Farbrengen Abt Rashag - Who, What and When Yahrtzeit 6 Adar rishon - Bio of his Amazing life

it's a great day it's a great day as the advertisement goes you know why it's a great day today is valve other region what happened on volvo should anyone know the yard said they're a shag but i have to i have to be uh what's the word um um intellectually honest i forgot the terminology i think i think that you made a clip i made a clip i made a clip uh and went online last night i sent it out of friday a bunch of shabbos but um that's fine misha at least i know you're listening to my clips so i wonder if i praying a little bit today about the rashad because um you know you have my bread and butter so you deserve to hear up front box seats from the horse's mouth about uh the rashad so we'll continue learning tomorrow inside and fabrega a little bit now so who was he first of all the rashad is an acronym for harav gurari and in english we call him rashad we don't use the hey we say and the name was coined really um he he was known that way uh from when he married into the family of the previous ceremony the previous lab had three daughters hannah hayemushka and shandu right uh hannah is the old oh was the oldest married tour of yo gerard uh was married to our but she was the middle daughter and the youngest daughter was shanel and she married someone named mendel hornstein who was a grandson of the some of the rabbi marash so they were relatives and they perished in 1942 and treblinka they didn't make it out in time so the rashad was the oldest of the three son-in-laws of the previous rabbit of joseph yitzhak he was born in 1897 in ukraine in the in in the city called kramachuk was a very large jewish city [Applause] those are very heavy populace of khabad khasid and the reason for that is because the thereof that several of the rabbanim of kamichuk for over a hundred years will the babaji siddhim the first was a crossover said known as rabbi tumarkin rabbi tumarkin the khabad family hitrick from wright patrick says it's fast seminary so his great-grandfather great-great-grandfather was rabbi tumarkin okay and when he passed away they were supposed to appoint i believe the uh new the one who made the antenna the famous safer that we all we all look at there brings down very good micholim the name slips my mind i'm getting older what's the name of this safe everyone knows you know that it's a it's a beautiful peterson tanakh anyone no anyway you don't mean the mob yes i do mean the album thank you and you're older than me you remember so the mao beam the mao bin was supposed to be the love in that city after i think that up to mark and passed away as a whole story i'm not going to go into the basically on the road going to to to kamichuk to become there he passed away and that has to do with the story the bottom line is he never made it as the love there who became the love they appointed a year named uh um and this and this they they used to call him which he was um a very wealthy man but in addition to that it was a talmud and he became thereof and he was there of there i think into the 1920s i believe in you and kramachok even after the city you know had issues there when the communists came in although it was a haven in 1918 for example um i think barack bear labor wits of uh of the communists yeshiva the famous uh communist chief you guys have now in yerushalayim the father figure is a bar of bear he was a lit for sure a little [ __ ] going a goggle and he um he moved his yeshiva there and other godzilla moved it so he became a bastion for people who were looking for a safe haven they went to kramerchuk so between the previous and this laboratory of it it it really you know again they weren't little babies who were you know putting up signs everyone become the babbage but by by nature they were you know they brought out they brought to the city uh in a very respectful way plus there was a family gurari the gouramis go back to the gurarie to the marabi prague gurari some of them spelled it with g-u-r-a-r-y-g-o-u-r-i uh he different way of spelling it's all the same family was a son of the of three brothers there were three brothers guradi i think mendel nassen and shmuel the most famous shmuel is brought in the circus of the previous river as the fear that supported the rebel marathon whenever there was a lack of money he bankrolled them he was they were very wealthy they owned tobacco companies and soap companies and cigarette and then all kinds of they were very big businessmen so much so that they had an arrangement with the government that whoever will work for them and and and was enlisted to go into the the army which was called prisive breeze will get an exemption so what did some of the bahrain in interim do in the laboratory shiva do when they were called up to to enlist in the army they went to kramachuk and they became an official worker of the guaranis and kramachuk and that's how they got they got out of serving in the army now don't think that the karates let them get off scot-free the gerardis demanded certain things from them like like teaching their children and then doing other things so you know but but by and large they were such a prominent family that they really they really owned kamacho i mean they they were the venom of karma troops they were others but they were the king the king anyway so the rashad yes you're innocent yes yeah there's a lobby family that i know from south africa how do they fit into the picture the same so the garage family from south africa's father was metal guarani who was the rashad's cousin wow so so they're all cousins that karate there and that guerrari's father anderson and rabzalman gharari the known of the one who lived in the crown heights they're