Maamar Vata Titzave 1981 #17 - Why is the Rebbe the Nasi, leader of our generation? RC Dalfin

Yeah, go ahead is sir. What is your question or comment >> say >> loud >> that that this moshen this like the Mosha of our generation and then he he names his father-in-law now he said this mime in 1981 his father-in-law passed away 1955 >> 1950 1950 >> 1950 so this is a good 31 years later and then he distributed the mimemer 10 years later 10 years after that. >> Uh 11 11 years later. Yeah. >> How do we define our generation? Because he said this mimemer over there were people who were not even alive at the time of the so general question of when we say the Moshe of our door. What's our door? How do we define the gdarim of the door? >> Okay, it's a very valid good question. I'll I'll answer the question like aid of the Reb and I'll answer the question like of the previous rebi. The Reb the Reb saw himself outwardly. If you ask a person on the street is not a lab. It's not a when the said the the the leader of generation, who did he mean? He meant his father-in-law because as far as he was concerned, he was a what's called a mamal mockim. And he said this many times, I'm step I'm filling his place. I'm basically, you know, the my father-in-law, the previous Reb passed on. So he he needed and wants someone to continue the work. So I stepped in because wanted me to step in and do the work. All I am is just a a um in in the language of baseball, a pinch hitter and a good pinch hitter. So throughout his 42 years of speaking and if you you know from 1950 to 1992 when the Reb spoke about the the leader of the generation in Hebrew do reu he meant his father-in-law that's if you're not a labure a cart carrying labature of the Reb a of the Reb the last you know from 199 1950 to 1992. Is that part clear? Is sir is that clear? Any questions and arguments on that? It goes to to to drill down perhaps is it how do we define our generation? >> Okay. So it's not >> generation because I was alive at the time but there are people who were never alive at that time >> and the the answer right >> generation >> right the answer is it DOESN'T GO ON OUR CLOCK it goes on the reb's clock and then the rebba's clock the previous rebba is the labba and his generation continues whether you agree whether you disagree whether it makes sense That is a constant pattern of 42 years in the Reb's talks. He was consistent. He never changed from that. So did I answer your question? Now in other words, irrelevant. If if people that were alive are not and are now not alive like you're asking, it's irrelevant. It goes by the the Reb was the one who made the statement. No, >> a hundred years could go by if if what you're saying a hundred years could go by and he would still be >> That's right. That is exactly right. Now before the previous Reb's argument would be as far as the way I understand the way I see it that the was the do you you understand? So it's not a 100 years. It's from when my father-in-law became the leader of Kabadavich. He becomes the nu for that time. And that time doesn't finish just because he passed on. So now you're probably going to ask me if so why doesn't the alterba who's the first why doesn't he continue after he passes on? Right? And the answer is be the answer is because the rebba and the rabbim have said that there's six rebas and each have there six reb there was a reb after the alterba the mitlerba and he is the ni so a stronger question there's a stronger question if the reb was saying that the niu my father is my father-in-law and I'm aass of the rebu is the rebay >> right so that is why because of that question and others of the of the current rebba they believe that the rebba that the reb is the real nidenu is the living reb but he says Not. >> HE SAYS HE SAYS NOT BECAUSE OF HUMILITY. I mean that that we find throughout and and throughout the stories but even that they they they humili they they they humbled themselves and they never would say I am the thing and this and there are stories with with and I've told you some but people who are alive today who challenged the reb on this point are you the labavba Elliot Laski 1973 January on the steps of 770. He told me this himself. Besides that, it's on a gem video, but he told me this and he went up to the Reb and he said, "Are you a little Baba Rebba?" The Reb didn't answer it. And then he was very upset. He was a you know a hippie into rock and roll and then he was appearance were Holocaust survivors and he had questions on God and you know and and then then he said AGAIN WITH A STERN FACE WITH more with voice being louder ARE YOU THE LAB looking into the Reb's eyeballs and the Reb you know f you know picked his head up you know and said yes Yes. Now that's the you probably you're asking about inabad in theb's and are one and the same. So that's the answer. That's the answer for you know and and um I I would say that probably most groups don't agree with this. That's all you know the bubba passes away. I mean the whole concept of nidorenu you do not find in any groups as far as I know it is unique to kabad lab and I would say and I've written about this I would say that it's even more unique to the reb although the rashab spoke a little bit about it and there are yachts but the way the rebba took it took it you know to to you know to to the