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Practical Chasidus w Rabbi chaim Dalfin - Maamar Choviv 1940 #8
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good okay we're on learning the minor
covered well dumb were towards the end
of the mindler today we'll be continuing
on page 277 so we're learning here about
the mission MPT Ava's hub of other
developments Ellen beloved as man was
created in the image of a Shem and then
have even yes royal beloved are yes
really should share Nikkor abundant by
mock him that are called children to a
share obviously if the mission divides
and enumerates two different types of
love to beloved's one other and one this
royal and significance and a meaning to
it so that ever wants to understand that
number two his question is why the order
why not Israel before other because
simply speaking of them would mean the
human being all humans non-jews included
and you thought yes I love Jews so you
would think if pity of is that you wish
enterprise which it is it mentioned
first Israel and then the other and
therefore that ever says that that his
they were based on his ancestors
understanding of of this are Picasa this
and I emphasize out people I see there's
not all P simple shot and the Mishnah
with the commentators okay because if
you say this to someone who's an age
credit should never learn considers
he'll say you're not be Gladys or your
enamorada to either you're a heretic or
you're an ignorant person so it's very
important when we repeat considers to
put it in a context and when we put it
in a context everyone actually say
everyone but those that are open-minded
and and don't have an axe to grind or an
agenda then you kid
you know then they'll be respectful of
you you know the nineteen early forties
the previous read our author he survived
Nazi Germany after his struggle in
Russia
so he went through a lot and he
physically wasn't well and he came to
America you would think now here was a
man who sixty years old and he literally
suffered so much and that he was still
alive was miraculous really
and he came here it's the free world he
would think that the last ten years of
his life he would be peaceful and
tranquil well for about five years of
that time from forty to forty-five til
the end of the war / primarily he had
inner conflict not within himself but
from the Jewish community the from
community who opposed him in various
ways I mean and in frankly in some ugly
ways and and and nevertheless that ever
kept his there ever kept is sorry no no
it wasn't it wasn't it wasn't with
reverence I love a chick who was his
confidante but his supporter and and he
stood up for him many any and he spoke
about the specialty of the Babbage and
Babbage Shiva so you could say that why
you you know I'm Israel world if you put
it in those terms was very much with him
and the Pacific world that believe was
also pretty much with it not though
there wasn't really a Hasidic world of
much in the 1940s they were you know a
handful of rebels of hue of the Lower
East Side a few Brooklyn but you can't
even say there was a Hasidic world there
were few custody grantees with you know
you know congregants who dabbled in
their soul but the literature world
would started to build itself from 1941
in a way sense even earlier than the war
they were here you know earlier they not
all of them but some of their leaders
really you know gave him a very hard
time and he and his brother Ari were
strong enough and big enough and had
maybe even bigger connections with many
people from Russell came over because
what Babbage in Russia was the kingpin
okay they could say whatever they want
but the kingpin was cabal in Russia for
200 years 150 years for sure and I the
more I study history
I see how how they were with everyone I
mean I'm now finishing a book on tells
the you know you see even Cleveland the
famous Russia but that tells receiver
and the chief in Chicago that tells
receiver and it amazes me how going back
to 1910 1920 12 1989 I found letters
from the rishabh you know about tells
and and then I found a letter from Rabbi
Eliezer Gordon he was the head of the
achieve at the time who asked for a set
of the same aesthetic responsive that
they send them and I have a copy of the
letter from the achieve Angela BBQ she
was letterhead sending him in 1918 a set
of a semi said that the true verse of
the time I said it what I'm saying is
that you know the the relationship
between Chabad Lubavitch and the
literature world there was very it was
very good overall during those years you
have to understand that people don't
understand they don't have the
background and they don't want to
understand it the cultural the cultural
experience was very much tight I'll give
you an example you're all living a bet
Shemesh you're not my picture you know
lebarge car bomber I'm not the cherish
is is a little hole-in-the-wall
okay I mean as far as when I was there
you know you have so many others larger
you know shoals and groups whatever
nevertheless everyone pretty much gets
along you know now I wouldn't be
surprised
if the kids from the Barbara homes for
parents who mean that way can end up
married kids from race from these kodesh
from rabbi am what's called rabbi yeah
