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Rabbis Sacks & Feinstein; Rashab's unique style in Chasidus and Chabad Yeshiva
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team who
was actually at my uh daughter's wedding
and
and set up raj under the hoop and
probably the last time he was in 770 was
the seven years ago
i hope to publicize that picture later
this week
he was a very refined per very refined
person and a big time talk
um so that's that okay
so you want a little yeah you know i was
just going to say that
we definitely want to for brain about
what we talked about last week about
but i have to say that these two
robotim that were nifty that we lost
maybe maybe maybe we could ask you to
speak about each one maybe for just a
very brief moment because it's very
significant that we that we lost them
okay okay not you know
a little i know i'm not you know very
well versed in their lives
uh they're you know but um you know
rabbi sacks or unison sacks known as
jonathan sachs was a very brilliant
philosopher he studied philosophy that
that was his um
you know his degree was in philosophy
and
um i'm not sure if he studied at issue
university under episode of
i was trying to figure it out this
morning but if not he definitely
identified and uh learned uh you know
thing teachings of rabies elevator
thereof
so you know already that
put him in a uh an arena and a domain
where
he had um you know a comfort level with
uh the rebbe and la babbage and
in addition to that he met some of the
senior rabbis in england rabbi
shmuel and
vogel and and others who you know were
very you know bright intelligent
and they uh expose
expose them to the teachings i believe
of the rep again
whether they were the first i don't know
but
and uh he you know wrote uh in english
his writing is superb if you've read his
writing it's
his speaking was superb and his writing
was was was tremendous and
he wrote torah studies which you've seen
probably right
it's the rebels some classics some
classic citrus of the rebel
that he put into you know everyday
english for intelligent people
you know not oxford english uh where you
you know thou
you know those type of words where you
don't really understand half of the
things and to do that it's a great
accomplishment because
you know the the sikhs the rabbis spoke
said them in yiddish
then they you have to put that into
english and
it was a great feat and in the chabad
world
this was used i myself used it over the
years
in giving classes because he had he had
very good
the way he presented the ideas were very
good
especially for a teaching of balabatam
and all that
and um he uh he had yeshidas
i think it's online some of it um he
tells
and the rabbit you know the rabbit you
know he thought he would be going in for
abraca and the rabbit
kept him there for a long time and and
discussed with him
you know what can be done for students
in in
england and and things like that and uh
so between i i the way i see it this is
my own
humble opinion between rabbi
salavaitchik
and the rebber and robert steins also
you know who he knew and respected
i think that gave him um a real
understanding
of uh of of of
the rebel and he and he had a very very
um
deep feeling and and and for
exitus that's good
so you know he was a philosopher right
and of course he was a chief rabbi
and those are very different positions
and in addition to that he was
he wasn't uh you know hussed they had no
i don't think he wore a garter and
anything but but in his mind it seems to
me that he was um
very hasidic very bad acidic you know
the mabinidas
and uh you listen to to a talk of his
last night we were here during blah blah
listening a little bit
you know he was a very very um he saw
he saw the larger world he you know he
he really
and that wasn't an old man he really got
a very good understanding of of
of the world and and what the
contribution of of of young
jews are to the world what he had a
very broad vision a broad vision
of what yiddish kite is and what kadus
boroku wants
another amazing thing that came out
yesterday i don't know if you read it or
heard it but
he he had the macho of the illness when
he in his 30s
and he had it again in his 50s
and now he had it in the 70s and he
succumbed to it right
but no one knew really about it that he
had in the 30s and 50s he never spoke
about it
and um there were some comparisons made
to some other great
people jewish and not jewish who
you know were ill and then they you know
spoke about through their
poetry and writing and music they
they speak about their illness and a way
to
overcome it uh he didn't do that so
that's something
interesting you know it's uh it's
interesting and
uh you could say i don't know i
don't know if you could say that i was
going to say that uh some
you see a look at jewish leaders
do they talk about their own you know
health and
issues you know not necessarily you know
i don't know anyways that's really i
think
depends on the person some people need
the the outlet
regardless of how great and bright you
are or not
some people by talking about it it makes
it easier for them and other people
