Klolei HaChinuch Education Principles Rebbe Raayatz #15

you read it you read it as where were they raised but it looks to me like in this at least the english translation it's not where they were raised but where are they living now like where did they actually where do they live just just it's uh i don't know how much of a difference it is but i think i think it is it it's it's subtle but it's uh i think it's somewhat significant okay i mean you're right uh but somehow i i concluded when i learned years ago that it implies also where you come from but you're technically right according to the language right now so let's let's keep that in mind okay thank you for pointing it out moisture's saying that it seems he's saying that it seems to the reading right now is where is he living now not where he was raised if he's living now in a big city although he was raised in in in a small city um that should not make a difference let's see if that's true but the the language does imply as moisha says let's see don't think that where you live is only superficial and and not important and shouldn't make a difference in the um education kim making my moisture off because the place where one settles if it's in a small city it's a main and primary fundamental issue in a person's lifestyle and behavior because the place where you live is ma it influences it makes an impact not only does it impact all kind of wings of life or branches of life being a lot more whether it be yourself but regarding the the development of spirit in spot host the development of your talents and it also impacts the revelation of your soul powers and its behaviors in other words it impacts all of you o vain and it will say impact your family life and their behavior so there ever basically says in this paragraph don't think for a moment that where you live is is is is not much fear it's my spirit both on you and on your family that's what he says in this paragraph next paragraph i'm sorry yaakov yes i recall an expression from the gemara the place of a person is the person himself thank you right right i thank you that's uh do you remember which gemara where's the gemara okay great i'm just curious putting this in a kind of a historical perspective i think of the rabbi as having as having uh you know lived in a number of places and really i think of him as kind of uh a during an era an he was addressing people who mainly lived in the cities and i'm just curious be you know at one point my impression of the whole uh european jewish experience and certainly the pacific one is that in the latter part of the 19th century there was a great migration to cities and the kind of traditional uh rural life became untenable for men for in many places um is it was the first to kind of deal with that or were the earlier reviews that that uh had sort of more urban communities in chabad uh for 102 years the babic was in a little village called lubavitch uh which was so small and so and so backwards 102 years from 1813 i think to 1915 right and then because of the oncoming the war the rashab left to rustav which was a bigger city then okay and then that ever and then that ever moved over the previous river after his father passed out in 1920 he moved over in 23 or 24 so he moved over to leningrad to say petersburg and that was considered the big the big city right so so that's all the 20th century that's all those migrations are in the 20th century yeah for for for habakkuk for the barbecue yes and and i would say uh it was this way i would say you're right you know it was this way for most hasidic uh let's say breast lift rab nachman only lived in uman uh you know maybe six to ten months and then he passed away right he lived but you know he lived i think in teplic he lived in in measure bush he lived in measure bush now i i don't know was measure bush because at that time a much bigger city than oman i don't know you know and you're talking about 18 so um i i truly don't know the demographics of the cities but by and large there was a philosophy by jewish leaders hasidic and literature leaders and and all to live in a small community where you could do what you need to as a jew and not be bothered by the non-jews and the government and the place where there's you know agriculture and opportunities for for work that was the general i idea across the board because of all the terrorist issues that we had the pogroms and everything else um and and you know warsaw let's say poland was a major city of course but i think you're right in that um it didn't really take off as far as uh uh you know if hasidim and others uh until into the 1900s again i'm not an expert in this field but uh that that's the way it see it it seems um you know for example rabbit salavatrix uh father he was a a a rov in is near minsk and it's no big city it's a little city town or village you know and then in 1913 19 he was there 1913 to 19 19 or 1920 when his father abhayam of celebration passed away now um where did they move to there so that raphael lived in at foots i visited trotsky in 2019. about twenty twenty five minutes outside of of warsaw right and if you compare at first to warsaw it's a much smaller city uh better air and uh for tuberculosis they had many um institutions and homes and um it was considered a curing place of good a better air for to berkeley's patients and that's why the previous rabbit one of the reasons he moved there and others so uh salvation crimes was there as well and when he passed away whether they bury him where i visited him in the large cemetery in warsaw in varsity and then his son ramosa became uh the like uh russia shiva so of the muni of mizrahi yeshiva uh institution in warsaw which and you know what i'm saying so he comes from this little you know with donkeys and he goes over into warsaw and salvation joshua salvation talks a little bit about it in his different you know times when he mentioned it that how he you know he got to see you know in in in in hoslavis there were many la bachelors see them and his own malama he always spoke about was uh barak yakov who was uh reesberg i think was a lebovacher and he always spoke about him how he impacted him he was 9 10 years old and he he made an impression on him that stayed the rest of his life and so really that was his you know that was his frame framework of hasidim when he came to warsaw with his father in 1920 he starts talking about gere and about the moderates because those were