What happened the night of Yud Shevat 1951? Vision, Leadership and Rebbe - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

you try today this is the yard side of the sixth Le Bobby let's go see you again passed away in the beginning of January 1915 which was YouTube at about 10 to 8 or so in the morning and um we celebrate his his life and we also celebrate the continuation of his life through his son-in-law who became the next leader of the Babbage at the moment that his father-in-law passed away although outwardly it was a year later in 1951 January of 1951 that he formally accepted the leadership of Chabad so I want to begin this uh short fabregan um if you care to uh tonight I'll be for bringing in the Lakewood area uh for much longer and we'll have it hopefully on YouTube so you'll be able to hear more about different things but just to begin with a miser you know they say s the more you you relate the story of it's yes the more praiseworthy you are so so there's Avatar you have to continue telling stories Putin in particularly have a way to get to people in a way much more than you know studying and learning intellectualizing there's something very very significant and Powerful about mices so I just heard this yesterday from the Sun to who this happened and it's kind of hot off the press it was 1945 right here in Brooklyn right here uh in Borough Park you know because the person lived in Borough Park both of them one was are used by the name of rabba from Weingarten he was my third great rebbe in Yeshiva La baby Yeshiva back in 1969. he was from Vienna and he somehow came to learn English leave in 1941 when after it opened in 1940 in 770 and he came to be one of the talmudum the other one was someone that some of you know and heard and maybe even met Robert was like a best friend to have from Weingarten although Zalman was born in Poland but he grew he grew up part of his youth he I think he says that about eight one to one and a half his parents moved to Vienna so he he knew Weingarten I don't know from Vienna then later again they were together in Marseille Escape I think whatever they knew each other well the kids are so they actually lived here in Borough Park and they both were in the Yeshiva and that's where they got there and became the Bible Church that's where basically you know Salman had already met the the previous step in in Belgium in the previous episode see them in Belgium and he tells the story about that but nevertheless when you go into the Yeshiva and you're there for three four years and you're immersed in this culture and it's the Learning Centers if I'm bringing with older has it's a whole different experience so the kids are they were both called to the draft you know at that time the the the the United States had a very serious draft and unless you were a Yeshiva actively learning in Yeshiva you didn't get an exemption from the from from the from the Army so they called to uh downtown Brooklyn and and they came and they were supposed to go on a Thursday and somehow they met the the hour that was called at the time the ramash for an acronym for his name shin schneerson so and and they told him you know they knew they knew him from 770 and he told them that they have to go to to to the draft board and to be checked and if they're healthy they're going to be enlisted in the army so um the repossessed to them come see the previous rapper the night before for Abra Wednesday night they were scheduled to go Thursday morning they come they go up to the apartment which is you know as much as I took my show I didn't go up but above there's the ground floor with the big basement mattress just the day 770 then there's the when you're walking you go up the steps that's like the the the second floor and then the third floor is with the previously I believed and the fourth floor is with his other son-in-law that Assad um lived in Hatter's offices for the Yeshiva anyway as they go upstairs and they knock on the door and it was Wednesday night it wasn't a night of yahidas and it happens to be that who was there the previous setup's daughter's wife and she says to them like what are you doing here it's like there's no you here this night you can't it's closed they say your husband told us to come so she says one minute and she goes in and she talks to obviously to the rabbit and she says yeah he told you to come in you're right come come in and he says to them go into the to the previous step to my father so avram says to Salman he says you're a coin Zalman was a Cayenne so he says Clayton has you know precedence and go go go first he goes in and rabbit gives him a brother comes out and Weingarten goes in gives him a brother gives him and then at the end he says to Weingarten and I heard this last night from his oldest son who's A schlier from Grand Rapids Michigan read by Joseph yitzuk Weingarten see he told me this story last night so that's why it's fresh so he says um if he clap looks at him and he says to him in their eyes meaning the board the people that are checking you out tomorrow something like that you shouldn't be well because if you're not well you're not qualified to be in the army so on