Melbourne Jewish Community: Rebbe to Reb Chaim Serebryanski: Do what others don't want to do

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 [Music] 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