Tribute Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik

to the country of italy and to a very genuine hussaad we have lost an icon an icon in lubavitch and i'll explain the rebbe in 1956 came out with what was called mohamed hathnufa an offensive war at that time was the sinai war in eritrea and the rebbe used the opportunity to [Music] motivate his hasidim to not just be on the defensive but go on the offensive i heard this from absmul blezinski was working in sachin herchesro this is when the rebel founded and sachin america was founded a little while before that and the idea was not to wait for the person to come to you but to go to them so that you saw they went to the kibbutzim and they spoke and they danced then they shared this went out into the field and the same was here in america and at the time it was unpopular unconventional to do this even in the world of labavich and in 1958 shortly after this movement started the rabbit announced the idea of rasta to disseminate about that but volcanoes took the negan that rabbi martin brought for merits israel and he made of it for us though for us the govaldign and who was from the first or maybe the first of the rubbish luchem that he sent was an abduction mental now let me explain a little bit the background to who he was at the time there's many clips going around the bar of hashem i want to go back a little bit to give you a picture i heard this from the vermont who told me everyone knows that his father had labeled hospitals they're inseparable well my father who learned and lord and he was from the younger talmidan i remember growing up as a 10 11 12 13 year old boy hearing at my father's shabbos table niggunim that would teach them in the yeshiva and i always heard about two bahram that he would speak about rebjes mendel geshemendo and labor raskin and i you know just and he said you know that he would see them how they would walk in the pardes the yeshiva and loot before moved to the chabad was in the parties there were buildings in the in with you know vineyards and and greenery and he would see how they would walk from building to building to the gold barriers intent and he said it left such an impression on him as a new uh a bachelor who came for a boy who came from a uh home of a vision in 1950 when he was 13 years old and then he meets them and he told me how rebel raskin reached out to him as he was growing and abdesha mendel and he really like you know looked at them as heroes his heroes in the yeshiva of course not to mention not to forget to be so friedman we always spoke about as well anyway so these two were so together they came from russia and in fact they they were together from 1943 in alma atta together with the rebbe's father and that's why the rascal family and the godhelic family have a special affinity had a special have had and have a special affinity with the with the red and the rebecca because uh uh and rebecca khanna because of rablavik a that's uh there's more history there but we'll just leave it at that for now so they knew each other these two boys from 1943 for 60 years because in 19 in 2003 when a blabled nebuchad became ill that gashamel came for shabbos to the hospital and stayed with him and they went they reviewed 60 years of them being brothers in yiddish we say brudershaft anash brotherly love and this is what these two had but she mental was the first to go out on schlitz i saw one of the clips that they had online where he says in an interview in those days to go away from the river was like jumping off a ten-story building and that needs a that's what he said but to explain it a little bit where they came from was a place that was ange's upped and totally immersed in citizenship right but the citizen of the time was dabbling by the dublin couple of soil where did this passion and burn to to to this passion to to go away far away leave your family and friends and community when people were laughing at you where did it begin so it began actually inevitable when they were in yeshiva with notre dame they got their daughtering but two other individuals who was also at the time in 1950 51 52 53 those years and paris they both instilled in these heaven the idea of the rebel because at the time it was a very tumultuous time when in the beginning we didn't know who would be the rebel 1950-51 the russiago the river and and then even when it was established that ever should be there but no fine but there's a system there's an order you have to remember those days there were no tapes no videos no one heard my father the director's voice my father remembers the first time that he heard the rebbe's voice the bachelor in the yeshiva it was like a youngster for them and habitual erasmus told me that when he got the first mimer that was booked by the rabbi came into the basement in zao during the day and he said fabrega and he started the middle of the day i used to say the niggler with learning gemara talmud but the red rabbit's first mimer so there was this fascination and interesting that ramayana was the one who instilled in them during the time when they were learning the discussions the connection to rebel then when they came to america and benjamin was here he came a visit from england etc he took that to another level and between the these two or three individuals and themselves living in in in crown heights in 770 not living in koran living in 770 with their hair but remember those years the 50 to 60 was biz gals the fabregas the crying the dancing the singing the conversations would see them during the breaks by the by the sikhs by the fabregas all of this led to a tremendous love to your father that ever our father the islam the bottom including many of the russians who came they said we just survived the war let us rest let us breathe and the raptor comes along in 1958 and he says no we need to go out people couldn't believe that they would be successful and that have gushed mendel said himself and absolutely couldn't have said it in one of the clips that the antagonism of our own people was palpable they were laughing at at him at yeshua mendel and then later that