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Tribute Reb Yoel Kahan #1 - Warm Heart - Doing a Favor for Another - Shabbos Table Conversations
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this is a very hard uh
tribute to make because rabiot was
a personal rebbe
khasid's teacher mashabia
and in a way a friend although i'm so
much
younger than him
but his his
his care his love his havas
his goodness his good heart felt like he
was a friend
there's so much to say about this unique
person literally a person who was
blessed
in all aspects of
mind heart and practice
and many people know
about his phenomenal memory being the
heiser of the rabbi
remembering all the secrets and all the
my mother
from the first day when the rebel
began sharing his holy
mouth of tita with claudius roe
after the historicals the passing of the
fleet of cadet in january 1950
already recorded even though he came
after the shiva he arrived in america
but
he was the one who recorded the stories
that emma said during shiva
which he heard from others and that ever
approved them and they were later
printed
for eternity so from that day on his
he was recording the rabbis tata and
biscuit
in his merit we have so much of the
devastator today
all of the devastated much of the
demonstrator
that's one aspect his his memory then
there is his havana his understanding
his death and his depth his hammock
and of course who could forget his
husband
tremendous way of explaining things
if i may so may say so i don't believe
anyone else
had a better house butter than him to
explain hasidis
to all especially to young budding minds
teenagers high school students
mrs and
nan la baba check see them
to be able to do brain surgery
to go in to your mind and to
show you how you might think this is the
explanation why it should be so-and-so
and he would show you know why that is
not the way
to understand it properly and
specifically in another way
and we can spend hours hours hours
talking about all that
and it's all true but i want to talk
about
the time five to six years that i spent
as a student from 1978 to 1984
hanging out with him spending time with
him
eating privately with him and his wife
rabbits and leia
at his house walking down kingston
avenue taking us a half an hour to go
from his house on montgomery to 770
because every few steps he would stop
and explain something else talk about
something else
and respond to something else and i had
many many conversations
with him not just in in hasidis
trying to understand hasidis you know
and he explained it and and this way in
that way
but also about the current events of the
time
both in lubavitch and outside of the
bavaj
we discussed that too he shared his
views and he shared
the way to go about understanding
an issue and that you might say
was another major accomplishment of his
along the lines of the brain surgery
that i told you about a moment ago
it included
teaching the student how to think
and that is so important and it's very
very seldom that you have a teacher who
actually does that that's a real good
teacher
and he excelled in that area teaching us
how to think and again not only
in thought related ideas of intellectual
i in the end in the intellectual realm
but also in the emotional realm in the
practical realm
how to assess a situation
but that's also not what i want to talk
about what i want to talk about
and share is the shabbos table
that i married it being at many times
and what i saw there
and this will be the first of two parts
it's hashem
the respect that i saw between him and
his wife
was phenomenal for example
whenever his wife brought food to the
table for him a portion of her meat
he would not begin eating until she sat
down
at the table now you might think that
what's the big deal
it's basic there are carrots it might be
basic there are carrots but how many of
us do that
we're hungry we're tired we're nervous
uh you know he you know he's there with
me and he wants to converse and he wants
to
share he started eating you start
talking no
talking but no eating until she sat down
the way she addressed him was with
ultimate respect i remember she would
say
my man she's talking to him and she
would say like my mom
my husband but with a
with with a glitch in her eye
of oh i saw that and that
didn't mean that she couldn't say i
think that this
is maybe not the way it is and maybe
stop this and do this you know husband
and wife they talk to each other
there was no um defense mechanisms
in there talking to each other yet it
all felt
to this 19 year old young man
or awesome respectful reverence
he's obviously slow people don't talk
enough about his averages though so i'll
share a little bit about his obvious
role
i know someone here in borough park who
needed their daughter to go into
a certain seminary seminary and
she had not studied in chabad schools
and the normal
system was that if you didn't study in
in a barbecue high school as a girl
to get into a barbecue seminary took
protection took
paul because you know the background was
