Yeshiva University and Chasidus. Young Israel of Teaneck, RC Dalfin & Dr. Eli Rachlin, Feb 2, 2025

hi everyone good evening we're gonna get started hi Danny uh good evening everyone I'm honored to speak tonight on behalf of the Young Israel tinac and on behalf of Rabbi cron Rabbi cron unfortunately couldn't be here tonight uh but he wanted to send his warm regards and appreciation for tonight's uh discussion and event um and he also asked me to convey how proud he is of uh Dr Ellie rlin from our community for the Torah scholarship that you're going to hear about tonight um and for his contributions to the community including you know tonight's event um also want to you know represent the board of directors as we celebrate this book launch uh in which Dr rlin was so involved um Young Israel is honored to host this event because uh Dr racklin embodies our commitment our community's commitment to Torah uh to professional and communal engagement and to the spreading of torah's wisdom wherever it can be found um Dr Akin's a pediatric dentist profession he has a deep passion for Learning and in recent years he has explored kabad thought finding insights that have enriched his perspective he C he has collaborated with RAB K Dalin who we're very honored to have as well an esteemed author and historian who has written extensively on kabad and its relationship with other Jewish movements um and those of you have had a chance to look at the selection outside you could see there's quite a lot of uh of output that Rabbi uh Dophin is responsible for writing about different engagements of kabad with different streams of Jewish thought um tonight they're going to be speaking about the new book kabad inba University uh the work explores the intersection between the two intellectual Traditions highlighting their shared values areas of Divergence and historical interactions and Dr Akin's journey in this book reflects the richness of torah's 70 faces U demonstrating how continued study can ignite a passion that can Revitalize every aspect of our life uh his work is a testament to the idea that Torah is vast and multiac offering New Paths of understanding that can Inspire both personal growth and also commun connection and also have an influence Beyond just the personal and obviously tonight we see you know people here who want to learn about this important topic through scholarship and dialogue he and Robie Dalin have fostered a greater appreciation for the intellectual and spiritual contributions of both Yu and kabad and we are grateful for their contributions and we look forward to the insights that they'll share with us tonight so Dr aan can kick this off [Applause] all thank you very much uh for your kind words um so um my being here raises an obvious question there's a book about about uh kabad and whyu I actually attended neither of them um the only uh Wu I attended was York University not to conf not to be confused with New York University uh which is in Toronto um but um so I wanted to actually just address and uh what is that that brings me here um and that's really partly as an introduction to uh the book and introduction um to really the guest speaker um and the focus and that's RAB doin um because those those things are intertwined um so number of years ago someone who I was very close with became very uh um uh impacted through kabad um and I saw that that made a big Improvement in that person's life and I thought that partly for academic reasons it would be good to explore what was these uh kabad people what was it that they really believed I knew something about mashiah um i' been sh I was a kid but I didn't really know much about about the depth or or kind of what was the uh what was it that caused them to have uh this influence on someone that I was uh then very close with so I said let me try to learn some of it myself just so I can perhaps exude some of that um but not really thinking that would have any significant impact on me and I started learning uh Tanya uh first at kab.org with the uh recorded classes of uh RAB Yeshua Gordon of last memory um and I started to have all kinds of questions both about some of the material I was learning some of it I didn't understand some of it I thought I understood but didn't understand what I thought were contradictions well enough didn't understand some of the nuances um and then also questions about kabad is a movement sociological Etc and I was trying to look for someone to to speak to about this to ask my questions to and and one of my thoughts was I want to be able to speak to someone who's an Insider inside the world of kabad um but who could also basically in explaining any of my answering any of my questions basically give me give me the real deal I didn't want a uh a sugarcoated version of anything uh and I wanted to make make sure I was speaking with someone who could respect uh my coming from a different perspective and and try to answer any questions or concerns they had explain things to me so um i' had already been aware of Rie Dophin from his book a number of years before um on the rav and and um and the Reber which I believe came out 2016 um and I had read um and I I'd read that frankly I'm not even certain I made I made it all way through it but I read quite a bit of it um years before so I knew the name and um I thought maybe this was a person that that might be someone who could uh help me on my own my own trying to find some answers um and uh so the next thing I do was I I purchased a book which is unfortunately out of print um it's not out of print oh I'm