Rebbe Letters: Connecting Others to the Rebbe

all right good evening and welcome back to our study of the lubavitcherebas igriskadish letters that were written by the rabbi um many of you took a journey with me for the month leading up to yud alif nissen this year it off nissan is the that have his birthday and we did 30 letters in 30 days every single day even shabbos where we couldn't have a class we did a double class on thursdays to make up for it we learned another letter from the rabbit and bar hashem the response was amazing and people said what are you going to do it again after you get all of this and when we finish people said when are you when are you going to do it again i said you'll find out okay so you're finding out today is gimel sivan which is 30 days before we're not going to do 30 letters in 30 days that was a little bit crazy um but we're going to do a letter a week from now until gimmel thomas the way we did it last time is we went through one helix one volume of the egress this time we're going to jump around a little bit because we're going to follow a topic we're going to learn letters on the topic of his castras the relationship between arabic and the hosset and hopefully this will be part of our preparing ourselves properly for guimotamas and as the rabbit expressed regarding yuchafat the york site of his rabbit defeated that our most sincere and and ardent hope is that meshiach will be here before gimotamas and it will no longer be a yard site so let's jump in to our first letter somebody told me how can you start the letter the first class thursday night before a three-day yamtif the women are all cooking i said what do you think you're supposed to listen to while you're cooking so i'm sure there are people right now who are listening to this while cooking hi um can you make a blueberry cheesecake for me i don't know okay anyways um [Music] the latter that we're going to learn tonight is from the year tough shin this is before the rebels officially accepting the nasius this is before the passing of the faded the first few volumes of egress are letters from before the nacios this is from and its letter and it's written to an illustrious and i think before i start to read the letter i want to tell you one thing about schlemmer heim because this letter is i'll just say it it's it it's leveling a fairly uh harsh critique not and that makes this very clear not directed at any particular individual he's writing to shalim khan but he says it says this is not about any any one individual it's about the sydney in general in the community where shem was living at the time and we'll talk about where and when this all happened however because it's a it's a it's a critical uh tone that the letter is is written in a critical tone i just want to tell you something about schlemmer so you should understand what kind of a person we're talking about um and specifically in the area of connecting jews to the rabbit because that's what this whole letter is about it's about the rabbi's call to siddha to connect more jews to the devil from a very young age in fact he was first appointed as misbehaved by the fifth rabbi he was born in tofresh nun dalet that's 1894. and uh he went on to be a mashbiya in the in the times of the fire krabbe as well as in the times of the rabbi he passed away in in 1971 and uh he was a mashipia in in lud in the chabad yeshiva and herzegovina and the particular story i want to tell you was a story that happened at one of his fabregans one of his famous fabregans and lud uh there were many non-labacher bachran particularly litvishabakram who were attracted to these fabregans and from these fabregans many of these young men became chabad there's a whole there's a like a whole lineage of uh chabad families who come from these bakram who were who were attracted to himself so at one particular fabrian and this story was told by one of khaim's talmidam by the [Music] by someone who himself became a great mashipiah it was mushby in morristown so he was a baker at this fabregan and there was a uh a litvishabacher who and there were many litvisobakram who would come to these rebellions but this particular fabregas and he was giving some pushback to him that we have to connect ourselves to the nasi to uh the nasdaq and this bakr says i'm connected to abaya verova from the from the gomorrah the the great amaryam so uh saying like yeah it's very nice he's casuals and you're making a point that this is an indispensable part of yiddish kite to to connect yourself to to a tamil kokum and to atsadik no problem but i have my his kashus i'm a makusha of abaya from the from the gemara so much says to this bacha he says you want to be connected to a bible over but who says want to be connected to you that he said is the difference that not only do siddham want to connect to the rebbe but the rabbit as nasi wants to be connected to each of them so it's very easy to say oh i picked this person to be my kush or two who says it's reciprocal the whole idea of a nasty of a rabbit a head like a head is connected to a body as one organism the whole idea is that it's a two-way street the relationship is reciprocal so that's just the story about now we're going to hear that um criticizing some stuff that's going on that shillingham was involved in and it's pretty severe but buckle up and we'll we'll get through it and we'll be better for it okay here we go oh and i also want to mention something the format when we did 30 letters in 30 days was 30 minutes three three thirty thirty thirty thirty yeah thirty thirty thirty thirty letters thirty days thirty minutes yeah so uh that was the format um this is not the format anymore i cannot promise you how long this is going to take this is a particularly long letter i'm i'm even going to skip a portion of this letter and i'm guessing it's going to take me well over an hour let's see let's see what happens i think it's going to take well over an hour all right everyone knows what hamisha subha is yeah well the next line tells you rosh hashanah lilanis the tree new year new year for trees whatever puts in there that it's the tree holiday but the tree holiday isn't just for the trees it's for the tree in all of us he autumn eats us other like it says parish has shaved him there's a tree-like aspect of all of us and we can learn from the trees so tree new year is also our new year is so the letter is addressed to reshechem castleman so here's what i'm going to do the dabba actually broke up the letter into six chapters um chapter one or ice aleph is a mazatov for schlemmerheim's daughter becoming engaged um i'm gonna skip that chapter 2 his base is that i've been mentioning a countries a pamphlet that uh of of a mimer of the federal that he's enclosing in the letter ace gimmel or chapter three is the rabbit confirming receipt of the list of donors to a certain fund which we're going to be speaking about at length in this letter is dollar chapter 4 is confirmation of receipt of other funds that were sent for other projects i'm not going to get into this there's so much to be said about all of this but i'm i'm not going to do it um please hey chapter 5 was omitted entirely and we spoke about this in our previous classes that when the letters were all of these letters were published from the archival copy that was retained by the secretariat and in many cases private information was removed or redacted to protect the privacy of individuals so i don't know what chapter five was about it could have been anything it doesn't necessarily mean it was personal about schlemmer it could have been personal about somebody he knew it who knows there's no way to know what it was but it was taken out okay and then we start with ice chapter six and this is what we're going to focus on and this is gonna take us a while like i said i don't know how long it's gonna take us but yeah i'm gonna take a walk so let's let's do this and if you're following in the pdf that we prepared it's uh on chapter four i mean i'm page four if you go to page four so you'll see paragraph f right f is so confusing f is valve aleph based valid [Music] regarding what you said that it's impossible to do anything about nifne what's nif among the people of the city which city an exception for anash what's in ash let's explain this is a fund within a with an illustrious tradition and and backstory in history niffn is actually not a real word it's a word in code and the code developed because of persecution well i shouldn't say that the use of the code in this context developed because of persecution the actual code itself is a well-known code among jews called the mezuzah code you ever noticed on the back of a mezuzah you'll find letters forming words nonsense words kuzu what is that those are the words hashem hashem bumped up by one letter so the yud of yud kevke gets bumped up and becomes the next letter of khof and then the hay of your kevo of k gets bumped up one letter higher to the next letter and becomes above and so on and so forth so the mezuzah code is when you take each letter of a word and you bump it up one letter so nifne is the mezuzah code way of saying mahmud now what's mymed maimud means to stand up like amida standing so my mother means money that was collected for financially supporting a rabbi to be used by the rabbit as discretionary funds and because obviously for obvious reasons fundraising especially under oppressive regimes had to be done very often in secrecy when siddhan would write about the collection of my mod they developed a code they wouldn't refer to it as my mod they would refer to it as and everyone understood that that was code for fundraising for these funds that go to the debit so that's what the word nifna means now it's hard to explain the importance of my med i think by the end of this letter it'll become very very clear how important it is but at first glance it seems like a funny thing because let's let's let's be honest here let's let's say it as it is from a cynical point of view you know fundraising is uh is a it can be it can be a turn off like oh so here's the sales pitch ah the solicitation now they're asking for my money but traditionally it was understood that when a hasid gives mimid when he gives money his hard-earned money to the debit that that is a form of connection that cannot be achieved through other ways of connecting yes there are many ways of connecting to a rabbit and that ever will talk about this in the letter that there's the spiritual connection and there's the material connection giving money hard-earned money to the discretionary fund is an act of connecting oneself to the debit in a very special way and in some ways um we bypass some of the problem areas of human experience meaning you learn that that's your cycle you're using your mind okay but you have the subjects your own subjectivity so who knows how you filter it or even your middles your emotions you have a feeling of of of connection to the debit but again it's so subjective it's it's filtered through your own experiences and your your limitations but then there's something called action mice of a pile and uh that sort of bypasses all the subjectivity and it's real it's indisputable and you could say