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Ukraine War #3-Empathy not Sympathy - Night before Day: Greater light coming - Maamar Or lArba 1940
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uh learning the mimer oil
for the previous rabbit that he said in
america when he just after he arrived
uh to america in 1940
and
which is
shabbos right
well today is what today is zion of
today is valve right
well
please fridays of shabbos this year
shabbos tests other
uh the previous labor 82 years ago came
to america
to settle
he had come to america in 1929
to visit cities and uh
baja can you bring that book please
i just uh published
a book
um
on top that one
no no the other side to the right yeah
thank you
you see
about an orthodoxy 1900-1950
on the cover in the center is
the previous rubber walking off the boat
in manhattan 1929
and all around
i put the ma the main cities that he
visited
1929 to 1930 philadelphia chicago new
york
in new york bronx brownsville
um
and i put a different picture of a
person or a
building or something for each place
and did baltimore make the book
uh yes bolton was right here with rabbi
schwab
although i didn't write much about rabbi
schwab but i wrote about yeah i did
write about baltimore it was a
a major i think two to three weeks he
was there the rebbe
uh in
1930 january of 1930.
uh the book was endorsed by uh professor
jonathan sarin of brandeis university
who is the expert on american orthodoxy
or american jewelry i should say
so
he wrote me a very nice letter he said
uh
he says we have to uh
rabbi dolphin
revises our understanding of american
orthodoxy during the first half of the
19th century
so that was a very nice compliment
and hopefully uh people will will read
it to understand what that means anyway
so this miner
this my mother that ever said
10 years later where he was
shamayim
he was forced to leave because of the uh
the the the war
and he was miraculously saved
and he came to new york because new york
he had
a solid group of hasidim
small solid group but they were
activists
and uh they already laid the groundwork
in a way from 1930 to 1940
for his uh
you know coming although
chicago was very much a forerunner
and it looked like in 19 after his trip
in 1929 30 that he would actually come
to
chicago but when he came back he
he wrote that he's not doing that
because he thought it over and he
realized that they're looking at him as
a fundraiser
and he's uh basically
he didn't say that but you know he's
his job is to teach hasidis and
help jews
in their avoid this hashem and
fundraising is uh
an adjunct to that of course you know uh
to run an institution but when you when
you switch and you say this is what we
think you are and the other thing takes
back seat
he said no thank you and he didn't come
it didn't come
and uh the jews of chicago were very
disappointed of course but uh so be it
so that was in 1930 so 1930 um the
leaning was to go to chicago actually
but in 1940
for whatever reason
i don't know exactly why he chose uh
what he didn't choose but why didn't he
go to chicago versus new york
seems like he had a stronger
group of hasidim in other words in
chicago
he had
called them supporters and friends and a
few has said them but i think in new
york he had rabbi jacobson rabish
mulliviton rabbi simpson and these were
students of his father
and um they were more you know they're
more real hasidim they were real the
barbecues in them you know what i'm
saying
uh chicago yet people came from the
barbecue family but they were you know a
clean shaven or they they they were
involved with the community at large
these guys see them in europe that i'm
that that i just pointed out three of
them four of them whatever they were
like we're calling you this geshwara
dimension
sworn people
in other words by then the rabbit the
previous rebbe and the babbage was
number one
that's it we we have to we have to put
this on the map and we're going to do
whatever it takes to put the babbage on
the map
and i i'm glad i'm talking about this
today because we are coming up to this
uh 82nd uh day when the predicate became
so just for another moment
this is in in life in general there are
many people that are supporters
friends
of whatever you're doing but it doesn't
mean to say they that's who they are
and and the proof is in the pudding and
what's the pudding
when there's a challenge to that issue
do you stand up for it or do you say uh
you're apologetic
and uh and you back away
that's when you know whether it's in
your bloodstream and in your dna
or it's just
it would be nice if it get done
and and and
the assault the foundation for any
organization
and any family structure
and any businesses
that ever said is always it's called
asic
business
asic what is asic that would be asic
involvement
not just
sympathy empathy not just standing from
the outside to say oh i have mercy on
those people that are being evacuated so
i'm going to write a check
that's an important thing and it's one
level but then there's empathy
and thing is no i feel like i am
standing there and being shot at
the the the
the urgency
of that
feeling
outweighs completely
completely
the feeling of only sympathy
and that's the difference whether you
succeed in business
whether you succeed in life
in yiddish we say
it is
is it your
thing until it becomes your thing
it's not your thing and if it succeeds
great if not next
valve was a doctor
he's helping and helping he's he's
dealing with life and death and all
kinds of issues every day
what's the attitude the attitude is
that
i am on the it's like me being on uh
being the patient
and when i go about to save someone's
life and to help them it's i'm helping
myself
that that's the commitment
of of of any you know professional
to what they believe in and if not it's
just a job
it's just a job and that ever wrote this
you should know how it ever wrote this
to people
who you know when ashley is and they
they said that's too hard
and and others that didn't want to go
and others that you know they said
listen you have to decide is this your
job is this your job or this is who you
are
and this is the connection to today's
situation
when we're we're experiencing these
difficulties and these hardships which
which hashem
will come to an end very shortly because
we know that
you shall
hashem doesn't slumber doesn't sleep and
is watching us carefully
so
this
requires
commitment
and this is what the my mirror began to
tell us getting back to the minimum now
that when you want to search for your
comments
when you want with not when you want to
when you have to
pesach is coming
and there's an issue of comets and what
is commits
ego
horniness
jealousy
anger
and everything else that comes on that
full plate of maladies
comes along that happens mimer that he
said in 82 80 um
two years ago
and he says that you have to search with
a candle
with the light of a candle because the
mission says
sir
velvet did i ever ask a very strong
question
i want to know if you really ever asked
yourself this question and if you say
yes you'd surprise me
why doesn't it say lei larper sir
the knight of the fifteenth
it doesn't say leia laraba saucer it
says oil our boss
that we had yesterday the end of page
150 in the last chapter the 159 the end
of the first chapter that ever points
out the previous labor points out
that it's specific why the mission says
are
because the way you deal with with
searching for comments from maladies for
character flaws and everything else that
goes along with it you have to do it
with light
not with morbidity and negativity
and criticism that's based on your on
your ego
but with genuine truth
you know
i heard once
that uh hilo if you don't mind you'll
need both of you give me yourself please
i heard once that uh there was a famous
masjid in in in lubavitch in the last
century rabbi nissen nemanov
he was the mashbiya in the khabad
yeshiva for years in brunois
france
he was a very hasidic jew and he really
had strong kabbalah soil his
his
messer that he brought to the table
until today was kabbalah soil you know
to the point where you just accept and
you do and you don't deviate like a
soldier
and and he was in that area he shined
above anyone else in other words there
are people who knew more questions than
him he knew this but people knew more
understood more but in this area
he outshined them and when it came to a
fabregan and there were people sitting
who were 20 years older than him they
kept quiet and they listened to him
because they knew
that to to follow obediently like with
such an attitude of a soldier and not
deviating iota they couldn't do that
it's the hardest thing
one second join us in one second one
point
in yeshiva what was the hardest thing in
yeshiva we talk about morristown and
yeshiva
the hardest thing was to be on time at 7
30 a.m not 7 30 1 a.m
i said to start at 7 30 to be the 7 30.
if you came 7 30 one
although it's only a minute late
you didn't
follow
the exact schedule that the la babaji
yeshiva about your obey him set for the
yeshiva
now to master
being in the basement every morning at 7
30 exactly
that is an avoid that's a hard job and
one who did that
excelled in kabbalah soil and that's
what we're talking about
and you'll say what's the big deal
what's the big deal that comes seven
thirty seven thirty one
so the rebel already uh addressed it by
just showing that's the way it should be
in 1944 when the rebel lost his father i
believe yitzhak and he was saying
he came to the gaba of 770. i think
rabbi and gordon probably josh gordon's
father azada his his grandfather
and he asked them what time is chakras
during the week i think during the week
because the devil would go to the
brooklyn navy yard he was uh you know
rendering um
architectural drawings
for us as the ships you know he was had
a background of civil engineering et
cetera electrical engineering whatever
the case anyway
so rabbit gordon said
eight let's it said seven thirty seven
thirty five
and then i returned to me said which one
is it seven thirty or seven thirty 35
what's the difference five minutes
what's the difference
that's the answer is that in those five
minutes
it it shows whether you're plugged in or
you're plugged out but it's only five
minutes you're right
but it shows on what's going on inside
is it's in other words if this is the
time
my body gravitates towards it because i
can't be without it
if it's not so deep within me
then
7 30 7 35 and guess what then it ends up
being 7 45 and then let me go to uh
unison had a point where's
so much with that over there
i wrote about that in my book
i wrote i wrote extensively about that i
researched that
what year is it just said that the baba
sally
from for i think 10 or 11 years every
ellu
would go from morocco to a brunoise
they gave him a room and he stayed there
for ello um to be
he had many students morocco that came
there to learn so to be with them and
also to to spend his time there and he
saw this have this inherent
and
you talk about the baba sally but he saw
a jew that such an avid hashem that he
was overwhelmed yes they uh hit him
yeah the second point one yeah so the uh
they're ready
one second
yeah wait wait wait wait yeah
wait
right here get second point was that in
michael and nice and in
my town
we had to be there 3 15
and and and then
the walkers were running around doing
this doing that
i'm ready to see the bottom coming in
one of the times
after after me i have to sleep within
the lab i look good look at this you
know
why
why not come on time
yeah it was very difficult
it was very difficult to come one time
yeah exactly exactly
so you're supporting the point hello
i'm going to say that the question
you're asking about the difference
between 730 and 731
reminds me of the gemara that the tanya
brings i think in chapter 14.
where it says
uses the example of the wagon drivers
who would drive
there would be one fee if you went 100
parsons
and uh double the fee if you use 101.
exactly that's exactly like learning
yeah yeah that piece of tanya supports
that okay so the point that they ever
made
i'm sorry
i didn't hear cabs in chicago are the
same
he says the cabs of chicago are the same
i don't know who elliot kuznets is but
whoever you are i liked it great
anyway
so
then the good over here is the point is
that you have to search hillel with not
layla bossa with darkness
but with light
in other words even when there's a
problem
even
when there's an issue
and and it's hard to confront the issue
and you say i want to confront it
one approach is with nail with darkness
fight
i'm a loser
i'm lost
the world's coming apart
gas prices are
skyrocketing there's health issues
and and and you can list amount of
issues that are so
troublesome and so and causes you to be
negative and morbid and sad right
but if you do what that ever says oil
arbor
you're talking checking for comments
you're gonna deal with certain issues
that are very uncomfortable
they're hummus
they're sour
they rise
excuse the expression they stink
okay
you don't like it you don't want to be
part of it but you have to go about it
with r
and that itself
and this tool reminds me says volvo's
owner that ever writes to doctors over
and over
here for the cure is the attitude of the
doctor towards the patient
number writes that
and it's so true god forbid someone
who's dying
holy see
and and medically you know that's the
way it is right
hashem can perform a miracle and save
the person but medically there's no
chance
the fact that a doctor talks with that
patient the family in in a in a healthy
way in in a in a a hopeful way
that brings more
life as long as that person's is is
alive and for the family as well
you know so so it's so important even
though it's it's
it's comets
it's death
it's it's destruction
or a lot
this was a brief
uh one-two punch i would say that that
ever said in the previous chapter
at the end he said another point
made a great point at the end
the gemara the gemara
says there's a contradiction on one hand
the torah says
seven days you should not have comments
and the other hand
on the other hand says
um barishain
on this first day
implying that the first day
is the day when you are to get rid of
comments well how can i get rid of
comments on the 15th
of listen if i'm not allowed to have
comments for seven days including the
15th
and now i have it in my
possession so what do you mean i should
burn it on that day
and this is a question of the gemara and
the gomorrah answers from here we know
that the word parishioned the torah
doesn't refer to the 15th or 1st to the
14th
and the torah is giving the 14th the
virtue of the 50th in that you should uh
uh uh obliterate to burn your comments
on the 14th and that's how we know that
we are to do beer hummus not on the 15th
which is yomtiv but on the 14th
that's a gemara that's not that's not
this
but the rabbit took from that is
that somehow
the 14th is called
richard that's an amazing thought
because here you are let's let's picture
ourselves you know in five six five
weeks
is is pesach
we're tired
we're frustrated
we probably had some bias issues
wrangling with our wives and them with
us and cleaning like we discussed with
your dimension the other day
and finally
now
s let me relax no burn the comments
no muhammad
today you gotta burn the comments so the
third says i call this day re-showing
and if you can burn the comets an air of
pesach that means you're still dealing
with the final
issue of getting rid of comments you're
a rishabh
you're a top man
you're a great guy you're on you're the
first
because you show this inner kayak to
overcome a problem
that's just been lingering and lingering
and lingering and you never wanted to
confront it and you wanted to stay back
let's learn now a little bit inside
chapter two um
the the the a day is comprised of day
and night
which have two different
meaning
the combinations of god's forces as they
are as they are as it is at night is
different than day commission
that means 24 hours has two components
my
in the evening knight rf and biker
is
there isn't a day there isn't a young
that doesn't have a night with it if
there's night there's day right
what are we saying good okay and good
old uh philosophies
ying and yang up and down positive and
negative night and day good and bad
peace and war
as long as we're alive we have these
things before mashiach comes
will
what's the difference that there you
darling who andreika said that the night
of the 14th we call or la our boss
light of the 14th the angel dalit and
yet the day of the 14th padres re-shine
it's the level of re-shining through
which has the virtue of the 15th
in other words this is this question
moshe listen listen
if a day has two components how can part
of a day be or and the other be re-shown
it's one it's one day of 24 hours
you know it's
the the 12 hours of night whatever
whatever the the night hours
versus the
and the day hours make up one day
so make up your mind is the day on our
day
or is the day
a rishon day that's his question
and although that they are different
experiences
he names
both come together on the 14th on one
day on the one day
so what one second units in other words
rabbit is saying
we need to understand this it's a
question
he says
granted
we've proven that the night of the
fourteenth is called er
the day of the arab us is called risha
but director says i need to understand
this how is it that within one 24 hours
you have two experiences and yes we have
night and day but seemingly it would be
one experience shared by night and day
and
the implication in based on what we're
learning here is otherwise so that wants
to clarify that yes you're innocent
you know i want you to know
what enough community is with the
tradition or oh
wait wait
that that's what we're like
yeah i know but what was the implication
we should mean
well first of all begin with
kip shooter risha means
first
re-showing rishon mushaini or means
light it's two different things
okay
can you have a reshone that's dark
can you have a reason that's dark yes
yes
so
so simply speaking for now for now you
can answer your question with
that you can have a resound that's dark
that's problematic
and you can have and and and you can
have an r
that's light but it's not the first it's
second
right for example many times initially
in the beginning things of the heart and
then as we work them out they become
light but it's not re-shown it's not
first those there's a virtue to to
rishon i'm glad you brought this up here
listen there's a virtue to re-showing to
being the first
and there's a virtue for light but they
aren't one of the same at least not at
this point
yes there's one one thing uh
something uh something additionally to
what the jonathan was saying don't don't
