Rebbe’s Ohel Blessings Ceremony & Celebration Engagement of Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz & Shani Silver

[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Whoever's here is Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Okay. So, we need we All right. So, first of all, welcome here. We want to thank everyone for coming to celebrate with us in our engagement. And um I want to first before we start, I want to give a special thank you to my sister and brother-in-law for hosting us here in this house and my parents and mother and father helped make this such a beautiful kind of welcoming everyone into the family and just to mention that the reason why it's in this house besides the fact that my sister offer it that's usually easy, right? but also this house. My grandmother, my mother's parents lived here and there was a lot of uh emotional bonding between uh my grandmother and uh our family in a very very powerful way and obviously the energy is still here. So we wanted obviously continue that legacy and have the engagement behind it right here. So again Kenny and Yosi thanks so much for hosting us. Thanks so much. Like to welcome Sean's parents uh the back of the layman and the silver family and then everyone all the everyone that flew in and also uh the big extended solar family is here the Mayan family and [Music] uh Greenberg. Yeah, the Greenberg family and and then again my my all my brothers, sisters, my cousins, nephews, everyone that really really came and most importantly I was really really touched on the plane. I mean literally last night the guys bought tickets literally we had 10 people on the plane from Fort [Applause] W. I'm going to vacation where you going to Bahamas. He's going to Brooklyn. He said, "Oh, I have friends in Parkville. I told him he's getting engaged." He literally coming out. He said, "Right, I'll be there next week with us today." He was his wife, right? His wife's here somewhere came with his wife. They came to the oil and then uh and then Esther was on a Jewish journey from Fort. She's hanging around getting to know Brooklyn, all the places here that she came to uh here. will come to Idle to teach you about modern technology. If you have an electric car, you got to plug it in last night. Now we do modern technology. You got to watch out for modern technology. That's a plug for the gas cars. But anyways, we're happy that you're here with your son and uh Okay, so now we're going to do this. So the tradition is that by engagement we got to commit to uh to uh each other. We're going to get married and we we pick out two witnesses that are not related. It's because we have so much family here like literally throwing like you know need all the hate stack. We have uh you're kind of famous. That's what I was told. Right. What's your name? Benny lover. Benny lover. Many love is going to meet one of the witnesses. And then on behalf of the uh side and then we're going to ask our neighbor and every very house like you know part of the furniture. Anything that goes on. So, Israel and uh and um and Mendy, come on. Come on up. Right. You guys will be the witnesses. All right. And Y's fishing the the the rabbi, but he's standing over there to to give it like a little uh My father wants me to come close. Y my father wants All right. Yeah. Okay. Fine. I'll help you. We'll do the phone. All right. Anyway, so the first thing is obviously they're going to give it to the customer. This is basically called a garment that you do a pinion. Now in order to in order to be eligible it has to be a complete garment closer to the guard. So obviously it's considered a [Music] belong but that's me. So it sounds my father gave it to me but he gave me as a real present. Dad gave me a present. So I'm going to accept this and that I am video. I am committing to marry honey. [Applause] [Music] Now, here's the big one. It's not even This is the uh simple. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Okay. So at at this you want to have a shot part of it. So you you share a certific share. So uh since we have a big confusion for buyers that uh oh sorry pictures 1 2 [Music] Okay. So now So now that they broke the plates official here, hold it from the top. He wants to make sure it's broken. broken. There you go. Okay. So, we're going to recite it. So, the discord, but since we have people in four choirs, so instead of doing it with the musically done, uh we'll do it we'll do it uh in English if you guys don't mind. Um and uh you all right? So, we're going to do it in forms of English and start. Ready? Okay. Here we go. So, the civic discourse is There's a discourse that the reb said on this week. He said that it was which we know fans just want to be happy. And interestingly enough the name of the discourse called which is which speaks about marrying Hashem forever. So the the discourse is based on the verse where it says and it says the adopte brings known from the freeb about the um the behavior of the a year that on the day of like that year that before they lit the candles on Shabbat. So he said discourse on the title of and on Shabas afternoon he said discourse based on this verse and there was just to point out that since this verse is at the end of the Torah to obviously encourage everything in the Torah portion especially as we know that the reason why they institute the Toras is because at one point it was to study Tory to this call instead of the Torah portion says that we the point that's explained in discourses is that these verses is talking about the revolutionary idea of giving of the Tyra because the fact is giving of the Tyra is the engagement of Hashem and the Jewish people in other words explains just like just like an engagement and a marriage literally is so what happens when you get engaged now that's it you're taken you're not you can't uh you can't date anyone else that's you take it. Um, and like it's also like it says in the Ram that what happens is that when when someone gets engaged, so let's say if let's say an Israelite woman gets engaged for a priest once she gets engaged before they're married, she can already start eating only items that that only a priest priest can eat. And there is also in certain instincts that when someone that's engaged has more stringencies than when someone that's married. Now that's general but when when you talk about the engagement of there's