Hey Teves #2- Books, Seforim: Importance of writing down your life experiences - Don't wait

share with you the winner mentioned to me when he called me about his idea of hablengen say Davis hey tables is associated with swarim books writing the Reba said we should Vice for him we should write for them and learn swad him everyone has a story there's anyone around the table here that doesn't have a story thank you might not think your story is worth anything it's not valuable but it's not true everyone has a story everyone has heard stories I don't mean stories stories everyone has information too many people in my career my work right now of writing and researching I meet constantly people that want their story told but guess what they're too old well they're too sick every Sunday I travel to New Jersey to interview a ROV unfortunately at this point in his life he's a stroke patient oh my God Hashem you know speaks well enough to understand him and he documented his life very well but when I pull out a and he had a tremendous amount of answers through that ever had a very important issuesic issues with the pizzas and conversions the very important issues that ever hundreds of answers hundreds but when I you need to you know kind of dig in further to understand the background if I if I want to write about it and he says I don't remember so I have the question that you wrote to the developer in 1965. and I have the neighbor's answer but I don't have the background so I do as best as I can but the point is what am I getting at don't wait till you're too old I I my my father and my uncle donated a safe potato for their parents in benebra years ago actually gimmel Thomas stuff she went down at that time and as we were walking in the streets and you know all the everyone goes on to their porch it's so beautiful you know it's little streets there's like thousands of people that are participating in a new say potato being given to a school they're marching down the streets right and I turned to my father and I said wouldn't that have been nicer if you're if your father my grandfather would have been behind us Under The Canopy under the hookah for the same money that you obviously you know you cost money to Stone it as Avatar and you and your brother or brother Hashem were able to put together those funds no you couldn't do it 10 years earlier how did we wait till people die it's it's it's it's kind of the nature of the of the human but it's if you think about it it's absurd it's not necessary and I look around a table there's some some of the abundance looking you know I know that the parents the grandparents said you know with Robert Simpsons say there was our love in in the Borough Park right at eight seven he passed away I think it's in 77 or 76 you know I didn't have the brains to kind of sit with him and I'm not sure he would agree is very private and secretive that way but nevertheless you know I was a shoe every Shoppers he was a shoe I had my bits my bar mitzvah there in 1974. he was the relevant shul and his uncle at label Simpson was the balcony right right but who had to say who had the the cop this wasn't raised with this message so I'm sharing with you tonight and and I really mean it and I'm not saying this you know to push my button to push your button to to to to to share your stories to share your life to write it down today there's no excuse computers and whatsapps and every kind of Gadget you can be anywhere that's what I do when I hear Shabbos a story or I hear Shabbos an interesting Insight monster Shabbos after Shabbos right away go to either my phone and I jot it down on my computer and it's saved and it could be 10 15 years I won't look at it but I remembered something that I put in a word to try to search for it and comes back and I might use it for something I'm writing and while Hashem you know I heard a lot from people I should have heard a lot more but the point I'm getting at is to to it's hey Tavis and one of the things that ever spoke about I'm sorry is the importance of of writing and documenting it needs to be done and and it's deep done by all of us you don't have to be a rabbi a RAV every Eid for that matter I have till every every human being I was a I have children of Florida so I was there a few last week a few weeks ago so I come across someone who I met once before is walking with a walker there's a famous shoulder and Boca Raton called BRS Boca Raton Synagogue it's a modern Orthodox synagogue which today is more to the right all kinds of getting that in there you know probably half of the crowd is not modern orthodox or more more of the crowd than most of the crowd but anyway um and this seed is an older Youth and he's walking with a walker I say how are you this was like a year ago I see him again this time I don't know what what made me do it and I said to him you know you told me last time you were a rabbi in Dayton Ohio and I didn't say this to him but you know he was he's a very he's an old person so I said I said to him I'd like to interview you say he said sure what else does he have to do in 90 98 years he walks like a 70 year old straight his wife's 92. and I put it on I have a program called meaningful interviews nothing will come by you know I mean you know the garbage but he I mean he knew rubber laser silver and he has a silver the head of the the abundant who helped bring people the physical