to i went to asia torah i went
to each place for a week
and i spent time there and you know i
get back and on my flight back
i i find myself in crown heights when i
get to crown heights it happens to be
during simcoe's torah
and guys anybody that spent time in in
crown heights
[Music]
yo yo yo
i'm sorry my holy brother's back there
come on you guys got first dibs on
sandwiches what's going on over here
so when i got back to crown heights
it was sim castora have you guys ever
spent some customers in crown heights
nope yes you have you have
have you
okay let me tell you about sim card
store at crown heights
the kits are very very quick
okay
so there's an idea also when you're when
you're partying you're bringing in
you're you're drinking you're daubing uh
davening and drinking that there's a lot
going on but there's an idea of
something i never heard at this point in
my life