Reb Chaim Serebryanski Yahrtzeit 6 Nissan - Farbrengen - Charkov- Melbourne - NY

so today happens to be my father-in-law's yard site uh the sixth of uh nissan i think it's his seventh yard size sixth or seventh yard site his name was rephaim sara branski hayan ben rabbi yoshua schneider zalman and i'd like to bring a little bit about him and also connected to the rebbe's upcoming yom lettuce that that lubavitch is all uh immersed in so my father-in-law was born in 1929 in kharkov where all that destruction happened and it's happening that very same city is where he was born and in fact his grandmother lived there from 1905 they lived in the same house from 1905 to 1939 when they had to leave because of the nazis onslaught in the exact house i heard this from my father's my father-in-law's cousin whose yard signs also this week or next week her name was ducia rifkin um and she told me this she told me some details which were very interesting you know you're talking about going back to the 1920s and 30s uh of memories anyway uh his father rips out they called the reps almond his name was yoshua schneider's album his name was schneider zalman at birth named after the balatanya because the family came from the altered the sara branski's came from the altar that's our understanding around that time okay but um the the uh it's his name was schneider zalman at a certain point in his life he wasn't well uh and deathly ill and they added the name yehoshua so he his name is yeshua zalman anyway but they called them rap salman and absalom was a shliyakh of the previous rebel he worked for fagin rabbi haskell fagan who was a mashipian the yeshiva in harp in kharkov and in other places and he was also a personal secretary of the previous surrender for many years and he orchestrated that his students remember foot of us have been seeing shem tov shia korff this this is all one group they were all same age the same group and they were the first soldiers in of of leading the underground fight against town yamashima for the fleet of credit and the one who orchestrated it who was kind of their general was this mashfier and fagin so that's resolving in 1949 he comes to australia with five lubavitch hasidim that the friedrich could have blessed to come and uh to go to australia most went either territory which you know to south safria which became krakabad lewd someone to look and of course to america some to canada but few went to australia but these five families the sara branski's being one of them went to australia and they established um the chabad community there was a jew of moshe feiglin there who was still a husset i think who came from the time of the rebel marash so he had lubavitch lineage and he needed a show and so and a malamute so he hired he hired someone and uh subsequent to that uh these five families came so credit must be given to marshall faglian for reaching out to the previous river could you send some the barbecues here aki sandala babaji here to help with the jewish community and it's a long story how these other five uh particularly one of them sal altays who saw the letter to another hosted who was going to be the shaykh rubber but salvoshansky the grandfather of the russia shivansvas of the babaji yeshiva his grandfather was betsal vulshansky he was a he was hired by this uh rabbi faglion to be the shaykh in the community and when the letter came the rep this this man but ishmael basal although he saw the letter and he said wow he's going to australia he opened the letter quietly he sealed it back pretending the lever never was never opened and then he told his friends and he said why don't we go to australia so they said it's okay we have no idea what australia is and he wrote to the previous number and the never gave them the the brother and that's how they that's how they even knew about the the the the community in australia anyway they started on 49 and i have to tell you today it's it's a very thriving community not only but there's a task there's other hasidim and then and other literature and it's it's a it's a leadership community my fair he was already he was 29 34 49 he was 20 years old he wasn't he wasn't a child you know he was a he was a grown man he wanted to join his friends in 770 in 1949 50 51 and then everton let him did not let him that ever said no and then i never told him to work in the fields over there in in shepherd in a certain area city city near melbourne and um basically uh he stayed in australia till 1958 and then he came to the river 58 and that's when he married okay he was his father there's a a video that obzama made for for you know he was a very uh the russian jews don't don't talk generally much you know they're very private and also you know because of stalin everything had to be under kept secret so and he said well also was a plea me you know a very inner deep type of a person so but at the end of his life you know they may the family had arranged for him to tell tell the story of his life for the sake of the grandchildren of future generations so he cooperated so on that video that i have he says that my oldest son my f my father-in-law was my right-hand man like everything i did was together with him you know and um you know and absolutely was already older you know what i'm saying that if zalman had the connection with that but there must be 200 letters between the rebbe and rabzalman every issue he discussed and i know he was articulate he was learned he was thoughtful he was a real educator a real a real educator anyway but my father-in-law was more practical you know for example there was no proper men's mikveh my father-in-law got it done and and i heard from one of the bakram who was there he said i don't want your money to the community i just want you to come use the bigfoot i don't need you that's what that's what the bucket told me naturally people gave him money and he quietly asked people for money he knew they would ask but he was a bar player as we say he really was a bar player so in melbourne another example the fabregas shabbos maverick you know it was uh it was uh i'm not talking about the 50s i'm talking about in the 70s and 80s you know people go home they save a few minutes at a kiddish and he lived uh i remember when i got married there in 1984 he lived right near the yeshiva block from the