Tribute Rabbi Yisrael Friedman - 7 Nissan

for many years close to 50 years i personally knew that you stole i had many conversations with him about see the history and more than just history attitudes feelings understandings and i learned much from him and was this must say his first yard sight shabbos this shabbos zion nissan i share the following rebistro was named after the holy rose rabbit the hell of gerusena would be slow that'd be whose family name was friedman that'd be slow friedman he was a young child in in in in brunois in the yeshiva and he remembered things for the listen he told me he remembered weighed up this in davent and he even told me once where um this one was davening and a ball flew into the room and uh maybe broke a window or something and this and just continued davening because of his greatness and his memory that reby surreal friedman he remembered things probably from six seven eight years old like as a young boy that we saw was a charity he was sharp with it and he approached learning that way and life that way he he didn't have time for nonsense that's the type of person he was everything had a meaning everything had a purpose he was someone who was constantly learning and working on himself i was told by a neighbor on montgomery street where he lived that he could see through the window that friday night he was up all night learning a friend of mine here in borough pakistan told me when he hosted him when he hosted him for a shabbos or two when he was in our basement i'm here he didn't go to sleep friday night so you're talking about a yi to was up all night learning and if he was up friday night he probably was up thursday night he was an ampkin he wasn't someone who just learned and knew a lot of information but he was very deep very thief and this also spilled over in his giving in the shear for example that he gave to balabatam my father's zoom sign used to attend every share of his that he gave in the show um montgomery and kingston and shabbos morning he would give a citizen before david england sometimes when i was in crown heights i would go and if we learned more than the phrase five six lines through the hour or so what was was a kiddush was a novelty because as we say he dissected each word back and forth forwards and and and thinking about it and arguing about it that you couldn't just read and just go on and you know when you learn to quit the title many times you learn liquidity it was the same way i'll give you another example of this shaft kite his shrewdness and his his wit his wittiness he once told me that he said we're talking about the mirage they said to me he says see them didn't have a handle under abba marash they didn't they couldn't figure him out now that of course is the one who brought the rebel marash down to us but nabi sro shared with me the way he see them of old didn't understand that mirage and that's why takada spent so much time maybe what do i know why but i'm saying it makes sense why the rebel had to open the rabbi marasha up but until i heard from you that see them you know felt that given uh a muffler was it was it was like who is he we don't we don't get him you know how did you fit into the first three to obey him and the last little bay it's this type of uh you know very deep insights that that in brief words he would tell me another another thing he told me once that when the rebel rashad writes and cut the sats i believe that you shouldn't make your own interpretations in davening he said he heard from that this was referring to the rajabats move now so but nevertheless there were geshmak so he told me a thai study that he heard we say every day give away all of your delicacies and pleasures and indulgences whatever you consider pleasurable and replace it with the most pleasurable thing which is godliness give away together and substituted by local and he told me that that was the tights from the rashbots i told her over here through my pill chick son-in-law and he every time he sees him he says somebody live in the tights of me a bit of touch but if you saw friedman you know about his goingness and learning and being that shiva and being mother of the buchanam you don't need me for that this is everyone knows about that reby isro was a yid who could bring for six seven eight hours deep ideas he was real chabad you know you're talking about his bonanus he was shy for meditation khabad meditation for hours it was a muscule together with being a mosquito in cities he was a going isla minigla i asked him once did he ever attend one of rabbi sal of eight six year in the year six years and the famous where two thousand people packed the auditorium at yeshiva university over there for twice a year and he told me quietly what one time he just wanted it he everyone speaks about it so he decided to go so i asked him what did you think about it so he said that about darshan he was he couldn't beat him as a baldashin but he repeated the same things many times in different words in other words his power of thrush of sermonizing was the top was the best but really he said the same thing in different words in a different in a different examples but he said as far as the content was concerned it was superb in the 58 or 59 i forget now when he was still he was still a booker he was sent as a rasheeva to newark i believe in 58 and he asked the rabbit like how should he deal with the bucket him and all that and the rebbe said i rely on you which is a great compliment there was an issue in the 60s that he had to let go of someone who he who was was a yeshiva and i i asked why so i was told because he felt he he wasn't he he wasn't uh 100 percent now i'm not saying it is that way it's not that way but just he had a certain attitude that he picked up from older sedum for example earlier in the 50s when he was still in that israel before he came to america he and several others were sent to atami but gershon they wanted to make a yeshiva so they were there for a while it didn't work out at the end i mean they were there for a while but it didn't last so he he saw this disgusted and he was a very you know great custard they learned to le babbage he was a from the hain family so he was around i mean in crown heights he he he spent hours days with her by romajo the environment the culture that came along with chabad coming to america and developing and the rebels see them and all that a [ __ ] when he sang a [ __ ] you saw that there was an ashamed here he sang it slowly and with feeling it wasn't just hatched i am shalosh one two three a negan is given a negan just like the way he said a mimer claw slow word for word and you saw that he knew what he's talking about at this first time and he understood it so too when he sang sedition towards the end of his life the last race 10-15 years he was like considered like the rove of the rebbe's room upstairs for the rabbi's minion that's where he davened and i had a chance many times to walk him home and to walk part of the way and there was always um an experience it would be slow it was always content taken so his first job sites coming nissan there's no question that he will con he continues to be mashipiya foreign