Practical Chasidus w R' Chaim Dalfin - Igeres HaKodesh 27 #1

the morning so we're middle of it get us a clay dish of the altered and the letter 27 so to recap basically this letter was written by the altered Abbott to his custom outside of Aris role after his rebbe reb Mendel of attempts or a mental of her a duck have enough of mental Vitebsk it or her ducking passed away in 1788 he went and settled in there she saw in 1777 yes hello correct have you ever learned that it's a wonderful safer a very important work in fact that it touches upon you see their various teachings that the altar that be included he talks a lot about people you know that anyway so in addition to writing the letter to console' his his his custody Talton ever shares a message a message of hope and a practical message what to do which hopefully we'll get to later today but in order to do that he has to share and explain who were talking about who was this static tremenda lee what does it mean whoever he was he was a student of the maggot and the world who was instructed to replace the market appointed by the maggot to be the Rebbe for white Rochelle fo was called ricin that area of Alenia what does it mean who he was the question when we say who he was is what was his soul light is the shovel you know when you look at a person you could look at their mount worldly and that's a superficial way of knowing the person or you can look at them and and and try to understand them and study them who are they inside that's what I do for a living I study people I write about people and about movements to try to understand the deeper side of the person and the movement and the ideology just I just finished writing before I got on with you guys about an encounter between rabbi hook nur and the rebel back in the mid 1976 and I heard this from a student a very close student of Rabbi Luthor who was at his house while the rebel was from bringing in of puffs of his the rebus father's yard site and he would make of a bring in each year so that year very nice so that year 1976 five days earlier the 15th of a terrible tragedy happened in Netanya what happened to students from the MIR from the brisket Eva Americans both were sons of Russia yeshiva one was a son of a name that the only probably very familiar with rabbi Aaron Chester a bi receptor rabbi receptor ultimately replaced rabbi hookman as the receiver of high in Berlin and Boris Hashem he's still alive is he's old you know he's probably older than 90 already and he's today still the official receiver of hi in Berlin so his his son one of the sons Mordecai I don't know if you know him Mordecai was just when to learn in brisk because you know it's this custom still exists many American boys who want to its you know going to kind of the superior your fevers they either go to pun of it and and actually most Americans don't even go to punish they go to brisk I've met them on the airplane you know if you go to brisk and you're an American and that's gonna be on your resume you're gonna get you know they thank you they you're gonna get the best you know what I mean anyway at least that's their say that's right that's right right so so it so it's an investment it's a good investment right anyway anyway so so whatever the case I bet saying this about that or add more said you know I'm not saying that I want to know why you went but he went that was that was the way it went in those days and his Ennis and his friend was high in Baron Bell there was a receiver in Mir yeshiva in Brooklyn rabisu Rabbi Shmuel berenberg there's a very big tub across him a tremendous mass mitt he came from a Europe and he learned in Shanghai in the MIR he was a mirror talmud in the old country and he became he became he became a son-in-law by the one who started the mirror Shiva in Brooklyn Rabbi Avraham Lovitz started it in 1946 not only that he made it possible he raised funds for the achiever one of they they ran away in 1939 with the war erupted and till 40 they got to America those five six years have become another's the father-in-law of Robert berimbau you know raised funds that he was the one that really no you know in a sense saved the yeshiva so his son-in-law after he passed away in 1964 small bamm-bamm became a cold Russia Shiva with Rabbi Baron Bell a rabbi comma novices son so basically a son and a son-in-law of common nuggets became cold Russia Shiva's and this rabbi Berenbaum had children one of his sons was kya hai him was a friend of more - hi um shelter and they both were learning in brisk well you know during the summer there's been house mine him so they went for a little respite they went to Netanya and there is my understanding is until today a hotel on the water called gali sons that sometimes if I see that you know the the closin burger they have there a hotel or I have day on there someone else owns it and they stayed there now during those days if you know your history or recall is there was a time when the the Palestinians fought the in the terrorists they were coming in with a rubber boats to the at to the to the to the beach area at night and you didn't notice them because and then it didn't make noise because it was rubber that that that was the the type of terrorism that they were doing at the time and they had unfortunately killed hidden so everyone was you know very very concerned and everyone especially those hotels on the beaches all along the coast they had analyst