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Maamar Ma Tovu 1929 #2 The 28th of Sivan is day Rebbe came to USA. Its History and Lesson. Words...
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so uh good day today today is a very
special day in the chabad calendar
eighty years ago on seven
which is today that happened that
rabbitson
uh arrived in america
uh they were they escaped nazis and
maximum
and they finally got a visa to come to
america and there's not a lot of details
in that itself i made a clip this past
friday and sent it out and if you saw it
but um
giving up some of the history but
basically
that ever wasn't that eager to come to
america
and let me explain what i mean initially
initially
he was on the list and his wife were on
the list of people that the predicad
submitted
to the ascanim to
the chabad activists in america
to submit their names
to submit the names of all the people he
wanted to come
to america to be part of a staff and
family
and of course that evander ebbington
were part of those names
but uh the state department rejected it
at that time in 1940 i believe
it they put a stop and they didn't
the war broke out and they they weren't
accepting people
so they had to figure a way how to
overcome this
and the goddess
the general khabar umbrella organization
which is known as
agudas khasi the khabar had a meeting
and at this meeting a gentleman by the
name of
judah gurari yehuda garari
who was a son of a famous husset
riphmoul garari
who was a hostage of the rebel
maharashtra and the rebel ashab
and the gharari family were always very
large supporters and and
and and very close to the rabbi to the
throughout the generations he came to
america
early on i don't know exactly what year
but he came
before the war quite a bit i believe and
he was part of this meeting of yakuda
and he suggested to the
to the to the group that
they write to the state department
and explain to them that the frida
kahraba is a king
he's a a jewish king and king
needs an entourage a king needs his
his deputies sorry
there's the melech who has the melooka
and there's the sarim of the maluha
and they presented this argument and
with hashem's miraculous help
the state department accepted the
argument
and made an exception for them i mean if
you think about it
it's literally unheard of no they
they stop no one can come
and this argument was that this isn't an
individual coming this was the cop
it's not the previous rap as an
individual or this rabbi
or this a nurse
you know that you have the son of a
nurse of the free
kareba that lives in betraymesh did you
know that i met him when i was there
the frida kahnema had a nurse called
manya
many son lives in bed chemist i think in
in uh mishka fire i believe
and here's his name um i i it it
escapes me now i have it on my phone but
i can't access it now maybe never
tomorrow i'll tell you
and he i've seen them in h code-ish i i
unless you know this is four years ago
moshe do you know what i'm talking about
no i i very much would like to know who
you're talking yeah yeah okay
okay i'll i'll i i met with him in fact
he invited me
to go to when he's when he returns you
know to visit america
he used to live in new jersey they have
items of the frida kadaba that the
freedom could have been gifted to his
mother as his nurse
and and he told me he also has strands
of the frida keneber's beard
when the freddie clapper learned
sometimes you know a piece of hair falls
out
and somehow either i don't know how it
got to her but
he told me that he has that they they
have various things anyway
but that's is yes is is he russian
no he's not russian he's an american boy
american
i'd like to know what that is okay
anyway
but that's an aside just uh
so the argument so so so the critics of
of guerrari's argument was that they're
not coming as individuals
that the entire kingship
called is
transferring from europe from russia to
america and since it's such a prominent
uh movement on behalf of judaism
it would be in america's best interest
to have this kingship in america
and they and they accepted this argument
and they granted the granted
visas now you know that only 11 people
came to america out of 20 to 30
uh people that were on the list and
that's another discussion
why the others didn't come and never
most of them perished in the holocaust
but that's what happened
the reverend ebertson miraculously
survived what happened
what happened is they lived in paris
they didn't live in riga
secretaries that the rebel wanted to
free the clever wanted here in america
they lived
lived in riga they were burnt alive you
know in the shul the famous uh
story that they brought they were makada
shame shamayim and the patrol went up in
flames and they all died but that
happened that episode
were in france from 33 to 39 when the
war broke out they ran and they ran to
i think nice and from these to vichy
and from vichy to marseille
so originally of course they wanted to
leave
they didn't know if they'll survive once
they got to marseille
there that was quiet and peaceful
so the rebel at that point he was very
happy
staying in marseille you know
the late zalman schechter always repeats
how he met the rebbe and marseille
and he thought he was a moroccan jew you
know
and and he and and because he didn't say
who he was and
and he and he spoke to them in learning