all cousins and they're [ __ ] they're i said they're fathers with three brothers the the the one that's most known is you'll see his name mentioned and there's a negan that they called the booger out he's naked anyway let's go on so uh he's born in 1897 the way the karates worked they hired private malamuddin these were like the elite people they had plenty of money so they can hire the best milan they hired private malamudam the mulamid moisture that they hired for the children was a yid by the name of levine it came from neville it was a closet with from neville the netherlands sydney were very very sharp outspoken sydney they they didn't mince words i'm not going to use some of the words that they would use what they were fabring but they they were just you know they said but yet they were very heartfelt and loving they didn't take any stick and they just said it the way it is so one of them isro he was hired and brought to kramer chuck as a private malamate for the children of the and and and actually had him as a as a teacher how do we know that well we know because of the that fact we also know it in 1947 that rashad was sent by the previous level to parking germany to a dp camp where there were many hidden including the barbecues and he met at the israel netherlands and he hadn't seen him for years his malamute and the the malamud saw him and the goraris you know they dressed very very uh elegant you know very uh stylish and they also many of them left frontal hair here which i think i've told you in the past in chabad that's like one of the the three greatest sins is to have hair here it's called a chop have you ever heard the word of trump i don't think i don't even know what the english word of the equivalent of a troop is but it's basically frontal here here why and why why because it represented style and modernity uh when i was growing up i heard this with my father and he gave me of you know not only a a one or two haircut number haircut taking off most of my hair all my hair but you know he said no chip and i i didn't i didn't have a desire to have a trip but that was something that was important to him and why was important to him because he heard it in yeshiva the babaji is even here to throw and look from 1950 to 58. so he grew up with that you know so the rash the the goraris did have troops and this was very strange here they are these committed laboratories see them so tight with their obey him and yet they have a little frontal hair and and the way we were told again i you know i didn't have a direct conversation not that they would tell me is that because of their position in kamichuk and and in years before and years after with government officials and businessmen they felt they need to really you know look sharp and the little frontal hair gave them the extra you know touch to get through certain doors again and kind of they had this they they felt or they had this permission to to to dress that way and they all kept full beards but you know they rolled it up nicely and you know like some of our dear students here very nicely so it's combed and you know it's it's it's nice it's not a wild beard like my beard you know because of the position that they held so so um when robert garrary when the rashad meant met his rebbe and krampechuk his rebbe took the opportunity to say what what do you do what's what's with your troop what are you wearing a troop for he was a nebulous so he just told his student he didn't care that he's the rebels uh the previous son-in-law and he was sent by the previous senator to help him and his friends you don't care you're wearing a troop and this is how ray just get your trip off anyway the bottom line is that uh that i shot yesterday yeah go ahead yeah and i used to go with them to neville okay put meat out there very good meat on the butchers well because they are baskets the netherlands they own the they used to be what are you talking about he gave free free meats anyway let's go back let's go back so so night so after he's he has this malamad his father sent him like his cousins to the labachi shiva in lubavich i figure he came to the babbage probably in 1911 or 12 because this the the way it was is you didn't go to lubavitch till you're about 13 till 13 years old so he's born in 1897 he got there um you know 1910 1911 something like that anyway he learned there in 1915 or 16 he learns from smith with rabbi yashaya denberg who was one of these students who went to primachook to get be exempt from the army so there are shock i guess as a in 1915 16 he would be already what 18 19 years old he went back home and he learned with rabbi denberg for smith then in 1919 he becomes um he's hand-picked by the reber ashab before his passing he gave his approval that he should be the husson for the oldest his oldest granddaughter hannah schneers in the previous rep his daughter kander khan and they marry in okay so a year a year to two um they're engaged and i don't know uh i assume the reason is because of the turmoil they couldn't you know they weren't settled because and then rashad passed away so once they were they went to a stove and they calmed down they said them they opened the yeshiva there i it was easier to deal with the marriage he gets married in 1921 and is appointed by the previous rebbe as the manager those are very important words in the chabad lexicon now paul means administrating principle or in in today's uh vocabulary you would say the chairman the chairman of the board because who is the nazi of the board the president the rebel the rebel of the time the rashab the rayats and then our rebbe each took over being the president of the yeshiva of the babaji yeshivas worldwide so when the rebel so the the rebel ashab appointed the previous