well following whatever's directives going and doing what they've ever told you to do is also action that's true but this is something that's even more fundamental because it's even bypassing your if you go and you do something you know that ebb is directive um it's still sort of a uh a religious thing you're doing and it has i mean religious in the sense of you're doing it with certain intention and with certain a deeper understanding but when you give money when you go and you earn the money and then you give the money away there's something so um basic there's something so uh elemental about it that you can't mess up you just can't mess it you know it reminds me of the story someone actually uh agreer a philanthropist a rich man who was giving a lot of money he once told the altar but he said i i'm not giving to dhaka right now because i realized that i don't have the right kavanagh that when i give to dhaka i i have certain uh certain egotistical feeling about it so until my carvana is more pure i'm gonna i'm gonna take a break from sadaka so now that ever said that uh listen your kavanah when you give money to the poor man may be questionable but i can assure you the kevana of the poor man when he eats is a hundred percent kosher don't worry like in other words you can't mess it up because at the end of the day it's all about the practical thing you did it and and it benefits somebody so it's almost it has a certain purity to it and it was always understood that a hasid even if you connect to the deb and all the other ways you have to have this as a part of the whole his cashless connection i'll tell you a very interesting story that i i don't think is is is very well known about the altadeb's meeting with uh brasslev i don't think a lot of people realize that they had a meeting in 1810 we're talking about a few years before the altadebus histalcus he was traveling around russia and he actually went to breslau this is before rabbi nachman moved to uman where he passed away and that's of course where he's buried it's a very well-known uh pilgrimage location but this is when rebel nachman was still in uh in brass brasilia so the alt arabic came and uh it's very interesting at their meeting there was a wealthy jew who was a big supporter of remnachman and the bin ahmed said to this to this this gleer this wealthy jew foreign to a true torah scholar and he pulled out a coin called uh rendal which was a expensive coin you know like a hundred dollar bill and he gave it to the alter david and the men said foreign that's what you give to a true torah scholar so the viewer gave another coin and if nachman uh commented in this in a similar way that it was insufficient so he gave another coin and another and another another and it repeated itself until the uh the giver had given the alternative ten of these very large coins which uh it was it was a large amount of money was more money i believe it was more money than nachman himself received as his monthly stipend from the community so it was a pretty good fundraising visit but then the conversation shifted and it's very interesting the question that abn ahman asked the altar and then the connection of the answer back to what had happened earlier with the giving that's dhaka now remember asked the alterable is it true what they say that you have eighty thousand which was a lot of sydney you know that the talmidi amagit the different uh the disciples of the margaret margaret had 120 disciples the basham to have had 60. like it had double the number they all took over different areas generally speaking they geographically divvied up eastern europe and they would teach siddhis in there in their style and so asks the the altar is it true what i hear that you have eighty thousand which is a a big number so alter ebba says yes but let me explain i'll explain the number you have to understand how we do accounting over here he says i have many siddhim who are school teachers and each of these school teachers keeps on his desk a pushka it's dhaka pushka a little uh canister for putting uh putting donations for the collection of my mid miami means what we were speaking about funds that are sent to arabic as discretionary funds for the debit so in each one of those classrooms you have all these children who are giving my mid money and they will never oppose me he said they will never become miss nagdim because they've given mahmoud money so they are counted in the reckoning of the 80 000 them very interesting question interesting answer then interesting the connection of the answer back to what had just happened a minute earlier with the remember getting the gear to give the altarebi more money altera was saying that when somebody gives my money it's not just about the money you know everyone always says it's not about the money right if they tell you it's not about the money it's about the money right but in this case what is the alternative saying the connection that's formed even by these children to the rabbit through giving my mid money is a foundation for a lifelong connection for a lifelong relationship that may be where it begins but once the relationship is formed it's sort of cemented and it's locked in and and it can only grow from there not deteriorate so it's it's a very powerful concept the idea of this connection through the giving of mymod which in this letter we're going to refer to again as nifne okay yeah this is gonna take more than an hour it's gonna be an hour and a half [Music] okay so we got through one sentence we didn't actually we didn't get through one sentence yet what does it mean you tell me that it's impossible to collect nifna from the people of the city except for anash people of the city what city paris islamic as well as many other khabar siddhim who had escaped soviet russia were at that time living in paris there was now i'm not talking about today's paris i'm not talking about all the the the that of allah made i'm talking about 1940s post-war 1947 uh is when the leather himself went back and visited we'll talk about that actually when the himself went back to paris after the war to bring his mother to ebitda and and there was a there was a community of anash we're talking about their original anash from russia we're talking with the people who were khabad back in russia and who escaped russia and where did they end up for whatever reason i mean a lot of them ended up in paris okay i mean we'll talk about it actually the history of how they ended up in paris because actually a lot of them ended up in germany at a dp camp and then from the dp camp in germany they ended up in paris we'll get to that that's hashem but just understand we're talking about a group of what we call geshe siddhim people who were who were khabad back in russia perhaps for many generations they end up in paris and and it never refers to that to this that these are people who saw not only the fritikera but they saw that ashab these were people who learned in tamika that ever refers to all of this so we're talking about the cream of the crop the real gadgets from illustrious lineages they end up after world war ii in paris there's so much more to this history to fill in but i don't want the letter to take three hours they're living in paris this is 1949. now you know ends up in here so and and he refers to another question later by name in the letter to vinci and chamter who ended up in england so they're not all going to stay in paris most of them don't stay in paris but at this point there's a lot of them living in paris and the devil says to them says to him to slam you tell me in your letter that you have found it impossible to accomplish anything with the people of the city with the parisians regarding collection of niftner except for anash and tamim meaning to say you i mean we know from this letter remember one of the earlier chapters in the letter was about the receipts for the nif na so money was just sent in for an ifn but what the rebbe is saying is the only people who contributed were laboratories and i want to know you're in a big city paris is a big city with a lot of jews where's the niftner why am i not writing receipts for nif from all these non-laboratories where where is that so that's that's what the deb is referring to and that's really the main emphasis of this whole letter it's about reaching out beyond anash beyond the tight-knit chabad community and connecting regular jews to the rabbit specifically through now i want to just share one other piece of background here which i think is i think helps to flush things out the this letter as i mentioned is 1949 and we said what date it was remember kamisha bishot tree holiday there's a letter from five days earlier from uchfat interesting day yoj fat but it's in tests it's exactly a year before the frederick's histalkus and it's three letters earlier in this very same relic of igress the rebels writing to a schliere in pittsburgh pennsylvania to usronmere altine and he says i got the list for the lucas ashas and i see that nobody's on it but you and shalom posner what what what are we talking about is something that goes back to the times of the altar the alter writes about it and you get us a kurdish is a acidic enactment going back to the altarebe that each community should finish the entire shots together every year every year from your test kiss live to you tess kisly so apparently rabbi altain had sent in a list of the holuka sashas from pittsburgh and nobody was on it but him and shalom posner now i wouldn't have gotten this on my own but somebody explained to me and after he said it was like yeah no duh no brainer basically what he was saying is actually one of the postner aina cluck explained it to me if you're listening you know who you know who maybe you don't remember telling me i remember being told that every alternate was saying that he between him and shalom posner they took the whole shots you understand they're writing to the debate that each of them is learning half of shots that year that's pretty good right that deserves a pat on the back but the rebbe's response is i don't understand this list where are the other names where where where's the rest of the community you're in a city you're in pittsburgh where are the other people who are taking part in this in in this activity so not only that didn't mention them oh it's pretty cool that each of you are learning half of shocks this year but that everyone was saying what's going on here like why are you keeping a good thing to yourselves and that ebba says you know if this is your lack of influence on the community in something that has to do with neglige neglige meaning the legalistic part of terror not not this not mr not not spiritual stuff but the regular bread and butter learning gemara the rabbit says where people don't have so much of a yate sahara people don't have so much of a resistance you want to learn tomorrow oh sure i learned about it like they're not so threatened by gemara and you weren't able to get any non-laboratories to join to do so that says i can only imagine your lack of influence when it comes to areas that have to do with siddhis which does threaten people because it does provoke the yates ahada and people come up with