Yahrtzeit Rashab, Rebbe's Birthday, Shamil Niggun, Understand a Niggun - R Chaim Dalfin #1

which was two ago the re fth Reb sh's yard site passed away 1920 and next Friday is the re's birthday and uh maybe later if time allows we'll explain how you can celebrate a birthday by someone who physically is not here but for now we'll just uh put it out there and let your mind's wonder you are but is not a especially when I there's no there's no intellectualism sermonizing is we sit together story and the purpose is to be to arouse the heart is also not AUM wonderful but is in a way a more serious time I'll share something that I heard from a his name was RAB land he lived to 100 he told me one in park he told us that he heard from the he heard word just as you need to prepare yourself to say is the the belief is that is come through the throat of so says that's that's a a foundational belief in inab Tradition so the said for that you need it doesn't come from eating popcorn and and playing golf someone who someone who is you know as they say in English plugged in so so he you need to prepare yourself so the Reb said the said just as you prepar prepare yourself for a miner you need preparation so too you need to prepare yourself for a fa which is this was a v I never heard I heard one simple St from him and I don't think the knows this because I grew up in with you know big and everything I never heard from them but what's the the point is that is a time when of course you're here to to arouse yourself and to awaken yourself to chva and toim and to to Unity to but at the same time if the say if it's really you know it's it's really happening then there's a greater wholesome experience that takes place by all the participants in the and it's not and not something you could tou up you could say like learn I have to learn like real Learning Without so don't you're learning you learn without if you ask a real without it's not you know so is very nice people commuting on the l r and instead of reading papers and magazines and the daydreaming of surfing the net they Le right but real learning is a lot deeper the real learning is what they do in BMG what they do in in a real series right so so of you could say is like a t experience it's not just you know came y who is behind of shin and we thank him he brought us the ch he brought this beautiful and and made open beautiful good is not about these nities and gentleness and and are you you know a mench are you not a mench it's time for that too but if that becomes the the script of the fa we aren't faing we're not faing we're just you know having a nice time I call that and it's beautiful and it's necessary but it's not a so I can't tell you if we'll reach that level of FAA tonight especially because that I have a bris tomorrow 9 in the morning in CR Heights so I can't sit with you all night unless um it will get there but um we can begin we can begin and as we say you know help that whatever is supposed to happen should happen and and and and no one should be offended if I said a v like this or I said a v like that because if you want that hire yourself a speaker I'm not a speaker I'm speaker too but tonight I'm not a speaker I'm a faer soer will say something that will be a little sharp and it'll you know say that's fine that's what together whoever able to Wine say want to sing a SL I made a recording of 39 and explain them it's called learn learn understand and sing how you sing a it's by it's another area which people even inage they don't they don't teach what's the N supposed to be what what what does the nigan want a nigan isn't just a composition by a very good singer very nice there's a message and there's particular nuances in a that's what a nigan is so I'll teach you teach you sh I'll sing and hopefully some of you know and and try to explain as we go through the evening so this Nan is a niggan that the re taught in 1959 with the introduction the re from I think 1954 you can correct me if you know you're younger and your memory is better probably but I believe from 1953 or 55 55 he taught a in the morning 5 3 3 or 4 a.m. in other words start at 1: in the morning went till 300 or 3:30 in 770 and then he went he went upstairs to wife who you know the passed away in 1950 she passed away in 1970 Tav 7071 so she lived many more years and and and the daughter the's wife the mus was her name and her sister and brother-in-law they all had like the sud upstairs right so he didn't leave 770 after he finished the sud what did he do he came back down to the B medes and in the beginning he stood on a a milk crate you know the B should have his gra so he should be a little higher everything was everything was you know prob like today you know everyone all the re they make beas pal with with carpet everything was P the side by the so of Williamsburg side Heights everything was simple simple it wasn't it wasn't complicated you know so he got up on this this Castle on this box and he uh tore a n and and and the condition was um no that was a different time any he taught a nigan he taught a nigan my father maybe well he my father was is from Romania he went through the the Romanian Holocaust it wasn't a death camp but you pretty much died from typhus and starvation and someone I I wrote his his history