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Tribute to Rabbi Even Yisrael- Steinzaltz - part 2
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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
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