and he was very impressed
later he found out when it came to
america that this is the previous
episode in law but anyway so the point
being in marseille
it was peaceful that abbott didn't want
to go
there is a letter from rabbit hatcher
fagin so this is a 40 before they
you know burnt the shoe he writes to
rabbi jacobson in america and he says to
him
please write to the rebbe
that the previous rebel needs him to
make his life
easier and then he probably will agree
to come we have us
we have such a letter note in other
words
you who are in america and you are
dealing you're the broker between the
previous rep and the state department
and the rebbe and marseille
if you will write to him that his
father-in-law needs
him then i think he'll come because
otherwise he does he's not a person
that's looking for the
limelight for being a communal activist
that he's a you know person is to
himself he learns he doffens
he studies he's not interested in any of
that and he's not going to come
because now he's found a safe haven mrc
i think 1940 it did 1940-41
the bottom line is that
um they uh
they somehow at some point uh
he i assume robert jacobson did that and
the rebel agreed to come
and they luckily got him a visa
see the rapper had applied for a visa
also himself and he was rejected
like i told you no one was able to get
in but once he got the visas part of the
overall group of lebavich
so then he was able to come then there's
a question
wait a second you can have a visa if you
don't pay for a ticket you can't get on
the boat
he didn't have a ticket
so this is the story there's a chabad
family she must recognize the name
bistritsky there's a schlieffen in the
valley
yes my cousin your cousin
okay yeah so the bastrinsky family
the the mother of the the or in this
case schmuel the grandmother of the
of the sleep that you know over there me
brucewski
so she was close to the previous
rebbender
because label basically the zetas comes
from boyanier
not the babbage but she i think came
from the barbecue season
so anyway they had
tickets and for some reason they
couldn't go at that time
and they gave away or maybe her parents
it might even be her parents they gave
the tickets away
to the rep and the rabbits and that's
how they got on the boat
so the baskets were the ones who gave
their
ship ticket boat tickets to get on the
boat to the red and the robinson
and that's how they were able to come to
america because you can have a visa and
if you don't have a ticket you're not
getting on the boat what
do we know what became of them you know
i
i have to ask i can easily ask one of
the grandsons
um i think they also made it i think so
remember remember what they all did
yeah they all
for some reason oh and i'm sorry one
last thing
they were in lisbon portugal that that
ever took the ship from lisbon portugal
the
strict schemes were also the time in
lisbon portugal for some reason they
couldn't come them they couldn't use the
tickets
so they came later but that's the story
of the hatsola briefly i'm giving it
over briefly there's a book called
out of the inferno written by russell
all time
published it and this entire story is
there
so maybe it's online maybe you have it
i'm sure but farrow has it
out of in the inferno by russell
time but one more thing on this day on
the late rabbi yitzhak groener rabbi
label groener's brother
was this with his p with his father
that night in other words the the leia
the next morning the rebbe arrived in
america
the boat landed landed both arrived
port but the night before groener
was a 16 year old boy or so yeah
and he transferred from high in berlin
yeshiva to the bavitch to the new
yeshiva and that's that itself is a
story
why when how rebbe hutner reacted he
wasn't happy
because groener was such a good student
and here one of his best students is
leaving and going to lubavitch although
robbie hutner
had respect for the frida kareba but you
know he was a prize student leaving his
yeshiva going to another yeshiva
anyway so the growner told me
this is he told me they told others but
i heard it himself so this is
that original he said that
when he walked out uh before they walked
in
to yeshides the rebbe the older khasid
and robert kazanowski rabbi simpson
rabbi jacobson
four or five of the old revenue what
sorry
probably kazanowski was my son did okay
no so you should grow to be like him
anyway so these were all the khasid
and they walked out of the rebels room
and they said
that we were just told that we are to go
greet the rebber's son-in-law they call
them the ramash
that says
we should greet the ramash tomorrow at
the port
because he's a jew who's bucky
he knows the entire
you know xiaomi with all the first him
and all printed swarm
and he didn't say he said all printed
whatever that was or how many were
printed but whatever was printed he
knows it
and therefore he deserves the respect
that you a delegation
should go and greet him and they did so
this was all this was the night before
and today like during the day he arrived
another point it's interesting that when
he and his wife arrived
it took them three days to see his
father and
mother-in-law both of them the frida
keneber
actually you know i i don't i'm not sure
both of them i think only the previous
level
the previous river for some reason
did not i guess want to see them for
three
days now some argue some say because it
