Tribute to HaRav Dovid Feinstein zatzal and Rabbi Yakov Tzvi Sacks of blessed memory

i wanted to say a few words about two important people in the jewish communal life that passed on this past friday in shabbos on friday uh i believe it was uh rabianis and saks who passed away the former chief rabbi of england and the oldest son of ramosa feinstein for both of them so i'll try to make this five minutes each and not that i knew them personally however i did meet david feinstein at my daughter's wedding 13 years ago december of 2013. was the administrator of yeshiva to fetishism for many years and the right-hand man of the moishe feinstein and rabdavid feinstein and he was very close to him and he received smith from ramosa hence when my daughter married the jason feiner uh rabbrev feinstein and david feinstein came to 770 and i believe it was the last time that it was at 770 not that he frequented 770 every day every month every year but nevertheless he was there in december of 2013. we asked him to read the subah under the khupa because that's the appropriate thing for such a yid the rav was one of the three officiating rabbi was one of the three rabbis in the crownheads community so we wanted the abduva to read the supa and he refused and he said it's hard for me to stand give it to my younger brother and right there it told me everything about him now what do i mean learning yadia knowledge is gevaldic but what's even more special is humility another i always say what makes it up maesha feinstein the great ramosa feinstein not his your dear not his knowledge which he was the pacific it's his aneevos his modesty that he can stand next to a little child a teenager and talk to him as he's talking to the biggest sadiq the biggest guy in the biggest town with hogan and his son reb david who passed away and we're middle of the shiver and making this tribute for his drama was the same way such a modest person look at his picture look at his demeanor so i came across a clip where he's shopping every friday he would go himself to the store to the supermarket to shop for shabbos and some spoiler or helped him you know because he was ready in his older years but take a look at that clip how he walks in the supermarket which rashki bahag which means which big rov and big rebel and big shiva is going to shop for shabbos and abdul feinstein did so my brief tribute to harav hagoen abdavid feinstein's is his and the lesson for us both in the hasidism world and in the litvison world and in the yiddish world is to be enough to be modest to know that the torah that the abhishek gave us and benched us with and that we we learned so so well and we know tata but it's not about us it's about that we have a school we have a merit to have you dear satire and to help another yid this i believe for me at least sums up david feinstein let me now turn to rabbi unison saks the former chief rabbi of england rabianis and sax had a personal connection to the babachiriba since 1968-69 was the first time that he was here and he met the rebbe and he had a long geridis and he was planning on either being a barrister a lawyer or scientist two or three different options and the rabbit turned him and he said from you i believe you should be a rabbi of of a shul and a teacher in a uni in a jewish jewish college to educate students and listen to this he's not someone that learned in terms of shiva he's not someone that learned in a kharadi yeshiva what we call today right-wing yeshiva be a lit fish savari kasidish he had what we could what we would call a modern orthodox education and he's bright articulate well-educated and laboratory but tells him i want i suggest you be a teacher in a jewish college and educate students and also become a rabbi of a synagogue he puts everything aside and he follows to me this is astonishing a person who is not a husset who never met the rebbe before who doesn't really yes their rabbi uh five ish vogel and rabbi schmulu and other la babachir and rabbis had a big impact on him and that itself is a lesson how important it is for leadership in lubavitch and in chabad to involve other leaders and clergymen and to to teach them hasidis that's what they did and become friends with them and and and be articulate with them so that's a lesson for itself that we take from the wonderful shlokrim and rabbis in england who had a great impact on rabbi sacks but nevertheless how does a man like that all of a sudden change and that again points to a humility that with all of his brights with all of his scholarship with all of his knowledge and depth and prestige he knew that he's standing before at sadiq the rebbe and he knew that this laboratory is looking deep into his soul and he understood that the rebels suggestion and advice is coming from a higher place than his soul needs and hence he listened and followed and subsequent to that for the next thirty years until in 1991 when he became the chief rabbi of england he spoke publicly at the kinase of and he said how he attributed so much of his developing himself and his community and inc and english world jewish jewry was because of the teachings of the rebbe to the point where he actually translated basic important talks sikhs of the rebel and it came out in a book called torah studies and his from his writing was phenomenal you have to you have to learn and read those secrets because they they're on a level of the of themselves as far as clarity and and um and direct results getting direct results from learning the talk of the rabbit rebellionism sacks was a world jewish leader if devon feinstein was a world jewish leader for the lit bishop world for the yeshiva world rabbi sax was not a world jewish leader for the lit fisher world and the hasidis world but as far as the modern orthodox world and the larger jewish world including those that are not yet religious and observant he was a leader he was a trendsetter and i want to end with with what i heard from him on a clip this past week that to me says it all he was giving a ted talk so he had 10 12 minutes and at the end he says so what's the bottom line what am i going to leave you with he says i'm going to leave you with that i suggest instead of saying self-improvement say other improvement instead of saying self-esteem say other esteem what a thought and guess what it's explained in hasidis and spoken about that the real self-esteem is the esteem of a kardash of god almighty the understanding of not just the chanting of anoin muvada there's nothing besides god rabbi sachs encapsulated in those few words instead of saying self-esteem or self-improvement say other esteem and other improvement as a reference to the other hakados which is the real esteem it's not about you it's about god that's the equation that we need to look at is what i'm doing making god happy is this what god wants what's making me happy so ill nishmas this special yid of unison sax who's left the jewish world writings and teachings not only for one segment of the community but now after his physical life were able to benefit from teachings that he left and all eden will benefit with the coming of mashiach immediately the code of mamesh to reunite with him and abdullah feinstein and whole other didn't hate him in