excuses oh no no i don't want to learn to this so in other words that i'm saying this is a slam dunk you should be able to get people to learn gamata what's wrong with gama granada that's that that's that's basic judaism and you couldn't get anyone to do that so i can only imagine your lack of influence in areas that people find questionable or new or or uh they're uncomfortable with like like learning to see this and then the debit goes on and explain something just incredibly powerful imagery well first the device says you know that bringing meshich depends on hafata-samayanas which is very interesting that the rabbit includes khalooka's ashas and haftas very interesting learning is part of a fat spreading out the wellsprings of the welsh empire so we know the famous story of the valhamtov when is the master coming soul in heaven tells uh tells the balsham when when you you you saw basham this teachings become disseminated basham does yours it's coming up by the way um so that ever says you know that mashiach's coming depends on this that doesn't give you a sense of urgency like this is your lack of influence you couldn't get anybody to take a utes and then the rabbit says what i was going to tell you before this really powerful imagery never says picture the alt traveling across the world the alt rabbit is touring the globe and he passes through your town he's talking to rabbi alton in pittsburgh he says he comes comes to your town and he comes to your base madhursh will the i'll never feel at home will he feel comfortable will he feel that he found his base madras such a powerful image that the rebbe is painting there and the the upshot of all this is and remember this is 1949 this is before yucha this is before the debit receives officially leadership um in fact later in the letter the debbie even says and who am i to to to point any of these problems out you're right who am i i am i have no place telling anyone what to do right so this is officially working completely behind the scenes but you see already that abba's vision that there's something wrong with the idea of a nosh and strengthening their own infrastructure without expansion and bringing new people into the fold there's something wrong with that something off mission about that and this isn't even talking about basic judaism like filing and mezuzah and shabbos candles like the mithaim which later that ever initiated this is talking about things that are hasidic practices like kalakasashas or giving mahmud niffner money these are specifically things that you associate with a hasid and that and the reb is saying that the altera should be able to come to your town whether it's paris or it's pittsburgh and you know they call pittsburgh the paris of appalachia so there's your exercise and the altar should feel at home in your town because he should recognize that this is his base madness this is his shul so you see here the the kernel the the the initial uh seed of of a vision that became developed over the years and maybe this helps clarify something that i think a lot of us ask or wonder about from time to time is our job our bots haters and general basic judaism and mitzvah observance or is it a fatsa magnus and specifically not just but and the answer is yes it's both it's both of course it's both um yeah excuse me sir would you like to put on villain yeah that's one of the tayag mitzvahs there's nothing specifically khabad about putting on villain right that's every year has to put on film but then there's also something called connecting people to chabad doesn't mean they have to become libavichers i don't think that's what it's saying here at all in fact it's pretty clear that that's not the point the point is even if they have a different identity and they follow different men hogging and they have their own community they can still partake in some of these things that we perhaps selfishly considered to be our own inside tradition that i was saying no this is for everybody and i want to see everybody included okay so uh yeah let's continue here um and he explains this that i was rehashing what schlemmerheim's letter said so you explain you said it's impossible to get anyone outside of our little tight-knit community to learn to see this except for our own tight community no one will i'm not telling i'm sorry not to look to give niffner we cannot get anyone outside of our own little tight-knit community to give nif um a time in the number game and you explain it with many explanations many reasons i mentioned this in previous classes how the rebel will use your own letter to answer you this is famous i mean that ever did this all the time you would recycle back to you your own words sometimes to give you an answer sometimes like it's about to happen here to point out a contradiction in your own logic um but look look what the devil says here he stays you tell me oh we can't get anyone to give nif now only they see them two and a half lines before that what did you just say kosov you wrote valencia you wrote to me that the siddha here are totally devoted to the to the point of absolute sacrifice and if you would order them to crawl into a hole they would crawl into a hole so you just told me two and a half lines earlier how devoted they see them are they're ready to die they're ready to give it all up pain and suffering going through fire and water and all of it okay didn't it occur to you that when i asked you to collect my money for the rabbit that that is far less dangerous or inconvenient than actual self-sacrifice and yet that you tell me you can't do you don't see the contradiction so listen what the devil says the hinny mom let's all love my mirrors a little bit differently basically saying i'm i'm sort of sarcastically i'm happy to know that you don't feel that this is a problem i mean it's nice for you that you don't sense the contradiction it didn't even occur to you that there may be a contradiction between what you first said and what you said a couple lines later you you you bring out the the siddha ready from citizenfish and then you say oh but by the way we're not able to raise mahmud funds outside of the hasidic community you don't see how that's a contradiction now this itself i think is something so important to understand how the rabbit in many ways redefined the notion of mesidisnaphash messidisnavish is a is a jewish concept particularly it's a hasidic concept even perhaps even more particularly in in in this citizen fish is spoken about at length as an expression of the the atsam and hashama the deepest expression of the essence of the jew which comes out at times of of adversity and and and clings to hashem no matter what the price it speaks about this at length over here chapters 18 19 talks all about this actually through all those green chapters right there if you're watching our video the podcast you can't see this but anyways um so the idea of music is it's such a common idea insidis but the red has sort of redefined it you know in the in the devil's last mimer that speaks about this how there were people who were living under communism and they were able to risk everything in order to cling to this kite and then when they come to america and they come to a free land and all of a sudden they're able to do everything that they wanted to do before and they can't be bothered they can't be inconvenienced anymore to do it and uh that never sort of bemoans the fact that we we we think of mercedes-nafish in terms of drama they're going to come kill me if i don't bow to the idol but mercedes-nefish can be quieter snafish it can just be your commitment to living a certain way even when there's no threat and that that's awesome is it a snappish that's awesome a citizen efficiency so don't tell me i'm ready for massive snefish but only if it's in a spectacular dramatic way sometimes we said his nephesh is in quiet everyday mundane ways living a committed life that's misit a snappish and in some ways a bigger massive snappish because there's you're not going out in a blaze of glory like some hero on a battlefield it's quiet contained but that's awesome as citizen efforts you know the the six day war a lot of americans flew to er cisro which was crazy because before the miracle of the six day war they were digging graves mass graves to get ready for all the the deaths that they predicted so everyone wanted to get out of israel not go to israel but a lot of americans they flew to israel they wanted to support the war effort whatever they could do so a lot of young people went to israel during that time and then miraculously there was this victory in six days so golda meir this is before she was prime minister she was uh she was the foreign minister she spoke to a group of these americans after the six day war they all got on planes they started flying home she wanted to make aliyah to make their lives and there were young people she wanted to make them one of them to make their lives in israel but also after they came to the war now the war is over now they're flying home going back to america so she says i don't understand in time of war you were ready to die with us but in time of peace you're not willing to live with us there's something about human psychology that finds it easier to give up our lives than to live the rest of our lives committed to our values maybe it's the difference between something that's a one-off and something that you have to get up every single morning and recommit to but this is the point the debit is saying don't tell me that you're ready to be mesa enough-ish i'm asking you go out and ask somebody who's not a chabad khasid to give nifne and send it in that's the messiest nephesh see also you have to understand who the rabbit is writing to you're talking to people who were tortured beaten imprisoned many of them perhaps most of them of this group had been tortured beaten imprisoned obviously they hadn't been killed because they're all they were all alive at the time but they knew people had been killed it wasn't uncommon at all that they had friends and relatives who were murdered by the communists so these were the people the the frida kadabra siddha okay this is the sixth generation of chabad and it was all about being ready to die not just ready to die they died and that's what it was that was misunderstood the devil is saying to them that and it's not their yet we have to be careful here because this is tough shin tess this is 5709 but it's very much a preview of the debus generation that mesidis nephesh now instead of dying for a cause it means living for the cause and living for the cost means sharing it with others in other words once upon a time with citizenfish meant getting killed for being an observant jew today massive snappish means putting aside your self-consciousness and going up to a stranger on a manhattan street corner and saying excuse me sir are you jewish that's been said snapfish in our day so you see you see all of this sort of previewed in this ladder that's written even before even before the debit took leadership okay the rabbit continues experience has proven that any place where they actually try to collect niftna where they actually make an earnest effort to do so and that mentions