Israel: War Experts not Politicians will win war - Story of Ribnitzer Rebbe - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're learning Tanya chapter 35 P we're on page 88 we are about seven about eight nine lines down from the top of the page after the period the line begins with the words the balat here said something revolutionary as he does in each chapter of T multiple times and here the Revolutionary statement that stands out is actually in the bottom of meal the previous page where he says even the of aad number one he's a complete sadic make a comma number two he serves hem with awe and love of delights I mean he's really in love with God right from that perspective alone he is not completely nullified submerged in the godhead to Hashem and then it goes on to top of page Rock he is still so we have here a very interesting distinction between someone who is completely Buttle nullified humbled before subservient before hasem to the point where his entire MIT is God a walking God then there's a second type of a person that he he is an independent being the only thing is he happens to have inserted within himself an awe and love for God of the highest degree and you know do we really know who's who when the answer is first of all it's not our business our business should be just about ourselves but if when it becomes our business let's say someone seeking a sadic wants to identify and asks themselves a question is this person really a sadic i i i in other words the person I mean the whole attitude you know excuse me stinks in other words you're you're such a you're such a refined person that you need the highest level of sadic come on the second level of sadic is not good enough for you but be that as it may be that as it may you know what's the difference between a an expert a maven and not an expert I I'll give you just an example Raa Feinstein the PO in in in America of the last generation what what what was his uniqueness in addition to of course his humility which was for you know for a l go to have such humility was coming definitely from his ancestral background where he came his mother's side came from it's written in the introduction to the eighth volume of igis Moshe if you care to read it it's very interesting and I spoke to his grandson who substantiated that it's true but put that aside you know what the difference was the difference was that when you came to ask him a Shila and you came with very serious questions you know for regular questions you didn't need to go to that mother you could go to any R any Rabbi you know who knew theas of let's say daily life or this or that when it came to came to life and death questions when it came to abortions when it came to invital fertilization real serious shist with G and and kin most Rim here in in in the greater United States and the New York tri-state area for sure they the joke was that when you get me have to you get sm you have to make sure you have R Feinstein's telephone number along with the SM because those shus those heavy heavy questions were Beyond even very knowledgeable rabbis and Rabon you know so when you when when you went TOA or you were told by your R to go this question you need to askha or I will ask that question toosha for you when you when you receive the answer you knew this is the answer no shus now there were some Rabon who disagreed but that that's you know I'm not going to sometimes it was politics I don't want to go into that that's the the the SAR you know had some serious ious disagreements with and there was a they they tell the story that that one of his s you know wanted to really have it out with ra I think it was in' 63 64 when the whole question of of initro fertilization became to became came to the floor you know people didn't have children and they wanted to use this method is it considered you know and then are you allowed to do it it was a very big issue gave a I believe that it was allowed again with certain conditions and the who was a big disagreed and and and he was livid and his felt that way so one of them wanted to you know go go to meet with and really have it out with him so he said you better not go because he will wipe the floor with you in so if you're looking to be embarrassed go the satar's issue besides that he disagreed Hally was also um the satar he his tendency was to to to to use gor enactments fences in other words even if technically you could just justify this it's going to lead to a breach of a serious halic issue and therefore don't do a so you don't get to b or don't do B to get to a you know what I'm saying so that was that was a sh and in my book on Sat laich I wrote about that it seems to me you know from studying you know him and and his and his shus and especially how it relates to Zionism and things like that I believe that a lot of it or most of it was a g it wasn't that he believed that it's forbidden he didn't want you to get to to do the the hardcore transgression and therefore he put He put up this big facade in a big way and loud with a lot of colors you know what I mean with all the schms so this who who wanted to go have it out with ra the told him you better stay away cuz he'll wipe the floor with you Hally you know it's better that we kind of talk about the G as the reason why we shouldn't do it in other words that people don't know the laws and they'll just you know indul not indulge but in in fertilization even if even by not trying other methods you know and therefore use that as a heter and that was so why am I saying that because because