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Yahrtzeit Reb S Carlebach - Thriving not Surviving - Why didn't Raayatz move to USA in 1930
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today is the york site today is the 16th
of hajj
of replay mccarl bach
the famous jewish composer
singer almanagen
and many other things
his
life story i recorded in my book called
the real schleimer
if you haven't read it i really urge you
to
read it because to understand that
schleimer karl bach you need to know his
background about his parents
his community
where did he come from
where did where was he where
where did he go to
and everything
else about this gifted individual
who helped
thousands and thousands of yidden do
chuva
and till today
and i believe till mashiach comes and
maybe even lemashir comes
people
people use his nigunim
in their shoes
from the most right-wing orthodox and
kassidic shul
they sing karl bakhtuns
and melodies
so whether
one feels he was right he wasn't right
he was wrong
i'll let you decide after you read my
book
but one thing i can tell you is
that he's in gun aidan now
and everything that nila chuva has been
rectified
and all we're left with is the positive
aspects
of what he accompl what he accomplished
so we ill in the shema
i dedicate
this
talk
and what i want to talk about really
today is the concept of
shipokshi
happiness
that one should have in the work they do
in the marriage they have
in their relationships
and and we we sum it up with the concept
of sipoknafshi
means enough
to be satiated spiritually but not only
spiritually with what you're doing with
who you are and what you are
we've been studying in our my mother
monday through thursday
7 40 new york time
and i encourage those that haven't
seen
or heard these and heard these shiorim
they're online on my youtube channel
rabbi dolphin and
invite you to join a very beautiful
interactive sheer with intelligent
people
mostly out of
bed shame ramachamish and others around
the world actually
and we study primarily the fleet of
cadet
yachts of vietnam
which always has some psychology in it
and avoid this hashem in addition to
hardcore ideas of hasidis
and this week we were talking a lot
about tainog
pleasure
the light and pleasure
what is it
where is it
how is it and who is it
it's not a topic that is
commonly discussed
but i chose this particular mimer which
starts with the words if those hashem
in poland in 1938
actually and this shabbos partial
so many years ago
actually almost uh what is it
88 years ago or so
where he he he talks about simra but to
understand simra he goes into other
issues and one of the main issues is
taino pleasure and delight
what is our pleasure
what do we derive pleasure from
and how can we tell whether what we're
doing brings us pleasure should we seek
pleasure and what is holy and pure
pleasure
the time is short to
elaborate and i again encourage you to
listen to those urine
we've elaborated
extensively on on on this topic
want to address it through a story a
story that i saw on a you on a clip with
the rebbe
someone came to the rebbe during the
mahdi israel development fund where
people gave to dhaka to the mahdi's role
organization and then they had a chance
to meet the rebel with their wives
children and family together with their
and a gentleman comes over to the rebel
and he says
i bought hashem have sold my business i
have enough money
for myself and my family
how do i know when is the right time to
retire to stop working that's his
question
and you can see the face-to-face contact
that he as he asks the question into the
rebels pupils of the rebbe's eyes right
into right into right face to face
and the rebel looks at him and he says
god is infinite torah's infinite
a jew is infinite i'm paraphrasing
there's no such thing as retirement
again the rabbit doesn't use these words
i'm paraphrasing
basically you need to continue working
if god has gifted you and granted you
that ability and especially to to be
successful in making funds continue
working
so then he asks that but i understand
what you're telling me then he says
should i reinvest the money
or part of the money in a similar
business to what i'm doing now what i
did and the business that i sold that
that that line of business or should i
go into a new venture something very
different
and here is to me
the real hidden novelty of the rebbe's
answer
and what it to me it's not so much you
shouldn't retire i mean that's pretty
simple you know what are you going to do
play golf all day or just walk around to
surf the net all day and waste your time
and go crazy
then eva tells him that depends on your
personality
if you're the type of person that's
going to get bored again i'm
paraphrasing
if you're the type of person that's
going to get bored from doing the same
type of business
with you know
in this way or that way don't do it
if you're the type of person that will
be happy reinvesting and making it
larger and making more money and making