I'm told that next to my Pharaoh's rule
the rabbi you know that he will you go
to sometimes what I'm saying is this
their behavior what I'm saying is that
although this one's orientation is
astronauts and this was as breslav and
this was as Chabad but everyone is like
is together so culturally it also allows
for an integration and that's what
happened actually
prewar I mean I could tell you names of
staunch you know people from a book from
mere from tells whose wives rural
daughters of the Bible are considered
and and and most of them the kids ended
up the baggage because you know the
mother is the mainstay in the home now
unless you know you send your kids when
they're teenagers or you know
college-age and they go to a little
Shiva's having you know then they will
they will become beliefs locks that say
rabbi Ruderman of Baltimore the Russian
ship over there is wrong you know that
his father was Allah by virtue closes
they can know that and that his say that
took him to the river I shop for a bro
so he told everyone he was going to say
he got a brush over there ever a shop
but he was a real it you know what
happened
he learned to Slovakian is in his you
know teenage years and they were in
different they weren't you know what
anti Casillas but it didn't mean
anything to him
so naturally he went in the trend of
Mooser and and and literature you know
lifestyle know that so that's what
happens at a certain point now then it
was more prominent because because of
the the the the move because everyone
was kind of you know survival mode today
when we're in a free society you have
more time to decide who I want to be
Alabama to repress liver a Sackler elite
welcome mirror or Apple upon the feature
you know everyone
you know you know and let's not you know
go into you know what is better than the
other just just the idea so this you
didn't have really in pre-war when it
came to America
everyone was positioning themselves well
Babbage kabab didn't position himself
they just were always you know leaders
in communal issues so the previous or
ever with her crime elisa were like this
and they came to and he came to all the
meetings of reply amazing because he
respected reply money sir you understand
so when it comes to america and and and
this is and he sees that when the
refugees in shanghai were supposed to be
given money for food and clothing and
survival and was given from a one
prominent rob was rabbi Epstein a flying
official Epstein of Chicago it was a
rabbi there in a shoe for sixty years
and I wrote about him very interesting
man his brother was the receiving slop
bucket at much emerge to Epstein and
this rabbi Epstein wrote a letter and I
had cited the letter and in the letter
he says the money I raised is to be
given to all to everyone all the is
Shiva students and all the achievers
they were about five hospital being
function of Labov a mere and the one or
two others and everyone should get well
not everyone got but didn't get get as
much or didn't get equal and didn't get
all the time and and and and this was
this really disturbed under their the
the previous eleven because later they
wrote a letter to the rabid karate rabbi
right chick actually I think was one of
the sign he was on the letter on behalf
of the 38 students we don't have what to
eat to the point that our crimes will
leverage the receiver and mere
authorized some of his Bufferin at 3:00
4:00 in the morning to go to the Labatt
that the Babbage's students who come and
they'll throw down food from the window
that's that's how they have to smuggle
food because otherwise they would be
blamed from the father yes vada of Sola
in New York that you're giving money to
them when they have their supposing they
have there
I don't want to go into the right wrong
cuz there was a very tough time so
defeated could ever had this issue and
and he writes about it in a letter in
the sky dish of his and volume eight
he writes over there he says you know
they mama char like like attack you know
hurting me and making my life difficult
so he went through a lot of hardship now
why am I telling you this
what does this have to do with the minor
because we're learning about Kovac
autumn and five even Israel so one of
the other issues is that their ever
previous or ever saw that each Jews even
are are losing their faith both men and
women the Holocaust was happening until
forty to I think what they found out of
the great act that all that
unfortunately it was a very difficult
time that people already asked this were
assimilating and now with the Holocaust
so they never felt he had he to try to
give a global message to hidden to
hidden who were still speaking Yiddish
and that was a natural tongue of hope
and faith so he clandestinely had an
editor put out a magazine called huh
Kiev at Ducie the reading the call and
the holiness and in that magazine in
that newspaper of sorts once a month was
published from 1941 pretty much 1945 he
there was articles written about tearing
up of faith and facilities and also he
he wrote my mahram in Yiddish that were
very very basic and again his his
purpose of all that was to keep them
connected some of these my modern were
were interpretations that weren't
literal the figurative so for example
the mission empathy others but says a
