Justification is Form of Arrogance

hey davis today is not just a day when we celebrate um the chabad victory in court over the inheritance who did the inheritance the previous foreign belong to which is one way of looking at it and some have an issue with it not in other communities but if you look at the words you know the famous song that they sang and sing on this day is uh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so notza comes from a midrash it's a madrish which talks about um the marching out with the lulav in the hand and they say we won and the represented this madrid in conjunction with this day so what does the word didan mean doesn't literally mean we won the don means our our victory who is the hour referring to the hour is referring to the sfarim the books that were in captivity that were judged upon and held in captivity for over a year and the issue was about their validity they won the title one so this festival of the damn not is you could say the rebels it's our rabbit rebels day the the previous rabbi has you based thomas when his life was spared that's thomas is the previous rabbis celebratory day and the altera we just went we had utes kislev and this rabbit this last rabbit was this hey tavis because the issue was the validity of him and khabad as a continuation of sixth generations successive generations of that was the issue and i documented this at length in my first book called chabad portraits number one i wrote a very extensive article on based on uh the writings of barry gorari who was a grandson of the previous rabbit and he is the one who took the books with the permission of his mother hannah garrary who was a daughter of the previous rabbit and she gave him permission to take some books from the library and to sell them because he needed funds at the time and the if you read his uh manifesto and i know some of you might ask me for it and i will not give it to you because i haven't given it to anyone it is private and i promise the person who gave it to me i will not disclose it so the most you can get is reading it in my in my book and maybe you'll find it on your own and go for it you know but anyway in his manifesto which he was going to print and this i'm telling you a secret from under the covers he was going to print it and chabad cut a deal with him and he and they paid him and he did not print it but he was going to print his manifesto and it wasn't and by the way it's nothing terrible terrible it's nothing terrible you know but you know but the the babbage is you know the respect of the the the hassidis didn't want that printed and again i i i my humble opinion is is nothing outrageous there but it's still not you know what what people want other people to know about so so barry guerrari he um he basically this is how he sums up this this issue he says that khasidas khabad ended with his grandfather and the the bavitch of today and he and he has the following co coin he coins the following phrase in his manifesto there's versus old lubavitch new chabad versus old chabad old chabad is his grandfather and before and the older hasidim of the rashaba and his grandfather nu khabar is the rebbe and everything further and he basically you know argues that that's not real so i took those i took six pages of his writing out of like 250 to 200 pages and i dissected it and showed um many holes in many of his arguments but that's that's another discussion so today hey davis when the court charles sifton charles sifted the italian or our irishman he spent over a year studying this case and he wrote an opinion and he and he said later when they interviewed him that it was one of his most phenomenal cases that he's ever had in his lifetime and he was a prominent judge and he understood what the difference of opinion was and he made a decision that the library of chabad does not belong to any one particular person including family it is an institution and the institution is alive and so he he disagreed completely with guerrari and his lawyer's argument that the institution is over because he said the facts are on the ground there is a building called 770. there are all over there are institutions worldwide so what do you mean it's over in your little mind sitting in mount clare new jersey uh you want to fantasize that it's over but it ain't over it's not even not it not it only is it not over it's only grown so that was one rejection in his of the opinion of gerrari's opinion and number two he said that we see from a letter that the previous that the previous rebber wrote to dr alexander marks who was the chief librarian of jts in 1945 and he writes there asking dr marx to send books to his library he clearly says the library is the library of the chabad community and guerrari and his lawyers argued that he said that but he didn't mean it and the rebel went like ballistic went about that in rejecting how could someone say that what my father-in-law wrote is a lie that he didn't really mean it he just said it to get the books from marx and the judge oh during hollywood circus 1984 or 85 forget now 85 i think um matt lewin of uh the washington area potomac you know the the the lawyer the you know the orthodox lawyer that fights for jewish causes and jerry shostak of uh pennsylvania philadelphia and maybe someone else they came to the rebber to to ask the river