Essence of Chasidus #34- Halacha and Talmud support Chasidus - Yahrtzeit R Yoel Kahan

it's also today's vlogmas is the york site of my mashpeer of yoyo ben rafal nachman kahan rev as he was known passed away last year on this date i'm vlog so we're also dedicating the sheer in his memory and it's to his credit that uh i teach you siddhis it's not that i didn't learn to see this before my father taught me siddhis the rabbit taught me to say this in a way my other teachers taught me something this but i didn't really have an appreciation and understanding until i came to to learn and to hear and with him yo khan so i personally have a great debt to repay for what he did to me and the truth is for any and every laboratory that's anything wherever you meet from at least the last you know from 30 years and before is his doing so i'll give you an example there's a raven in rehoboth who's a one of the rabbani la babbage rabbi mendel grukowski he's a student of rabjor khan not in halakhah not in gemara but informing the the person to follow this approach to to be excited to be a lebovacher it comes from him and so i could enumerate one after the other all he's telling me that robert garlicky in tel aviv who has 50 khabar houses 50 lucam under him he's a student there will be outcome and real khan was the individual who who gave us the the the drive because he was full of drive hashem didn't bless him with children so he he had one thing in his life really rebel rebel and rebel which means qasidis which means god tyra and hasidus those are the three things that and and he was a man on the street you know saying he can appreciate a good joke and a good laugh he wasn't like removed you know that that's why you know when when i would come to his house and i would some you know find him at a time laying on the couch i mean here's your you know your rebbe he's he's a world genius literally a world genius i could have a celebration okay a rabbit head that wasn't that ever but i'm saying his head was genius and he's laying on the couch and he's talking to you so so one second one second so i want to understand you know most of you probably went to college you know i i i don't think that you had that type of uh relationship with your professors but we did and i'm not going to say everyone did but hashem i was and i made an effort this is important you know you can have the nicest and best teacher but if you don't exert yourself and you don't push yourself nothing will come from it not much and believe me there were a lot of such students too yes moshe was revealed forgive me for asking this question maybe maybe he's talked about i'm sure he was he was a genius and [ __ ] but do you mind i'm just curious yeah well well i i i wrote about this extensively in my book but briefly there is a jew that lives right around the corner lives on doley if his name is rabbi show fasting you must know him some of you okay i thought and sharp as he doesn't die no i i think he yeah he died in the combat because it's hard for his legs it's hard for him to go upstairs aha i think okay i think that's the reason so he you know he's from brooklyn and and and i remember him yet 30 years ago and when i was in bethchemis i spoke to him and he told me a fascinating thing he told me that in the 19 early 1960s 63 64 or something like that abuel offered to learn within gemara he was he was he he was very smart he got he graduated early he got smith i think at 16 and he started to go to mr yeshivas then he came back to chabad yeshiva 770. so it seems to me that the uh the administration said we want to really hope hold this guy to stay in lubavitch you know but he has this um strong desire to to learn gemara and mourinho so who did they kind of ask to deal with him of your car because he had like i said both of these things at one end i'm not you know he he he's like a nice person on the other hand he can he can outdo you in learning in anything in other words even the gemara that he didn't learn he knew better than you because when he opened the gemura to learn that piece of gemara he showed you you have no understanding even though you went to the best year i mean and and it didn't take him long and i have stories about that too he was a genius so he told me very fast and that he learned with uh rabbi alert with him uh i think every day for an hour and he said to me i could tell you that ryokan was a [ __ ] shas and you know when i heard that i i was i was like blown away and i said i i don't believe it because you know i mean at the end of the day if you're booking shots you have to spend time learning shots and i know that most of us from from the time that that uh that we know him in he came to america in 1950 as far as what was known by people was he wasn't learning gemara most of the time he was learning siddhis and writing the chabad encyclopedia and the fabregas he was occupied working for the rabbit so he says i cannot tell you rabbit fashion is i can't tell you where he got it maybe he got it in his youth which he did he learned a lot of gamora and his youth by david pavarski who became the rush of shiva in ponovich was his rosh shiva in akhitmim in tel aviv in 1943 before the david was went over in 44 45 to ponovich he says i just tell you that when we learn it's like the entire shot he knows so i don't know how i don't know when i can just tell you that so i'm sharing with you my shirt with what he told me and he's in the community ask him ask him if he did if this is not what he told me i wouldn't make up such a thing so i don't have the uh data to support you know that he learned this amount of hours and these are these years and then he went over to learn mostly see this i i i don't have that data and i don't know if anyone does but the two points i'm making is is that fasting says that he when he learned with him he would cite gamoras and and taste this all over which showed that he he knew everything in shas and even if and even if that's not exactly literal but it's more figurative okay nevertheless for sure if you sat down with him and you