Yud Shevat Farbrengen 2026 #1, Sheepshead Bay - Rebbe became a Rebbe in 1950 not 1951- RC Dalfin

way the Reb said what I'm what I'm saying about the Reba the Reb said it about the and his father the Reb and he based it on a raam I'm not going to go into it now but that was his point that the Reb the fifth labba's father the Reba Marash passed away and it wasn't for 11 years for 11 years that he sat in his father's place. His father passed away in 1882 and he took the seat of his father in 1893. And the reason because he had an older brother and because of because of you have to respect your older brother which is good to know. >> I agree. >> I agree too. I'm the oldest anyway. Anyway, so he wouldn't sit on his father's place till his father uh till his brother left for vit. So when his brother moved to the city of Viteps, that's when the Reb, the younger brother of Shalom took the liberty of sitting in the same place of his father. But the Reb so so for years kind of said that, you know, although his father passed away 11 years ago, he became like a Reb in 1893, 11 years later. The Reb explained in this talk, "No, that's wrong. He became a Reb in 1882, THE DAY HIS FATHER PASSED AWAY." So the Reb taught us this only in 1983. I think I was at the Fabang. So we understand from this the same is true for us that although the Reba officially accepted the leadership of Kabat in 1951 January of 1951 a year after his father passed his father-in-law passed away in 1950 it makes sense to say the same thing that the Reba really became the seventh ourb the day when his father-in-law passed away. If you're not happy with my explanation and you don't want to accept it, you're welcome. But that's the way I I see things. But officially officially, the Reb accepted the leadership a year later. And I I want to just briefly briefly there's so much to to to to talk and say historically, but it's not it's not a lesson history. For that you have many of my books which I've written extensively about all of these things because I focus on history of Kabad. But briefly I want to open with a story. A story that's relevant to what I just told you. I don't think anyone in this room knows the story. If I if you know the story, you'll tell me. You'll correct me. And this is what happened. The previous reba had three daughters. The youngest daughter was Shaina. She married a gentleman named Mendel Hurinsteain Nebach. They were murdered in Trebinka in 1942. The other two daughters were Kana and Mushka. Those two daughters, the oldest was Kana and she married a person by the name of Rabbi Shar Yahu Guri who in Kabad is known as the Rashag. I have a book there called Reb and Rashag. The whole history of these of the Reb and the Rashag and the transition and what was going on. And there's there's a lot to say but briefly briefly in 1950 as the year was going on most wanted the youngest son-in-law our rebba to be the rebba. Now let me explain this to you. The rebba was a very quiet person. He didn't want to be seen. He didn't want to be heard. He wanted to do one thing, learn and dive in and work and help people in his own quiet way, which he did. His older brother-in-law Mario Gari was a statesman. He wore a top hat. He wore a a a a a gray uh be kaputa. He was a a statesman, you know. He he he had HE WAS TALLER, WHATEVER. >> EXTROVERT. And he he was definitely an extrovert. And he came from the family Gurari. And now the Gurari family in Kabad for those that know are very sophisticated people, very bright people, intelligent and sophisticated. So he had the wherewithal that some few thought would be a good statesman as a reb. But most said no, a Reba is not a statesman. A Reba is a sadic, a holy man. And specifically this this younger son-in-law was so quiet and so unknown. But they started to when he came here in 1941, he was here in in in Brooklyn in 770 for 9 years. And they started to hear him a little bit and talk to him and he was VERY APPROACHABLE. THE RASHAD WAS NOT AS approachable and they found him to be a genius of Tyra. Anything they asked him, he knew. And not only did he know, but he had the patience of of explaining it to you, sitting with you. So they said, "This is the real McCoy. This is the real. This is the real guy who should be the next Reb because he's so quiet. because he's so unknown. He's hiding from us and we now know who the real Saddic is. So, we want him. But like in every in every