uh it's not that way whatever so that's
a little bit about rabbi rabbi sax it's
um
it's a great loss for the collective
jewish world
maybe not the hasidic world of mayor
sharon gould and borrowport and
williamsburg but
definitely for the collective jewish
world yes yes
uh
a certain memory i remember a story that
i think was rabbi sax of him sending a
letter to the rebel
uh and the rebbe sent sent the letter
back to him with the word the letter i
circled he told the story are you
familiar with this no it's not with him
the stories with rabbi weinreb of
baltimore
i don't think so
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the story is that the one of these
gentlemen
what of these great gentlemen sent a
letter to the rebbe
and the rebbe sent the letter back
circling every time
he used the word i kind of like
reflecting back uh uh
a a center uh being centered on
himself in a certain way um rabbi
winer of the story is that there's a jew
involved there's a jew in washington to
right consult with name one okay okay so
maybe you're right
yeah that's okay if you if you tell me
it's two different stories
that's the one i meant yeah i think it's
i think it's two different stories okay
i i you know it's it it just came to my
mind
well it's interesting you say that
because yesterday in the talk that i
heard here for i don't know when it's
from
but he's speaking about he suggest oh it
was a ted talk
it was a ted talk it's online so he says
i said
that right yeah about about a 10 minute
and it's it's excellent and and there he
says
i suggest the bottom line is that we
substitute
for the word self other
you got to listen to it so it says
instead of self improvement
other improvement instead of self esteem
other esteem
so you know maybe that's that's
in line with what you're telling me the
story with the rebbe but um
i'm sure it can be found online okay now
just to jump over
to the david feinstein um
adobe feinstein was like his father a
most humble
humble person you know i always say that
the greatness of ramosha feinstein
is not the amount of traitor that he
knew and the sack and it was considered
the positive because
that's that's a given in every
generation you had one or two such
people
but it's the humility to have such
such knowledge and and and to have such
humility he was so humble
in his shul in the lower east side no no
no you know the same
shoe building yeshiva building wherever
you darwin over there
um for the last 60 years you know
and and and you could
find a great tighter scholar sitting
with him
talking with him or a little boy talking
to him
or a teenager and like without any
fanfare whatsoever and that's
you know tremendous uh humility another
and that that to me is the real sign of
of a person who's
who's really uh uh talmud
is to be to be bereft
of of of guyva and ego now if david
rabdov and his son he had the two sons
of
david and rabbi and roofing's a little
younger and uh barakashev still alive
and he has the yeshiva
in staten island the pharisee shalom has
a division of staten island which is
across the verrazano bridge here in
next you know between borough park
bensonhurst and
and staten island anyway
um rev was also a very modest person
i recall um we asked him to read the
ksuba
under the hooper and he refused now
he's older than his brother he was a
much
known as you know he's a much greater
talmud
for sure he was seen as the replacement
for his father
in
so you know usually
you the the reading of the super is
given to either arasha shiva
a rav i mean again i'm not it doesn't
say it has to be that way
and you know but you know you want
someone who's
able to read our aramaic you know and
then and knows where to stop and where
to start you know sometimes people read
the tsuba
and uh if you listen to them it's
you know it's it's it feel
you know there's ignorance there's
there's a lack of um
annoying you know what they're saying
and they read through sentences without
the periods
so you try to give it to someone who is
a a stickleton
right so who who better than david
feinstein to read
the super at our daughter's wedding
and he refused you know he said i'm
older or it's harder to stand as long
but i felt it was like humility i really
felt it was in
and and who read it was his brother
bruven uh read it you know
my majesty my uh my
son-in-law's mother father was the
administrator for
moshe feinstein she was pharisee you
shall i am in the lower east side
his name was kapilavich
in fact he has michael from ramosha and
in one of my upcoming books i'm going to
publish the smith and said some nice
pictures
and and so they were very very close
very tight i mean
in a way you know without this rabbit
couple of lovable moisture you see
it wouldn't go anywhere he had you know
the financial end you know the the
grants the programs the
tuitions whatever so
so so but but he he uh he didn't want to
read the super
he didn't want to read the super so we
gave him a brother there's a picture of
that some pictures
you know we honor with a brook of course
and and you have to understand that
in the last 30 years of 40 years
not many italian not many lit fox
came to 770.
okay uh it just it it just wasn't
uh you know chabad took a certain
approach i'm talking even before the
mashiach controversy you know the rabbit
came out with the mitsuyama in the 70s
the mitzvah campaigns and a lot of a lot
of people
they were they had an issue with it you
know there was very different to what
they knew the bavitch
in russia rob moshe came from a city
beyond luban
was my father's shiva in
lud laboratory yeshiva in the 1950s
and he became of the barbecue he was a
talmud
of the prophets of you know
yeshiva somehow he he was nascar
to lubavitch and he became a babaji his
brother
was like best friends with ramosa
and and every year when rab nachman
would come
to new york for tishrei for to the
rabbit for tishrei
he would visit and they spent time they
were very very close
you know and and all this contributed
to the moisture had a tremendous yeah i
don't know if you read it but i've
written a lot about it and writing more
about it
and i hope one day maybe they have an
exclusive book on ramosha and the rebbe
but the the the he had a
great derek harris for the rebel and
they ever had great their hurts for him
he had a wonderful
relationship but nevertheless you know
the the people around ramosa
didn't feel that way many times
and he took positions that they were
upset about
i mean they you know wrote they were
upset about
and and some even wanted to
oust him from his leadership as the head
of akudis in new york because they felt
he doesn't have the
backbone in various issues not just with
lubavitch to stand up
and and and you know say a different
opinion
they felt he was you know more you know
more soft and he was soft he was soft
okay so there was a lot of politics
all around but he did not pay attention
to that if he felt something is right
he said it and ramos and and with with
lubavitch and that
he sided with the rep almost in every
issue he sided with the rebel
at least publicly okay and this was
something that
many of his contemporaries who worked
with him
were not happy about i mean i know this
from the inside from his secretary
who's a laboratory he was a clone
destinative
and he was hired in 69 and
he he worked with her moisture till i
think 1980
and and he lives in there to throw i'll
give you that hint
and you i don't think you guys know him
uh and he's a gold a gold mine of
information and i've been getting
information from him and you could write
a whole book about
the behind the scenes of their abundant
and it it's it's a whole discussion i
really don't want to discuss not at
least on facebook
you know so
so what's my point i'm making a long
point the point is i guess that
that although the so so so
for for litvishira abundant to come to
770 from
the 70s and on was not was not a daily
occurrence it wasn't a monthly
occurrence
either it was a very exception to the
rule
right so here
in 2009 in 2013 for uh david feinstein
who were talking about passed away
and and his brother approving
to come to the wedding at 770 you know
is is a statement
it's a statement that um you know
they're not just coming because
of the familiar connection with um
my you know my son-in-law's mother but
also because you know at the end of the
day
they knew what lubavitch and that ebba
represented and they knew it because of
their father
did you did did you guys know that
in 1942 there was a serious
consideration for that measure to become
the russia shiva of 770.
that i didn't know 1942
and if not for a family member he would
have been the russian shiva the
the previous rebel of joseph yitzhak and
and and the staff of schmuler victor
bisel jacobson the rabbit mentally the
the
like the board you could say they wanted
him that major feinstein would have been
i think about it you imagine a bunch of
fights they would have been known as the
as the
shiva of the babits i think they would
have put lubavitch
in in the orthodox kharadi american
world on a whole different plateau
but it was uh stopped because of a
relative
who not going to go into the details but
you can hear it online from rabbi
greenblatt who's like 95 years old and
he was a student
in the yeshiva and he says i remember
when so-and-so
came daily to talk to ramosa and
discourage him from taking the job
so the point i'm making is that rabbisha
had a
you know a good feeling because he was
an isha emis and his son this rep david
seems to me the little i knew about him
that he had the same
humility and the same emma's kite the
same truthfulness
you know there are amongst the litvision
russia shivers
and and possibly you know
and whatever they there's the more of
the sense of you spoke about hillel the
eye the ego
the self you know that's that's part of
a certain culture okay it's not just uh
an individual there's a culture you know
and um
the feinsteins at least and abduvid
were not that way and i think that is a
uh
a tremendous um a tremendous
uh stress that such a yid
you know gave to the jewish world for 91
years
you know for 91 years he gave
that he was also very
careful not to kind of deviate from his
father's
pisces denim rulings just last night i
heard
a little short clip about cessation
of life at what point you considered
one to be dead and
shrita was he he argued and believed at
the point
of you when he stopped breathing
so the interviewer a few of them they
were talking to him
they said well robert tendler argues
it's not
that and rabbit handler is his