kyung kyu who says how you know you'll come back in a month from now so when i say that gershy mendel was an icon and it's kind of the end of this era of this icon this is what i'm referring to that he and his wife was rabbits designed and only have simcha's the rest of her life but together with the entire epitomized the idea of rapper and messiness and they go hand in hand until then there was mercedes nefesh in rusland in russia no question about it that about ramayana would say that was lost that doesn't allow himself to be slaughtered at the neck is nishke hosut that was the messiest nephesh of the which we have no understanding and perception what this means a reality right that same messily snefish was transformed by the gesture mengele in a blablaroskin and those heaven in those years to schlitzes to going out wherever that ever sends you if you pay attention and read carefully the secrets and listen to those fabregas on tape and some today on video you'll hear that the rebbe spoke more about rap geshe mendel and even ms robinson than anyone else on sliches it's a fact this is not something that you could you could you can record how many times the famous secret you based thomas stuff in your test what rabbit says my daughter now that that that's role in in milano you know that there's a new ghanaian role in in milan italy and and the rebel coined the maharav you know he was a mashipia you know in in the in the 50s in the 57 58 i'm not sure which year exactly kunya tells over how he was his mashpir and he was so endearing and so intelligent and so he had humor and he had seiko common sense and it was mcconnell of the book and you see how cunanan was 80 years old speaks about hizbah from 57 and he breaks down it's not just he's breaking down because because he has to it's in his guts what what the rap gosh menu did for him when he was 17 18 years old and he could have gone he was an american boy a bronx boy right it could have could have gone with the yankees and babe ruth and everything else well ruth was dead by then but anyway that the kuda is that the geshemen who gave into him and these americans are feeling forever and this is something we have to unders realize that although this icon is gone the legacy and the pale mamish the actuality continues because today it's the governor posted by all slogan messina staffish and whether whether that ever sends you you go right but at that time it wasn't it was only it was on the contrary the current he was going against the current and this is why i believe that edward pointed him out it is rebecca more than anyone else is because they were the first to break the ice and the lesson for us is so important that this is the day of sri generation the day of the rebels generation is going to snappers to wherever the michelle that sends you without questions without debates another important thing that i didn't hear people focus on is that he was one of the founders of the founder of the whole idea of building 770s now on one hand you could kind of what kind of mesh is that but the rapper they never sanctioned it that ever spoke about except everything material for that's done different things over the years yeshua mendel had a not just a liking but a passion his hasidis kite his kite came as expressed in such things and here too i want to explain for another a minute or so that to learn see this the half cabal of sales should be all that that's standard one-on-one and but these ideas of of taking you know and making sure that you you have a 770 where you live understandably through funding and and fundraising and then getting the community involved he planted this idea in the average husset and this is something that we need to that continues today so for example now in baltimore the the yeshiva there which the kavanaugh she was putting up a a 770 he was among those that planted the idea that we see now 30 40 years later one of the other things that stands out about his life is his charm and the way he carried himself there was someone that he and his wife macariff dr professor avraham fox bruner he was known as roman foxbrunner he wrote a book called habad on the altar it's a fascinating book um he was probably a genius so i was told and he was in in the late 60s and 770 and he came from gastric mendel so heaven told me that they they saw the way he dive and then carried himself just like yeshua mendel and just like there ever the mannerisms you know the way he stood and the way he sat and and the facial expressions they said he told that they they heard that this he was emulating cashier mendel and who was that yeshua mental emulating today we don't know the impact of a hussed we don't know but when you live like a husset and you live like the rabbis and you have merciless nephesh and you go against the current your own parents and grandparents and puppies and zaiders and friends who tell you stay here why do you have to go far away you can go here whatever that ever sends me to china's china tunisia tunisia milano italia by the way what happened was that the loving of the oh yak of shul in in in milan where the manga was there was an obamacare that martha paddled off who was autonomous they called them from the sun he was the love in that show and in 58 he left with the shoes of the rabbit to his son [Music] himself decided that would be a position and whatever turned them into an elf that was the the word of 770 was here is uh here is amma here is someone who's intercedes in darpaning and for bringing a rabbit and the rubber says you become a roof you pass your shyless you give kasia and uh you know uh took it in the way like wow they're never made yet sorry one last point there's so much to say but we have to keep it short he was buried in harassing when i heard that i said wow passed away here and he's not being buried in new york by the river i don't know the details i'm sure it will come out or it doesn't come out it's not our business really but i read that his father of higher mayor in the 30s i believe wanted to go territory with his family so the frida krabi told them ask your wife he asked his wife she says