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Farbrengen Gimmel Tammuz 2020 w Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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morning that's Kimmel Thomas Thompson
page 26 years since that happens the
summer returned I'm high today bursted
we call that a Yankee Lula because there
are beach and terracotta schools his own
day of passing love I made a yummy Lula
a day of celebration actually the
demurrer refers to hee hee Lula as a
wedding day in other words the wedding
is called a he Lula and the question is
why do you call the day whether it has
be passed away why does he call his day
like a wedding day I mean it seems to be
the total opposite of a wedding he
someone passes away it's a very sad
thing so this isn't being spoken about
by the rabbit probably every you trot
and many many times and he explained
briefly that that the idea of a wedding
and the idea of a of a historical
surpassing of exotic our longing to say
and what is that that is that the on on
high there is a celebration when it's
Alex the Schirmer returns to the a
bestow and what's what's the celebration
and number two of the celebration is for
on high what does it have to do with us
here we're left bereft we're left empty
so the outfit ever in the Dennis I play
this 27 in the B or as a beer over there
you could look it up later
the out that ever explains what is the
specialty and how we benefit from the
departure of excited could you imagine
and the altar never says that while
exotic was alive his his Emunah and his
love for Russia and his authorship and
munna Arvin era are limited and
contained to the confines of life
and in the confines of life you know
there's only so much you could benefit
from so for example you only you
mentioned getting a dollar from the
Rebbe your father got a dollar that
means if you were in inset in Crown
Heights during the years that he
distributed our Sunday morning you got a
doubt or if he sent a dollar fit with
someone else for you you received it but
if you weren't if you weren't you didn't
get it well let's say if I bring it
right they have now a gem puts out these
five Brennan's and last night I was
watching one for over an hour
if the mayor from Solon was very
inspiring you know was of her bringing
from from the rebel yell Miletus yud
aleph listen 1972 somebody gives back
and you know I was a young boy then I
don't believe I wasn't the vibrational I
was I lived in Brooklyn but I wasn't
there and is very inspiring than in fact
you see everything up close in a way you
see better and you can if you know
what's going down you you kind of know
better what's going down because you see
it right on in front of you whereas when
you were standing there you far away you
were here there things blocked you and
you know so so says the al terrible
doctor never says that the the sadiq the
inspiration from the SAVAK to the person
and people who identify with exotic is
limited to the vessel of life and it's
filtered by life whereas after his
departure the Emunah and they ever in
the year of the SAVAK is limitless in
other words is 24/7 this idea is
ultimately the idea of a wedding
why what's there give a wedding the
wedding is the continuation of seed a
father and mother have a child and then
they raise that child and they bring the
child to the Hopa and
and the hope and prayer is that that
child will procreate and bring another
family etc so it's considered what we
called Hebrew opinion Adi odd and this
was a tender their ever wished cousin
Colin the parents you should have an
everlasting edifice an everlasting
Bojana so the so the idea of a wedding
being eternal and the idea of the of the
departure of its object and the neshamah
being eternal are one of the same and
therefore desire the holy they are calls
the departure of raspbian and so twofold
subdeacon a he Lula that's a basic
explanation why the term he Lula is used
for the departure of a son no it's not
see this either it's the so our
restaurant must be writes in his own
Ziya regarding his upcoming whenever
he's passing he calls it a he Lula
that's that's from desire that's not
from de Moura and it's not from
cassidy's and it's not from moose it's
not from mission it's not some a look at
some Isaiah and and and we believe there
are to be wrote desire so that's you
know so it has nothing to do with Labov
it by the way we have a good friend of
mine inflamed a hamburger on my welcome
from the Washington DC
the Potomac Maryland areas effective
welcome to the to the shoot to the fiber
engine anyway so so so the question is
the so okay so we have an explanation
okay but practically let's if I bring in
is not a time for theoretical
philosophical discussions
that's a seer that's a lecture that's a
study the the vibranium heard that there
ever passed away and was at the clay so
but not at the clay so I was waiting to
go into the tunnels under underground
appraisal that called the tunnels and
there was Alabama sure who today lives
already in Crown Heights a very fine
gentleman and he was going to take me
because you need a special permission at
the time that you know cuz I wanted to
go out a certain time if so he gave me
he had it in and when before we went
into the to the tunnels I saw two
bustling running running to the Kaesong
in my own I mean the repet was very ill
everyone knew that he was very ill and I
said to myself I don't like this running
guy this is this is not this is not a
good sign
that's what I said to myself I don't
know I think was like that it was like
quarter to nine sometime around whatever
night and went into the tunnels with him
and there's a place under Underground
over there under the castle that
straight up is where the Dome of the
rock would they call today the Dome of
the rock we call that the every sucia
every Shakya which is where of them
will form from you know the most holy
place that if you go straight up you're
supposedly will hit that that exact that
rock and on the wall on the stone on the
wall there's a trickle of water coming
out I assume those that's what are all
of you with Alexis well have been there
and if you haven't you better go there
anyway and the tradition is the
tradition is that our sadness crying and
it's coming through the water the
trickle the tear he's crying for the
destruction of the base I'm Ignis that's
that that's the so and people stop over
there and they say killers I was aware
of this tradition so I stopped there and
I said to them we continue to go on the
tour of the data that the Turner came
out a half an hour or an hour later and
then there was a way a message waiting
for the rabbi that brought cooked me in
and the message was that they're dancing
in Crown Heights so again you know I
didn't have to be a world's genius and
professor to figure out this isn't they
very happy dancing I just had a gut
feeling that the River passed away and
indeed it when they rabbi called New
York you found out that the River passed
away and it seems to me it was you know
around the time when I was standing at
the wall and the trickle of water the
tears were coming out and I remember
that like it's now that you know 26
years ago I saw I didn't make the
Lavanya I went to Crocker bag and they