parenthetically artisables america canada dream america south america dream africa south africa and etc they accomplished any place where they tried to do this they were able to do it after making beshawa granted not with equal success in every place come over and the people who were doing this didn't have to pull out of their backpack actual self-sacrifice no one had to get killed doing this they feel like and they didn't have to you they'd never use islamic heims expression again jumping in a hole nobody had to jump in any hole oh we're ready to jump in a hole okay that's very nice no one's asking you to jump into a hole all you have to do is approach somebody speak to them then i'm just going to explain in the letter what it means how to approach them how to speak to them malay 8 furthermore sovereignty these people saw the ones who collected niffner that not only did it not require them to sacrifice themselves but to the contrary they saw improvements in their own lives materially and spiritually and also their reputation was improved in the eyes of those people that they collected the moment from so you're telling me you're ready to be mr nephesh okay so be my significance collect my men but i want to tell you the people who have already done this in america and canada and south america and south africa and they were successful you know what they found it wasn't such a massive fish it was actually win-win they actually gained from it spiritually and materially and i want to tell you the people that they collected from came to respect them even more they didn't they didn't ruin their relationships with people by doing it they actually came to be respected even more the safe safe and in the end they saw that they were the ones who were getting and not giving us even to the physical material monetary extent so you're saying you're ready to give it all up you want to know something you're not going to have to give anything up just do this thing that i'm asking you to do and you're going to only gain you will only gain in every way including even materially ella should be me i'm in the next paragraph ella according to the explanations in your letter in your country meaning paris city and france they see them are ready for real macedo snappish which includes giving over their lives so no it's dot dot dot like so new they had success doing this in other places where maybe the sydney were not such bali because nephesh like you guys so don't where where's the niftner visas what i'm writing right now is not directed to any one individual i mentioned that before we started the letter saying to shelam i'm not bashing you i'm not saying anything individual to you plainly been plainly all of mutual indian plainly because who am i to say that a specific person has to do a specific thing it's not my place remember this is before that i'm talking about the group as a collective as a community shibli and that your group surely has everything that you need you have all the capabilities that you require to do your job to do your mission which is spreading the wellsprings of the balsham and the alterab to the jewish community of france the wider jewish community of france the new mayan and we have but one wellspring through which we draw all of the wellsprings of the balchamptov and the altar who and that is kvade caduceus my revered father-in-law may he be well it's very interesting there's a fabregan after yoga uh which is the birthday and the and the york site of the midland and the rabbit is speaking about uh about the mithler rabbit and saying that today is a day where we have an opportunity to give upon pidynafish a petition for prayer to them and that says and it's understood that anyone who had an opportunity any one of you who would be given the opportunity to give a pond to hand upon to the mit lit abbott that the midlander should pray for you would jump at that opportunity and the way that we that we do that is by learning his siddhis and that's how we that's how we give upon but then the never says something very interesting and it's almost like who was thinking this who who was bothered by this but preempted this and said and in case you're going to say well why the mittlet habit why not the fear could have it whatever says that's what i'm talking about i'm talking about the video could have it because and this is after your trot this is after the passing of the feeling of it that i was saying to us our connection to the mittler rabbit is through the vedic rabbit and to the and and and the rabbit then actually goes through how all of the different museum correspond to different spheroids that the is attack and the magic is and and he says but it's all combined in and that's our way to connecting to all that obey him actually mentions there's something very interesting regarding his work in cahas you know the rabbit worked in the publishing arm of lubavitch before he became rabbit even that was one of his uh jobs he was appointed to by the by the philip so he says when we started to design the shah blot the uh title page for the siddish's photo to come out the this photo of the the rebellion there's a question of what expression we should use to title the series the chain of light or the chain of the luminary and he said we decided it's shallow the chain of light because the luminary is about one there's no chain only that in each generation that same luminary reappears in a way that fits the mission of that generation so it's one rabbit and our way of connecting to that one rabbit which includes from the baal'shamptav all the way to the present is through our rabbit so that's what the dub is writing here you're there to spread out the wellsprings of the balsham and the altar and what does that mean to connect people to the rabbit it also answers a question people ask a lot you know what does hafta samayanas mean why isn't it enough a person should appreciate the and saying here you want people to appreciate the basham if you want to connect with people to the wal-shamp we connect people to the balsamic by connecting them to the rabbit and specifically is that i was going to say here by collecting as self-conscious as you may be about that as awkward as that may feel collecting money asking people for money but i was going to talk about how important it is and how to do it how to do it properly okay let's continue fishing okay i gotta take take this apart through connecting to this wellspring meaning to the frida kadab connecting ourselves bodily and then ever says they're in parentheses a quote from tanya it speaks about the power of tsudaka why is dhaka so powerful because i was talking about it before when i was introducing this letter about mine with having that purity of not being psychologists it's no there's no intellect or emotion it's just physic physicality pure physicality so in tanya pediclamid zion it's it's explaining how powerful mitzvahs are and especially the quintessential mitzvah which is tzedakah and the ushalmi when it says hamitzvah without qualifying which mitzvah means siddhaka because dhaka is the mitzvah par excellence it is the quintessential mitzvah why because the whole point of a mitzvah is physicality and what's more physical than sudaka where you take funds that you earned through your labor and funds that you could have used to procure your own physical needs and then you take it and you turn it into a mitzvah that's the ultimate transformation and elevation of the physical so that says when you give my mid when you give money your hard-earned money that you could use to to buy bread and you turn that into my money you're connecting that physicality of yourself to the rabbit so that's called his casus haguf and then also his kashus hanafish gam mime so when you do that gam so then even waters which are not living waters become living waters if there's like a stream that itself becomes supplied by a wellspring then it becomes halachically considered part of the wellsprings for purposes of ritual purity meaning look at how water works when you have a body of water that becomes supplied by a by a by a well spring then it itself halogenically becomes part of the wellspring so here's how you become united with the wellspring you connect to the wellspring through the body and through the soul we didn't talk about through the soul yet but through the body is taking money that you could have used to procure your physical needs and you're giving it away you're giving it to the rabbit and you're turning that physicality into a deep connection to the debit it's a very powerful concept here the rabbit doesn't say this here but um it's somewhat implied the the quote from tanya pediglam and zion is talking about how the giver could have used the funds for his own physical needs there's another aspect here which is sort of implied but that is that when you give that money as my mod or to the rabbit you're giving it to the rabbit in a form which the rabbit can then use to procure his physical needs now what are the physical needs of a rabbit it's a whole different uh ballpark but adaba has physical needs and uh when funds were given to mahmud it was generally understood that the rebel would use these funds i'm talking about back to the times of the altered that mimo included the upkeep of the deba's home his family his home um but also not just his his private home his shul and its physical auspices the actual building and there's a physicality on both ends both from the giver and and the recipient um tell you a wild story actually that i don't think is very well known and that is that there was a khasid meisha pinchas cats and one of his uh things that he did was collect mahmoud and he collected mahmud for the in the times of the fida karaba and after your chat after the philadelphia's passing that ever wanted that it should continue that they should continue collecting mine with specific specifically for the fiduciary and i'm not going to get into the whole background of this but a few years after you'd shot mr pinkas cats i don't know if he said it or he merely implied to the rabbit that he wasn't that passionate about the work because he he felt that it when it was in the devil's lifetime meaning the physical of his lifetime that was one thing but now it was after the fear grab his passing and he wasn't that passionate about that cause he wanted to maybe give the funds for something else and now in actuality the what where the funds being used the freedom is my med that the rabbit continued to collect after yuchafat was basically going to the frida grabba's rabbits and to upkeep her quarters her living quarters in 770 and as upkeep for her so mesh pinkas cats intimated that he wasn't that drawn to this work anymore and that eva said something absolutely staggering if you understand the halakha's involved here the ebb has sensed mr pinchas katz's uh lack of enthusiasm for the project and said was art deer race health and demand what does it hurt you to help my father-in-law to maintain the conditions of his marital contract now if you if you know anything about aksuba you know you we learn rambam so if you do gimoprakum you learn about this at least once a year in uh your base it talks about it also later in period