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Rebbe's Library 1960 - Hey Teves - New Story
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a good net of shabbos to everyone
since this week we began with hey vase
i'd like to share uh
some history about the day that most
people don't know and i heard about it
just recently i received a phone call
and it brings to mind the importance of
the day
meaning i see them say
that what yutes kisli was to the altar
and you'd base tom was defeated
i'd like to break that down a little bit
and explain it
utes kislev was the victory for hasidis
you'd was the victory for toyota for
yiddish guide for judaism
and haitis is the victory for the rebel
for rabbihood that
there is a rabbit
and to understand this listen to this
after the free the cadet passed away the
library
was there what happened to the library
from 1950
to 1985. most people don't know
but the library was intact
and for most years it was controlled
by the librarian that the frida kahlo
appointed
which was an abhayam lieberman
the prime lieberman came from above
stock
and he was a secretary of the friday
could have been very close to him
and he had knowledge and bibliography
and he was a good librarian and he had
the keys to the library
and he basically ran the library
in 1960 and 61
the following happened that's almond
gerardi would
have you see this every year for his
birthday
if zalman garadi was a
had the lineage the pedigree the yichos
himself he was an askin a london
a communal worker and a scholar and very
much
bound and dedicated to
base rabbino to the rabbayum's
household etc and this started with his
ancestors
and his father and uncles and continued
with him and his brothers
but he being living in crown heights and
living next to the rebbe he
stood out in this indian in this idea
anyway many times during this year
he was the the defender of lubavitch
the rebbe would sometimes as you say
yiddish
he would kind of you know he would
talk what's bothering him for example
one thing
i was told that was said to him once
the rabbit says something in his hasidum
take the reigns
and they go out they come to cry knights
they go all over the communities in the
middle of the night and they put up
posters they plaster the place with
posters
that they're making have gone to protest
against zionism whatever
that ever wasn't talking about the
content of what's being done he's
talking about the activity
that they don't wait for the satellite
of we're talking about the
oil title bound to say go to this in the
street and go to this in this poll or
put it on
don't put it on how to put it on with
scotch tape or
they do it on their own they know that
this is a sheet of his they go out full
force and he says that ever said
and by me maxine they don't do anything
or they do very little until i tell them
what to do
anyway so absalom would always uh defend
us
defend the baby and this was kind of a
dialogue that he and that ever had
during during the years anyway in 1661
that ebb says to him i
alone swore him from the library
and i'm so overwhelmed with writing
letters and learning and then and and
and and for bringing and whatever i'm
very busy
helping the community and i don't get a
chance
to look into the safer that i loan from
the library
to that i need and it sits on my desk a
week two
three and the librarian calls me and
says
where's the safer i need the safer back
and the rabbit says i didn't yet read
the say forgive me another week he says
fine
a week goes by i still haven't read the
safer and again he
he notices him and i treat him and he
bothers him
and where he's coming from he's right
trevor says
you take a save of a certain amount of
time you you may you agree that's the
time
give it back i
still have a chat are you talking about
instead of
law and order there's a library
and then the rabbit says to themselves
and he says i will not be marvata
and one safer i will not
say it's okay that one safer
isn't under takas nasius under the
nasius under the leadership of the
babbage
meaning under him who took over from his
father-in-law
the implication was that the fact that
he has to answer
to the librarian shows that the swarm
the library is not under his domain
under his leadership under his nacius
and the rabbit says that i'm not going
to forsake
not even once safer i'm not going to be
more voted even one safer
after absalom and heard this
and he arranged for someone
to get a few
more manuscripts because of him i
don't know exactly what
and he gave it into the leather
and then ever called them and the never
said never call them in
order wrote a note but settle and then
ever said
you're playing with fire you took
something from the library without
permission
from the rebel destroyer from my
father-in-law the freedom
you you want to be safe you want to be
healthy
i'm paraphrasing
you better give those back or
those kiss for yacht back
and look at that this is my comment i
want him that ever says he's not mavata
and he's safe versus
arranges to get some swarm or his fiat
out of the library however he got it and
gives it to the devil he didn't pocket
it himself and then ever says you better
give
it back and so at this point
of course he's fearful he gives
everything back and he apologizes
and then he goes to
the and he shares with him
what happened
and i know this the person who told me
told me he was in a sukkah when a mendel
tenebomb was there
weinberg i think ashmini had said as
they celebrated
a certain um solo that they had when
they were running away from the nazis
and maximum
and shemini had said as they always made
during the day a kiddish and that was
like a day for
celebration i don't know if it happened
then i said that was the day that they
chose they were all together in new york
right you came from los angeles
anyway so remember
somehow it came into discussion
about this and they
they didn't know about it at all
so he just mentioned the first part of
the story that i shared with you
and then he kept quiet but they could
see there's more on his heart
they said a little mother i am they
saying
if i bring more and the hours are
continuing in the afternoon
and finally they
says okay i'll tell you more so he says
if zalman gerardi came to me and he says
we have to somehow
convince someone to go
to the alternative habits of
uh and to get the xavi
to get the keys because this can't
continue this way
so he asked the mendel who do you think
you say and he said to him i'm giving it
over to you
i i you know i already tried and i got
myself in big trouble
he said rebellious simpson
have rebellious simpson talk
to the baron rifkin because that battle
liftkin was very close to the gerardis
so he is a good person to hopefully
convince them
nope simpson as soon as he heard
that something's needed of this sort
he's right there
and he went together with a mental
tenant bomb to the battle
they went to his apartment i believe was
on schenectady avenue
and they spoke to him and that battle
said i would do anything for you
but this is something that's you know a
very difficult request
so billy simpson said i know it's
difficult in a battle and they were
friends
they learned together and everything
else and he says but this is
where it counts so he said okay
i'll try and he went and spoke to
the people and uh
they said they said they understand but
this was given to them by their father
and their husband and and it's they're
not giving it away
and things should just run the way it is
with
in charge of the library etc etc
so it did not work here ends the story
why am i sharing this with you because
hey
davis isn't just another day
the opposition over here was to the
rebel being
on equal footing as the federation
and all the way to the altar
if they would have seen the rabbit this
way
of course they would have given him the
keys it's his it's not his
he's representing la babbage
but what happened over here is they
saw it as a personal inheritance
so when hate davis comes it's not a date
to bad mouth people
and to show anger that's not that's not
the yiddish away
but what is important to share with our
people and congregants and friends and
children
and tell me them as students is that
this is a day
in which from on high
through a a gentile judge charles sifton
he ruled that this voting belong to the
community which
means that our community
has a rebel on par
as the previous river and the previous
rebellion
and the movement and the hasidis
continues at pierce machiavelli
and that's why this day is
as great maybe even greater and i'm not
going to now
go into you know philosophical
ideas let's say as great as you test
kiss live and you'd based thomas
and remember again yuta's kiss love is
against siddhis
it makes thomas against kiddushkait and
haiti this is again was against
and from on high to abridge the said and
this is the devil emphasizes that this
is that it came into the gospels that
corrupted the physical
plane on earth where a judge who wasn't
jewish
made a ruling and he understood the
depth of the issue
that there is a continuation
of rebel chabad
and that's why we celebrate this day
and that's why it's a special day and in
a way it's the holiest day of the year
for us
enables to help that we should go in the
ways
of our holy rebellion the way of the
rebel we should continue
and share with the world the wonderful
gift that he gave us and gives us
and this way will be zaika immediately
to be as bishi
no we will only have good health and
paranosia and shidduchim
and ultimately be reunited with our
rebel
trio because amen the omen