the idea of a a maven a maven an expert an expert is you know you that's it you're on Solid Ground so the AL here in Tanya talks about a spiritual expert a spiritual expert is is rare another great sadic that I've been talking about here in the community with a few with one of my one of my friends is the ribet you've heard of the ribet he's buried in man he was a ye a ye from the Ukraine and I I just recently you know heard some stories that are literally out of this world I'm telling you like someone who I know lives two blocks away he owns some buildings and there was some kind of church nearby I think where there was a priest and they got on a whole thing and the guy was going to take him down and the Jewish landowner this fellow did something that you could call him on it I I don't know the exact details but the guy tells the man himself Tells over all the details says it in Yiddish but it's online and he went to the rib who for a why lived here in B park for plenty of years he lived here in B Park and he and he gave him a coin he gave him two things he gave him a coin I think a quarter and I think he like rubbed the quarter have to rehear the the tape and he gave it to him and then and then and then he um gave him his a pair of T I think his T another set that he had and he said go to court on the day of the court case and bring these two things there and hold them with you as you're on the witness stand everyone knew that is a miracle maker so he as he walks out the calls him he says come here come back he says Reb yes he says give me back theill I don't want you to take the T so he says re I I'm going to feel so much better standing there holding your Fillin he says give me back the Fillin now and he thought that that means business and he's not going to go and ask why he thought he he gives him back the F he says you take the coin and you go with the coin and then he says you will come back and we will going to say because you're going to win and you will notify myab you know at after the decision I'm making it very sure there's a lot of details so he goes oh one second and he tells his lawyer a Jewish a Jewish fellow a Jewish man that he has a coin of and he's going to be taking it to the judge to the court case to the and and he's going to hold it and if need be tell everyone what this is the lawyer said if you do that I'm resigning you're out of your mind you're going to embarrass the the Jewish people and you're going to embarrass me and I will not allow that came to day the court case he stands up and he's crutching the quarter in his hand the the the judge was an Italian woman and she was known not as the the most you know who loved so much you know Jews Etc that's what they that that was the word on the street okay and he stands up and he tells the judge oh no so the judge shees she's holding something she says sir what are you holding she says I'm holding a coin that my Rabbi gave to bless me that I should win the case the whole courtroom broke out in laughter Oh my gosh what a nut we have here standing here and it was like oh and there was a witness there was one witness from the church who was going to be the key witness and basically basically say that this Jew landowner did whatever he did the when the lawyer when the Jewish lawyer heard him tell the judge that he has a coin of the RIT of his Rabbi he called him out he stopped the case called him out and he says I'm resigning and and he signed papers and he gave him into to the judge I'm no longer Jud you're on your own oh no problem what should he do what should he do so he calls up he calls up the Gabi to go to please get a br because now it's even worse and the Gabi says the rebit told you to hold the coin stand firm Don't Lose Yourself it looks very bad okay oh and then there was recess and she says we we come back they come back she calls the witness uh please present your case uh what did you see what did you know and and he says your honor I must tell you your honor I myself did not see this I was loyal to my priest and he asked me to say this and I agreed quiet in the courtroom she turns to him to the the the landowner she says can I see that coin uh no she says she asks can I touch that coin he says no way you can't touch this coin but I'll show it to you and he brings it to her to look at the at the coin the Der Reit gave him she said case dismissed and now to the Jew says go go and sign papers to arrest the priest the witness and and whoever else so you know what the Jew said no no no I will not do that without my Rabbi saying that's okay he called up and the gab asked the the says don't you dare do that do not don't sign papers don't put them behind bars just come here and let's say now this isn't 200 years ago with the B with thein with the this is 1050 uh 20 30 30 years ago in Brooklyn you know an expert so I'm I Shar the story because the AL re here talks about two types of you could say two types of sadik one that's completely submerged to Hashem totally butle subservient to God where he becomes the embodiment of then there's someone else in Al's languages who he's not one with God he is himself he happens to refine himself develop himself and have all and fear for Hashem wonderful so so I said these two things both with which is with which is like you know Miracles and reers and all that there's a time and place for sikim you understand it there's a there is a time and place for going to a sadic but remember one second I'm going to let you talk in a second you have to be willing and ready before you ask the