about tenayak silva the first by the first place in good base tanayak suba and nayaksuba the conditions of the marathon contract basically is talking about an obligation that a husband has during his lifetime to support his wife to give her livelihood after he passes there's an estate and she benefits from the estate and if he has a house she lives in the house and she she gets sustenance from the estate but there's no concept of a person who's no longer living to have any type of financial responsibilities anymore to go and earn money to collect it to have it sent them in any you understand after someone passes there's an estate the woman is the wife is sustained from that but there's no obligation on a person who's passed away that he has to go out and make a living and be the the height of irony that a person who's no longer living should have to go out and make a living so the fact that the deb is said that i surely knew the halachus and what aksuba meant that giving mahmoud to the videographer after jude fought was helping the federal to uphold his obligation according to his marital contract tanoyak silva is basically something you would say about a living person in in in it's a very strong statement because you know that would say when it comes to halacha we observe the halakhas that there was a there was a hystalcus and we have to say kaddish but when it comes to hair gish you know a person's feeling their personal feeling okay so they can feel connected the ebb is still with us but then i would distinguish between those two things but here you see where the rav is making a statement that has halachic implications and in the realm of halacha making a statement about the fire grabber in a manner that uh it mandates us to view the friday grab it as a living person just very interesting story i don't think very well known and hopefully it'll become well known and also i should just mention since now the letter is going to take us three hours to to learn that the same thing can be applied today about giving mahmud to the rabbi after kimmel thomas first of all i think people are ignorant they they don't know about it they don't know about it i i i think there are plenty of sydney who know about learning rambam and learning hitas that we mentioned before they don't know that part of his conscious is giving mahmoud so it i think a lot of is just ignorance and some of it may also be cynicism the people say well when the devil was alive i would give money but now okay let me just address that first of all what do you think that ever was buying before gimmel thomas what was that ever buying with his money you think it was personal enrichment classification most of it that i've spent personal but actually the proper term to use here is discretionary funds most of what they'd ever used discretionary funds for was communal projects but if you wonder about personal expenditures okay so there was the upkeep of the device home that continues today who who do you think pays for the device home there's a home on president street it's there it has to be it has to be maintained where where are the funds for that that's my mood did i have a shul that's how my mood was spent before gimmel thomas okay last year when when the bricks broke in front of 770 and they were fixed magically they just somebody just showed up and fixed them who paid for that my mood okay then of his library they have his library who who keeps up the library there's a building there there's a staff their people scholars have to get paid who pays for that mahmud now what's my there's no bank account called mine would there never was a bank account called mahmud when the devil would receive checks for mahmoud the debut would endorse them over to mahnee isro and that's what continues to till today there's a fund within machinistro you can go on the magnificent website and you check off you give there's many different funds that they maintain but you can select that you're giving to mimet specifically this is from miami and you're designating those funds for those for those projects so whatever was done before gimbal thomas is done today and if you want to be super cynical and say well if i could hand it right to the rabbit i would do it but i don't know who's handling it now you want to know something if you want to be super cynical the same person that they've never handed it to hashem solanga jordan is still handling those funds so there's really no reason to say that there would be any difference as far as giving mine with today and before gimmel thomas and i really just think it's something that people don't know know enough about and it's hashem from this class and maybe from other things we'll get the word out and people will appreciate what an important part of his cautious uh that really is anyways um yeah okay let's let's continue here so you come along in your letter we just said that giving my mother is something that connects you to the rabbit physically in a very special way in a unique way why wouldn't you want someone to have that benefit and then you come along and the devil says in yiddish cold-bloodedly your geyser geyser has a double meaning in los angeles it can mean to decree but it could also mean to cut off and that's what the devil says there and get a schnite up cut up you cut off you come along and you cut off these people and you say oh i'm sorry they're not going to be interested they wouldn't be interested no no my mid will come from the sidim from this little community but i'm sorry this is it just won't fly it won't play in peoria like the marketing people say sorry can't talk about this to normal people so the never continues make an accounting how much effort was actually put toward this chakra you're not going to have to debate very long and you're going to immediately realize the reason that nothing has been accomplished is because no effort was put in that's what i'm saying here you're telling me we can't get anyone beyond the hasidic brotherhood to give nifner and i'm telling you it's because you haven't even tried and why wouldn't you try if you if you understood how important this is it should be something that you should be putting forth effort especially when you claim to possess such willingness for self-sacrifice now here's a wonderful part of this letter beautiful like vignette or little slice of life here and i actually in a nosy kind of way the nudnik that i am i tried to find out who this is and i have some clues but i don't know so i'm not going to say but if anyone knows oh how i would love to hear who this is referring to okay [Music] there was a younger man there was a young man who had to flee his place you know in that era a lot of people had to flee whether because of the holocaust or because of communism not sure which one it is he had to flee his place he wasn't the guy who knew how to davin aveda satvila means the siddhis like meditative dominating he didn't know how to do that no analog mask of light he wasn't a masculine and he wasn't an avid take us another hour to explain what's a masculine the point is he wasn't a big husset and in fact he never learned in terms of remember that i was speaking to people who all studied in tamka tamim maybe even the real original temtem in lavage this guy i'm talking about now he didn't learn and think to me and in fact he didn't learn in yeshiva at all no he ended up wandering to a far away place after a while we started getting remembered that ebb is the secretary of the frederick he works in 770. he says after a while we started noticing an influx of letters coming from that place where this guy that i'm talking about was living and these were not chabad names these were not familiar names all of a sudden we're getting letters from all types of jews for example misha bayless asic there was a woman who owned a store business schmidt and she needed to decide whether she should rent a store front in one part of the city or in another part of the city vacher ellis hacklet cave caduceus so she wrote in to the frida kraba asking what she should do now the rabbit says here ma'am this woman who wrote the letter never saw and she knows that the frida kahlo never visited her city or or her entire country he was never there she knows that she's not from the hasidic community she's not even from hasidic lineage meaning not even culturally siddiq but when she heard from this young man his heartfelt words remember this young man who never learned in yeshiva and didn't even have a beard but he spoke from the heart to this woman he spoke to a lot of people one of the people i spoke to was this lady the shopkeeper when he spoke and she heard his heartfelt words israel that there is among the jews and he is not limited with the normal limitations of nature you don't lift your hand you don't make a move before you ask them she saw that this young man was sincere when he described this because the truth is recognizable so she told him to write this letter for for her and what happens chairs she automatically becomes someone who'll give nif in other words the lab is now explaining you're going to say you're going to walk up to a stranger and say give money to the frederick rabbit i don't know who that is i don't know why i'm supposed to give money but that episode it's a process it's a process this guy who's not like you he's he's he didn't learn intimacy he doesn't have that background but he's very sincere and he tells people he got a right to the debit and they believe him and then they write to the debit and then when he says and now send some money to the rabbit it's sort of like a logical thing for them to do it's very natural for them so you're saying oh it's too out of left field for people well yeah it's out of left field if you don't cultivate but this guy he would cultivate not not as a strategy but because that's just how he sincerely felt that's how he lived so that's how he spoke and people heard it and they they were moved by it so this lady automatically now she's giving if a lady like this is giving nif and then what happens this is powerful um it brings her close to yiddish kite see that's such a powerful thing that writing to the deba about a question about a store and sending nifty money is her first step to yiddish kite this is a process that will lead her down a path it is a certainty now that it is a matter of time eventually her family will be led with they'll be will be conducted in the way of kashrus they're going to eat kosher food and tara they're going to have mikvah in there in their marriage all that's going to come about it's going to happen because now she got connected and the process has been initiated and this is what's going to happen these is this this little story here it's just one example these are the fruits of one simple it calls them an avrik one simple young man again without all the advantages of you guys that i was speaking to these guys you guys are from the real chabad backgrounds and you have all that upbringing with the khabar mr snapfish and you're ready to die for the deb beautiful i want to tell you something there's a simple guy never learned to make it doesn't know how to dive in he's not he's not annoying he's not a moscow he doesn't have