sorry which I thought was out of print okay incorrect fine it's back in print um and now we'll talk about this book instead but I will actually for just a a minute or two this book was called conversations with the rebba from menal schneerson and my first thought was cool someone interviewed the rebba for 3 hours and put into a book then I realized that that wasn't what it was and apparently no one's actually done that or no one actually ever did that uh while the re um was alive or or since um and um and uh what this book actually is was it was interviews conducted by robbi doin um yeah you caught that thank you uh he was interviews by Rabbi Dophin with a number of very significant Jewish personalities um some of them were uh for example Herman braner some of you may know the name he was a um a scientist from Russia who became a kabad niik um but some of the names on this list um kuk um author of The Chosen Yak Shamir Israeli Prime Minister um um Rabbi Norman lamb bless memory who's a uh obviously one of the main Builders of yiva University and in these interviews what I saw is uh someone rob Rabbi dalphin who was engaging with these different personalities um again some religious some not religious some laich most of them not laich um and talking about um various issues of importance to the Jewish Community both religious and otherwise um respectfully and and then putting it in print for example um in a conversation uh with her by Dr Norman lamb um robbi lamb among other things one thing that I found interesting was he made reference to the fact something that uh I seem to have become already increasingly aware of that in his view the only Group inim which was still promoting classical kidus teaching the Torah of the the Torah of the best and and um rather than as Norman lamb put it just saying cute little vlock and was kabad and while of course I think that's a simplification there's plenty of of great Torah coming out of all streams ofus um um I noticed that Norman lamb shared that observation but he also shared some observations that were really frankly critical of kabad um as a movement and my point isn't to share those if I guess if you want to find those you'll have to buy the book um but all keeping aside my point is to share the fact that what impressed me was that Rabbi Dalin was having a conversation with Rabbi lamb about that and when Rabbi lamb was critical of kabad it's in the book um and he was unafraid of conversation with uh with uh different perspectives and that really says a lot about Rabbi Dophin and having read this book I said you know what I'm the kind of person if I feel that there's an expert I want to speak to I just reach out and speak to them I think David Schwarz is aware from 2017 when he want wanted to figure out a good place uh to uh watch the um solar eclipse um that I kind of put him in touch with Alex filipenko who uh filipenko right Who U is just the author of the uh the uh number one astronomy text um because I had taken a continuing education course um not professional continuing education but just because I was interested in astronomy and after taking it I reached out to Professor Philip Peno because I had some questions um and surprised and said no one ever does this but that but that's who I am so then a few months later um he was on this one of the world's greatest astronomers was advising uh the Schwartz family as the best hotel to stay in to be close to where to where the eclipse was turns out he's also a nice guy which is also true of course to my Dophin so the next step was then I contacted my Dophin and over a period of time um we discussed a lot of things we discussed aside from the sociological aspects of habad but most of the reason I wanted to talk to him about was about um both about getting a deeper understanding of Tanya um and also applying it to my own to my own personal life and he was incredibly incredibly helpful with that and remained so um to this day um so with that in mind um sometime later I said to R dolphin I said know you write a lot of books if you need any help with any editing or any projects um I'm here I'd be happy to uh to extend um my procrastination Services I mean my editing services and uh and so um um he had this manuscript that he had on on Isa University and uh and kabad and what was interesting about it was to me was it's not a complete history of all interactions between these two institutions um Rob Dophin is very well known and respected as as historian or some would say historiographer and I think the main difference between historian and historiographer is that historiographer is a word that historians made up um to uh refer to any historian who's not published in journals but whose work they use when they write when they write those articles so uh just an example as to um the esteem with which Rabbi dalin's work is known and his work consists of of of documenting oral traditions of interviewing multiple people to find the root of the story as an Insider as as someone with with who knows how to um access and tease the tease the truth of various stories of of uh looking at documents and some of which are published in in this book for the first time actually um and uh so he's uh for example um Jonathan sarna who's known essentially as the dean of uh of American Jewish historians is friends with robalin I've seen some of the correspondence uh between the two of them with uh Professor sarna um expressing thanks to robalin for his contributions and and for his Works uh last week I'm sorry last year last summer Robie Dalin was invited um