what his opinion is how should they approach the case i mean they were going to make their own decision because it's law but they didn't consult with the rabbi and the rabbit said pointed to this letter that even the we the chabad world was unaware of and even those few maybe that were aware of it didn't pay any attention and the rebbe pointed out this one letter and he said use this letter as your main argument and they fought they listened and which is also miraculous in a way before lawyers you know they weren't libba just see them okay they have to present an argument in court and and they presented they accepted the rebels argument with this document and the judge honed in on this letter in his decision and he said from this letter we see that it belongs to the community so the rep this you know this was locked this shows the rebels sharp intellect you know not talking about being a rebel not sadiq he possibly understood like a like like a lawyer and better than the lawyers this letter will win the case of any letter if in in the civil world that we live in the world of civility and law and order so this happened on height davis when the resvarum were actually brought back to seven um i'm sorry davis is when the the the ruling of the judge came out uh in favor of the chabad library so ev then um that year or a year later i think a year later the rebels said on the same day that anyone that wants to write a note and and and he and give it in he'll bring it to the ohil and he won't even read it because many times the rebel read your letter at the old for prayer to hashem my by the ohio it is not going to read it and the prayers will go directly to hashem to be answered that day 1985 tate davis the rebel walked out with the secretaries behind him with 10 big shopping bags of letters that came in for the entire world and they placed them all into the o hell and that was that so that so this is the date so we know that hayao memorial days that are auspicious are not just as the arizona says that not just commemorative as oh it was happened once upon a time rather they repeat themselves each year and if you connect with the energy and you and you get into it then you're sensitized you dive in more you learn more you get more seductive you do more and you and you go into yourself you could feel you can feel some of this kedusha so today is a day when everyone in my humble opinion should write a note of what they need for themselves and their family and send it to the old there's a telephone number that you can find it online you can send it facts and so many you just send it over and and if you want to whatsapp me i'll you know i hope to be at the ohio later and i'll mention it mention that but if it's if it's private don't send it to me you know do it yourself you know i'm saying so i don't that's it's private whatever parnosa health but this is something that he said in 1985 so it's happening today so i'm just sharing with you for the benefit of everyone here so it's a great day and uh this is the day that comes right after chanukah you know we had chanukah because friday you know many many uh shules and their manoras are lit and by the web i think even at minha time the manure was lit friday afternoon with the eight candles of the night before all day friday is was hanukkah then came shabbos mccakes and we rained the haftarah that we didn't read for 20 years this shabbos the story of melech of his wisdom right because as he asked hashem said what do you want whatever you want shlaim i'll give you he asked for and he got ma and to prove himself that he got the kahma to prove it is this story of the after this shabbos with the with the two women that were fighting and the rebber pointed out like many years ago an interesting point if you look into the af theater it says the two women were prostitutes zionists now you know this is also interesting every time you i read something like this it's like you know we say don't write this and that it's not respectful uh-huh and the trey and the tanakh writes about two prostitutes who came to schleimer that's pretty respectful isn't it and more so that's why answers the prostitutes and and and this is the proof that he's adam that is the most he's the wisest man right one second he'll so so so um the rebbe said years ago at a fabregan what what's what's the why but after all okay it says that but what's what is the why does the tanakh say this why does it want us to know it that hebba said because the ultimate torah wisdom is to transform the darkest situation and in the world we live in the world of prostitution and things like that to take that and to elevate it vis-a-vis the story in tanakh is the greatest accomplishment and here you see another another important how the rabbit takes it's not fantastic he takes something that's negative that's really disgusting right and he turns it around and shows the kedusha boy that oh only this labacher this had this 180 degree turn from the the regular way of learning it and again it doesn't contradict the regular shot but you have to ask yourself what does the tanakh want to say and share with us talking about two who cares about two prostitutes had an argument the baby belongs to her the blame belongs to him she'll say what uh the tanakh wants to tell us to show her slayma's wisdom oh it couldn't find a better story