rebel as the chairman for the yeshiva in 1897 when he opened the year babaji yeshiva then when when when his son took over in 1919 he appointed his son-in-law all the senators he didn't have any sons as the chairman and he was the chairman of the yeshiva my friends until 1989 when he passed away and even then the rebbe said one second my [ __ ] that he continues to being the chairman although he's not a soul in a body so these are the babies words and that's the way it is you can accept it not argue but whatever said he remains the chairman of the yeshiva from in a spiritual way and everyone else works under him yes my [ __ ] okay ruby duff and i've heard that the uh maybe could you tell us a little bit about the differences between the 1921 and then the rabbit the rebels i heard that the of the rashad was very um like muted yes i'll tell you just briefly uh what i know uh what i heard as i said this was 1921 um the situation was still a very raw situ a fluid situation they had to run away from the to our stuffs that they true they ran away in but it was turmoil i don't have to tell you what was going on you know uh 1917 the revolution and by the way at that time the guerraris lost all their money as well as everyone else and that's when the gerraris and many others left kramachok and they went to the inner inner in inner city where the rostov so the the just one second so his wedding was on the uh like you say it was on the low key side uh they didn't have what they didn't have money i mean it was terrible times whereas when the rabbit got married in in warsaw right you know it was a whole different situation there was a hustling bustling city full of everyone running around it's the cosmopolitan it it was the it was the hub of either skype varsha warsaw 1928 and um and uh you know the rebbe already although he was still in riga but he had people there and you know you see that he traveled from riga with his family to warsaw to make the wedding because he wanted a he wanted a a bigger wedding a nice wedding for his for his for his daughter it's not that the way some think he didn't want it for the older daughter of course he did but the situation on the ground was otherwise so that that's what i can tell you yes hila i just wanted to mention that i just saw an item in the news i think this morning that rustov is currently under uh under threat from this russian uh threatened russian invasion so it's back in the news why russ stove i mean rostov is in ukraine today velvet rustov is in ukraine no i i'm not sure i think it isn't lee ukraine i'm not sure no it's not it's not are you know are you sure hillary are you sure you saw rust off the name rust stuff well is is what we call rust of the same as what's called rastav on yes yes yes yes that's in russia it's in russia it's in russia so what you saw that rostov is in you must have not read i didn't pay close attention you know let us know tomorrow because that's very surprising we know the ukraine and they're going to attack but anyway just a matter of time it's it's not it's not a joke it's not a joke me a lot of bloodshed anyway yes i remember when i was in the book as uh in milestone and i came from south africa and i had to renew my student visa and i had to go into the office to be with with with the whatever i said and i remember walking into the office and everything was so self-proof and popular and i i was nervous i really worked you this was his office at 770 or office on ocean parkway i was in parkway i was in that same office in fact i sat and ran the alumni of the yeshiva for almost over half three quarters of a year from that office so i i know what you're talking about yeah it was it was spacious yeah a lot of things happened in that office but that's for another conversation let's continue so he marries in 1921 he's appointed the chairman of the yeshiva and he and he works very hard to develop the babachi yeshivas in the underground because you know as i've said many times that the previous rebel had an entire underground with his hasidim and the soldiers meaning their the fighters and the rashad was an integral part of that because uh they needed to raise funds they needed to have communication they needed to be in touch with instead of vilna who and him and the prophet were involved in charge of the vada yeshivas giving the allocating money and with many many things and and he was an integral part of that so he he he works in that until 1934 and now by now the previous rebels living in poland in the in uh warsaw he came to warsaw i believe in 33. so 34 is there and that doesn't doesn't ex i don't know why exactly but he um he goes territorial i think for a year and he buys property and several years ago the lawyer in their destroyer mordecai seven if that name rings a belt to you uh he found the documents the uh the deed to the property that the shot bought in 1934-35 it's a no man's land and therefore it's worthless as it stands today but it did say rabbi guerrari brought bought property he also tried going into their business with his cousins the guerraris uh who lived in tel aviv they were in the business of bringing packages uh back and forth from russia territorial and vice versa and uh there it was a there was a business that also involved the black market etc etc uh for whatever reason uh he had this one-year hiatus where he did this and um then he returned to to poland to to atvasc where the previous labor already moved to 1935 because the yeshiva moved there and he was there working for the the previous that have been the yeshiva until 39 when the war broke out they're all saved they come to america in 1940 and uh that's him his wife and his son uh his son of course you know is called barry gerardi or better guerrario