a beard but he has a very sincere feeling about the rabbit and people recognize recognize this when he speaks and he gets people to write to the web and to send mime and money to the debit and those people get started on a path that will eventually bring them to jewish observance so this is what one person can accomplish since you're making excuses that it can't be done i'm telling you case in point it can be done yeah so this is what one guy did we shall asa calls me the snappers for kabbalah and he does it without self-sacrifice guys you don't need to do it with self-sacrifice or accepting of the yoke you know why because for him this isn't something that he has to go against his his his his brain to do it's not even against you know there's there's their godly understanding and there's your human understanding he says that here says this guy when he does this it's not necessarily for him because it just makes sense to him this is a logical thing that you would tell people you meet about the debit the hag push it at slay turn the page to page eight all you sayed this guy when he spoke to people he did it with such a this was such it was such a natural thing to do because it's based on what he saw that the devil's word is a word that ebb is blessing is a blessing and that even his animal soul agrees to this so it didn't require great messiness he did not come to this through deep analysis of mystical texts that i was saying about these sydney you guys you learn siddhis and you dive in and you think and beautiful i want to tell you something it doesn't take all that it just takes simply looking at reality looking at the track record of the rabbit and coming to a very simple conclusion which this simple young man was able to do and it he's not capable of all that deep analysis so clearly it's not about the deep analysis and to the contrary maybe your deep analysis is getting in the way shall come in rather experience has shown his experience and the experience of people he knows how to lie in here that ever says in yiddish as mahat ge fault is given good that if you listen to the debbie it's good and if you didn't follow you didn't follow you didn't obey wasn't so good but [Music] so he was not embarrassed to speak to anyone about this so i'm sorry just like you wouldn't be embarrassed to commit just like you would not be embarrassed to tell somebody the address of an expert doctor a specialist somebody needs a specialist you wouldn't be embarrassed to say oh i think i know a guy is you see a person who's facing a dilemma or he has a serious question in life i'm a lie so you're going to tell him just like you wouldn't be embarrassed to tell him the name of a doctor if he needed one layal the jewish people were not abandoned furthermore not only would you not be embarrassed to go tell the guy about the deb if you if you saw that he needed something that tada can do for him but you wouldn't wait for him to tell you oh you know do you know a guy oh i happen to know a guy no you wouldn't wait caving shall pee river a day because probably this guy doesn't even know what a rabbit is so what are you gonna wait for him he's gonna come to you and say listen i heard about sometimes it happens i heard about a thing about writing to the rabbit oh yeah attack it you know you don't wait for that because he hasn't even heard of the concept al-ashu haile hey love you go to him you explain to him sean clow lay albinus atsume you don't have to rely on your own estimation on your own uh and your own evaluation you don't have to rely on the shotgun valley reife you don't have to rely on the doctor villain so you don't have to rely on the on the broker making our sages assure us that if you say something with sincerity it will be accepted that way so don't wait until the person comes to you and asks you if this is a real thing go to him everyone's got issues everyone's got things they need clarity about and tell him about this concept now that ebb is going to train us how to do this that i was going to give us actual steps how to speak to people to warm them up to this idea all right let's continue the atta benidane mr let's get back to the point of your letter in your group are the best and the brightest the all-stars and truly these are people who were heroes real heroes i don't say that term lightly heroes of judaism in communist russia so the devil says you guys are the best and the brightest shiro as admore you guys saw the rabbit you guys you were tested with all types of tests these guys went through hell literally they went through the hell of stalinist depression they went through the hell of the holocaust they went through the hell of of of the war and of being displaced and of being refugees these people went through so much and you guys you worked on yourselves and you learned the hasidic texts and you applied the hasidic texts and you refined yourself and you're so spiritual you've got it all now what's this kemp this camp this is a dp camp a displaced person's camp and specifically when i was referring to the camp he means poking pine city which it's an it's an american name but uh it was in germany after the holocaust obviously there were a huge number of jews who had no home to go back to and many of them had no families to go back to they were the only survivors from their families so there were displaced persons camps dp camps that were set up in germany after germany was conquered and there were areas that were under the administration of the different allies so there was one area that was under the administration of the united states they say that the i don't know if this is true or not but that the dp camps that were in the u.s administrated areas of germany you could actually get easier a u.s visa and that was what was attractive about it not sure if that's true or not but that's what i heard so there was a dp camp that was actually set up at an old u.s army base and it was the second largest of the dp camps and at its height i think there were over 7 000 jews living there and in fact rabbits in kanna that have his mother lived in that dp camp and many laboratory families lived in that db camp and i could get into a whole story about how the laboratories came out of russia with fake polish passports and the whole train from levov and going across the border after world war ii we're not going to get into that but they ended up in poking pine city dp camp in germany it's like two hours from munich it's like in southern germany i think it's near austria it is near austria um so the deb and schlemmerheim was one of them who was in this dp camp and so were i don't know if all of the people in paris the lavatories in paris had been in this dp camp but a lot of them had they had shared that experience so that ebin now at this point of the letter is referring to their activities when they were in the dp camp in the camp there were thousands of jews who were thirsting for a warm vibrant word these were people whose lives were turned upside down and they were they were looking for meaning it's it's it's wild when you think about it but that ebb is saying to them you had a prime opportunity these people these jews from all places in europe from all backgrounds from all levels of observance it doesn't matter they had one thing in common their lives had been turned upside down and they were looking for meaning and if you guys would have set up shop in the dp camp you would have been able to connect all of these people why didn't that happen why was this incredible opportunity completely completely mishandled it it's wild if you think about it because you're talking to the people these city were in the dp camp they were also the db camp their lives had also been turned upside down but then i've been saying to them that when you were in the dp camp you had an opportunity let's continue they were looking for something lamila shall he say to this vaquita if they were looking for a word that would inspire them and bring them close that's the idiom the young people especially were looking for guidance they were rudderless they were they were looking for someone to just make meaning for them this parallels what the jews were saying when moshe delayed coming down from the mountain but where is maisha who took us out of not mitzrayim but made sodium out of the constrictions and the the narrow places and is going to show us a path in life these people had all experienced absolute heartbreak and they were craving some sense some type of meaning some way to put the pieces back together why didn't you why didn't you heed that call here's the question how many see them did you pick up in the in the in the dp camps how many people did you bring to titus about shantov and the altar it's interesting i was thinking about it i don't know if i've heard of any chabad families that come from the camps and i was thinking about well you know it wasn't really such a great time for the the people who were in the camps i mean talking about the laboratories i was thinking about this that you know when the frida kadab left russia it wasn't exactly unpleasant terms i mean you do know that when the vehicle left russia stalinist russia was because i know we don't say this because the debate doesn't use these words but i just want to make sure everyone understands that there was a death sentence you do understand that and he had to leave russia because it was not a safe place and he was also a refugee of sorts but you know it's interesting wherever the futile number went whether it was uh riga or advanced there were paradise there were sydney were made and there were people who were drawn close and even if they didn't become laboratories okay but they they they tasted from siddhis they they they developed a warmth and an appreciation for this in every one of these places so that's what the deb is saying it's like yeah it's not necessarily always under the most pleasant conditions that you arrive in a place maybe you arrive there as a war refugee but if you're in a place look around look around you know there are people who are thirsting reach out to them so that i was complaining here there were there were no i'd never heard of the people who were brought close while you guys were in the camps now that ever goes on safety oslo yes i spoke at that time or i wrote at the time to the siddhim in one of the big camps or the largest i think the largest group of them in in the camp and i told them they should work with the youth whatever says something interesting here in parentheses i told them work with them first spiritually because i didn't see there was anything physically really that could be done meaning like the material situation was so absolutely abysmal so there was nothing really physically that could be done but you could give them spirituality that you have so i was answered at that time shiba vadhi taiwan is certainly a good idea of light size but we first we have to get a budget for this the cloud knocking la haska berserk she avoid rather what they told me is here's what we'll do let's get the siding out of the dp camps and get them settled in permanent residences and [Music] they'll travel back they'll commute back to the dp camps where they used to live the