Rebbe Letters: Connecting to a Rebbe After His Passing

good evening welcome back to our study of the rebels igriskadish this is class number three in our gimmel tamas hakona we started on gimmel sivan the third day of the hebrew month of sivan which is 30 days a month before gimotamas the third day of the hebrew month of thomas which is the lombard yard site so this is our third class and we've been learning letters of the rabbi from different volumes of igriskadish that have to do with the subject of his castras his kashus is a hebrew word which means connection but specifically when we when we use the word hizkah so we mean the relationship between a rabbi and the khasid and and that's what we're talking about so tonight's letter is from igriskay dish haley gimmel volume three and it's a letter from tafshin yud from the year of the frida keraba's passing previously passed away that's the the winter of 1950 and for a year following his passing the rabbi ar-rabbit the seventh rabbit did not officially accept the leadership however in many capacities he was acting as a rabbi already at that point and this letter which is written during that window of that first year is uh i guess a case in point so let's take a look at the letter hashem gimmel ello tough shin yud okay so we're talking about the last month hello the last month of the year tough shinyur frida krebs estalcus his passing was fought so we're talking about um should i count it out sure why not talking about six seven months later um and the debit is writing to a very important person a very revered and illustrious rabbinic figure as you're going to see from the honorific titles very unusual honorific titles that the rabbi bestows upon the recipient of this letter yiso harim shalom of raja in short without translating all of these superlative titles this is addressed to rabbi mayer abu hatsero also known as the baba mayor who was the eldest son of the babasali the great sephardic sage tsadik leader at the time the rabbit is writing to baba mayor he's only 33 years old which makes it even more exceptional that the rabbit is bestowing all of these titles upon him and i want to talk a little bit about the background of mayor as well as the connection to chabad in morocco the babasali as most of us know is one of the most revered beloved adored sages of of the modern era his eldest son was now the baba sally was childless for 14 years he had no offspring and he actually had a dream that atsadek came to him and told him that he's going to have a son and he didn't know who this who the tsadik and his son was he actually asked his and he told him that it's a tzadik named mayor which mayor i'm not sure that was ever determined but he named his first son his first child mayor after this sadik in the dream who told him he's going to have a child after 14 years so the baba mayor was born in 1917 and as we mentioned this letter was written in and also as we mentioned you can do the math the baba mayor was 33 years old at the time this letter was written now very tragically the baba mayor pre-deceased his father the baba sally babasali lived here he lived until he was 95 years old and baba mayor passed away at a relatively young age at 66. so he passed away before his own father he passed away in khalamat pesach in 1983. the babasali left morocco in 1951 and he went to eretz israel and left his eldest son the baba mayor in charge basically as his successor there in in morocco so when the rebbe is writing to the baba mayor about his activities in morocco it is as the successor the inheritor so to speak of his father's post in in morocco now later on the baba mayor also made aliyah he also moved to eretz israel um in 1965. he left morocco but during the years of dureba's leadership until he left morocco and even after he left morocco he was very very involved with khabad activities and with the shlokhim there and with all of the activities that were going on to strengthen the moroccan jewish community which really was a was a partnership between khabad and and the abu khatsera family as well as well as others um i think it's notable to mention that the first shriek that the rebbe sent they were shlokhim that the frederick rebbe sent but the first shriek that the rebbe sent was to morocco right before yucha right before the astalkas of the philippines mentioned to the rabbit that they needed to send the shliyak to morocco and then there was the histalcus the passing of judgevat and ten days after yuchafat the rabbit carried out the orders of his father-in-law and sent the machol lipsker to morocco as the first shriek there who was then followed by many other shlokham the baba mayor worked very closely with matasof who was one of the laboratory emissaries in in morocco and i'll tell you more about the relationship to explain more about the connection um there's a so the baba mayor's son-in-law is a i i guess it's hard to distinguish between who's called the laba chair and and and who's not in the uh in the baba mayor's family but the baba mayor's son-in-law uh rav mach luff crispin i i i think you would call alabama he learned in benoit in tim hit me in the in the lava yeshiva in uh in france outside of paris and actually there's an interesting story that benjamin gardetski who we're going to hear about in this letter once received an order from the rabbit secretariat in new york that he was to go find this baker mahul of crispin and to bring him to a professional photographer or maybe a professional photographer had been sent to brenua and to send the picture to new york and rabinyaman didn't even know who this bakr was but later on he actually married the baba mayor's daughter and he became the baba mayor's son-in-law and then the debba sent him back to morocco and this is what the the picture was connected to this the the that ever sent him to morocco to help absolutely and to help rebuild the community his own his own community in in morocco now i'll tell you uh an extraordinary story that uh that took place when the baba sally was living in yavin for a time was living in yavner and this uh rav crispin was uh now obviously you follow the genealogy he is the baba mayor's son-in-law so that means he's the son-in-law of the son of the babasali so there was a aresh koilo in yavneh who wanted to meet the baba sally and ashkenazi jew he was a rav uh he was a rush kayla he was a it was and he wanted to meet the baba sally so he asked and i've crispin to arrange he said you're uh you're a relative and uh maybe you can uh maybe you can pull it off so he arranged the meeting and so if crispin says the baba sally said maybe we could bring refreshments for for the love so if crispin went outside or he left the meeting room to go get some refreshments and he said what happened would not have happened if i would have been there because i would have interfered but i stepped outside to get something to drink to get a snack whatever it is to bring back like the babasali had said and as i'm outside of the room i'm overhearing partially the conversation and i hear this reishikolo