or better guerrarion bergari he's named after the father of shalom beard shop and we'll talk a little bit about that later anyway they all come to america and here uh but yet in 1939 while the dev is still in poland in in atwatsk he names the rashad to head what's called a goddess a-g-u-c-h olive gamer uh goodison is the umbrella organization for all of chabad that was established uh i believe by the rebel yet and defeated ratified it and in 1939 oh in the 30s in america rabbi israel jacobson uh became the manager like the the the director of in america he was a very big activist however in 39 i guess the previous cedeba was thinking about coming or into america that itself is uh something that i wrote about in a book that's coming out you know uh when did the previous cedebo think of coming to america and why and when and how it's it's it's an interesting discussion anyway he comes to heat he's he appoints the rashad and he basically you know asks rabbi jacobson to transfer all um directorship of aguch to rabegarari which he did but it only takes place really when he comes to america a year later when he runs away from the nazis democracy makshama when he comes to america he becomes the director of akuff he prints up stationary it's under the previous cereba and there's a list of board members and and secretaries and treasurers and everything else it becomes kind of an official organization of uh of khabad la babich in america but that was not his main his main activity the main activity was the yeshiva i came across i printed it as well an article in a newspaper called americana the american was a yiddish newspaper that came out in the 40s and it says there there's a write-up on the ish yeshivas and it says that directed and headed 14 yeshivas in buffalo in rochester philadelphia and boston chicago et cetera et cetera 14 yeshivas okay and they have a picture of him and he and he looks very royal and regal you know he wore a top hat he was a it was a very regal man you know i don't know if you remember you're innocent but during the week he used to wear a gray a gray circle he didn't wear a black one during the week i saw i would see him in a gray one in other words he was very stylish like i told you it runs in the family and uh he really really was in touch with the wealthiest people in the united states how do i know this i'll tell you how when i took up when i was hired as alumni director for the babaji yeshiva when i came back from california in 1996 so uh they they said i should work out of the rashad's office he had passed on 1989 and his office was empty all those years oh i actually take that back there were several people who who who worked kind of as a replacement but it didn't work out and and they didn't have anyone in the office they put me they said i should sit in the office some people weren't so happy but i said look you know i need to do my work you want me to succeed on his desk and you'll see this in an upcoming book he had a roll decks that was this large it was huge not a small little roll decks that we used to have and i flipped through that rolex and i'm telling you i saw names of people from all over the world from brazil to texas all over names that i didn't recognize most of them were already dead one second and and and i saw clearly i went through that rolex he was in touch with people world over who were his supporters and when he could call up and say like i told you i think i told you once hello he would say nothing he would say gorari yes robert garrary how can i help you sen thousand dollars tenth in english 10 000 let me hunk up the phone and the next day the check came he was a master you know and he was you know he came with royalty he came with the the previous level with lupovic so he didn't have to mince words i'm not saying he did this to everyone but he he already had built up a relationship yes what did you want to say i was just curious where where was his office in 77 no no he had an office upstairs he lived on the third floor of 770. okay the third floor which we didn't go to because it's locked it was his apartment today it's the library they and they made a bridge to the library his office his apartment became today part of the library but all the years that he lived there it was his apartment and he had an office there for the yeshiva as well the second floor which we also didn't go to is with the previous that i believed and where they were fabregas and we had yahida's room and downstairs where we did go to that was where the rabbi had his room in the bay in the basement but um the rashad had established such relationship with people all over that you know uh frankly like jonathan said you know uh he he was like he felt scared people were scared from him he he was no monkey you know he was he could smile but then he gets right to you you know and he didn't and he came with that prestige and and and that power that he was a very powerful man so so you know when um i'm not sure if he wasn't the the march on washington but he definitely i think he was um you know he was a statesman he was among withdrawals of silver baron cutler and you know see them lit fish orthodoxy didn't make the and they needed him they needed him because he had that he had one up he had the connections with many of these people his parents in russia because he was involved in in communal activity work already for years from that i told you from 1919. so when it came over to america they knew his name and and i'm printing in in my one of my next books a certificate that he handed out of chicago in the 40s when he went to do fundraising and and it it's beautiful and it looks like he's the king you know yes it says the previous rep his name but you know what's emphasized is