here his biography behind me and my father what oh yes was my father was like a best friend to him yeah in fact I found a letter I I'm going to publicize it between the two it's it's froma to my father my yeah my father came the father King the whole day they sat together for like hour yes they they were they were soulmates lot a lot lot of history there I interviewed J too by the way in I don't know if you know anyway so so um so he comes to America via uh France and 1959 he's at this siman and he he I remember from from childhood and Ood he would repeat not only how the s the N but the feelings that he had as a as they called him in yish a the kids probably don't know you know what a green a green it is a green horn mean how you say it in English someone who's new you know he came shirtless or penniless and and he made a life for himself and he built a business and he raised a family so it's the story of the of the of the Immigrant who comes from Europe post Holocaust and and and and creates and that's what all of us have done I'm sure your grandparents and every everyone almost today is from that uh that elk that that stature that that position anyway so the Reb said that the Reb the Reb sang the N this is the n that he sang It's called shamil's nigan because there was when Russia after the Zar fell so everyone's capturing territories over there you see it now in Ukraine fighting and Mahar and everything else so there was a general called Shamil at some point maybe it was earlier actually earlier and this Shamil this Shamil um wanted to conquer more land and he had a position he had enemies so somehow it's pretty amazing that they fooled such a such a leader uh he he he positioned himself on top of a mountain that he can look down shoot down and attack and they can't get to him so but mind they convinced him they convinced him if he comes down they're going to give him this they're going to give him that and like a huh peace talk peace talks yeah very good and like a fool he listened he came down he was captured and they put him into a jail a prison and this big sh by the way historically the magazine that puts out years ago they had a whole whole article with pictures of this sh you know when I when I when I heard when I was raised I was Raising leich and heard the nigan and everything else I had heard sh from from the re but but they they historically found that there was a sham and they have pictures of how the Sham looked and what he did it's very interesting anyway so so the the re taught a nigan of the SH now they tried once singing the sniger by the previous they say and they didn't sing it correctly and the previous said but my Aiden when my sonin will come he will teach you the properly and the did that in 1959 he taught us the n and before I sing it just the meaning of the N is that um the the comes from on high into a body into a goof with all of the tias and temptations and challenges and everything else and the Mish says why why do I have to come here why do I need this nonsense I'm riding high and I'm coasting and I'm together with angels and and shus and Celestial beings and why do I have to come to this we say there's something here that you can't get up there you don't get you don't get there you don't get it like is coming up right say give the give us the what are you giving it to a to a man flesh of blood who and all that right give it to us what does say you guys have it's not right so what's the what's the meaning that there's there's a there's not only a you see this doesn't only look at things you know there's many things to talk about the difference between briefly mus looks at things as does and reward of punishment you get this you get this reward right and for a for transgression sins you get this punishments so that's for that that's mus that's what's it's not about it's not only I should say it's not only that but it's much deeper it's about the relationship the ker are you in a relationship with the ab or are you not that's the perspective of all is it's about the CER the CER P the inside CER so you can do all the things right then the and can be you could be careful for but you're not in a relation reltionship it's it took it's dry it's boring my parents did it my community what you know you know and and today we know people are you know sick and tired of that you know and they they drop they drop this one felt the gives us the so this sh Nan is reminiscent of this of this point that we that in the sh on high doesn't want to come into this just like sh he didn't want to come down he comes down he put him in jail and guess there's another part I didn't tell you I'm telling you to now he looks through his cell window and what does he see what do you think he sees he sees the mountain in which he was once on top and he has a Cher has a bank she has a longing a yearning when will I return and be a free and be able to go back to that mountain where I was the boss so to has a CH when we aroused in the sh within ourselves to be reconnected to our source to live our source to live our that's the brief history of this n called sh and it goes like this [Music] one [Applause] [Laughter] Hal [Music] J help us [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] again [Music] Hal [Music] [Laughter] la [Music] la