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1934 Jewish Culture in Riga - Rabbis Hodakov and Dubin
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I just for a moment before begin
learning inside give you a recap of the
history of the Maya just to put in
perspective I don't know if I told you
this since we began learning these my
mahram 1934 in Latvia and Riga Latvia
Riga Latvia was the the culture the
Jewish culture was pretty much rabbi
Samson with all her ideology Turin there
are ferrets that was the culture here
comes a faceted forever I don't know if
the only one but definitely the most
famous one if there were others there
and I could be there weren't any other
facility that was there and he wins in
it he lands there and very out of style
and you know it's different
he has a small group of custom namely
rabbi tawbah curve that Evers longtime
closest to secretary you know was the
was the Education Minister for the
Jewish school for the government for the
Jewish schools so he had a very
prominent role and her father club was a
real master educator there's a book that
about published not not written by him
but based on many of his ideologies and
it's fascinating you know and the few
times I heard him talk and 770 he was a
real Yakka it's hard to believe it he
was born a Russian bashang kovetz but he
was I think raised in that culture you
know and he was born into I think Tola
bother to family but you know not
passionate for Brenda lapavitsas I see
them I assume anyway somehow he met that
he could have but if you have met him
because he came to lab and he see the
could ever saw in him a future because
he was such a such an excellent educator
so how do you make the yet he's an
educator for deterrent that offense
system of teaching and learning which is
very different than a facility teaching
a learning system so the free to Kadapa
gave autonomy nothing when he gave him
autonomy you know it's not his
department but mean to say he brought
him into the baggage into his work he
cherished and valued everything he did
and he lauded him and he basically said
that he has the right model and he also
educated him through his talks and
considers and probably private talks to
add the Abad ethos and mindset to the
yet to yet mentality and that's a very
interesting combination and really a
very healthy combination but that we'll
have to leave for another time why and
say that when you take a yet here and
you bring casitas into a Jaeger in a way
yes you get the best of both worlds
because the yet is properer clean
organized unkind all of that and at the
very same time with a hasidic warmth as
a as a as a way to express your org or
group your organized style I can
elaborate on that but I don't want to
right now because this takes away more
time so that was Rebecca The Cove then
there was another another individual
rabbi mordechai Dubin and mortified
Reuben was a lab Avenue with a full
beard and a long frock but he dressed
like he was a Parliament Parliament
Minister so he dressed regally if you
take a look as picture could find I
think online you see he was so royal and
he had a tremendous
and the government representing Jewish
causes and he was like tight very tight
with the free the cadaver so the fee the
cadaver was able to work with him in in
in teaching and disseminating toda more
than torrent there are ferrets Torah
ambassadors so again not to exclude the
term their offense because otherwise
your it's not the style sheets at stake
that some people make and if anyone does
this they're wrong
just for the record you should know that
the Frieda Cadabra and our debt that
were very careful not to disrupt and not
to antagonize other Froome institutions
in in the cities that they came to okay
were there disagreements at times yes
there were but that was you know like
like the good like the sock and how
lucky is that when it comes to Talmud
theta and when it comes to learning and
daven Inc
there's no there's no where what's it
called no no like you know how to make
one store next to another store right
that's the Halawa but but that doesn't
apply to learning and Davenant
that's a Halawa so a certain rabbi i
interviewed him once he told me at a
Tyner why did the rebus send Ashley
after Springfield Massachusetts when
there was already an existing Orthodox
rule of school no that and their per sec
to him like we weren't taking away your
your kids you know we make this felt
there's a need there for non-religious
kids from non-orthodox homes were that
were going to public schools and we
cater to them you know that the Bible's
caters to them through the release time
and he told me well he was not a happy
and he walked out not happy but that's
you know
legitimate disagreement on the other
hand in Mexico for example for years
there was no Lubavitch area for years
and the rebel wrote and said why he said
because there is an existing community
and you have to go through them in
Colombia South America till today - Lea
who was tight with the roars with Sammy
roar and George roaring family
and believe me they funded him he could
have done anything and everything I
trust me because he had all the money
that he needed he still doggies at the
Orthodox shul he did not open his own
