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Melbourne Jewish Community: Rebbe to Reb Chaim Serebryanski: Do what others don't want to do
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it's a most
special day it's the yard site of my
shred my father-in-law of
shalom raphael
one of the things that he specialized in
is in his israel his love for every
single yid
and this includes other
other literature called
israel the entire jewish nation
and by understanding a little bit about
him and his behavior
you'll understand how he dealt with
other people
and a lesson for us especially before
pesach
yodel of nissan
the the trip for me from australia from
melbourne he lived in melbourne after
he was born in in kharkov in 1929
and he later lived in samarkanth and he
came along with all the babaji
sitting to france and there the frida
karebe
sent him his father and other five
citizen to melbourne
to begin the community the annas
community and absalom and his father was
the
the main shliyak of the frida karebe
who stayed loyal to the rebbe throughout
his lifetime and has hundreds of letters
of instruction and who
asked rabbit to send rabbi yitzha
groener
who helped develop the community to the
way it is today
between the saranskis and the groaners
and others and the phagelines
we have a healthy and beautiful
laboratory community today in melbourne
maishwar would come to the rebel
from australia the way in the 50s in the
60s to do that was a very long trip in
the 70s was still a long trip
he had to make a stop on hollow
singapore in honolulu
california and finally he got to new
york
and once he came
during halal muay sukkas i believe
and khabad min custom is not to drink
anything out of a sukkah even water
so he was on a flight for probably
30 to 36 hours on flights
and he came to 770 in those days in the
early 70s
there wasn't yet you know
on the streets and lots of people and it
came to 770 middle of the night
and the entire place was closed not
closed but it was dark
and people were either bringing their
private circus or sleeping
and there was one hostage that he met
upstairs in 770
rabbi naphtalia stolen who today
is the schlia for the russian kitten in
los angeles
from the early 70s has been there and
done tremendous work
so he met naftali and he says to him
naftali
you know i'm very hungry maybe you have
something i can bite on just like two
three in the morning
and after he says all i have
is some bread tricking up out the bright
dry stale old bread and my schwer said
good good that's good
and he gave him the bread and he went
out in the hallway you know there's a
sink over there
the back of the hallway upstairs in 770.
and before he washed he goes back to
naphtali
and he says i forgot to ask do you have
salt so i can
dip my bread into salt and after he
looks at him like he
fell off the moon three in the morning
there's no one around there's nothing to
eat
you're starving and you want some salt
because the minute is the dip the
customers that dip the bread and the
salt
and he said thank you and he gave him
back the bread
he gave him back the bread
he would not wash on the bread because
he didn't have the salt to dip the bread
into
this is yiddish no one knew
no one saw somehow enough till he
probably told over the story later
to someone and the family found out
about it
a yid a jew who won't
eat bread
and the bread stale and the bread is old
and the bread is not
you know not not great bread
but he won't and he's starving because
he hasn't eaten in 30 plus hours
but he and he won't eat it because he
doesn't have salt to dip it into
which is only a minig it's only a custom
it's not the end of the world
that shows you the validity
and the honesty the integrity and the
irasha maya
the god-fearing individual who this
person was
so naturally such a person when he's
in australia and that ever told him to
stay there
and to work
and not come to new york to be part of
770 with the buckler and his friends
would have doubled
and all the others of that group they
never told him to stay in melbourne and
he listened
first time he came was in 1958
and then already in 1959
he married and he returned to melbourne
literally i heard from many people when
i was theirs on several occasions and
otherwise
how he was
in his own right real labavich real
chabad
from his mother's side he was a foot of
us
and from his father's side he was a
cerabronsky they both came
from the cemetery and be and before
his ada's name was
and nevertheless notwithstanding his
personal
giggles his pedigree as
authentic lebavich
he never spoke about that he never made
an issue of it
aid was a year to him there was a
ralph who just passed away here
halberstam rabbit halberstam he was in
his
late 90s he knew that salman
and he knew that my shivering and i went
to see him once and he told me
these were different type of heat
the fact that they will above it that
wasn't you know
written on them in a way that you must
be la babbage you must be chabad
it was a burning coal from the outside
it looks
dark and dim and inside it's full of
fire
it's fire of lakos of godliness
of kite
another story this happened in marin
county when we were
there in the late 80s
it was arab sukis and after the minion
for chakras
one of my balabat and one of the
congregants happened to mention to me
that he hadn't put up his sukkah yet my
father-in-law was standing nearby and he
happened to hear it
anyway everyone goes home and i offered
my father-in-law a ride home
and he said no i'll i'll get there
myself i said okay
an hour two three several hours go by
he's not home
we found out that he went with this
congregant over to his house and he put
up the circle with him
because he heard that he hadn't had us
his circus not up
he didn't tell anybody he didn't ask
anybody he didn't make any faces
he didn't make he just quietly did
things and this is this is the way he
lived his life
quietly did so many things for so many
people
in australia and melbourne they were he
would raise money quietly to give people
needed to buy homes that helped with
their deposits
and people who needed food and clothing
and tuition but without
fanfare
in the 1960s early 60s
another childhood friend of his
teenage friend of his from the days of
samar kant i believe
was in australia in melbourne for some
reason he came back
with the river and
said to the rabbit the rabbi asked him
so what tell me a little bit about anas
in in melbourne so that he said
see this between min this afternoon
and it's schmuck to hear slow
articulated clear
and heartfelt and the rebel said abraham
rabashkin told this to me himself
there are not many people like hayem
cerebronski
maishwar told me that he once asked the
rebbe
what is his mission on life what's a
schlitz and this is what the rabbit told
them
things that others don't want to do so
stutton
you should do and that's how he lived
his life
there ever also instructed him when he
was here in 1958
word for word not rush
it's interesting that he left the
so-called
one-page salvo will if you if you can
call it that
and one of the things he says there is
he doesn't want absolutely
no no uh praises and
has paid them for him after his passing
and he said if anyone wants to do
anything for us the shaman he should
learn the mimer
which speaks all about middles having
good means good character
and he said if that's what you yourself
if someone wants to do something for
minor shaman they should do that
learn some shania's but he emphasized
that mimer so today
is his yard site that's out of shop is
kaidish
we we remember how a person like him
was brought the babbage to other
communities
in a beautiful way in the melbourne
community you have
hadas it's a community called adas you
know
hungarians and polisher and others
and my fair by then was
a symbol of of tita
of yiddish mayan
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1990 how every ye the special
regardless of their religious
affiliation what they do or what they
don't do
and we have to cherish that neshama and
learn from
him who cherished
every single year and today through his
children
grandchildren family and friends and
great-grandchildren
his legacy and not just his legacy but
his reality continues
and we should be saying
with the building of the basa amigdas
shabbos