was so emotional for him
and his health was frail that it was
like
dangerous i don't know i i don't know
but that's what i heard from
hayward he told me that he said that he
had to
prepare himself because because he was
so emotional
okay yeah so so that's that was the talk
you know but but he never said so
the bottom line is i'm so straight here
three days later that
that the the that the frida kaleb saw
his is another thing i heard from
uh mendel de saldat mendel greenbaum who
was in the korean war all over shalom
the homeless
he told me he wasn't a basement dish
the first week and he sees a new in 770
upstairs the little
that was a shoe also and
he sees a new face a person who looks
very you know handsome and then put
together and
who is this you know you know it was so
it wasn't there was so few people
dabbing in my riff in 1941 in crown
heights
in a little steeple with a little shoe
say went over to the mesh spirit of
small victim of the of 770
and he asked he asked rabby says who is
this he says
oh and he told me that he saw him
holding the gemara
holding the gemara and going like this a
gamora
and he was concentrating so he it
you know see i didn't see what the
gesture meant
no another in other words he was
learning
a gemara he didn't pay attention to
who's on the right and who's on the left
he was holding nakamura somebody and and
and
and this mendel the the student who was
a student in yeshiva at the time
said that it made an impression on him
as a as an american boy you know who
and you know was coming into chabad and
you know whatever
so he asked rabbi levitan who's this and
said that's the rep is
older son-in-law
so he told me that he remembers the
first week where after the
when the rabbit came he remembers that
clearly in the i'm just saying something
that i heard from a husset
that's so worthwhile mentioning so it's
a big day
and the message is i believe that kayak
means potential
right kayak strength and potential
you have to see the potential in a
person
and when you see the potential of a
person
it's going to be gavaltic if you don't
see potential in a person and in
yourself
it's it's a harder ride so re
to me it decide this lesson came to me
this friday when i had to prepare this
clip
i share it with you that kayak means the
potential because we always talk about
this kayakupoyo right
famous machreike is the gemara maybe
do you like the first night of hanukkah
eight candles or one candle
so bishop says how many one
but sharma says eight what's the
difference yaakov
whether you look at a situation because
if you look at it victoria how many up
how many days are there still to come
there's it's you know eight seven six if
you look at it
a bit before
so we talk always about the milo the
virtue of paul
but there's also a virtue in kaya
and and i think since it's even
the virtue of kayak today is that
that that um the potential that the
refrigerator and and and the hasidim
saw in this person is why we're here
you know why were why this guy benefited
so many
so many years later it's because of the
kayak
it was very easy easy to dismiss the
rabbit why
he's an electrical engineer working at
the brooklyn navy
yard which by the way there's a clip
going around for someone who
who worked with him in in 1957 do you
know that the rebel was still
had um no not nineteen he worked earlier
anyway
he told them that he says he was he said
that he was a supervisor
i always thought that the rebel was an
electrical engineer and a draftsman
but this person who says he worked with
him
sorry not he worked with him he says
that he was an electrical engineer too
and he had jacidus in 1957 and the
rabbit kept him for two hours in the
office talking about
engineering and he admittedly told him
that he was
electrical engineer and during the war
and he rebbe said he was very happy to
give
back to america for for
the freedom that they helped everyone
and helped him on the
american shores she was happy happy to
contribute
to the war efforts and what did he do
he would have the blueprints of the
the various electrical
connections on the ships and then the
submarines and all that
and he would go down and with the
blueprints and he would check
and verify if everything that was done
was according to that
so he says that he was a supervisor
that's what he said now maybe he was
also other
other things so he was an electrical
engineer comes to america
and and uh you know
it was very hard making a living and
every day went to work
with his little you know briefcase like
a regular person
with any other with a fanfare and all
that
no who who would see in a person like
that
the potential and then later you know in
1950 when the frida kara passes away and
there's an older son alone who should be
there
and then he's not looking this he's not
looking at all you know
and he doesn't want to even take the
responsibility
and he's nudged by hasidim and by his
wife who says what's going to be with my
father's
you know my father's um
hasidis and the qasidas of the altar and
the babbage 200 years
he finally agrees and the and on and on
and on so this is a very special day
and uh everyone should take a few
minutes later to think about it say
him and make ah because it's a powerful
day to bring bracha vasloha
good health should also and everything
else to everyone
in our lives okay
let's continue now learn the mimer i