sure there are ferrets we're not here so
yes sometimes you guys probably have
heard bad you know this and that know
that you have to really know the facts
from the inside not just from what
people say because most of its not true
and then and then understand that the
Red Bear and the and the previous of
that but was very careful so why do I
say this he had defeated cadet becomes
to Riga Riga has an established cool but
it's an obscure an established community
but it's yet hitch and then tighten that
affects that epic armies it is offering
current leaders something different and
because of Rabbi father curve and rabbi
Dubin it was synthesized and it had
worked out very well so that's why I say
in a way they had the best of both
worlds
what is he speaking about in these my
Miran that we're learning about Eva
viola land yes me I am and philosophers
because the culture in Riga was a very
philosophical culture and a very you
know you know scholarship and ideology
was very much part of the Jewish mindset
so that ever tackles these ideas in the
discourses that he said in 1934 dealing
with this topic I mean this is my own
they're putting together what I see
take it or leave it again it's not
written anywhere I don't think it is so
I think that this is a background when
we learned these my murim you have to
put yourself into Riga 1934 and based on
everything I said you'll understand why
he said these my Myron I just want to
point out that when we this is a
hypothesis and you know if you'll say
this to a stronger crack sabar us it'll
punch you in the face and I say you
don't know what you're talking about how
do you know and you could spread the
rabbi says see this it's God's words and
Zev oh well what are you hacking at
rhinock
so I'm saying clearly from the outset
it's just an idea and you know that's it
just an idea based on the historical
context of the time so I just wanted for
the record to make myself clear since it
is on Facebook and later on YouTube for
eternity that I'm not I'm not on your
day of my service I don't know the
thoughts of their ever back in 1934 Lord
do I want to know I'm not in that league
and you know just see this no no no no
no sorry you know you're not your
history doesn't seem to be on par ideal
oh there was only one considers the
place was called Poland that's it with
it's only Poland the revit was in Russia
you know the KGB the cot were after they
wanted to kill it Travel was very
difficult and and he wanted to stay in
Russia basically they said you go out or
we kill you so they let him out so he's
basically kicked out he can go back his
father country
112 years Lubavitch was a hundred I'm
sorry a hundred and two years in the
baggage from the myth Loretta from 1812
will said whatever Tilford till the 1916
from 1814 whatever 102 years the
previous another says we will the
Babbage Scylla Babbage's Russia our base
until America was Russia and and that's
why the fleet ever said one of the
reasons I came to this world to go to
the became the sack addition to the holy
places the holy sites they did the DA
beast I can't both to my ancestors in
Russia he couldn't go to the term
aesthetic and the morass who are buried
in Lubavitch he couldn't go to his own
father at her stuff so he says let me go
to editor Cheryl and again let's not get
into the politics that that's holier
than this not going that direction heavy
you know who of course and she throws
are too slow but that ever gave an
explanation one of the reasons so he's
out of Russia the reason he went to Riga
Latvia initially 28 was because of
because he had this dupe and I think and
who found found them a haven okay for
some reason I don't know but he it was
difficult to get to to Varsha actually
actually if my memory serves me well I
think he wanted to go too far sure but
he couldn't I think of 31 he wanted to
go to Varsha but it didn't work out I
mean this is recorded in our history
Cole told us kebab and the details there
so then he goes back to Leningrad why
cuz that's his place he was able to go
back to Leningrad oh I'm sorry sorry
sorry sorry
no that was a 1924 I got mixed up he
never went back to Leningrad Leningrad
he was st. Petersburg he was in 24 and
25 that's what my wife's grandfather met
there ever at the pearl front brain in
1925 in st. Petersburg and he meant that
his brother whose yard site is today
that abuse or ilaria labels buried its
vast you gimel
today's your site so my my wife said
that of zama celebrant Steve met him in
1925 at the perfe bring him by the free
the Caribbean aver anyway so yoni he
wanted to go but he couldn't go and he
had it people in Riga Latvia who were
supportive of his work then in 1933 or
34th forget when he moves over some time
he moves over to to Poland and the rebus
said years later that it was
uncomfortable for him there ever did
that ever said he called the process by
Asaph a comic by fo his brothers were
jealous of him he meant the other
facility communities why when the Frieda
Kadapa said I my mother see this and
we're learning is my mother in in Poland
we see that he said many more but it
seems like I've read them my Martin you
know more heart cell that we've learned
over the year over the years it spoke a
lot to the Polish receded and he had
