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What did the Rebbe tell Reb Elye Gross in 1954 about Reb Yoel - New Story in honor of his Shloshim
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so in his honor in his memory i'd like
to share a few stories
some of which is in my latest book that
came out
and it's available on my website
rabbi dolphin d-a-l-f-i-n-dot-com
it's 1954
arabio marries
the daughter of rabzalman butman
rabbits in leia khan
i heard this following story from
rebnuchi
gross of crown heights
who told me he heard it from his father
directly
who was instructed by the rebbe
after the oil married to find an
apartment
for rebjoyal
and rabbits and leia khan
in crown heights and that ever told him
what type of apartment
an apartment that has
two windows
in a manner in which there's good cross
ventilation
and good lighting
it's a short little story but it's an
insight into the rebbe's concern
and closeness
to the khans
and i share the story
not just because it's something that
most of the babies
doesn't know about
but because it shows
on the relationship
and the relationship is not to make
the khans you know holier than thou
and
rebuild who was
a a husset and a genius and everything
else that's not the purpose of the story
the purpose is to show that there are
being
and our ebba
had a special
interest
in this couple
to the point where not only does he want
elia gross nuki's father
to find him an apartment
but he wants it to have good ventilation
cross ventilation so that you can open
the windows
and because there's two windows on
either side there's a good wind
in the summer
in those days
air conditions
were not rampant were not found
in apartments
and in houses as well it was not yet the
days where there was air condition all
over and also good lighting so it's
bright for this new young couple
and this reminds me of another story
going back
to raphael khan rabio's father and jose
that i borrowed
showing that the relationship of the
rabbi and from the rebel shop
and the rebel yachts
were also
close and looked favorably at this
khan family and and i wanna at the end
i'll summarize what the point i'm
getting at
so it's
1929 i believe
and it's moscow
it's the harold synagogue
a beautiful show which still stands
today and is open and you can go visit i
visited in 2019
and in that show there's a mix in the
basement
and after stalin came out with his
edicts and he closed most of the shoes
and the khadora and the haters and and
the mikviz and all that
this shoe was still open because they're
they wanted to show that they still
like jews and they like judaism and
therefore they
they don't mind that older people senior
citizens
dove and learn but they were against
young children because to study and
learn they wanted them to be
indoctrinated in
russian culture
which meant
the rejection
god forbid of a god and all that
so the board of the shoe decided they're
going to close the mikvah because the
mikveh was something that's used by
young people
uh by women who are of childbirth age
and that they were against
and the board didn't want to have
problems that if they don't close the
midfast they were told to that might
they the government will close the the
show
so they closed the mix
and a few others but it was led by the
baroque show
he went to them and he said you better
open the mikvah if you don't open the
mikvah we're going to we're going to
react of course they didn't listen
and it was during the yamtiv i believe
either of you shall pass force i forget
not the exact jumptive
then all of a sudden that barak shalom
and a few others came into shul
and when they were about to take out the
safe potato for clear certain for the
reign of the traitor they disrupted the
whole shul
and they made noises and they didn't
allow them to take out the trailer and
they said we're not moving from here
until you all agreed to open that
midfield
and there was chaos in the show
and they had no choice and the board
opened the mikvah
i was down in the basement there and i
saw the mikvah was that the area of the
mickville
this story is recorded by
emmanuel michelin who the rebbe
told to print his memories of living in
50 years in moscow from 1922 to 1972 and
that have actually gave him i think four
thousand dollars to princess safer it's
called hagar helles it's a one-of-a-kind
safer his memories he was the son-in-law
of the love
at that time in in the show
so it's a first-hand story he told he
says he was there when it took place
this is what the type of say that
grandfather that burial had on one on
this paternal side
a yi to his mesa fish
and then we talk about his his his son
and the bjorn's father have fallen
s
who was they say one of the ten kasitham
that was quite his priest who made a
pact to feed the kare but do or die for
yiddish kite
and who helped so many eden and brought
eden to siddhis
and he was himself a mashipia and a
talmud
enigla
and then he came to crown heights
and i happened to develop a close
relationship with him and spoke to him
quite a bit
so
on the ginza lubavitch tapes
which i pop which i released years ago
if you haven't listened to them
it's a
interview recordings of six hasidam
being interviewed about their memories
of the babbage they all learned
and the one that that's interviewed for
about eight hours is
risen
and he says there when the interview
when the interviewer asks him about
uh
his statement his answer is
they're part of the rebels household