their eyes you shouldn't be well that those are the last words that he said to him and then he if you ever saw a picture of three cadaver he's had a very beautiful broad smile a very very like big smile you know and he gave that big broad smile to him and and winegarden left okay the next day they come to the to the place and uh they see a line outside all these people including from people and everyone is is waiting to to be seen this is no joke you have to go to be checked if you're qualified if you're healthy enough it comes weingarten's turn and uh he sees someone on the side which you found out later was a professor or psychologist if he he's told he told the son the name but he forgot yesterday so I don't know the name and he says to him um your Yeshiva right he says yeah so he says what are you learning so he tells them is getting whatever he starts talking to him a little bit of learning and he sees he knows you know right because his job was there I want him to see who was authentic and who's a draft Dodger Dodger right because there were many years we're using the excuse but they were in college or they were here or there and they weren't really Yeshiva buffer so he talks to Maloney but but that's not enough then he says then he takes the paper and he looks up and he says let me ask you do you go to movies so he says movies I don't go to movies I'm a Yeshiva I don't go to movies you know movies in those days was a big thing I know today you get it on your phone but in those days going to a movie theater was a master who you know it was something important he says let me ask you do you read Comics comic books I don't know why comic books that's I'm just repeating what I heard he says uh comic books I'm burning good morning and recording things that I hear we don't read comic books and then he asks him something else oh yeah do you have girlfriends a girlfriend in 770 should have a girlfriend what do you have in your mind so he writes down not normal he writes down this book or this Wine Garden is not normal boom he's exempt he doesn't have to go now Weingarten he came with shelter so he's waiting for shelter he turns around he doesn't see shelter he doesn't see him he looks here there and they say hey Wine Garden out we have 100 people waiting in line there's no place for you here we're checking people it's a busy place here you have to leave he has to leave shelter's not around he leaves he comes back to 770 and there was achiever of eventually sees him and he knew that chapter and him went to to the board he says uh what happened he tells him and he was very happy and then he says and where's almond where's almond says I don't know what salmon is I was looking for him he disappeared okay hours later into the night Zalman shows back up in 770. and they asked him you know where'd you get lost you know it's like like the rebel one says the salmon in 1963 and if I bring it you went for a retreat you went for a meditation where were you anyway so uh so Zalman says I'll tell you what happened was my turn they came to check me I had my sisters they tell me this rope completely they have to check the everything you know I said I'm not taking off my sisters they said well how are we gonna do a an x-ray on you so he says simple and he threw his senses over his shoulder so the the chest is all bare what's the problem they said good fine and they took the X-ray and the X-ray came out and they saw a line on his lungs somehow these wise doctors or Medics whoever did it when they took the X-ray somehow the the the the the the the the chitsa what was x-rayed as well I don't know how but that's what happened oh they said oh we have to check you out wait a minute so he he had to go through the whole process in other words I've run Weingarten was exempt by this Psychiatry psychologist psychiatrist and he said you're not normal because you don't date girls and you don't read comics and you don't go to the movies out but but Salma didn't have that work Simon was normal but the problem was he has a medical issue so they had to check and see what the doctor the doctor the doctor and that's why I took time that's why I wasn't around and that's why he came late by the way this doctor this psychiatrist psychologist the professor whoever he was he was there because he heard that they're making a lot of difficulties for Yeshiva and was very very difficult in other words even really Yeshiva they didn't let him go they pressured them and they they you know because although the law was that was the law but there was draft dodgery dodging dodging and and and you know so he knew this so he somehow worked for them so he positioned himself right there at the beginning before that you went to the other doctors so that he could save and help real Yeshiva bachari in the stand that that that was his idea his idea was and and because he's a a professional psychiatel psychologist psychiatrist they trusted him and he worked for them so his intent was good not bad that's a story that I heard so why did the free to get up and say the freedom said in their eyes you should be not gesund so both for Salman and his way and in other words with Wine Garden he's