Maamar Ze 1929 #1 - History of Maamar said on Rosh Hashana in Brownsville - Purpose of Creation

if you want to just take a few minutes before we begin the actual mimer uh tell you what the mushroom what the objective over here is the objective is to learn tighter and to learn taita in a group setting we call this a kylo they're large kylo lim and small kylo lim kaila means to be inclusive so when when jews sit together they study tighter together they're all united and included hence the name kyle we'll learn i'll give a share two or three days a week on this the first 9 30 to 10 then you'll study with a partner javarussa review that shear and continue learning the mimer and then the last half hour you'll learn with the havrusa the co the kit or the code of jewish law i want to start with the laws of ello on 28th semicolon and then we'll go back a bit hashem to the beginning and i'll give once uh once a week uh a share on a contemporary halloween issue it won't necessarily be connected to the actual text that you're learning it might or might not be that's my general structure for this program right now what'll be later see you know if there are more students and we'll deal with it then and i'm open suggestions after the share of while while you know you could talk to you about your ideas i want to give you a history we're learning the mimer that the previous rabbit said rabbi yosef hits hook in 1929 in hebrews toughly sadiq but the english state was 1929. thereby the previous rebel came to america in 1929 for september september 12th 13th he came for two reasons one to strengthen the yiddish kite the level of observance amongst jews in general and people came from chabad families from russia and we're now in the united states in philadelphia in in in baltimore in chicago and st louis and he traveled that entire year visiting them that was one reason why he came at the time they the ones who came over had found that their children were moving away from religious observance and they felt that if the rebel would move to the united states and they knew about his difficulties in russia when he was forced to leave a 1927 russia they felt if he settled in the united states a he would be mo he would accomplish much more personally as a hasidic rebbe as a lab and and b he would really make a difference to the student to to the to their kids and that's why for example there was a big push for him to come to to come and settle in chicago the two main competition cities for the rebels settling were new york versus chicago he had some very strong supporters in chicago and he had agreed initially on the i to the idea after this year that he spent traveling and then all of a sudden he makes a u-turn and he he goes back to he goes back to the riga where he lived at the time in 1931 and his secretary writes a fake and writes to rabbi israel jacobson who was one of the um in in new york who was the lead of the communal activist and he writes to him that i've changed my mind we don't really know at the time why that was the case but i investigated this and wrote it in one of my books at great length with many details and sources that he came to realize and he says the people here in america including his his his his people his hasidim or or or or people who work i see them of his father and his grandfather they mean well but they they they look at me as a fundraiser i'm not a fundraiser i know how to fundraise and i know how to do it well i'm just paraphrasing right but that's i'm was i'm a son of the rebel ashab the fifth rabbit and i have a job what's my job to teach siddhis to inspire jews with the teachings of siddhis and he says there's little interest in that and therefore i've changed my mind i will not come to america you have to read his words because they're so powerful in a way astonishing but at the same time it really tells you what the job of the barbecue river is teaching see this to eden to inspire the nishama and just to you know build a you know have a building and have people and then and not and and and then it's it's it's about you know finances and things like that he said that's not me get yourself uh get yourself a fundraiser you know get yourself a director so he changes his mind while he was here during that year in each and every of these cities that he visited he said hasidis in addition to meeting people in which which in what's called yeshida's private audiences with people and he spoke publicly he also said my moral hasidic discourses which we're going to begin learning soon one of those my moral he was brought from the boat where he arrived to where i live called boro park brooklyn that's as crown heights you all know and his neighborhood called borough park he came there because rabbi elio simpson was the was a rav there of a shul and he was a chabad hosted he was a student of his father's and he was very close to the previous surrender and he had just opened a new shul in 1929 and he inaugurated it with the rebbe's arrival and the rep and it had three floors i believe and the first floor was the shule the second floor was the residence of of the previous simpson but he gave it to to the previous rep if you uh watch the living torah of the rebels arrival 1929 you'll see he's standing speaking from a porch it's that house that doesn't exist anymore on the corner of 14th avenue and 46th street in brooklyn it used to be that that that property was housed since it was it burned down and it changed but that's where he was anyway he [Music] then for rosh hashanah of 1929 he went to brownsville brownsville is another neighborhood in brooklyn and brownsville was known as the yerushalayim at the time the jerusalem of america because brownsville had hundreds and hundreds of orthodox rules many of them hasidic shoes as well some large edifices buildings and basically anyone anyone anyone everyone that was anything in the community lived in brownsville okay