to show shlamus wisdom and that's the answer the answer is it could have but it shows this one because this is the lowest kind and the most disgusting and shleima melech shows his wisdom even there because torah is given to illuminate every situation even the most despicable uh un un proper and respectful situation hila you want to say something i just wanted to say the torah itself uses that term right yeah but the turret doesn't give us a story here it's a story story of tamar yes it gives us a story oh oh oh oh okay okay okay so so there too but this is the tough day of this week anyway so that was shabbos we had shabbos mccase and today comes hey davis so it's like chanukah mccain's hey davis it's it's three wonderful days of light so with that let's learn further in the mimer unless someone has a question or a comment uh on what i said yes yoni let me do do they say like but again you know to to make of it like you must say good job is ridiculous if you have that feeling you say it you don't have that feeling you know there's many things in real life a real chabad you know these semantics are it has to come from yourself so but to answer you yes you will hear a lot of barbecues to say saying good job and that's fine and that's fine but uh you know is it a young thing yeah it's it's if a young means revelation of godliness a certain godliness is energizes the world more if you connect with this day you could say that absolutely okay uh where are we now i think we're on page 26 where we are motion do you have the i think we're on page 241 am i right actually we're we're actually in the kids 239 right okay that's i know that okay so let's go back to 239 to look at the kids here yoni i know you have your wonderful safer halay mater the ian godel the one who studies trader with great eu great uh concentration uh someone who davens and the word over here is osek involvement not just slip service involvement in the service of heart but arrives at length his bone in this bit feeler meditating during meditating on godly ideas and concepts this is of course the model of his abundance of meditation to the point where the idea resonates okay i'm translating which literally means it's placed by him but it the better word for our purposes it resonates between now what does that mean in other words it's some kind of attachment but muslim which means first thought meaning it becomes so much it resonates part of you that this is the way you think it's not like you understand it's not like i'm going to study it and then i might cut i i'll come to an understanding it is who you are it's become davuk it's become cl glued to you but muscular region that's an expression by the way brought in the early philosophers jewish philosophers etc the rambam and others the first haskallah the first idea very sharp words from but he said it if a person comes to believe that he is the one that causes the situation masturbative means he he he hope he he betters himself he says it's about me i've done it i've created it says that this individual is worse because of their than someone who is mentally lacking another point the one who has this conceit thomas go for the word gaiva pogame blemishes be utk the first two letters of the uk that's serious business i don't want to start up with the youth key and the rashaba concludes but having kabbalah soil acceptance and subservience to hashem you is the foundation of serving hashem let's continue mimer test zion the sixteenth mimer paid the color page 241. the more i learned this and i prepared a little bit yesterday more of this i it's it's it stands out if you know the history it stands out how he's like he's talking to the yeshiva world of 1904 slobodkin and tells i mean he's like and but you know he's talking to the ben tyra look you know you won't find so so you won't find this this language in chabad hasidis and writings been torah ben tata is a more of a lit fish classical term again you know if we wouldn't be in this world of hasidim and and litvia and litvish we wouldn't even identify ourselves as ben tara a yahoodi [Music] but it looks to me like there are shabba ready sensed that vladimir created the bentora model slobodka followed through tells follow through you know everyone in their different ways the band tyra right so i don't know if this it just hit me like you know the rashaba is using a term ben torah it's so it's so it's so not the badge it's i'm just telling you i'm telling you facts on the ground and he [Music] that same that same idea of the four when he taught us he would say and what's who are we we are a yid see so it's it's the same idea but a different cretch a different emphasis you know that a jew is not just a medabare a jew is something more significant rebellion uses ben taylor fine i'm i'm not arguing i'm not saying it's bad i'm just saying it's it's a different emphasis that's all that's all i'm saying anyway the other question i just had to ask you is yeah in the guy that is playing in the uk yeah all let me let me ask you to learn on your did you learn the last chapter or you did not i think you did okay i want you after this year or today to revisit and then we'll discuss plenty it's a very good question but the answer but kisser is that guy in particular touches uk which is plenus revelation that's the answer but but take a look earlier let's