say to the babasali for whatever reason i'm not even sure how it came up but he told him that he's a descendant of the villenegon which is wonderful but for some reason this rushkoelu wanted to add and of course we know that when it comes to learning the baal champtov is no comparison to the to and i guess that wasn't the kind of thing that you said in the presence of the baba sally now if crispin immediately knew something was not going to go smoothly at that point he he runs back in but it was too late he said he comes in and he sees that the baba sally looks like fire he says he looks like a an awesome fire and he he he says to this rashkolo he says you attabala gidly you're coming here to tell me [Music] about shem tov you're coming here to tell me who they are he says you don't know the balsam i know the balsamic get out of this place i don't want to see you and that was it there was nothing there's nothing that could be done to calm the baba sally so uh he threw the guy out of his office but that wasn't enough but masali then says to uh his i guess you call it uh grandson-in-law he says listen to me good i don't want a man like that in front of my face i don't want to see such a person in fact i don't want to live in a town with such a person and i'm going to tell you that if his coil is still standing in yavner tomorrow then i'm not the babasali knew this was serious stuff now he didn't live in yavin crispin lived in lud at the time so that evening he went back home to lud he says in the morning he came back to yavner and as he comes back into town he sees that the government officials the municipal officials are closing down this guy's colo and they told him the government has uh withdrawn the funds we have no more money to support this institution that's it you're done closing it down and that was it the keller was so crispin was he was shocked he was he he was mortified he he ran into the baby solid he said what's happening here this was a good thing i mean i know i know that the guy uh the rich kayla offended you or offended them but he he it was a kylo there there was a kaltara he brought he brought learning to to the town the baba sally said there will be a better kylo there'll be a better kyle don't worry and uh that was it and as if that wasn't enough even after this story baba sally did not want to remain in yavna because such a thing had happened there and he moved to uh to uh ashdod to ashkelon he moved to ashkelon after that so uh at any rate have crispin told this story to the rabbi and you hide this and he said that the rebbe was hanging on every word and asking him to explain with greater detail describe what did the baba sally say how did the baba sally look you know the whole the whole play by play at any rate okay so that's that's who we're talking about here um so after greetings here let's get into the the message which means our when representative rabbit says our representative he means his and the frida kadebes or he means the institution he means lubavitch but the rabbin was the representative of lubavitch in europe and north africa through an organization known as the liska in paris and much of what he did involved securing funding from the joint which is an american organization which provided the monetary support for jewish activities and that's who rabbinyamin tereb is referring to here so the rebbe says i heard from benjamin goradski i heard about you and your activities to spread torah and strengthen yiddishkai in your community and its surroundings and everywhere where you have influence so basically saying that i know about your reputation uh you're a great leader and the bin yeoman who's the lubavitcher representative in morocco is uh is well aware of your activities obviously well aware of uh the baba mayor's activities and that i've been saying that bin yeoman has conveyed to me what it is that you're accomplishing and uh so that ebb is sort of uh verifying or validating that that work okay and in accordance with your request i share mostly hanau that the aforementioned conveyed to me in other words about what the baba mayor is involved in in in morocco and also conveyed to the rabbit that the obama mayor would be interested in receiving abraham by being mentioned by the rabbi at the tion at the resting place the ideal of the fiduciary so the rabbit says in accordance with what the aforementioned meaning conveyed to me he is addict i mentioned you your name and the names of your family when i was at the resting place of my father-in-law and the rebbe adds here the the rashitavas the acronym hakam hey hof mem which is an acronym for hareni kapoores mishkave that is a special additional title that one gives to one's father or one's primary teacher for the first year after their passing this is described in the gemara in kidus in da flame at ala from base rashi explains over there the meaning of the words means that if any negativity is to come to the deceased i take it upon myself and this is the the term that is supposed to be used this is how one refers to somebody who passed away or not just someone who passed away but a a father or a primary torah teacher during the first year of passing and as we mentioned this is a little tough shinjud and the fedor club is passing was only as we counted it earlier six seven months before this okay remember it's also ello so it's coming up to the high holidays and it is jewish custom and halacha to wish people a good inscription and ceiling not ceiling like ceiling to be sealed so i mentioned you for a siva varsimatova also at the oil the hollow mitstarik everything you need for every individual in your family whatever it is so it is a sure thing that the tsadik meaning the frida krabbe will bless them meaning you and your whole family in accordance with what it says in the holy zohach that gives this citation i in aleph base that means page 71 b after he passes this is aramaic after he passes after the tsadik passes away is found in this world more than during his lifetime so that abba says i mentioned you at the aisle of my father-in-law and certainly you're going to be blessed by the tzadik because he just passed away you trot and desire tells us that a tadic's power is even greater after he passes away because he's more omnipresent as desire explains and is that going to refer in a moment here to the iger sacredish of the altar which explains that zaihar that that means previously that sadiq had been confined to some extent by his embodiment by his physical body but having shed that limitation that sadik is actually even more present so by passing away he hasn't left us but he actually has become more present in our lives so that abba there cites the holy zohar which no doubt the baba mayor was familiar with the baba mayor the babasali they were makubalim true mikubolum kabbalists and i'm sure this would have been a familiar idea to him hashem should fulfill all of the blessings that the tsadik fulfills in the fullest way materially and spiritually remember it's hashem who fulfills the brachas in other words i mentioned