went to rabbi uh ariely sheer at the mir or uh there are shakshi or ponovich iron cutlasher in lakewood and yo khan would sit down with you he would make minced meat of you in understanding the gomorrah does that even a question how do i know this his havrusa became the son-in-law of abu dhabi pawanski later became steven ponnovich and he had he had an outstanding head so and this i'm telling you now is robero provides use that that one of the days russia shiva's and ponovich set over this and it's on tape and on video so it's from his mouth he says he didn't learn in in in in the bible because his father was the rush of shiva so you know it wouldn't work so barrel provost didn't learn there so he learned in another yeshiva when he came home one day he says my father says my father said yo knows better the gemara than slimer said to his son when he came home from yeshiva one day in in in in commenting on two of us the two star students of the yeshiva if you have khan islam and the flaming berman and he said that yoko knows better that's one story another story is at that time the parents lived in ramadan so the yeshiva was in tel aviv so on friday they would go back back back and forth on the bus so one time after uh schleimer berman left already his caprusa in la babachi shiva left for ponovich he would you know he would start up with him you know and he said what are you wasting time learning to see this and come to bandovich this we learned gemara and we learned you know i'm saying only gemara and it's you'll be you're a genius you'll become you'll become uh the next rash of shiva which you could have he could have been the rasheed panovich guaranteed and and he was he was bothering him and abiola was a very sensitive person and a balumidus on his caver it says you know and that's a quote from the redder he's talented he has beautiful meadows and it's a yiddish you know and hasidim don't put on a cave or just anyone's quote this comes from the little baby character who wrote this in a letter or two to someone else i think or about eb anyway so he couldn't you know he was a sensitive boy and he was really bothered that his good friend shleimer bearman is bothering him and nudging him to come to puneovic and and and belittling la bavati yeshiva they're learning said what gamer are you learning and he tells him and he showed him that he does no shot and he was a also a genius so you're talking about this is a long answer motion to your you know question and i i really have to learn the mind i cannot take any more questions on this question i gotta finish this paragraph this chapter so let's get to the text and it's a very important chapter okay so my shirt hold it for another time page 97 chapter 20. these two things which are aleph not the first thing that has impacts it permeates all aspects of toyota including the bombings and the world we live in bays beethoven and number two that when do you truly experience the essence of the essence of siddhis when it makes when it makes an impact on the nether nefesh obama's and the world if it doesn't make a difference in nephews obama's in the world you don't have the essence so this is what we learned yesterday now that ever says in the third paragraph yes as i told you many times always found support for his ideas and teachings of siddhis in england in town and gomorrah in in digler will become clearer and there will be more understanding of it based on cassidy's interpretation and insight let's see what this is here we go okay there is a allah of a person the four cubits of your other person yay acquires an object for him wherever he is in a side street of a public domain in that area is it a good get even if it's in a public domain many opinions say it is i'm not going into the details of the walkers because there's a lot here too you know a lot of details but just let's just cover the ground and talk cursory about the idea the king is acquisition of a person's four cubits is an enactment of the sages we call that so that people should not come to quarreling right if if you say this is my object and i didn't have it in my house but i had it early on my steps i've run my head nearby but it's mine somebody's if it's yours why isn't your house there'll be big fights quarrels so the halacha says the foramus of a person acquires accomplishes acquisition that's the short next paragraph lies to an object that lies within the four cubits of man it it becomes acquired by him nevertheless in order to um to acquire it next page 99. so the the rabbi enacted even more that the four the four amis of a person is considered kenyan hutzer acquisition by hutzer [Music] in other words again there's a lot of details here but basically there's different ways of acquiring of kenyan for example when the cousin gives the color the ring right and he says he's been calling that the wife according to one opinion the the the the color the pride the gemara says in three ways you your kona the color through money that's like the ring the star through a contract super it be us through intimate relations right so today the kupa kind of serves all three these are many details so don't catch me you know don't catch me well my rabbi said that the the kingdom of the hoop is really the echo it's also true okay i'm not going i'm just talking generally the point he's making here is that the reference that the object that finds itself in the four qubits is acquired through one's hudson which means one's property vol therefore listen to this cut the shameless a miner who doesn't have property aimless he doesn't have four cubits what do you mean every person has four cupids around them you're right the question is whether the four cupids around the person has the din has the law of property of your property and since you're a cotton since you're a miner so the laws of qatar don't apply therefore the law of dalagamus doesn't apply ella says the fact that gave a person the acquisition rights within four amis it's only when there's a heifer it's when there's an object that lies there and not for any other