as a guest scholar probably first cidic guest scholar at the American Jewish archives in Cincinnati um which I suppose was great both because he got to lecture there as well as uh conduct research with access to documentation that wasn't um available uh elsewhere and uh um and many figures have really extoled the quality of his work I know that R oh one other thing I should mention both relating to the quality of the work as well as this respect for different perspectives so many of you may know the name uh Rie AR raet um I know many of you um have been to Hur whether in midot in Yas in G um and uh R by R is also known um for having written the two volume um two volume work on the r which um was edit was actually um edited by a cousin of mine Joseph Epstein or yoseph abstein um but in any case Rob Rett and Robie Dophin are very good friends I think uh said you met in 2017 or 2018 um and uh they're very good friends in fact there's uh numerous uh videos online Rob doin interviewing R ret and while they often have obviously differing differing perspectives um r Keet is not only a fan of R dophins but also a big fan of of this book now what I feel I added to it um is that um robbi dalphin had already done had prepared a manuscript and I thought that in a lot of areas different things resonate differently with different people especially different people different backgrounds different experiences and I found that certain things that resonated much more strongly um with sumone with more of a modern Orthodox uh B background um I chose to put some more extra emphasis on there um and and kind of flesh out some of those areas um some of the areas about um attitudes about science and secular education I feel like I fleshed out some of those are and one of the interesting things again in in that process was that there were frequently times where we went back and forth had discussions and R dolphin didn't always agree actually even with some of the some of what ended up in the book but might which would make might make you wonder why he put his name on it but the answer is because he said I'm not sure if I agree 100% but that's a that's a valid point of view that's a good perspective it should be in there don't make but don't make sure you also put the other perspective in as well which is some of what we really attempted uh to do in working together it was really a great collaboration and a testament to um who re Dophin is um I just want to share one story that is uh told over in the uh in the book and the book does start um because of course all books kind of need a a good hook right the the book starts with two institutions that both started in the late 1890s now kabad of course dates back to much earlier than that more than a century earlier than that um but um which was the uh first kabad Yeshiva was established in the late 1890s at right around the exact same time that on the Lower East Side the precursor to University was being established so the first portion of the book uh discusses some of the travails of yeshivas at at that time both in Europe as well as in the United States just for a quick taste of that um uh for example um both in uh both in um in New York and across the ocean in Roden right around the same time both yeshivas engaged in strikes uh for different reasons um interestingly the the main reason for the strike at yiva University which I believe was in 1908 was because um the students were upset about the quality of the food and the stiens and and um changed yeah exactly and we were there earlier today the commentator the the number one story was that uh students complaining about the fact that the health department gave the cafeteria an a um um and being urged to flood the health department with complaints but there was an actual strike um and resulting in the ISA actually closing down and around the same time 1903 same era there was the strikes were going all through yeshivas because the Winds of changed were really going through um jury at the time 1903 right around the time of the r birth in raden the strike was because the Shiva students felt that gamarra wasn't stimulating enough they didn't like the way he was being taught they heard of this new way that some Yas were studying gamar and that was the way of Sal and they felt that that they were being hampered in the scientific age of this old school type of learning gar and they went on strike in Thea which is the actual reason um and Rabin has documentation for that in the book it's the actual reason that the got a new Russa got raali uh Trum some of you may may know that name uh raali Trum was was hired as to be the new rashash Shiva in the 1903 because he was a talmid of the of the um in order to bring the brisker method to um to uh to that Yeshiva so so the first chapter covers a lot of those strikes even uh even to the point of the of of um Student Activities at Yu over the closing of MTA over the potential closing of Rebel um trying to bring that chapter from the early era of the institutions all the way forward to the 20th century and then the book goes into um goes into the study of at is University and um um to the extent that it occurred often in clandestine settings um including a cestine class of which of Aron ret was was part well when he was part of it it wasn't clandestine then um as you could find in the footnotes um one of the Riva shut down the class um after josic said that the class should continue and uh and um the uh Tanya class went back to the dormatory so all these things are detailed in the book but a major major focus of