so it was like the the hub of orthodoxy so it was suggested to the river that borough park is a nice great place but you don't really have the jews that want to hear your hasidahs and that need to hear your qasidas so why don't you go for rosh hashanah over to brownsville and he listened and he went to brownsville there in a show called a goodis which is lubavitch on 195 watkins avenue and i actually went to brownsville a few years ago trying to find the building not only is the building not standing it's now projects but the uh it became a like a mirror of you know like uh you can't you don't there's no cars there's buildings and just walkways but that was actually where that shule was and hashem there's still a jew in quran pesach goldman who was my eighth grade rep in yeshiva who grew up in that show and online you have pictures and i put it also into the book so there ever and said davin did that true and he said a mimer the second night of rosh hashanah after myraf that is the mimer that's right before us so i've given you the history of the mimer and i feel it's important you know in yeshiva we don't learn citizens this way we just open the book and we start learning but i believe if you understand the background of the mimer the the history of the miner it adds to some of the things that are going to be said in the mimer he's speaking to jews in brownsville in 1929 and there were about thousand i think there were two thousand people that listened to this mimer the mimer again is about roshana but it has a very practical what we call aveda part to it and avoid them means service and practicality the truth is all of siddhis including the most intellectual ideas which we call haskallah intellectualism has a practicality to it but you need to explore it and find it because the rashaab the rebel ashab the fifth regular babbage he said you know basically say the arable bunny there are four sons the the the russia the tom and cheney de alicia who is the russia someone who doesn't you know who doesn't want to follow is not interested in following god's commandments and torah rashab said yeah maybe literally that's someone who's a russia but i'll tell you who's the russian he said the russia is someone who's a mosquito a mosquito meaning he always seeks only the intellectualism of the text and that's what interesting you know the spheros the emanations and his house is different than this and and if that's all that he's looking for the rashaab said this is the fifth labacher i consider him a russia i know you know it sounds terrible you know but what he meant is that if you learn siddhis paraphrase if you learn siddhis and and the objective of learning to see this is to to know another mimer and to be smarter and all of that that's not where it's at it's also important but the objective of this is avoid to refine ourselves and we all need refinement there's no yi that doesn't need refinement if someone says they don't need refinement don't talk to them i mean you know stay far away from them the the basic element of yiddish kite of terror is avoider so this is my muram that's why i chose this volume and recommended that you buy it is because they they've collected at least the volume one many of the avoda mymorim of the frida kahraba and humbly speaking uh if i may say so i think we should be learning these my moral i think that all shules and rabbi should be teaching these my moral these other my mora and believe me i've learned them and i know quite a bit about them it's nice but this is this is real so let's see what he says okay i'm gonna read the the text and go on and then and and if something and please ask this isn't the you know a lecture this is uh learning a minor with you page 34. based on it by the way in a minor i was taught by mahmoud that the heading of the mimer the title is important so we also actually uh say it based on it with the help of hashem based on the second night of rosh hashanah which is 1929. new york the the next line is the uh publisher's line so we're going to skip that it's it it's very good it gives you a kisser it gives you a concise uh synopsis of what's going to be in the text but i'm going to go right to z we're saying in the in rosh hashanah this is the day rosh hashanah it's the beginning of your actions god created the world on this day it's a commemoration to the first day of creation of so it seems this is a a statute uh for for for jews for jews israel mishpot judgment will okay yaakov to the god of jacob let's go into the text basically the previous rabbit says what the verse is telling us is that the day of rosh hashanah is the beginning of god's creation god's action so right away he asks questions and also it's important for you to know as a general rule in a hasidis in a minor of khabad hasidis we're not so interested in the questions and we're not so interested in the answers we're interested in the context which is basically most of the discourse the questions and the answers are there because if you don't have questions in the beginning and you don't have an answer at the end you know you're going to say hey give me a question give me an answer so they also included questions and answers and i i i know it sounds like i'm belittling it i'm not be living linging it i just want you to understand that sometimes you say is this a question that it's not the question it's what we want to get in the in the meat and potatoes of the mimer so what's the question over here those are words usually commonly used in hasidis we must understand that is the sixth day to creation the elo on the 25th of ello this month is called el mark it's on the 25th of this month today is the 10th available and 15 days from today it's the birthday of the world the world was created when is rosh hashanah not on the birthday of the world rosh hashanah is in the day when man was created six days later the sixth day to the creation in this regard our