Yud Tes Kislev prep: No Petting Cats or Walking Dogs, Mesora, good old-fashioned Chasidus- RCD

It's Utest Kisslive in a week and a half. So, we prepare for Utes Kisslive. It was brought to my attention about petting cats. The message of petting cats that was circulating was a good one. But unfortunately there's a buzz today about pets and it's creeped into the Jewish world, the world, the world. We have a messiah. We have a tradition. We don't pet cats for God. We don't play with dogs. We don't walk dogs. Dogs are good and cats are good. And when we need them, we need them. The Reb himself had a a dog in his backyard because the Rebbitson wanted it for protection during the rough and tough times of the 70s 60s and 70s to protect them. But I'm sure that Reba wasn't petting his dog, playing with his dog has a mess. And it's about time that the teachers and mashim and speakers speak the truth. communicate to people and to anash all over wherever you're going to speak and to teach and to fabang the good oldfashioned traditions of Lubavichis with all night before the fab the next night share that with people and if you don't know it don't speak if you don't know the messiah you shouldn't be in a in position of speaking It's become a hoopla of anyone, everyone that has a good tongue is a speaker. Sorry chaps. There's a Messiah and the Messiah needs to be given over. Learn the Messiah. Live with the Messiah. PETTING CATS IS NOT PART OF THE MESSIAH. SORRY. I don't care how big your beard is and how smart YOU ARE AND HOW POPULAR you are. And this isn't directed to one person or two people. It's to all of us. We're losing the nuda. We're losing THE POINT. WE'RE GOING OFF ON SIDEBARS AND TANGENTS and fascinations. What does the Reb say in the May of 1971? PIKACH, THE SMART PERSON, wasn't attracted to the side rooms of gold and silver and art and culture, but he went after the king into the king's chamber. Right, PIKACH? HE IS THE ONE THAT GETS to the king. The Messiah is the king. Everything else is a fascination, an important FASCINATION, BUT IT'S STILL A FASCINATION. That's my message today as we prepare ourselves for you. Please understand, I harbor no ill feelings about anyone or anything. It's just we're talking about the concept as one to the other that our messiah is not about petting cats.