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What Happened Yud Beis Tammuz 40 years ago?
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1980 Yud Beis Tammuz - R' Dovid Skolnik - Passion in Chasidus - No Change in Pnimius
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I've got um tell you based on wills
tough shinpei you lazy chemo Thomas so
I'll share a story that happened 40
years ago to the year 1980 this happened
in 1980 with me and another closet and
hopefully it'll be a little inspiration
for you budget gimmick Thomas the
Haggadah EULA of the Frieda Kariba and
as the Frieda caliber said it isn't only
for him personally but for any year
that's called mache in Israel but the
name Israel 1980 youth based Thomas the
rabbit Doublemint at 3:15 in the
afternoon and that's my recollection and
I've administered with a lever upstairs
in the small small basement downstairs
the lights were turned off it was
already summer the camps were in action
the buckram were already count going
around leaflets in the Americas Ruth is
going before going after the council
isn't camp and it was very quiet through
the middle of the week I finished
opening and I walked down the stairs to
the base method to the main hall with
their ever far brain and I see a ye'd
sitting on a bench and learning I think
he was learning Tania was learning
something of looking into a safer and I
hadn't seen this year before I went over
to him and I said Shalom Aleichem and
introduced myself and asked him what's
his name and he said David Skolnick
and right away I could tell he's a
Russian get a lead from Russia a hostage
from Russia and I started to speak to
him and it was very exciting to speak to
him my recollection is he was blind on
one eye and as I'm speaking to him and
listening the art of listening
especially listening to a faucet the
Noldor closet to take it all in he's
telling me about you best Thomas about
those days that he himself experienced
in in Russia in 1927 and and the years
after and the machinist nefesh and the
hardships and everything that we read
about hear about in our circles
and then he tells me I want to tell you
something he says you know I leave the
clock about I came out of Russia
I wrote that ever years ago like letter
and then I wanted to you see this and
that ever wrote back to me a letter
addressing me her avec la sit Rep so and
so above it with all kinds of accolades
and titles and and praises so when I
went into you feeders I said to their
ever ever
I am not no big lava faucet I'm no big
shriyak I know be going I'm a very
simple heat this was the attitude of
great to see them and a great not
burning in our circles in the Bhavik no
one made of himself a big Rajskub a hog
as we say a big big shot and rabbi and
scholar and thinker this and that this
is American stick as my great uncle
elemental foot the first would say so he
said to the river he expressed himself
you feel it if Phyllis knit if feel a
snit I don't feel any of these accolades
and titles that you wrote about me and
that ever looked at him with his sharp
blue eyes and he said to him and these
are the words that I'll never forget
that the Rev David Coleman told me 40
years ago youth based on was in 770 that
ever said to him feeling is neat cane
Moo's you must not have to feel it isn't
obligatory that you feel if you feel you
feel if you don't feel it you don't feel
but if exotic their ever bestows upon
you certain accolades and titles it is
the reality you do feel it you don't
feel it it's irrelevant and those five
words left an impression and a deep
message for the rest about my life and
what does that get the job done
get the sleep has done help another yeet
you do feel it that's extra credit you
don't feel it it makes no difference it
shouldn't detract an iota from your
sleepless from your mission the same
that dove it started to talk to me in
Tanya I was learning to see this at a
time that was a Morristown and we were
talking see this and it was very
enjoyable to hear the way he understood
to see this because being a student of
made of three bullet of yokan you know
they would trade a certain way they are
certain Mahalo
he was a yield from Russia and he had a
very different approach to the element
see this in a very good mock and he told
me that he had a hovel in El Tesoro
another Russian did rebel from Aaron
Haines from the same family could be
Becca Haynes a brother and he said
marette enough see this amateur arises
if related and we we tear yourself apart
we rip ourselves apart like lions in
shock and and and and and I remember
thinking you know this idea of risk
Arizer it's brought down that the mother
says this cutter I said the passion of
learning tighter and we always know that
the literature there into the risk of
the ricer and you can see even today on
clips online whereas she to receivers
are sitting at a wedding and kisana and
they're talking learning the mother and
then just and everything else and
they're tearing each other apart and
they use and do before spaces give birth
you don't understand anything
mister straight up you know this is a
certain style I've written about this in
the literature world certain with the
summer house him where it's an onion to
within theta to to rip yourself apart
it's not because you seek to humiliate
the other person to embarrass the other
person on the contrary it's the greatest
cover that data if you are massage sick