to the market he took it none of the rebas before did it And this is one of the tightness, one of the complaints that especially had on on the reb like you know we coming up with this new concept the princess the nim are finished I mean until we have the bas mikdash we don't have the princes bringing sacrifices all of a sudden you're coming up with a concept of a ni that was a major major issue and I would say maybe was the most the issue that that that touched and made the disag agreement between certain Rabonim and and Labavich was this but the Reb didn't backtrack. This is the way he felt about his father-in-law and this the way he saw the world. So the second point and which I said is that that the Reb is the Nu but he's not going to say that. So the so you're quoting we're going to learn right now the mimemer where it talks about his father-in-law being denied but it does answer your question that irrelevant of people who are alive or have passed on that's not part of the equation is is that clear? That's not part of the equation. In other words, if you're coming at it a generation is this amount of time and some have passed. So how do you you know that's not that's not where they're coming from where the Reb is coming from. He's talking about >> it's not a literal not a literal understanding of generation. >> Correct. That's correct. Okay. Do you have anything to say on this discussion? >> No. No. I I it's it's it's tough to understand but I tried to do it. >> Yeah. Well, look, these are things these and know when you grow up in in in in in a certain culture and you go to the yeshivas and you're indoctrinated and so even later when you you know your your mind expands, you know, cuz I I I've thought about these things for hours and days and weeks and then I've written about it. it it you know I I really understand where you're coming from. I really do. This is not the way you were raised. And when I'm saying it's not the WAY AID was raised, a kidic Jew in Poland was not raised this way or in Hungary. And I said EVEN FURTHER, EVEN A OF 150 YEARS AGO, I don't think was raised this way. But the Reb did raise us this way. And I believe I understand why the world needs this. AND AND WE SEE BESIDES KABAT HOUSES, YOU KNOW, KABAT HOUSES and outreach is is is is Hashem himself. I'M NOT TALKING I'M TALKING ABOUT NOW THE INNER CIRCLE, not the outer circle, you know, us from yeden living in in a from communities. the the nidto reo concept for nonreligious people who become religious and you know or or not religious yet and all of that they don't have a problem with it they don't know about the whole thing but as thiser questioned he does know he's he's in in the inner circle so it's it's it's this inner circle goes back many years and I don't believe that it was really this way 15 100 years ago 150 years ago but the world today needs it the leadership uh the the approach the style that the rebba gave the world and I specifically say that he gave the world not his father-in-law his father-in-law came to America he was a broken person when he was in Poland he had challenges from other Polish rebies and kasid before that he was in Russia he had to deal with Stalinism So the reu of the previous rebba the 30 years that he was reba from 1920 to 1950 was limited outwardly but the reba was a reb here in America free society democratic society openness and the refugees come refugees come and the youth start coming back and he has the soldiers to work with. He sees this as a opportunity of of expansion. It would be a very interesting study to write. Maybe one day I will but cuz I it's a fascinating topic. You should know touched upon. I I'm very passionate about this topic. Yes, sir. very passionate to tr to to to to find within the human logic says you know I hear it but you know kind of I I don't it's hard to to rationalize and and explain logically and and that is something that I believe can be done and you need a lot of support uh and at the end of the day you either believe it you either get it or you don't get it you believe it or you know you like it or you don't like it but I see from my um 60 uh years 60 with a plus with the Reb, I see how this has made Kabad Labavich what it is today. If the Reb would have NOT TAKEN THIS APPROACH WHICH SOME WOULD CALL WOULD be elitism and the Reb was accused of elitism even though he was such a humble person in his walk in his dress in his speech and all that but OUTWARDLY AN ELITISM WHO ARE YOU TO SAY THAT YOUR FATHER-IN-LAW is the the leader of the generation and if you mean yourself you're even even you know like a bigger bulga right so he's accused of elitism he didn't care just like Rabbi Salvich in his world of modern orthodoxy in Yeshua University didn't care and he stood up and he got criticized and be and use a very heavy word now like beheaded you know by the right-wing orthodox kared world the rashivas the literature they basically cut him out you know that if you bring in one of rabbik's uh into a right-wing lit yeshiva they'll they'll THROW IT OUT IF NOT BURN IT. OKAY, today it's a little easier. But the the sentiment that's gone on for 50, 60 years is he left a good to he's modern. Blah blah blah blah blah. He made all these 2,000 yu rabbis who are all modern, you know. Well, the Reb couldn't be accused of of that level of modernity, but