security private security well this guy lead sons also had private security a an older Jewish gentleman who you know carried a gun and he was protecting the hotel Mordechai and Heian went for a stroll with evening stroll that you know getting the outrageous they came back and the the hotel was closed in other words they came I guess after the closing time they needed to go into their room so they walked here and their front back meanwhile the guard saw them and the guard just assumed they are Palestinian for the end terrorists who tried to break in to you know to hurt hurt people and he shot them he said he shot he shot at them and I don't know how but he only he only killed luckily crying and he didn't kill mortified he killed him it was a terrible terrible tragedy this was on the 15th of of 1976 this is what yeah so this happened the the Reber vibrate five days later and middle of the fibroin the rebus said I didn't want to talk about this and I'm not going to talk about it just very briefly because the rebel during those years there ever came out with was called myths I am million comes to the word myths of campaign and the Rebbe had a campaign the ten different campaigns you know to put on trillion and mezuzah and on different things Shabbos candles one of them was called myths mezuzah the campaign of mezuzah and the Rebbe they encouraged everyone to check their mezuzahs and get other people kept another episode the fact that this terrible tragedy unfortunately happened it happened and their ever said he said the student that was killed learned learned in a most Cano yeshiva zealot yeshiva everyone knows that brisk amongst all the literature shiva's was the most sell it like yeshiva because the founder was red velvet of brisket history of who was a great man but he was a zealot yes yes yeah yeah yeah in in in many sense but in the political sense to I mean I mean in a holy way he stood up for you know many important issues to to told for toda no question about but he would you know he was adamant even he didn't you know it wasn't it wasn't you couldn't buy him off with money and politics he was uh he was legitimate he was a very very who's Ryan Briscoe son it was really legitimate I wrote about him too in my next book there'll be a whole section about it he was a very special person anyway so so so the rebus said that this student that was killed was a student in a in a very zealous achiever the rebel you should know just just for the record generally speaking the rebel never mention names never and I mean never never and even places and things like that he didn't want to say too much for whatever reason you know so he didn't say the name of the yeshiva but he did say that it was a very zealous issue which makes sense it was brisk okay and he said he was the son of a Russia Shiva which also makes sense his father of smooth bamm-bamm was the receiver at the defiant at Maria Shiva in Brooklyn and their ever said that this seems this is a sign from heaven what happened that this is a a continuation of our conversation and and our discussion about the importance of checking mezuzahs that's what he said he didn't say that the mezuzah in in his room was no good he didn't say D that and then he said and then he said that the father the receiver should not be embarrassed he said that he did say and he should encourage other people to check the businesses that's what he said and then he went on well naturally you understand that this was not received well by people in the in the Leapfrog worried of I could tell you from I listen I myself listened to the talk first of all I might I might have been there but even if I wasn't there I heard it you could hear a lot you can hear it today the tape is available online and then I read it and I read it I have the action we have the actual words the rabbit didn't say that but the doctor did you know anything derogatory but it was perceived in a derogatory way no question about it no it wasn't referring to shelter me to bamm-bamm it it was bamm-bamm son no he was referring to grab a berimbau brother bearable anyway why am I saying this because because you know people tend to hear something and they don't they don't have an interest and understanding of the larger picture who are these individuals what are they about and it's from that context that you have to understand a sensitive discussion and this is a sensitive discussion the words of the read that were very sensitive and that's why he said I'm gonna get him a I'm gonna speak about it briefly and the purpose was not to god forbid hurt anybody the purpose was to arouse us again to the importance of checking the businesses in others the Rebbe was saying that the more you check the mezuzahs the more they'll be protection for registro now of course what is someone who wants to you know make their ever look negative he says also what the Rebbe is saying is that the reason why the boy was killed is because his either he didn't have a potion mezuzah in his room or his father the you know didn't poopoo the Rebbe his campaign and that's baloney his father never poopoo the Rebbe his campaign I spoke to students his father never spoke about it in fact the father had a good relationship with Chabad than a respectful relationship but that you know is an expression and you this hill eylem golem you know that means I love Balaam basically people are deaf people are dummies in just a simple English people are