if you're involved in that approach the
trader called mister that ice
so this adult : ik told me how he and
Avram chain of Romano pain like tear
each other apart
Chaitanya so the reminding me of this
risk of their eyes out in Inca siddhis
so this is a story that happened 40
years ago it becomes more important
because this past a kiss slave I was in
the Moscow and in Poland in Poland in
Warsaw I went there for a wedding of a
rebel Tsar's daughter to a good friend
of Mines the Sun the moisture will and
spiritually offend in Portland and in
for Maine and it was it was like from
heaven sent I didn't think I was gonna
go and didn't want to go oh boy I went
and I got to taste and to actually see
the place with the free the cannabis
said the famous my mother so critters
after a SOHO i'm malik 1927 that famous
put and cut the moment that the river
has it that referred to and it's not
just the place that we said to my mat
the whole room the whole environment the
whole pool of gaelic the whole
happenings I still could feel almost a
hundred years later the Frida kadapa
being there
and all the details what would took
place in conjunction with that my mer
subsequently his arrest of test 57 and
then the arrest for youth page gibble
Thomas to release from from from Haifa
haha him from death to life on gimble
Thomas and then finally advanced
behemoth almost ACOG annually ultimate
redemption
we was Friedman spared his life and he
was allowed to leave custody mother a
hard labor camp etc
so here it's 40 years later and you
think about what we're experiencing now
and how the world is a middle of
changing and one can save themselves
well this change will mean we need to
make changes in our life in our you
dish' life in our city life in a way
that accepts the modernity of the world
accepts the the know of the the new
approach to many things
and we learn from the free decrepit and
our death that feeling is lit Camus
whether you understand that you don't
understand though you feel or you don't
feel the bottom line is see this kebab
is eternal with the outer depe
and there are billion - taught us and
teach us is loyal and void is eternal
and there are no changes and then the
code that there's no changes if the
quintessential in the code or point of
what lapavitsas abides all about there
are no changes you don't feel it on the
contrary you feel otherwise because
we're going through an epidemic and the
entire economy is turning sour and and
people are running this way running that
way so what
so what is this the first time in our
history not it not only history Jewish
sisters is the first time in our the
Babbage our Habad history that we've
experienced hardships we're used to this
this for us should be bread and butter
soba Mela what do we need to do what do
we need to do for your basic game Oh
Thomas tough shinpei we need to practice
and implement feeling isn't it Camus we
need to do my civic oil but that obey
him what our habit teaches today what
does it teach Elvis is royal loving
another year the same rep garbage cornet
who's talking to a 20 at 18 to 20 year
old blocker how old was I 1980
yeah Lacombe 1920 whatever an American
and he is a bow machinist nefesh and I'm
a Yankee Doodle he took the time and we
spoke I remember now from 3:30 till 6
o'clock I remember looking at the clock
and 770 was dark and quiet it was a very
austere feeling being a 770 like no one
else around
only this older hussa there myself and
I'm just taking it all in taking it all
in listening to him listening to him and
curling in every verdict and every word
that he said that happens talking to us
every single day that I am are teaching
us the three decayed biscotti Allah kept
Yiddish kite alive and the results we
see now when I was in Russia this
December this key slave it was like
woman he is super you couldn't believe
what we saw
caution stores mean yawning children's
programs Labov each left big time
who planted that that seed was planted
by the three the Culebra and the rabbit
told even the hosted like a of the
Maspeth who dabble for hours and learn
to see this and everything else and the
famous words of the free decrepitude a
you ain't the toast and touch bar
mr. miner if you involve yourself and
tonight you shall pay strappin in
teaching children are doing things for
you they should kill their love your
mind well night knit and if not if you
do other every other holy activity
you're on your own you're a good person
you're a great closet but you're not
mine it's a hard vote it it's a hard
pill to swallow
aren't we the rebels or we or are we on
our own they never taught and teaches us
what to do we need to have the bittle we
need to have the humility to put
ourselves aside keep shooting and do
what he instructs neighbors should help
that from dissipated gimel thomas we
should have the harder gula keep
shooting that rebellion
we'll come back together with me she
said Kano and take us out of this bitter
goalless and we'll do our evade the
daily with the highest with a vitality
and a zest at an enthusiasm and we'll
understand and and and know that nothing
has changed
it's all fit so nice it's all external
that's a change has changed but the
premia is the same and it's the same out
there and it's the same free that could
happen in the same but ever the same the
able stir nothing has changed but I am
where I am which would be safer to the
ghoulish lamer taken from a yard mom is
beautiful I may like a dish or maybe on
me