had a big screen and I saw them avaya
there I was not too strong because my
father and uncle donated a safer Torah
for my grandfather in Bnei Brak so this
was before gimel Thomas so and then the
rivers in his stylist was right there so
we didn't get a chance to go back
although I did oh wait okay so I'm
coming out I'm coming out now and I'm
saying to myself I got to get back to
New York we had it ready to throw
everything I got to get back to New York
I went to the airport before that
walking up the steps from the Cosell all
to the old city to get on a bus or a
taxi to go back to my hotel and it's
quiet it's sunk young said Sunday
morning at the 10:00 10:30 10:30 all the
window lock and the vagal afferents are
you see that right and people are
working and it was mamma's quiet going
through thee and I had this like weird
feeling you know very weird feeling and
I'm saying to myself hi I'm thousand for
baggage should have such a big Sadiq
such a world leader just passed away and
things are so normal here like you know
I'm feeling so intense and so nervous
and and so stressed and you know and so
upset but no one around me seems to feel
anything it feels like it's a regular
Sunday morning and and I remember that
this was you know that this added to my
stress like why isn't everyone jumping
why isn't everyone crying why isn't
everyone who stormy you know why isn't
everyone out of their house and talking
about it nothing and then I went to the
hotel and then I went to the airport
and I had a return ticket on TWA at the
time so I went up to the offices because
it was swamped with Labov atures every
shade and every color and every word Ben
Gordon was full of about answers and
everyone's trying to get a flight to New
York so I went to the office upstairs on
the second or third floor Ben Gurion
and I spoke to a a top deputy and he
said I would get you I would you know
the flying your home free without a
charge is not the easier you won't make
it to the Lavanya I can put you through
here and through there you're not gonna
make it to the funeral because we
figured out the tiny right so once he
said that and said oh because all
nonstops whatever that was one or two
that were already booked it wasn't
placed for one person
after those the Europe then through
Europe like I'm gonna make it in time
the bottom line is I didn't go that day
and waited another day to and I came the
during shiver and during Shiva
during Shiva everyone had a chance to be
Manasa mobile pea typical to the rabbit
in this house and then that year the
Rebbe I think I bring every Shabbos
almost every Shabbos and he spoke about
the theme of ah haha Ethan Lieber his
wife rented some firewood schools
Chaya Mushka and there is this idea
bahaha and the living will take the
heart and he spoke at that about that
idea and this is a the first point I
want to make what I observed here is a
person who lived through basically you
know almost a hundred years 90 years
from 1902 it's now 19
you know it's 19 I'm sorry
a mix of the two here it's his own
passive right but I'm saying earlier by
his wife's passing Rebbetzin Chaya
Mushka spoke about Baha'i you thoroughly
so here we are thinking about what can
we do to to live with a departure when a
parent passes away god forbid when a
loved one passes of woody and everyone
knows what we just had the codes and
everything else and of mash them you
smart that we should only have
sympathies and good health and it should
be abolished that never come back again
immune system so what what do you do
with death I mean it's a reality their
ever writes in a letter to a teenage
girl who lost her mother a Crown Heights
girl
and she wrote to the river how she's the
oldest of a whole family and you know
she's distraught and and second and the
rebus said we see in halacha there are
periods of morning three days
seven days 30 days 11 12 months and then
at the earth science says the rabbit to
this teenage girl what do we learn from
that that if you mourn more than the
allotted time whatever that whatever the
the morning requires for that a lot of
time and you mourn more than that then
you're not accepting God in other words
your God is defined by how you feel and
if your God is defined by how you feel
it's not the God that's not a set of the
Torah
it's your man made her shell it's your
man made God which is not God it's an
oxymoron
God is not human and the rebel says to
her if you don't accept God and death
you don't accept God in life and if a
lover says that up for 30 days you mourn
this way and after 30 days you're not
allowed you're not supposed to mourn
this way any way anymore and you do your
it's again your man may God and your
greeting what God wants and this is to
be thought about you know it's it's it's
easy easier said for this we thought
about so what what do we understand from
this we understand and that a yard site
of any person and especially exotic who
who impacted the world in such an
amazing way is about growth it's not
about stagnation and past for the sake
of past history you know you know you
all know that I'm that I'm a historian
and I lived with his theory I'm totally
enamored with history that's what I do
you know it's it's my lifeline is he is
studying history and writing history and
an understanding trying to understand
properly you know but nevertheless
you have to know its history and what's
more important than history is that now
and the future because if the history
doesn't teach us how to behave now and
the future then it's basically relegated
to a museum and things that are
relegated to a museum are our inanimate
and dead in other words it's it's it
doesn't have a purpose it's just
applying the sky you know philosophies
it has nothing to do with your real life
so the whole purpose of of gimel
calmness a celebration yard site like
today 26 years later is to make us
better and to see what we can do in the
upcoming year to make the neshamah of
the dead be more alive in the world and
now what do I mean about being more
alive than in the world in the world I
mean my friends you know how much do we
have to drink today I mean the rep is
not here 26 years and that if you go out
here I mean borrow podcast any any any
any discuss it here any Jew on the
streets here they'll tell you you know
like what are you drinking you know like
okay I mean I don't know if you love a
seraph kallu other Orthodox Jews
celebrate a York site and a yard set of
exotic or a Russia Shiva or a rabbi or
of they frankly don't make a big deal
about it now I know that some make a
Sudha but if you pay attention the way
Habad the and I'm not talking about the
Chabad of the river but you look at the
way the river celebrated the previous
rivers you dropped his yard site it was
a monumental world's activity it was it
was a day of rec of reflection a day of
serious
but they have contemplation and if they
of good resolutions and if you compare
that to the way it's done and most other
communities you know diversify them the
big thing the sooth of the meal and the
food and they'll hire him and then you
know they barely drink behind but you
know okay and I've told you over and
over the story with the holy tsadik the
Seraph this first released it from the