rather gerrari and he gave out these certificates when you gave him donations so he was a master he was a master so he he um so that's what he does during the 40s then begins a very very uh serious and sad part of his life and khabad's life and we'll make it briefly because it's really going to be in my book on the rashad and the rebel a little more about it and basically his family chooses to to they say look the previous never passed away in january 1950. we have two son-in-laws and we have a rabbits and hamadina his wife they're all left so she says you know what in order to to keep the peace i'm going to be kind of in place of my husband and my two son-in-laws will manage the organization my older son-in-law will manage the yeshivas and the younger one managed the kahus and mahdi israel and and marcus the three organizations well most has seen them were very unhappy with this they said we need a rebbe a living rebbe and we have one and that's the younger son-in-law they said what and the rapper was a very very quiet unassuming person and really an introvert so the older siddhim and many didn't really know him the rashad like i told you was known the problem is that what they knew of him was not what they saw as a rebbe a statesman yes a politician yes a tremendous fundraiser yes an administrator yes a hussit yes no and from 1941 to 1950 they observe this younger son-in-law who they see amazing things in him that hey he's he's a genius of tyra he could put the rashaak in his little pocket and many others in his little i mean the man knows not just khasidis which thrashad knew very well they say he knew 300 my murmur by heart but he knows all of tyra and he's so modest and so humble and he works for a living he doesn't make his work off the institutions he goes every day to the brooklyn navy yard and he's a draftsman having a certificate in engineering wow so and and then in 1950 after the previously passed away when they said we want you to be rapper he says if you stop don't stop bothering me i'm running away to the other side of the world and when they said uh a week to two before huge fat where he when he said the first mimer that was the official acceptance of the uh of that he accepted the leadership of the babbage two weeks before they put an air in one of the yiddish newspapers and the gharari family was very upset and they told the wrapper how how dare you do he says i didn't do anything i told him not to do these things they don't listen and he went over to some of the old exceed them he said what right did you have to publish a um an article a newspaper ad that i'm accepting the leadership of lubavitch in two weeks and if i brendan the first yard side of the previous rabbit so they said he says i want you he says to them i want you to not put an ad in uh that you deny it so they said to him what should we deny that we don't want you as a rapper it's not up to you my friend sorry we want you as our ever it's not you can't deny that and guess what there ever walked away he couldn't refute that what did he say he walked away he wasn't happy but he couldn't refute it and two weeks later he officially accepted well this really you know got the gerraris very very upset um but as the months went on the rabbits in the comedina the previous episode she was a smart lady and she saw clearly that this is what most of her students want and she wrote and i'm printing the letter in the next book in the book about him and the rebel that she she wrote to someone who was not for the rebel wanted the rashad and eric's [Applause] he was a prominent person he says this is what has may god help them and god help him to be successful in other words she conceded that's the way i see it she wasn't happy about it at that time but she conceded but then there was the issue of the yeshiva so they set up a committee called vaguely and this committee its job was to transfer all ownership of any organization that wasn't under the rebels control to the to the president to the rabbit and they wrote a letter a three-page letter to her to say that your son-in-law we respect him and and and he has a position but yeshiva he has to give over the keys to the yeshiva the the the ownership of the yeshiva to the rabbit like it was with all of our obeying she didn't accept it and she wrote to people so but it didn't help because this committee convinced him and within two years the entire yeshiva was under the rebels what's called nasios his leadership and the stationery of the yeshiva said under the leadership of the rep is named lubavitch and the manila poyo is the chairman israel guerrari on and on and from that day on he started to come to fabregan's initially he did not come to the fabregas and it was smooth sailing until 1985. so you're talking about 35 33 to 35 years that things were quiet i'm not going to say there weren't issues there were issues that not with him but his family they you know i don't want to go into it but they they made the rebbe's life they didn't make they gave him a hard time if he wanted a safer he couldn't go himself and get the book he had to check with the librarian he's the la babbitt he has thousands i'll see them and he has to check with a librarian if it can have a book of a library so you can say prepare a secret a talk to give to jewish people could you imagine that's the way it was and the devil was so humble he didn't he didn't want to fight so him and his wife made a policy just to keep it quiet and i want to tell you something else that's interesting and i think rabbit steins writes writes it in this book my rebbe and it's a good point you know the repetition never came to a fabrega we never saw her not only in my time you're talking about from 1951 to 1988 she never showed up what what