copy of the mahalo layman right that's a
rabbi ask anyone that's right so mister
Pitts a rabbi yaakov a better how the
that's his name he never said that
yeah but Mahalo Aloha means caveats from
the word akin a heel
Mahalo L is from the word Hillel Hillel
which means to praise a copy of them
Holloway means that there'll be a time
when even the heel will give praise to
God who represents the heel the Jews
that are not very learning right because
the difference between the head and the
heel is if you hit the head
it hurts he could make some first of
your damage you hit the heel but it
hurts less and it's not a big deal right
so if you compare ahead ahead Jew to a
heel Jew one of the Tommy the off
me and the heel Joe of the simpletons so
that ever was say that there'll be a
time and he was referring to the time of
the Holocaust when when there were many
akava Jews heel Jews and they never said
specifically then you'll give praise to
a Shem that'll bring Messiah when you
the heel jewel will do Hillar kavya been
Mahalo
when you give praise that will be only a
more of a reason for Michelle to come
well the the little fox you know flipped
out from that interpretation another
example
trade should know the huh supporter it's
a mission em bitten in Baba kama
everyone every child in yeshiva when it
begins really the mother an ox of gores
cow what's the dimensions is a full
damage is that ox eh-eh-eh-eh known you
know Nagas I know him
banger and someone who continuously is
he's not got for is it not hot seen as a
cold has it show I'm 50% 100% that's the
Mishnah the cannabis explains it in more
spiritual tradition other cuz I put up
that it has to do with
with with with the type of gates of her
and nefesh apartments you have do you
have a sure type of yetzer hara Burmese
or a himura and he talks about that for
the mission in the elements is a lumen C
or shall I
these are Mattias you find verifiable
Hafiz and these are the findings that
you have to announce right and the
minister continues so the neighbors
brings the explanation that this is
talking about the Jew who finds a soul
he finds a person in the street that he
says you're a lead come but I'm feeling
comforted shul comes make a brother sale
Italian come but you know let's reunite
your neshama then comes along someone
else and he says wait a minute I'm the
one who told him to even go there
so I should be the one who gets credit
for his truther so we have a mellitus
who is the one who brought this neshama
to chuhwa and the mistress says yeah let
it cool or whatever they'll do find it
so all these I just gave you three
examples all of these interpretations
the the Litvak world they're pretty much
at that time and the leadership of the
establishment you know they they were
very upset and they felt that the rep is
is belittling the literal shock in the
mission and the Gemara which of course
that wasn't his intent so all I'm saying
is that if you don't have a background
it's so easy to accuse and and and
belittle and what I was showing you is
it took quite a while and I was hoping
wouldn't they so long is that even good
island and you know made this accusation
seventy years ago you know and it wasn't
good so it's very important to to when
you share custody especially if it's
casitas that involves a mission or a
Gemara or a Halawa to give a brief
background so that the listeners have
that perspective and but for example
when I spoken in at
M'Lynn solutions sure you know several
times and although he the grove you know
asked me to talk and you know it was
with his sanctioning nevertheless I gave
them a context before I give over words
of Casilla so they understand where I'm
coming from and therefore it makes it
you know it's more acceptable now then
today today everyone is giving
interpretations and everyone's making
very classic and everyone is interested
goolies so it's not you know but then
when you had hardcore you know with
rocks and hardcore you know people
learning and this is the problem the
Mishnah you know what are these ceviche
interpretations you know it's good for
our level Malkin when you're half drunk
and half asleep and you want to wake
yourself up you say a nice little saying
you know but but but the real learning
is to murder dachang tasteless you know
that was the attitude at the time you
know it came from came out of with or
whatever and and there's something to it
don't think there's nothing to it
there's something to it when there's
trying to do hardcore learning it's
hardcore learning it's not quite enough
applause you know that you do it when
you when you you don't have the mind to
learn for whatever reason you know today
it's a different environment today on
the country what inspires someone at a
shop is table is a vert imagine gonna
tell them a pupil you know you lose your
crowd then you lose them before you even
you know so it's a whole different sea
but nevertheless there are those
wannabes who convince themselves that
they're they're you know holier than
thou and more learning than thou and
they they look up bow oh the pun of the
Talmud then is that's the ultimate and
I'm about to Shuba and you know that's
what I have to strive for and frankly
some of their kids and grandkids already