you by the fear that god the future god is going to bench you but ultimately where do where do the blessings come from they come from hashem so it's important to remember the dynamics of how the blessings actually work obviously the blessings are from hashem but the that sadiq is the one who brings down the blessings for us okay now what happens next in the letter is i could call it in a very crass way cut and paste and maybe i regret even using those terms but there were times when the debit would have a certain section of a letter or paragraphs of a letter which would be sent to more than one individual and god forbid to say cut and paste in the sense of being perfunctory or not thought out god forbid obviously a letter from the rebbe is exact and precise and is intended exactly for the recipient but just like there was a concept of a myth of claudi the rabbit would write mixed of clawing means a general letter or a public letter that ebby would write letters that were addressed to all claustro so too there's a concept sometimes there was a myth of claudiprati which was a letter that was written to many individuals but it was the same letter and then there were some times where you would have a letter like this letter where the rebel is writing to an individual and mentioning things that are specific to this person and said said told me about your work and said that you wanted to brag at the oil and all of these things which are personal but then part of the letter would also be something that would would have been found in other letters of the deb now this section of the the next few paragraphs here are an excerpt from a letter that the rebbe sent out a few months earlier meaning just a few weeks after the histalcus after yudshwat but obviously if the rebbe is using those paragraphs in the letter to the baba mayor that these paragraphs are applicable to him as an individual and uh and you'll see from context i mean let alone whatever deeper spiritual significance there is that only understands but i'm saying just from a a very cursorial understanding such as my own very superficial level of understanding it's obvious why these paragraphs are applicable to the baba mayor he's somebody who is involved in khabad work who has a great deal of respect for the frida kahrabi who seeks the blessings of the fiduciary after the fire grabbed his passing but he did not have a personal relationship with the federal and did not see the frederick rabbit so having that in mind and also having in mind that the rabbit used these words when speaking to many people after the passing of the frida karaba i think it's helpful or i would like to suggest that it might be helpful today as we're preparing for gimmeltamos and we are thinking about our relationship with the rabbi and we're coming up to a yard site um it's almost impossible not to take these words here and apply them to our situation and i would even be so bold to say that part of the reason that well i won't say why they never wrote these words but certainly why they'd have a push for the publication of these words and we spoke about in the previous series when we prepared for uh yadav nissan how the debbie was the one who pushed that these letters shouldn't just remain in private archives in the rubber secretariat that they should be published they should be put out there that and that people should study them so the fact that the rabbit wanted this message albeit a message written to but that ever wanted this message to be publicized published in a book and accessible to all of us is because this is a message that is useful for all of us okay so let's look at the words remember i said before that that line from the zayar that that ever quoted that sadiq is more present in this world after his physical passing remember i mentioned that the that the altar explains that zayar in aguero sarkadish not egress kadish that we've been learning is the fourth volume of the tanya and it is comprised of letters that the the altareba wrote so one of those letters that ever writes here semenhofzyn that means the 27th letter is a letter that speaks about the passing of azadek it's actually it was written in reaction to the passing of the altar um in a way you could call it the altered was the the mizucha magid but after the margaret's passing the al-tarabe also treated his colleague mendel vitaper or mendel harudakar as a rabbi as well and then later that mendel made aliyah he went to eretz isro he lived in swas and then in tetheria so after his passing the al-taraba wrote a letter the balatanya wrote a letter and he and he explains that the tzadik is more present than before based on this zarya and uh rebecca mentions here also this phrase to though the nikoi um i'm not going to get into this but evan mentions i'm surely the baba mayor being a scholar and especially a scholar of mysticism would appreciate this reference that ebba mentions that the tamart sadik the malatanya's grandson explains the precise the precision of of this language at any rate this is a quote from miguel sakurdish that the tsadik leaves over life to every living being that is to the soul of every living being who is bound to the tzadik's soul in each and every individual corresponding to the degree of his genuine bond with the tsadic and his true and pure love of him so the rabb is explaining now that this idea which comes from from tanya from miguel sakadish that even after the tadik's passing the relationship that one has to the tzadik certainly does not end yes there are levels but those levels are dependent really on things that are within our control whether or not the tsadik passes away is clearly beyond our control but our regard for the tsadik our feelings for the tzadik that's totally under our control and based on that will be the level of connection even after the tzadik's passing uber indian [Music] quotes from another work also known as kuntris vistatras which is attributed to the mithla rabbi the af that even those who did not see him during his physical lifetime um but rather they learned his teachings and from his teachings they drew strength in their service of hashem so that ebb is speaking to the baba mayor who did not personally meet or know the fiduciary although clearly has a an incredible regard for the frida kadab not just as a figure from the past but as somebody from the present because he's asking for the faith is he asked that the rabbi should go to the oil and get a blessing for him from his father-in-law even after uh the the fruit of his passing so that ebba here brings from safer or contrast and says that even those who didn't physically meet the tsadik but they learned the teachings of the tsadik and they drew strength in their service of hashem from the teachings of the tsadik this is continuing the quote from say foreign they are certainly also called his students the tsadik's students are not just those who knew him in a in the most material sense but those who know him through his teachings because they believe in this tsadik and they receive from him the light of