Tribute Rabbi Shlomo Schwartz- Schwartzie 4 yahrtzeit 12 Shevat Ahavas Yisrael - Davening - Frumkeit

his fourth yard site is this monday you'd base shot and because he was such a special yeed i happened to know him i wanted to share a few memories and to take away some inspiration for ourselves our families and us as a lubavitcher community as well but first a little background history schwartz schwartz who was known as schwarze was um raised in atlantic city in the 40s and early 50s and then they moved over because there was no proper yeshiva to baltimore where there was the mutical academy ta and it was there that he met i believe in 59 rabies springer who was sent by the rebbe and a springer was a teacher at the shady chaplet yeshiva which was under rabbi sternhill and and whose talmudim included the nerius literacy yeshiva rebbe's children and um had a big impact on schleimer on schwarze and he really you know he brought him to new york and he got him to take a good taste in those years of the badge went to 62 or so 63 i forget which year he went to um to to yeshu university for a little while but it didn't speak to him and he left and then signed up to the yeshiva the in newark which today is the marston yeshiva and from there he went in 67 to quark about and the rebbe wrote him and his friends a letter when they wanted to leave because the war broke out they should stay and the safest place and they were actually helping in the myth to twill in and there's a lot of stories about that how the the you know the jordanians were shooting because terra samus the yeshiva actually so maybe it was the tara samus anyway um [Music] where they were was um you know under siege and uh they they showed tremendous patriotism and connection to the rebels and they stayed in 65 a few years before he went he rabbi kunin went out to california as a new schleeck there he opened up khabar house and he needed some young blood younger blood and uh schwarze was still a bucker and he got him involved and that's when he made acquaintance with cunanan he actually knew cunha from yeshiva university arabic i think gave a tanyashi there in 62 or 63 or so so uh there was an acquaintance and a friendship in 1969 he married out to shula deich of the prominent lubavitcher deich family and in 1970 rabbit cuda hires him again to be a shliyak together with the two other slogan that cuna brought which were avraham levitanski of shalom and rabbi yahmeel stillman or how he was called stol and these three levatansky stillman and and schwarze were dynamo they were fantastic it was the the you know the time of of haiti ashbury at the time of the vietnam war counter-culture you know lsd so many things were happening and these fellas were on the front and in particular schwarze was was the chabad house rabbi for the students i think still was the overall chabadas rabbi but the cuny was the director still was the in the at that time the 6970 i think levatansky already moved over to harmonica and he opened his own house there but schwartz was on the campus he was a campus rabbi and he wore those psychedelic colored shirts and everything else you know there's a great book that his son mendel published and it's done very well i encourage you read it um it's uh really tells it was written primarily by schwartz himself like an autobiography and um very very nice and important he talks a lot about many things that took place in those years and you'll have a great laugh and it's uh an important uh piece of history uh especially for uh bot house rabbis and shul today and lupovichers uh takes you in the inside of what was going on in westwood you know westwood friday night in matsushabus near ucla was a scene i was there for one shabbos i was there in 79 or 80 so many years later and i still it was hustling and bustling and if you go back 10 years 60 70 72 73 it was uh very much also that way anyway he um works with the kids with the students he makes the hanukkah parties and the purim parties and it's uh really a great a great scene i was at a purim party i think uh in at westwood at khabar house because my friends and i were sent there uh to the yeshiva to arakhan all the rabbinical students and i became friendly with the rabbi schwartz with schwartzie and he said he needs some chevra to help him and i was one of them and i got to see it was uh wasn't really the best place i could say for a bucker but um nevertheless you know it was it was unbelievable you know hundreds and hundreds of students you're coming in and saying and dancing and talking schwarze was the attraction there's no question about it he was the attraction now i want to go jump over to 1983. 1983 when i was finishing my my time at the bar my friends and i i get a call from schwartz one day schwartzie one day says hi just out of me says you want to do something good for the rubber and for hashem um i'm talking to rabbi langer of san francisco berkeley san francisco and he needs someone to help a group of jews for rosh hashanah you want to go there and he says the place is called marin county and i didn't know where it was and what it is and i said sure and uh he just say tells he goes back on the line he says langer i just found your candidate to lead your services that's how i got to my job my first job that's i went there and i brought a younger buckler mendelreifer to be about fila to help me and it was a positive experience and the bela bottom there in marin county asked me to come back and i told him it's great you got a deal but i have to first get married and you have to put away some money to so that my wife and i have where to live and he could pay the rent and then you know and some basic salary whatever just to get started and this was the shidduch made i did my part i got married and they went and raised the funds to to start us off so i'm eternally grateful to to to schwarze to schleich rip schleimer for doing this and the way i told you is exactly the way it happened