purpose look at note 157 briefly therefore tyson's argues maintains it's on page 1 98 in the bottom on the right side 157 note 50 1957 ptosis maintains that the four cubers did not acquire for theft even though the sages made them as his own property why you steal something and you leave it in your yard you're four cubits it's my no the whole idea is by a hey fitz by an object for the purpose of acquisition when you're allowed to acquire you're not quite you know that acquire theft it's not yours you're innocent right it's geneva you've stolen it right if you've stolen right so to say that the the donald almost acquires theft for you is ridiculous it's an oxymoron that's what he says next paragraph and although we're arguing and positioning and saying that the acquisition of the four armas of man of a of a gundle not a cotton it's due it's coming from the perspective of property hotsayer because the other of whom the kingdom cuts her it's even better than kotzer shahada [Music] hutzer that doesn't have a fence and it's totally like open it's called and such a clutzer even though you could jump out of your window and out of your door and get the prop get the item the fact is that your hutzer is unguarded so take for example you know the lawns i'm i'm i'm i i'm not i'm i think i'm using saying this properly the lawn if it doesn't have a fence around it it's in a way a hot society stop menace now again the question is in american law your lawn is considered your property so it could be that's not the case but i'm talking about forget about american law for a second anyone walks down the street can take anything that's on the lawn so although you could walk out of your house and you can get the item misha but the fact is that the lawn is not guarded what if you put a fence around it oh now you've made your lawn into a property a concert that's mr meadows let's continue [Music] okay it could be yeah yeah it could it could be again this is all discussed this is all discussed but it could be only yes so what do we say ah when the person says let my sudden my field acquire the island that ends up on my lawn than it could be but the person has to make a statement the elu conversely dalai damo is a person's four cupids around themselves are shamish that matters although they're not god it's not guarded and sort of labor succe of the four cubits around you acquire an item without you knowing even about it and even if you don't not interested in it your four human cubits stalin almost is you you hear that it's you but sort of there this is this is the hello asks that [Music] is the entire logic of the acquisition right given to the four cubits is because of the klutzer king and the acquisition of property the property acquisition skipped the parenthesis very strong and beautiful question how is it possible that the four cubits came in is stronger than the concert canyon by concert king you say if it's not guarded whether it be with those bushes like yodi said or offense whatever the case it's not yours unless you say zucksali you don't say succeed it's not yours whereas with dollardamas your few your the around you you don't have to say anything and it becomes yours that's his question next page 101 the explanation is this is unbelievable you know why the four cubits around you acquires without anything because that's your essence that's your yakida it accomplishes acquisition without you uttering a word and even without you knowing about it this is rich within rich because when it comes to yeshida it doesn't work and doesn't need knowledge and intellect within the four cubits of man is for the purpose of acquiring the khefits what's that object that means an object to acquire something in the bowl that's outside of many accomplishes that it's so is it's it's the essence experience that will even bring an object that's on the outside to you explains a person's emotions a person's behavior a person's will arb for ammos in other words if you just focus on the four ammos and you don't have the yakita backing you the you then you are almost worthless when you use your talents and your faculties as your innocence says to refine something that's outside of you which would be a similar analogous to the acquisition of an object into man's possession to refining it for the purpose of god us and again let's just review for a minute when does the four amis your four amis your four cubits accomplish acquisition when it's coming from you when when there's a you there you represent essence when you are alive when you are functioning when you're living yeshida then it will accomplish that even the outside the nephesh obamas and the world will become spiritualized the the balance of most of shalom without the you behind it is meaningless in other words let's put it this way someone who develops their mind and develops their heart and develops their their their behavior and develops their willpower so you say govaldin what else is there that's very nice but it's all fascinations it's all dress up there needs to be a you are you means the essence the person who are you not what you're doing who are you that ever says this is why siddhis which is analogous to yeshida is the as essential nakuda of torah and of life that brings the you into every aspect of what you do through your mind through your heart through your action through your willpower and it makes it possible to uplift the nephesh obama's and the world at large what comes out from this and tomorrow hashem is that without sidness without learning cities this is missing she'll say but people are froome and people are religious and people are it's all true it's all true but as i've said over and over and we've discussed it many times [Music] the cat comes out of the bag the cat is carrying the famous fable the dessert on a tray at a wedding because it sees waiter's doing it it says it wants to do it and all of a sudden a mouse comes or just the opposite the mouse does it and the cat comes and it drops and it gets scared what does that fable that anecdote represent the you is missing you're