Tonight: Reb Yoel's 92 Birthday - 3 Life changing Stories w lessons for our daily life as Chasidim

in honor of the rubio khan's 92nd birthday which is tonight tomorrow tess zion schwartz i'd like to share a few memories that he that i personally experienced with him as a student of his for many years this was when i was already on schlitz in the 1980s and uh i came back to recharge my batteries to the rabbit and i met to the bureau and he gave me a warm show malaysia and with a smile and i said the beer man may i ask you something is that sure so i say to him that the avoiders are schlitz going out in the field and putting on filling with people and making sure we have a minion and raising funds it's wonderful and it's taxing but it it doesn't leave much room to learn and david and coming from yeshiva 770 we tried davening a little bit with kavanagh with focus and concentration i felt i felt like i'm missing something i'm i'm giving up something that's valuable and i didn't know what should i do serbio told me the following very succinctly and right to the point and very clear he said your avoider now your responsibility now once you've gone ashley this is one thing and one thing only to be makarev more yidden to bring more jews back to the fold that's it your own learning and your own davening should be done later after you finished this activity he didn't say this i'm paraphrasing then you can get back to it either you will or you won't and that was a very important lesson you know for a 23 year old 770 bucker who's into the learning and the davening the perspective coming especially for me from my meshbia and this that ebbus crazer and this this husset and everything that he represents it was very powerful i also happened to ask the same question for that mental foot of us later that year and then mendel too said almost exactly what abhiel said so on a day like this it says lettuce although physically he's not here he passed away was still in the first year of his passing nevertheless that ever teaches that uh avoid the continuous on it's eternal so this idea is one lesson that one story and one personal the javier that i think each and every one of us can learn from that the avoider of sliches if you're if you're in that cave if that's what you're doing as you marry and you have children you go out ashleighs and you do those things you have to remember that that's that's your only responsibility it doesn't mean you shouldn't die with a minion and doesn't usually gives a dukkha and it doesn't mean you should learn you should learn you should get a dog with a minion and a shabbos if you can but the mindset it's the mindset what's the echo in other words if it's if it's choice of putting one over the other if you don't have ability to do both for because of the given circumstances you choose the schliches over the personal refinement and and avoid this hashem another uh thing rapio told me over the years is that i once came to him and i mentioned that so and so it seems like he had a more personal and closer relationship with the devil and as soon as i said that i didn't even finish my sentence he cut me off and he got very serious and kind of frustrated with me and he said sir and that too was a an important lesson what seems to be on the outside you know one custard is around more often 770 another one is out on the in the field that's insignificant that doesn't make a difference what makes a difference is are you connected are you doing what that ever wants and he his frustration really drilled it home for me because i saw how much how deep how deep the issue touched him how how opposed he was to this mindset and and this is an important when you when you when you want when you learn from a person you need to be ready to learn everything for the person even when it gives you a patch a slap i don't mean physically a slap i mean you know it gives you a good zest he really gives it to you when he zaps you there's a lesson there and listen to it don't back off and don't be insulted understand that it's your betterment this is something else that over the years when he told me this it left an impression on me that uh you know the bottom line is it's like they say you know uh what's yours a pedigree if you have a one in front of the zeros it's and the one is you then the zeros are worth something if you have if you don't have the one if you're a nothing and you're a nobody and then you aren't someone that's refined yourself then having all the zeros having all the pedigree and all the ears and all that is gurnish as we say it's nada nothing and if you're saying the same thing close sahin close the head he stands next to the ripper he's mashable and he does this and he does that and this one and they stand by they stand next to him and they help him go in the car they help him go out whatever it's all nothing [Music] and you live for that and you live with that and that's if you do that it's self reflective in your in your being then then that's what counts not you know did i get an answer from that but did i never get an answer how many answer letters do i have under that but i have none i have 20. and this whole mentality is kidzaini is superficial and that's why even today the new generation most haven't seen that ever or children that ever when gamil thomas would have passed away and and i wanted you to say hey you know it's it's it's it's a lost generation see simon the answer is no other laps with the rebel and you learn his citizens and you do his directives and if a brain like with a premium with a coffee it's in the city and you miss brainerd and you reflect and on on his honest suit on how how he looks and you take it seriously you go to the oil you go to 770 and whenever you you make it a reality then hustle and guess what you can have today but more than someone who saw the rabbit for years and everything else as the famous expression is lebanon yam is trucking at the edge of the water right by the beach over there it's very dry you're so close to the ocean to the water to the fountain to the river you're in crown heights you're right here and good nothing and someone can be far away wherever he is or she is and feel that connection so don't allow this idea of closeness and distance to be a distraction from your from your avoiding hashem and your connection to the rabbit that sadik in disgust to him and the third thing in honor of rabbi yos lettuces all of these type of things birthdays and all of these things rabbi wasn't raised with he comes from falakkan and rivke comes from real siddhim and he was a stick crossed in the sense that the new the ways of the world didn't talk to him just a day someone told me a story that happened with him it in the early uh the late 60s or early 70s in 770 a buffer he asked him shot in it next to the pushka in the hallway in 770. he came he sort of yelled and he asked him shocked he was just uh he was his talent he learned this so he asked him shot in a minute said abil said roof call me tonight and then i'll answer you for whatever reason he couldn't talk them at that time so the bachelor took out a pen and a piece of paper and he says what is that a number what's your telephone number says he didn't remember his number they told him going to the americas the next door right next to the push gear right on the other side of the of the upstairs-based mattress the zao is the america's office so he told the bucket going to marquez to ask for my telephone number now if if i hadn't heard it i heard it from the book himself and he's a he's a very very respectable person today uh uh probably close to 70 and and someone who's a big talmud and a a leader in the community and a very strong and he's very meticulous in his details of stories so um it's a hundred percent true it's not even not ninety nine point nine it's a hundred percent sure the mice and he said it to me himself cause i asked him can you tell me something about the oil so i wanted you to say what is your an absolute mind professor it's such a the whole mindset it's not it's not an absent-minded professor the whole mindset of the burial and such people such as sydney that they were elsewhere their paradigm was elsewhere so even remembering for him his own number when did he call home if his wife needed him she called him or he walked home i know it's it's like it's like it's hard to believe the story how can this be possible that a human being on this earth in this time we're not talking about uh you know in 1550 we're talking about in in 1970 doesn't know his own tele his own telephone number but that's the nakuta when your mind is swimming in cities and when your mind is swimming in town with your mother or your mind is and your mind is swimming and being the cushion to the rabbit and doing the russian of the rebel which is the ratson of god almighty you're elsewhere and this story just solidifies what i what i knew about the burial as a student for many years his mind was elsewhere his interests were elsewhere his interests weren't in telephones and in cars and in many other necessary things for survival so yes for the average person like you and i it sounds very weird it's not believable it's ridiculous but if you put yourself into the mind of truth this is the paradigm this is the embassy and like i was discussing with this humble man this this closet is ms and it's ms lamite it's not just ms it's the truth of truths should help us that these these lessons that he shared with with with with me and i'm sharing with you and then for his his 92nd birthday uh it should be the kitchen we should come back earlier with that and we'll foreign