he was accused of being, you know, elitist. He doesn't consider anyone else. HE'S THE HIS FATHER-IN-LAW IS THE LEADER OF GENERATION. And you should know that I heard this from the son of a kidic rebark. One morning I was governing in in the and we knew each other and agreed each other and he and he and he lashed out at me about who is the rep to say that the the seven are correspond to the seven that we have during um you know this and and and I saw anger in his eyes and GUESS WHAT WHERE DID IT COME FROM IT CAME FROM HIS FATHER AND I KNEW HIS FATHER. OKAY. And and and his grandfather was a Polish rebby in Poland AND HE WAS TYPED WITH THE PREVIOUS REBI BUT THE PREVIOUS REBI NEVER DIDN'T speak that way. So it was you know you put on the spadic you looked like another kidic rebi you're in Poland you're a subordinate you're not king is g king is Alexander reb isidim you're the l man of the too. SO OKAY WE'LL PUT UP WITH YOU TOO. SO YOU'RE ACCEPTED. COMES HERE BABA GOES WOW OPENS UP EVERYTHING speaks for hours meets millions of people his right like hey where does this kid come from? So the and the saw that this generation needs that it definitely needs it to be proud not only of the yiddishkite but of their kite and also to reach out and to share. So that was a calculated move and a very smart move, a visionary move, an iconic move that that is that still ver reverberates today in in in in all parts of the world. And I say again not just in Kabad House for non-religious people but also for religious people all over. I'm convinced that for example when Yeshiva University on night will have lectures all night and over the last 10 15 20 years many times they have lectures on mashiach I believe that's clearly because of the clearly BUT YOU'LL SAY WHY it's the 13 PRINCIPLES OF FAITH THANK YOU VERY much when salvation WAS ALIVE THERE WERE 13 PRINCIPLES OF FAITH AND WHY YOU DIDN'T HAVE THAT THOSE TYPE OF lectures what changed the rabbis push for Mashiach and Mashiach fever as as you know if you want to use those words made an impact on everyone. I remember once in Los Angeles um uh Yong Israel century city rabbi was a wonderful person right also a long a lecture >> muskin >> yeah yeah yeah muskin >> good very good GUY >> VERY GOOD GUY VERY SPECIAL person love the man GOOD MAN LECTURE AT NIGHT amiach a lit you know he comes from the again a litfuck world not maybe right you know heavy cord Litat but still in a young Israel. It's young Israel. It's not THE PANOVICH, NOT LAKEWOOD. BUT NEVERTHELESS, this is a result of the Reb's you want to use the word fanaticism with Mashiach passion passion with Msiah. It spilled over and it's made a positive impact on many things. If the Reb would have been to tiptoeing is you know about the Midoro and stuff things like that, it wouldn't go anywhere. It wouldn't go anywhere. he would be another one on the map like anyone else. And you know, you know, it sounds a little elitist, you know, but it's not the Reb had to take a stand. If if HE WANTED TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE SAW THE JEWISH world needs, other rebasidic rebas don't they're not concerned about the outside. They're concerned about themselves. So there's tremendous and tremendous help with with the food in hospitals. tremendous tremendous mishid by the by especially the Hungarian people around here is is tremendous and in that in that area they're probably not probably they're bigger than Kabad but it's insular it's insular it's insular you know when you come into a regular sh here in borrow park or Williamsburg and my all these maybe it's inadmish if you look like a a religious orthodox rightwing Jew, they'll give you seduct. They'll give you more. You look like someone who's from THE OUTSIDE. I'VE NOTICED THIS. I'VE I TOOK THE TIME TO OBSERVE THIS. They're not giving you and not giving you as much and not giving you as often. Unfortunately, right, our own, they focus on our own. Kabat focuses on everyone else on the outside. Now, I know some of you had issues over the years with certain Kabad rabbis and situations. That's the individual. That's the individual. If you talk to the right, you'll see what I'm saying is 100% true. If you if you if you're experiencing someone that has a big ego or is not trained and even if he comes from a kabat family, but his ego is, you know, very large and he's not refined. Sure, he's not going to, you know, consider you as as as his own as his own self, but by and large theim and theim are this way because it comes from the my piece of bread is yours, it's mine. As we said, I want to finish this now. So, please let's get to the text now on page 413. The simple meaning of that is the one that should command the Jewish people to bring oil to him who it's that Moshe to should command the Jews they should bring the oil. In other words, it took Moshe to make to communicate the commandment moving says this explains also the inner dynamics over here. The fact that commands and binds the Jew with the Jewish people who in such a manner and style our teacher gives us the Jew the yeet and the Jews the ability and THE POWER TO BE ABLE TO BRING HIM THE OIL. In other words, if not for being the one to command instead of Hashem, you know, command the emphasis on the word the and you which is unique in the Torah and it's this right here. The Reb says