not a cat or you're not a mouse and you're not a human i'm sorry you're not a human animals don't aren't waiters they don't care they don't have the sale to carry food and if they do it's only temporarily and it's only an acquired trade but as soon as something goes against its behavior mode it drops it it gets scared it runs away it doesn't have the cycle so so too in in what we're learning now without the ishida don't have taco the power so if i may be so bold as saying i understand when the custody of two or three told me we don't have the strength to go to a kibbutz and bring and beam a car of people there i understand it i fully understand it i'll say that's not where it's at like we discussed yesterday the question is whether yeshida is is illuminated are you living with yakida you can be a misnomer you can be a little [ __ ] it could be a savage you could be my i don't care that's all semantics are you living with yakida be true to yourself and to end this was beautiful he was true to himself and that's what he taught us be honest with yourself don't fool yourself know who you are and that's a life's mission and when you'll know who you are you'll be the happiest person why because you won't be a fool and the worst thing in chabad was to be a fool and there's a lot of fools today a lot of fools with all kinds of colors and hats and there's a lot of fools out there that you got to be ms you have to know what you could do you have to know what you can't do and you have to keep on working and i'm sure hillel in his work in in social work and therapy has you know the same ideas similar ideas and we need to really bring in more and more from torah valued therapists and professionals to help today with the youth and not to put the blame on the parents and on the teachers which is another thing that i really want to address in the future you know you know i grew up in a home where this is the way it was european parents right and did i come out so bad of course i'm not perfect far from it but it wasn't only me it was my whole culture okay so we didn't we didn't take drugs we didn't sleep around we didn't we didn't you know do terrible things okay whereas many of the college kids did and i'm just not just a fact i'm not not telling you anything new and and and so why can't it work today you know why you know why it's not working because people are lying to themselves and they're not saying the truth they're that they're uh oh oh oh the rabbi is wrong the teacher is wrong the god by is wrong the parent my father he's terrible i gotta talk against him this is not good this is not yeshida i'm not saying that we parents don't need work we need a lot of work and rabbis need works and teachers need it's all true but there needs to be you know that's why i said go back to the basics of total value therapy and abhoyo spoke about this after they came out with the code of chauffeur in 2000 cox cots called the chauffeur which was another form of the air warner air heart uh esque movement it was just dressed up another way self-improvement and they i told you they sat around and and it was men you know talking negative about their parents uh and a crept into chabad and in other fruit communities arab yoyo and uh got up and when i think of 2 000 people in the room december 24th i believe two thousand year two thousand and he said rabbi say we are missing something we're not learning tanya and we're not living tanya it's all there and if you need a therapist or get a therapist who learned tanya who understands tanya knows how to articulate it and market it in a way that you can hear it fine but has that's what it deals with the emotional issues so i i remind myself it says your side today because that we should continue living the truth and that's another one of the things that i learned so from him so much in my life is not to give in and again i have false we have false that's a given but not to give in to the ways of the world because as soon as you give in the next generation takes another step and the third generation takes it another step so today it's been you know everyone's bringing up oh i have a transgender issue i have this in the front community right i'm not saying it it needs to be dealt with i'm not suggesting joni the way you know our grandparents said that's the way it is and too bad i'm not saying that but i'm saying is that the torah value therapy and responses to these answers are the answers and there's answers for everything because homosexuality and those type of things began thousands of years ago it's in the torah so you don't think in the time of king solomon america there were there weren't homosexuals and lesbians and transgenders there were but the answer is do we say this is the new way and therefore we say no no no the torah is the way and now we're going to find ways and work very hard how to deal with these issues and that is the that is the approach you have to begin from there that's we have to begin and i believe that when we el elderly people who've experienced life who are in a role of parents grandparents teachers gabayan etc you know community people we will be able to show our youth that it worked for us and it'll work for you it worked for us and and that's why i hurts my father growing up i worked hard i had no breath to eat in the holocaust and my i asked my mother at five years old for a piece of bread and she said i can't give you more bread or tomorrow that won't be bread you're going to die and she didn't give me the bread so listen that's finished but at the same time the hard work a job you got to feed your family oh it's not the job i like too bad start that job now bring some money in and at the same time make connections and hopefully you'll find a job that you like and it pays you better and if not stick to your job what responsibility you have to take a woman a wife and can't make kids and not feed them you know and and these are total values it's a total value no i don't don't like it it's not good get up and move with our brain as well have a great day take care take care