sadik to listen to what he says I mean you know the the Jewish landowner got a lawyer but he went all out he believed completely that the re's words are going to work and therefore lawyer quit you want to quit quit don't quit you're only someone that I need you know for technicalities but the is the one who establishes that's a and the same is with you know if if if of an expert a likea gives aak that's the there's nothing oh maybe you know we learned in the right he was from the small Believers you know when he sees things are going good oh I'm God's person when things aren't I'm not or the famous little anecdote you know the little the ladies in SHO and and and she makes a pledge of a lot of money and then walking out she says Ah I didn't really I didn't really mean it she continues walking over rickety bridge and shaking it's about to fall oh is God I'm going to give my pledge you know unfortunately we are sometimes this way okay uh Hill and then MOA okay um your story reminded me of a story of my great great grandfather that I've always had a little bit of a question about so I'd like to tell it and then I ask you for your comments about it okay because the story is that um a man came to to he was the rebi of karna his name was elezar of K the second rebby of karna and uh he had been um summoned to court by the family of a of a Russian officer who uh accused this Jew of having caused the suicide of this uh Russian officer because um he uh the Jew had loan him money had loan the officer money and he hadn't been able to repay it and uh they accused him of sort of driving him to Suicide okay so it sounds like a pretty hard hard case for Judah win in a in a Ukrainian or Russian court so the commander says to him he says look at my face and then close your eyes and uh and he says um he says can you can you see my entire face in your mind's eye and uh um he has him do it several times until he can you can fully visualize the re's face and he says to him when you go to court just keep your mind on my face and it'll go well for you and uh so guys gets to court and he sees the uh he sees the proceedings and he sees the state prosecutor G giving this um FY speech against him he freaks out uh and um uh and gets and forgets all about the rev's face and then uh um then all of a sudden he remembers it and he he struggles really hard uh to to recall the to rec call the re's face uh he blocks everything else out to do that and as soon as he gets the whole image of the re's face the prosecutor starts coughing and every time he starts to speak again uh he starts coughing he and um the the judge orders a recess and and brings him back and his happen several times and then and takes them up to lunch and they have a break for lunch and the prosecutor's fine until he starts to until he starts the the proceedings in the afternoon and the uh and the uh the judge said the case dismissed and send send them home so I love this story and it's always one of my favorites but I was always just curious about the meaning uh of why to visualize my face I have some thoughts about it but I'd be curious about your thoughts about it okay we we we we definitely find both in kazal and also def inic lore um this idea of visual visualizing a sadic AR's face and what's what's the idea that a sadic a re who we believe that their Nish is plugged in with AEM without much static or any stat is representative of God's P God's P God's face and it says in the right your fear will be on the animals of the land when you come in and they'll all run away the Lions and right the like I told you those mountain lions in Colorado part of that was that was part of cen's fear right [Music] uh okay so so in other words the sadic panim is is imbued with hashem's pan and when you when you when you have hasem P it impacts those that it needs to impact both in a way a story like yours or story like mine or other such stories or such ideas there's kadha there so that that is the significance and just just to support what you're saying the rebba told uh there was a a girl teenager 16 17 18 who wrote to the rebba she lived in South Africa and we have the actual kav the Reb's holy handwriting to her question or her issue and she wrote to the rebba that she scared sced she scared about this about that you know the rebba said take a picture of my father-in-law carry it with you and look at it so again the face of aad by the way there is a tradition in kabad some do it some don't but I I don't I shouldn't say it's a tradition I've seen it done where many times they'll put a picture of the Reba under the baby's head when the baby before the the maer before the circumcision and again there like you know again it's not what's the idea the idea is that the Sur ofad the face of sadic is very very powerful Because He Lives the face of Hashem so you're bringing that to the table that's the way I would explain it yeah that was more or less you know the the way I thought thought about it I also thought about it from a psycholog iCal point of view that one one also just an exercise in you know to be able to to concentrate on that but also um a uh from psychological point of view a uh it's like a concentrative or contemplative uh exercise that takes your mind off your fear so that right right right interrupts the pattern of fear because fear mobilizes the body and visualization disrupts that okay way I thought that you know so you're saying that the that psychology uh would support this this Behavior yeah yeah okay Moshe sorry you had to wait a long time so your question