you know alexander that there was the polish jewelry and class citizen was there and and he told over beautiful things how that impacted him so so you know even he you know went also from a transition from a little a little village into a big so so that that that's just a little uh history uh as far as the uh the communities um yeah well hillel cycling too my i think of him as sort of a a probably a fairly typical that he can't he was born in you know a small town in the area of of lubavitch but uh but then but he he made his mark and he lived most of his life in warsaw that's right that's where he became very famous you know in many areas yeah right okay so that definitely definitely the idea of of where you live uh is very important to one's character and to all those that are around you including family let's see what he says now in the second paragraph in addition to the fact that it's what we call the calverheimer is a fortorio in in technical english but let's it means if this is so and it's and it's you know light and easy how much more so something that's more stringent let's see how he says [Music] if all branches of life in personal life and in children and a family depend on the on the conduct and development of spirit shall i says fever of that environment that you're in i said who they say that you and your family are find themselves mikoshkain mikoskinen is the calvary needless to say in english we translate it as needless to say that all the branches of his life in the there's an impact of the community on on the person and the family first he's saying is where the person moves makes an impact on himself and on his family he says that's an individual how much more so the place you move to that the community makes an impact on you and your family that's the coast game in addition to that so in addition to that here he says another thing that the life in a small city is different it's much rankful than a big city next page dr twersky it's fascinating to me that uh you know the the the uh here he's using the phrase irkitana in its literal sense uh but it's such a significant phrase in the same tanya in its metaphorical sense talking about the body is that you're standing right right rabbi doctor from tuesday told me when i interviewed him with my book conversations with that ever he told me that the rebbe wanted him the rabbit when the he wasn't yahidis and he spoke to the rebel about what what he's doing what it should do and everything and i think after he graduated and and he was ready to settle down the rebels said how about you know staying in new york in brooklyn new york whatever you know because that was the the fastest growing the largest growing uh froome community and people need your help you're talking about in 1960 or so the rabbit told in this okay and he told me that he said to the river i would love to but i would i would be overwhelmed it's just too much for me i gotta i have to go to a quieter place as he told me and he went to pittsburgh he went to pittsburgh but the rep there ever wanted him there never felt that there's so many eden here that need your help and and the truth is the rebel was right why do i say that because you can't imagine how many people in brooklyn he helped and probably i don't have the stats he had more clients here than anywhere else he who lived in pittsburgh and had the rehabilitation center the you know the alcohol the rehabilitation center i forget it's called the gateway rehabilitation center and i i assume most of his clients were non-jews there but people here called them left and right so there ever saw that and whoever said you know but but twisty said to me that you know at that time you know maybe later he whatever but at that time as a new a new uh a new student a new doctor and professional and he's starting his life in a young family he wanted to be be a katana pittsburgh is a beer katana compared to new york it's interesting rabbi dolphin that revered for many for a number of years here to swell his residence was an affront right you mean you mean to say compared to yerushalayim or another place is that yeah yeah yeah i think i think i think later here he left yeah yeah when i i i when i met him he was running look you know every person you know depending where they are in their life they choose they choose a place to live you know this is we're all we're all in that but let's look at the analysis let's turn now to page 65. [Music] with a specific nature niv separate of all animal or living late aquatus was for maya not only different than the heavenly the earthly hosts and the earth heavenly hosts and the gammas man is different than supernova spheros the superior eliminations of god heavenly hosts earthly hosts and even the spiritual eliminations are one directional you have one nature whether they are of the kind notion of the merciful notion or the disciplined notion and cruel that's now he says about swash of heavenly hosts they they are they are balikville they're they're made up of kind of of a body in their own celestial way they're made of refined material this is all the rambam the gum name bowel poil effort but nevertheless they also had their one directional el chocola they have the the there are many several remedies coming from them and he says kamehameha take the sun what's the main objective of the saudis in to illuminate to bring light us but its remedy is litapoise is to heal something as long as you put on your your lotion not to get got to be the um an illness but those colossal place the sun has the the the the quality of healing number two let yes join us and go ahead and defend the vitamin d right which is a very good source against the right thank you thank you i i meant to say that vitamin d thank you number two the height of michael's had to show you what does the sun also do avi it makes vegetation grass grow the vascular pedes it it makes fruits ripes vatures and wheat ripes right so these are the impact this is the impact of the of the tsvo maya of the heavenly host now he goes to the third aspect which is milo heavenly creatures the angels they're divided into ten categories wake up this morning we learned we have ten categories of angels which one is yours commercial cause of arambom as the rambam rides fetus they come and associate with the ten emanations nevertheless they all are one directional noise of allah and here we have the addition above them all which is the human which