not consumed he's not well he's sugar he's he's not a normal guy in America and Solomon has something on his lung from from the sitza so the Frida campus bracha the night before Wednesday night this is the result so it's supposed to say you're going to lay no if I bring and telemeister from the fried and one more thing the free gamma passed away uh as I told you shop this morning about a 10 to 8 o'clock in the morning that night was going was supposed to be wine Gardens uh work his engagement in in Washington Heights and you know everyone knows that it was a very difficult Shabbos and the mother Shabbos and what should he do so he went to the ramash again the rebel and the rep and tells him he said oh so it he was gonna no I'm sorry he lived in Borough Park let me take matzah but she's getting dressed for his own engagement party getting ready to go to Washington Heights and he finds out that the camera passed away in the morning he wasn't a chronized that Shabbos he was in Borough Park here and uh what does he do now so he doesn't get dressed up spiffy he decides he was connected I'm not I'm canceling the engagement party my dad just passed away the Shabbos he goes to 770. he comes in much of Shabbos because everyone came and was you know crying and saying tell him the whole thing and he meets the rabbit and he tells the rabbit oh no so the rapper says to him weren't you supposed to be now and your engagement he knew in other words it was a range right before and they never knew that tonight was supposed to be I've run weingarten's engagement in in Washington tonight what are you doing here what I'm doing here you know what happened today what am I doing here I should make an engagement party with with that ever passed away the freedom could ever so the rabbit took him to the smaller victim who had a room and at the end of the corridor of the first of the level of the 770 and I'm sure it was considered like the rev the in-house Rabbi you know and the rabbit tells shmuel this is the situation and the number says and wanted to know if he would agree as there of since Weingarten already was kevaya that there should be an engagement in other words people are coming and they're expecting engagement he should take two three guys his friends from 770 go now to the engagement do the ceremony and come back come back said of course yes it's a good idea and that's what happened and that happened not 51. so weingarten's son yassi says to me you see that I've already accepted the leadership of khabad already the monster Shabbos after his father-in-law passes away giving this instruction to Weingarten with the Rev agreeing and and winegarden following and everything else so it's it's a day today which celebrates two simultaneous things I must say when I was growing up in the 70s and we really only celebrated the hilula the historicals the yard side that wasn't really an emphasis on the river taking over for whatever reason I guess because the you know the older crowd was still around and you know that wasn't their focus so you know it's interesting last night Rabbi krinsky if they had a zoom rabbit Kinski spoke and he said I don't know if he should have said it or did not but he said you know I have a hard time saying um today because a lot of because the river became a rabbit today or whatever so bakrinsky said he he says I didn't grow up that way yet you know I understand it but I I just didn't grow up that way so I too you know didn't grow up really in the 70s with that uh approach I didn't see her see them take that approach in fact I saw the lever um when they davened they you know as the years went on and the younger generation was getting you know more involved and active and really to be the main the main the main people main players as they say so they wanted to get out of saying today so if you're celebrating the devil's leadership and you're happy about it you could make you can you know but if it's a yard site the Chabad we say taken on the outside of the algorithm and there are shop and I saw myself that ever did not he you know they they started to say is God love is God that's right after it went over and the devil looked around like why aren't we say talking and the groaner was made sure to have a hustle nearby he pointed to the Hassan that we have a question so Hassan exempt you from saying I mean you know during the during the with me I missed the the someone would get married but uh that that was um the way it was then the rabba spoke about in the first minor that he said Tonight YouTube 1951 was about the average Israel of all of the rebels so I'll tell you another story that Not only was this talk mentioned how how much love obviously slow the freedom could ever had for every single year and he showed that similarity in the other six labels it's in the mimer the first Mima Tufts but yeah go ahead that's the one we did a couple of years ago right yes uh I don't remember that though okay oh that he's no call yeah yeah anyway so so there was a year then the moisture groaner his he was a brother of label Groner a younger brother he was the youngest of the Groner Brothers that that huge fact um in 1951 was like today on a Wednesday so what I'm telling you now happened last night 1951. 