brother-in-law
avi retender moshe tender is the
brother-in-law
to the david feinstein mercia tender
married and racist daughter
so i i i was i paid attention to the way
he answered the question
he said i cannot tell you what my
brother-in-law said nor what he knows
now he's a biologist moshe tendler was a
phd i believe in biology
you know if he if he argues that
otherwise you know i maybe he's right i
can't tell you
all i can tell you is what my father
said
and and and and the interviewer is like
probing him from the right and the left
and inside and outside so what what do
you see
i i really appreciate it
and this is this i think is also you
know associated with humility
you know if you're going to say over if
you're going to repeat something
in the name of arof in the day
especially when it comes to
an issue of deciding what moment is
death
here there's no room for uh you know
fantasies it's this or not you know
you know what i'm saying right it's very
serious
and he was very careful just to repeat
and
you should listen to it it's online it's
not a long clip
and i think if you see the way he
answers the question
tells you about him that's the point i'm
making moshe asked
to tell you a little bit about him so
i'm just sharing what i just
what i saw and it tells you what type of
person there are people who are very
flippant
and even in when they repeat things in
this one's name and that one's name
and they add a nuance here and a twist
here and up and it down
you have to be very careful especially
when it comes to piscoden but not only
when it comes to rulings in halakha
the mishnah says that whoever repeats
something
in someone's name
you bring redemption to the world what
do we understand from that ghazal
how careful you have to be when you
repeat it in other words
if you don't repeat it properly you're
not bringing
to the world on the contrary god forbid
you're bringing destruction to the world
why because you're destroying that
person and by the way that's one reason
you understand why
in chabad and in some other communities
we we know it's a big issue we don't you
we don't eulogize someone we don't make
a hespet
why not why not because
we we're afraid that the person who will
eulogize the person
will say something that isn't exactly
the case and true because the nature is
that when you talk about a person and
here he's just passed on and here are
all these good
mourners and people you want to make
them feel good
that's not you know is it appropriate to
say a lie about a person
at that time so in the bavish
is not to eulogize someone i'll tell you
as a story
in 1964
a rove in tel aviv his name was rabbi
bear sisling it was a
a great time with him it was and he
learned in the babbage
in the original shiva in the early 1900s
1900s so when even yeshiva was founded
he was
from the first students there and he was
a very
very uh muslim we call such a he was
good in gemara
go goodness good and singing good and
organizing
like he had all the traits right all the
traits
and this raphael bear sisling passed
away
in ello of 1964.
now he was a rav in a in a local
school in tel aviv
i forget now the name i wrote it down in
israel unknown true big shul
hundreds of people no you know we're
saying
uh sure who knows if it was a prob might
have been fired asking us whatever
and he had a lot to do with making
mikveh's kosher in the city
in tel aviv and because of his knowledge
he was
looked at and respected and he and he
was part of the
respected rabboni miners his role in
those years i'm talking now about in the
40s
in the 50s
so he knew and he came from russia so he
knew it upon them
and people from russia okay and like
i've told you many times
the issue of khasid and ms not them
and lit fox in russia those years was
not a big issue
it wasn't a big issue yeah purim you you
know you'd make a joke about each other
you know what i'm saying but they
intermarried with each other and i can
give you
names of families to that even that come
from such
inter marriages okay between see them if
it's not them and it wasn't an
issue because the culture was the same
you know
how does a lit a real little
from russia speak yeah there's like a
lubavitcher
the the the accent is mom is like a
chabad
like at least we don't speak like they
don't speak like
hungarians or galaxy honors or polish
people
they speak like russia and lithuania
okay so there was a there's a
commonality it was a very strong
commonality
okay so so rabbi zieslin
was part of that uh environment
anyway in 64 he passes on and there's a
yeshiva
that you've heard of today it's called
slobodka
and it was known then
heaven yeshiva right one of the russians
was
a yid by the name of
did you hear his name okay and he came
from slovakia
in in in europe he was a big talmud
and he knew rabbi
ziesland after
levia he shows up
it's on tel aviv and i think he lived in
jerusalem or right with the yoshi was
the heaven yeshiva
and he goes over to rabbi yaakov landau
right rob the landowners have been the
reborn name of bernay brock
and rabbi landau was a was a friend
of are of of of rabbi zeisling they were
both lubavitchers
right and they both weren't so he was
conducting
the leviathan so he goes over to him and
he says
uh
um in yiddish you know he said um
if if you don't mind i'd like to be
maspid i'd like to eulogize
this one i prepared a eulogy
so revelando turns to him