and there they will engage in the work with great self-sacrifice so that ebba says i told them get to work being makada people in the camps i was told great idea but we need a budget first and really what we need to do first let's get this settled and then afterwards they'll commute back to the dp camp and they'll work with people yeah so the rabbit says now i mentioned it a second time not in writing but through somebody who visited there i'm not sure who that was referring to who that ever sent to give over this message but i sent somebody somebody who was going to visit the camp i sent him with this message new let's get to work so bahru doom ali what happened what were the results they elected a committee um and that was the end of it and the results are known meaning garnished nothing that's always the death of any project you elect a committee and then you are confident nothing else is going to happen after that it is a pitiful situation no no doubt about it but all of this is coming to know to no avail via viewer you're here now in a subtle place in paris the cooler high will i maybe maybe maybe maybe now you're gonna get started with the work the whole pattern is just repeating itself or more aptly stated the lack of pattern the lack of order meaning chaos i told you back in the camps to get to work he's told me you couldn't do it in the camps or you gave excuses how you would implement it later and now now it now it's later now you're in paris now you're settled where are the activities nothing's happening it's over a year that you're in paris what is the bottom line sum total of your activities of your work of outreach in paris a year and a half ago i myself i was in paris remember this letter from 1949 that ebba went and visited paris in 1947 the spring early summer of 47 to bring back his mother rabbit sincana and they arrived back in america in hraf khassevan second time that ever arrived in america also on huffkass 7. both times that i became to america was khofah 741-47 very interesting so i was in paris a year and a half ago and i spoke many times at your safe safe heat covered they humored me that ever says they did it out of respect for me they appointed a committee of nif for the city they got people who are supposedly able to deal with outsiders from time to time i would inquire what's going on you know what's up with the niftna committee and i would find out nothing nothing's going on in my mind interesting concept so mostly this letter is talking about literal physical mind money funds that are sent but there's also a concept of spiritual moment and that would be the spiritual connection learning to sit this and doing things following the ways of the rabbit more of the the the customs that's the spiritual half of it but there's also the physical half so i didn't hear that anyone in paris is getting involved in either of those two halves and it's interesting what the rebbe says here this next part of the sentence these two halves except in very unusual circumstances or where circumstances really the two have to go together the two have to go together so uh i didn't hear any of this safe safe hanyami mediani i would be very happy if ultimately someone would come along and set me straight and inform me that no no no they were doing a lot of this work you just didn't know about it i would be very happy to find out that i just didn't know about it oh i didn't know very happy to find out i'd be very happy to find out that sirius paolo mayhem venus and that not only did they affect many people but they gave money to the to the organizations and that they were even learning siddhis finance of and they were becoming or even if they didn't become siddhis they considered they had some type of a feeling of connection to the rabbit of cold but i can see from your letter that this entire type of work is out of the question it's just not on your radar the rabbit says very interesting concept here obviously it's important to guard your own image i don't think that ev is saying that in the most superficial sense of like trying to fool people trying to look a certain part i think what that i was saying is there is such a concept of a community making certain prioritization of maintaining its own infrastructure but even in the base guarding the base of english was only one of the forms of service vlade kolha not all of the kehanam did it very interesting every summer we learn this summer we will we'll take a tour in the real basement but every year you know the rabbit was very into during the three weeks to learn the species of from the rambam so over there in perikas it talks about shmira mitzvah so it's interesting what that was saying here that there's maintaining your community um looking after your own and that's kind of what the rabbit calls shmeeras hamikdash but then there's all the other avadas all the other forms of service and that's what i was referring to as outreach kind of interesting imagery there that especially you're talking about 1949 after the holocaust after the war and so many uh jewish communities were absolutely reeling and a lot of the prioritization was placed on rebuilding their own infrastructure not outreach how can i go deal with other people i'm i'm trying to rebuild my life and and if i can manage to do that maybe rebuild my community my my little dalaramis and the dev is calling that like yeah that's important that's like schmidt but that's only one of the avadas you can't just have kehanim who guard the besan dosh you know mashbiem who work with people who are already a nash you have to also have people who are going out and finding new blood and reaching out to the jewish community as a whole even when you're reeling from your devastating circumstances of life it's not an excuse because you know what the people you need to be reaching out to are also reeling from their devastating circumstances of life yeah everyone's still with me this is the real chicken louch for us we're going to stay up all night two nights okay let's keep going remember i said earlier that i was going to teach us how to do it how to cultivate divine obviously if you walk up to someone on the street and say jew give money it's a joke i mean that's uh it's like the russian uh bandits the muggers would say groshi jew give money so you're gonna walk up to somebody like a stick up man you know like uh like a mugging yeah obviously it's not gonna be too successful you can walk up to somebody say give me money the the name le planey ben plainly and give that money to someone you never heard of who lives across the ocean you don't know him you don't have any connection to him that you know of allah you know why you should do it because he is about miles gaways when he saw ace he's a very he's a person of sterling character you're going to go and approach people like that you bet enough you're going to sound like a scam artist you can't do that obviously you can't walk up to people cold and say give money to the robot should have it who's the officer i don't know who you're talking about i don't know why you're asking me to send him money this is totally inappropriate right okay so that's not how to approach people it's not how to do it but on the other hand that's obvious that if you believe deeply and deeply in a way where your faith is totally integrated into all of your soul powers you're completely you're completely uh holistic in this faith it's not compartmentalized it really it guides you in all of your thinking and your feeling and your behavior if that faith has completely permeated you siddhas playing planey mashallah you know that the blessing of a certain holy man holds power and you know that this particular guy this acquaintance of yours needs some type of blessing in some area of life whether it's in family matters or health or in money a gamba indian shell secondary or perhaps the person is in a dangerous situation humanity dictates and and the love of your fellow jew dictates and a sense of saving a life dictates if you have even a slight doubt that maybe he might listen to you all lovely you are obligated to chase him down villain light and tell him have pity on yourself on do not rely on your own understanding that's a turn of phrase from malek from michelin la maida and then you will succeed if you go like that with sincerity viadua it's known we have a promise from the altar valentine valenzuela will do if they'll make an effort they're going to be successful so obviously you can't go up to people in a wild way but if it's a sincere thing if you believe if you believe that there's something to this relationship then it's the most natural thing that you would speak about this to others in fact it would be cruel not to speak about it with them i'm not pretending by the way this is easy i'm not pretending that i don't personally need to hear this letter um you know i've been in places speaking to crowds where i didn't have to mention to people that if you want to meet me at the aisle you should email me and if you give me 24 hour notice and if i'm in town i'll meet you at the aisle i don't have to mention that in some ways it is a little bit i am a little self-conscious maybe they'll hear that and it'll just be too much it's too intense and then they won't want to listen to the rest of my message i i understand the concern completely but then i ask myself is this something that i'm taking on faith like is it is it a hike is it like that it feels awkward to tell someone else about it or is this something that even my nephew bamas knows is true and if even my name is obama knows it's true it's weird not to talk about it why it's weird not to talk about why wouldn't you let people know this address if you knew the address of a specialist of a doctor of an expert doctor and somebody needed that doctor you wouldn't tell them the address why wouldn't you tell them okay let's continue the letter we're on the bottom of page 12 in the pdf you cannot prove that something doesn't exist just by saying you've never seen it because maybe you just never saw it but there's an exception to that something that is common that if it did exist it's something that happened so often that if it existed you would eventually be bound to see it and you still haven't seen it then having not seen something is considered a proof so that ebba says it's not a proof just to say i never saw something but in this case it is a proof and that i was going to explain why because there are there's a there's a lot of mail that comes here to 770. remember the deb is working in 770 for his father-in-law a lot of mail comes in here i see the mail that comes in here i see a lot of the mail that comes into my father-in-law chelito i didn't see anyone say that there's a new person who was drawn to chabad by the siddha there in paris in paris and its surrounding outlying areas you guys encounter hundreds of people who ima love often maybe thousands and thousands of people israel of jews may they increase regarding what the rambam writes emma writes in in his commentary in pirkei in parikh zayn where it talks about about the benefits of silence so that album says that even though it's important to be silent inevitably it's unavoidable people talk that's