dummies notes you hear something you don't take time to think about it in the calm you know methodical way and right away you get all worked up and and you make a conclusion that we're all that way and different things in our life so so so when you when you reach not going back to the letter here Valtor ever the outer Deborah is writing a letter of condolence what the the marcia rabbi Feldman of mere heard the rebel say what he said and somehow it got back of course to rabid Birnbaum and he wasn't upset he was not upset it was only you know the the students who you know some students who heard about this that were up in arms but anyway anyway the what I want to get at is going back to the letter here that that the out that ever writes a letter of condolence so you could you know you could say it's a letter of condolence you know but what's the novelty right what's the novelty here what's the finish it's a letter of condolence but when you study it well you look deeper into it it's much more than just a letter of condolence it's an entire an entire description and insight of to individuals and communities and the purpose of life and what we can learn from it so what what what did we learn so what did we learn we learned that in a nutshell we learned that the true life of a Tzadik is his and munna his gyro and his other his faith in God his fear for God and His love for Russia those three things are the makeup of exotic now this means but when you identify with any Sadiq this isn't just for a you know that Mendel of attempts called the ballot Anya this is for any Sadiq if you identify with him as a Sadiq again whether his your ty vehicle not your target that's that's not relevant right now and that Sadiq what are we learning here that the essence is his faith his fear and love for God and if you cannot identify that as the central theme of that individual according to what we're learning here he's not a traffic or I should say better he's not excited the way the alter rebbe is described in the Sadiq here there is Delta revered the Hillel Chapter one of tanya has already said there's a Sadiq be shamed her toheart guys concentrate I mean stop looking at him there's a psychic Bechet motto her and as excited be shame her Musa there's a descriptive Sadiq or a figurative Sadiq and there is an essential Sadiq and this isn't chapter one with later on if you won't go back and review it then basically you know there is it sounded who we all say oh he's exotic but we don't really ain't no and be mean that he really is it sounded we mean that he has more mitzvahs than a famous so we could say about the Myers he's exotic because he does Morris it more more virtuous more mitzvahs than then sins but is it really a Sadiq I don't know maybe is but you know probably not he's not a Sadiq because he's not excited because we're all not something capable regular people but do we do more mixes that are various I believe so yeah so could we as a figure of speech saying which word Sadiq yes but shame Torah yoni the essence if are we really thought not sadiq is something totally different so the cat not going into got a different skin bathing inside that we're just talking about Saavik let's leave it at that in my next look about the coffins crying I touch upon that the difference inside the convey Denis in regard through the toughest item which is going to probably alarm a lot of people in the real and they're gonna want to throw rocks at me but anyway we'll leave that slowly we'll leave that for another time but but but it's exotic the rebus says here you know what it's a dick is a real Sadiq is a mullah leader and other that those three things in his life define his relationship so if if you if you come across someone Hillel and you cannot see that in in them that they might be at Sadiq of another kind o or and again this is the palette Anya's description I'm not telling you that another ready or another a philosophy would say would agree I'm not I'm not saying that but pretty much he's on target you know it's a matter of degree but the alter rebbe is very clear in in his definition but we what you want to say hello for my family whether because of their you either have it or your dog people are in there drawn to it or not and when I remember thinking but I wear at that Gershon that is that it's really in a certain sense though you'll see them that make the rabbit in that way that's right that's right that's correct that's correct that's correct and you should know that that truth in the divi fiim was used in the court case of the Lubavitcher court case about the swaram with with the bf yeah yeah yeah well they they argued they used the the the the the side that felt that the inheritance is a private inheritance the library they argued that that the the chuhwa implies that it's a it's a being there ever is is not of an inheritance automatically it depends on on it's more of a familiar an individual thing so they they were they were arguing that that should apply to the to the swaram situation which which obviously the judge ruled against them and not that he really understood the cut of the intricacies of that Halawa but that was brought to the to the table and it is a very interesting true ver I'm not sure other you know Postum agree not that I've seen you know then comment on it but it it's definitely I'm aware of what you're saying I I in fact I tried discussing it once with my teacher to see his insight