Reb Shmuel Betzalel Althaus & How Lubavitch Anash got to Melbourne

the entire week it's afraid of a week a happy week yesterday of heisman was the yard site of who was from nikolai of russia originally and then lived in france and from there came to australia together with four other sydem who were who were the individuals who helped established the anash community although the one who sponsored them was rabbisha feiglin he was the kind of the first father obamacare figure in australia so this hussai i would like to share a little bit what he told me when i married my wife uh who was a prime seransky's daughter in 1984 and i met shmeelik they called him shmeelik i met him and spent time talking with him and listening to his nigunim from the goliath and it made a very uh indelible impression but how did he even come to australia and the story that is told is that you know maisha feiglin needed a shaykh for the children in in the in the greater melbourne area it was called shepparton those that was the area where they had farms and orchards and he owned some of those and he needed people to he needed someone to teach the kinder luck so he wrote to the free the cadet but the freedom is suggested to the bitsala vulshansky this is the zeida of rapzalma valshansky and goshamski the washonski's the three brothers uh and the father was a rebel fall philip school passed on and there's a vershansky uh son who who is in the melbourne lives there in melbourne today anyway it's their father sal kivashansky they called him i think they also called him in lubavik salke harrison there he came from harsson anyway so he asked he was asked by the major faglin to be that person to come from france he lived at the time of france in the 40s in mid-40s and to come to be to serve and he'll pay him so he asked to flee the cadet a letter came one day 48 or 44 so some sometime during that time that uh to address the lesanski saw the letter so he quietly took the letter he opened it up and he saw what it said there and it said that he should take the job in australia he then sealed the letter back he steam sealed it back put it back and lushansky had no idea that uh the ishmilk alta is uh saw the letter if you knew with absolute basal and even though the outposes they they have a um a cleverness and a sharpness and a fragile kite and a wittiness to their personality and this type of trick this type of a prank is something that's definitely up was up his alley for a good purpose of course so so he went around trying to get other laboratories see them who were looking everyone was looking you know to move either territorial to america and he came up with the idea if it's good enough for vashansky why isn't it good enough for for myself and others but i need a few others i don't want to be myself you know so he went around and he got uh gurevich and sara bronski and cluvdant and please skin to be uh to go with them to to to australia i believe i believe those are the four maybe maybe i'm missing one anyway um that's how they got to australia this shmuel basalo was a business person a businessman he was not in clay clay dish but he was a nikolai of it just to describe to you what it means to be a nikolai ever hosted which you know that is they did it father they were nikolai over for david dailies for generations the heart of the nicolaivers their heart was gold was warm and bjoyokon told me once that the the when a hostage would return from the from the rebel from the rashad or the friday and he he lived in klamath in the ukraine kramachuk he he would say they would ask him they would ask him uh what minor so one sees the difference between the two the kremachuka with the masculine the goradis and then the other berelach as we know and the nikolai vexit and the characters the the yanovskis and and the authorizers they were often nikolai if they were very they are very much see them and shimon bazaar was this type of person so when i married i was there in australia for several weeks and i met still of some of the see them were alive and i remember it was mid-week i was it was the [ __ ] it was in the chevy block of the seven days of them after the marriage and know you know that what's there to do by night at night you have a chevy blockers and during the day you could dive you can doubt you can learn so i doubted a new hustle a new i dived a little longer and and i saw once this hosted there was i went over that and i told them i told them i hear you're a big bound imagine sing single [ __ ] and he sang a [ __ ] and he started to cry with tears just from singing a [ __ ] and it made such an impression a ye the middle of the week you know he he goes into a different planet he's not here and and his neshama comes out he also told me that you should know i'm not a hostage of the rabbi i'm a friend of the rebbe at the time i didn't understand what it meant really but years later if y'all khan told me after i read the you know i think haley tazhayan of the freedom the famous letter that the belgae 1929 when the rebel was in america so he gave a report of what what happened in rigor by in the rebels life in the rebels hudson in the rebbe's house and he spoke about our rebbe if you haven't read this letter it's a must you must read this letter because it will show you our rebbe was the same sadiq and rebel with all aspects of and lubavitch in in 1929 as he was in 1950 and 1970 and 1990 and the kitser i asked rabbi yoyo i s the first time i i read this letter and i was blown away so i asked and he was aware of the belief of course of the letter and he said the frank he was a good friend and abiola opened up for me the first time my my understanding that there's something besides being a hasid a mukusher there's a friend of the friend of the rebel and the authorizers were friends of the rabbi yamanates that's that was uh his son told me that he thinks why that obeying was very mccarthy of the autism and the holidays felt so friendly with the rabbi him it's because during the time of the red marash when the other brothers and others see them couples then lyadi and yejin and all that there was a big six such a big disagreement and people were going here and there and the babajide mirage was the had the least of the see them there were several families who stood first for the rabbi marash and one of them were the outrages so that he said but young said binky they called them binky said binky said to me that the reason why he thinks that they have such a kid from the rabbi is because his family were on the forefront fighting for the rebel marathon in his we have a tradition a rich tradition of chabad nagina that came from the al traces together with the characters together with the yanovskis and rabbi sai it's the winter the fall is here the winter is follows it's time to sing exhibition at your table with your children your grandchildren with your wife even if you're by yourself this is our messiah the barbecue may hashem hope that we all have the valdez and see the rebbe 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