missing and and the
and the menial and the principle were
concerned
she wouldn't fit in so this person
you know spoke with rubio and said could
you could you help me
try to get my daughter in by calling the
manager
and he said sure without a blink of the
eye
sure and he called them an ahel and they
accepted
the daughter now they you know
without going into the the girl was a
good girl and she was worthy of
of that seminary but
the fact that he was willing just to
pick up the call
phone and make the call and without any
without any questions to help another
year another
another example i know someone who had a
situation was a divorce
but the husband didn't want to give the
the get
and ebio got involved and he tried
talking to the
to the husband and impacting him and
convincing him
influencing him he should give the get
all
just for the course
i have a friend one of my classmates
raviol told him
you can come eat by me for shop he says
for shabbos
come come eat the sodas and he's the
meals and then he said and in fact you
can come eat by me every night
and it wasn't just a joke that he was
saying he meant it
another example
someone who wasn't yet religious
somehow metropolitan said come live in
my basement
again the he lived at that time on
montgomery street i don't know how he
pulled it off
whether he paid the rent to the uh the
landlord for to use the basement i don't
know those details
but the person told me that rabio
had known that he was seeing a
non-jewish girl he had a non-jewish
girlfriend nabil didn't mention anything
about that
just come live here meanwhile he ate
with him
and slowly but surely he let go of the
girlfriend and angela's girlfriend and
he became
alaba chair of rumid
etc the examples
go on and on the point is
that because he was a yid that goshmius
that material matter
honor covet was the furthest thing
from from him he didn't know what that
what it meant covered
money he had no strikers to money he had
no
relation didn't care about money
it doesn't mean he didn't know what a
dollar bill is and you know and a coin
is
but the the importance and what money
means to the average person into the
average yield into the average cost it
was beyond him and i don't say this to
make him going towards
i'm not coming from that we will see
we're talking about
refinement we're talking about edelkite
this is a yid who lived with the
abstract he lived with god
and whatev and and the rebel the rebel
for and this us
for sure and to claw yourself that it is
worse to understand properly that
happens words and that's why
when he got up and he spoke everyone
listened
everyone listened we could because we
all believed
and knew and understood that he's not
fathered in the rebels works he's not
changing that his words he doesn't have
his own personal agenda
was he perfect did he never make a
mistake no one's perfect
yes everyone makes mistakes
but mitsihai from his side
he was genuine
so we look back now
he was blessed with ninety one years
young
and particularly the last 25 years or so
27 years since gimbal thomas
he married it that his fabregans
and his urine and his conversations were
recorded
for eternity so there's so much out
there
but when i called them before a good
skype a z skype
sweetness goodness that's the type
question he was a nice
person a person who you could sit and
joke with
if you needed to you could cry with did
you ever
imagine that he would put his hand
around someone
well he did it not bragging just telling
he did it to me several times
out of love and not when he was sick or
intoxicated you because he drank a lot
of moshka
just out of his his his feeling his
feeling of
valkite so on this video
i i hope that my listeners
my viewers will walk away with knowing
this that this is
ms and a fact not because
i'm the great fashtayer it's because i'm
telling you
what i experienced myself and those
times that people might have seen
something
other otherwise
i don't know and i'm convinced that
that's not the real burial
from gimelt amazon gimmel thomas
was a very difficult time for us and for
him in particular and only him why
because everyone else had something else
they had in their life
whether it was a child whether it was an
agenda whether it was a business whether
it's money
he didn't
because he didn't have children and he
didn't have money
and he didn't have honor so versatile
so when the rebbe passed away gimble
thomas
it was a major issue
to him
and he wasn't the same rabiot that
i knew in 1979 and 1881 but nevertheless
the nakuda the point of him
being the rebels
translator interpreter funnel
and the rebbe and the isha tayden
all that was the same all that was the
same in other words the style
changed a little bit in various ways and
i'm not going to go into all those
details
now the style changed but the mohus
mahu the essence was the very same
so they were helping that we should
continue
teaching and living with those teachings
that he shared
in in in the name of tyra in the name of
the rabbit
and the burial bender
should have offered
me