Rebbe Australis who forgot one year that
it was his mother's yard site and his
mother came to him in a dream and he
said my son I could forgive you for not
saying Kaddish I can forgive you for not
learning this noise from my soul and I
can forgive you for not lighting a
candle which by the way everyone should
light a candle in their home today for
the Rebbe as the shuttle as you can or
have your wife do it or someone else
it's still called a would be a special
thing to write a candle anyway because
he says I can forgive you for everything
it's one thing I can't forgive you until
you do it the keyhole and the herring
and the smiles Harry and a little vodka
that I can't forgive you for because
when you bring that to Shu and everyone
makes a Brooklyn coastal hire for the
new summer that's the e car now that
story's a powerful story and very true
but you know what in kebab everything
the state is filtered through hoc mabini
das you need to understand the story
it's not just a story
another story and a nice story in the
spidery story the story teaches us that
the day of a yurt site is so powerful
and because the day of the yard site so
powerful the lehayim on that day has
that power it's not that just having a
little what care and and and and kiss -
schmaltz herring
makes the day and it doesn't work that
way because you can do that and be the
same old man the same old guy the same
old ideas if we understand that this day
is full of new energy and new
opportunities then the Heian has a whole
different meaning and that's the
perspective of the Babich of Chabad and
the whole issue of the coyote you know I
was in sue the other day
another facility show and they made us
see him the night before
I'm two machetes and two cameras and I'm
there getting ready to put on thousands
in front of me there's this one fellow
who's talking to another fellow and he's
going on and on berating the soul how
could it be we made two misete to see
you member and all we had was frozen
potato knishes and he's talking like no
one else and soon as 40 people are so
getting ready for it for Hegel and he
was like and and I I had to control
myself I was I wanted to say something
but I kept quiet because it wasn't my
place and it wasn't the right venue and
it would make a whole to doing he cuz he
was really like a percent now I
understand that a sim his point was this
this is not covered it's not covered to
the CM and I understand that but there's
it's a fine line between you know the
seal or the food then you want the food
and and you must have the food and you
must have a quality of the food in kebab
and true Habad that was never this way
it was never this way and that's why in
Chabad I don't know if you know but you
know the whole I give of Google's and
strawberries and eating googles and
chosen and making a big deal about food
is totally totally not where it's at
even though we have a story here a story
there with you out there ever a piece of
cocoa but that's not that's not the e
car the car is the governing the
learning and once you have the governing
and learning are sagas then the cuckoo
becomes also inspiration when
importantly but just to sit down and eat
cocoa
and and and and say ah it's Shabbos
played this in Chabad that's a Corey
totally Aparri you're not gonna hear
this from many people and first of all
they will know that second rule that
they're too embarrassed to say but I'll
say it that the whole idea of engaging
in food and and making a fool day a bit
tzimmes like you know in the baggage and
Chabad it was never that way and you
happened and this is important for the
celebration of today's they gimel Thomas
now what did that ever stand for and
what does he stand for even so many
years later the ebiz life was dedicated
to one thing I got she Sarah really
helped in another year and look at his
own personal life never was a genius you
all know that I don't think it was that
a genius of a money that has a child
knew the sciences astronomy do you know
that in the rebus room this is recorded
I think that the early days and then III
saw it in non Habad circles from a
cousin of the river
his name was a from zelanski and a
writer interviewed him and she and he
told her that in the rebus room he and
his brothers in their bedroom they had
charts as astronomy charts on the wall
not rock star superstars in the wall
Australian charts what are he and his
brother is thinking about astronomy the
rebus house was a very sophisticated
house of intellectual house both his
parents replica we know his father was a
genius of Cibola Nevada his mother was
an educated person at the time she was
very well trained in the Hebrew language
which was a was something that a women
you know Orthodox women at the time
didn't really have that training and be
it was like a pariah away you know
I see there's a woman what are you doing
mastering ghetto Hebrew language it's
like you know Zionism and she didn't
care she was at what we call in Hebrew
our Mugu Medes educated them
intellectual and this was the
environment that the Rebbe and his two
brothers grew up in and at the same time
Shabbos at the table shlonsky who lived
across the hall in the apartment built
in the same apartment building he says
he would hear beautiful Hasidic tunes
that made you cry and make you meditate
then think about what it's all about
coming from the apartment and he would
be slept in and with knock on the door
of his cousins and he came in not to
play with them but to sit at the table
and hear a blade it's beautiful Nagumo
so you had a very interesting balance in
the rebus home you had an atmosphere of
intellectualism and sophistication and
at the very same time a very strong
sense of Hasidic Judaism okay you
support what I said
no the rabbit that's a fallacy was not
in the store born he was at you know he
was in the University of Berlin and and
today we have all this and let's call
the book the early days if you haven't
seen that we haven't seen this book it's
it's a fascinating it's not really even
our book of reading it's a it's a book
of so much that emotional you have it at
home don't you
the early days maybe it was blown up
yeah yeah you lead it up yell me I think
I think anyway so so there it gives us
the records they found the records they
did ten years of research it's it's a
very important piece of history for the
Babbage anyway so so there ever went to
get upon OSA and I'm going to it was
sidetracked but it for a moment that's
important the rabbit didn't vote even a
personally Kravitz salivation the Rev
Robert salivate said he wants the
university to pursue a PhD and he got a
PhD in philosophy there ever didn't get
a PhD and guess what he didn't even get
a degree from the university people
don't know that you know that the rapper
went to take some courses so that he
should be able to enroll in a
engineering program where they'll give
him an engineering certificate so that
he should be able to get a job in
engineering and that's what he got and
the details the names are all documented
there and that's why when it came to
America in the nineteen nineteen forty
one he worked that the Navy Yard in
Brooklyn here not far from me as a
draftsman but he had a background in