situation when you have an older and a younger, right, and you have children, you have son-in-laws, daughter-in-laws, family, it's not that simple. Well, it was that way, too. And what let and and what am I getting at? So in the summer of 1950 in the summer there was a very big meeting in 770 and they demanded most of the rebba to be our reb the next and he and he got very upset and he said I can't do this and I have an older brother-in-law I don't want to be involved in in THE FIGHTS AND POLITICS just leave me alone and they put pressure on him a lot of pressure. Now I'm going to go back now to Israel to inro there were also great lab and it's hard to believe if you go to Tel Aviv today it looks like you know Broadway or Hollywood sometimes but Tel Aviv in the 1920s and 30s had thousands of Jews. Did you know that? Thousands. And many of them were gerid notabat and there was also and there was vitam gareliv a hub was a place for they all subsequently left when teliv became more modern etc etc but there was there is a section next time you're in Tel Aviv called orlas beyamin Today it's become a midraov. There are cars that don't go there. There's artists. It's a very trendy area. You've been there, Daniel? Yeah. Okay. >> It's an arts market. >> An arts market. That's what I'm talking about. On that street, I forget the address. I did film it on one of my YouTubes. There was a lab shoo in a in in not in a little steel in a three-story building, I believe. And in that jewel there were big big of the fifth and the sixthb who would deny and they would and they would you know teach and they would they would talk with each other. It was a very special place. My father as a 15year-old boy would ride his bicycle and park it and go into the shul. So he told me about it as well and I heard from many see them about the shul. It was one of a kind type of it WAS LIKE IN RUSSIA in Lubavich in Isisro. That was the sentiment. The feelings of the people there was like they were in Lubavic in in Russia but trans transplanted where? In Tel Aviv in in in one shabas during the summer. There was a kdish and at the kdesh the two brothers Gurari and Mosha Garari twoidic brothers of the garari were talking with each other and they say like this >> and they say like this >> that you heard you heard you heard our cousin they also called him Rabbi Gerrari from Brooklyn wants to be a re the next reba. Now they knew their cousin. He was A SPECIAL PERSON BUT HE WASN'T A REB IN THEIR OPINION. He was a he was a statesman. You know a lot of so they were like laughing you KNOW LIKE IT'S OUR COUSIN YOU KNOW WE KNOW OUR COUSIN. YOU GUYS KNOW YOUR COUSINS. I am I am I I I am the same. I am I don't So, I have to spend a few minutes recovering. You learn. You learn. Is it like more uh >> that's probably why satellite streaming la. So I'm dedicating this to aid who I personally knew and who we knew from the Reb and maybe even his name was Satskis who was known in Kabad as a person who sang think at >> he would park himself next to the Reb him and his brother for years. He came to America. He came from Russia in 1971. And the Reb took a very strong liking to him and his brother and he he married had children and Bashem brought this. He was born on Yipper and he passed away on and is. So the same he passed away the same day. He was a tiger and he was a a Russian. And I want to for a moment explain this to you. I know we have some people in Russia here. And Gibbich comes from Russia. And it's important to know where we come from. And for a moment, you know, every culture has its makeup. Someone from Israel is one culture. Someone from America is another one. Someone from Morocco IS A THIRD ONE. SOMEONE FROM RUSSIA is a is a fourth one. And if you study the culture and you look at you know historical trends in the culture you you have a better understanding. So, a friend of mine and I opened a shul on Avenue J East 31st Street 30 about 27 years ago and then we moved it over to Coney Island between H and I and I was there and this bus lab was the person in charge of the all all the things in the shoe. Anyway, that's when who lived not far away at the time started to come. I mean, I knew of him from, like I said, I saw him at at Who is this man? Where is it? Where is it? And in talking to him, he told me how would hide in this house. These were and and the flavor of was in his bones. Now you see just for a moment when you