and he says with all the
respect it's so wonderful
that you would like to say a few words
for
for bears islam but the meaning
in lebanese we don't make us pay them
we take the person from the from the
the tahara straight to the cavern
say a kaddish and do the rituals and we
go
back that's it yes
can i ask you a question about that i've
always been puzzled by that
what that meant that we don't make is
fading because i've heard
you and other people if what i would
consider
is the distinction that you're making
that normally the circumstances in which
hispania are made before somebody's
buried
yes in in the in the in
in either in the uh in the funeral home
you know
or okay some yeah also yeah sure
sure like in the in the funeral of god
yeah or or in the yeshiva or in the show
where the person was a rav or rasha
shiva
or or of course okay and by the way it's
not just for us
the the by the littoring the lead fox
uh they they make us pay them regularly
yeah
um okay and and also hilo you see in
halal
regarding not saying making his bait and
doing the listen
so you do see this in your firm making
has paid them right because it's
real okay anyway the bottom line is
rabbi sarna couldn't swallow this
he couldn't swallow it in other words
and now i'm paraphrasing okay
he came from your lion in 1964
you didn't get into you know a a jet car
or or uh or or a plane
you had to slept on a bus and buses and
those
you know it's a big deal and he takes
away
time from teaching and being a yeshiva
little tita he's doing it for
and he comes there and rabbi landa tells
him i'm not letting you make a
husband i mean that was like very
shocking to him
and he stands over there and he sees
that
another a student of of uh
of rabbi zeisslin goes over to his
casket and this was a flemingham
castleman the mashbiya in kwarkabad
who i've told you about many times my
father's mashpeer
and he says i don't have sure
how however he addressed this rebbe he's
mashipia he says
when you go to heaven this is something
that you see them do
you know notify the rebel
notify our debtor
that uh that
you know that you're there and we're
here and
it's like give give regard give regards
to the rabbit
it's very you know uh very like out of
the box
but that's something that older siddhim
and others in lubavitch
again what's the source i don't know but
it's a is it a feeling
whatever when rabbi sarna heard that
listen to what he said he said like this
i see that not only do you play
rebel and husset on earth
but i see you play rep and close it also
in heaven
and i in other words like you know at
the end of the day he was a lit
he wasn't a hostage so to him the whole
idea of a red van
is like it's like a game okay you know
what i'm saying he doesn't relate to it
it's not his
cup of tea but he so he you know but
he says and even in heaven there's a
rapper
so why am i sharing this with you
there were literature
who you know they they they
stayed and kept and they didn't have
that humility
towards another path
that's the way they were raised that's
the it's not as
bad it's the way they their culture
what i'm saying is i think
it seems to me that the humility that
moishe feinstein and his son ragdoll
over shalom
had was a much more
humble towards others and particularly
in
with lubavitch and khabad it seems to it
seems from
various things
including you know that the rep in the
late seventies
suggested to rab moisha to to restart
wearing
um to wear up in a tombstone so moshe
wrote to the river back
he used to put them on in europe
but he didn't find a sulfur yellowshire
mayan here
to write him parshas of rabino tom so
there was
no problems he sent them rabbi zurkin
and robert jerkin wrote the passages
for hermoisha rabeno tom's film
and that type of and and he started to
put him on
albeit maybe privately not in public in
the base mattress in the shoe
but we know that he he he he wore those
children i've been in towns
and i don't think many electricity
shivers and above him would do that you
know even if the laboratory represent
them a pair of
beno i'm not so convinced so
this is a little bit more about uh rabbi
but
his son if you if you see him
his his even his physical body and his
posture
he was like a moisture short he wasn't
tall
you know maisha married a tall lady did
you know that his wife was a tall
so they asked him so he says i want to
have tall children
but but not all of his children were
tall i think
some were taller but the dove it seems
like he was
more the the height of his father which
was pretty it was pretty short
liberation was really short you know
so
he has he has he has definitely what to
look after you said
no just look up to her
you have to look up there right
okay so uh just a little bit about the
rebrush up
and the see this maple continue another
time but
um
the the reber shop was whose 160th
birthday yemen lettuce was
where he splits hairs and is a very
analytical
and truly until the rashad
we called or the rebel
that's another way that he was referred
to
until him the chabad hasidis was really
even for khabad khasid more of a closed
book for the average khasi
it was only those gifted very
knowledgeable ones who were very
who were able and capable of
understanding um
the lots of the concepts and the reason
is
as we've been learning for years and at
times we come
to some very you know intellectual
pieces
and you have to be very steeped in it