what is this her husband her yes janice only time i saw her was when the woman had a heart attack and she came to 770 and that was the first time i ever saw her right right so why didn't why didn't she come all this time because she didn't want to rock the boat she didn't want that people should make a big issue about her because it would offend her older sister that's what type of love and shalom she and the rebel had that they kept the peace all the years even though i'm telling you they were stepped on okay but then comes 1985 and all of a sudden we hear from someone in urdu stroll actually who was a buyer of antiquities antiques i'm sorry and old swarm and he comes across books that seem to be from the barbecue library in 770. he notifies the the librarian in crown heights and they start and they realize there are books missing from the shelves they install cameras and one day they see three people walking out with books from there barry garari and two bucharan two yeshiva students who helped him what he said to them how they arranged that i have no idea and they told the rapper and excuse the expression all hell broke loose that was it because and the rebels said you're not starting up with me you're starting up with the altar rebel and all the rabbi and that famous sikh of youth based tom was 1985 he said those that are holding the swarm in their hand are holding a bomb they have to use that word and it can explode so all of a sudden people brought sent back and there was all kinds of you know sent back and they wanted money some got something it's a whole posture but that was the only reason that the rebber made it public and by the way he spoke to the rashad privately and he spoke to a group of hasidim and he said please intervene so i don't have to go public with this they tried but to no avail the rashad was on the rebbe's side the rashad didn't authorize it his wife hannah felt it's her it's her inheritance it's her and her sister's inheritance they are the two surviving daughters of the rashad of the rebel of the previous rebel and thereby argued it's not yours it's not mine it's ours it belongs to a goddess to the chabad movement and it should be there and that became the broil and that became the court case and this is where everyone says that the rashad earned gun aiden overnight he sided with the rebel against his own family against his wife and his son and his and leave him in the clothes the librarian who was very close to them and to do that is amazing and it shows that he really became a hussain of the rebel the rabbits of khaimushkis is quoted to have said and i believe it my husband's greatest hostage is mario garani he's my husband's greatest hostage and if you think about what he did in 1985 86 87 when he went you'll see and the proof is in the pudding what's the pudding that in 1988 he wrote a will and i'm printing the will in my book he met hashem he wrote a will a two-page will a legalistic one a practical one and basically he says there yanny all my possessions go i give over to agudizhabad and no one can change it and it's very clear who he means his own family and that's the way it was and what did he have one second what did he have i heard from someone who was his attendant he passed away with fifty thousand dollars the men could have been such a millionaire because they raised him he and his staff raised millions tremendous amount of money and and he deserved a big a big salary [Music] all to the yeshiva and he passed away for a few dollars right so so he had also manuscripts of the rabbian which he got as a as uh when he came into the schneerson family and he gave that all to a good see the chabad it's the day in the library i heard that in the grapevine that ever told him that according to jewish law you need to give something to your son and therefore you should give him something too uh the people don't know about it but i heard that that was the case any and he gave him a few if you were swarm a few things you know so he married building the yeshiva besides ocean park where you were uh on crown street it exists today it has several hundred students and um that that's you know his legacy there's a lot more but uh this is uh the you know what we can fit into our time now who had a question you did go ahead you want to say something yeah so my question is i don't understand one thing why did they use the same you know the russia table the rashav of the rebels no it sounds the same robbie it sounds very similar it's very hard to hear the difference one is with the bass rashab and one is with a gimbal i mean by the way okay yeah but by johnny i mean yeah sometimes you call him but uh yes if you're asked if you're if you're if you're if you're asking whether the title rashad is of a of a prestige honorable tale the answer is yes because of everything i said he was a prestigious person he was a son-in-law of the previous letter he was a brother-in-law to the rapper he deserves a title by the way the rebel was called during from 1940 to 50 or from when he married haramash [Applause] that have his first name m right shin schneerson so it was common what why'd they stop that so why was that because now he became the rebel that's the point but they were all the rebel every single one was the rebel no yeah so you you called the rabbit the rebera shop you're right okay the respectable way is to say rebel shot yes you're right rebera yachts from joseph yitzhak and our rebbe that's respect that's the most respectful way to say it correct and not just you're right in fact most times when i write i write rebel yet sometimes the sentence doesn't fit or whatever i just say rayats i mean they will exceed them if you if they heard you say rayats or ashab they would smack you you're