Rebbe only officiated if you had a beard - Bris issues during Farbrengen - History is yr base

foreign sometimes I wonder does it really make a difference what's relevant is now why I think about the past so this week I happen to see a clip that the Chabad organization Jim published of a Jew in Crown Heights I believe Michael roskin one of the Ruskin Brothers who was raised in Russia under the hardest of times and he was beardless because to have a beard in Russia understone's regime was dangerous especially for the babita and when he was I think he said 11 years old 9 or 10 or 11 when the young boy his father he saw his father diving in a corner of this house you imagine this house was probably a rumor too and he was diving with the vehicles with devotion and connection and heart and he turns to his son and he says to his son don't be foolish grow your beard at that age he wasn't growing up here he was a little boy but the father already understood what's coming and that most teenagers and young adults were beardless and most people for that matter so in the middle of his diving in the middle of his vehicles in the middle of his devotion thinking about Hashem reflecting and meditating he turns to his little child his little boy and he says don't be foolish grow a beard knowing that it's self-sacrifice and it's dangerous and the boy said to his father sure father but as the years went on and things were rough and tough he didn't grow a beard and he forgot about that little childish conversation that he had so many years ago but it wasn't until he was about to marry and he asked the river to officiate and that ever looked at him you see on the clip it goes like this didn't look to him what's with a beard that ever had a policy he only gives hope and condition to someone who has a beard and he knew that but nevertheless you know after everything he went through he appealed to the dead but and the Reba didn't change his policy because other people would say for him yes for me not and all of that and he grew his beard and then they have a picture of him standing under the Hupa with his beard and he said that when the rabbit told him that everyone like this the memory came back of his father davening and turning around all of a sudden him saying grow a beard in other words the rabbit's image in yechidus in 58 or 59 when he when he when he got married before he married I reminded him and looked like his father telling him that in 1938 or 37 39 whenever it was a powerful story you have to see it yourself very powerful very powerful you know I was born at Crown Heights and my breast was on a Shabbos and the mile didn't do such a great job my breast was before the fabrina started it was a Shabbos before him my father after the Press went to the fabrina and a relative comes running to the 770 and he asks where is my father you know this he wasn't he was a European Jew might have been a Survivor I don't remember but he's frantic he's saying where's my father and they show him to my father and he says come your little boy is bleeding you have to come home right now why am I telling you this might tell me this a personal story with me at eight days old I'm telling you this because Yiddish kite Tater and Swedish kite is engraved in us from conception the the ideals of being a yeed and being a hasid and being connected isn't something that you create and you form and you intellectualize those that use and you used and use that path it's a very dangerous path because sometimes it works for you and sometimes it doesn't and even when it works for you it doesn't really work for you and I don't want to take up the time now either Skype is as we say in Chabad in the bainer bainer means in the bones or in English in your DNA whether it's the Michael raskins nebraskan's beard or higham dolphins Bruce Miller while the rep is fabranging you understand in other words I'm being nurtured with terrible as an eight day old baby my father's at the fabrangian and from there he comes to take care of his little boy his do his new boy who had a Bruce and whether it's you watching reflecting back on our beginning our humble beginnings is so powerful it's really gevaldic really it is it's unbelievable if you could allow the space if you can allow yourself to go into the space of not thinking and worrying about what others say and what you need to do but you can just go into a place of of purity a place where there is Serenity a place where really it's it's cavali it's kadusha it's holiness you will come out a different person and this is so relevant to us today all of us including those that are from and those that are Hasidic and those that are lit fish and those others fartic and those that are modern Orthodox it makes no difference what had and what color yamaka or no yamaka you wear the different what's important here is the aside the foundation this week's Parsha but you highest automation of essence she was as wonderful at the age of 127 she was as she was when she was a little child seven years old what does that mean that means that throughout her lifetime this nakuda this point of living with the truth was her commonality was her reality and it went through the big from the beginning through the middle to the end this is one lesson that we take from higher Sarah you know you think back whoa when I was a child I was a good boy when I was a teenager oh I really enjoyed studying and learning and then unfortunately life came and the challenges and the issues where am I today and the answer is those are all sidebars those are all curveballs thrown at you those are all issues and it's real issues Dr Edward chapter 26 of Tanya addresses it study the chapter you'll see gives them an amazing way of dealing with these curveballs and into outer interferences external interferences that we don't expect the bottom line is history remembering where we come from and who we are and reflecting on that is very therapeutic have a great Shabbos and it's also the kinosa's over five thousand I was there in 1985 the third kindness and we were about 70 80 guys that's it and today it's over five thousand Canadian and then later a few months to have the king of his babic is an army big army and has all kinds but it all boils down to the same Kuda you say it remember where you come from have a great Shabbos let us be safe to the Michelle who sends all this today after gimmel Thomas clearly a sign that he's functioning from on high giving each need kayak and strength to serve alcohol with more Vigor and happiness oxidation Better Health and everything else that one needs stronger Panasonic