sages said quote the back and and the preface the beginning and the end the end of the beginning you create it and it's and what does that mean he explains man was created elio man was created at the end of creation the last days although man in his very essential quality is precedes all of creation right when was man created at the last day the sixth day but what was god's intent with creating the fish and the stars and the moon and everything else man so technically he was created on the sixth day but the kavanagh the intent the purpose the objective is kedah so that's now the verse that says makes a lot of sense he was created actually last but in purpose and objective he's kedam he precedes all of them so that's now that's the way that explains the verse his actual creation was later he concludes his question the rabbit concludes his question the verse here says hello the verse says that that that's what this day rosh hashanah is the initial the beginning of your action it's not the beginning the beginning is the birthday of the world six days earlier that's his question all creatures were created before man so if you're talking about the creation of man which is the objective it's not it's not the beginning of your action it's okay and as the saying goes listen to this quote [Music] if a man sins transgresses we say to him even the net precedes you in other words who are you you're a big shot you're a big guy you're committing a sin you're doing whatever you want hey fella this little gnat that's a nothing was created before you created so what does that hazal what does that statement of the rabbis imply that that that that you men that that you man come after the creatures and that's why when someone goofs up and transgresses we say hey you're nothing compare you came at the end you know what did they say in english johnny come lately big deal big deal so this this casal that ever uses here that cites here supports the idea of ah the question and it supports this question and it continues further [Music] that man has a precedence over all creatures in objective and purpose what is that for who kasha miss neighborhood that's when you do what you're supposed to do but if your behavior is is one that's antithetical to god's god's purpose hey we don't need you you were created for a purpose of if man boasts and says hey i am better than all creatures but negotia aim it to aver but yet his behavior doesn't denote then the rabbis say even the nat takes precedence over you the uterus is before you the incain he concludes this question [Applause] the beginning of your actions so that's the end of the first question is it clear if not now is the time to ask yes creation yeah yeah i don't know it's a good question and i haven't seen it actually asked on citizens but it's something to look at what i would also do is you take out that passage and to look at them first from there maybe they add something that can explain that yeah so i gave you some homework invite them yo another question mark is it clear okay what does it mean that the day of rosh hashanah is a commemorance a remembrance to the first day of creation of creation [Music] it's called elio the beginning of creation remembrance of the sixth day when man was created the what the god who who wrote the verse in the torah was was you know skimpy on words if he's already writing words and giving words he should have written the right words what are the right words that the sixth day is a commemoration as he caught on memorializing the yomashi to the sixth day not to the first day for the same right if the choice of words say it correctly don't say it incorrectly that's the second question beyond me you're following mao liyam and what is liaison what does it mean to the first thing so that's the second question question number three another thing needs to be understood it says a law for israel a judgment for the god of jacob this latter part of the verse explains the opening the reason that that rosh hashanah which is on the sixth day of creation the day when man was created and we don't say that rosh hashanah is special because the world was created happy birthday world claim the verse is saying like this you know why it's called keyless massager although man was created on friday right on the sixth day not on the first date because there's something significant to hoaxley who mishpochah of god judging the statue laws let me finish the simile in the movies says i don't get it i don't see the connection how does shalom how does the the the yakov how does that explain why it says obviously that's what the verse is trying to do but the rabbit's question is i i don't explain the logic okay question number four [Music] then it says regarding the the the countries who will be judged by the sword who will be judged by peace right russia ukraine swords those swords that started over there it was february forget when right already last rosh hashanah there was a judgment in heaven that there's going to be two countries that are going to use swords that's what it says right here i mean that's it's quoting the verse the azales show if you come across throughout during the year two countries who are living peacefully that's coming because hashanah god decided hashem decided they should live peacefully then he says further as a lot of savior which country should be should have hunger and we should be have plenty of pokedo and creatures are remembered for life meaning that there should be life you know a person passes on and things happen the tragedies i'd have to tell you it's all preset we don't know but rosh hashanah is the nerve center that has everything that's going to happen throughout the year the noise of the tech when our second line of 35 the noise that so the overall concept is that the day of rosh hashanah it has an association to the beginning of creation so so this is the way he's explaining it the fact that