yeshiva so it was so close and he always taught taught us and taught the family to try to live next to the show the show that you're dabbing at try to live as close as possible so the kids can go back and forth freely and it's like i think it's a it's it's a very very smart smart thing you know so so he would invite people to his house for the shabbos of arkham for bringing and people would come and and he was like the fire brand of the shabbos of working for brengan in other words if not for him you know saying hey we have to for brain and we're gonna bring and for whatever reason is not working out at the yeshiva we're doing it in my house that type of uh a bit that type of uh practical you know this is what the rabbian want of our brain to shop as a worker we're having a forbringing more people less people so that's another uh point that is important to take from his life is the implementation of the minha khabad in you know in a way another another example that i just wrote to a group of friends of mine before i got on when he came he left australia in 1990 and the last 25 years he spent he lived in 770 again across the street from 770 so the shoe was right across the street in the building in the apartment building across 770. so um so uh he sees that shop this morning there's no shear in 770. yeah people come and people are learning but there's no shear in a normal khabad show the way it was in russia you would have a spear a red a muspal a rabbi someone who would teach lukate torah and torah of the balatanya every shabbos morning that was the tradition in the statue for for 200 years pretty much you know since the alternative and that was and that was a mainstay it wasn't like you know i grew up i i told you this but his issue might not hurt it i grew up my father every shabbos morning was up seven in the morning at the table learning out loud look what the entire entire and i was still sleeping and i would wake up to his words of of of the altered words that he was learning out loud i remember it like now that's what i woke up to every shot this morning and it was beautiful what was he learning look with the tire retire why because that's and then when he went to show he learned it with in a with a small group so my schwer saw that there's no shear he didn't ask anybody he didn't tell anybody he made copies of the maimuru and he sat down with one or two people and they started to learn and it became a sheer and the sheer is still ongoing today in 770 shabbos morning that's a share that he started in 1990 without any fanfare why because there was no share you imagine this is the the headquarters of caballo babbage and it's shabbos morning and everyone's doing good nice things but there is no sheer the way the tradition is so what we see from this is like this just one second there are certain staples that a community and a culture has whether it's electricity cultures farther culture or or or the bondage culture and those staples are the dna of that that approach and if you substitute it with other things and you don't keep the traditions it's it's it's it's a pro it's not you know you're taking away from from the way the the missouri the tradition of that that that that movement that uh bahala is and that's why he he he instituted that another thing i'll let another thing show this [Music] he just ate something satire the barbecue shoes until hours time and even not in the beginning more in the probably 60s 70s used to wash our shoulders my father-in-law was so makbid i don't know if he washed himself could be he didn't wash but he made sure maybe he did wash that there was a minion that washed and they had shallow shoulders because that was the way it wasn't the barbecue she was all over the fact that ashab didn't do it okay that's there is a messora a tradition you see so he ca when he came when in melbourne he he the shallow shoot this experience was something that was very important to him and the saying of a mimer so they would take turns there was rabbi groener the rov and there was rab martha perlove who was like the older hustler he was like from the rashad from the first qasidim so one week grab a pair love set a mimer one week one we grab a grown or one with my father-in-law these are staples these are staples yeah let me first take kilo did you want to say something or you you just yes while you were talking about uh the couti torah and torah or i just thought i might suggest that i'd enjoy doing some more from that in our kabura okay i uh i hear you and i'm going to think about how to do it thank you i just want to ask in in in kharkov in kharkov did your father-in-law ever talk about shalom there in in alabama i i can't i can't say clearly i remember him talking about but it's not even a question that there was there was shallow shoe there's not even a question by me in the kharkov shoe first of all the shoe let me tell you the shoe was the main shoe and it was uh either it was an oscar not sure it wasn't i don't think it was there was a minion in one of the rooms called the cassidy minion that it was called the spitz minion de la baby when you had different names at different times so the shoe had showers and i would i i would think that even the laboratories will have shallow show this i i i would put my money on it because okay because we know the question is well one sec one second what i was just gonna say i mean we we know amongst other sydney most other that they're mocked but usually absolutely absolutely absolutely we know that today we know we've spoken about this before in this year but but my question and this is just i'm asking and i don't want to get us off topic but my question is just simply at what point did um [Music] the main right right i i told i told you i i anticipated the question i said i believe in the 1970s until the the river the rebel or maybe even the director spoke the secrets printed and in volume 22 of the secrets you know if you if you really want to know about this topic you need to learn that to at least see what you know it's based on two zoars contradictory zoars but until then as far as i know laboratories washed is that clear enough yeah i think that answers answer your question no yes and no i mean my understanding was that the the the idea of sitting together in shul on at chalice was was really