something different and all that in the
same type of business do it
but if not find yourself another type of
business that's totally new to you so
you feel excited and i take from this
answer of the day but the following it
is important for a person being in
business being in life
and relationships to be fresh and not
stale
we have so many people today
that are just surviving they're not
thriving
they're stale
they're burnt out
now i'm not suggesting give up
and find greener pastures of foolishness
and stupidity
unhealthy for a person's spiritual
situation and even physical material
situation
but nevertheless
within the confines of tighter judaism
of a healthy family
relationship
find something that makes you excited
you need to be excited till the last day
of your life
this is what the rebel was telling him
i also saw the same similar idea in
something that i'm writing about now
where the frida kerebe the joseph
yitzhak
tells
rabbi jacobson in 1939
after he considered moving seriously to
america
in 1930
and the early during the 30s
and actually when he came in for his
visit to feed the kadaba to america in
1929 30
the activists and people who came from
homes and from europe
and their ancestors
got involved and they were planning
to bring the rabbit to america and he
agreed
and then he made a quick u-turn
and
november of 1930
he
says i'm not doing it and rabbi hatcher
fagin that ever
secretary writes the rabbi jacobson in
america before jacobs in the rebels not
coming but he doesn't tell him really
why he doesn't know why
or doesn't tell him why
in 1939 that's like eight years later
when robert jacobson went to visit the
frida kareva for a second time
while the rebel was still in europe in
poland
amongst the things that he he spoke to
about and he spoke them for hours
he tells them that
yes they were very interested in
becoming and i even agreed and wanted to
come
but i had a change of heart why
because i realized that what i did in
and
what i saw was that i'm a good activist
i'm a good his language is an ask and
see booty
i'm a great activist and that ever
writes there is
i have a talent
on
them and success in that field
and so the rap is acknowledging he knows
about himself that he's talented
in us
in communal activity and he'll be
successful in other words he'll he'll be
able to bring the money for it and
people will gather to him and all that
but he says i realized my inion
is
that's all rabbi jacobson
quotes in his safer current living
page i think 174
i think anyway
in other words that ebb is saying
i didn't see that the american
the people in america
are
really interested in khasi de marxidis
yes they come from habad families the
rabbi calls him elsewhere the fleet
has
ritual right r-i-t-e
but they're not
interested in sitting at fabregas and
hearing my mother
is
and and and you know in that whole
environment
that's not there came to america
to assimilate in one way or the other to
make money
yes to remain from and many of them
you know were broken-hearted when their
kids
left yiddish kite
or left hassiduskit
but nevertheless
the melting pot was so powerful that it
schlepped you it sucked you in
says that ever
right now
i need this why i'm paraphrasing because
the idea of a chabad
hasidis
and this is phenomenal
phenomenal
not that the rabbit wasn't concerned
about the those jews and not that the
rabbit didn't understand that asconus
communal activity
is important which he did all his of his
life
but if that becomes a substitute for
hasidis
maybe i'm a different kind of
maybe i'm a rusher shiva
maybe i'm a great person it's all and
and people will
will kind of get around me but i'm not a
rabbit and my father says the frida
karebe paraphrasing and my ancestors
from the outer edba
of this dynasty to be
khabad rebus and what's
hasidis
the study of hasidis
and
the interest and gathering of hasidim to
be together with the rebbe in the venue
of hasidis etc
so there too what do we see
that if you do something that you might
be good at
but there is no sibu navi for you
personally it doesn't turn you on and
and satiate you
you need to put that aside
and although this is in a way you know
not pure history or the connection
between chabad and other communities i
think the lesson is so important for us
as we become older
the midlife crisis will be avoided
if you're not stale
if you understand and you realize and
you practice
what
you will put on earth for which is
to be always
excited
fresh
and to summarize it not just to survive
but to thrive
may hashem help
and this day
the arts of the republic
and we should
take this message
on this parachute
which the zarya qatar says
that specifically her life her years
may have asked him shut up right
etc
her life is life compared to anyone else
before as it says in the zayed kaddish
why
because she symbolizes this idea of
freshness
of
thriving
and when you do that you're able to take
a little wine which she did as it says
in the madrid
and use it for something very special
which is
good
now