and then and you have to understand it
and it takes a lot of mind work and
time and knowledge and
the average costed in lithuanian and
russia and here and there
didn't have that time uh because they
were running around to make a living and
then
and making sure that uh you know they're
not persecuted so
it was really a a closed book and if you
look
really into the my muram of the tzamak
zedek
which maybe one day we'll learn a little
bit i'd like to see that happen
but you know our torah ira is um
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is a like a 20 25 set volume
or more of the summatives in my mooring
so it's right so elaborate but yet
the style of the mimorum is more
is not is different than the rashaba
let's for what do i mean
he'll bring a madras then i'll bring a
piece of kabbalah
and then i'll bring a piece of gemara
and then i'll bring him together
and it's a wonderful study and it's
hasidis
but you could tell that it's three
separate things that he's putting
together
the integration of them of of everything
being one where you can't tell almost
that it's all being put together and
the development of those ideas in an
elaborate way in an
analytical way began with the rashad
only the rashab
and rashab said about himself i think it
was in 1894 it's
it's printed in the talks the previous
letter but he says
he says i it bothers me that i didn't
have the time to sit as many
hours with hasidim and and
listen to them relate to
history and stories of hasidim of the
past
he writes that he said that and his son
the rabbi rayats
writes it so what do you mean you didn't
have time what were you doing in the
bavarians you know
you were playing golf like what were you
doing and he says that he was involved
with hasidic thought
and and and and to understand hasidic
thought
the ideas the hospital we call the
haskola
of hasidis takes hours and hours
and days and simply it didn't allow
for him to sit and have hasidis
where people sit around and tell stories
so so that i when i read that that put
things in perspective about him
he was also from very young on he was
very intense
in his avoidance
to the point where he once started to
like bleed
from from his nose from the intensity of
concentration
this is what it says and
another hustler chastised the rashbots
because the rashbots was educating him
in
in hasidic lifestyle and also in hasidic
ideology and he he put this kind of
pressure a focus and concentration
on him training him that way and it and
he was a
he took he was intense and and it
started to affect his health
so another hostage reps almost
latipolsky was his name
who was who knew them both
chastised rashbots for putting this
pressure on the rashad
and and and the previous and the and the
rebel marash
his father of shmuel heard about it and
he signed it with reps repsalmon
zlataposky
and he asked rashbach's not the pressure
that
but what do we see from this we also see
that rashaba was a very intense person
so his intensity of of of studying
hasidis
took all of him you know like you know
there's some people you can do a few you
know they do a few things at the same
time
there's some people that when they
immerse themselves in something there's
nothing else there
it seems to me that ashab was that way
from that comment
that i didn't really have much time to
hang out
and listen to stories and and history
from sydney
of of your because i was involved in
learning to see this and understanding
see this
so when he became
the the rabbi when he and he taught
hasidis and especially when he opened up
his yeshiva in 1897
and the students the first students like
i told you about absolute bear zeselen
were gifted
and and talented and knowledgeable they
all came in already
very highly knowing lots of gemura and
all that
and and they they um
they identified with him in a way
and he introduced to them the whole
concept of learning cities deeply
and darvening with yucasides and that
was a kiddush
but the style that he used was the
analytical style
so you look when you learn his my marim
and let's let's take even the countries
of mayan that we're learning now avi
which countries of mayan like i told you
was written for who for balabata
okay let's let's step back for a moment
right
we are learning now we're holding i
think at the eighth mimer we've learned
quite a bit
and you do you see how he takes this
idea of
privileges and and he doesn't stop
he goes further and further and each
time
he he repeats and he adds he repeats in
the end he goes back
it's like he's he's going you know he's
he's analyzing he's
he's tear he's tearing open he's he he's
splitting hairs
and and and this nuance and that nuance
that's what i mean and this is a mimer
for bella batman this isn't a mimer for
yeshiva bakarim
this style lent itself
to what was happening in russia at the
turn of the century
which was the the ism the ism
fad communism zionism
intellectualism humanism
all this was happening then
and that ashab did an amazing thing that
he was criticized for
what did he do during the shreva
breathless
of the previous rabbit that previously
had been married
you'd gibble ello 1897
during the brokers he announces that the
father announces to the people and the
guests that came
we are opening alabama to yeshiva
1897 when slobodki i'm sorry when uh
when vladimir the famous yeshiva that
started
in 1802 i think in velojin
closed its doors in 1892.
