Elul Farbrengen w R Dalfin - Paradigm Shift - Lubilya Nigun explained - Do I really love G-d

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