770 is dark no one's around except monkey Groner and he sat in the in the basement upstairs basement matters the little what we call the little Zao and one wall has two doors which open up to the America's office in those days they I think it was open even anyway he hears the phone ring and it's ringing now he wasn't a secretary his brother was labeled so it wasn't his but no one's around and the phone is ringing and ringing ringing he picks up the phone finally and it's the rep on the phone from his house he lived in a New York Avenue and President Street in the building so third and fourth floor anyway in an apartment he says it's going to be grown her around your brother he says no it's not how to come around knows this one around no no one's around he says I'm hit by myself he says maybe you could do me a favor well you should maybe you can do me a favor um could you come over to my house I'll tell you he said sure he comes over and he tells him like this that is someone that's not feeling well and they need a doctor and the represents and I called this doctor that I know and the doctor said if you're not feeling go to the hospital it's difficult for him to go to the hospital okay do me a favor come and he and he could see that he wasn't really willing to do that he wasn't you know he's at home so they never said to him if you come I'll come and he knew that this this up and coming crib over here is a special Eid so when he heard that he says okay if you come I'm coming that episode groener I'm very busy I'm middle of something now and I need some help because I have to go away and it'll be a while before I return what he gave him a list of citations of Mario McLemore's and he said in this room that I've had a big Library says do me a favor find all these references in this for him and keep and keep them on my desks when I come back I won't have to go look for them because time is of the essence but you know kind of you put a napkin in each place and you keep the place and I'll be able to open up the safer and right away go to the citation he says sure two three hours went by and groener did this and did ever came back two three hours later because he was helping Aid with an in a medical issue and the doctor would have not come if he wouldn't go as well this was Tuesday night 1951 the next night that ever made the fabrengin you tried and he said a mimer and guess what all those references he mentioned in the mimer and he wanted to look him up and so that he could say it properly Etc so Eddie spoke about the theme of mine right Told You So he himself without saying it in the moment of course I have obviously sir he left his comfort zone the night before when he said I didn't have time I think he was up all night preparing the mimer and you know and it was very busy but he needed attention and help so he left the mimer he asked Grover to help him luckily grown was there I'm sure that everyone would have gone even if Groner wasn't there but this is the story and it's had grown and repeated it to us and it happened and it's a very important because it's not just talk you know they're good speakers and talkers and that his six predecessors did and that he said in the maima this was one of the signs of Allah that he dedicates himself to every single yeed that ever did that himself and that was the night before the next night when he said to my mirror and he's and he basically accepted now what happened at the time a husted by the name of Alexander nemsov I haven't born in 1870 but you know somewhere he was the oldest custard I believe at the time and he got up in the beginning of my brain and he said today but the secrets are wonderful the talks but a river in khabar says a my Mercedes we want to hear from you are my Mercedes you know like no but you know he was so much older you know and he had the hooks for the saint and he said it well and uh so then I've been instructed they sing the previous episode I think the Bane [Music] that it's morbid and then he started to say like this about the previous celebrity says I'm the person and then he started to say Bo siligania so he started off with a a a sikha tone and then he went into a minor tone oh she didn't work ecstatic you know they had to listen at that time but they started to say like I am and then he took him anything to a three pauses in the mimer he told sing the good name and and he explained more things but that was the way oh and so and and then after after he finished the mimer nemsov got it up again and he said Hashem I think with the hashem's name is that we haven't ever that's that's the history of how part is a lot more but the the Knight of huge fact 1951 what took place in 770 so many years ago this is what took and then afterwards oh one more thing and in in the presence of the dead but nemsup jumped up on a table together with Rabbi Elliott Simpson who was the Secretary of defrito at the time and they started to dance they were so busimka and they continued dancing and the embryo were saw them dance he was so because they were they were seniors you know Simpson was born I think in 1889 