you know why they closed its doors i'll
tell you the truth because
many in many books they tell you not
nonsense that why they
close the yeshiva is because haskula
crept into the yeshiva
and the students who became radicalized
with a scholar
basically threatened the russia shiva
and that if you don't let us stay in the
issue because the
the the hon hola the administration
wants them out you want to be uh
you want to follow haskallah not in the
yeshiva
and they caused an uproar where
one they pitted one russia shiva against
the other this is facts
this is not made up stories you can look
at academic books there you'll see the
truth
of writers okay with sources
there's a fact and the government
also put pressure
and close them down so the government
closing them down because of legal
issues of not
studying russian and the yeshiva and
other such issues
together with the the the map the coup
and that the scholars
students who were radicalized with a
scholar
caused 1892
velojin closes its doors
almost a hundred years 90 years of
yeshiva or whatever
and and and the top rashiva came out of
it and
tambien and here only five years later
in 1897
comes along de la baby who knew of all
this
because it's the same region right
and he opens up a yeshiva and he opens
up yeshua for students
so the criticism that he got from elder
laboratory
who came to the wedding was what are you
doing
you're basically opening uh a study hall
you're giving a place for haskala to
creep in
now to your hasidic to students who
coming from hasidic homes or other homes
that wanna be
them they wanna learn not only well the
lit fox
not only the lit were were
impacted by a scholar now your hasidis
your guys are gonna be impacted and they
were against it
and he said to them you have two choices
either you could support me
or not but the yeshiva is opening
and what what so now ask yourself a
question what was he thinking
the answer is the famous talk that he
gave since tata
1899 that he said that the students that
learned in this laboratory of shiver he
quoted that the mother caller
muhammad based of it whoever goes out to
the davidic
wars kratos kaiser and get crisis you
have to write a get
to your wife because in case you get
killed in war
your wife shouldn't remain in naguna
right that's the halacha
cited that and he explained
you are going out you students who are
learning this yeshiva going out to fight
a war
what's the war the war against
secularism against communism against
those later but against humanism against
all the isms
against haskallah yes you're fighting a
war
and you should know you are in in in
david's and david
mello's army
and you have to you want to succeed you
have to do one thing
get crisis you have to cut yourself off
from kashmiris
if you will separate yourself from
gusmius in the sense of indulgence and
all that
you will succeed and these students
accepted it 1899 sinclair state 1899
and they became known as the nato isla
the lamplighters which we call today in
kabada lamplighters
that land player sikha started in 1899
and they became the lamplighters and
they tuck a
lead away and you should know that in
the babbage
it was like living there's a famous
saying
someone said that in lubavitch the world
was back like 20 30 years
so another class had said no no no a
hundred years
not 20 years 100 years i mean
they literally were just separated
and totally involved in avoidance hashem
it's another discussion of ibrahimovic
hashem one day
to describe a little bit the atmosphere
of what there was
in the babbage at the turn of the
century it was phenomenal
but the kitser the kitzer this
this was this was what the shop created
and the previous letter and his and his
staff he had great machines
who was a great grandfather of remember
foot of us who was a
genuine heartfelt jew he was from the
first
p.m
he brought and here's another thing just
remind myself that i wanted to
share with you this rabbi graham
esterman
he was there like main teacher of
hasidis okay
he was a hostage of the rashab's father
he never tried really transitioned to
become a hostage
of the of the rashad
now i'm asking you you're all either
businessman former businessman you know
you
we you know i'm asking you
if you would hire someone to be a
teacher
for your students or someone to market
your product
if they didn't believe in you would you
hire them you got to be cuckoo you gotta
be crazy
it doesn't make sense
the rashab hired
rabshmu granam esterman who was a
hustler of his father
and never made the transition to become
a cuss of his
and he becomes the lead masjid he he was
hired as the lead mashbeer
for the resharps new yeshiva it makes no
sense
and every time i think about this
because it blows my mind
it shows what kind of jew that ashab was
and what is that
he didn't do this for his own
self-aggrandizement
he did it for the bakarim he wanted to
create
soldiers and leaders and people who will
fight haskola
and and and fight assimilation
he felt they need to know about
the culture of chabad as it was for the
last 50 years before his yeshiva began