right you're making a good point and it's important to mention he's right it's not the most honorable and respectful way to call your rebel by an acronym so they would say why should you wanted to say something no i'm just curious just just going forward um i mean i know it's it's it's a challenging element but um we know that uh the robert passed away in 2006. um [Music] does he have does he have any offspring he has two adopted daughters he doesn't admit to that on the video that he did with the show of foundation he calls them daughters but they were adopted just yesterday i heard that one might have been from a jewish mother and one might have been from a non-jewish mother i don't know that so it's speculative and i don't have any proof to that but that they are adopted everyone knows that they're adopted um very fine people one is married to a prominent cardiologist who lives in um either teaneck or englewood new jersey uh he is their schreiber shabbas um he's a jody a safer i think he's actually printed some books on torah in english and he's a prominent cardiologist um and that's one daughter the other daughter i don't know much about um that's what you know and they have and and they and they have children but those are not his biolog those were not his biological children he did not have any biological children so at this point there is no living offspring from the previous level right yes yes yes i caught the river wherever my river from my life i call him mothers you call him amish okay yeah so you could say rabbit mamas that's what you say rabbit mama call it okay that's your feeling i i i've never heard that and it's it's definitely good for say like i am if i'm praying about it um and i'm not here to tell you how to call him but because you're genuine and if that's what talks to you uh god bless you i i i hate that in myself oh rabbit lipscore okay avraham was this informative absolutely thank you okay i just uh you're quiet you're you're really a student you listen and listen which is well velveo what was up they're available say something ahead i want to hear your wonderful voice thank you much it was very nice and it was very interesting i um i heard once that goat is from uh shalom is that correct i never i heard that i mean that obey him for the mate maybe i mean the shallow was the shallow was the shallow levy i think so no i'm not sure uh yes yeah yeah so the guerrillas weren't the grenadiers weren't levine but i i i don't know i don't know i believe the their their majors they go the pedigree goes back to gurarie the morale of prague okay uh what else valve anything else no thank you very much okay so anyway happy to be here again yeah thank you thank you uh brengan and um there's more to come there's more to come but uh i didn't say a lot of this much on the clip that i did which was only 10 minutes so this is gonna go online now and i think i'll have a great interest for people because there's little known and i must tell you that it's really a mitzvah to to talk about the rashad even though he's not there because he got the bad the bad what's the expression the bad uh raft what is it called uh i got the bad end of the stick yeah yeah yeah there's the short end of this thing and and it's not right because what he did you know he should be put up on a pedestal um and that's it so so i feel that you know especially on the yard side today's yard side the straw machine aliyah and i didn't say it but all this forget about all the barbecues who's the father figure of the babaji yeshiva in america they're not shocked not just america he was in charge of even he was a charter chief in canada he was in charge of the yeshiva in brazil and the list goes on and if you knew his policies he didn't char he didn't have money you came free i told you i think i won when i was the alumni director so i i was in touch with someone who gave a nice donation to yeshiva and i asked him like where have you been and he wasn't orthodox and like why are you giving us this nice check and he said i used to get a yearly letter from rabbi guerrario maybe every foreign forget and he wrote like this many yeshivas are closing up many yeshivas are not letting kids in because of tuition the lebanese yeshiva says doesn't do that every child is welcome you do have money you don't have welcome and we don't close our doors and he told me that this left an impression on him that one day when he will start giving nice to dhaka he wants to give it to this yeshiva because of of what he read this is what he told me and he started to give nice to duck so the russia and i know i know from my own family and others where you would come in for tuition the person who was appointed by him to collect tuition would say to you so and so how much can you afford he said you can afford a dollar i'll write down that you can afford a dollar you're paying a dollar you can afford five thousand dollars i'll write down that whatever you can afford you tell me have you ever heard of yeshua where the parents tell the administrator this is the amount i can afford but that all came from the rashad and that came from the freedom that came for the rebel asshaab and they said is about we have to remember this and today this is so important because a lot of people in the babbage and interim are veering from this where tuition becomes the first thing and i understand times are different people need money people have expenses families have grown i understand that but it cannot change the credo of the yeshiva and that is why my call to people today especially people who are philanthropists invest money in scholarship funds so that people who cannot afford you will your fund your money will go and make it possible to them this way the rebbies can