there are things of sorts and peace hunger and and plenty throughout the year that's all decided on rosh hashanah so what what the verse is doing is if i understand this correctly this is what it's doing you're right you're right you know man the emphasis is man right but creation of man on this on on on [Music] on the sixth day of creation but nevertheless the impact impacts everything in the world so this is an important the kuda important point that all of the world all the non-jews and everything else everything is determined if someone asks you a question someone asked you a question are non-jews are gentiles judged on rosh hashanah is there any correlation specialty of rosh hashanah to the gentiles in the world what would you answer what'd you say yes exactly exactly that's that's that's what he's saying here but we're just clarifying it so when we talk about the reish hashanah being the the beginning the beginning for mankind it's not just for years you know i'm not i'm not going into you know halloweekly and i'm talking about in the global metaphysical world we understand clearly that this is the case and as you said and that's what he's saying here it says valentine's boy omar okay nevertheless although it's true that register has an impact on all of the world what's the emphasis other man and therefore the lazy caught on the involved so in other words what he's answered now this question that he asked before why does it say a remembrance currently and not as accordingly involved and i believe what he's answering without really elaborating so it's brief and cryptic what he's saying is that that man's impact impacts creation and creation begins from the first day so that's why it says it caught on the young region there are different answers to this question of different discourses this is what he says over here yes i see it a little bit different you you say diff you you see the shot in the mind but different or you're wrong go ahead in online keeper each person is being judged by himself like specifically a person [Music] yeah but how do you see that in the words of the mind uh it's just kind of like build up to that but you act again you're saying the text you see it in the text yes yes because he says he specifically says not that the the person is being created by the world if so that means i can conclude that the world is being just not the person right so the work is being judged on rosh hashanah as a whole yeah but i don't see you mentioning young kipper here at all ah you just wait okay yeah okay okay i hear you thank you now we need this objective to be realized right there is potential means actuality how do you bring something from the potential to the actuality says the actualization of this is because of the jewish people we jews are responsible to bring this issue to the world we have an object so in other words when you're in shoe under shutting down you're not only darvening for yourself you're pressure davening for the entire you're simply dabbling for the entire world and and and of course you're not just thinking about hey am i gonna have a year of life am i gonna have a year of struggle am i gonna have a year of accomplishments that's also important let's not forget about the self because a person needs to be healthy and successful with everything else but but but it's much greater than that that's what he says here so he says here all the medinas and everything else is totally in the aveda of israel and this is the way we explain the continuum of zeha and all ideas of countries and creatures and and the world will be shrill it's in order to fulfill the purpose of creation and like i said before the rubber saying this in front of a few thousand people i was thinking about it he doesn't let them go home anyone could leave it was after my roof what are people most people do have to admire they say uh etc and they go home here comes the barbecue he comes into a shoe he's a visitor and guess what they respected him so much that they stayed and this isn't a short it's not a very very long discourse but i'm convinced it took him 45 minutes he holds them up for 45 minutes 1929 rosh hashanah because he delivers a message and what is the message at least at the end of this the first chapter is that i like you know i see it in the words you know start thinking and understanding that your impact is greater than just yourself and your shule and your rabbi and your wife and your kids and there's an impact that astronomer makes in the world and you the individual yid davening and and asking hashem for a good year and everything else will impact the greater world that we live in that's the end of the first chapter okay yeah go ahead just a little louder please i was you know those things that were created on the banished martial arts yeah so is that before other parishioners created or after well the commentaries you look at the commentaries there some say it was before but look if you wanted a real proper answer take out the of the mishnah with the bhartanura and i believe it's discussed over there that's the proper way to answer your question i didn't give you a proper answer because i don't have the text in front of me so you need to look into it but my recollection is that some say that that the reminder you know that's fine for you to ask you're saying a bible is usually not the venue to you know it's another thing that i should have said before the teachings and study of hasidis is not musa and it's not perique office not that you'll say i know that let me tell you what i mean see this some people ask what is see this give me a a one line a one liner what does see this and you really need to have an answer because you walk here north miami there's all these from eaten old jews all around you you you want you tell me to learn to see this let us see this no answer let us see this see this is the study of divinity in hebrew we say the study of el