strengthened by the malshento himself because it's the pinnacle of shabbos to be together with the with the fedora so the question is again i'm yeah go ahead go ahead i'm an outsider you're not you're not an outsider don't don't say you're an outsider don't say you're an outsider i won't let you say that even in schools where there is a shallow shoulders and everybody sits together i have seen i have seen the loneliness sits by himself and learns maybe he's learning considers i don't know but but to not be part of the group i i don't i didn't unders i don't understand i don't understand that either it shouldn't be done that way they should be sitting at the table even if they didn't wash and to participate that's all that that's it you know i said it hundreds of times an hour five years of learning if we're going to base our uh exactly exactly exactly so i believe so moshe's question was a good one he wanted to know i believe in 1970s would be okay it goes back to the rashad but no one knew about it and it wasn't me you have to you know you have to understand this whole thing of kind of customizing mid-hugging this wasn't something that was done in russia it wasn't done it's it's it's relatively new in all communities the whole it used to be people didn't know you were surviving from from here to there you didn't have what to eat the whole idea you know is i'll give you another example we're getting off topic i really want to go back but in europe there's a little barbecue there the people who put together that bob schull were great great-grandchildren of one of the samakhs uh uh aides his his assistants the cayenne bear was his name hi and bear family name is reichmann now on schwarz the minute about today is not to say akdamas milan you know that right akdamas milan that you read in between each aliyah and shabbat show you won't have that that's not done in this first person i think in in row right before the fight right in this show they do do it why because they say we come from rabbi and bear and during bear's time in the semester in the babbage they did do abdominism and we're not changing that's our messiah i in lubavitch with the rashabe they didn't do it they don't that's his business we go back to the semester okay in the 1950s i heard this from rabbi yosef settle who you know was he's the rub of that shoe rabbi joseph segal of yerushalayim he walks every shabbos to nakhla because he's the official rug that they appointed anyway appointed like he's getting a big salary whatever you know anyway so he told me that in the 1950s a group of younger euro xiaomi who became with bobby you know and they started to follow in in the rebels lubavitch and the in the new in in the new you know the 1950s they were very upset and they came to the school and they demanded that they shouldn't say abdominis milan on chevous and there was a fist fight and guess who won the riots they got these young schnooks out out of here now on one hand on one hand if ninety nine point nine percent of the barbecue shoes worldwide i'm not saying that dumbest meal in today why are you different you understand and i i hear it loud and clear on the other hand if if this is their private enterprise and they want to do it do it you don't like it don't dive in there all i'm i'm sharing this to to show you that that the mesora that people have is a very impo important issue and if you're if someone is able and wanting to keep a mess or he'll keep him a soda even a face that everyone else doesn't keep them soda and i'm not saying that's the way it should be done today i would say it shouldn't be done that way because if you're a laboratory today following the barbecue and then today you follow you follow what they what we do today but i understand i understand this their approach yes maisha i just was curious which school is this enough love because ah i forget the name it's a little one you gotta you gotta walk the little alley the streets uh okay i i think okay and and it's it's been in existence for a long time oh since the 1940s or 50s the one who started it was a segal uh i think his name would have show he started it in in in in the 50s i think it was a saddle and um he became a student he he learned with radar abdomen came from russia in 1925 and he impacted them and and and they became very warm to khabar some came khabarnicks i've not been there i've been there quite quite a few times it's a very small old you know decrepit but uh they own that property it's hegdish yes you have your diamond there hilo yeah it's i think it's um not exactly in in what i think of as knuckle oat it's in the um it's in the area around uh uh around the americas ear around um uh no well it's a there's a little bit show there in that area that i've dive into this isn't this isn't um i think do you know do you know where uh butter rand is the rancho yeah yeah yeah so it's nearby nearby so is that the same area you're talking about i'm not exactly sure okay whatever what whatever you know there's very there's me there's many shoes they're quaint shoes this is alma meltzer mr daven there a bargain levine that there's a lot of if you haven't checked it out for yourself i mean it's a good call of my trip take your family there you know there's a lot a lot of history there there's some a serious show there's a lot of history over there um anyway okay let's go back so so yeah yes yes the the topic to me is fascinating in terms of min hugging evolution of manhungem both on a communal level but also in an individual it's something i spoke to the rebbe at age kurdish about like what are the what are the dharm what are the limits in terms of adhering to a mesara but also keeping your abode fresh keeping it new keeping it like every day you have something like it's not supposed to be a routine and how do we do that within the gadoram of of of adhering to a myth so it's a fascinating thing that i've seen myself just to give an example in in boston in new york the boston minnegas where we happened to be in borough park and the rebbe sat down with the after mario of multi-shabbas and he was saying together after after marvin i asked him what's going on here and he said he was concerned that people weren't saying it so he decided he's gonna sit down together with them after marev and we're all gonna do it together okay you see it's