his teachings the branches are drawn back to their roots in other words it's a very beautiful almost poetic way of describing it that somebody who learns the torah of atsadik and forms a connection to the tzadik through that is like a like a branch a tree that's getting its sustenance from the roots of the tree which are pulling in the nourishment from the ground for the tree so the branch is way out there doesn't even look like it's you know if you look at a if you look at a snapshot someone could just take a close-up picture of a branch you think it's just a branch but if you look at the whole picture oh the branch is connected to the limb and the limb is connected to the trunk the trunks connected to the roots and so this person you see them inspired in their evaders hashem and you look at a snapshot of them and you say oh this person was born after 1994. clearly they never met the rabbit they were born after the after gimmel thomas so you know what's their connection to the debit that's the snapshot but if you trace it and you realize hold on a second this person who's serving hashem right now where do they draw their strength their inspiration their guidance their clarity their their understanding of of the meaning of life where did that come from and you trace it and maybe it's through a teacher or a mashipia or a parent or a friend but if you trace it you'll realize they're being inspired by the tsadik so this person is considered a student of the tsadic every bit as much as somebody who stood there at the fabregan and was privileged to hear and see the rabbit deliver his his teachings so there could be uh there could be a teenager who's opening up a la cote sichus and finding guidance and comfort and meaning and he's every bit a hostage of the rabbi he's not just studying the rebels writings he's every bit a hosted of the rabbi as somebody who was privileged to have uh the the physical experience of hearing those teachings transmitted okay now that ever continues so so far the rabbit quotes from miguel sarkodish from the altar then from the safer or country status which is from the rabbi and now that ebb is going to quote from his father-in-law a letter from his father-in-law now we mentioned igris kreides a lot we're learning right now from igor's kaidish there are different egress kurdish sets there's the eager skedish of our rabbi but there's also igurus kadish of the phirikram there's also griskadish of the rabbit shop so this is igurus kradish of the frederick rabe khalid this paragraph that tadebb is about to write to the baba mayor is a quote from a letter which was printed in the igriskadish khalid of the fiducade u peresqv so my father-in-law the previous rabbit writes in a letter as i mentioned to you where that letter is from quote us the intense yearning that one has to be connected to arabic when you learn the the the rabbi's teachings the my mottom the hasidic teachings that he said or that he wrote because seeing his face is not enough on its own this is something the frida kebbe wrote that it's not enough to have seen the rabbi one needs to learn that of his teachings and that the intense yearning that one has to be connected to the rabbit can only be satiated through that learning so the rabbit takes from that letter of the fire grabber he's writing it now after the passing of the frida krabbe he's writing to someone who didn't see the friday and is saying to him the main connection to my father-in-law is not from having seen him but from learning his torah and as i mentioned this section of of this letter that wrote to many people after the videograph is passing and its significance and its relevance to us today regarding our connection to the rabb after kimotamas is readily apparent okay continuing now in another letter that ebb is now quoting a second letter from his father-in-law and this is from the igriskay dish of the federica volume 5. this is a letter that was actually written close to right now's date it was written hough dalit sivan tough shin tafshin was 1940 that's after the federicator but came to america right after he came to america a few months after he came to america so this was hough dalid sivan right now just became it's if you're watching live so less than a week from now um okay here's a quote from that letter of the video grabbed the rabbit is bringing hashem [Music] you're asking me what your relationship is to me since you've never met me personally you never saw my face or to be actually literal in the translation i haven't seen your face again the dev is writing to someone after you're trying after the establish the federal who didn't meet the federal and speaking to him about being a hosted even now and the rabbis using words of his father-in-law the previous rabbi to explain how one can be a complete hostage and have a complete connection even if he hadn't met the frida kerabi so he quotes here from this letter the videographer wrote to somebody who asked defeated could have it how can i be connected to you if we never met in person i don't know where this person was writing from but probably from europe and uh this was when the figure was already in america at any rate so how can you be connected to me if you never met me in person true connection is when you learn my my modern my consider this discourses when you read my sikhs my published talks the transcripts of my talks [Music] and you hang out you rub elbows with my guys with my uh students the tamim tamim is the collective name for the students of tamrit of the yeshiva founded by the rabbit ashab so when you'll hang out with them and learn with them and fabreng they have mentioned some and if i bring with them without taking too many liberties i think i might just add there's a way of learning where it remains completely academic and abstract excuse me and there's a way of learning where the ideas leap off of the page and become real to you a lot of that depends on having the right spiritual social life surrounding yourself with people who are also learning these subjects and taking them seriously and attempting to live these ideas so it's not just enough to study the my mottom like a professor who studies my mutton you have to hang out with the guys and fabreg with the guys who are living these ideas um i heard a great story from i heard it from joseph talashkin and he heard it from [Music] herbert weiner who was the author of nine and a half mystics and it happened to herbert weiner he was a student at hebrew university and he was in gershon shalom's kabbalistic studies course and if you don't know gersh inshallah he was the expert in the academic study of kabbalah in in a in a very academic way in a way that had no regard for the sanctity of pneumonia it was just you know like there's biblical criticism this is like kabbalistic criticism it's uh very very very secular to say the least to say the least and uh i'm watching myself for for various reasons i'm not gonna belabor this point but let's just say geshen shalom is teaching kabbalah as a completely secular academic pursuit at the hebrew