or your comment must be great go ahead okay to hear that story from Hill was well worth the wait great story um I just wanted to know just going back a bit I can understand rabstein being an expert in ETC right I want to know go I want just maybe for you to elucidate for us give us a little bit of a feeling of the expertness how would you I understand that the ribnitzer ETC was an expert but my question is in in in in in in what meaning like okay he exper in being a reab but more than that he he was an expert in in fasting in going to the mik twice a day once before ding once before MV or midnight uh he was an expert in aidem he didn't just he didn't just just do Abracadabra this is a man who who worked on himself you saw the way he worked on himself so he made his goof he he Sanctified his body when his body became a a vessel an abode for hashem's presence for hashem's countenance so so you know in that particular case in his style for whatever reason the the BR of Miracles went through him and by the way they say the same thing in a simp way about the belar rebba the belar rebba who lived in Tel Aviv you know after the Holocaust on street and I've been there a few times as I've told you um it was a very short little man he didn't eat and sleep much right so the the Khan you know said to a Belzer here who would drive him to to classes from konit to B Park he says by me he says says it's not a question that he didn't eat and didn't sleep he's a big sad the question is how is he able to eat a little and asleep a little if he was an angel so M when you talk about these people you know you know and they say whatever came out of his mouth was fulfilled you know so again why Hashem shows this sadic and this sadic kind of that their words were accepted by God by Hashem and right away you know it's back it's it's it's it's money in the bank it's it's guaranteed that yet that we don't know that yet but but but your question's a good one I'm answering it that we saw how they lived they worked on thems you could you could see them refining themselves so they became an expert in AEM you hear just like was an expert in they were experts in that's the way I would answer your question yes yes okay I understand one just one clarification what you just said before you called him sadic you referred to as yeah yes I'm just you when you say those words that mean the the ALB is definition of a no no I first of all I I I'm I'm no I'm no Mand you know I I have as little information about this as mostly everyone else but but the classical term sadic used in kazal and in the community you know I understand it it's let let me say this they were experts in Miracle in Miracle making how about that and they were definitely sadik him but if you're going to ask me were they this level of s that level that's that's a whole other discussion and um it's not really relevant to us you what's relevant to us is that they were they were great sikim were they the which is from chapter one in Tanya were they from that's a whole you know who knows but the by the way the arc radiation inad there is a the I don't know if it's in English in one of the first volumes of where he he goes through four to five six different levels based on on and other things ofik you already got three you know um and Etc but for our purposes you know know we're not we're not we're not uh going into those differences right now M am I clear you understand what I'm saying yeah app and and and and let me say one thing one more thing in other words what the AL says here whether the person is a who is a or he's a Who I can't tell you you know I'm sure if you ask a he'll say my re is is the second and if you ask he'll say my re every you know you you would expect and hope that of a certain rebba feel that way about that rebba I think I told you when I was BR once and um was a big group of and um they you know they had some questions and they asked in a respectful way so so you know about the rebon so so I said to them the question is not the issue is not that you should believe that theab is a messiah is the Messiah I I I can perfectly understand why you don't believe my but my question to you is do you believe that your GB is the messiah the place was silent no one answered now of course they would probably say that's not the the um the criteria in G for a rebba being a rebba even if he's not a messiah he's a rebba okay and I and I was arguing no that maybe technically it's not the criteria but if you really really believe in your sadic then along with the Miracles and everything else and the Tish and the and you know know the blessings should be that he's capable of being a mssiah but why does it matter so we just want so we're middle of a class now um so the point being that there are different levels of of sikim and for our purposes and we'll continue tomorrow mem is that the AL says a fantastic thing here and his point and his point is let me just finish what's the Al's point the difference between the that a Jew has its attachment to God versus doing a deed from the Z that he quotes early the he's arguing in chapter 35 based on the Z is the oil for the wick to catch on fire to the light a for the body to catch on light from the soul it needs the ma the one time putting on filling the one mza the one deed and that's even cuz that is God's will that's AEM the the is a very nice thing but the sh has its its own independent kind of yearning desire and any Independence outside of God is already not one with Hashem heav will continue tomorrow have a great day Z bye