continue so he says this great ureader this great descent that um that guyva that impacts it makes an impact so that ever returns that ashram returns to his beginning thought right mayan base so the rabbit says this argument that you think that with your torah and your and that you're you you are the big man and all that is foolishness look at this the entire musa the entire concept and idea of gaiva of gaius sorry gaius which is guyver is a wondrous stos is a great stupidity kermeiman as the saying is co gay the prideful are fools okay and it says what are you being big about what are you bragging about if [Music] you graced man with us so it's yours this was given to us from heaven the imp so stop so that's why if you think it's your creation it's a sniffler number two [Music] so you'll argue yes the brain that i have was given to me by hashem but my hus mother my diligence learning and learning and never stopping to learn and the effort right i don't try to waste a moment that is my own doing so i deserve credit i could be sitting on the couch and watching the football game today or playing golf or going for a walk and instead i'm learning so don't i deserve credit if it's because of your diligence and learning says that guess what could be you're an introvert my daughter just sent me a clip from someone whose grandfather was a rabbi here of the young israel he was a great orator i was telling yaakov before about it rabbi shore was his name and his granddaughter who doesn't look too hasivic to put it mildly anyway did a ted talk and she speaks about the virtue of being an introvert the rebel ashabir says and this is also brought in tanya chapter your diligence usually it has to do with people who are introverts and who have what we're in yiddish remember these words zits this means to sit flesh means meat you know you have the the patience to sit and study and you're not interested in running around and going out so what are you bragging with what are you bragging with it's teva it's part of your nature let's go back inside so if they ask mothers live with the yoga leaders it could be he says by the way he says it's not that it always is that way we have seen and we know people who were by nature just the opposite and they forced themselves to create an opposing nature and they sit and they don't and and they study and and they don't run around and for them it's very hard and they break their nature okay so we're not talking about that that you get a lot of credit for but if by nature this is who you are what are you bragging with let's continue inside me that ever says this this is because you have what's called means like uh it means the black goal but it means you're you know you're more on the uh quiet side melancholy side the oppressive side the sit still side all that comes from the borrowers guess what and even if you change your nature and you would rather be running around and having a good time and doing whatever it is and going from subject to subject and you know being all right here with a type a personality if i'm whatever if i'm right and all of a sudden you change your personality so for that shouldn't you get credit classes who gives you the kayak to do that the industry he gives you the kayaks what are you you know tooting your own horn [Music] all this was about the useless usage of the mind now he says let's talk about the surface of the heart be you have a sensation of love for the habit you you you feel this great oval and this vacuums and you just don't want to let go right so shouldn't you get credit for that you were given this it comes from the shuffle why should man the lowest you know low man is good but double shane brag about something that does that's not yours so that's his argument it doesn't belong to you you got a gift if you got a gift what are you bragging be thankful you got a gift [Music] the famous if one studied much later our toxic tablets don't don't feel good that you know that you're you i did it although over there it says this is why you were created the implication of this these words is that what that hashem wants you to kind of feel good about yourself says this is a second reason behind he explains the first reason is not adequate enough for man is a he has free will even though he was given the power to understand and comprehend and to serve as hashem god because nevertheless he can choose not to learn his father not the dublin with intent the second reason is to explain why you should choose your free will yoni and learn in da but not the second reason killer cockney sansa is not coming to take away the first reason and the first reason is i'll talk to the asmr you've got a gift so in other words just two independent thoughts number one you were given a gift by hashem and and that's why there's no reason for you to it makes no sense for you to brag it doesn't it's not your creation god gave it to you and and and the art and the next thing that peter says is but you have free will you have free will there's a picture of says look outside so why did god create you otherwise you wouldn't be here he created you to serve him so use your free will to serve him so that's encouragement killer sartre is encouragement why we should we should opt to serve him commercial separation [Music] hashem not themselves they bind themselves one with the other