university and herbert weiner is sitting in the class and enrolls in a hosted named avraham yohodahan who was the son of a chosen known as the radatz davidsville or rab herschel chernogover kane had something to do with the department of education so maybe that's why he was on campus but at any rate like a good laboratory he rolls into the kabbalistic studies professor's classroom and he starts uh heckling you know he was a gadfly so that says to uh to uh professor gershon chalam he says hair professor you know like they say in german let me ask you a question what's the difference between a hosted and a kabbalistic studies professor so uh abram yodergain proceeds to explain he says it's the same difference as between a business owner and an accountant okay what's the difference between a business owner an accountant he says an accountant spends his entire day with numbers and he knows every one of those numbers down to the decimal those numbers represents represent dollars and cents even pennies and he knows exactly to the penny how much money came in today how much money went out you know the thing is though when he's finished looking at all those numbers all day he closes his books and he goes home and he has no access to that money that he knows down to the penny it's not his money doesn't have access to it a business owner he doesn't know down to the penny he doesn't even know down to the dollar maybe he doesn't even know every day he checks in once a week he knows roughly how much money is coming in how much money is going out not to the to the point of detail like the accountant knows but you know the difference the business owner it's his money it's his money he might not know to the penny how much is in there but it's his money he can spend it so haram yoda kane says kabbalistic study professor is like the accountant he knows every letter of the of desire he's an expert he's bucky in the desire but he can't spend it he didn't he didn't own it he didn't internalize it he didn't take it personally so it's not his currency to spend he doesn't live that way he just knows what it says there he knows every letter that it says there the hosted he might not know everything it says in zayer what does he know of zaire he knows kegavno because he say it friday night maybe he knows you know some of the lines from zaire that that's a dibra moscow of our miami the the the malka gaul of gleefup you know he knows he knows a few of these lines but uh you know what he's like the business owner it's his money to spend because the hosted took it seriously he took ownership of it and he said this is my life so even if i'm not an expert of everything that it says in desire whatever it says nazar informs my way of living and my values and my decision-making and my priorities in life so that's what avraham your hain told gershon shaw so why am i telling you this because writing a letter to someone who never met the videographer is asking how can i be connected to you and the video guide is saying well the main thing is learn my tata and hang out with the bahrain with the tamim and for being with them meaning to say and i and i don't think i'm taking major liberties here by offering this interpretation you can't just read the book like an academic you have to live it and you have to be in an environment of others who are living it yeah and today obviously with technology i think a lot of that is accomplished the fact that you're learning a letter of the rabbit right now and you know that there are thousands of other people doing this also at the same time in a certain way that's also a little bit interactive and it's a communal type of thing although nothing's a substitute for a real fabrian so i hope everyone finds a real fabrian um oh that reminds me i was supposed to mention what was i supposed to mention tonight mendel you didn't text me you're supposed to text me five minutes before the class there's a group of ladies who've been getting together now during the if maybe if mendel's watching live he'll text me right now um during the udall of nissan that we're doing 30 letters in 30 days there were groups all over the world especially women's groups from the vaddervachlein women's division who were getting together and having classes and discussions and fabregas based on the letters we were learning i heard that there's a group now i'm going to have to guess i think what was i told in i want to say in south africa maybe it was australia well it's one of those somebody let me know somebody reach out to me and tell me there's a group of women who have been getting together to fabreg based on the letters that we're learning now as a as a hakona for gimel thomas and and that's the way it ought to be that's the way it's got to be it can't just be a class it also has to be a discussion and get together with other people and talk it out and that's what uh i hope somebody will text me before the before tonight's class is over and i'll be able to properly mention where that group of women is okay um yeah so the feeder grab is writing you don't you never met me but here's what i want you to do and you're going to be connected to me just like you met me even more learn my toyota but also hang out with the guys who take my toyota seriously um i'm continuing the quote um follow my instructions regarding saying tell him that means after davening every day to say the portion of the day for the month also once a month shabbos mavor i'm saying the entire talent and also keeping the times of study hine [Music] he hey this is his cacious this is connection this is what it consists of end of quote okay so now the rabbit this is words again okay but this is also part of the section that was included in many letters so whatever sort of like if i can say it like this summarizing the points here when we will learn his title and his talks vine and walk in the straight path which he showed us two things the learning and then the practice so there's the ideas and then there's the way of life when we'll do that as a face reflects a face or as rather as water reflects a face back to that face the face that you see in the water if it's clear water is the same face that you are looking into the water with virus and a spirit draws reciprocally draws triggers a response from a spirit viruj and his spirit meaning of the tsaddik is here with us in our midst literally says that even in this physical world this world where we do physical things he is more present more than what more is a comparative word than when he was physically in his body he's even more present now because of the histalcus so just like he dutifully stood and served he fulfilled his function as the as the shepherd of his people in his lifetime he continues to fulfill that function this is what the government say this says about meisha banu he continues to fulfill that function even after his passing okay so that ends the quotes i shouldn't say quotes but that ends the section which was used as a i'll call it informally as a myth of clausti and obviously it's applicable to the recipient