identify with a culture and you identify with a group and in in our case when you identify with aidis in this case IT COMES WITH A package and the package determines who you are. Everyone could be a everyone could be aid. But as we say actually is there is labavage and there is labavage. So the first question you have TO ASK WHAT ARE THESE TWO LABAVES? It's not one labage. The answer of COURSE IT'S ONE LABAGE. IF YOU MAKE it be one labage. And the proof to my argument, Rab Cohen, is the Reb's letter that he gave out for 1951. This I'm sure you know, he writes there and in the m that I taught this week, the first of the he says there are and are a love. What's the difference? A musher MEANS SOMEONE WHO'S BOUND and connected with their soul to the may are are individuals who are what they would call today friends of strong friends good friends real friends but they're friends it's not your blood means you become it's part of your DNA the says Both are both types are part of the Kabad package, right? But nevertheless, he says there's this and there's that. So what is it? What is it about the DNA of Kabad? And this is where we come to the yard site is today. There was a he passed out. So he kept playing the bur where I live was a pur you know pur and all that and he asked all the guys there THEY WERE ALL THE YOU KNOW FROM OUR IT'S NOT A house it's a base on 16th Avenue between 48th and 49th street in bor he asked them what how was it that we he was a Russian what was it that we were able to have self-sacrif acrifice known as nephish IN RUSSIA DURING STALIN'S time which meant do or die and and and and guess what many died many never came back his grandfather Mar his grandfather was a named maybe he's named after him I don't know he's named after z was A TREMENDOUS AND aid and a and a mos Lida and he learned to live in the first year. ALL THE ACCOLADES, TRUST ME, HE WAS A VERY special Jew. In 1938, he's arrested. Gone. Goodbye. Misette. They shot and killed him. Right? So, this is real. He's named after him. Okay. So the question is what is it about these Jews, these Russian that that they were willing to go into the fire and the answer is their connection to the to the to the and this is something that we have to really work on. It's not easy and drill into our heads because a friend is a friend but DNA is something very different. The theat he made a pact with 10 one was his grandfather and other he asked them are you ready to give your life for Hashem if that's what needs to be done and they said we're ready. He made a bris ais briss is not you know IT'S MONEY IN THE BANK THIS THE WAY IT IS. It's for sure it's not just you know hey I'm a good when things are going nice but when I when when they're GOING TO PUT POINT THE GUN AT ME AND THEY'RE going to say if you DON'T STOP WE'RE KILLING you he doesn't give up. He doesn't give up. He says if that's what you want to do I have a mission. My mission IS TO SERVE. MY MISSION IS TO HAVE A MY MISSION IS TO HAVE a mikvah, WOMEN'S MIKVAH, ETC. MY MISSION is is you want to kill, kill me. You want to torture me, torture me. So when you So this said that's the answer. That's that's what made us in a sense different than other Jews. YOU MENTIONED OTHER NOT GOING INTO pointing any fingers but most left I can tell you names of rabbis but it's not relevant now okay they couldn't continue under Stalin STALIN LOCKED THE DOORS OF MOST SHS HOW MANY SHS remained over the sh of Moscow the sh of there and the most others were locked and the sh by the way where better lazar is he has his empire. That shoe was left over in 19 in in even in 1940 because Rabman REB'S BALOR GOT MARRIED there cuz the Russians wanted a show. We're very nice. We have a shoe open. We left one. >> Yeah, we left ONE SHO WE HAVE ONE SHO OPEN. YEAH. And why not? You know who went there? Old geysers out TO MENTION OVER THE HILL. But the little kinder, the little Yiddish kinder, that's where we want to stop the next generation. And the Reb said no. And that brings me to another story. But first, >> and again, his kids and grandkids. Amen. >> Yeah. Son, I know. Nashe. I didn't know. Hey, skin on us. I didn't know. Hey Hey, look. Rockana. Rock. on the SP. I' been on the new friend for me. I need a sh I need pasa. I NEED A BLESSING. I NEED THIS. I NEED I NEED WHAT IS I NEED the once of in Los Angeles. Everyone heard Carbaka had his brother Alba Kar came to in7 1944. His parents were guessing.