and others to America you know that that idea of of getting people to share their information is very very important so that directly may be connected to your email address your birthday but it's hate Davis and that ever spoke about this idea in a very practical way one more point I want to make about hey Tavis and this has to do a little bit of my writing and it's important for everyone to I think to to hear and to think about there's a lot of things in your youth when especially when you grow up in a Yeshiva and you grow up in a community in a school and a community in the hasidis even if it's not this it's a literature group a scholarship group that you just accepted face value you know the rabbi said this the rabbi said this that's the way it is and that's a very good thing on one hand right but at the same time there's a lot more that's not sent and in fact it's more that about it that's not said that is said in in in the type of writing that I do primarily especially when I study people in communities I try to explore what is not said and that makes for a good read when you write about a person you're the best gamblio you're such a Sadiq such a givaldi guy you're unbelievable right it's all true Emma's but you've heard it already you've come on how how many times you have to say that the guy is a great guy with the maze but if I tell you about Gamaliel that when he was 20 years old he had this struggle and when he was 30 he had this struggle and how he overcame the struggle and how he dealt with the struggle I think you would agree and that's a much more meaningful message to show not to show gossip in Russian no but to take an issue and and analyze it I'll give you an example and it's just an example it's not to to stir controversy okay because most of you are not even probably aware of what I'm gonna say the barber chairs no but the others don't know I don't think you know in in the 19 in late 70s there was for various reasons which again too long to go into all the reasons but there was a a rift between uh certain Hasidic group called satra and labavage they would they had a rift a disagreement and and as a student in the Yeshiva everyone here who was a student knows hey will Obama just said them you know the rabbit told us to reach out and at that time there ever started something called tanks tanks to fight assimilation and I wasn't a tanks I'm sure yitzy wasn't a tanks and and it was a very very exciting time in in the babic's life it was really a thrill to go on a tank I remember who were the older bahram I was a younger bucker it was his older brother of this winner and Shalom duchman and and Weingarten and Bieber of these were the older bacharim and we were the little you know and I remember can I get on the tank will there be room will they take the arm it was a whole you know for whatever reason they chose to go through Williamsburg to get to Manhattan I'm flat for shopping you no they went through Williamsburg at the time I didn't at all realize this you know I go on the tank I'm thankful they took me on we're not happy about this you know why do you have to blast music and go through our streets you know that we don't agree with this approach we are insular worth ourselves we don't agree with going on the street and putting on film we don't that's not our our cup of tea and you Dove have to come into the streets of Williamsburg and do it I mean you don't do it there but you go through and you put on the music so at the time when I was a Booker when I was a student I was convinced that they're 100 wrong and we're 100 right you're not convinced of that anymore you don't let me finish but that I'm glad you understand the next part I am convinced we're right but for a different reason okay just checking you don't have to check when you look at a real Advantage you shouldn't have to check it's fine it's okay so if I bring it so anyway we're right for a different reason we're not right for starting picking Williamsburg if that was I I don't know I didn't ask the guys but I think that they don't want them to go through Williamsburg and steer up controversy I'm not sure that's that ever wanted that I'm not convinced I don't think that ever told them go through Williamsburg I doubt it ever said that I think that was the pakram's own you know whatever the kite exactly so what happened to the thing the tank got the stone thrown in it I was on a tank when they threw Stones wow okay I was on it but we had the the the the thing down the cover the thing down so we were protecting what what kind of thing now these are hurts Hertz trucks Hertz rental trucks we called it a tank if they never used the word thanks again anyway no we didn't have RVs we had little you know uh that hurts trucks yeah okay but let's stay to the point let's stay to the point the point I'm making is like this yeah the point I'm making is that as you grow older you look at something in a in a bigger way and you understand both sides so when I write I understand both sides so please I try to understand both sides of course I feel you you know you asked of course I feel that we were right because you don't know on the streets of Brooklyn but but but you can get this as an expression but Darkness and I saved English pair pretty much you don't have to poke out the other person's eyes you know you don't have to poke out the other person's eyes why why so the the