of the of the letter to have mayor abraham and it's also something that that ebb felt was applicable to many people because as i said it was a these words were written to many people and it's also i think quite obviously applicable to us okay now the the next words are not to my knowledge are not found anywhere else these are original to this letter so basically we started off with words that were original to this letter and then there was a section that had been published elsewhere and now we're back to words that are original to this letter so let's continue participating in the holy work of our nasi is an especially great form of bonding of being connected to him and i hope that you will be of an assistance to us in every possible way remember that is writing to a leader a very important esteemed revered leader and specifically in a place where there was a great deal of work being done by lobovich in partnership with local leadership so that ebb is saying one of the forms of connection to the rabbi is to take part in his work and i'm hoping that you are going to be a big part of his work specifically in in morocco um and this is in accordance with what avigorodski had said about you to me um and from you and why others like you the great and holy name of hashem should be magnified amen may it be his will so this is an aw this is also an important concept here that his cashiers to the rabbi even after his passing is by being an active participant in the rabbi's work the baba mayor even after he left morocco and he was in eretz israel wrote important letters to the moroccan community telling them that they should support chabad schools and their children should attend the khabad schools the schools run by chabad a very powerful statement that he made in supporting the rabbi's initiatives was in support of the rabbi's neshik campaign nader shabbas kurdish and specifically encouraging his community to follow what the deva had said regarding even little girls lighting shabbos candles which was something that not all communities kept and that ever spoke about that that historically it was more common and then because of poverty it became less common but that it's important to revive this and to even expand it and that little girls even as young as three years old and that ever said sometimes even younger should light shabbos candles so the baba mayor was a supporter of that initiative in his community and took a leadership role in furthering that that initiative let's continue i'm also including under separate cover a tanya and several and several countrism pamphlets of teachings of my father-in-law the rabbi please acknowledge your receipt of them remember this is also that rabbit concludes with blessings may you be written and sealed for a good year yes your health and your toyota should increase and enable you to lead your community along peaceful waters on the path that ascends to the house of god i await good tidings and when i say good there's no greater good than torah and mitzvo's meaning that i was saying he wants to hear about all the mitzvos and toyota learning that baba mayor is causing to happen and never writes his name and then there's a closing paragraph after the rubber signature super leo jose mourinho according to what roby gorodetsky told apparently you're in possession of many kabbalistic writings the rabbi calls it todas that belonged or were written by your father and your grandfather um so certainly they contain the light of our holy toyota which is more precious than pearls is i'm very interested that they should be in our library the immediate name foreign we would i'm giving you advanced thanks if you would give those books as a gift to our collection we spoke about this in other classes that the rabbi accumulated and added to a massive library which was the library of the niseim of chabad through the generations and it was something that that ever gave great importance to and was involved in and put forth much time and energy to acquiring books that were of uh interest to him so this is a request and i don't know what became of this request but this is the request that eva finishes the letter with okay now we started over an hour ago and uh you know it's thursday night if you're watching live maybe you're uh making uh shabbos maybe uh you're making a potato coco right now i don't know but we have another letter we actually included a second letter uh in the pdf i hope everyone has the pdf if you don't have the pdf you got to go to the 30 letters 30 days site and there's a gimmeltama's section and over there it has the pdf that you can print out or you can look it on on your screen or you can go to soulwords.org and go to the letters section over there and you can get the pdf so i hope everyone's following the pdf um that's what i'm reading from let's continue here the second letter letter number two is a letter in english this is not from the igris kaidish there are no english letters in igriskadish there are many many many english letters from the rabbi thousands tens of thousands only a fraction of them have been published and god willing all of the letters that we have from the rabbit the english letters will uh will eventually be published and we'll be able to draw nurture from them as surely they contain within them the answers to many of the problems that people are struggling with today so we yearn to be to be worthy of receiving that this letter here was written the tenth of nissan march 28 1950. that means two months after judge fought two months after the frida kadab is passing and i wanted to learn tonight i wanted to learn this letter with the other letter of tonight because they were both written in the same tukufa in the same uh period of time basically basically during that first year after the frida grab is passing and they're both about the same subject they're about connecting to the rabbit even after he's passed away now the first letter was more about specifically connecting to the rabbit even if you never met the rabbit this letter was written to someone who had met the previous rabbit and was actually very involved on a personal level with defeated in america but it has some great ideas there for us about connecting to the tzadik after his passing so let's read this letter mr julius stulman 171 west street brooklyn new york i wonder what's there at that address today mr julius stoleman passed away in 1997. so and i don't think he lived at that address i think he moved to florida uh at the end of his life at any rate uh julia stulman was an american jew he was born in 1906 and he was a lumber magnate he made a lot of money in lumber and he was extremely philanthropic and one of the causes that he was supportive of was lobovich in america he's one of the earlier supporters of lubavitch he aided the frida kadab in coming to america and he was one of the biggest supporters if not the biggest supporter of lubovic of americas when when the frederick rabbit came to america um and uh he he had an important role in establishing lubavitch in america during the early