get paid a proper salary which they deserve and need and at the same time no child will be left behind but in my days were there a shock there was no such a thing no such a thing and and and and the and this is how many non-laboratory kids in brooklyn in other areas joined our yeshiva you know he talked about people in flatbush from the kai and berlin area in the turvadas area they came they were all my classmates they were my classmates what are they doing there the answer is that either their parents wanted their kids to go to hasidis yeshiva or they couldn't afford the the the tuition and and they knew that the babaji shiva takes you in that's it that's it and and this is very important very very important in all aspects you know you know used to be i don't know if you haven't know but it used to be that we used to hand out freak villain freemasons as moisha free when the rebels started in the 1970s with the same the outreach we gave away things for free rabbi mcconnell why do you think he was in a 17 million million dollar debt in the 80s it's because he was doing things free free free it all came crashing down it's the 80s the 90s things have changed but the credo cannot change so somehow you need to charge for a paired villain a get a sponsor a fund like rubber lipstick miami sean berlipski has a fun film front if a person wants to put on film daily and they don't have the funds he will give you a free pair of nice large filling not a hundred two hundred dollar set yes and he raised the money for that but that was the mentality the rashad's mentality was i need to raise the funds so that children and students should be able to come into our yeshiva and learn whether the parents have money or not and i think it's something that we need to really bring back you know and and and emulate and and this is true in schools with memberships and not men all the whole idea the whole idea is that yiddish is not about money it's about anemias it's about getting close with hashem and and and you see the result of unison and thousands of others and myself are amazing because we were able to go into the yeshiva in a way that whether we had funds or not yes yeshiva made programs and there were government programs and they put you on this college governance grant the pell grants and things like that it's true and we participated but the the the the the kuda the the the met the essence there was that you need to accept everyone because that is the the credo of the babachi is and that's why and that's why when when someone a boy or a girl learns in a babbage institution today they have that holiness right there whether the english is good or the hebrew is good or the yiddish is good do you learn better it's so stupid if you compare it to what the the cornerstone of this institution is which is seoul rochnias and and just being in an environment of rookies with people who were trained with rokhni so who lived is the best thing for the youth and we talk about fallout we talk about rebellion i'm sure that if all the yeshivas would do this collectively there would be less fallout because they wouldn't hear oh you can't come into school today because because my because if my parent didn't pay tuition you know what kind of embarrassment that is to a child to a student it's a fair look seminaries not letting you come in playing with you this is not right and um that ashag kept to that motto and i'm telling you it could have easily gone another direction but he didn't and if there was no money he said the onus is on me no one else and yes he wrote to the rebels i'm going to print letters asking i don't have money and moan i'm moaning and complaining i don't have money i need funds give me a broker absolutely and the rebel was right there the blessing i meant to suggest to him how did i become alumni because when he came to the river in and he said i don't have money that ever looked up for him and he said one word alumni do you have an alumni organization yeshiva university does when norman lamb was in the president of the university he brought in 60 million dollars in one year from alumni 60 million dollars the babaji shiva has been around from 1897 in america from 1940 and you don't have an alumni association and i'm telling you in those you know three quarters of a year that i worked for the yeshiva i started to develop and i saw the benefit there were people out there and we made it unlike an alumni dinner and i i got some of manhattan a wealthy man whose nephew was a rebbe in our yeshiva for years and he put down a nice check for the yeshiva and i told them this is just the beginning there are thousands of people out there just give it some time and we can create a tremendous organization and we can bring in a lot of money that that everyone needs so the never told that i shocked alumni so the rasha shiva when i was in los angeles he contacted me and says listen we need someone to do this would you be willing and i was looking for a position that paid the full salary because my family was growing i wasn't getting full salary whatever so so i made the transition to work for the yeshiva at that time as the alumni director but that came because there ever would always tell that alumni where's your alumni and and and here too you know in 57 he didn't hire an alumni director he got someone who was a rabbi and a shul and a mocker to be a volunteer alumni director it don't work and it folded you know the expression in english you get what you pay for right volunteers are wonderful but you need to have someone on top who gets a salary and you take care of them and they and they direct the volunteers but anyway rashad is to be back have a great day everyone we've had for an hour hashem everyone thank you thank you thank you