and who was able to share that all of
those
four mashpeem they all were from the
semester's time
and such an important lesson for us and
and and the end is he was right
you know he's right the fact that he's
not my husband and he's not learning
he's learning my father and
grandfather's hasidis and really that's
his
allegiance so what
so he and i will one day have he'll take
two shot glasses
and and we'll argue it out if if it's
important which it isn't
but as far as the students why should
they be
deprived of knowing
where they come from and what this
movement and what this culture is about
and i think this is such an important
lesson for us today
you know in education
don't you have to choose the right
educator if
to whoever the right educator is that's
the one
don't look at is he with me or is he
against me he's not gonna eat
of course if if he if he openly goes
against you
that's a problem but we're not talking
about that we're talking about someone
who says
listen uh you know i i uh
my heart is elsewhere because when i was
a student
i was a hustler of this rebbe of this
roof
and now i become older and and there's a
situation and you you want me to inspire
and to teach
i'll do that but you can't expect me
to all of a sudden change what i have in
my heart it doesn't work that way
and this is this is a very sensitive
issue but a very important issue and
that ashab
saw this and that's why he was such a
visionary
and that's why that's why he felt
that even though vladimir closed in 1892
and he opens in 1897 with haskulla
rampant
he says these four gentlemen who come
from the previous generation
with the guidance of my son and myself
we will
give them such power
and such teaching and so and we will
create an environment
which excludes the kashmiris
that they will they will succeed and he
was right
because this rapture albert zizlin and
others became rabbonim later in 1908
1909 in this town in that town and they
made yeshivas and they made khadorim and
and
and they and and they built up yiddish
kite
so this is a little bit about the the
rashad
the sholem bear and uh maynard who
who brought and this type and ever
and ever since avi ever since
he introduced his my muram to labage
the average lubavitch student in yeshiva
if if you want to know if he really
understands khasidas
must learn the rashfasidas
can't get around it to appreciate our
rabbis my moral
you must learn the reshaps
because the analytical style and the
elaborate style is so
helpful for understanding
lines in lakota torah lines and other
rebels my murmuring
yes i wanted
some for another time if you could uh
develop that idea in connection with the
ma
of the rayats that we did for a couple
years yeah
right i will i will like this is only
the beginning of our brain
we still have to look at the other
abbayem and like you said there are
yachts but since
it was there are shops i i wanted to uh
you know
talk more i appreciate it i just uh that
came up as you said yeah anyone else
have a question yes given us a comment
yes
yes very much surely the fact that
itself how he started
how he got born the little
mother had a dream about
providing a safer tower three people
came to her and told her to write a
statement
and she wasn't sure about it
and then a week later it happened again
it
went to her husband's river
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and later some aesthetic confirmed
that the three people in the dream were
turned out to be able to
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the woman who had the baby right
right and then what happened was they
went to the symbolic civic and the
sympathetic told them that they should
broaden right in the case of turtles
right away right
right they hired a um
behind the facial and they started
writing a year later
the favorite color was finished
and um and under the baby the river
of my life was born and they wanted to
have that
say for cover so
so they went to the stomach and the
semester said no
not now so
so one o'clock in the morning the
sympathetic wakes up
and instead now we have to do nothing
visible
and someone said it goes out holding the
safer terror
the river my life is holding the candle
and they get the goodbye and to kill the
cooper
it's at two o'clock in the morning in
the town and there was a there was a
town uh chica and he's lying in the gut
he wakes up and he sees the love of my
heart
telling the secretary uh somebody trying
to take the turtle
and he's wondering whether whether you'd
be drinking too much
so he goes back to sleep and he and
and then the next morning he wakes up
and then and then he tells everybody and
everybody thought he was doing it but
then there's
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so i heard this from jesse parker
from apartheid and she told
everyone have a great day we'll see
everyone tomorrow tomorrow we're going
to read
we'll start yeah let's learn the mimer
so have you my morim
and mr sham will continue if i bring in
the
you know sooner than later but uh avi
you want to say something
no okay zeitgeist take care guys have a
good day bye