years right after the friday arrived in america in the 1940s and he was obviously a young man at that time he would have been 34 years old when the frederick came to america but he was he was wealthy and he had a great love for the frederick rebbe and for his work okay dear mr stulman since the demise of my late father-in-law our revered of sainted memory we have not heard from you which rather surprises me however i trust that everything is well with you and yours no doubt the rebbe of sainted memory is very much in your thoughts as is the case with all of us who were privileged to be associated with him and his work in a personal way because mr stulman was not just associated with the with the with the federal but also with his work and also in a personal way he did he did a great deal to establish the federa in in america so that i've been saying i would imagine even though i haven't heard from you and by the way i don't think this is a fundraising letter because um as far as i know the funds continued not to i don't think that was the reason of uh of this letter um i do know that there was a certain amount that uh julia stulman allotted that was to be given to labavich every single year which was a quite quite a large sum at any rate so the reb is reaching out and saying i haven't heard from you but i'm sure you're thinking of my father-in-law that had them because you knew him and you were involved in his work it goes without saying that having dedicated his life to the benefit of the generation and the individual continues to do so in afterlife okay now here the deb is not quoting from the zaya or from the aguero sakaidesh this is an american businessman that ebb is writing in in in in english there's no quotes here from from kabbalah from siddhis that ever just says it goes without saying like by the way that's i mentioned there's so many english letters that need to be revealed part of the power to me at least i'll say you know my nevish obamas speaks english so english hits me and it just hits in a different way so this isn't translated this is the devil's english okay so there's something to me for at least for my animal soul much more powerful when the rabbi just says it goes without saying like of course there are sources but no it goes without saying that the rabbi having dedicated his life to the benefit of the generation of the individual continues to do so in the afterlife like what do you think he thinks you think he stopped now you think he changed tracks now yeah but i've spoke about this many times that uh what is a real nasty one who's totally selfless and dedicated and that that continues even in the afterlife and although many tadikim have been distracted by the pleasures of the afterlife uh that ebba said that surely his father-in-law is more interested in us than whatever pleasures gannadan can offer okay now here's the bombshell to me the bombshell but it is no mere continuation see the never first starts and says it's a continuation but then the devil says but you know what it's not just a continuation it's much more than a continuation because continuation means is he going to maintain his connection with us that is going to still be connected to us no he's not just going to still be he's even more connected since the soul is free from the limitations of the corporeal body the influences animating from it both material and spiritual of our are of a higher order now that's what it says in the okay so if you want the nomenclature for all that you can go look over there and you can look in the letter to the baba mayor and you could see the the way to say it in in fancy la shana kurdish but if you want it in simple english the simple english is he doesn't have a body anymore now whatever he used to do he can do even more he does it even with greater with with greater effect with greater influence that ever calls it of a higher order and then that ebba gives a beautiful muscle uh a metaphor that's just so like i'm saying the english letters is not just a language it's a it's a it's a whole cultural milieu it's funny i should use a french word to describe something american give me an american word for that it's a whole it's a it's it's a different style it's the american style so that was not quoting from zayer from you get us a kedish never says no we know that ebb is still with us that is even more with us and that ebb is actually operating now on a higher order his hashpaw the influence that he's giving materially and spiritual materially and spiritually means materially means the braaches that he gives us for our health and our well-being and our families and then spiritually the dab is helping us he's giving us a boost in our toyota and our davening and our mitzvos but it's on a higher order it's on a higher level okay listen to this muscle listen to this beautiful metaphor american metaphor if the transmitter puts puts it in quotes if the transmitter has changed it's it's a mission to a higher grade the receiver must be appropriately equipped to respond to the new vibrations isn't that cool if the transmitter has changed its emission to a higher grade the receiver must be appropriately equipped to respond to the new vibrations in other words the debit is still broadcasting and putting out everything in fact even more than before but precisely because it's more than before and it's on a higher level it's like a higher frequency so you got to tune in to the higher you got to tune into the higher frequency right it's like like a like a transistor radio which by the way i think was invented in the 1940s so it would have been a uh this is this letter's 1950. so it would have been like if someone today would make a mushroom about some cutting i don't know it's cutting edge i'm such an old man i was going to say wi-fi and then i realized they had wi-fi in the 90s so i don't even know what would be cutting-edge i i don't know how to be his cutting edge in 2022 with 2022 things as the rebel was being in 1950 but at any rate the point is that ab is now broadcasting at a higher frequency because there's this bigger stuff better stuff but if if you want to tune in to the frequency you got to adjust your the the the receiver so it can pick up on that frequency gevaldic in a like manner all of us who have enjoyed the benevolent influences of the dev of sainted memory in his lifetime must now elevate in order to be able to receive the higher influences emanating from him after the he stalketh so i'm just reading what it says his talk the term applied to the demise of a saintly man and its meaning is elevation and that ever doesn't give sources there that histalcus is uh there is no sources here the but histalcuth means elevation you know what is style course it's like sabbath or yabba mouth gomorrah you have a mouth so that i was saying you received from the before his passing and you're going to receive after his passing in fact you're going to receive even more but you're going to have to go now to a higher level so whatever level you were at in his lifetime in order to be able to connect