for the khan
they put a full gun
that's like
you know like a brother and sister to
the rabbi
and
theresa was a very smart clustered an
intelligent custard and
he was a pikachu clever not a shaytan
not a fool
and
and the way he answers the question is
like what are you comparing other
hasidan to the khans they have a special
place in the chabad
leadership of the rabbeim
so when i heard this from
and i put this and then read the story
in in in michelin's book
and then i heard the story with with the
rebbe
asking
ella gross to find the oil and his wife
an apartment i put them all together and
i share this with you to show
and this is just
a tip in the iceberg
that
this family stands for
humility subservience to the abrasion
and to the rabbi
so it's only natural that rabbi yo whose
slating is tomorrow with tavis
dishmaster for the benefit of his soul
we we we need to look at the family the
history
where he comes from
he comes from a father and a zether
that that
by the freedom stayed at times in their
apartment in in their apartment in
moscow
this is written in in in the secrets
this is there's no see there's no secret
why did he trust them the rebel shot
defeated
because they were like blood they were
like family
and up yo is a continuation was a
continuation of this
but male 1 therefore what's the lesson
for us as we're clay the shadow and
we're coming to the young tavern
the lesson is
that
those people that are are his students
and those people that he he he put them
on their feet meaning in the sense of
understanding properly siddhis
and the ways of hasidis
those are people that
people should look to learn with and
listen to
because these people
took from them the right hash
and the right hadraja
they took from they were trained by
these by him
with his pedigree
with which has the sanctioning and
backing of the last three rabbi there
are shabab there are yachts and however
and i i share i say this
for another important point
many people
in the last 30 years
think they knew it of yoil they didn't
they did not
you needed to learn with him and be with
him in the 60s and the 70s and a little
bit in the 80s
but from after gimmel thomas he wasn't
the same person i'm sorry
i've discussed this with other sydney
and they
i'm not going to go into it has nothing
to do with politics
the real nebula okay
is the oil of the 50s 60s 70s and
maybe early 80s that's it that's it
so
those tell me them that
and and another thing it's not just
everyone automatically was installment
for example we had a 30 40 50
at this year
when he gave the sheer and samavov that
my mother of the rashabe
only about 5-10 guys were into it
although everyone came but a lot of
people fell asleep
and whatever
and maybe didn't understand
again i'm not saying this to make one
person better than the other that's not
the point but the point is that when you
when you want to be macabre when you
want to receive you need to receive
from the right person if that's what
you're looking for
so therefore rabbi said
there are there are
serious real students that are
all over the world this week they had
their
fabregans and they had videos pay
attention to those individuals
to to to share
what he taught us and when you'll do
that you'll get a little taste
of of of his teaching and his
and the rebbe
in in the years later relied on him both
in the sephora er kim the encyclopedia
of chabad
taraba seven the flaming ace of seven
the going who the author of the you know
the the main editor of the encyclopedia
talmudic
he he wrote to the rabbit that it's not
coming out and quick enough and also the
style he didn't agree with and that ever
said to him
i've given it over to a very very
respectable knowledgeable person and how
can i pressure him to do his job quicker
i'll be taking away a person's gishmak
a person's pleasure and enjoy enjoyment
in siddhis
and i can't do that that ever writes
that to rabbi zeven in the in a letter
and sprinted in igris koi dish look it
up
and then later in the in the late 1980s
there was an issue with choosing
rabbanim in crown heights and if you got
involved because you felt it had to do
with the rebels honor
and someone wrote to the rebels saying
it's not his position you know not his
place why is he mixing in
and
that i be answered
he i he has done for me many many things
i think the lesson is the i see a
sidious
tons of things and like i've approved
them and i've sanctioned them so don't
tell me that he's he has no place in
getting involved in this area and and
there's many many other things
no one's perfect people make mistakes if
you don't make mistakes we all make
mistakes but
as far as the rabbis understanding the
rebel and the rebels
approach what they ever wanted of them
what they ever wanted of jew of the
jewish people that ever wanted
what they ever wanted of the babbage
he was the closest that got it right
well dave mr helpful
that um
this shabbos of elo
is 30 days a slating from
the time when his nashamah returned to
the stood
that
the
god almighty should have mercy on
claudius
so he
and all of the eden will be resurrected
with the coming of meshiach and we'll do
this with simcha
because everything needs simcha without
joy without simcha
it doesn't it doesn't go it doesn't work
we should do it with simcha
and
sincerity
and humility
and will be said to the ghoulish lama
because of mamesh
now
may be written
described in the book of life for a
sweet healthy happy new year amen