the book is the philosophies of kabad as they developed really in the mid 20th century and the philosophy of Ric because both in Kad theab and in University these were of course the two seminal figures who shaped um who shaped the um the um philosophy and the um and and what these two institutions accomplish of course took took over 1941 but he was really reached his powers in in the uh 50s and 60s when he really um got University um and that's of course with all deference to um uh both Samuel Belin uh Bernard Rebel and Norman lamb all who of course are also known for as in the administrative side really guiding uh y University um so the the quick story that I I did want to uh just share from the book was the following it occurs actually was with the salivic family but it occurs with Kim solic in 1901 I believe right before the Rob's birth and and um at the time Rim salek was the robin brisk of course and he had a large community of konic in the town now for those who think I'm might be getting confused with MOA salvic I I'm not I know Sal was the Rob Kasich um when the Rob grew up a town which was known for uh having a significant kabad Community but Sal was the rabbi in brisk and the kabad um the kabad community had a problem they wanted his help with the problem was the following which is uh as many people know um a huge holiday in kabad circles that celebrates the re being uh released from prison y k um that year the laab re and laab the the rebba rashab the fifth laich rebba was not going to be in laich that year so he sent a letter and a proclamation to be read in La babich communities the problem was that the letter was not received in brisk until after they celebrated your T and the came to R Brisco with the following question they said we received this letter from the uh Dan laab TR and it says in the letter that your tesl should from now on be celebrated not just as a great day because was let out of prison but it should be treated as rash forus um adding another rosashana to our calendar which according to the mission there there already four um and adding another so they said toic we didn't know that we were supposed to celebrate it as R and the amazing thing is that Rim who clearly on your that year and every other year said t and uh had nothing to do with any celebrations told them that they celebrated with the wrong kavana and as such they had no choice but they would have to celebrate your klave again because they had done the mitvah incorrectly um some suggested can we do this on on PM Katan now that following P there was two adars perm Katan is the first the PM Katan isar in adish so they said and I don't know whether perhaps Min was then not to work on Perm Katan um they said can we do this on on on Perm Katan and celebrate on that day and he told them no because is the day of is too big of to be held on Perm Katan um and so he directed them to pick another day to celebrate Yus kle and what was striking about the story to me is that as I said um Sal had nothing to do withing but he had um and most people when they think of solic would think that someone was was very anti casan although again as the book demonstrates he had he he had later had um actually some earlier and some later had had a lot of dealings with uh with the lababa the fifth laaba um but in fact he had the spiritual sensitivity that even though there was this this movement that he had really no part of other than the fact that they were that they were uh he was the rub of their town he respected their spiritual uh the way they expressed their spirituality even though it was different than his and he was and he was ruling with them at the intersection of where their practices were and Haka even though it was something that he really didn't relate to personally and um so I feel that that Spirit of respecting um other um of respecting other modes of spirituality um this ended up very much trickling down to Yos salvic um where even though of course he was a uh a mate he also uh publicly joked that he was a clandestine kaban because he later came to Embrace um many aspects of kabad philosophy with that in mind I want to now give the floor to AR doin who will take it from here thank you could you bring me the book from the outside so good evening to everybody I'm not going to give you dases and lectures this is a book launch so I'm just going to share braing with you you know what braing is 30 years ago I interviewed Rabbi Dr Norman lamb University for the book Al you mentioned conversations with the and I'll never forget what he told me almost as an opening line he said we and kabad 30 years ago 1995 we and kabad are the closest thing that's what he said to me and then he went went on to speak about the sheet the book that he wrote I think for his PhD uh on the and we spoke about that and he spoke about as ell mentioned some criticism he had in Springfield Springfield where he was a rabbi and kabad came into town whatever it's all it's all there as he said you could read it and for 30 years I was thinking about this you know did he say it to me just to make me feel good you know I was a much younger man right and uh he was Dr Lamb Rabbi Dr Lamb you know bringing $60 million a year or more into Yeshiva and he built he built an Empire he really built an Empire you know the r is the r but you need the the G says right right what do they say Gish G is is Right theic equivalent of G is is BL but we need this BL BL is dirt schutz we need this schutz we need this BL without the money a gate this should don't go so I'm sitting there you know I'm