ecos is a study of man i once asked by my spirit of your khan about the safer um so i asked him you know kind of what do you say about it i wanted to hear his opinion he was the the foremost uh teacher of this so he said i didn't really look at it much you know he studied because he decided muslims for him he didn't spend time but he said someone showed it to me once kind of here you know take a look at this what do you say so he told me this line and i'll never forget he said i just glanced at it and he's and he uses a lot the word means wholesomeness perfection wholesomeness of man you know what you see this is not them nullification of man subservience of man so that all of and believe me anyone that says otherwise is a fool it's holy holy holy but nevertheless there is a mahalak there's an approach what's the mahalaksh you're looking to be complete what is the result of that more eye now of course they say it's important to be clean it's important to have alacrity to have cerezus of course the question is does that push the i button the ego button and even if it's a if it's a refined ego but it's still ego i exist i am important or do we look to find do we look to find how you're only important because god wants you to be important so we emphasize the bitter the subservience of man the nullification of man that's it and that's why hasidis is about the divine only divinity only alicus is bereft stripped from from yesh from ego everything else has eagle everything else has ego and god made it that way god hakadosh made the natural world that everything has a condition conditioner definition so when you walk into when i walk in here and if i walk in this way you see me a certain way if i take this off and you see me this way you see a different person right because i'm already defined and you're defined so therefore the definition triggers the application the only thing that is definitionless is the abrasive is hashed hashem is pure hashem doesn't have a definition as soon as you box hashem into a definition he's not god i remember zom posed there of his own polar show and told us he spoke once i heard him he said a jew his father was a rabbi in pittsburgh so a jew came and he says i'm an atheist i don't believe rabbi i come maybe to pray on roshan and i hold it is but i don't believe so he says tell me what's your idea of god and he tells him he says you know if my idea of god was your idea of god i also wouldn't believe we we create god in our image so we put him in a box in a definition and then we have issues don't put god in a box so what's this sid this is a type of study and you know you didn't see it as much today but as you go into the mimer every minute every discourse you walk out saying like you know i'm only significant because god wants me to be significant so with what am i showing off with what am i in yiddish we say a word commander for the word command commander what am i like who are you and that humility that bittle is what see this about so there's shlaimus and there's bitla or them in other words from the from from this perspective man as an opinion maker an opinion sayer with be stripped of god god's instrument is worthless is useless and this takes a lot of you know understanding a so you need to learn the text and b you know praying with these ideas thinking about these the ideas and living these ideas and in no way and in no way does this mean i should walk around like a schlepper i should walk around broken and it's wrought and and you know no on the contrary look at the river look at the little battleship but look at it the rebel came from a shtetl nicolaius a little bigger restaurant he went through the 1905 japan russian japanese war he went through he went through the first world war he went through the second world war his brother was killed by nazis yamashima he gets married god doesn't bless him with children he comes to america he survives the nazis it's a very difficult 50 50 first years of his life very difficult and there's a lot more in america right anyone that attended and some of us actually married and being by the pharmacist but even if you see if i bring it online or you you hear a clip but you hit no one for a moment think that this laboratory was a person who didn't believe in himself because he had healthy self-esteem he believed in hashem and he lived god he was a walking torah it was a walking tighter so walking tighter means of course you access your independence but it's godly independence and that's what i see this is so that's why you come across discourses where it talks about the spheros the emanations and this level and that level uh my meshbia morristown hillary remembers our spirit of melee feeble i remember the first time you said the story it's it's it's not a story it's a vert that i thought was fascinating i still remember it he says the hasidim of that said the third rebbe of la babbage the first one that was the third rebbe of khabardonez so they would say what's the difference between now and mashiach's time the aha what's the aha and we'll see we won't we won't hear attilus and bria and spherus and all these kabbalistic ideas aha we learned this in kylo on a tuesday in miami and it was a concept that either i got it or i didn't get it or i thought it was ridiculous i thought it was great whatever shia the realization that divinity that really costs is endless and that's why when you when you the the sevik said right eliot if if i were to know you god hey yes eve i will be i would be like god how could that be how can you be like god so what did you see them say not elo if when you learn see this if you can be godly when you learn siddhis and you're immersed in this then you are a stick god a piece of godliness and and that's that's that's the importance of see this okay is that uh what time is it i don't know but they take your habits and let's learn some some other title let's see what's going on