Nigun Series #3- Poltava Nigun - Nothing compares to a Mitzva - Rabbi Yaakov Motel Bezpalov

today i'll sing the negan known as the paltava negan this is the third in the series of learn understand and sing nigunim just a little history about this [ __ ] the hostage of the rabbi marash and the rebel ashab and a love in the city of poltava in ukraine which was a bastion of khabar siddhim lived in poltova paltova rabbyakov was his name siddhan would later in his life at the age of 30 i believe he became a rav in poltava he was born in 1855 and he passed away in 1915 he lives he lived 60 years he had three sons two of them never were killed by the nazis maximum and one made his way in 1920 i think his name was shmuel to san francisco out of all places and he lived there all his life and he would come to the frida keraba from time to time he was a good friend of rip shmuel the victims and the older sydney here in brooklyn during the 40s and 50s and 60s and he he also was an aide an assistant to the frida karebe for one of the babaji shiva's in her son but going back to his father who's naked this is a tr be a tribute that's looking to him because he sang this [ __ ] while he dabbled defeated cadaba writes in the secrets amazing things about one of the things that stands out is his avoidance hashem in addition to him being a rav a rabbi a satoru scholar a post-secret halachic authority it was a naivete he served hashem through davening through the service of trill of prayer where he davened a long time longer than the minion and he sang this [ __ ] with niemus with sweetness and vegas and attachment to hashem as he said the words of davoning and as as he meditated throughout davening and that's why this nation has a special love for us it's a [ __ ] that's very workable for of one's service of davening known as avoid fila another thing is that sittim said that before he passed on he was told he was very sick and he was told that because of his iscafia the service of serving god with subjugating one's pleasures not giving in and controlling one's appetites and indulgences this is known as this kafir so he was very much a ballast cafe and they say that he didn't sleep on on a normal bed but rather straw for many many years and it hurt his back and it caused them issues and ultimately it took his life this is the tradition the legend that we heard in yeshiva over the years when when when our mashpeem spoke about rabbyakov and they heard from their mushrooms and this goes back a hundred plus years when they told us terabyakov that you know you caused your own kind of death you could have lived longer we're not talking about you know hashem is ultimately that who sets a person's years but from a human perspective you hurt yourself because of your of your escafia motto paltova said listen to this if i would have known that all of this discovery would cause me to die one day earlier than i could have lived more another day to put on film and do an actual mitzvah i would have not done it because nothing compares to doing a mitzvah in this world all this kafka and all of those special and important ways of serving god are important as long as they don't prevent you from doing a mix for bottom line in the physical world and since the doctors told me they did it's not worth it so the baba jackson intelligent commented on this story who is a jew who can make such a statement and really mean it only someone who passes away because of doing his cafe he is in a position of really meaning what he says he's being honest with himself how can he be so honest with himself because he has refined himself through his kafka to be honest with himself so siddham said that if he would have not done his coffee he would never say this because he was a real person an honest person and he wouldn't feel it because he didn't do his caffeine he gave in to his cravings and indulgences now to the [ __ ] it has four stanzas and we'll explain them as we go on hi today [Music] i [Music] i am i [Music] three [Music] third part and the voice goes up and higher up higher and deeper [Music] is a [Music] hey [Music] i oh the voice goes down [Music] i called rotsuya yearning and retreat and most of the vacation of which of which this is one of them there is a yearning a longing for something and usually the voice and the the movement of that part of the [ __ ] is up and deep and then there's a retreat come back down and you hear it over here the third part is the voice you can hear you know it goes very loud high high pitch kind of ultimate vegas ultimate desire to be just with hashem nothing else not work not family just with god see this explains and as i said it for in the introduction of this negan that's not the ultimate the ultimate is to be on earth so that's why there's a fourth part which is a schoof now it's the roxy the yearning is the third part the fourth part is the retreat come back down but you'll hear in the fourth part the shoe of lurk leads a healthy shoe leads to again a desire to to to to be with god ah yeah yeah yeah finally i can have you a shame here on earth with the greatest vehicles i heard that the relationship between the rebel ashab and the biaker motto paltago was very close they were javrus they also study partners but in addition to that they were good friends and he was a very special eid i heard this from someone who knew him and saw him and observed him and told me this so this is known as the niggin of rabbyaka mottle paltov nigen it can be a great aid in serving hashem and bringing calmness and serenity to a person and particularly when a person governs when they pray and they desire to to come to something greater than the the self then the ego than the daily episodes and happenings and everything that's all around us so we dove and we're married to go under our talis if we're not married yet we just close our eyes or go to a corner or just sit quietly and we sing this [ __ ] it gives you a great great reality check remember it's about reality not about flaking out and thinking you're someone that you're not hashem and his family and everything that he did for siddhabad beginning with and then the lebanese message is