mission itself is 100 right the application of the mission the approach of the mission I'm not so sure I'm not so sure so at least I understand one reason believe me there are other reasons which are totally invalid but one reason I understand and to substantiate what I'm saying is I have a I have a tape and it's public probably somebody you must have heard it of a conversation between uh uh Babaji classes and and and you can hear the conversation and he says to little babature he says I'm warning you I'm telling you they were business friends and he says don't come through Williamsburg there's going to be a big fight don't they and the barbecue goes to curse him out you know say who are you to tell us where to go and on and on and on and it led to it led to you know some something that was ugly not good today it's like you know my face distracted them it's a past exactly exactly but I'm just making the point I'm making the point is that to me and to my readers this makes a book and a writing rich not just saying he's the best and everything is great and come on come on so I'm not saying you know if you feel otherwise that's your your but but the the point is that if we want our children youth to grow we have to understand the complications and difficulties that the youth are having and we need to as a considers to involve ourselves and understand where they're coming from it used to be when we were growing up it wasn't this way I told you my father you know this is the way it is you take it or leave it and if you don't like it either you're going to get you know a patch or uh I'm gonna shut you down okay now I'm not saying every house was this way but the European mentality was this way in in many in most homes I would say in different ways in different ways today it's not that way today you try this approach and saying Yiddish my fight their own they laugh at you they say you're an old archaic individual with your white beard and your old-fashioned ideas and enough that ever also saw this in the 1960s in this was at the height of the you know the Vietnam War and then the Sputnik and the whole and the Kennedy's assassination and of course the hippie movement the whole hippie movement so they never said my Mother Russia it's 1964. that spoke about the my love about the advantage of Bali chuva over Atkin I think some of them are printed already in the mulkatu so I heard from Joel and others that that ever tackled the idea of chuva from the highest level of godliness Taylor been to the practical and that happened what was the devil's message then a very simple message the energy of the youth is powerful embrace it don't reject it so he so he tells a Jew who was born in 1895 his name was gonna be thrilled Jacobs and a contemporary of his grandfather's represents he tells him in 1962 Arabic Jacobson says yes to open about the sugar Yeshiva the first about Toshiba in the world was Hadar Tara which the day still exists in Granite it was opened by Urban Jacobson in 1962 in crud Heights before we shall Tyler before is the mayor before the diaspora Yeshiva 1962 and Robert Jacobson was already then 67 years old passed away I think at 77 78 he passed away in 1975 or so right just for the record what happened I heard this one of the label Alta and his grandson it was a um he said like this that before the free the camera passed away in 1950 he called over of a Jacobson and he said whatever he called him his name was his soul Jacobson he said sites to turn with the student it's time to do to work with the students Jacobson he kept and wanted to start working with college students at the same time when the label 1949 at utas and he told him he wants to give him and he told me he wants them to start going to the college campuses to Boston and to Yale and to Brown in Rhode Island and Colombia and Manhattan and then start teaching that was 1949 you trapped and you tested the first the last large fabrenia for the passing of the previous level so at the same time approximately told everybody Jacobson the same thing Jacobus was an older man he has he had so much to do and in 1962 he decided it's time to pay up it's time to pay off whatever asked of me you know and I didn't get around to it so he asked that Evan and everything he said absolutely and that's when they opened the Yeshiva right who came into this Yeshiva who came into this issue come back are you really came into Yeshiva people who were college educated people who were hippies people who you know took LSD all kinds of people came in Robbie Jacobson with his long white beard and his Edition is broken English he's the the Russian and I heard some students how they revered him and how he started to bring you know them into Tighter and they are today's father figures of many families who have grandchildren great-grandchildren from those 60s and 70s in had that why am I saying this because hate Davis when they never spoke about the idea of the swanim it it it's it's much larger than just sudden it goes to the overall issue of as a bacon said of what an rabbit is and that there is a rabbit the argument at the time just briefly I don't want to elaborate on this was that what the what what the free decade rabbit did finished in 1950 and everything else was kind of a new age Lubavitch old labavage was a different kind of a Babbage you didn't run around putting on Film on the streets with people you didn't