in the system and I saw this in Asia
code this meeting different people who
have kids come famous modern different
times and I and I
served a very interesting dynamic some
of them came from Cheryl Yasir and the
various box abusive ISM individual
linemen in America especially a ship you
know out in Far Rockaway of a frightful
see Shiva and the kids were ready very
right-wing upon the veg Mears la bocca
Severn you know and you know and some of
them invited me to their home and I came
you know and they wanted me to share
because they wanted me to share casa
this you know and hoping that their kids
would catch catch on and and I saw that
you know it's not so easy to you know
those never saw Shiva and Marcia has
more weight than crime Dolphin coming in
for Friday night meal and sing over it's
just you know and God blessing really
you know that that's the way it should
be mean to say you know you Russia Shiva
you're much gear you must fear that's
the that's the one that a buffer or
you're curled her must be be ice and
teachers that's what they should listen
to I'm not I'm not saying they should
you know but but at the same time the
overall the overall Barbara's today is
more open and receptive to to the vert
to the to the the you know the QT the
cutesy saying the gamut Rhea and and all
of that so Ravi vada and have even you
saw and that ever says have even a hobby
bottom does not refer to a Gentile he
says it refers to a Jew and again not
that the trap is wrong but his
interpretation is that the based on the
Hasidic thinking I'm going to share with
you that Larry welcome is a human being
as is a Jew what a so why is he called
other a Jew is a Jew conceiving Israel
why is it called of them say says
because it's quote talking about the
nefesh of sickness the human rational
logical sold and dry within the Jew and
and since it's open to Satan and it is
guided and harnessed by say go by logic
therefore we attributed to other
versus he's wrong cuz your smile is
yummy I will kiss and chew is all about
the neshamah
ello kiss and by the way every Jew from
Fri even some that that might be anti
submitted against Jews like we've
discussed you know there's an official
kiss there they're in big exile but
that's their enough Italy kiss but of
course both of them is the nephews of
syphilis so then that ever says so how
did the two get together and what's the
purpose what is the purpose of having so
what you know we have an official bodies
we have an official kiss they're in two
ends of the spectrum and then we have in
the middle of an emphasis Italy's that
ever says this is the purpose of of why
Hashem created us to synthesize the
nefesh I promise an official that gives
to be able to talk to each other and
make a wholesome experience by utilizing
the virtue of both what's the virtue of
both so he taught us that the virtue of
the nephrons Obama's is passion passion
the virtue of net facilities is
godliness without the nefesh I promise
you could have godliness but an
apathetic cold way 1000m facility is the
passion can be can be and is usually
drawn and used for inappropriate thing
for no good things so the necessary kiss
tells the nefesh our bodies i want your
passion for god and then after job
bombings tells necessarily kids i want
your god leads to make my passion holy
but wait a minute
we're so far from each other it's a
generation gap so they burst in made
that he gave us an official sequence who
understands both languages and both our
ideologies and both philosophies and the
nephew just simply says listen
nefesh I promise I understand you're a
Bahama you want to indulge and I will
give you guidance and justification for
you for your tightest but since I'm
doing it I'm say ho I don't act like a
bimbo yeah
to be able to support it improve it so
automatically you know what that does it
cools off the negative passion then the
deficit which turns to the nefesh of the
kids and says I understand you all you
want as I said you don't want to but you
don't want to work you want to just
being based medicine and the shul and
Davin and learn and and and you want to
be with the Angels well my dear friend I
shall put you on earth to work everyday
and you have a family
and you know you know you you got it we
have to do something that's that's
bringing up our Nussle and I will help
you find ways where you can be a godly
man in the work force oh so each of them
sees that an official syphilis is an
interest ago she ater that doesn't have
an ulterior gender that is against them
but rather works for them they allow him
to be part of the experience and
ultimately the nefesh have syphilis
where the witch is the place where there
is free will as we discussed at length
is a it brings together the right and
the left and every job a beneficence and
that is why this mission of causative
other Mahavira Israel is such an
important mission er because the able
Hashem is saying loving I love this I
love the unity between other than
efficacy please and and and the nefesh
ll kiss and of course the nefesh Obamas
because that's why I created you and
that's why I gave the Toyota this is an
overall summary of what we learned that
till now let's go to 276 now and we are
at hold on
oh so we are at about a one two three