mechanical engineering so so you know
did he go to university guess he
physically went to the University of
Berlin and sat in on certain classes and
he's registered him and his wife I think
his wife's doing certain classes I think
but you don't see any record of him
staying four years and getting this
degree in that degree know that you
don't okay so let's go back
yes motion so in Paris he went to
another such school too to finalize the
degree I mean III don't believe Sleiman
do you remember do you remember did it
say that he went to the to the Sorbonne
or they think they refute at that in the
early days do you recall right me too I
do too but but he in France whether it
was a sauropod I don't think it was but
whether it was the soul born or another
it was two to get that certificate okay
it wasn't a college degree as we know it
a bachelor's a masters a PhD it was a
degree that gave you at the time you
were able to use that for engineering
the rebel was in Paris actions in 1933
to 1941
I mean here at 14 that he ran to Vichy
you know until he escaped so he was
there for seven years
which is a very long time compared to
the places that he was before but he
wasn't studying in in these places he
would follow he was studying a little
bit and then the previous said ever it
is the fifteenth volume of the previous
letters letters interest greatest number
15 that's a one entire volume of the
correspondence between the previous
endeavor and his daughter and there ever
it is a fascinating volume because
there's many many insights into the
rivers life that we'd never knew about
that you extract from those letters and
you see there that the previous rabbit
want them to be a rabbi a shoe why the
AG apart no sir you understand there was
no plan no sir it was so difficult to
have a pair no sir and the rep is
married yes he didn't have any children
yet but he needs a pond Elsa
so the previous rabbit says I spoke to
him in him and and and you don't hire
you and director in the most respectful
way basically says thank you but I'm not
ready to make that decision it's a very
interesting you know because he did
everything for his whatever is farther
along but but in this issue I
my gut feeling is that it was his wife
who didn't really want he should take
that position but I can't say because it
doesn't say the bottom line is you
didn't take the job as a rabbi right so
we and then his father him I think the
previous that ever realized that this
heart is not in being a rabbi was
congregation so he swept them in to do
work for him as a secretary and and and
would swear him and basically was
occupied most of those seven years you
know doing uh working for his
father-in-law and I'm in in Paris and
coming to and coming to the previous lab
in Poland for the young tiger but let's
go back to the point so so what is this
gimmick Thomas although yes most of the
most admires you wanted to say something
the rebel the rebel went to Berlin in in
nineteen after his marriage in 28 29 and
he stayed there while the previous level
moved to Riga to Riga to Riga Latvia he
had to leave Russia after they car
serrated him they told them out you go
you're a troublemaker you can't stay in
our country and he went to Riga Latvia
under the 33 33 he moved from there to -
what's a call to Warsaw Poland then he
was in Poland for seven years - Lea
outbreak of the war when he came to
America let's go back so what is what is
the message and for us here we know each
other you know and how do we deal with
this gimmick Thomas you know like so
first we as fruit juice as believing
Eden and I colors vertical in God we
don't believe in a man we believe in our
sin and we believe that our sin puts
people in every generation that are
there to help us
a connect in the house best possible way
to our shell and that's the whole idea
of a Revit I mentioned this yesterday
but they'll just elaborate for a moment
a raba
is not someone who does your job for you
at least this is not the subversion of a
rebel a rebel is a soul-sucking site
what will he say so geologists he knows
your neshama she's able to guide you the
person who comes to seek his advice and
to friend to learn from and to learn
from him what's best for you to connect
to a shell and that that's what my setup
ignor was what was Moshe Moshe Rabbeinu
well champagne was also a revelant
wasn't he
what do we say Moshe Rabbeinu
our teacher so what Moshe a baton was
just a teacher of Alain Vaes of the
Moroccan Cities of Cibola of course not
but sure a banal addition to being a
teacher was a mentor was a guide was a
counselor he and and and most
importantly most remaining when he told
the Jews do I love Bazin get moved he
was telling them what's best the way he
sees it as a communicator for our colors
barkal being inspired and gifted by God
like the other prophets Isaiah Shia and
you're me oh and small n of E so right
away if you understand this the whole
criticism you know of a citizen of a
citizen and considered jewelry and Reb
and all that falls aside because you
have that criticism of Hasidic Judaism
you should be criticizing Moshe and
yirme'yahu and you say Yahoo and and and
swollen of E and everyone and everyone
else and then the argument is well they
were prophets and we had navour and and
and the Baal Shem Tov and his students
you know we're not prophets so I don't
want to go into it now because there is
literal prophecy
then there's the metaphysical issue of
prophecy and that and that that is
existent today okay
so so the the revit as it's avec someone
was devoted to helping either and
although he was educated and although he
he didn't want to be in public service
when his father passes away in 1950 the
kosygin's say listen we need a leader
now yeah you must understand that that
also wasn't simple you're talking about
you had people who lived still from the
1800's 1880s and 90s and fascism of the
repair shop they were 20 years older
than the river and they appoint a 52
year old man a 50 year old man to be
Villa Babbage forever I mean that's a
imagine us okay we're 40 50 60 right and
we're going to appoint the 20 year-old
to tell us what to do everyone knows
it's not happening it's not happening
and even when you have something that's
really special and excels and and is you
know great
to to dedicate yourself and and and then
listen to what they say and follow is a
very it's very difficult and
nevertheless then the Babbage's Hassidim
at the time said yes this yes
for whatever reason and there's a lot to
discuss why and how and when but that's
what happened that was back to 1951 Utah
and for the next 42 years or so the
river flow brings and it talks and from
50 to 60 he dedicates himself basically
to educate his own people his own
considered so he started the women's
organization called the che kebab
because in Europe
women were a second-class citizen you
all know that right
some still argue was it's that way in
America do but the rebel didn't see it
that way and the rebus said women should
be educated woman should learn when they
should be productive and he creates an
organization called the shaker bod
you know there there was a Jew rabbi
levy the head of the okay and I knew him
we diving together in our true leader