to him you're gonna also have to go to a higher level he went to a higher level histalcus doesn't mean he left you god forbid it means he's on a higher level so we have to go up to that level or up to that level but we have to go up a level for ourselves that ever always encouraged people to make resolutions uh especially to extend themselves in learning and in mitzvah observance in ways that were a little bit of a stretch beyond their comfort zone and i think we spoke about this in one of our letters during our udall of nissan that it's not tit for tat it's not like that ebb is saying you give me some of this i'll give you some of that it's not like let's barter that explains the mechanics of it look you want to become a vessel for blessings you have to you have to tune in you have to get into that frequency so when you do a mitzvah it's not like oh let's trade i'll do a mitzvah and then you give me some money or whatever health or nachos whatever it is i'm looking for god forbid it's hashem wants to give you blessings in fact the blessings are waiting for you you just have to make a withdrawal but in order to make a withdrawal to put in the pin number in the atm and pull the money out which already belongs to you you have to go to a higher level you have to do something to make yourself a recipient raise yourself up so the rabbit is saying the freedom has more to give you whatever he gave you inspiration and guidance and blessings in his lifetime he's got even more of that to give you now but you have to lift yourself up to a higher level whatever that means whatever that meant for julius stulman or whatever it means for us i trust your soul has experienced a corresponding change this is very powerful and i i don't even know what to make of this in this paragraph the rabbi implies that to some extent the elevation of of the of the person who's connected to the deba almost happens automatically see in the previous paragraph i love this english it's just so delectable but the previous paragraph that ebba says in a like manner all of us who have enjoyed the benevolent influences of the dev of saint and memory in his lifetime must now elevate ourselves in order in order to be able to receive the higher influences emanating from him after the histalcus in other words that i was telling him hey you're going to have to lift yourself up but in this paragraph i don't know if i'm reading too much into it but that ebba says i trust your soul has experienced a corresponding change and that it will find the proper outlet through your body in practical actions in accordance with what the deb expected and demanded of you in other words it's almost like an inevitability like that goes up we're all going up and the only the only like question is has your body caught up with the spiritual change when the rabbit has his aliyah then all the neshama is connected to him and really that means every neshama because the rebels so when he has his aliyah all the neshamas have their aliyah the question is did your body catch up meaning in practical actions listen to it again i trust your soul has experienced a corresponding change meaning corresponding to the dab as a leo and that it will find meaning it did have this corresponding change and that it will find proper outlet through your body and practical actions so the soul had its own had its aliyah hopefully that alley of the soul is going to manifest in physical action i will conclude by repeating the last words which the rabbis spoke to you personally and i don't know the circumstances of the last words that the videographer spoke to julia stulman but obviously that ebb was privy to that perhaps that ever was present that ever was constantly serving his father-in-law and could very very well have been present or being a confidante or the primary confident of the phi degree the federal government could have told the debbie about the conversation at any rate that ebba says i will conclude by repeating the last words which did ever spoke to you personally which should be regarded in the nature of a last will and testament to you pretty heavy right like the last thing the last conversation you happen to have had with my father-in-law no it didn't just happen to have been that that was the last thing he told you you have to take this like he's leaving you with his last lecture maybe it's not his last lecture but for you for you it's his last lecture these are his parting words to you this is what he wants you to carry with you until meshech until until you see him again quote since there's something that has to be done and will be done it is a pity to lose time before doing it i don't know the context i don't know what defeated said that about but he told julia stulman since there's something that has to be done and it will be done one way or another it's going to get done why waste time let's let's do it let's do it sooner with passover ushering in a period of counting the days of the aymer remember this letter is from right before pesa right after pesach is going to come spheros the time element between the liberation from egypt and receiving the torah is vividly brought to our attention i mean this is a concept that i spoke about many many many times about the idea of of svera is counting days that days count time is important time is precious and specifically the bridge between the liberation which is pesach and the receiving of the torah which is is connected through one's giving preciousness to time so that ebb is basically saying value your time don't waste time whatever it is that you're going to have to inevitably do just get it done do it do it now and then you'll have the next you have the next thing to aspire to you never run out of things to aspire to i wish you and your family a very joyous and kosher passover with kindest regards and best wishes very sincerely yours in the rebel signs his name okay so thank you for uh sticking with us again hashem next week we will have another letter um and then we have one more letter after that and i'm not sure if we're okay to announce this yet but i believe the fifth letter meaning that next week but the week after that which we'll be studying a couple of days before kimotamas will the class will take place at a public gathering for women near the isle similar to what we did of nissan where we had a gathering near the hill so that is hashem going to be taking place and val or will get you information about that to keep updated make sure that you check out the uh 30 letters 30 days website okay oh and since profile of 7 monday is my is my birthday so uh i'm not going to see you until next week so with my masoli graver powers over here i want to bench everyone with my birthday powers all of the rebels bragas whatever remember we learned last week at a bench chamter said i don't know how to bench my son for his bar mitzvah but whatever that ebba wants to bench him that's exactly what i want to so whatever that eva has in mind for you that's exactly what i have in mind for you too i'm co-signing on to those brokers okay good night