know i took some time today but
i stick with in once in a while is a
good thing
we're on page 1 uh 94
uh to recap briefly rebecca's talking he
started with the positive material
how good are your tents yaakov and your
places dwell in israel he asked two
questions
why break up the positive between the
tents which referred to
schulz and bhatti madrassas and
which refers to the screener resting
there seemingly it's one
it's one of the same idea when you sit
and learn with other people especially
and you sit in a basement
your screen is there but yet it's two
separate verses in two separate words
and number two why yaakov in israel
wants to use the word yaakov who wants
the word israel
okay and he said to understand this
he introduces the possible until him
psalm
16. says
hashem has given those that fear him a
test
to test him to show that that he
is eternally true in other words all the
challenges and all the tests and all the
things that we have in our life
is to make us stronger so here that ever
brought
three meanings of the word nace nace
number one he said means
uh trials and tribulations tests
from the word nisaon number two nes
molotin gabdula
from the word the the word meaning
greatness and it brings a
support to that to be exalted and great
and finally nays meaning haflo
meaning a miracle an ace uh but in this
case he uses the word
nifla hafla wonders the deepest type of
miracles
and um the rapper said that they all
come together and he brought
a zayar to mattress that shows that they
all come together
okay then then he continued in the
second chapter
on page 193 that the title says
impact
what's the reason why hashem tests you
right a question that we we ask god why
are you testing me
and the terror gives the answer
lodas to know god
but the previous rabbit based on the
altar rebel and
the torah teachings
to instill the quality of dos in the jew
the purpose of of being tested myself
is not just to know to have information
about god
but to live with hashem to experience
hashem
to concentrate in hashem and we
summarize we summarize all of that
in the word das what does this have
from there the rebel went on to say that
have a godly spark however the godly
spark in a test which we call in hebrew
needs
anisots or plural needs site size needs
suicides
sparks which he
fell in swedish aqualim when the light
of god was overwhelming for the vessels
it broke and scattered all over and it's
called the sri sakhalin
so the sparks are in everything in your
apple that you eat in your car that you
drive in the sidewalk you walk on
everywhere there is a spark of god of
godliness
and the purpose is to reunite the spark
with hakodusburg
so the question is where are the sparks
in a test
a test seems to be so contrary
to hashem so challenging so khasithis
explains
that the sparks the needs side source
in tests in this young ice are so hidden
more hidden than a normal situation so
in other words in a piece of
in an apple you look at the apple
you don't necessarily see god but
the spark is not obscured to the point
where
it feels contrary to god it doesn't it's
an apple
now make a bracha think about where the
apple came from
why you're eating the apple eat it like
a mensch
that's the reunification of the apple
the spark and the apple with hakka barco
but in a test where you're challenged
and you ask yourself maybe this cost of
assurance is not from god
it makes no sense it's contrary
here then the the spark
is the the language that rebbe is in the
second line on
194 mustard the first three words
mustard vanilla
very very concealed very obscured very
hidden
and then he brings
and has known the famous rule that the
the greater the spark is when it
falls it falls further away and it
brings the mushroom obvi
of a wall that when a wall crumbles and
crashes
and falls down the brick on top falls
much further away than the brick on the
bottom when the wall falls is right next
to the wall
that's where we're at now let's now go
yes i'm not understanding which part is
contrary
which part of the of of the of the
messiah
the messiah is the messiah
did this to the is contrary because
hashem tells avram
i want you to be my nation through
yitzhak
and then he tells him to bring him as a
carbon it's an oxymoron it's a contra
it's a contradiction
right the messiah of the al-qaeda
it's not just it's not just an obscurity
it's contrary to what hashem told avrom
earlier
yes or no yakuza
that is to make him great so that's what
it was for
why is that country because if i want to
make you great and i want you to kill
your son
does that does that make sense
okay doesn't make sense if you tell me i
want to make you great
and find a way to make yourself great no
problem
i'm saying but there's something that's
a student it's a contradiction
so on the side on the saiyan but then
cloud
is or let's say the eden i take you out
of it
and then i tell you to go into to march
through the red sea and dress
and i'm going into water i'm gonna drown
what'd you take me out for
mistakes so it's not just by in the
saying the
the the potential risk what it's
contrary because
yes but everything is
right there's a purpose but but the the
the science challenges the the basics of
faith and the basics of
of of why hashem created peop us to be
here
let's continue we're now 194
um one two three four five five lines