four five six seven seven lines from the
top of the page 277 now official series
means the heifers it it's refined Lahab
in Omaha streetcar so better kiss to
comprehend a godly idea this man this
man his birth his body will be staff a
fan aficionado from time to time the
nefesh a promise is refined to Miss Ole
Miss oddly enough is a citrus and at the
prime of the nefesh embodies the animal
drive is refined the deficit list is
exalted missile it's elevated from the
word alia right it comes to the floor of
the hand value of the NASA unofficially
kids became is Mahalo and the rebel says
over him now is its plural
through them through the net fish are
cities and the nefesh Obamas value
demand through them Nelson officially
kids but penis Mahalo and something
called a Mahalo a walker ago in other
words you go normally there is the idea
of a fine mate you're limited to what
you are you you know this is who you are
you called the claiming you're standing
why I called you're standing because
you're limited to your cop so if you're
a hazard person it's tested the vorak
Mura Rafa me the david stern of a sharma
in truth or so unofficially kids or so
is limitless so how does it obtain it's
it's limitless
how's that revealed better how's that
revealed through excuse the expression
that kick in the pants that it gets from
the nourish our bodies and the nephews
of citrus
the passion that goes to the logic says
he never shall a kiss
stop box himself boxing yourself in and
saying I only know my rabbi in Maya
Shiva go to learn from everyone that
doesn't mean you change the way you put
on tilling and it doesn't mean change
your sheet up but be open to learning
beyond mihalis don't be an eye mate
I think that means I want to go or you
me that's all tunnel vision being Mahalo
is here and if you're strong and you
know who you are
you could only benefit that's called a
Mohammed let's continue
and he says behind us right there where
the superbaby different about me is
through elevators refining that sure
Bobby's feeling that was of citrus and
the benefit that you get through the
intellect so so nice early ocean of
education their course is not even
officially kids shalyah neither he
traded for Leah the leader he imposes
the the famous idea that the descent is
for the purpose of the ascent he nearly
as ice not stay that way the zoo this
why is that called Hilde why the pool
that you read there it's called the
arena because the nephrons are the tears
his godliness with angels well he what
he want for me I don't want to I don't
want to deal with Bahamas and even say
ho get away from you I just want to dive
in a shake and learn shake and bake in
the shoe and in your saliva at a little
corner and you know someone writes me
from America I've got it running I'm
gonna go to Israel I can't that mo my
problem said I'm just gonna go to Israel
I'm not talking about now colder than
then and riots
I said get a job first I see you all day
on the computer and on Facebook get a
job go out and work and with that code
energy stroll you know so the point is
the beneficiary kiss it's a year either
for it to have to lower itself down to
work and job their business and how to
try Nick and that
one says this and he says that leave me
alone
Oh what's the purpose you need the suit
say Italia this descent most admires is
for the purpose of an ascendant
guesswork with all the issues we have
and we have issues all around us
personal communal exception spiritual
physical material the purpose is to soar
higher
you can't soar higher if you're stagnant
my love them are stagnant we call that
time then they're standing in one place
neshama so called my house him they're
walking they're going get up get up
early start the day early lady you'll be
tired to fall asleep they'll deal with
it later I'm up from 5 o'clock I jumped
out of bed like a roaring lion and I put
up some fliers all over Flatbush and
burp I'm flying with my car from headed
there jumped into the mikveh got a
coffee came back to give this year I'm
gonna be tired later later
my husband you got to go as long as
you're alive to get that sick of the bed
I had two weeks of Kovac I couldn't move
and I thought that was it I didn't
actually think that was a fact I was
gonna live I never thought I'm dying but
off the shell I knew for sure I'm for
sure what do we know you know but for
some reason I had a sensation this is a
tough one and you know I've got to get
through it but I'm coming out of it and
butter fashion so you got to be in my
house as long as you're breathing and
you're walking and you could do you
gotta get out and move you have to you
know in some way everyone can produce
you know there's not even you talk to
someone you make someone feel better you
crack a joke you know you learn
something you go visit someone who's
home bow you know me people are
homebound now and in pajamas just like
here in Borough Park and you go to
someone and you knock on the door he
doesn't social distancing you stay far
away if he wants that and you talk to
them and yet then you make them happy
that itself is your day you've made your
day everything else is now extra credit
you make your
if you brought a smile to someone else's
you know the personality and face anyway
that ever sensor you need the dulce de