print pamphlets you didn't do it right that was their argument and then Emma said no it's wrong it's wrong the outer lab of the balotany the founder of is exactly the Chabad of our 11 just different form foreign means we're not active we're not active it's like you know it's the the store has a sign it's open and yet it's from from 150 years ago there's a storm borrow Park called bigelizers it's the largest Jewish bookstore in all prob maybe over the world of short in America Canada America do you think they have a computer they do in the back but in front with for the tournament there's no computer there's a pencil and a piece of paper and a tap 2023 go in there you're in bar Park sometimes you got you have to see this place this is Iconic an idea for another video yeah no really really it's one I wrote about it in one of the books it's amazing so so yeah but on one hand old-fashioned Yiddish guy Judaism is is great on the other hand the young people and today's generation and the Bali Trooper of the 60s what's going on over here but that's exactly it tell you about the Pegasus another thing that we experienced when we were students in the Yeshiva in the 70s and the 80s every year around this time of the year Chabad made a an encounter weekend because the college students don't have University so the shloken would bring college students I think one week boys one week girls and and to Crown Heights and they brought good speakers Rabbi Salman Posner Friedman and others scientists Professor black and green and they would speak to the students I attended a lot of these and I really enjoyed hearing how intellectuals you understand these college students were intellectuals they weren't today's college students who just want you know money and money and again money they want to God they want the Rebellion they wanted a fight they wanted to go against the normal their parents their grandparents why can't we wear a cuckoo uh you know who who says he can't wear a cuckoo and be an all a person foreign anyway here Elliot Lasky a Jew from Muncie tells me the story 1973 January it's freezing outside his parents are survivors he gets into rock and roll and music he becomes part of a band he leaves from kite but he's angry he's angry that the yiddishkite of his parents and his grandparents is archaic is old doesn't give answers I say is this this is the way it is no it's not good enough for me and he says I don't want any part of it and they tell him Elliot you have questions about God about Taylor there's one person that can end they work with babature they were polishing even survivors someone they lived in Brooklyn someone in Crown Heights over there this Rabbi this rabbit this topic they say he can talk to you go to him for some reason he listens I don't know why but he listens he comes to the steps of 770 he Parks himself there it's freezing outside then that becomes 9 30 10 o'clock in the morning when it came to 770. he walks out of his car he starts walking up the steps they're Buckingham at the door that are looking you know as that ever comes in and he stops the river and he says is he doesn't answer okay looks him again he is with anger you're the liberation and the devil shakes his head he doesn't say I'm not laughing together he just shakes his head so he says who is God and he's saying this not the way he's smiling and I'm smiling he says this with a lot of anger where is God all over God is all over so he says I have got new Yiddish he spoke that up in Yiddish I grew up and give this song you're speaking home I am God if God is all over if she got why is there a Jewish god he doesn't say a Christian God and a Muslim God why are all religious fighting with each other and each one says they know what God wants if somebody says something up this is and then he says again who is God and it's like face to face on the bottom steps of seven seventy the Buckingham I don't know if they heard they didn't hear and I know one who actually was there and he shared the story I heard it from Elliot myself I'm telling you what he told me himself and they're looking I think they didn't hear clearly and they're just looking and they see this like like almost like a fight going on anyway so that the Reba says to him he asks the devil who is God so that evidence says to him after he asked this question God is in the hearts God is in the heart s in a Jew's heart in a non-ju's heart God is there and everyone serves god with their heart should bless you and the devil continues walking up the steps to his office this happened in January 1973 today he has grandchildren who are from and he's from and he told me if you think I went to put on film right away I didn't but I stopped to think about what that ever said the words that ever said to him somehow resonated that God is all over God is in the heart that Graham also have a God and goyam also not just also pray to God but we have our system of serving God the hate Davis is a celebration of the rabbit and Chabad siddis as an active ingredient and more than an ingredient in the culture of yiddishkite and the lifestyle of Judaism that's active it's not a past it's present and every one of us is a representative should be and can be a representative of that yiduskite that there ever shares in a circus in my modem and and see them talk about and we need to continue that tradition and that's what we're doing at this no no