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Something About This Story Still Stays With Me
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This story caught me off guard because of what it quietly revealed about trust, truth, and the Rebbe’s view on public influence. It’s short. Simple. But it hasn’t left me since. 🎥 This story is a clipped excerpt from @HomesickforLubavitch. This is full video: https://youtu.be/OTa0ylCe8jU?si=HkC7_1xbPrE8f_qT #GimmelTammuz #TheRebbe #Trust #Chassidus #JewishStories
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everything the Rebbit lived for. Making
this world a home for God, making this
world a better space for everybody,
inspiring people to connect to their
best selves.
I I see what I've noticed and please let
me know if you agree in the comments or
not, but what have I what I've noticed
is that the Reb gave a lot of autonomy,
agency. The Reb wanted people to take
ownership. And while the Reb had given a
lot of general guidance
in what our mission is, what our job is,
how to illuminate this world. The Reb
did speak a great deal about personal
agency. I think you see this on every
level. You see this with young yeshiva
students where the Reb wanted them to
come up with not just study Torah, but
come up with their own novel thoughts,
write them down, and even publish them.
These are like young students, young
rabbitical students that he wants to
them to to develop their own agency in
Tyra. You see this with
the Reb from what I understand rarely
told specifically what to do. There was
general guidance and how are you going
to do it? You know, you go figure it out
type of thing.
And I I think with the amount of
teachings the Reb had left us suggests
so much opportunity to develop ourselves
and take agency in learning. I want to
share with you a story
shared by Rabb Nissen Manguel and his
interaction with the Reb guidance that
the Reb had shared with him which I
found to be very inspiring and really uh
point to this idea of taking agency in
our own Judaism. Take a listen to this
story. Once I come into the rebre
tells me
learn
five times
every week
the whole whole center for five times
five times and not like sayim
you have to understand every word
that's that's a big that's a big uh work
and it's not in the
Not in
I remember I came up
went to the reb asked me tell me vas
had to many times be up to 3 4:00 in the
morning and make that from the whole pir
on took out the pirush but anyways so
they were they had to learn through five
times whole
afterwards. Let me tell you,
okay,
next year
tells me I should go
between
in Montreal. in Montreal
then was not good to see us around but
anyways so then the reb tells me I
should go and next time next year the
reb asks me tell me do you have a say to
every shabas I learned all kind of
not
said reb no idea I don't have a to learn
a
however since you told me last here I
should go to to
I don't material so what I learn
I take out I cash every
cash then I tret and
believe me my heart was beating why
green glass
said you have to say divra don't Say
your own words.
You say
here I make my own.
They're very good. The Reb wanted
Manguel to learn.
But he didn't want him just to learn or
even just to understand. He wanted him
to internalize.
So much so that he was okay with him
filtering it in his own language, not
the Reb's language. That's a big risk.
Putting something in your own words, not
the original, is very risky. As risky as
it is, it can be just as meaningful. And
it seems that this is what the Rebe
wanted. And you see this throughout
many again throughout many of the Reb's
teachings. I've seen letters of the reb
where he had shared um thanking people
for sharing ideas in
he says not in a way that like just said
that at least their soul understands but
in a way where they truly understand it
and connect to it rather than just uh
repeating word for word but actually
understanding the concepts.
the Reb's final address at the kinosim
where the Reb said that we are not just
servants of God and Hashem but we're of
God we'reim of hem ambassadors of God
and there's a fundamental difference
between a servant and a an ambassador a
servant an eid does what he has to do
almost robotically a shak is invested
with his heart invested with his soul
And because of that, he has an opinion.
Because he has an opinion, he has the
ability to mess up, too. But he has the
ability to succeed in such astronomical
ways, in such meaningful ways. And in
this talk, the Reb pointed out that the
word and the word Mashiach have the same
numerical value with a difference of 10.
Mashiach has an extra 10 because there's
the 10 faculties of the soul, the 10
personalities of the soul, the 10
emotional and intellectual attributes of
the soul. And when one invests that in
their mission, that's what makes this
world sacred. That's what actually
brings Msiah. When we internalize things
on our own terms
and not adulterating it, not diluting it
either. The teachings of the teachings
ofidus need to stay true to their
source. need to stay true to what they
truly are. They can't be psycho babbled.
At the same time, they have to become
meaningful.