thinking about it you know what what did he really want what did it really say it took me 30 years kind of to put it together so in 2016 I published this book it's a 400 page book 550 or so footnotes called Robin reer it went through three printings we're at a print and a Gentleman here came here tonight to buy it I said I can't sell you this copy it's my only copy left hashem's help we'll find sponsors and we will reprint it but for right now this book is not available however when I printed this 2016 the focus was as to cover you know the rav and the rebon and RAB keit was very helpful to this to me to this and publicizing it and endorsing it and uh especially here in Tink I must tell you I sold the most copies right here at uh uh the store store I think we're Aiden there was someone named Aiden who the former owners I mean I had to bring them boxes and boxes they sold a tremendous amount ruing ruing so what is it what is it what what what is this kabad and what is why you yes University so let me digress for a moment and say it's really Dr racklin it's Ellie racklin Ellie rlin is a a a modern man a learned man a a scholar a professional dentist really is a successful man and he's you know worked hard to get where he is and he decides not only to to look atab and look at but really to go deep into it and this is a very important point I'm sure everyone here in the room has had exposure with kabad the MC told me you know he's involved with kabad Rabbi in the South Dakota I think I'm sure some of you must have even children or grandchildren or cousins or relatives someone we spoke today at Yeshiva at the sale El and I and someone asked the question and and I'll ask you the question student he said why is it and I don't know his background I know what's going on he said why is it that he feels sometimes at the Yesa something University he says there's an ambivalence to kabad he asked me why 2025 not 1940 not 1950 not 1960 today and I said I think it's not because of the Torah of kabad the balatan Torah the Reb Torah it's not because of their teachings I think it has to do with the sociological issue you know what Rabbi what Dr what Rabbi Dr Lamb said about the rabbi who came the kabik who came to Springfield when he was Rabbi in the sh he have the same issues and it's not just Kad it's in many communities imagine someone parked himself next to youru here and opens up another Young Israel you're not going to be happy I you know the more the merrier but you know we're people my continent my dollar my balabas that's the way it is and one needs to if they if they're interested if they want to see the value in any group and Society you need to study their inside kishkas what's the inside kishkas the Torah and philosophy of that particular movement and group and for the last many years I've dedicated myself to this analysis out in the hallway you'll see a slew of books that I've written many of which are kabad and and tells and ponich and Tas right to show and present to everyone both on a platter and you the reader decide what you want to do with it I try very hard I'm not perfect I try very hard to be as objective as possible as possible it's it's impossible to be completely honest because I'm atic I'm AER right by having Dr racklin assist me in this project he brought and took my manuscript and brought a lot of that there to it so kab in Yesa University gives the reader a more balanced approach to a topic and what is that topic the topic is the synthesis of two great Giants and two great movements and institutions how they can work together that's what I'm interested in I'm interested in one thing CLA isas Isel working together what Kal yaka beard no beard this it's irrelevant anyone could dress the way you want and we you stand coming to a he dressed like a mench but theba I said this earlier I'll make it very brief in 1984 my wife and I my wife sitting in the back we were sent by the rebba to Marin County California has anyone been rais your hand to Maring County California you know what ring County California is Gila I think is from Santa Rosa but ring County California was depicted in a documentary in the 1970s as the hot tub capital of the United States with smoking the marijuana dope in your hot tub and we'll leave it at that and worse right okay that's Marin County someone comes to me says Rabbi shabis MIT I'm from New York meanwhile he has his nice long ponytail and he's raising pigs in his backyard in Upper afluent area in Marine County so the deba sent us as young 20 year olds to go out to Marine County as we built a Mikvah we built a Sho we built a big a Yesa and a bookstore 19,000 Jews according to the Federation list I come to the fair the fair for the Jewish community in the summer of I think August of 84 because we left in in July of 84 and I say how am I going to read how am I going to get the message out that we're in town One reform synagogue sh one conservative I think one Reconstructionist group and now kabad so I I had come across a flyer that a friend of mine Rabbi shyan for Chicago had printed it had his picture and next to it it said like this I am not reformed I'm not conservative I'm not Orthodox I am I am a Jew this is the philosophy of kabar a Jew is a Jew and and the rest right and I said ah I'm going to put my picture instead of shim's picture and send out a beautiful card to 5,000 people 5,000 people is probably you know 1900 homes whatever the case but I have a boss someone sent me to Marine County so I I took the the card and I sent it in faxed it in not you know expecting him to respond