he was born in 1870 and the dancing like young bahren because they were so happy I was so happy and uh then a few weeks later the rabbit called over the oil and he said I'd like to have right up the the the mimer said that the first mimer the first part icularly everyone was you know they were saying that he doesn't remember and he was so happy he was saying although they heard the Mind before they didn't do it during the Miami but you know he said what about the second part so he said he didn't know if you're sicker now you're sicker now you're not shakers and now sit down where'd that any taka did what up yo yo yo wanted the rabbit should write the member Because by the other six that I pay him except the alternator but they wrote their own Magnum right what we my modem that they themselves wrote said abio wanted like all others said them that the mimasu he should write it what do you mean I'm gonna write up the mimers it's your mimer you write it up and if the katusha comes from you from the Sadiq you write it up and I will edit it and fix it and that's the way it went he didn't he didn't agree to to write it up to to you know in full but uh rabiel was trying you know from this way that way the kind of come on we made we had he set a bimer now put it in writing like a regular Barber you know but uh that have been answered once he said that would you rather I do that or save you you can come to me and write to me and there's just some time for everything which is more important writing my body foreign it's a it's a very special day today yes hello I just wonder if an hour another time you can expand on what you meant by the tune of the secret tune and the mimer tune well briefly means like I'm talking to you a secret conversation it's not a regular conversation sorrow like all uh the the rep is handed down that kind of uh way that kind of that tune or that that Cadence you know um I asked that question it seems like that ashab had a a different a different I have to re-ask that but it could be it wasn't that a shab's tomb when he said a mimer it might be the previous level or it might be the rapper's original I I have to ask but regard but regardless they um yeah another like this let me say this way they didn't say a mimer the way you would give it to Russia in a shoe right there was a yidden Tel Aviv I'd rather pick it up in the four and third thirties 40s 50s and my father heard him saying of my Mary he stood up at Charlotte's and he said that the mother says so and so he said it like a thrasher but it was about Mercedes you know so that's not so that that's kind of a a conversation tune a thrusher tune for a moment we're talking about this particular sing song that they never chose yes what do you want to say when you were um when you were trained to memorize like I remember the one that he said once uh that was set in Beijing yeah there was a reminder that had a reference to May chamon was with that tune um I can't say I was trained that way but I did it because I heard the rabbit saying my mom so as as his question I just grew up in that culture but but it's it's interesting you asked me that because a good friend of mine who has a better memory and he knows a lot more my mom by heart so he heard me say sometimes my mom is 770 between this right Shabbos and he said to me once hi and he says why did you say it with the exact tune of the red but and I sat there look I I not you don't hear a robot I'm saying that the way I the way you know I hear it I'm not saying I'm saying it with a tune but he says yeah but it's not exactly like this I said okay so yes they are hasidim who emulate the tune to the dot I I guess I'm not one of them I try let me try save the way I heard it you know which is the general too that's not specifically position part of the training of it no no no not at all not at all no not at all yes because of love between Hutton in the color yes but had he known that there was a love with the weapons you would have changed he would he wouldn't he he would have written she'd have him not using the muscle of a man and a woman but of a hustle that is rather that's the hasidish a word yes give me I can relate to that very well because the two hearts didn't that when they dance on the table they felt that they hadn't had any connection to like him yes because the whole purpose [Music] yes 100 100 it was yes you said it well exactly exactly I mean the situation was you know a very Bleak one you talk about the situation today listen today there's thousands and thousands of the barber chairs all over and shulsa and you know what I'm saying but then there was a little decimated group like every other group that should not believe that no everyone was decimated there was nothing left you know and khabar had this Rich 150 200 year history of rabayam and writings of Sid them and here they are in Brooklyn you know a 10th 20 you know people and then by if I bring in 50 to 100 people but it and and some are living in bezenhurst and some living in Brownsville and some living in Manhattan and some are living in New Haven you know and everyone's scattered and and the Frida kadapa was not well he was an ill person he came