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Tribute Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garelik
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First Shaliach of Rebbe 1958 Reb Avraham Mayores Impact Knew Reb Levik 1943 Rebbe made him a Rav Dir HaShvi Icon 770 Buildings
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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
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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
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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