Reb Tzvi Tsatskis, Russian Chasid w self-sacrifice, Chesed and Love - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

sh this is a tribute to the ofis I knew rep for many years going back to the late 1990s at the time I was there of the rabbi of Basel aul flat Bush which bem still stands today and is thriving and was one of the mpim he lived in dmus park at the time and I got to know him and although older quite older than I the D that he showed for this younger RV Rabbi uh was very very not just important it it it be bepoke spoke of where he came from and who he was he was a and to him a he knew whether the r knew more than R knew less didn't make a difference it's a of say Hal it's Holy by him and he told me things about his upbringing in Russia in particular how he was impacted by a named I believe per the same per who came to cron heits I believe in the 60s and this theis he told me that he was he he he was hiding from the KGB and it was in his house that they made a minion and he learned so much from how to be a in the toughest of times under the KGB and this was the the education that he and his brothers got seeing his daving his learning his his his his his doing of a mitvah with with in a genuine way wholeheartedly that s told me that he grew up a little more modern you know the young people didn't wear beards then because everyone was afraid and nevertheless he said that being around at the times that they stayed in this house or there was a minion in this house made a very big impact on him and he lived with that he lived with that in laich we know him as the Nan that you know one is HEM and one is the the T and the 10 Ten Commandments and the mishas and the five books of mosa and that Nan which theb loved so much then the asked him and others to sing it by by and he always led the singing sometimes the told him to whistle and you you know was MV also his little daughter who would stand next to him at times we we that's more known to everybody I want to tell you a little bit about the behind the scenes that from what I picked up from him how how committed he was to to laich this was a you know the r the Russian Jews they had was very hard in Russia and have to tell it you all know but this came across this commitment to laich toab the the it came across I tell you something else when I was researching my book on RAB salvation I heard that in 1968 a group of Yu students a few sorry two Yu students of of the went to to you know to help to do what we would call different things but under the Yu's oaces and they bumped into this older person and the older person asked them where you from and they said they were from New York and they're learning at Wu and he knew that the rashash of Yu was sal sal so he said please give him regards so they said fine what's your name they said just tell him um tell him his M from kavich when they came back and they told youash he he almost fell down he couldn't believe it because it wasman or leberg and he he he was a very old per very was very old at the time and RAB salv didn't think that he was still alive and he his fa his f face changed colors and he he was so happy that he was to was given this regards why why do I mention it so I wanted to verify this so I was looking around who was around in the I think in Moscow at the time and I was pointed Tois so I I spoke to him and says he remembered he didn't know a name but he remembered some older person that he thought could have been this the but then he told me also that that that he and his friends who were they weren't teenagers and they were already married in 68 they were in the 30s I think but they considered the younger people in the Sho and the older and he said the older ones were called schmers I never heard that term I said see wasn't itme schmeck are they they they they sniff and smell what's going on and then they go and inform to the KGB and he said we always we always sat in the back of the Shool to distance ourselves from the schmers and so I'm just I'm just giving you this little you know story which is you know what what what what does it mean like the idea that he could he could still feel and communicate you know about this type of uh experience shows he was there you know he lived with this and this is what had to live with the know the schmeck who are the schmeck who are not the schmeck avoid them I also had a chance to visit him years ago in Dimas Park this is all before he moved to Cedarhurst where he that's where he passed on and uh I met his wife and it was a kite the V kite that that that came across a we had when he came to sh you know and we had it was fully there whether it was with whether it was with a niggan another thing I want to share with you is that he called me about some issues with business issues and he he wanted to know what the is and I should find out and give him a and then other issues came up all the the last 20 25 years that once in a while he would call me and says Rabbi doin tell me what what the is another thing I remember he asked me in the last few years was he has a grandson who's learning in in a or at least not and they told him certain things and then he was learning I think rambam and you know learning R the say the r is it you know is it is it part and then he he wrote this grandson wrote A K of what he's learning and he sent it to to and and wanted to know for me if if it's if it's authentic in other words if it's correct you know because he he didn't want to repeat it if if it contradicts anything of kabad that that was his concern and what does that tell you that leich was in his bones that's what I I want to bring out to the over here the saw him as a person who say by Brin and it was you know a little more modern and all that and uh Gish okay but I'm telling you that you know is he hadic blood running through his bones and uh he helped many people people didn't know about it and the re you could see the love that re had for him and he for the re it exuded from both to them let's take a look at the videos that's online and since giml was he would go many times to the O yipper and then you there videos of him ater singing and making he lived with this will miss him dearly but we will appreciate him dearly by learning something for his Nish and giving some for him and continuing to to to to bring the Vite from from to to us in our life together with Mia and together with the re we'll bring back our re and bring back and we'll March to the