one israel this is a very famous lawyer that's quoted in habakkuk see this orphan israel jews bind themselves they tie themselves to the torah the orissa and the torah and the torah ties itself to hashem so since you have those two knots what happens then the yid ties itself through the tail to hashem which is like the third knot through the intermediary of taira miss kashroy and nishmasis royal jewish souls are bound lily costa god venus the possibility of 10 10 is the weight that's used over there [Music] that the tens debris of the of the ten commandments correspond negative my mothers to the tense utterances of may there be light [Music] etc etc god made a condition with creation if you kind of use those state russia if the jews will be makai might have great but the implant if they won't be making my turn i'll return the world will tell you what voyager to naught and void [Music] these are the offsprings of the heavens and the earth be bottom when they were created why were they created and who's merit who was who's me and who's merit do they last this was english in the merit of these the same word ayla in the beginning of schmos these are the names of the eden the these are the testimonies and the statutes and the laws so therefore picking up it says killer not so this is why we created them because the primary creation of ma'am the end will be and that everyone will hear so they came here fear god there's some trace of shame and his mitzvahs keep kissing for this is man this is what man needs to do is so when a person does what he was created to do ain't like top of the next page 245 england toyota there's no reason for him to think that he's mister did it and he's great because so too when it comes to his avodah his service of loving hashem and attaching himself cleaving to god aiming the hockey table outside there's no reason to to to be big about it and brag this is why you were created this is the purpose that you should be at you should elevate yourself through the learning of the service of hashem which is but as we said earlier that shows that you didn't make any difference because you don't have any beetle that means you still haven't reached the ultimate purpose of what god wants of you and when you realize that you have to be bitter in your soul you have to be frustrated [Music] because of this you didn't yet come to the purpose of why you created it mama say why am i here the shop is telling us to make a husband and a fish why am i here especially if this leads to not being careful of certain things i feel like what i'm calling even lenient things shall i feel my lust good day loss um based on reality these are kind of insignificant not as important the host gaming yes if god forbid this leads you to not just do personally things that are not proper but it leads to a god a desecration hashem's name [Music] all of this is a result because you're avoided that you did it wasn't behind us it wasn't truthful for if it was truthful also your point of bitly benefit you would have made you would cause bitter within yourself so he marks the table after claude carl you wouldn't consider that you're the big man and all that the horse can't show you but you'd be careful in all details so all of this comes when the spirit of folly convinces you she with your is of tata or yakuza table asthma or consider your avoid and all that that you are the one behind it and you should get the big prize and all that quite a piece of muscle but that's what he says ben taylor that has to you know you know if if i wouldn't if if he would if we wouldn't learn this and read it so many years later over 100 years later you could say write the same thing about what's happening today anyway we'll leave it at that the rest we have to bring about and that's not the time yes hillary you want to say something no i just wanted uh no trevor it's a great day uh barak hashem remember write something you know i'm sure everyone has needs themselves their families and uh for sure everyone should be healthy hashem should hashem should uh bring the health into the world and the removal of this uh terrible thing and that this vaccine should have only positive results and not have negative results i'll tell you a scary uh stat that we have uh by austin schull the head of pulmonology at mahmonitis he's a friend of mine he's shiva he's a little baby rabbi dr yitzhak cooper is very very bright and he probably knows shaas i mean he's a he's a real a real talmud hoffman and and a very top doctor world but he's very unassuming he doesn't talk much you wouldn't know it right so when we have kidneys and shul says the the severe you know gather and sit down and and they in and they start asking especially you know with covid and uh you know schmoozing and and he and he talks he talks so i wasn't there last week but a friend of mine told me that he said that what he read the literature that's out on the vaccine and he said that something that they that people don't know about is that four percent four percent of uh people with getting the vaccine uh according to the statistics that they have and the information will have a paralysis and the paralysis will last for could be from a few hours to a long time the their breathing will be improved so they won't in other words so as far as dying and if that's the concern they won't die the the