many Gary fussy than my locks and if I
see them flocking to him well the
leadership wasn't so happy and it was a
time of Fallout the youth was all over
the place and he had Allah by virtue
never was this you know newcomer and
he's a Russian yes he puts on US public
to cook for him with the community but
nevertheless he's arrested and we're po
lux okay you have to remember that these
things make a difference and when you
get down to it you know and if you don't
honor you Pollock that you rusty okay so
and and he's powerful and his speech and
and his mannerism and and its royalty
some of the Polish tree rivers were they
they were more say this more earthy I'll
give you an example there was that ever
the part of suffered ever had a there
was a big hook there was a casitas in
Poland called party stuff
this putter suffered ed that came to see
the previously never in a fox in the
somewhere night yes yeah I think so
so in 1930 35 36 37 he comes to see that
ever you know how the rebels will come
to each other to greet each other to
give show them during the column I did
something is still done right by
whatever comes in an hour ever as they
came along to accompany his father more
anyway they're sitting at the table so
the putter server episodes to his gather
his gob I bring tea boat they bring some
people so he goes out to his backyard he
had an apple tree in the backyard and it
picks some apples
he puts the apples in his capita sleep
don't ask you know he I guess he comes
in and this warm table he's standing on
the other end of the table where the
Reverend the porter several city and he
roses sleeve out and the apples go
rolling down the table to the leopard in
there and the putter 7fn and he put the
apples the partisan of the rather cuts a
piece of Apple puts in front of the
never he says please make a brother
defeated Canada came up with a big
hitter she said that when we say that I
us is Earth from the day look a Kabbalah
Sriman foolish grader is receiving the
screener then cupboard dick graders
caballes Hoff NASA's earth him then
caballes player screening from Avraham
Avinu so the physical airbase said I
came here to talk tailor to be macabre
the screen I didn't come here for us
necessarily and that's the way he got
out of eating the apples
why because he was repulsed by the apple
picking apples with dirty hands you know
you know I'm not I'm not cause I'm not
saying they were dirty no but you know
the cleanliness I'm showing you the
cleanliness of the three together it was
a different royalty that the Russian the
Russian and you know the bhavish royalty
was a different level different levels
different types that's what I mean by
culture you know the part is but in
Poland the whole idea of Soraya and you
see but you know even today stick your
hand in it together you know I mean now
I hope to pray after everything's back
to normal then some of this will stop
because it's it's really you know
terrible you know you know sticking you
by a kid that sticking the thing into
the herring and the guy cooks in the
fork and you know everyone's eating from
each other and it's it's really excuse
me
disgusting and dangerous but it but in
Poland this this was the culture so the
culture you want to say something he'll
with what with what look in nineteen in
1976 a group of invalidity soldiers
because they were they were you know
survivial Kippur War and some were in
wheelchairs they came to tour New York
and the leader said he thought it'd be a
nice thing to Toro solace come to the
river this is online I've told you about
this and it's worth watching and and the
rebus said he won he said I'm going to
come down I want to give each of you
fell a Malaysian and there ever gave
each of them thrown away now you would
think that
a nice gesture of the right gesture you
know shucks
but this is very unusual that ever spoke
hundreds of times to men and even women
and then say he's not she's not going
down shaking people's hands or to say
then at the far end in I think the
sharpest turn ever explained that
according to the Cibola the word yard is
is 14 like the 14 books of the Rumba and
when ii ii ii ii ii d give a hand to
each other they form a name of a sham
that's you'd lama guilt is mine if i
remember correctly and and it was it was
like you have to read the secrets it's
fascinating that effort took the
handshake and he shows us from its from
their eyes out that it's much more than
a handshake you form a name of a sham
through a handshake so that's what I
know
well you're referring to I don't know
but I'll ask my yet we have a group of
us my Cafe diem I'll ask if would spare
so you're saying there's a discussion of
the poskim whether you sooner you
shouldn't give a handshake social
sanctions to do with the custom of
shaking hands
anyway the trapezoid is
yeah so I asked and if I have something
to relay I'll let you guys know
yeah I think is his name and he lives in
neo Yaakov so when the Revit gave each
of them Shalom Aleichem when he comes to
the nail Jakob uses was like she has it
that the shake his hand he says Italia
the new Yaakov Russian embassy yeah yeah
and that's the what oh you did you did
that's very nice
yeah the yard is you did so anyway
why did we speak about oh because of the
cleanliness and not just I just brought