the reason for that is so that the bringing of the oil, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BRING THE OIL. OTHERWISE, WE WOULDN'T bring the right oil. We wouldn't bring ourselves in the oil and on and on. This is what Isa was I believe alluding to before speaking about that says in with with the greatest uh clarity and so too is regarding the Moshe of our generation. My saintly father-in-law referring to the previous Right? That's a term that that as I said that the Reb really coined and used and it's become part of the lexicon. Today many people when they write to theb to the right for they write okay and they write it that way because the reb writes it that way and they emulate what the rebb did whether it's right way not the right way that's already a feeling if you feel he's neno if you don't feel he's neno and you write that you know whatever you know so I'm not please don't I'm not saying sometimes we're do we do something like this and it helps us brings us closer but again this is not uh a mandate that you must write to the rebu I want to make that very clear you know when when uh there were few of the rebab who didn't write to the Rebi in the early 1950s when he became reb. So the Reb writes to one or two of them. The Reb writes, "If you didn't if you're not writing me a letter because you have a problem, the way to address me, it's not a problem. You you can you don't have you can address me any way you want. I'm not insulted, but I want you to communicate." So we can, you know, we can communicate as you know, you come from a different a different time, a different place. you saw the rebab, right? So, I would like to hear and by you not communicating because how you going TO WRITE THE TITLE to me, you know, you know, let's cut it out and and and the Reb was that way. And I know this because and who were really his, you know, they were THE SAME WAY. CUT OUT the the nonsense, you know, title, not title. Like, get over it. Let's go on. And it's an important point because there are people who tell you otherwise. And and I just want to make it clear that uh that's they're pushing their own horn because you know I sat with and heard from that were plugged in and I heard this for them. So anyone that says you MUST WRITE IT THIS WAY, YOU MUST write no you must write what you feel in your heart. Okay? If you want to write or another title that will help you come to that place that's your decision. Let's go on. So he says my father-in-law's job is that his service was to arouse and to reveal the faith that's that every Jew has. He was there to help arouse and reveal YOUR FAITH THAT YOU HAVE. I say that these words is the last will and testament to the Reb. What is the job of he says the previous rabb to arouse the the Jew to serve Hashem? I want you to look at those words means with your own ability. This is the last mimema the Reb gave before he had his stroke or he didn't speak anymore. So what's the and the last paragraph mish the last paragraph of the discourse and what's the message? We have to do it on our own and NOT DEPEND ON ANYONE INCLUDING ON THE REB. So look at this interesting kind of oxymoron. On one hand, manasha, he's in a rau. He's calling his father-in-law the leader generation. And at THE SAME TIME, HE SAYS, "DON'T USE THAT AS AN EXCUSE NOT TO DO IT YOURSELF. GET OFF YOUR LOINS AND DO IT YOURSELF. You need a bra, you go to the you need advice, you can go to the somehow, right? But at the end of the day, is about there. no one can do it for you. And that was another another difference between the Polish Hungarian Rebbas and Kabad when it came to Polish Hungarian Rebba. They would give you a braha and and and you know um it's like they have the amikim you didn't necessarily work on your own to that level of but that you didn't have to the famous of the with his will enliven you. You don't need that level of amuna. The sadic has that level and by you attaching yourself to the sadic that's good enough says nob says no means that the sadic shows you how you are to use your and and elevate yourself and if you don't do it it's NOT GOING TO HELP THAT you're attached to me and the rebba said this in the first m bosani 1951 he said, "Fellas, don't convince yourself and think in his language." He said in English, there's no equivalent that I know of. That's a good one. Don't convince yourself birds in your bosom, which means uh kind of STOP FANTASIZING AND WISHFUL thinking that I'm going to do it for you. I'm not going to do it for you. I will help you do it. I will instruct you and help you and guide you but at the end you have to do it. So all this is alluded to in the words. Let's continue. Your work and and your your effort will be such that you will you will reach a constant light a constant candle which is so constant that the idea of change isn't applicable to it. Not only from the soul and perspective and the faith perspective but also the mind perspective that your mind and your heart will resonate with this ine through this we merit very speedily the true redemption page 415 then when Msiah will come there'll be godly revelation from also from our perspective which we call below m the hashmen and then we will actually bring the oil vloas and in light and ignite the the candles in the tabernacle in the mikdash and the beta mikdash in the holy temple