Tribute to Rabbi Even Yisrael- Steinzaltz - part 2

in continuing the tribute to haravadin avenue steins outs this is part two the last thing that i mentioned was his book my rebbe it's interesting that he calls the book my rebbe the emphasis here it's very clear if you think about it just for a moment is the my not the rebbe and this is who he was he internalized everything in in in chabad lingo we call this apnimi a very deep inner type of person who takes everything personal and if it's not in a personal experience if it doesn't become his own it's considered superficial external and one is to avoid that this is an age old teaching of chabad hasidim from the samarth and they would say anything that comes evie easy run the other way and uh but dean lived this way he switched he heard of it you know what harving means he he exerted himself to to make every experience his own experience so so too when he writes about the rebbe uh besides other issues why he calls the book my rebel i believe that it captures his personality additionally he you know did not uh agree and appreciate many things that he saw in the lobovich community over the last 50 60 years i would say that what he saw in his teen years by elderly of the rashabe and some of the previous rebbe's talmudim students spoke more to him but but uh the you know johnny come lately and ice cream pizza oriented type of uh chocolate mix as the elders some elder sedan would call the americans see them you know he uh didn't go for that and it's not just about america it's just about urges are all true but too he had the same attitude towards the new generation i'm not going to go into that now right wrong but you know so his relationship to the rebel was was a personal one and and the truth is a few stories to support that that he had a very personal relationship and the rebbe initiated many times that relationship first of all rabbi steinseltz was the best appointed man to deal and teach president shazaar salman shahzad and other dignitaries at the knesset and in fact in tough shin lab in 1970 when the they concluded mashiach seyfather you take a look of all the people who were honored to say aposic one of them is rabbi adeem steins he was 33 at the time and the most of the other people were 60 plus 60 70 80. and the reason is because the rebbe wrote because he studied with the ben with binay tata and and and the the people at the neces refers to the knesset and and people like that and that you can see in the rebels that have his holy handwriting shazaar had sent steins out to the rebel as his representative for the cmc potato so that's a piece of history that we need to know and was the first time that rabbit stein said came to the river i mean i assume you know it wasn't because he didn't want to come funds were tight he wasn't a person who you know who had money and um but when shahzad gave him the ticket i assume or some other cousin gave him on behalf of shazaar i'm not sure the the details uh he went and to the rabbit that was very special i heard yesterday that shazaar his office the bay sachnesses had no see which is in recovery today before that was across the king david hotel and there was a school over there too and he told someone who met in shul he told them that i've been learning gemara with rabbi steins out in this shul and we finished the entire shot every day ravish times else comes and teaches me gemura and they went through the entire shots so you're talking about a person who did these type of activities you know not in the name of the body it's not the name of khabad not in the name of misrahee he did it for the sake of teaching tata to people who are in leadership positions who were bright and who respected his way of thinking because he was broad-minded and this is what i meant the other day in the first part when i said you know he wasn't you know boxed in as a laboratory i didn't mean the net the negative side he was a full of barbiture a full husset with a beard and kapot and agar pool and davening barriches like i told you you know in the minho one shouldn't make hospital on that mistake and that's why i'm clarifying however however his mind was much broader than that meaning or better said how to take this chabad ethos and to bring it to all types of people and that's what he that's what he demanded of himself and that's what he demanded of of others his entire life and that leads me to the next point that he opened the yeshiva in in russia and he opened yeshiva yoshi went to koa and then in their destroy they weren't under on the train and they would they were to teach traitor to various types of guidance in russia they ocean and then toccoa another type of students so there was a you could say an ecumenical approach to his teaching of toyota another nakuda that uh we didn't mention the last time which is important is that and this kid this also supports the idea that that ever initiated the bond the connection with him because he came from a home where a yiddish kite from kite was not appreciated at the time he had issues you know as he was growing up and as he was becoming more interested in front kite and the rebbe asked you know various people including robert sunken uh to to to to to be mccarter them and to help the situation another person that was very close and helpful to him was rabbi bettel rabbi dov bear elijah who lived in kathmandu he was he was a rav in ashkenazi in katamond family his parents lived in kathmandu and he had a very big impact on him uh in his going towards the lubavitch way and the yiddish away the froome way so that ever that ever you know reached out to various people relatives and others that the lubavitcher yerushalayim the xiaomi crowd should appreciate a man like rubbish steins else you have to understand because he wasn't a conformist and because he wasn't formal and they're wearing you know they're black and white and they're and they're going to show me clothing and here comes someone who's wearing a short jacket and maybe a colorful hat and like i said his blue shirt and things like that and he's going to represent the babbage and he's going to write about chabad and after him that ever said yeah yeah and the rebel wanted them to give him a platform and to s and to know that he is really a chabad nika and that's why they they they asked him to be the unofficial rav of the sema sadiq which he took very seriously because after the war the 67 war and the samasati shul was we got back to shul and and the the minion started and the rebel wanted should be there right away and there's a lot of history there and robert steinself used to walk from i don't know if he was living at a time in the german colony the last you know 10 20 30 years he was living the german colony and he would walk every day i'm sorry every shabbos there to the so it's a half an hour 45 minute walk but he we would walk and that's where he governed by his shabbos and that's where you could talk to him after darvening and they were for praying so the the the the platform that he was given became greater and greater over the years but nevertheless nevertheless he wasn't boxed in by the platform so this individual rabbi dean steinseltz made a great great impact for us and for the jewish world and finally in the 1980s i believe late 80s there was an attack against him by the bernay brock element because they felt that some of the things he wrote in various books and even in the talmud of his trans translation were of heresy nature and the rebel contacted of some people nerd israel who were connected today that is to forewarn a a ban that they want that nebraska wanted to issue against his writings and him etcetera and barack hashem they were successful there's a lot of details on how and how that was but they were successful and they all rubbish stein's outs also agreed to retract certain to reprint certain things and give everyone back their money for the books that they bought and they'll give them new books you know the new with the changes in the writing not that he necessarily agreed that what he wrote was heresy but being that it was perceived by some as heretical statements he changed the language so he went through you know this uh this trauma kind of himself but came out stronger and how why do i say came out stronger because then you know the koran uh publishers out of yerushalayim took over the printing and and then and marketed the well and today it's uh it's much more popular and successful so this is a little bit about this person who's the shamba returned to the haberster this friday he was buried out of shabbos and we know the great joseph going right into ghanaian because gahannam is closed shabbos so he had that host that's here he was buried on the horizon and they should help take that his good work should be continued by his children and grandchildren and family and tucker to take it now to a new level because although he was in a way a one-man show but he left so many writings of so many teachings that the uh the the family and others can take and really publicize and and show how beneficial it is to so many jews i know people who you know don't like uh you know hasidim necessarily not that they're lit you know modern thinkers and who was their kind of guide rabbi adding steins else eistein's house had a whole beard and he's an and and and a bet and a smack and uh you know a rickety hat and he looked like a lubacher you know and he tasted like a labacher and if you listen to what he said he spoke with that sharp kite of the baby that sharpness that cleverness you know nevertheless because of his genius and because of his say holiness and his earnestness this spoke to them and i think it's a very important lesson for us regardless of what you are what you aren't what camp you belong what camp you don't belong to all that are semantics and and foolishness complete stupidity a waste of time and who has time to waste the covet has shown us life can change overnight you have time to waste if you think you have time to waste you're a fool a big fool so let us not be fools because we're not fools and understand that we're here because you have a purpose and a mission and it takes hard work and we should engage in it with a simcha a frailer kite a happiness that hashem gave us another day and another opportunity and jump out of bed early in the morning and get your day started early and with that will definitely be here or merit to see moshiach in our days right now because or mainly oman