we hold i mean i think we talked about
this many months ago about how the day
in yiddish kite starts at night
okay and therefore
and therefore
starts at night yum this starts at night
yeah because
which which brings us to beer
starts at night basically okay
okay but it's called r it's called light
and the day the gemara is called
ingrishon
in other words
your question is the rabbit's question
here
since it's all one day
that then why why divide it into two
different concepts and ideas or versus
risho
that's his question
so
both you and your innocent and all of us
will have to wait for an answer
let's continue a little bit
he says
the idea is
degi
whether it's searching for comments
or
burning comments both of them come
through guillory uh
through
revelation of light
like i've been telling you that both the
process of searching for the issue
analyzing the issue and then getting rid
of the issue
should be are done with
light elohim
next page
the difference is that there's a
difference in their level their
experience and he says
when you search for comments and d and
wrangling and dealing with that issue
you do it through the light of the 14th
ellis
it says
so now he's adding a point he's saying
that this light or larva sir
is greater than the 14th
it's a light an energy an experience
that's beyond transcends the 14th coming
into the 14th
and what's get burning the comets
this is revealing the level of rishon
which has the virtue of the fifteenth
allah just that it's experienced on the
fourteenth
he didn't explain he's going to explain
that he learned that tomorrow but
basically he's saying that what we're
talking about here
is something very uh different
in other words he's answering the
question now by saying you have to focus
on
the spiritual issue has taken place here
and he's saying
that both the idea of art
and the idea of richelle refers to
a much greater experience
of godly energy
that's being revealed the night of the
14th and being revealed the day the 14th
and with both of them you will if you if
you if you experience them you will
succeed in the searching of comets and
the burning of clubs what that is
what
answered my question it answered your
question yes but we still don't know
what is it that's what you saw was
asking what is this or what is this
reshape and it's a good question and
that's why we have to wait uh to to
learn more
uh
anyone uh have anything that they want
to ask comment or anything
so um are we ready are we ready for uh
big revelations of i'm purim you gotta
you gotta be ready guys you got you
gotta it's uh what's the date today is
wednesday
and um
right next wednesday night
is mcgill
yeah yeah so uh
you know make sure make sure that all
the people your neighbors who might be
by themselves have a place to come to a
sudha and to the mitzvahs don't don't
think because it's vermont but chemist
and they're mostly from eden know that
believe me there are people who are
homebound and and they can use a smile
and you know you don't have to run you
know talk about doing outreach to be
your neighbor in your building you go
down you say hello
you bring you bring that simcha to them
and you've done a great thing
i remember doing this
oh beautiful
i remember when my mother was in the
hospital here the king k
in the next to kings county they have
downstate it wasn't you know
so uh a husband and wife he's actually a
a psychologist uh
uh robotnik's and they lived nearby and
and they came dressed up
and he played a an instrument i i was
coming to visit my mother and they came
out and they look it was boring you know
and it's this isn't a jewish
neighborhood you know where downstate is
and it was so warm this warm to see that
they didn't tell anyone they just
husband wife it's purim and they want to
do something for another year they have
they knew my mother they knew that she
wasn't well so they went there to to to
perform a little bit for her what i'm
saying is that
you know
you know sometimes when you go with you
need to be sent somewhere told to go
somewhere you need a grandiose situation
then there is the the
the throttling panini premium that you
know that you don't need you
we know we know we have neighbors and
people down the street and an old age
home i don't know if that um on the lev
if that big building is really built
that old age that that that bought the
office is it built
yeah it's built and actually
the first people are actually moving in
uh this week before chavez ah wow
that was a massive yes so again that
those are probably more uh people who
are right it's like assisted living is
that the idea of a sister living home no
yeah yeah
no it's not it's not no so what is it
what is it it's like it's like it's like
uh like over 55.
the florida over 55 communities
yeah
but they get the cash
children in the neighborhood
okay anyway
we have our work cut out for us everyone
have a great day we'll see everyone
tomorrow thank you thank you bye-bye
thank you