which is alluded to in the words this won't be any just is a physical one. This will be done in the third temple third. These were classical of the Reb's words and many fabans and etc with the ultimate true and complete redemption the righteous Messiah because of Mameish very speedily in our day. That is it. We will continue mashem tomorrow. >> Yes. >> One word. One word. Wow. Wow. >> Heavy. Yeah. Good stuff. >> Very very very Yes. >> NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW YI, you know what? Alabatur, YOU KNOW WHAT THE REB SAYS IS >> DON'T DON'T YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WHAT YOU SEE in here. you know this is this is the script this what we just learned today and what I explained is the script so and that's it that's it you know people you know go off on tangents and it's not just about the mashiaism and it's not just about the pushing in 770 is all this stuff is man-made manmade and men are fallible a rebadic is you know lives godliness is not God and sadik whoever the rebba is that is the truth so if YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT the the basidas at the end of the day you have to look at the bbas they are what we call the holy people and they establish now AGAIN IF A PERSON SAYS IT'S NOT FOR ME or I don't want TO GO THAT THERE NO problem but >> you know but But but in labage in kabad this is you know more of an issue breast live but kabadat probably even more than breast live because it's so much larger in a way you know whatever and and EVERYONE GOES OFF AND DOES THEIR you know you know especially you know 31 years after gimmel tamas we're soon coming up to gimlas a month from today gimmel seven today a month FROM TODAY IS GIMMEL TAMAS THE REB'S YARD SITE RIGHT. So every everyone you know is like you know uh positioning you know do this and do that try this try that. So I understand those efforts but but if you want to really you know what is the Rebba's opinion you have to look into his far his that's where you find the Reb Rabiel once said that during the lifetime of the Reb if you wanted TO KNOW HIS PUBLIC OPINION it was at the Fabrans but he said in his room to private people that's private but the if you WANT TO KNOW HIS PUBLIC STANCE LISTEN TO THE fabra cuz then he spoke for everybody in public. Yes, sir. I see something is on your mind. I could see it in your forehead. I was just I was looking up in in one of my uh breast of sedurim. They they have they have a text that they uh that they say before uh you know specific mitzvah or things that they do which um it uh it's not quite but they they say they attach them uh attach themselves to all the sadikim of Who's the foundation of the world? or who is the source of they're a so they also have this kind of uh >> yes >> I want to say mantra he but it's a a statement of uh he of attachment >> yes yes I I I that's why I said you know breast is also in that in that mode um although Again because breastliff between Rebn and today there were no breast of a reb was a man. You don't have the writings to to look at in kabad. You have 200 years of thousands of of writings and then hundreds of swarim. I mean on in other words if imagine a scholar a scholar who's going to write a thesis on on this topic the right way to do it tell me if I'm wrong you know you're more educated uh in western society and education you got you have to look into the books what do the of what those people wrote with breastlive you have basically just you know rebnen communicating It's limited. I I I I believe it's limited. It's kaval, but it's limited. You you don't need to listen to Rabbi Dolphin or Khan. They got this forum FROM THE AND LOOK HOW theic deals with the mitzvah of oris or and you're you'll see that the the um logic the rationale and the aftermath of a of a culture living that way is like today. But again, the samatic lived in in white Russia at a certain time during the zar on and on and on. So the language and and particular style is is not what what he what we do today. But the is so deep the foundational point is the same. Al all I'm saying is that it when you read to me that of of of Rabb Nosen of uh you know breastliff that didn't come from Nakman didn't write it about himself I don't think am I right I don't believe so I believe that was either written by >> somewhere he does refer to himself somewhere um and and it's been a while since I've opened my burst of books but he does refer to himself as in in a unique manner. >> Yes. Yes. That that that I'm aware of. That I'm aware of. But >> that my fire will burn until the coming of Messiah. And >> yeah. Yeah. Anyway, there are I wrote a book Kabad and Breastlift. There are definitely some similarities, but then there definitely some very big differences. But th this what we learn now Yi should give us the the knowledge and tools to understand that not everything that you see is the way IT'S NOT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE WAY IT SHOULD THE WAY IT IS that it doesn't mean it's bad just it's different okay that that that's all you know if the Reb says and there's lababer who just relies on on the reb and doesn't work on on his own. He's not doing what the Rebel left in the last m in the last paragraph as a last little testament. Okay, bring tomorrow. Have everyone a great day. Byebye. Take care.