includes the essential virtue shall have of the upper hosts um who also has in himself the lowest of the low the worst of the worst of the ones below the balcony but nevertheless man is multi-directional so yes the stars from mayam are more refined than we are but guess what they're limited this they have a muzzle on them they only see narrow vision tunnel vision man has both in him that's a good mother too right the upper part of man the lower part of man right he is in the language multi-directional apology um the various activities that god has instilled in man they correspond to his temperament yoni to his spiritual essence next page page that the creations of earth and heaven although there are different creature um types of bodies the goof is that the bodies of of of of creatures of earth our course are are materialistic the goofy brioche and the bodies of the brewery mayam of the heavenly and then there's the thing they're more refined and nevertheless both bo both of their ulos of their activities is because of what is because of goofer so yes one is a goof one is a goof that's more refined one is a goof that's more coarse but nevertheless they both are what they both are goof they both are body so therefore and and what about the third category they mentioned before blasphemous the heavenly emanations the spheres in the pulosu mitsubs they are driven by their soul so we have swashburmayim swaharaz is driven by goof the emanations the spheros are driven by that's a combination of the upper and the lower inner pulse equila his activity has both punches his activity combines the phys the material and the spiritual no one else has that that is the virtue of men so regardless of how holy souls are in our holy angels are and how and how special the stars and the moon and everything else it's all very nice but they don't have in the infinite infinity in them as far as as much as infinity is is applicable to a human being in other words they they don't have the neshama drive in them in the human being which makes a human be able to do el yay and guess what at the same time doesn't speak about it here right here but the altar eben chapter 34 tanya calls the [Music] and from the other side he has frustration and burrito to tears i've told you the story the house of their parents his friend saw him they saw him crying from one eye and laughing from the other eye they thought he was a schizophrenic and he wasn't he was emulating who he is and i saw this with the rebbe i want to end the rabbit he could be so happy and dancing making with his hands and and and saying look at him and joy and a moment later he couldn't he couldn't talk he was choking up because he was talking about russian jews how they're still stuck in russia or how mashiach is not here or whatever else and it's not just that evidence for every one of us and if you look at your life and you think about it you'll see this and that's healthy this is healthy this is not schizophrenic this is healthy living where a person should be able to express both feelings the upper and the lower the kind and the ugly if you don't want to be ugly you're not a human being we all have ugliness we all have demons we have to deal with them we have to work them out but el jane is part of our makeup that's what he says over here next paragraph [Music] matters the act the things that that hashem [Music] he makes an impact he is an influencer [Music] were also impacted influenced beneath his sustenance the food we eat the environment the air we breathe and all of that makes an impact on us the [Music] it doesn't mean angels it means food you need refined foods yoni simple reason not to grab the chunks you eat a lot of chunks you're totally a mess you can barely move and it gives you ulcers and heart and heart ache you want to be a little choked a little a little more another potato eat it slow make a brother you know the point is that my holy document or what we would call today healthy living healthy food makes a big difference it refines that's what he says [Music] you put on a nice suit you feel like a million bucks you put on rags you feel very decrepid bugatti doesn't mean you have to wear the the fanciest of designer i mean some people like i told you that story because he outrest the person who solicited the guy gave him a donation he said if he can outdress me and i'm a ceo of a company and i think i'm a big schwitzer and a mocker and he dresses better than i he's worth his money and he gave him the big check okay but you know we're not talking about that's an exception to a rule bugatti clothing there's something about clothing that make expands a person's let's use it today's word consciousness das numbered by shrimp wow those who dwell in in small towns guess what their choice their days are longer they never use the word cooling which is kaful right double english translates just longer life the point is what does this point to what does this point to my shirt the less stress you have in your life the longer you should live naturally i mean what the hamster does we'll never know but we're talking about it so here we see clearly and we'll conclude with this today how the rabbit the frida kerebe identifies these aspects of where where you live making a difference to who you are so he's telling the masjid he's telling the educator the mechanic he's telling him my friend when you look at your students don't put them all in the same basket because some live here and some live there there i don't think he speaks more about this in the rest of the countries but moshe i'm gonna try to check this with a with a person or two but my my i concluded when i learned this the first time many years ago and again i learned that you know as a student so i wasn't maybe as knowledgeable and careful at the time i didn't pick up i walked away just with this that where you're raised makes a difference and and moshe why wouldn't it follow it makes sense doesn't it hello very much connected rabbit though very much connected to your book that you want to write on bali chuva right like for example i grew up all over the united states i was raised all over the united states in different cities and but when we came here to seoul we came through shalin almost five years and i couldn't i couldn't see myself i felt like a number there i felt like i had nothing to contribute i had nothing to give and so we went to roma chemist in the summer of 2000 it's much smaller than it is