a fascinating topic to see the role of minhagen and miss sora and avoda yeah it is a fascinating thing i agree with you i'm also fascinated by it and uh i relate very much to what you said now i have been saying the same thing with chris michelle amita i happen to at night i fall asleep i'm a morning i'm up from three in the morning i can get up early you know but at night i fall asleep i just fall asleep so what do we do chris from show amita you know what i do many times last night right after my river my event and i stayed there and i said krishna because i want to say christian michelle amita and if i come home usually many times i don't make it so if that really that's not you know you should be doing christmas i'll meet them right before you're ready to go to sleep so i can i can relate to what the rebbe is saying um by the way what did the the rav say the rabbi say to you uh did he have an answer or so what he said to me is you can absolutely do something different something new as long as it's not changing a fundamental okay now he didn't define what's a fundamental so but it was it was understood so i gave him the example of diving from a different sitter every once in a while to change things up you know just to see different the soccer and things like that wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you mean governing a fella from a different music with different and actually changing the noosa for for thrilla is that what you're saying i'm not changing no no no no i'm asking you so yeah so so that that that that that has that has a lockup that has halachic uh issues not not changing from new software to new satisfaction but within new safari you have you have a word different here oh phrase different here oh and you see you see between a breast of sitter and a a standard nusselt uh smart sitter and you know different sedum has slightly different assault you know not i'm not saying switching between ashkenaz and svard and tayman or mizrah right but within the stuff you can see or there are some that are printed with cavanaught um so that's i i if if you had asked if you if you had asked me that question again that question and just give you that and i do i know no no no no and and you would give me that example i would vote and i would tell you that you got to stick to your trilla and beef it up by learning more thinking more meditating more shaking more screaming more crying more laughing more but not to change the words because because the words the words that you choose become what your nephesh goes through now naturally if you don't have a siddha and you're another shule and you happen to use it and it comes out that you're saying that's a different story but when you have a choice but if you look if you look in you'll see that he he goes very much by the count of words how many words in each bracha and which words are eliminated which words and and also in our in our sin yashar he also brings us a footnote in every barakah how many words and where the source is for that um but even within that you'll see that there are different ways of counting which words are included which words are not so it it have a basic standard to fill it which i dab in which is the new sock that i use however on occasion i will look into another sitter motion though the remedy asked me to stop doubting from the i'm going keep asking me to dive in from the um i'm going to forget this boston so i but it gives me an appreciation of these nuances of the nuances i'm not changing i'm not in a cavua way changing but every once in a while okay i will steve see what it is okay hilah yes sir uh yes i just want to say to you i'd be interested in contrasting because i have the i have the kimana sitter which is which has some fascinating divergences from the ordinariness of so far i'd be just curious about any any uh any uh differences that you have yes a lot of kabbalah got put into that scenario yes moishe i don't mean to jump in i just i i have to actually i have to get off i forgive me but i want to say one thing before i i don't want to i just want to mention that um i don't share this over my dolphin but since ruby dolphins i want to just mention that i met i had the privilege of meeting rabbi dolphin's father-in-law when he came to remember chemist back in 2000 for maybe 2004 he came to shkodus he was in kurdish kurdish for a number of days while he was here this was before we had the building it was when we were in the house in which is in the house it's in back of the um where the our own kurdish is in kurdish that was the house where the shul is in and and shakira the pizzazz he gave your father-in-law a lot of he was very he gave him a lot of coverage he was very very um [Music] like he was he was he he really really treated him with i remembered distinctly i remember and i was remembering this then but i was remembering it again as we were speaking i remember he was very very gave him a lot of respect yeah i think he stayed he stayed with shia stern you know shaya stern yeah that kashaya is from australia and his wife too and and i mentioned this to you briefly then but some time ago but i remember specifically um hearing about your father-in-law the name sarah baranski when i when in the late 90s when we lived near shalom and we went i went to uri cocoons so i've mentioned this and he i called up uri to tell him that your father-in-law was in town he got very excited and he he wanted he wanted to speak with him so somehow i i made a connection or i tried to make a connection yeah well you're gonna know the shama leah all the mice and toy boom everyone gave a few extra cents for the shambhala and ben i'm sure zalman it was a tidy anyway i just want to finish with the take it off also yeah i'm finishing now everyone should have a hot cut from space that we're going to continue the monday um uh the whenever that is when is that i think it's a week later monday is may 2nd isn't it it's monday it's it's sunday it's it's sunday may 1st okay so monday mr monday the next morning we'll we'll start our our kailua again learning but i'm available in case you guys have any questions or anything you know anytime just uh let me know and uh we should all have hakasha in any in the best way you should have the ghoulish layma sagas don't enjoy take care bye-bye thank you bye-bye