and not asking for permission but just notifying there herit he's my boss a few hours later re Klein over sh the re secretary one of the secretaries calls me and says the re wrote comments on your flyer said what comments on my flyer and briefly what the Rebus said was like this your message is that kab is about Isel and we're all one yet what do you say I am not this I'm not that I'm not this by saying I'm not you're saying there is three divisions and there aren't a Jew is a Jew the fact that you belong to a reformed synagogue reformed Temple a conservative synagogue Orthodox okay that's where you're d That's Where You Belong that's where you socialize but a ye is one ye we're all one Jew and the reab ended with the words Hashem it's a heavy may the good God forgive you this was my introduction out to Marine County 19 august 19 um 85 and I took and I took the 5,000 and I dumped him into my garbage can in in the office and Z I never sent them out there was more there was more details in the answer but I'm just going to leave it at that so both RAB Sal the and the Reb with the driving force of the movements okay I know it's 30 plus years later both the passed away 1993 that passed away 1994 it's 30 years later right I can tell you for as a laaber as aik that the movement not only continues with anotherab house you know which you all know about you know the learning of the Torah the learning of theis the is active it's it's alive today I was to at the sale at the Yu sale and I saw a whole Shelf full of the rubs for and readed done and with this commentary this Rabbi and this scholar I would hope I'm not I'm not in the Yesa you know I would hope that today's students cherish and value the R's Torah this was a genius you know I've studied Rabon Cutler and I've studied Rabbi Rudman and I studied Rabbi hutner they're all in my books and I studied SCH carach I studied them all from inside out with interviewing all kinds of people people already G people who knew those people personally and another thing I do I'm a biographer and I write people's oral history which as and aside if you haven't done that to your parents for yourself please do it everyone has a story here get your story down and writing don't depend on your kid and your grandkid cuz ain't a going to happen okay make sure you do it it's very very important for D durus to have your story told I wrote my father's biography 87 this Romania Survivor from Romania I sat him down got the information put in a writing and put out a book anyway so the his genius insights into Tyra are astonishing and I must say as aab student I was sheltered like most everyone in my community as students and I I think in today for sure everyone is in their little corner doesn't know what the other one so I started to study listen to shiur Listen to tapes wow such t such wisdom I'm sure some of you attended his yards side share right four or five hours hours two two three hours of two three hours of a I spoken to and I asked what did you think of the and I'm talking about massive massive who know and understand sh they said and yet this person unfortunately was ostra side by the right wing what they call orthodox which I don't like using those terms as I said a moment ago right why because he didn't exactly tell their line there are good he's M you you all most of you I'm sure know what I'm talking about and I'm not here to to Really delve into that I did in my books I did I did because it this needs to be understood but not not now so the RV teaches this brilliant brilliant Torah then I find and I hear him make statements aboutus I said wow since when did Rabbi studyis I know he's a genius but you have to learn it he's a brisker aitak or as he would say himself and Ellie quoted before I'm a mugget from the house of brisk he was was a proud Miss naget Hali all Miss should be like him there are no mnin today anyway there's lit Fox but was not them anyway and I start listening to him saying explaining things on rone Bal rone God the eminator the will of God and I learned these things and I spent hours and days and months thinking about these things Inus and RAB Sal he's right there in other words you could be a genius but if you didn't learn the text you don't you can't make it up and he's quoting the mler rebba not just the alter rebba the son of the alter rebba some very deep ideas and then in 1976 when they wanted when they wanted him when he they wanted him to go to GRU some wanted and he was going to take 50 or 200 students with him he wrote the curriculum you know what the curriculum said besides learning and Mas and everything else 45 minutes twice a week a week to learn Tanya Sal wanted that it never happened for various reasons which it's a different story but it never happened RAB Keet knows this and RAB Keet has been on my tale for years years to get University to have as an official learning say there in the curriculum he didn't say it could be sh it could [Applause] be but this hasn't happened yet the closest we got was when they hired in 2014 Rabbi mosha Weinberger uh and I interviewed him and it's in the book some very very in my books in generally you should know all the secrets are in the footnotes so if if you want to know the secrets you must read the footnotes anyway so he lasted till 2020 when 1920 when the co hit you know it got busy and there are rabbis who are teaching but the point is that when you when you when you allow yourself as Ellie said before to be open to other strands and other philosophies in T and I say this to my own the barers you know are you studying