now and it was much more pastoral and tranquil than it is now and it's still much more tranquil right the point to be able to do here and help and give i i didn't feel i could do that you shall i am and certainly that's not where i'm and where i was raised raised in the united states in a very very different environment so i don't know i i i would see it the opposite i see very much the the significance is where he is now where's the person now are you saying that where you were raised doesn't make a difference no i'm not saying that at all i'm saying in this particular what what the rabbit rats is writing here i think has to do with where a person is living but there's no question where a person is raised the question extremely significant i just don't see that here in the text okay yeah right right right no i i agree with you it's not in the text i agree with you it's not in the text hillel if someone asked you what's what makes a greater impact on a person where he was raised or where he's living now what would you answer well i think you know over time we tend to get just more uh regulars we get we're just it's who we are gets more form so i mean like you know i live with this because my wife is a country girl and i'm a city kid you know so uh so i know i know this very well she you know uh when when my impulse is to sort of turn up the energy it urges to turn it down it's just a uh yeah when it works well it's you know it's uh it's a really a great of avi you're showing me something avi you want to say something you should unmute yourself unmute yourself avi unmute yourself yes called me and i wanted to show her i couldn't speak with her now because i'm on the phone oh oh oh oh okay i thought you had something to say about this issue you any any thoughts no i i i think i'm with moshe i think that you know you go to a lot of different places and stuff and you can contribute i think that's a lot of the stuff of chabad i think a lot of the reason why you have so many um and and came outside of verity and i actually did speak to ramesh niersen about this it's a there's a tough kid each person has a top kid and not everybody's able to do that energy stroll you know where you go when you have a business you go where the customers are you know so the customers are too swell you have less customers than you do let's say in you know venice beach right a lot more a lot more customers to try to be the kind of people even though a lot of people didn't regard as well the rapper when rabbis young israel rabbis and others you know wanted to make aliyah so i told you once both rabbis hell of a chick who was the kind of the father figure of young israel and why you and all that and the rebel were not uh very supportive i mean they you know that that's the truth but and and i'm putting i'm saying rabbi salovey and the rebels so it's not just the hasidic thing what about that's another discussion but but um when when they presented to the rebbe that they are doing this so the rebels sometimes ask them so where do you plan on living and many most of them said yerushalayim and you know the rabbit told them i i think that you know you should find us another place outside where you can contribute to the community because no one needs you and it's online by the way the son of one of these rabbis it's in one of the gem videos he tells over this and he says my father was very disappointed and and i think he even moved out he moved back to america because he you know initially he was disagreeing with the rabbi and fine no problem you know your life but then it came to yerushalayim and there's you know like you know so so moshe and what you're saying is is 100 right a person has to assure has to you know if if it's also with younger said if a person believes that where they're going to live is where where they have a tough kid a purpose so you want to make a difference in your purpose now of course wherever we end up which we could make a purpose there you know the the this idea oh because i'm jerusalem you know i give an example i remember one of my last trips a few years ago i was your lion i put up flyers and and people came from all over yeah i had a hustle you know it it it's not like walking into bed shemesh where you know everyone it's it's an open everyone's looking it's a different type but so you can make a difference wherever you go but but it's true it's true that um certain communities are more apt for what you have to offer and and this is a very important thing and i talk about this uh you know also to my children and and go go go sometimes a person is is not cut out for a certain place i had a mashpia and i have who's a very hasidic jew and very knowledgeable and everything else and he told me once he can't speak to 10 people i said why not he says i need 80 people to speak to you know and and he's a good guy there's certain people that what brings out the best in them a crowd you got ten people five people you know they just they just don't put them they cannot motivate themselves and a person has to know that it it's one thing to say krishna shall meet and and and and bang the uh shamnu and and say hey what kind of jew am i what kind of person am i a jew is a jew teach him one two three what's the difference that's between you and god but the bottom line is we want you to be an effective teacher and to be an effective influencer and if you cannot get yourself to do that in a certain situation find another situation and it's a balance it's a balance like when do you know to leave a certain place you know my son was working for a b h photo out of manhattan right wonderful they give everyone a job i told them at a certain point you don't have growth here they're great people you're making a bare bone you're making a salary and you know but your family is growing it's time to leave and he left and barack hashem you know he expanded and the same is true i've seen uh rabbis working for other rabbis and they're getting a salary a paycheck no growth you know you're not gonna get a bigger salary here in five or ten years because they don't have the money or that's the system you want more money and you want more opportunity you got you got to go on your own and you don't have a check you got to raise your money and you got to make money come in but you will expand so these issues are all part of what we're learning today anyway have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow shalom bye bye