fell apart
he had an aunt who was the the daughter
of a person called the mala if you read
my book about portraits vol 1 I have a
whole chapter on this individual and
there's a whole story with him and he
was he was born in 1860 I think and and
and he had CI reading he was very
religious and uh stood but a very big
zealot so rabbi levy once came with his
wife to visit his aunt and after the
niceties he says you know we have to go
because the Rebbe is speaking to the
women's hope I have to bring my wife to
Crown Heights when she heard when she
heard her nephew saying I have to bring
my wife to listen to the rebus speech
she gave him a snap she gave a slap
another med and she berated him another
story I was sitting with people for who
were from the 1940s and they were slew
him the senior was there it there he
both passed on that one passed on at one
hundred the other 195 may their souls be
blessed and the very special Jews at
that time I wrote my book called who's
who in the Babbage women and I wrote
I've written two volumes of Who's Who
and the Babbage men and one women and
and my mother of blessed memory and
other women I memorialized them in this
book and I felt it was important to give
the world an Labov each you know to see
how these do the Babbage of women are
what are they made of and and all kinds
not they are from Russia my mother grew
up a she was Poland the survivor grew up
in Costa Rica and and different kinds of
of women that join Chabad so I told the
rabbis that was at this Friday night
Shabbos table where I came to that I
just wrote this book and his wife was
dead sitting right next to him when she
heard me say that I wrote a book called
who's who in the Babbitt's women she
just shouted out this who gives you
permission to write that we don't learn
about women what are you doing and I'm
you know and you know she's 85 years old
80 85 and I'm you know what I'm 45 and
and you know and I have respect that I
know about their life and what they did
and you know but her husband was so
embarrassed so he says to her it's all
right it's all right you're they were
getting a little senile a little
dimension you know it still feels like a
dick but you saw in middle of the
dimension you saw her essence come out
what was and she said she's the daughter
of a major love a bunch of clusters from
the Rishabh for the fifth river so this
idea of putting women on the map was a
novelty in the world of love baggage
forget about in the Jewish world in the
world of a baggage I mean the Orthodox
world in the Hasidic world so the
wrapper worked on this in the 50s the
other thing the repin started in the 50s
was that Syria goodness kebab the young
division of kebab kebab Nicks which
means basically to go out and put up
minnow resin give mezuzahs hours and
help people killing and kosher their
kitchens called sauna TZ ace ACH sounds
like they're having frank about and this
too was a Finnish okay you know the
previous Rebbe in the 1940 spoke about
keeping Shabbos so in Baltimore in
Detroit in Chicago you know he got the
cutback rabbis to get others to march
with signs schmira Shabbos closes doors
on Shabbos okay but that was like that
was also very unusual
but the way the rabbit took her to the
streets in the 50s was on a whole
different level and he started eating
the treats you know it's nice that we're
talking here but we need these young
Bufferin the cement 11 our friend the
slum of my of mutual friend son you know
the young the young guys that these guys
are these are the soldiers on the field
and these soldiers go out and they they
they mama state they don't care about
anything and sometimes they should break
away they they they stormed the world
and the rebels saw this that he needs to
create this feeling in those Russian
lapavitsas and others that came from
Europe with devastation and he made a
mind change in them in the 50s then the
60s to the 70s everyone knows we have to
count the Cultural Revolution Vietnam
the killing of did the murder of the
Kennedy and then they're killing the
Kennedy and then and the Sputnik and
then I was a whole different scene and
the rabbit that it cakes himself in the
60s of making Bally chuhwa alibi the
chair ever from Russia from a little
statue with a white beard talks about
Valley chupa and the Orthodox world says
what are you doing like like we've never
seen this and he says this is what we
need now then come then then then comes
the 1970 70s to 80s and the red gram is
birthday on a seven on his 70th birthday
right yeah you die off listen the
vibrating that I saw last night he says
he would if you want to give me a gift
I'd like to have 71 new institutions 70
at least he says what does everyone
that's why at least and the robotnik's
they roll up their sleeves and they they
make more than 71 throughout the year so
the whole idea of Chabad House is really
took off in the 70s not in the 60s right
and then came the 80s and then he speaks
about a moment of silence and many major
Jew
ideas that were novel to the to the
Jewish world a moment of silence the
seven mixes of Noah you know those type
of fabrini ins were in the eighties and
also after that dimension in the 70 60s
and 70s about Russian jewelry a lot and
the ad speaks a lot about Paris Rome not
giving back any land those this is a
state one second guys this is a
condensed version of the 40 years or so
of the rebels leadership so what do we
do with it now 26 years later after
given Thomas humble returns we need to
take all those ideas because we have now
a load a load of information and we now
need to unpack it and guess what we have
enough things to do for a hundred years
and more I'm telling you because you
cannot imagine especially in the 80s
almost every Shabbos when he spoke he
initiated something new and I remember
saying to myself rather I haven't had a
chance to do what you said last weekend
already demanding more this week I can't
so our plates are full and it's it's
rippy it's on video it's it's it's it's
there so we Hassidim and jews that
identify with this holy tsadik
we have now the job of implementation of
those things that he spoke about and
suggested for 42 years and it's not a
repeat i want to emphasize it's not a
repeat and it's not like it's not new
you know oh we need something new if we
don't have something new oh it's boring
the same law the same art you know it's
like it's boring give me something new
especially today everyone a quick fix
this this world we're in is is so fixed
on everything being exciting and fresh
and new right and that's the reality now
that's the reality so you can't go
backwards so you built backwards you
not going forwards you're not going
forward so we accept that the world is
it's worse at now and we see and
understand that this is a step closer to
the ultimate plan of our sandwiches the
coming of the CFM and entering in the
immunity of the entire world so we take
this and we go effect but we go with it
based on the doctrines and teachings
that they're ever left in his writings
and it's there for us you know some and
I we learned the part of the things that
we learn as the rebus fathers coloratura
quoted the Torah slavery Hitchcock now
you have to understand that the rebels