off the boat in 1940 in a wheelchair you know and it was very hard for them to to to and and then 45 he has another stroke or whatever you know it was a very difficult situation so when this young man the devil was right he was born 1902 so in 1950 he was 48 1951 is 49 and and he's a scholar and Thomas from and he's a son-in-law and he's a schnerson and he's you know young oh they saw here they saw the future and this is a very important lesson I'm glad you brought up your innocent that you have to you have to have a vision and the vision is not just coming to my LaMotta from the rabbit to us from the topic to us from the rabbi to us from the Lord Shiva to us it's from us to them in other words over here what happened here is it was only because of hasidim that the river finally agreed to take over the leadership he didn't want this yeah in fact in 1951 and on the same time a Jew from a relative of ours named tannenhouse his son is a rabbi in in Hallandale and so his father Abraham David he it was Mama's third fourth cousin through the Dolphins to us so he was friendly with the rabbit in the 40s and you know he was a professor mathematic professor in his very knowledgeable and he was he learned also anyway he came to that but he said to them what do you need this headache for he lived with them and like everyone else there's issues this is what do you why do you want to become a rabbit before and that ever said I don't want to become a rabbit but if it means that another yid will be helped and grow it's worth it the headache that's what he told him his son told me this song repeats it so so Jainism the reconnection you're right and and now this is 1951. so now it's 72 years later whatever the case it's ongoing it's ongoing I that ever passed away Gibble Thomas yeah that's that's what a chef wanted but the flow and the continuation and the teachings and and and people going to the aisle and and writing like writing letters and I told him I have the non-jews and Jews and it's from from all sides it's it's really I tell you it's to me growing up in this culture it's overwhelming it's like I wouldn't have not believed this that now 2023 it's it's it's it's exploded and it's a bracha and it's not just Yiddish guide is exploded every every Community has grown and I think um Hashem that that we came out stronger from the Holocaust than than weaker because uh we were almost finished and um pumped back and came back and yes and went through the hardships the 50s and the 60s and the 70s and everything else and and the real Sadiq and the the big Sadiq came from the past passed away in the Russia Shiva and all that passed on but uh you got to have a vision and the vision is the young people and that ever saw it at the end he saw he says I'm not going to build Chabad with the old geezers make gonna happen they're that they're great people and they saw the Russia and then they're very Pious and religious but we need soldiers to go out in the field and say yeah I don't have time not to learn the murder because do this I have to put on film with you or bring him caution of food it's amazing amazing to to to to to have this sysma it'll be this is my this symbol the symbol of her father and this was this was a vision that that we hasidim saw and the rebel said if you guys are ready to pull yourself together and work together I'm in I'm in even though that's not I'm an introvert and I want to learn in my corner and I'm not you know I have my wife and am I safer and my little shoe and my work he was working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard till 1945. no you you guys are in so I think that this YouTube idea demands of us to step up to the plate that's the way I think we should think about it are we stepping up to the plate can we step up more to the plate and then the Yiddish guide will result in good results for kids grandkids and great grandkids in our own families and friends because they'll see that we didn't cop out when things got hot and heavy right when a big topic passes away or there's a murder seven people coming out of shoe and if a Yakov the other guy I mean you could fall apart your mama fall apart where are you God what are you doing they just haven't they just happened and now they killed this murder this you know and it's ongoing you to fall apart but we as Eden we know we don't fall apart we go further we don't understand but we know that the kavana is up not down but I am everyone have a great huge shot remember to write write a write opinion that fish write a note to the oil send it in through the facts so whatever through the you can online you know it doesn't cost anything it takes a few minutes for you and your family the names gives them to DACA to the institutions of the dev and the Frida can happen tell your family about things that I shared in the name of the free decrep in the river and light a candle so that's I wanted to tell you if you have a yardstick candle you should light a candle today still you could do it still and um I don't have right now but I'm saying to everyone over here we should only have simple with good health and should do him and only Emma will see each other very soon