vaccine will will accomplish that but there are side effects and this side effect that he that he identified and read he said you don't know you don't know if it's going to be you know from those four percent that are getting it they'll get it if it's only a few hours which isn't you know it's not comfortable but or god forbid it can be weeks or months it's it's it's so early in in in in in this whole uh area that it's that it you know so of course if if it's an emergency situation um one needs to you know should take it but uh yeah about a specific uh one of the vaccines or both i think he was probably speaking about the pfizer one but i because because the the second one the modern one came out this week and this conversation was last shabbos or so but i wasn't there so i i wasn't there i can't tell you for sure um is that something i've not heard yet yeah yeah i mean this is cut this is coming from this is coming from it's not it would not be a surprise that there'd be a variety of symptoms to any vaccine right but some people will have reactions to them it's a uh you know it's a it's a significant uh intervention okay i i i know but i'm saying you know when you when you hear some hardcore statistics from a an expert in in in this field of pulmonology you know it's whatever it is what it is you know uh again you know it's uh that's big that's big yeah yeah so i'm i'm sharing what you know what what i heard and then and it could be a week or two or three later there'll be a change maybe another vaccine the baderno one or another one coming out of earth's role or someone else won't have those results but he said based on what he read about the literature so far i mean um you know yes moshe i just want to share with everybody um last night on torahanytime.com on shabbos on shabbos i heard you're like over an hour long i listened to it last night i'll forward it to everybody he speaks about the vaccine it's all about it was an excellent share he says to take it but he goes through a lot a tremendous number of sugars in shasta and polish him related to background to how he made the decisions he speaks all about exactly how the rabbit used to say to consult with experts so he did he said he consulted with expert experts in the fields in science and medicine here in ireland israel and arts i'm just i'm sharing it because i think that it is offen if everybody it's long sheer but it's well worth listening to because the background that he gives an overall perspective how to look at the situation is it's fantastic okay so pl pl please share it with us thank you very much so what he he's saying that every one second he's saying everyone should should take it to katrina he said he said for sure to consult your doctor um like for example he mentioned that he brought up the issue of the people who are anaphylactic um could have a potentially negative reaction so you brought that up but just so happens my wife is anaphylactic she has some reactions certain things so he spoke about that but he said basically he it because in a nutshell yes he said to take it said to consult your doctor but he said he said to take it yeah okay thank you yo yo yoni yeah so i supposed to have the artifactor dr factor last yesterday in uh at a kiddish he's one of the biggest doctors here in beijing he said everybody was asking the question he said if someone's at risk or older after 65 or older they should take it he's if you're not at risk absolutely not because if you want to have kids it's definitely going to be a big problem yeah no no no no nursing moms no pregnant women no women who can still bear children no men that can still have children he says absolutely not only two people are at risk now moshe moshe did rabbi weiss address those things he didn't address them he didn't address them as specifically as yoni just said interestingly enough yoni i saw uh yesterday morning he was we were at a kiddush probably before he saw you yeah i asked him point blank the exact same question in front of everybody he said more or less what you said but um it's interesting that rabbi my wife did not address everything that you just mentioned like as specifically you know but he did say obviously i'll just say repeat again to consult their doctor right uh you know if you mentioned the rebound this on this approach the rebel would in my humble opinion would side with a doctor over the rabbi because because because because again if the rabbi could substantiate that he got the same information so this is the thing again this is why he he said rabbi why say he said i'm not a doctor i'm not a scientist he said but he consults with experts and he said what do you do in case we have you have a difference of opinion amongst amongst the experts okay so you go like the robin the rebels said that's why the rebel would say three doctors choose three doctors and follow their opinion with these two that disagree if so he said he said he said you have to go with the person who is the biggest yeah okay i i you know that would have i would have to take a careful uh read of if the rapper would would say go with the majority opinion or with the the biggest that's an interesting question do you follow the majority opinion or do you follow the minority opinion given that he is an expert interesting kevin have a great day good conversation only good health side