Tribute Reb Laibel Denberg

[Music] welcome back to everyone from having tremendous haters redemption during pesach we lost a great hasid or as he was known labeled demberg he's the father of four wonderful sons including rabbi yes of denver in carl springs florida and his brother maisha denberg in boca raton flamedemberg in miami and of chi denburg in montreal i had the opportunity about 10 years ago or so to interview and label and i'd like to share some memories this course it's still the shiva and this is a tribute to a great hustle to wasaika to arihas yamim he was 98 when he passed on the story of his yami i heard that he had an uncle who received from the freedom of yitzchak a kamehameha either a coin or some other matter and he made he he made a chain a chain for he made it he made it he used a chain and he wore it on him and that epic told him something to the effect when he gave it to him that this will be a schmeeter for him i believe he lived in montreal after he came from russia and he lived a long life when towards the end of his life he gave it to his nephew label denberg and a label denver gave it to one of his sons in the last few years and have labeled denver live to 98. so we see that something that that ebba gave so many years ago a tsaddix item a coin or anything else has kedusha as holiness and actual impact in the physical world it's not every day where you meet a russian husset who was born in chatrin which is southeast of babroysk i believe in 1923 and he invited me into his apartment in carl springs when i visited my son there and he reminisced about his childhood and about his teen years and his adult early adult years his father was the great khasid repshaya denberg rabshaya demberg was a tombi min lubavitch in fact he denver in the early 1950s when he came to 770. and he met rashad and abshad asked him who are you he said label denberg and he says label denver are you the son of shia denver he said yeah he said he taught me smicha there's another part of the story that i wrote about in one of my books that the shia denver was called to the preside means you know to the army to register to to to be part of the russian army and of course say yeshiva baker didn't want to do that so the goraris who had factories in kramachok ukraine had an agreement with the government that anyone who works for them will get up to or will get an exemption so the rebel go it's 1916 1917 there and work for the guraris and and he'll get up door he came to the gerardis and they told them they came specifically i believe to have mendel gerardi the father of and he told him to um if you teach my son for smith i'll let you work for me and write you down as an official employee and you'll be exempt from the army the preside and that's the way it was when he spoke to me when reb label spoke to me about his father he broke down crying he choked up he was very emotional for a few minutes and he told me that his father died of starvation malnutrition and illness in the early 40s and it was a very very tragic memory for him this i recall sitting on his couch near him when i interviewed him but i'm shy denver was they say a going he had a greenish a cup and tremendous tremendous talmud the uncle of the label was the famous chabad mashpenov and he spoke to me about the listen he said that renison would correspond with him regularly over the years and even during the tough times the 30s he he helped him a lot to stay strong in his yiddish kite although he was momish in the in in the in the lion's den he he was a professor i believe of engineering or something like that in in moscow i'm talking about ab label i think he told me had to wear a red lapel you know a uh another a red like um a russian symbol on his lapel and he was also raised by a relative from 13 to 17 who was a standing member an outstanding member in the communist party he was caught in the communism and he raised him and having been raised from 13 to 17 with this relative then going to university and graduating and being a moscow professor he stood strong to his roots you know there's an expression that labeled denver i could tell you from that interview was his mannerisms his expression his intelligence you saw the chabad you saw the chabad in this person this wasn't just you know another person another you know a person that was very emotional and very exciting and very creative this was khabad the story i was told which is worth repeating that he was summoned by his mother to come to the house back they i think were in samarkantha at the time or tashkent were there after their father passed away after her husband passed away and he had no choice but he told his professor he needs to go say kardashian has to go home and he had a uh he had a feeling that the professor was a jew and the professor transferred him to be a professor at a university in kazakhstan in tashkent or wherever he came there he saw a sister saying kaddish and it was uh it was very very emotional and then as he he stayed there and then he said roll neville the famous habad khasi took him under his wings and he taught him and he educated him because unfortunately the hater in in in shadrin which where he was born and where his father was of the shaykh who replaced zalmesha the famous father of abraham so he replaced him as a shaykh but there he the they closed the the communists closed the haters so label didn't get a chance to to learn really hey there so later in his life it was that israel neville who helped him another thing that i remember from this interview which is i left a big impression is that he told me how rebnessen reached out to him and showed love of course because he was a yid but also the family the brothershaft and was very palpable and he told me that there was an issue in the yeshiva brunois with a student and the student was a relative of some of someone and they didn't want to accept and that nissan wrote a letter i think to grab label and amongst the things that he wrote was that he doesn't understand how there isn't you know the feeling that this is your own brother now now of course the barbecue see them the authentic see them they felt this way to every year no question about it but nevertheless nevertheless your own skin like you're not bending over backwards for your own skin this is something that that label shared with me the interview um also included his his reminiscing about you know coming to montreal where he lived all of his life and building a yiddish family and he told me that for that his life was worth it he never thought when he was growing up when he was in the university of moscow when he was teaching there and he was under the jurisdiction of the communists that he would merit one day being able to have a froome a religious yiddish family and today baruch hashemi has children grandchildren and great-grandchildren and his wife rabbitson should have a arrival live well live with happiness and know that this remarkable yid rebuilt an entire empire and this is this is what we walk away with that regardless of the hardships that one experiences at whatever age in their life they can rebound and they must rebound it's pesach label passed away during pesach very appropriate because pesach has to break mitzrayim limitations and boundaries hagbolas and that's what he showed he could have easily been another non-religious communist a non-religious jew and have a good day but instead he built a beautiful yiddish from family someone told me that he remembers in montreal in the winter evenings in the yeshiva after might if everyone went home rabbi isaac stray all over show them would be who was would teach and he was younger that label uh they would learn mother he was like their teacher and blabel and rabbi luria those two would learn with isaac shrey and that label was a business person he worked in the garment industry he worked hard he did well and nevertheless in the evenings he came to learn gemma with rabbi isaac schwein offer for him you come back with all others and may his family have only simphis beguli and the absolute help that the arihas yamim that he was a two should continue this family with building yiddish kite and siddhis kite and khabad this is a you know a real chabad family from shadrin shadrin was also the place where the preparatory school it opened in 1909 the rebel ashab wanted that there should be a yeshiva preparatory school before you came to lubavitch so he sent raphael bears island famous khasid rav and mashbiya to be the masbian shadrin in 1909 and that's where the boys the the bakram learned there for a year and from there they transferred to the bavaj and the shadrin yeshiva was known for its outstanding scholarship shadrin was a quiet place and there's a lot more to talk about shadrin maybe in another uh clip anyway the ikkidis we should see mashiach now and have only simchas and yehuda labe bend up shire the homolystic ingredient and bring 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