Satmar Rebbe & Chabad, 26 Av Yahrtzeit, Satmar outreach in Williamsburg, Pride- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

Today is 2025. It's the yard site the 46th yard site of the satell. Now you're probably wondering what is what am I talking about? What am I talking about? So I was in shul and thinking about it today and it dawned on me that we have to be thankful to the kitam to the sapp of the sappa for what he brought to America when he came in 1944 47 I believe he brought the pride of Hungarian Judaism in the most casidic way to the streets of Brooklyn Williamsburg Now today, so many years later, right? 80 80 almost 80 years later, what am I talking about? Everyone dresses this way and walks this way and does what he wants. My dear friends, it wasn't this way. My late mother-in-law, a blessed memory, passed away a little more more than a month ago, told me that she met she was walking the street in Williamsburg at some point in the 50s and she didn't know who the Sakarov is, but she saw a person dressed with his fur coat and then and with the silver um cane and uh the regal the regality of the the Sakovv and he had a a gaba under him. I think it was Ashkanazi and he went to her like this to motion that she should go out of the way. So she didn't know you know at the time and it felt a little awkward to her. Later then she found out that that was the Sakov the the the theutbah that he brought to America streets to walk around like you walked around in Europe. Well, and and how he got Hungarian balabatum who were beardless. Okay. And much more. He got them to stop wearing beards and to put on the strim and to put on the hat the hat and to put on the lavush the the special thing that they wear and to do it in the street and to be public about it. And I was thinking about it. How different is that than the rebas called to go out and with the and the tanks against assimilation in the 70s which not the satba some of the sappid were against at the time and I've written about this at length as part of my book called sat labavich and if you haven't read it do yourself a favor and read it you you'll thank me but anyway I was thinking about it you know 20 years before 75 the 70s When the Reb came out with his call for outreach and going out with the mitzvah tanks in Manhattan and in Brooklyn, the Sakma Rebb himself walked around that way in the streets and wasn't embarrassed or or ashamed. So, in a sense, the Reb's call was going, you know, taking it not taking it from the sat of, but he had someone that he can rely on as well. But that's another discussion because I'm sure the have a different view of the of that. But that's not the point here. The point is that this was a a very very big saddic and today the the kindness the that the do to everyone not just to their own but to their everyone is tremendous and hashem that we've passed those difficult years of the 60s and 70s and the 80s and it's a new period that's really a mashiach period and in which there's more there's more love of each other Moreidim are are appreciating each other in different ways. Moreid are learning. Moreid are supporting different aspects of satar out outreach etc. And uh we we have to remember on such a day that Rabenu as they call him call him the sakov that sadic Rabenuy he was a very very great sadic. He really was whether I, you know, or we agree with every one of his. No. Who who expects everyone to agree with everyone of of his shittas or for them and he to agree with everyone of their shittas? But if we could live together and work together and be tolerant of each other and learn from each other and develop close ties, stronger ties. We have a neighbor here on Boro Park who says that sap they're very st she says to my wife sat and have have another thing in common. They both are are you know for their only there's no they don't go you know visiting and to other rebbas although today it's become popular for many to run to other and things like that but we won't discuss that right now. It needs a discussion but not right now or you know going traveling the world to and all that but in shittita in ideology the satita is our that's it and the same way again with different nuances. So the the of title should have an ali on this holy day of and we should I'm not saying this to plate anyone. I'm not saying this to be feel good, you know, be a goody goodie. I'm saying this because I believe it and I see it. I live through the 70s, 60s and 70s and 80s. I know what took place firsthand and I wrote about it in a respectful way. It's over. It's finished. Focus now on the common commonality things that we have together. May Hashem help that of these things will be to and will have true and will be to to live in all yeden religious not yet religious Zionist not Zionist you know and again we could talk about that another time long discussions what was the sheet of the sat on anti Zionism and the rebashita with Zionist. It's not for now. For now, we have to go. It's it's it's um it's a special day. So, everyone should do something for Thank you.