but I didn't it I didn't get a chance to do that but but I understand you're saying and yes yes I see them make a river so the Alta rebus says over here that this is the classification of exotic so he's writing to the students of remember love attempts he says guys why are you why are you sad that you're ever passed away you're sad because you lost you you've seen this you seem to feel and believe you lost your connection to God visa vie the Rebbe is faith and and and and year and other says the alte Leopard you have it all round since the content of the Sadiq is his faith Boas and his fear of God and love Russian that's something what he'll just said said you don't buy it at Sears in a package that's something that is transcendental and that's something that's here before during and after his lifetime because he has a mission the de chambre was on high before he was born the neshamah was with him within him when he was alive on earth and the measurement is still here even after he passes on at his gravesite at his house in his base Meldrick and in your house and in your room when you learn his Torah and discusses Torah and that's why yes I'm consoling you it hurts and we understand that but please don't conclude that God goodbyes but he's really active now you understand guys that if you think about this this is such a powerful thought for every for every year whoo-hoo-hoo and and and what what I understand from this is that the onus is not on them it's on me it's on on the Hasidim on the Talmud among the students do we students and fasted and that we feel this about our reverence articles passed away and if you do then to you he's alive and he's thriving and you need to be you want to be part of that and if you don't feel that then is dead and all over and very Six Feet Under you understand so I just I just want to say I just want to say that although I'm not a mature fish in the classical sense but I what do I know and I don't that I don't feel that's the approach to to to to Hakadosh barukh hold nevertheless the ideology the idea of exotic transcending is has nothing to do with the schism it's it's a fallacy it's a it has to do with the whole concept of but Sadiq after his life you understand but the way it's been cloaked and and and dressed up and presented is in a way that you know could be outrageous and people you know don't understand it and gets very upset but if you if you strip off if you strip all down you have you come to the same conclusion if you believe if you believe in a Sadiq let's say you're talking about of you who delayed you stretch right here be a great grandfather right good it's me I'll give you an example and I'm getting off topic but I think it's important there was one poem I years ago and but I had a few so I wanted to understand the writings of the original better and it's hard it's not just you know say from do Gulen charter Bullen which is more you know to see reincarnation Souls first marriages second marriages divorce sibling rivalry I mean all kinds of juicy stuff is there it's amazing but but there's other sections and you have to really know the fundamentals so I was looking for a teacher so I went this I spoke to someone on the phone who was really a lit FAQ he wasn't lit dropped but he was learning Kabbalah and frankly was very arid that I never called them back baby you spoke down at me and it was you know it was me and he was he was known he is known as someone who studies Kabbalah so I wouldn't learn from anyone that's arrogant you know like this famous story that I've told you that there was a faucet who would drink from a kettle but he would never drink from a samovar in Russia he had these big iron cast cast iron teapots called the samovar and it gave tea and you grant you hot water tea so there was a cluster they would say I will never take water hot water for a samovar but I'll take it from a kettle a little dinky kettle why because a kettle bends over but a samovar is so heavy you have to put your cup under it it will never bend over he said for someone who's giving water if he ain't willing to bend over I ain't good I have siphoning for my mind my slang over here I ain't gonna receive from him I don't want to have anything to do with such a teacher because he's not willing to bend because he's stuck up in his way a kettle might not be so fancy like a cast-iron big you know mama but it's it's bends over Pincess if I see the sherbert that have smaller victim who you knew with has her over from me hold that out there who was Alabama sure much spear in the Babbage and a fossil that some of trendek I'm telling you avert that you should it's worth a million bucks the difference between a kettle and a samovar and it's a lesson in life a piece I took it as a lesson that who do you want to receive from what type of teacher someone who is willing to he less humility so I'm gonna stock up forget it so one of these guys Kabbalah teachers just on the phone he was so arrogant I said I'm never calling you back again then I went to meet someone else it was a good teacher and see the shape of a person but it was very busy anyway somehow I found out about a young guy much younger than I in Borough Park who was knowledgeable and tremendous knowledge in all sections of Torah you can't my this young guy and and I asked him what he would he learn with me he said sure and we began we will have recess for a while in in the teachings of theories of history