from the top in the middle of the page
the name after the period after the word
hakosa
there's a period
words are called avoni
stones bricks nema but safety is cedar
it says in safety
but you take two bricks and they build
what
they build two homes two buttons
what does that mean when you put the two
together
you can put four on top of them you
could
the shame because
just as a home a house
is built from avonlea
and based on how many of them you have
the sedram and their organization how
you organize those
stones kane bricks kane
yeah goedel habias so will be
the the the the large the largest of the
house
the arca in its length rough by in its
width regardle and its height
this is the muscle now comes the names
so also in words actually
based on how many words you have with
cidrone
and and what
the letters is
with by combining them kane year peter
so will be the meaning of that word the
letters the oysters
when combined in a certain way gives you
a certain interpretation
obeys icos and two
letters by noise create
build
and snakes luffy two combinations either
out of base which spells out of father
or basal if reversed base aleph
you get book so what do we see
we see that the combination of icy is
makes different words
three icy ice three letters bonus shisha
butter
kamai for example icos
they have six combinations the adorable
cupboard rabbit repeat that beats known
based on tradition ready maybe
there are three principles the gimmo
mustafi
and three ancillaries three derivatives
the principles haim hey
sadiq
when you are engaged in the letters
of tairan trilogy which is what the
prashant of call and
how he interprets the verse and the
terror and passage
go into the table not just a table which
means a ship
but david meaning let words
and he says in yiddish
learn with vitality
what is highest vitality energy
enthusiasm
what does it denote
it shows that it touches your core
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which is the idea of razza
will which is one of the three
principle uh words of the words of the
letters hates
by by by by experiencing
by having highest in learning and
daviding
you will create another principle of
those three
letters left have literal meaning of
window
which means it'll shine there'll be
it'll be alive it won't be just saying
the word will be ready for half falling
asleep
and when you see when you say the worst
someone looks at you he says wow this
man is alive he means it
he's living with it it's bright it's a
window it's a tsar
finally that ever says when you have
now the russo the will creating the tsa
the vitality of highest it will result
in
the because with this potential
the third principle of the letters hey
sadiq
it will ref it will come transform the
negativity the torah
shall hatsar of the enemy
and of the narrow situation
this is interesting that he's alluding
to something in 1929
a concept besides literally meaning you
want to change
the tsaris you want to change the czar
you want to change the situation you
have to
get into the words of governing and
learning
and it will create vitality and it will
transform
from the torah to light with saya
it will make light it will make a window
and as it says
it's a time of sorrows for jacob for
yaakov
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from the very sorry itself from it
you will be helped literally literally
have it the word um means and
god will help you get out of the tsara
but the way hasidis touches it um
the way to get out of the tsara is from
the torah itself
transforming that sarah to tsayar
to bright to a window to light
yeshua the very sorrow
will bring you salvation
the holocaust look at the growth that
came out now of course
should have been we didn't want it we
don't want to have a holocaust class
we're showing but the fact
is that tsar itself brought the yeshua
the zelenian
this is the idea of the of a window that
sayar
that it illuminates with an abundant of
light
right look at the word sarayam it has
the letters saraya means the afternoon
but it has the letter
sadiq hey reish in it that's why it's
called the afternoon
should take if the the
chemist it's very hot i'll never forget
when i came
in august i stayed with smool on um on
that big street i forget that
the name of it and we went out the first
time
he took with the shoe and we went
somewhere middle of the day and it was
boiling the sun was shining down thank
you for shamish it's the middle of the
day
that's sorry
hashem shows them their allah his love
like the going out of the chemist coming
out of this
sun big buddha in its potency
in its full force when it's most hot so
we take the sarah the problem and
transform it to saya to the abundance of
light have yes yes
the health of the sun i know
believe me that when we walked out
i'll never forget that it was just that
it was like
wow you know his apartment those
beautiful air conditioners that walked
out it was
boiling okay have a great day everyone
and we'll see everyone tomorrow
zeitgeist and shalom bye
yes you want to say something well i
wanted to say that
when you're talking about the chemist
right yeah it does the same thing
happened
when i mentioned the busta said it was a
very hot day and he went out right
and so that is that kind of like uh yes
yes yes and he took that heat and he
transformed it into the mitzvah
have a good day everyone says bye