father wrote this in the 1920's 1930's
and if you sit and learn this seriously
objected give an example you see how
it's so relevant today and you have to
learn it correctly or at least attempt
to then think about it and then and then
you understand how what he wrote a
hundred years ago can be applied today
betrayed oaxaca Daysha the holy tater is
a living organism it's it's it's active
it's not stale and when and that ever
was was the individual at least for what
I saw who made he disguise a living
organism today not a past experience so
for example the Sackler River the Satmar
Hasidim rebel yokai toca who I wrote
about in my book sapling robotics right
a great man a great communist and a real
brave individual to breathe
Hungarian jewelry in its full regalia
with the long coat and the payers and
the Strymon
to the streets of Brooklyn of
Williamsburg and Borough Park and he did
it at a time when his own people were
clean shaven and and and wanted to
pursue degrees and and and wanted to you
know he become more modernized and he
tells him we're gonna bring
I'm carrying Judaism to the streets here
and it was a revolution in their world
there was a revolution so it wasn't like
the Habad would go all over and we reach
out to all Jews not just to our own Jews
the Cyclorama did it for his own Jews
and in his own little hub called
Williamsburg right so though that's a
very important accomplishment and and my
friends I tell you it he accomplished
that there are thousands of thousands of
cyclic I see them worldwide although
they have a very policy with Israel that
I believe and I this I wrote it in my
book they don't understand really what
they're ever meant about being anti
Zionist okay but the bottom line is they
took it in a certain direction
and that's not one that Chabad that most
other Jewish organizations and and and
groups agree with nevertheless you know
you don't throw it all out you know but
what did he do he did it for his own
people and yes the kindness is
phenomenal you know what I had Kovac and
it was Pesach and a button and I was you
know the hot seller came in they look
like shocked if I see them or I see them
for sure and on Pesach they came to
check on me every day can you imagine
that
it's pays off they're carrying it was
shop inside of it you know saving the
life into my house I didn't go to them I
didn't leave my house they came every
day to check my oxygen level and this
and that
depressive that they showed was
phenomenal but nevertheless it's like
it's to get to their own to their own
you don't say not that if someone that
wasn't if someone wasn't religious they
would go to him to to save a life I'm
convinced of that but that's not what
they seek to do the revered didn't they
make a distinction between a Jew who's
religious or a Jew is not religious I
promise you he did the whole idea and I
know this because he wrote this to me
back in 85 and I
95 in 1985 I received a flyer from a
rabbi Shimon of Chicago and he had a
picture himself and then the the
headline the title was I am NOT reformed
I am NOT conservative I am NOT Orthodox
I am a Jew and then in smaller words
this is at the philosophy of Habad
movement and I saw this flyer and I came
to Murray County north of San Francisco
you know the hot cup cab but the hot tub
capital of smoking marijuana and dope
and sitting in a hot tub of the world in
1980 was depicted in the movie in the
70s if you recall and that's behind out
for the 23 year old constant and I saw
this wire so I said to myself I'm going
to make 5,000 copies of this flyer and
I'm going to strip you to the mainland
out to the 1,900 people that I had in
the federation's list and this way they
all know car buyers in town and what the
real message of the bhavish is and I'm
here to work with the reform revenue
rabbi and congregation and conservative
we had one reform one conservative one
reconstructionists and now one Orthodox
/ Chabad no Yungas Road anyway I picked
it up fly I remember five thousand
fliers and put in my picture instead of
rabbi Simon's picture who did I work for
the reg'lar so I sent it to the river to
just let him know what I'm doing
a few hours later the secretary calls in
me and he says you sent in a flyer to
the river I said yes he says well the
river made a comment on your flyer I
said I don't believe it
but I never you knows but I'm the new
kid on the block you know I just got
myself I was married to a half a year
before my wife and I after four years
and a four
of marriage we go out to California to
Marin County to start our life and then
I do I do this at the river wrote to me
to three lines the basic message was
don't really in old arguments and I said
to myself what old arguments so I asked
three people
I asked manis Friedman rabbi groaner
all of a sudden and rebuked on my my
spear
I asked all three if they can interpret
this answer to me why because I didn't
have like Fox and the slob then in Marin
County we were the only few of the VEX
people there so what old arguments are
is the Rebbe referring to if he's
referring to the old arguments of must
knock them I can see them from 200 years
ago that wasn't the tariff I was in at
the time I didn't understand it but now
the last ten years writing about Chabad
and other groups specially rich rock
groups and rabbis and achievers I
understand the rebels answer to me very
very well how careful I have to be to
not cause more arguments and old
arguments but rather bridge people
together which is really the underlying
message of all these books of mine the
last 10 years so I Makarova for supper
and Lakewood and Hook never baba it's
all to show unity
although attack I tackle tough issues
and controversy because otherwise it's
not it's not authentic so I do deal with
it but I try to present both sides
fairly anyway I took those five thousand
Flyers after I got this answer and I put
him into my little garbage can remember
and I said wow wow I had such a great
idea but my Revis says it's a terrible
idea and the Rev explained more into
letting the answer and he said by the
fact that I'm writing I am NOT Orthodox
I am NOT reformed I'm not conservative
it needs to say that you're not but
there are sweet
visions and that's not true because the
fact that there's a conservative
movement or conservative building and so
to orthodoxson and reform doesn't mean
that the Jew is conservative reformer
orthodox a leaders a ye and there's no
difference so by the fact that I'm
saying I'm not
I'm giving credence and accepting that
there are three divisions so the Rebbe
said that itself is contrary to what I'm
trying to explain in my in my in my
flyer brilliant and correct and I dumped
it out so that's why I say to you that
our never our neighbor was such a ye a
Jew who loved every youth and there was
no difference to him at all and I can
give you hundreds of examples to prove
this from you know I my wife had to say
that of Zalman said of Bronski night and
he was accosted from from Russia from
from Ukraine and I saw that in his life
to when I started my father-in-law's
life to you know the lapavitsas I see
them you know the ones that were
understood Lubavitch kebab properly and
who plugged in and had humility there
was no there was no difference