you know that's the type of person he was there's no you know needs to be done let's get it done you know questions where what how who this wasn't the mindset of the early slogan okay this is what i learned from him and i'm sharing this with you you know how many people where are we going what's going to happen the the the idea of the khatrilla ripper jumping in i saw this by him and and levitansky and still and cunanan you know it was no questions it needs to be done it just gets done where you're going to find the funds where you're going to find the people where are you going to find the place it's going to work out it is going to work out as long as you have that connection and this also connects to this is huge fat you know it was a few days ago where um young client tells over that sometimes he was like of secretary in addition to being the nebu secretary so to come over and say ask ask him to ask someone if they want to go on somewhere and beyond but don't tell him that's coming from the river so rabbi young would go over to the to the buckler or the younger man and and say we would you like to go and slick us here if the person started to ask questions who what when this is coming from the rebels they're coming from the cove it's coming from here he said i'll get back to you and he never got back to him in other words that was already possible invalid because the notion of shlichis is messier and recently i heard on on on on a clip that uh shalom shapiro so the question is what's special about the there's mercedes pick themselves up and they go away whether they have milk to drink or they don't whether they have the money they don't mesita's nephesh i think it's a very beautiful category and and and phrase and idea that comes coining these words and now maybe he heard it from that but even if he didn't it it's correct schwarze was a mercedes nefershlier he didn't worry about money you know now of course you know cudin paid him and the other cabra when he had money we didn't have money maybe he was late and things like that but the attitude was working for this bodhichu working for the rebel working for yidden and for labavich another thing i want to share with with you people with everyone with everyone listening is about his year of shamayim i failed to mention that when he went through 167 he became a talmud of the reflection castle among the the famous pia and his big two things were davening barry has a great length with kavanaugh and this kafka not not indulging in food and things like that and schwarze gravitated to the dominic barricas years later i remember seeing him in various places in sfas and other places and you could see him darkening calmly and the kavanagh the flame engraved that in his bones in his soul it is the shama and it stayed with him the rest of his life so part of that was also the yiddish mayan that he saw in labavich in comparison to what he had you know in his youth and this mercedes netfish can was expressed in a story that he told me himself the the crowd the people don't know this but i'm going to tell you the story because he was somewhere at a shabbaton at a retreat i know somewhere and he was there with a very famous jewish personality i'm not going to say who i'll let you figure it out and there are a lot of people men and women and the personality says to to schleim he says to him listen you know we need to be in the car of these people we need to bring them closer to hashem maybe if you if you gave a hug to some of the women you know who who you could see needs it not for you to initiate it but you know if you see a woman is is wanting a hug just give her a little hug and schleimer turned to him and he told me this zeiss lawyer this i will not do i'll wear psychedelic shirts with suspenders with a interesting yarmulke with long flowing scissors and a long beard and maybe i'll look a little bit like a hippie you know at the time but zeiss lloyd this is going too far this is us or this is forbidden and this is a message that every laboratory should listen to and hear that even a person like schleimer schwartz who could have easily given the hug and maybe in seiku and logic it made sense but he didn't because he was a yiddish and his first commitment was to derebba and today that what's us us what's us us and this is us this type of kirva this type of closeness and this stands out to me he told me this so many years ago and i never forgot it so here i'm talking about him and a tribute to his fourth yard site i want everyone to know this that this is who slammer schwartz was what you saw on the outside is only the kitsanius the external but the real sleimer schwartz the real schwarze is loving every year and keeping the i also had occasion to see him and talk to him about making single parties which for a while when i lived in l.a i did one or two and there's no question it's a very difficult thing to do in a kosher way but it could be done and that's another discussion how what when where but schwarze was the master he was the master and when he in 1989 when he started his own high center which still exists today it's run by his son mendel and it's a wonderful outreach um organization and some kind of people the ethos philosophy is these three nakudas abbas israel and keeping and he is buried in sfas and my son-in-law and daughter were very close to him because they worked at ascent and one of my grandchildren's name is schleimer and one of the ideas is that it was although my grandfather was schleidman and he was named really after my grandfather but nevertheless they had also they thought about themselves schwartz so he's in swas and when you're there go down to his he's buried next over there to mayor balanese i believe i think i think i think it was not that may i forget best of health to his entire family children grandchildren and great-grandchildren and ultimately bizarre to ghoulish lama because of mamish with our rabbi bereshanu amen the um