result anyway he writes me to his house on Purim I have my own house we lived a few blocks away I come to this house and this this is what I see when I come in listen semaa I see there's a chair a nice chair in the middle of the head of the table and alongside are people sitting on the right of the left at the chair there is Hollis there's why there's a better and there's Warren and there are two candles and the swaram are from the Holies if it shows wherever this is the trailer right and I and I say to him what's going on with me because you know this was pretty alarming he says this is for my Rebbe I said who is here Rebbe he says the Holies of the children Trevor who lived 150 years ago and he says I am I set up a place for him at the table I'm telling you what I saw I'm not exaggerating and he and he was dead serious and then the suit that went on for hours I was there for an hour or so and and the reverence that there was at the table and this is a young a young you know I'm twice his age probably at it I mean twice his age much older than him it was first of all for me it was vaio Peter and he wasn't al abama sure he wasn't as a bad thing he was a friend of Chabad but he was not he was a he was he was a trophy forever they lived 150 years ago and to him it was so real that this is the children rather sitting at the table at the pouring sugar leading the meal so for anyone that's gonna tell me it's only the Misha system that have these beliefs I saw it I saw it and and and and what's the point and here's the point the point is it's not about this if a children Reber the mission system it's about whether a person comes to a place in their life whether emunah is so powerful that this is in other words faith is an individual thing she that's that's the that's the the time the argument against the mission system is you could believe any way you want but why do you bring it to the streets why do you impose it on other people you know it's it's like private okay and I'm not gonna go in right wrong but but individually this is what we're learning here and Tanya well down to Rama is saying to the faceva of remember of attempts he's saying to them fellas you ever passed away but you're ever Yerba really didn't pass away why not because his message of faith fear and love for hashem is is here because that's what he's about and this is a this is a mindset you know it's a mindset either you you you come to understand this and believe it and see it or you don't and that's every it person's individual heart and private and and no one can say to the other person so it wasn't my place to say to this young guy you know like you're out of your mind like what are you talking about you know he passed away 150 years ago and here you're setting up a chair and and and swaram and and like god forbid and this is I'm telling you this is a serious town I'm telling you you know he still brought up a strap around the knee and any yeah yeah no I'm just saying so when that's why we're learning this this letter and we can and will contain tomorrow we didn't learn anything inside today but it's important to have to have this conversation because we're coming up to the yard side of the previous Aranda and we talked about the rebus 70 years of leadership so right away a normal person will say what he talked about the road passed away 25 years ago what leadership he talked about yeah the barbecue sauce even Robotnik's are doing great things and then it's wonderful as Hillel said the Habad house movement he you know is like probably the you know the greatest in the world that's all true but what does it mean that there's leading when you heard these this big heiress and the next one 27 and 28 you you'll have you'll hear what where where he we're coming from and it began here with the outer ever and again the outer ever shares the ideology and that's why I go back to what I started off saying if you don't know the ideology it's all a bunch of nourish pipe but yes it look bizarre they feel the star absolutely but but I understand where he's coming from he has that emunah he is living with his litter tray forever and this oh so I don't have to stop now but this taps into the whole idea having a choose her ever how does a Jew who wants to be a faucet ever ever choose it at Hillel said before trusted to make together how do you know where so whatever do you choose as far as your as far as your particular rapper to guide you in a certain way how do you choose your tonic coolin i who then conquered ation cool them off everyone's holy everyone's beloved right the cool of Postum SPF so usually said they all open up their mouths you know we're all holy no great but we we open our mouth you can also say cool place to my spear means you know what it means it means that they rebel helps us to open our mouth he's a motor tariffs to show he's a instructed to show us how to use our mouth so how do you use how do you know the answer is it's an individual think no one can legislate to you how you feel so for this one to my friend he was moved by the writings of the CD tray forever and he became a city trailer hustled even though his relatives the we have excusable the breslav hassidim are moved by Rebbe Nachman at nothing and and they feel that's their connection the barbecues were there and and and and and and the stove owners but it's not like you know join the club and and and and automatically you have club membership that's