and I'm not saying only the baggage you
know there are others too but by and
large the message of that ever is this
no judge mentalism no judgmentalism now
that doesn't need to say that in the
name of no judgmentalism you can come in
barefoot and go over to the other than
yours and you soon there is a decorum
and if the shoe requires using stocks
sucks going to the omelet you gotta wear
shoes and socks and if you're barefoot
though you have no socks standing the
back of the short while standing the
side of the shore now mental tight and
and respect respectability is part of a
element of the institution right so of
course let's say the karl guksu that
yellow needs the gob a of you know in
the dye volume and in that right and III
dive in there many times when I was in
bet Shemesh
that year and one of the things that
enamored me that I love this I saw the
Cuckoo's the ponytails and I saw the
Kishida mother's triangles and I saw
this when I saw that and everyone's
dancing and singing it together and on
one hand that is beautiful on the other
hand if the rabbi in the congregation a
certain you know guidelines as far as
who should go to the young mid and how
to dress and how to behave that has to
be respected too so I don't want anyone
to think that you know the Rebbe
embraced every Jew me to say you could
do whatever you want
Chabad is not a place of chaos and
anyone thinks it is a place of chaos
it's not Chabad you should just know
that now and he's screaming and waving
the flags and making yourself crazy this
is not in the kaabah ethos Chabad is
very much plugged into souffl north and
tradition but at the very same time the
personal embracing of another year is is
what the baggage is all about to the
bottom line and the end of the furbling
and for now is that is that we need to
walk away with this this agasshi slow
sentiment because that was the number
one thing and we need to learn the rebus
torques and is my maryam and it's
directed in his letters and there's no
question that you will find answers if
you Club yourself in even today so I'm
not saying it has to be through his
letters I'm not saying you know I'm not
true those who say you have to only do
it through putting a letter in no you
want to go to the oil go to the oil you
want to go to 70 70 you want to Stan's
be in your house and look at the rebus
picture and that's how you get Direction
Karla Cavalli I'm not I'm not gonna tell
you that you're nuts you know everyone
has their way of identifying okay and as
long as within the confines of Jewish
law and tradition and doesn't hurt
anyone else it's acceptable but as the
rabbit told of custard who wrote him in
1950 after the previous never passed
away and he bemoaned the fact he said
that happens might our rep is gone how
am I gonna get you know direction
and their ever said my you if you
connect and you wanted to find guidance
from the rebel he will come through the
window he will jump through the roof and
today I would say he would come through
the facts
this is outdated the email the Twitter
and all the gadgets that we have you
could get your answer and I'm and I am I
took personally because I've seen this
for 26 years in my life and other
people's life if you're connected to the
time and and and and you don't get lost
and you go into Daris and and you're in
tune and you're not looking for your own
interpretation you know sometimes we
write into their ignorance kodesh and we
make our own interpretation to fit to
fit you that that's not being genuine
that's having a selfish motive okay now
y know it it did not cease in fact it
became more problematic for many years
today it's not that way but it was very
much more I would say just the opposite
that with the Freda Karev yeah with
Reverend Cutler in the you know and in
the 40s but overall it was less than the
relationship between them and and and
the baggage of the river
another Pacific rule so for example in
the late seventies eighties you have to
sacrifice II than fighting the Babbage
and and then in the 80s 90s you had
there a big shock upon of its fighting
with Babbage you know you so I would say
no it was it was more intense those more
intense you know you know you know
that's jealousy a whatever this is a
hook this is a whole discussion that's a
that's exactly what I'm writing about
then you're trying to understand but at
the end of the day it's you know there's
my father better than your father and
you know in the rapid didn't look at it
that way but they did that's my humble
opinion they did in other words why do
you decide what you decide should be
we're going to decide who are we we're
all of we're all of the establishment
and by the way the Modern Orthodox
movies Robin salivate six and the young
Israel world Oh the original not the new
young Israel was totally right-winged
but the in black had it had feathers the
old young Israel got a lot of flack from
the community from the same food trucks
rather salivation was the biggest pariah
till today they won't allow his
teachings of Torah into their you see us
could you imagine can you imagine such a
genius of Torah such a Jew rapid
salivating was such a town McLaughlin
and such a special year the grand center
of high and brisker of the people who
they studied day and night and talk
about they won't let the grandsons the
grandsons Torah and teachings in their
receivers I spoke to an author a comic
up in here who puts out these essays
every Shabbos and I asked him and you
know the Bible says a big comic or you
know shots and I said then why don't you
include Riley Sullivan chick stories
because if I do lake wouldn't take my
and my essays and burn them I won't let
them in so he has to hide it or not
putting it and you talked about you know
you talking about
yuck you talking about you know that
and see this is this is something that I
learned from the river
and I learned from them to stay away
from to really stay away from very far
because if you if you if you open up the
pen it's it's a it's a it's an ugly it's
ugly
it really is ugly so don't even give it
any credit no cretins don't pick things
do it and just be focused on the mission
so then you're asking so we'll find out
then why are you writing about these
things because the fact is that this is
in the community so my hope is and I
said I see what Hashem that many people
who commented write to me and tell me
that they hear me doesn't mean a degree
but I want them to hear the other side
than to see there's a balance and and
that the river was not coming as an
outrageous person trying to overrun them
and and bury them and not and not accept
what they say but yoni if you're asking
how it was for the 40 years of his
lifetime was a lot of criticism and a
lot of disagreements and were just now I
think seeing the the calm point where in
Parnevik stuff seeing the alter rebbe is
needed and the rep is needed some of the
Hanafi with all the rabbi's on the dais
i mean who would ever believe it or
summer come the other day you just kiss
Olivia rush alignment Binion a whole man
right there are lipsticks lined up
taking tests and Tanya under getting
paid but whatever how much they getting
paid already but nevertheless during the
time of rubbish often in the 70s and 80s