seriously how can you learn rambam without R shov maybe well AB shov of Philadelphia he told me that when he went to see the rub he was the one who invited the rub to come to the 1985 ringan which I was there this Mo shabas will be 30 uh 40 years 1980 Mo shabas the previous Rebus yard site the rough came to faing I think it was a Monday night it was a scene to be seen it was awesome this picture that I put on the cover the background is of faan if you look carefully that's the 1980 faan and this is the picture of how they both when they both saw each other when the Reit came in and the r ready had come in a few minutes before standing there this is the picture it was the love was palpable Europe Berlin the AL the was palpable I'm telling you 5,000 people were in that room we were standing in awe like I'm tell like M har we talk about M har I'm telling you from my perspective that was my anyway so the synthesis of Torah that the Reb and and and and the brings to the Jewish world are very important to to continue learning and to be open to learning as as a a away in serving God today not 30 years ago today so I'll give you just one one one Insight chapter 26 from 26 to 34 it's called the psychological part of Tanya I have outside a book called Tanya mental health you know what's the buzz word today mental health mental health we're all muga mental health right you don't have to be mugar everyone has mental health so I said let's look at Tanya see what does Tanya say about mental health so I took one one idea kind of per chapter as a as a tidbit from the chapter to look at a mental health issue love fear friendliness loneliness schizophrenia whatever different things you'll see if you're interested and the the chapters that deal with those things is 26 to 34 now chapter 26 begins with the concept that everything is good there's no bad coming from Hashem everyone you know this is the big question just had an October 7th what's going on Holocaust Spanish Inquisition a child that's born that's not well on the line I don't have to tell you we have plenty of s plenty of problems there's no Evil coming from Heaven it's all good really it's all good and the balatan addresses this in chapter 26 which by the way equals numerical value of YK equals 26 just as an aside he doesn't say it anyway and he explains I don't want what I want to get at is when he starts speaking about the issues of dealing with problems physical material problems he quotes part of a p of verse and he says given for this is da da da to realize it comes from a higher place okay it brings a Caba it brings a PK okay the bottom of the page when he says then what about issues that you have which come from spiritual maladies inappropriate thoughts depression in in in prayer you know things that are more on the spiritual spectrum that disturb your prayer your Ding and your learning there he quotes this is his language take a look later you'll see the bottom of chapter 26 in the First Column first page second page actually he says there you have to find advice why does he change the language when it comes to the when it comes to the G the material problems he says the advices and comes to the the to the spiritual problems he says you have to struggle to find an answer a solution for your problem so I heard from my teacher AB that the what the AL is insinuating over here is that should bother you more than gas you understand it's a heavy a heavy job but that's what he's that's what he in between that's what he saying he's saying that g material money and health and children you have to find a solution but what you really have to find a solution for is if your doing is not proper if your learning is not proper if your is not proper there you have to really struggle to find the device this is just one example out of thousands of examples that that are in this time that the r said that the Yesa should learn at the gr 1976 because he saw and he knew and he learned that this will bring an add to the Yesa University world to the modern Orthodox world there's no question about it and when they came to him Ellie mentioned that they they tried stopping the kanir you know what the r said Al megma learon everything you're allowed to learn but not t so this misnet this brisker misnet he was Pro no man what should we say today and this idea of of the r tah as he explains so many Concepts in Tah with the insights of kabat and this adds one more point was the the question is like this was the r more intellectual or more emotional this is a big discussion and most people at least most of what's written of course intellectual the greatest intellect the said and I spoke to T and he said it and his sister even I think writes itus sman he says my students took my cup my head they didn't take my heart and I tried very hard to get them to take my heart and they didn't take my heart they had a father at and a mother think pessure right also so you have to study who the parents are you want to understand the person you have to look at the parents let's say SCH carach RAB car SCH car right if you understand scher's parents you understand him if you don't understand his parents I promise you don't know him you think you know him you don't you have to study the person's parents and once you see the parents the way they were raised then you can have more of an Insight what's going on the psychology in their thinking in their youth and as they grow Ro the as as Dr mentioned had he would say was a he says he was a of the Al and by the way the Yesa sent two t them two students in 1968 to to to