very superficial if you want it to be meaningful you have to you have to come to the understanding and have to ask yourself the card questions and ask yourself if this writing and these teachings talk to you and if they do you gravitate to them that's that's the kind of ultimate connection between the faucet and the particular River there's friends of rabi's there's associates of Rabbie's there is a acquaintances of rabi's so good but as far as really taking someone to be your Mora Terrace I'm not talking or about a teacher and a rough I'm asking about a rabbi a rabbis a rabbi if you need to know the laws of marriage you go to Rabbi who is expert of marriage the laws of sugar you go to the Moors of suka we're talking about as it says in pity of us what the same picky of us guys Robbie I'm man Robbie says a the debtor sure you're a lawyer of them what is the past that man should choose who's Robbie Robbie who diagnoses but doesn't say you rep you who does not see it says Robbie ready only a Rebbe can tell you what path and life he should choose so imagine now a red Battelle's yoni take your wife and family and move to Wyoming he says he says to himself wait a second what am I gonna do why you owe me and then he says them said but but before before before her laugh it'll say that he has to ask himself you have to ask yourself a question you'll need are you my Rebbe you're a great man but are you my Rebbe my rabbi my rabbi my Rev is not telling me to move to Wyoming but if but if I consider you my Rebbe a Rebbe supersedes the rubs the rabbi's opinion because their Rebbe deals with the soul and the Rebbe sees that the only and his wife and family for their souls benefit that he could be in Wyoming that's that's what that and anyone that believes in a human being god forbid and making him into a deity that's heresy no I mean I mean ask you some question when you both are filled by your voice or you go to the ariza you go to the holy for energies role I'm praying to them you praying to God that's right that that's the same thing that's the same thing we look at a Rebbe as a conduit to get talk of this borough guys have a great day everyone's agaisnt yes [Music] so I did you do sisters just have not yet anyway right before the trip she said listen I just booked my ticket I'm stopping end of that I'm stuffy a push behind that's nothing for one day show me what's going on but Dixon our sister arrives she thinks from the ceiling and what day what happens to Jersey Helen three important features how they think one issue is teaching only one something that was it what was the subject in who's gonna teach the subject in the camera must be we just finding lost objects today and I need to think and making sure that to see money money I'm just you find in orbit okay fine that's it her sister herself she's sister something by the world I'm gonna take my sister there's another chair I'd be this great Haley what happens is she lands in English like she takes your sister sure that the reference giving any hope she isn't fighting subjects and see money problems for you anyway then what's here what happens after that is her sister says this she says it's very nice she said quick to the sheriff but she says it doesn't I'm going to be fed food she builds the India and six months he spends sitting in some guru place and after six months the group premises that she's got get a personal meeting with the Guru till six months goes by when she gets her crystal meeting with the Guru and why this is happening the group who takes arrival up and was slowly she is when she was found because he wants to begin to the phone has been a lucky what happened he looks family seasons alone because along and in Solana should just study so the new picks it up he doesn't look in the hall he puts in a pocket but she's walking with the room she says you know a in executive the new put it in his pocket they get the beginning of is Papa so he walks further with the man and she's walking and walking on finally get back to the very temple away whoever is houseless and she is just reading what the grew and how she's gonna have with your heater's from the Guru and in the meantime she says it's up away in a second I'm thinking about the slowest book about this woman so she says we grew it a little dementia system wait a second I know unchristian but she says lunch but she says to him you found the Robin whose wallet is it I'm concerned maybe the personal rushed along with his wife would lose the wallet [Music] is finest interest when I find something there so okay I gotta go back and think about this city goes back to her room and ten minutes know what I was related because this is like about four o'clock in the afternoon other grooms gonna go to sleep do together do what he has to do it but the evening comes in and suddenly she appears in the grooves door backed up banks of bed good guru so what's going on he's really just had a personal meeting with you he says I know you had a personal baby would be but when told me exactly where I belong the separate you from me the tape wallet it's finders ignorance and I work for my religion to help to find something the owner he says I knew it right away then I just a bus is there anywhere I gotta go back to my sister the venue is mine and then then the story goes she went happily ever after of damage in the controversial have a good day beautiful yes yeah she came beautiful story have a beautiful