the story again to not to belittle any
US citizen but there's a different
culture yeah you don't that you know
we're so we have to train ourselves to
look look you know look at these things
to understand behavior this this is this
is you know a fundamental part of my
writing against I try and I to teach
people that look at the cultural and
historical realities of the time to
understand more of what was going on and
that's not a replacement for the kedusha
and the holiness and of course not
nevertheless the free to care before
example he writes to his wife emeritus
role he says Oh thousands of people came
out to hear the Mimer and I said it on
the on the roof of the building so
people can hear me better and see me
better or the porch whatever like you
know you said of mine mahasiddhas its
godliness why are you telling your wife
that you were impressed with
the amount of people like yeah but he
wrote it I didn't write it he wrote it
and he's the same tactic that you're
learning is minor obviously this is
important for us to know this wasn't his
ego it wasn't his ego he said cities
because he said because Hashem wanted
him to deliver this piece of godly
information through the mayor at this
time nevertheless it happened at a
certain time and it happened at a
certain porch by the way which is when
you walk into their million quarter up
on the left that's the ports I've
actually saw the porch or he can't he
stayed at 5:05 Ben Yehuda
number five Ben Yehuda was the at
morskie at the mercy of the hotel and
that's what the previously devastate so
when I met when I met the Eisenbach the
Eisenbach and in the what's of call
section of Nakhla
the birthday round section and I
developed a beautiful relationship with
him he told me stories and one of the
stories he told me is in 1929 my father
i'm tish above tells me come we have to
go to help the this rabbit make a minyan
the free the color by the chair ever
because the secretary came running and
saying that ever has no million and
outside i'm ben yehuda you think they
were only partly they were part the only
party today
even then that every rights he was
crying because he looked outside and he
saw boys and girls eating and drinking
and it's fish above you got to see what
he writes about it it's like your heart
will fall out you know and so his
secretaries too but they run which is
like you know five seven minutes away by
foot he asks for a minyan could you help
this this isin box father hi and ears
already was turned on to about to see
this through through rabid of extreme
saying a big labarbera flustered from
the nut job and he was so yeah haha
ferrets so when he comes into the Thule
sets the Sun let's go he puts on his
Jukka you know the out of brown court
quote that you saw me wear on top of
their regular frock excuse me
and he takes his nine ten year old boy
with him and they he told you this and
you 1929 he remembered exactly and he
said you have to understand to leave but
they around was like the splitting of
the Red Sea the kedusha and Tahara and
the crying for the horn based on meters
in birthday Rhonda dish above was real
and he leaves and mr. time min says that
you know that when we say brainy
Jerusalem when we say did this special
trailer once a year and he leaves it and
he goes to help the Denver so so you
know the director was a person in the
previous adapter who uh so what I'm
saying is that defeated Kadabra wasn't
you know some charlatans who news people
could listen to him and he writes a
letter but nevertheless of where he was
and when he was the time
they came with their servants terpenes
that they brought this are talking to
each other with the karela
they're Japanese service easy roster
they have Japanese sermons and look them
over to Canada he would you know be
there their help and irony and basically
told us he said think his mother in the
house but she maybe he was raised by
this Japanese you know cleaning lady
Noel pretty and I didn't understand this
time there's like quiet like here's a
Hasidic family and a Japanese women
great
it was just what you said it was a five
month loyalty you know the man is huge
palace they moved into a place in um in
Canada Manitoba Manitoba they built a
huge house there and there was no
painful round and those these crazy
stories but now I'm starting to
understand the stories from your third
by the way I want to correct myself the
rabbit had lived in Riga from 1928 or so
233 but he was very familiar with the
culture when he said this mind murder he
already was living in in in Warsaw but
he he came back tareka to save the
casinos so I was I was wrong I realized
he wasn't living at the time there he
had left there in 33 and he moved to
Warsaw but he came back and everything
else I said is correct because it was
very familiar with the culture because
he lived there for the 28 to 33
everyone listen we had a fire engines so
he didn't learn inside what we haven't
we had a dish matter for bringin it's
always good to have of this matter
fibroin
so I think everyone appreciated it and
and if not I apologize because we were
supposed to learn from the text but
we'll learn it's a sham Sunday have a
great shoppers only good health
stay safe and
and we'll see each other soon bye-bye