Julio this you need to then officially
gives it's for your own benefit now for
each other kids because without it
you're going to be an unmade you're
gonna be like an angel and you're
greater than angel so why do you want to
suffice to be an angel and that's by the
way one of the things that we we suffice
with mini mediocracy you know we
excellence is something that ah that's
left for select you know every person
has to strive for excellence and
everyone has excellence in a certain
area in their life identify what that is
and bring it you know to yourself and to
the outside so this is all a result of
the net facilities working with an
efficient Obamas I mean you understand
what what it's at such a rich thought
that's why I'm spending some prominent
that the only way what we're learning
the only way to get to excellence is
getting your hands dirty
that's my father your European Jew he
taught us growing up a me it's like you
know hard work hard work is where it's
at you know so we would say we're bored
so he would say of course and get his
crops a cup and violent bang your head
on the wall who you're born putting in
your board no board when you have to get
up at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning and go
out to bring your parents a little food
so they can eat the survive but there's
no room for border you have four or five
kids you gotta make up Aneesa there's no
real I don't like this job I don't my
dad's who else so so what that's why
your kids a chauffeur so so so this
whole idea of hard work intense labor
and and and the you read that side of
halia is a healthy way that brings at
the end such happiness that is so reward
for everyone knows here that the the the
time he spent the school
the time is spent in yeshiva the time
you spent in in in in in difficult
situations and then later in life you
reap the benefit you reap the benefit I
see it I see them and again I you know I
was in a way you know limited in one in
one area in yeshiva you know but even in
in that sense I see now so many years
later the virtue of the hard work at
Yeshiva that I did I see it you know and
I could point to it and and and it
brought me a bunch of a family and a
partnership so everyone has a talent
everyone has something you you need to
take it and develop it at end and if
some reason like we discussed a few days
ago you made a mistake and it's possible
not going to say a mistake meaning that
you know you know your advisor and
college told you to go to be a historian
or be a doctor it'll be this will be
that and really it didn't talk to you
you know and you're 40 50 years old and
all the sudden you you know you want to
be something else I have someone who's a
top DC attorney I mean I mean really you
know and making a very good living and
he once told me you know if I had it my
way I would be a rabbi I love to learn
and I love to teach and you know and
what am i doing I'm you know ultimately
saving companies billion dollar
companies and yes I get paid for it's
very nicely but that's not really what I
want I love to teach and tailor is is
you know so here's a person with 50 60
years old and very successful very
prestigious very accomplished in a very
very fine person nevertheless is a part
that so what do we do what do you do
about that
you know what you do you do what you
guys are doing you learned every day and
then when you have a chance Travis to
give it to our later
here there you do that and and maybe one
day maybe one day you'll have you know
finished with all your business and if
you really want to be a rabbi you want
to be a teacher you know you'll do you
go into a school and you'll teach my and
my McCook nobis solum you know he worked
very hard that America came made aliyah
tape there's this row and and and and he
told me that he loved to to go into
schools with you know autistic children
and young children and and teach them
and talk to them and part of what he did
the last few years of his life is he did
that up in the rear so it you know a
person should not exclude that part that
really you know is something they want
to do but there's a crime for it there's
a time for it you know I mean there's a
time I'll get I'll get to that you know
I'll get to that but right now I have to
raise my family get them married a horse
you know settle down and then I could
pursue more of my dreams my beliefs I he
didn't learn much insight today but I
hope you appreciated the conversation
any comments yeah yeah we we somehow
need to share these things with all the
other people we should have two hundred
people on the zoom here now I'm saying
it's a you know it's it's good learning
it's good conversation maybe if we
called it Moosa we would have more
people instead of us in this I don't
think so you think so
life duels call the life the new most of
motion Myers you could call it and
market it any way you want and if you
want me to change the word considers to
life tools I'll even do that because
when they see my beard don't know that
this is a Labov at you're speaking so
call the life tools call it mousse so
you can't get away from it but i'll call
it life tools too anyway guys have a
great day be Moxley us be frail ah but
she
was coming soon side isn't bye-bye thank
you