that's what you do you encounter people and you talk and you have different conversations it's just kind of unavoidable so according to what the ram says you do end up speaking to people there's no way you live in a major city with thousands of jews that you come in contact with on a regular basis and that you don't have conversations with them obviously you talk about something with them so what are you talking about with them and why do you never mention to them the possibility of writing to the rabbit kama noshim mikhail alofim pono bashaila how many of these people that you have encountered that you speak to you're already speaking to them you're already speaking to them how many of them have written to the rabbit about an operation or about a match a marriage match because how many of them wrote in asking for a blessing for the new year i didn't see it i didn't see it not once if you would speak to them who is the rabbi who's tell them a story here that ebb is giving us the kits this is how you do it how do you speak to a cold stranger who doesn't know anything about that how do you get the conversation to a place where you don't sound weird telling them to write to the debit or to give mimid money to the debit so first you tell them a super you tell them a story tell them a story about that abbott gl gambler even without an explanation stories all have deep explanations don't you don't have to tell them the explanation just tell a story this is a this is a process and then the second time you tell them don't tell them the whole secret the question the answer oh but that's not enough we still have to understand uh a part one one line from a zero yeah um and you tell them one of his directives something that he told people to do if you would do that then many souls and their descendants for eternity would all become connected to the tree of life sometimes see them refer to the rabbit as the tree of life and you know what happened you would increase the spiritual light in these people's homes and they would become men of moses here's a little scholarly parenthetical paragraph where the dub explains what ancient means men of moses remember earlier we said that the this letter included a cuntress a pamphlet of a mimer of the fire keraba so the nobody refers to that now see the end of the mimer that i enclosed here althea nice daytime they both have a mimer that starts fasting explained over there that men of moses means bitter humble people but here in this discourse that i'm sending you men of moses means men of moses men who are connected to moses to the mashrabeno he says here is the continuation or the extension of of moses in the generation the in his borders and that's why it's not explained there explicitly i think that i was saying because um it's a little bit of a kiddush of the fiduciary my mid so what would happen these people would become on shaymasha they will become ancient they become people who send in mimid money um office for later covered and they'd become supporters of the rebels organizations and not just to humor you not just out of respect for you the tumulus colonel and instead of all of this this guy is dealing with his organization and that guy is dealing with his business it's interesting by the way because even on mice and a mice it implies some type of uh you know it's a spiritual activity maybe it's a hater where he's teaching your kids which is holy it's very holy and that is saying but the siddha who could be this army going out and connecting all types of jews from all walks of life to the rabbi instead what are they focused on on their own projects this one with his my side and this one with his business possessions they all comfort themselves and say i give i give plenty of nif navish and they say you know what i'm ready to be my sidney fish i'm ready to sacrifice it all valve but the real work has not even begun so amazing to see i mean the shift that's you understand that ebb is taking people who excelled in a particular mode of divine service they weren't bad at what they did they were excellent at it they knew how to die for yiddish kite and that was taking those people and re-engineering their entire thinking and saying we're going to take all of that power and redirect it to a totally new mode of service which is outreach talking to people who don't look like you don't talk like you don't think like you and if i can get on my soapbox for 30 seconds and i'm gonna only say half of what i really want to say sometimes we're so successful that we forget what made us successful the device formula for life and for blessings is to find people who do not look like you talk like you think like you and to draw them near with warmth and with sincerity off the soapbox okay there's tens of you shalom admiral nader that ever shop called you guys lights to shine illuminating lights that's what he called you guys you got to live up to that name and be illuminating lights shining lights a beacon for others is made of and like it says it's actually the uh frida kebba said that when you put out a light people will gather it's an interesting phenomenon of human nature if you put out a light somewhere it will draw a crowd so that ever says you guys were dubbed nades lahayer but we're called native lahar by the debit rebel shot and the phoenician if you put out a light people will gather so something doesn't add up here where are the people gathering i don't see the crowd standing around you saying but your opinion he says the problem is with the people in paris no it's not true you put out a light build it and they will come put it out there for them and they will gather around and now i'm going to say something i don't know how you translate that it could even mean like humorous haneda golus actually the displacement of the srina of holiness and the political exile of the jewish people from their land what we call gullus is actually a symptom and an outcome of the breaking of the tablets when moses broke the tablets because otherwise or rather uh yeah there would be haters why because alticres clothes means carved into the tablets but khodos is a play on words with kedus which means freedom so if not for the breaking of the luchas which were chorus which were carved there would be hades there would be freedom there wouldn't be galas hasibah now in turn it's the whole process here the breaking of the luchas actually was precipitated by the sin of the golden calf sha'a's cause of zahama the hat which in turn re-initiated the spiritual filth that was brought by the sin of the tree of knowledge and that in turn the sin of the tree of knowledge was caused by the diminishment of the moon when god created the two great luminaries and then diminished one the moon to be the smaller luminary shabo ayadeshvirus i caleb to tell you that in turn there's a whole hadgadya over here and that in turn was caused by the breaking of the vassals in the pre-creative world called chaos that in turn was caused by the original the original condensing of god's light um what is symptom in simple mammals the light's not going out so how did the gullis come about from the breaking of the lucha so what caused the breaking of the lucas the sin of the golden calf and what caused the sin of a golden calf or rather it was what was it a re-initiating of the sin of the tree of knowledge what was the symmetry of knowledge uh a result of the diminishing of the moon what was the diminishing of the moon a result of the and what is tim sum when light he remains in his own letters his own way of articulating his ideas meaning it has form but it doesn't get articulated outward it doesn't get expressed hey said he's saying this semi-jokingly but i'm not sure what this even means but to me it sounds like all the problems in the world come from one thing when there's light and it's not being let out you guys have the light you're sitting in paris there are people around you you come in contact with those people show them the light and this will take care of all problems i want to repeat something i said earlier in this letter i'm not talking to you as an individual i'm not talking about any individual i'm not saying any one person is to blame here i'm speaking about the group of you certainly you're going to show this letter to anyone that will benefit me and it should be understood that this conversation that i'm having with you it's a private conversation what does that mean and it's not like it says in hamish that yosef told his father about what his brothers were doing that i was saying i'm not i did not tell the rabbi about this i'm not complaining to the rabbi about you guys for shalom this is between us okay doesn't go if you want to show it to other people you want to show this letter to other people you're free to do so please understand this is not coming from the rabbit and i'm not even going to tell the rabbi about this fix yourself first take the beam out from between your eyes and you want to know something you're right you're going to say to me who am i who am i to tell you what to do you're right who am i i will it still doesn't change the truth in the bottom line is what a pity it is for the time that's already been wasted and cannot be brought back i hope you're not going to take this personally not even intellectually on an intellectual level and that there will be love in the end this is a an expression from the gamata from kidushin da flama domina base where it says even when tamir khamene fight over a concept understanding something properly not even when they fight especially when they fight it it brings them greater love after after the fight i'm concluding with wishes of peace for the whole group lavad nif nikan loy haresi i did not show this letter to the nif committee here in new york but um i sent a copy of just chapter six chapter six is just what we learned here just this part i just sent chapter six to vinci and chamter ben shashantiv and he's that i was gonna explain why he sent it to the bench i didn't tell him who the latter was to say you can do whatever you want you want to let him know that it was you you can or you want to keep it secret again you're free to do as you wish explains and i want to tell you why i sent just chapter 6 to ben shashantov al if one reason is maybe it'll help him you know maybe maybe he needs to hear this too base biece be paris when i was in paris remember that ebba was in paris a year and a half earlier shocked negoria he was also coming up with defense pleas with uh with mitigating arguments on behalf of why anash were not doing this work and he was very sure she to spash it by asid that it would catch on in the future so the rabbit says i told ben shashantov there's a problem over here with the cinnamon paris they're not involved in outreach and he told me there's reasons why and it's really it's not their fault and i'm sure it's going to start very soon and since i see that it didn't start i'm kind of following up on that conversation okay wow this was uh i told you it was going to take us a long time but we got through it and uh let's remember that if you know the address it's weird not to tell people okay we'll see you god willing next thursday night with another letter good night