this would never happen never regardless
of how much money you paid the buggers
to attract students they would never
learn take tests and learn Tanya and
take tests and Tanya but now it happens
so there is a very interesting coming up
together of sorts today in in-between
and Sacramento Barbara like best friends
so
it's a different world just but but to
say that the ethos has changed not
entirely we're still in the process you
know to say that a Sackler is going to
come say to himself the anti-zionist
zealotry is not acceptable and my red
being and those people were wrong you
know they're coming to it a lot of a lot
of them I'm an income by those that try
out leave you know sacra in orthodoxy
even I heard you know from others we
can't continue teaching this in our
schools I heard this in the name of a
great a big Sackler here in the in the
Catskills whatever and he says we cannot
teach rabbit rabbit idle bombs initial
you know zealotry because the young kids
don't go for it that's amazing you know
so so things that things are changing
things are changing slowly and from in
that way we're living at a very good
time and a great opportunities of people
kept getting together I would say that
much better than during the rivers
lifetime no question about it anyone
else had a question or comment I didn't
say any stories really the rebus so I'm
gonna send you the 25 minutes I bring
and I did for online and there you'll
hear three stories new stories and
lessons and enjoy that share it with
your family today's a day also to speak
to your own family your wife your
children grandchildren and friends about
you know the some of the the river this
is it this is an importance not just
another Jewish figure that this is a you
know so and to give sadaqa to a to am i
said that's associated with it with
Labov each and Chabad to write a big
inefficient end it to the oil to ask
lemon to read for you there and to learn
extra for citizen and a niggler a little
bit you know you're wrong here two lines
here I mean they're to enter light a
candle and to learn some new tires for
the Rebbe is name
his name do whatever you can make the
day so that tomorrow you'll say wow I
really you know did something concrete
oil for the rebels the Sherman may have
sent out to help that the machine should
come bottom line you know and everyone
that's passed on including the rabbit
should rise and we should all go
together and all the differences should
disappear and and we should just love
each other and really care for each
other and and and without agendas you
know pure good old I versus royal loving
each other because we're Yeadon and in
that way we chose to love humanity
people are good you know and whites and
blacks and Hispanics and Porto Ricans
and and you know riots and not riots and
the director by the way you know you see
maybe the ding-ding kiss was a black
mayor of Africa the mayor that we had
here in New York and he came to the
revenue spoke them the river didn't even
engage in any of that type you know what
color are you it's a super color you but
unfortunately we have this negativity
that's out there and needs to be
abolished you know and it's hard
sometimes you know I could told you I
told you know when I was nine years old
my sister and I were mugged we lived in
crying in East Flatbush which is near
Crown Heights it was the end of the 60s
69 it was a very tense time in there and
and we were young children walking and
we were mugged by an african-american he
had a big stick and thank God he didn't
do anything to us but the damage that it
did to me you know was was took years to
and still if I'm walking the street then
I see an african-american behind me I
get scared you know I you know I have
some fear in me it's you know it's
something it's trauma that you have from
trying to so I understand that it's
difficult to overcome and not put the
blame you know it's there's a reason why
I feel this way because I was mugged at
nine years old by an African American
you know but it doesn't it doesn't equal
having hatred and and and things have
changed and and today you know the
african-american community is it's much
more you know civil and and and and
nonviolent whatever whatever is it you
know but again this is not my department
or our department our department is
serving us and helping another ye'd
giving sadaqa doing you know learning
and the importance of learning I
emphasize that ever was leader Babbage
should ever that showed that learning is
not just Hasidic in Kabbalah but
Gomorrah and how luffa was by him the
ultimate so if anyone says to you the
baggage is not into learning it's a
fallacy and a lie because look at the
labovitz addendum how many swearing to
have that are mostly not a Hasidic sits
mostly in Halawa and Gomorrah and life's
lessons so we need to learn more and
everyone here should make a flutter to
resolution to learn something that the
Rebbe is tolerated this is the rebus
father's Torah and the previous Rebbe is
my bond that we learned together but
some but you know the registered I'm
talking to myself because you know
sometimes it's more interesting to learn
to make the Rebbe latex torah or the
previous Aretas my mother you look at
the rebels you look at the rep is my
Morin is so hard and in a way that's so
not practical you know it's like more
esoteric and more you know this level
and that level it's it's a very
difficult to learning and but there's a
way to learn that to to make it more
practical and I wrote a book called
demystifying the my morrero two books
years ago the mystical trying the
mystical and demystifying the minor and
I took what you know were fashion a lot
of my ideas that I did in my young
years have been taken by by other the
private organizations Chen and others in
trying I was the first one to interview
the personalities in my book
conversations were with the Rebbe I
interviewed hime Potok Shoshana cardi
you took some here a brand
torski and spent in another ten the
personalities okay that's exactly what
the what the what Jim has been doing the
last 20 years and colic of what and I've
worked with them together and I gave him
my material so going back to to to to
the minor before the Hasidic heritage
series I put out a book about 20 years
ago called feed mr. find a minor where I
took a minor for each young t'v and made
it user-friendly and showed in addition
to what it says in the minor the
practicality of the minor and I gave it
you know head titles and and and and and
and synopsis and and broke it up so we
could take a my murder evidence on one
hand offhand you know looks very
mystical esoteric and complicated and
when you learn it well you can extract
from it the practical aspect in your
life and so we need to do on a day like
this it's a day of reflection to to make
our quota to start learning something of
the rebus program or if we're learning
to ready a little more of his teachings
on a daily basis on a weekly basis you
know it should be more of our weekly
experience guys have a great day have a
great day Shalom and maybe the sum of
our ever having alia the high in the
higher the high engages in the high
engages in the high in unison the high
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