mcow they were doing kiru I spoke to one of them forget another the name and he said that they saw someone and he went over said shom and he asks them do you know whatever so they say he's our rebi so they say he says send them my regards so they say and who are you just tell him when they came back he said he'll know already when he came back they told him he Mish almost collapsed he didn't believe that he was still alive this was his mamid from 1913 who was already a middle-aged person inav and the spoke always about this this m right like possibly the said he's just a is talking about the malit within him that he got from B reberg his malam so the he talks about this malamed with such admiration and what does he speak about this malamed that he saw that this m was living was living a story with the you know I heard the story from Rabbi barl we wine sorry ra Barrel wine just said the story that I heard just now and it's a very it's a very sharp story so you know this what I'm going to to say so please Rabbi why said it not doin there one AR I think forget now and he goes he gives a he makes After ding he makes a a bang and he wants to say he says something he says I got noticed there's a there's a town near us the mik isn't good talking about women we have to be we have to correct fix the MIT right away please it's Ed of somehow has to be done he sits back down wraps up his Fain a comes over to him and he says can I ask the he wasn't was but he says can I ask say sure he asks him tells him sh afterwards after he tells him the says to the B did you hear what I said a few minutes ago he said yes reab he says are you ready to go to the town oh he wanted I'm sorry he wanted the someone want to go for yipper to to the sh and to be people to you know you know make the M kosher and all that so he says are you ready to is re how can I go how can I leave raer who am I what am I and this is say turned and he said spit on the floor with your whole t said that what is your worth if you're not willing to sacrifice for another ye to build a mik to help a mik and to go away from your comfort zone for the ended it with these type of individuals and we today need to realize that and to understand it and to and to and to live with it the book this book in particular the kabad university with Dr rin's tremendous uh editing and and much more conveys this nuda this point and I I conclude with I hope the r is not here you said RAB cron is at town I really and and you know I'm I'm I'm a straight shooter if you don't invite me again so be it there has to be a sheer in in this sh that's right and reab cron to Ellie told me you guys went to the oil recently right you don't got to be aure start if you can't get someone local I come from from burrow Park I live in burrow park it should be once a week an hour once a week some men some women whatever this that you'll figure out all the religious issues your Rabbi and you you guys will decide how you want to set it up but really and if we could make more in Young Israel shs in modern Orthodox shoes in all kinds of shoes I think the r would be I know the r would be very very happy and the sure would be happy and this will bring to each and every one of you here tremendous Mor in your personal life and as Ellie said when you when you when you get to know a laaber from the inside who knows the inside and you get to know and I don't mean only myself but there are there are some like that you know they're still left they're not a relic in a in a museum and you open yourself up you'll enrich your life so DAV your help that I hope that uh this will be done somehow and uh I understand that the the r here is going to be making a five years and all that well I have a Kish so this laab here has a Kish that is started in 2017 I'm teaching my today online and I have someone teaching R and in so we participate and we do hope hashem's help to to be to be able to be in Ro to teach okay and by the way I don't know if your Rabbi told you or if you know the r wasn't the greatest proponent of makah just for the record the Reb wasn't either but the r you the rebb but the r and I think his son Kim salv just spoke um Dr bashen just interviewed him on his podcast and he says it it's very interesting to listen to he says that about his father but that's not the point and and and and Rabbi Riskin of course he he tells over I think I have it in the the book The ra the Reb his story how he came to the r and he said he wants a to go and the r said what but it that's not the point the point is that he didn't want to go to do and you know it's a different time not going to go into it it's a different time they should help that we should all be to have the the real G not fake G the real G the real true Redemption through mhia and I'll turn back to floor now to know you don't want to speak anymore so we'll take some questions and answers now okay questions comments don't don't be bashful please no no one's going to speak question yes please first of all I'd like to uh say I've started reading the book and it's fantastic what is your name sir I'm not going to say okay but um okay I I also am the poster child of the beneficiary of kabad because I travel all over the world and uh I'm just I'm just in awe of kabad I'm been talking about Asia Europe here uh and and what's done um if you know Benny zipple and and Utah the things that are just done I I just I'm in such off but I'm I'm really a closet uh sociologist and I'm fascinated by a comment you made that these religious it's not so much religious the these we're allad preachers oh