three levels like the verse says you're going to get and after these three levels then you come to the level of to know Hashem which is the highest level which we reach the level of what knowing Hashem that is even though knowing Hashem the fact is today sometimes we know Hashem completely we have so much darkness when are we going to reach level of knowing Hashem. That's when Mashia comes. Now we're going to have the completion of knowing Hashem and that's also connected to the idea of giving the Torah in the future and uh and but on the other hand we know that even though we're going to have the completion but we received everything really but we got that as well and that's why it says our lead cuz anytime you use you find the word leave to me is actually talking about something which lasts forever and the engagement something which which lasts forever. And even even what's going to happen in the future now says even though what happened was a gift. Hashem gave us a third of but nevertheless the consequences that says we Hashem doesn't want us to have something. It's called nominative suka. Nom suka means shameful bread. Something that you don't work for something you don't put the effort into. So since we need to put the effort that's why there's a concealment after mira. And we have to do our part of our work so that everything all the revelations and tur come down in a real way. And how do we how do we see that? So literally it starts we get ready for because basically which is going to be this week is the third one which is connected to and afterwards in the three days of preparation and then we have on the they they said the Jewish people said Misha that was our preparation. said, "We're going to accept even though before we heard and we do that, we actually drew down the two crowns that the angels put on every one of the Jewish people." I never said the truth is these two crowns had come from even though we got as a gift and came actually do our work and like it says in the medish he gives an example of people in the country they made three kings three crowns for the king and the king took one he put it on his own head and he put two on on on the people but who made a crown the fact is the Jewish people made the crown like we say in the in the prayers also they were part in making the cra the crowns. Um and also because everywhere we're at the endosphere and the whole idea of counting is um doing our way of transforming ourselves like it says in the prophet that is a gift of we got a gift we went out but we run after we do our part and which is basically the root says referring to the godly soul and the animal soul is about transforming ourselves and by doing our work that's a If we do our work that creates a real relationship that lasts forever and obviously we're able to nullify the greed because before the heavens were heaven and earth was earth by doing our we were able to unite the two. Now remember just like when we receive the Torah the first time the same thing also happens every time somebody sits down to learn Torah you take out take out you take out you take out anytime you take out you're accomplishing the same thing like it says just like when we when we see the Tyra when we see them with and the same thing happens every time you learn and like it the verse says every time we say we're actually Hashem is saying they're with or like it says that it's saying on its own. It was this idea of learning that creates this applies to every single person because the fact is we're all unified. We're born with like it says all one. Um not only k like in comparison but no we're literally one we come over and it's not only like love because the fact says when it says that's it's connected to we know when put the mountain on top of the Jewish people and he forced them wasn't a force a a fearful force. It was actually coming from a place of love when the goal is to have real unity and that we we have we're totally connected to Hashem. It goes on to say when you have the completion of that you get married to Hashem forever and all the the three levels we mentioned before we come to the highest level of your Hashem knowing Hashem which is basically uh gasp the full comprehension which creates the ultimate marriage and that is like real das that creates the real wine up till when you have that connection then you have um the the byproduct that comes from it. What's the byproduct of it? of love and or for Hashem and which includes all the mitzvah the positive commandments and negative commandments which is also connect to the ten commandments and like it's explained in the first two commandments in the ten commandments we heard it from Hashem and that includes all the positive and all the negative commandments and says and by doing our work by learning and drawing down all this great energy and especially says that we're doing it in the afternoon in a time memory we actually it's interesting we just haven't And there was connected to who? Which one of the Arab connects? By the way, my name is And right there connected to And is connected to the future to the future. Um cuz in reference to it, it says in the future they're going to say about you are our father. Even though uh Yako is again, right, it's all in here. um uh is is considered the the so to speak the most prestige of the of the patriarchs but the reference to the future is not the connected idea of I never finish what he said especially in sensitive shabbat we know Shabbat is all about real pleasure and everything gets done you don't have to do anything especially in time at the end of Shabbat is called riv the high part of Shabbat we come to the very very soon the coming of Mashiach and we're all going to return there and it's going to happen very very soon and very very quickly. So in other words, I think it's to walk quick cuz we always try to make something practical saying it like this that obviously on one hand gives us all the gifts and at the engagement already everything is locked in for the future but then and it's going to be great and amazing and we're going to have a great connection but you got to do the work and by doing the work then you have the sweat equity and that brings obviously the greatest blessings. Let's hope and pray that we should have a great life all night. Thank you [Music] all. [Music] Mother [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat.