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Letters of the Rebbe: "Encouragement for a Teacher of Young Women" (Class 15)
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welcome back
to
30 letters in 30 days
tonight is letter number 15. that means
we are
halfway through
and uh
there's a lot of feedback that i would
like to share as well as
some interesting updates about
women's groups all over the world that
are meeting to discuss these classes but
i'm going to hold off on that
because tonight's letter is a very long
letter
uh as you've probably noticed the
lengths of these letters can vary
quite a bit so tonight's a quite a long
letter
tomorrow night is on the short side
so uh tomorrow night
with hashem's help i would like to make
some announcements and answer some
questions we've been getting questions
at 30 letters 30days.com
and take care of some other business but
tonight
if it's all right with everyone and i'm
sure it is i'm going to jump straight
into tonight's letter without any
further delay
okay
hashem you'd have tavistovs
this is the 18th day of the hebrew month
of tavis the year 5715.
that's 1954 probably 55 already at that
point
this is in the middle of the winter
uh brachava shalom is how the addresses
a woman this is a letter to a woman now
you don't know who this person well
maybe you do i shouldn't assume that
maybe you are the person that this
letter was written to maybe someone out
there is
but
when i say you meaning collectively this
worldwide global virtual classroom
that's been studying these letters
together
we don't know who this woman is by name
at least but we kind of know her
because
do you remember
a few nights ago
the letter to the group of girls
the kvutz nairos
and remember they they used uh
a self-deprecating expression they they
said
we're so uh cold to spirituality we have
a sea of coldness within us and that
abbot didn't like that and he told them
that they have within them
that power of their
of their great and courageous parents
so if you remember that letter and if
not you can just check
a few classes earlier it was the the
first letter that we did on matsushabus
i believe if i'm correct i think think
letter 12.
um
so tonight's letter 15 is to the
teacher of that same group of girls and
it's interesting to see the same
situation
but from a different angle
and
here's where you can kind of see how
two parties who are dealing with the
exact same situation may get
different
guidance from the rabbit
which shouldn't be surprising at all
because
as we know
you don't answer the question you answer
the questioner
so it always depends who are you
speaking to and then
everything follows from there
the minor
almeid in answer to your letter from the
26th day of kislev that will be the
second day of chanukah
it's interesting here this is a
relatively long
response time because this is like over
three weeks later we're used to seeing
letters where the deb is writing back
very very quickly this is three weeks
remember the letters coming from eric
israel so have coming all the way over
from uh halfway across the world and
this is this is the 1950s but at least
according to what we've been getting
used to yeah three week
uh response time is
on the long side i guess we're spoiled
okay
after a prolonged or a very prolonged
silence
so that ever says i got your letter
after a long time of not hearing from
you
now we know that ebb asks people all the
time write more
write more often like we say in chicago
vote early vote often right
the deb is always telling people i want
more
mail from you i want to hear more
details from you so that ebba here says
i didn't hear from you for a long time
even taking into account the excuses
that you give why it's been a while
since you've written a dying anonymous
cabela's it's not really acceptable
aval ain't saying allah other we've had
that before also that i've been saying
but
alas there's no point
bemoaning
what's already in the past
but
surely this will be fixed
or yusukon maybe mekanu lahaba this will
be fixed from now on in the future so
i'm not bemoaning the past but from now
on please let's hear from you more often
okay
um
regarding what you write that you're
trying to be really careful about how
you write
as you're going to see that ebb is
talking about
her um
i guess her desire to use euphemism
not to say anything harsh
um
and it's very interesting because if you
remember the letter to this
woman's students
began with the rabbi taking exception to
their use of harsh language about
themselves
that everyone was saying don't speak
that way even for poetic effect if you
remember
here that ebba says almost the opposite
to the teacher
okay let's see here
so
you're telling me you're being very
careful about your wording like you're
trying to be very uh
delicate in your in your phrasing
when is that applicable when is it
applicable that you should be really
careful not to say anything
diplomatic
when you're writing diplomatic stuff
that anyways doesn't really matter it
doesn't really mean what it's supposed
to mean
and then when you're writing diplomatic
stuff so the whole point is to write it
pretty
and to give people the honor that uh you
know the pretend honor that the the
you're supposed to go through the
motions of
you know playing along this whole uh
diplomacy the whole thing is is a bluff
right so when we're diplomats and we're
just talking diplomacy so the whole
thing is just blowing hot air and that's
that's the style
machine cane however in contrast
you're speaking about the spiritual
destiny of the youth
that i was about to say then we don't
sugarcoat it
if you're speaking
things of the heart okay you're trying
to explain your emotions i think this is
very important
you know i i knew a guy once who told me
i went to therapy for years and it
didn't help
but it's probably because therapy is not
effective if you lie to your therapist
so i said
why did you lie to your therapist and
the guy said
well i was
paying him way too much money to be able
to afford him having a negative
impression of me
so if if if you try to sugarcoat things
you're not going to make any progress
that i was saying here
you're trying to be polite and i
appreciate that but this that's not
this is not the place for being polite
and this is very interesting because to
the the students that abba was saying
almost the opposite thing of like wow
that your language is really really
harsh come on cut it out here the deb is
saying i need you to stop sugar
sugarcoating you're gonna have to say it
as it is because when you're speaking
about your emotions when you're speaking
about your feelings you gotta say your
feelings as they are and also there's
two things here that i was saying you
have to say your feelings the way they
are and especially
uh when you're talking about and she's a
teacher of young women so her feelings
here are connected with her feelings
about teaching the youth and also it
seems her description of the spiritual
status of these youth that she's working
with so that ebb is saying tell it as it
is
tell me what's going on with these with
these girls
they're just starting off in their
lifetimes
every little detail that's going on now
is gonna have ramifications for decades
so you gotta really
you can't mince words with me you gotta
tell me how it is with these girls
if you're gonna use cosmetics that ever
says
you're going to cover up the true
situation
that causes damage not rectification
so that's the first interesting thing i
think from this letter is that ebb is
telling this educator please
i understand there's something called
lashonda kia called euphemism and by the
way that ever more than anyone was into
don't say a negative word when you can
avoid it even if you have to take a
round about what you know this is the
famous
uh maim hazal based on
impartial
right the story of
bringing the animals aboard the tava on
the ark so why does it say
why doesn't it just say the animals that
are
tall hair and the animals that are tommy
there's a word for it's called tommy
instead it says the ones who are not
talha who are not ritually pure
right
so uh
the point is because if you can avoid
saying a negative word then you avoid it
even if it causes you to
to use extra words which later in
general is very sparing not to use
extra words right there's a circle about
this actually in calicut
is the second sikh of
but it's interesting over there in that
it says uh it's interesting with the
story of naya it avoids using the word
tame
but like let's say in the whole save for
vayikra when it's teaching us
well we just had it last week pasha
shmini right we're learning about the
conscious of animals
so there uses the word tommy all the
time
so which one is it are we avoiding the
word and we're not avoiding the word so
in that sichuan says look with nayak
it's telling a story it's just telling a
story so if it's telling a story
it's not really negaya it's not
pertinent to anybody's behaviors
let's avoid using the negative word but
in safe haven when it's telling us
that we need to follow
so then you have to say it as it is and
if you have to say a harsh word like
thomas you say the word in order that a
person should know what to do and what
not to do
so i think it's a similar thing as that
secret
here that ebb is saying look
there are there are cases where we avoid
using negative language because there's
no point to it
but
here
i have to know what's really going on
because this is negaia this is pertinent
to these girls futures and every little
detail now is going to have
this ripple effect so you got to just
you got to say it as it is okay
now here's the next
little bit of the letter
a very interesting idea as well
regarding
the concept in taira and especially
exodus of cabalis oil cabalis oil
literally means acceptance of the yoke
or the full expression is caballus oil
acceptance of the yoke of the kingdom of
heaven and it means submission to
authority to godly authority okay
that's a difficult concept and it's a
concept i think a lot of people struggle
with
today you know how much of education has
to be about teaching the students
discipline and how much of it is about
convincing them and encouraging them and
getting them to want something on their
own
now
as you've learned
everything in total is a paradox so is
it about
discipline or is it about convincing
somebody that something's good for them
yes
which no no which one is it is it self
is it self discipline or is it
convincing them that something's good
for them yes i told you yes it's both
how could it be both you're about to see
how it's both okay
nanaisi okay the rabbit says i enjoyed.
you said that the situation has improved
in many ways
specifically about the participation
of the
girls group this is the same girls group
from the previous letter
um and they're uh conducting themselves
in a in a hasidic way uber club
it is superfluous i'm sure to
reiterate to mention again
that it is mentioned
in the books of this
as well as and this is very interesting
it says this in non-jewish
works
oil about the necessity
of cabalis oil of accepting the yoke of
heavenly authority it's very interesting
that i was saying this is a concept in
siddhis and also the rabbit doesn't say
here but
even in
non-jewish wisdom
meaning to say this is not something
if i can insert my own commentary the
value of cabela's oil need not be taken
on cabela's oil
in other words you don't have to accept
it from an argument of authority that
says so in titus so therefore you have
to believe it
if you want something that can appeal
even to the intellect of your animal
soul
even the non-jewish books say that it's
good for you to have some modicum of
self-discipline
and this and submission to authority
so it's interesting even caballus oil
you don't have to take on cabela's oil
because
i mean this is the paradox i was uh
referring to earlier and that ebb is
going to speak about it at length even
kabbalah's oil even submission
submission is something that can be
explained as beneficial
to you
okay let's continue here
what does it mean to submit to authority
it means in the classic
case of the jewish people before they
accepted the torah
when maisha rabbenu prepared them at
sinai for accepting the torah the jewish
people's response collectively was nasa
vanishment we will do and then we will
understand so they put first the
commitment to do before
hearing and understanding what it is
that they're doing and why
is
now
let me explain something
it's obvious whatever says it's obvious
now i've said this before sometimes the
rabbit says things are obvious and they
weren't obvious to me at least but if
the rebbe says it's obvious that's a cue
to me
to sit down and to think it over once
twice three times until it becomes shita
until it becomes obvious okay so that
ebba says here it is obvious that when
we talk about the necessity of
kabbalah's oil this does not mean see
goofy
is mortification like self-punishment
and it doesn't mean sweetheave
doesn't mean constantly breaking down
your body and soul
it's very important to understand this
we're not talking about an oppressive
yoke and surely not something that's
abusive god forbid god forbid and i
think that needs to be clarified because
if someone had a negative experience
where there was
religious abuse being
uh whitewashed with the name with the
with the with the rubric of this is
cabela's oil you have to understand that
is not kabbalah soil
that ever says cabola soil is good for
you
even non-jewish wisdom agrees that it's
good for you and i was going to
elaborate continue to elaborate on this
on this point that it's good for you
and it's certainly not something that's
going to cause you
pain and it's not going to break you
we're not talking about shattered
self-esteem god forbid that's not cabola
soil
i'm not talking about a big person
bullying a little person to get them to
comply that's not kabbalah soil the way
that ebox explains kabbalisto here is
it is actually a logical imperative and
i think that's why the rubber reference
is that you can you can even find it in
the non-jewish books
that you don't have to take this on
faith this is something
that human wisdom
human wisdom not godly wisdom human
wisdom can agree to
that
your life will be better and you will be
happier
if you can muster some
modicum of self-discipline
at the beginning of your
spiritual path
let's continue here
um
the role the purpose the function of
cabalis oil
is only to prepare the way
to prime the situation so to speak so
that there can be
a predominance of the tsura over the
cheimer that means
very loosely translated spirituality
over materiality
we're not breaking anyone we're not
hurting anyone god forbid what we're
doing is we're using kabbalah's oil as a
first step as a foundation
to put you on a path where ultimately
you will be able
to
put your spirituality before you for
before your materiality
in very simple terms what are we talking
we're talking about just the idea of
being able to delay gratification
being able to be humble and not get your
way
being able to recognize that
sometimes it's better to stick to not
sometimes but
that it's better to stick to your
principles than to
get what you wanted
are all ideas of
where you are able to think in terms of
abstraction
and and values and principles
and put that first instead of
materiality which means
bodily comfort and
and the
animalistic drives
so in order to get somebody on that path
at the beginning at least it does
require cabela's oil
but
it's not to hurt the person god forbid
it's to get them started on the path
who amis oh the other continues what is
what is this path okay
to lift up the surah al-ahmar the
spirituality over the materiality
the truth over the falsehood
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which is ultimately not just the
spiritual good but it's also ultimately
it proves to be good for you in this
world
over the
bad
so much here to unpack
cabela's oil is to start you on the path
so that ultimately you're able to make
good choices where you can choose the
spiritual over the material
the true over the false
and the good over the bad and that ebba
says parenthetically when we say good we
don't just mean good in the spiritual
sense but ultimately the good that is
good in the spiritual sense is also good
for you even in the most practical
physical sense so again the idea is
even though you're starting with
submission ultimately what are you
submitting to not something that's there
to negate
your
uh
your happiness but ultimately something
that's to promote your happiness and
your fulfillment and and
your satisfaction that this is the best
way of life even
from a practical perspective and that's
what cobula soil really is
okay so if it's so good why don't you
just convince me why don't you just tell
me that it's so good for me why do you
have to bring in cabela's oil okay so we
explained alesha cavens
since a person is born like a like a
wild donkey
a child is is animalistic you know uh
a three-year-old will tantrum and fall
on the floor
and not allow anybody to to to get on
with life until uh until he gets what he
wants and uh
that that's he has no compunction he has
no shame that's that's what uh that's
what a child is right so when you're i
know we all say oh children are so pure
they're so innocent they're so sweet
sometimes yeah but
um the animalistic drive and a child if
for god-given reasons by the way because
if if a baby and a toddler didn't have
this crazy survival drive then they
wouldn't make it through infancy and
childhood so it's very important that a
baby will wake up the whole house in the
middle of the night in order to nurse
because you know if a baby's gonna be
polite it's not too good for for uh
their survival but ultimately you have
to grow out of that okay so since a
person is born with this really strong
survival
drive and
using the words of king solomon vine
it says that the the lips of the foreign
woman are dripping with sweetness but
her the end of getting involved with her
is bitter like wormwood in other words
king solomon is using that as uh he's
using the temptation of of harlotry as a
as a byword for all temptation that it's
it's
in the beginning but it's really painful
in the end
and
you know that's one of the things that
mature people learn
that some things are fun when they start
but they end up
really miserable at the end like any
indulgence feels good in the beginning
but it's just a natural thing
then in the end it comes back to bite
you well here's the thing
in the end
especially when you're young and
experienced and you haven't had a lot of
consequences yet you haven't had enough
life experience to have enough time to
have experienced the consequences yet so
it's very hard to explain to people
you know if you don't take care of this
when you're young it's going to come
back to bite you when you're old
okay so that's sort of the the paradox
here of why cabela's oil is is
necessitated here because
on one hand cabela's veil is good for
you in the end and in the end you're
gonna see that it was for your benefit
it wasn't to hurt you it was only to
help you
okay fine if it's only to help me then
just tell me that don't force me you
don't have to force me if it's good for
me you should be able to explain it to
me yeah but the problem is first of all
person is born
with this wild nature okay that's the
nature of youth second of all
the negative consequences of not
submitting to divine authority
that's not always readily apparent
so in the beginning of your service of
hashem you are going to need
to take certain things
on faith and just accept it and say you
know what i'm submitting to people who
know better than me i'm submitting to
the wisdom of the torah which is
categorically beyond my my ability to
fathom okay i'm just kabula so i accept
the yoke
so in the end you'll see that it is good
for you and even non-jewish books say
that it's good for you
but
you don't necessarily see it completely
clearly in the beginning and that's why
you need to have cabela's oil in the
beginning okay
um
so therefore srihar is has a loss
caballus oil
that's why when you start off it has to
be done with kabbalah
and
that uh
being that this is
the the the the deeper i guess
um
yeah
let me just back up here
yes
yeah
so the deeper
this
cabalis oil is
yeah
the deeper ingrained
is another paradox the deeper ingrained
the cobala soil is the sooner you'll
actually get to see
why it's not just cobala soil it's also
good for you
a moving gum kane shi afshar like baya
masmerus kama
now it's also understood that i can't
give you a timeline how long a child
needs to have cabela's oil for you can't
say to me well how long is it going to
take before i realize that this is
really good for me and that i don't have
to do it just
as submission
i can't give you a timeline how many
days or hours it's going to be kevin
shazell taliban
it depends on the person on their
characteristics it depends on the
conditions of the place and on the time
so there's no hard and fast rule for how
long
that developmental phase is going to
take it takes as long as it takes okay
um
now there's another concept i know we're
only halfway through this letter it is
what it is
i apologize for the length of it but uh
it's on the long side okay
las
now the
letter takes a personal turn
till now it was talking about education
and about
how to deal with the youth and the need
for cabela's oil
you here that i was addressing this
young woman i don't know actually she's
young but this woman's
um
self-doubt
about the work she's doing with these
girls
i guess she was saying that it's
difficult she's not sure she's getting
through to them the typical stuff that
any educator grapples with
that's what it seems here
okay harry kvarnis barbie
it's already been explained in similar
in contexts that are similar to your
situation
we're lucky we have a fortunate uh
a fortunate lot
that we were born
in the generation before mashiach coming
you know normally that's not considered
such a great thing it's a time of
turmoil and confusion to be born right
before mashiach's coming right but here
the devil says it's actually it's a
wonderful thing we're very lucky to have
been born at this time
at the end of the galas
because we live in an age where so much
title was revealed especially the
teachings of siddhis
think if you would have been born 200
years ago these secrets that you are
privy to
you wouldn't be able to know you
wouldn't be able to find out maybe if
you'd be alamed wavnik one of that
siddiqui mista me go meet with their
private meetings in the forest maybe
you'd hear some of this stuff but
regular people to know the stuff that we
know because of the way that siddhis was
revealed we're so lucky that we live in
such a day and age
the information age so to speak
the information age in a
holy context
and especially we're lucky that there's
so much
hasidic teachings available to us
that what what's so special about khabar
hasidic teachings shall be shown
secrets of the torah very abstract
abstruse esoteric ideas and puts it in
language that is accessible and
understandable to anyone who has the
will to do so obviously if you have no
will to do so you know it's not going to
work but if you have a will to do so
yeah
the whole point of khabar
is that it takes the that which is
normally
so
lofty that it has to just be accepted on
faith and it brings it into
intellectual discourse where you can
speak about it intelligently so aren't
we so lucky that we live in a day and
age where these tools are available to
us if we lived in a previous generation
or century we we wouldn't have access to
this information okay now that's very
nice what does this have to do with her
self-doubt about being an educator so
let's continue
now so
now let's connect this to
your situation
it is known the saying of my
father-in-law
which he said in the name of his father
the rabbit
i share now tell me if you recognize
this saying
sometimes the it's a hudder dresses up
in a silk
garment
you know to look very from
de la rames has autumn to trick the
person
remember this we had this uh
in one of our earlier letters i think it
was letter number six that we learned on
purim
the letter about zahertfe about finding
your special mitzvah
so over there it mentioned this and it
mentioned that it's the hayem of who
remembers
because there was a date that was
connected to portman we learned that
letter on porn
sivan that's correct yes
so uh that yeah that's
seven that sometimes the it's a harder
than enough
can come to a person instead of telling
him to sin which the person will just
reject he comes to him and he tries to
get him to do good things
but good things that are a distraction
from his real
purpose so that's what it means
it's a hoarder dressed up in a in a silk
robe trying to look very holy
really what is he doing he's he's
playing a bait and switch he's trying to
uh divert you from your from your real
purpose
okay so here that invokes that
um
how do you figure this out like how do
you what's the what's the test the the
litmus test to figure out that this is
what's happening who should call davar
naya veda bapal anything that
holds you back from getting stuff done
it's coming from the other side meaning
negativity
and that is exactly so in your case
so something that sounds like a holy
argument
but
its end result its net result is that it
holds you back from getting your job
done it holds you back from
available doing stuff being active
then you know that that's the siddhishi
it's a hudder just trying to mess with
you
okay um
these doubts you're having even though
they're holy doubts i mean that ever
doesn't stand explicitly but it's clear
in this context she must have phrased
her doubts in some type of righteous way
like she must have made it sound like
it was coming from a from a religious
place and uh
you know just parenthetically uh it
reminds me our story uh khasid once was
in yucatas with the with the time
and the timothy told him to become a
mulamid to become a school teacher and
he said
it's
afraid to become a because in shock it
talks about the
the laws of of uh talmud and about uh
malamad who's misratio who's lax who's
lazy with his students says very harsh
things
about that so he says i'm i'm afraid to
become a mulamid because it's like
too too scary if you don't do the job
right you know the punishments are
pretty harsh so that tamak sadik said
and who should become alarmed who should
become a mulamid the guy who's not
afraid of the ramifications
so you shouldn't become a mulamid
because you're afraid of the
ramifications of not doing your job well
so then if you don't do so who's going
to be the guy who does it oh i'm okay
i'll do it i'm not afraid of the
okay i want the guy who feels unworthy
right so anyways she must have done
something similar to that like basically
disqualified herself and said oh i'm no
good i'm not holy enough i'm not
righteous enough i'm not pure enough or
whatever it is and that i was saying
that's like it's a harder in the silk
robe coming to you and being all holy
but really in the end what is he doing
you can tell he's a yates a harder
because
he's just holding you back from from
getting
available done actual work so then you
ha you have to dismiss it
uh
yeah
so uh
this self-doubt is certainly not coming
from any good will or good inclination
herrava
there could be an animal soul that's
very religious in fact very hasidic
and go meditate into some deep acidic
concept sounds so holy it sounds so good
uber amazing
really it was just a trick of the it's a
heart it was just one of the schemes of
the of the nafta bahamas
veda to hold you back
from getting your job done
the whole thing was a diversion
he was telling you to do something good
because he knew if he would tell you to
do something bad you wouldn't listen you
would identify him you would you know
the jig is up i know you you're the it's
a harder go take a hike but instead he
comes to you all holy and he says go do
something good go do something pure and
oh okay fine let's do it but what did he
do he got you he he diverted you from
your task that you have to get done so
too that i was saying all your self
doubts even if you couch them in in
religious
words the the net result is it's just
holding you back from working with these
kids and
therefore we can identify without any
doubt this is not coming from a good
place and it must be rejected okay
let's continue
this is a related concept
she says she's
interested in having an influence having
an effect on others
olafido but according to her own
assessment enlarge
she's not
knowledgeable enough
so basically
she's disqualifying herself maybe she
disqualified herself in other ways as
well but one of the things she said to
the debba is who am i kidding
you know what we call this today 2022
imposter syndrome who am i kidding i'm
going to teach these girls what do i
know i don't i barely know more than
them maybe sometimes i don't even know
more than them and i have to fake it and
i i'm wasting their time
find somebody who really knows what
they're doing
that's what it sounds like the girl was
saying
okay or the woman was saying
so uh
it's that every response to that
the rabbit says okay how about this
i'll i'll i'll agree with you
let's say for argument's sake that you
don't know what you're talking about
okay that you are not knowledgeable
enough to be the teacher okay for for
argument's sake i'll give it to you
in our generation
especially
and the truth is
in all generations
even if you can't give a hundred percent
give what you can
give what you can don't be a
perfectionist
what do they say the enemy
of the good is the best
right i don't want to even do good
because i can't do the best
stop it already
give whatever you can and then the
rabbit adds ulespalola
that he should
take the whatever it is that you you're
able to give whether it's 50 or 20 or 80
whatever it is
and then hashem should amplify that
i will aims at tom lahav
but it's not a reason to stop
being an influencer
so the fact that you're gonna tell me i
don't have a hundred percent of what
these girls have what they need okay
what do you have fifty percent
twenty percent it doesn't matter give
whatever percent you're capable of
giving and then daven that hashem should
amplify that
but don't stop don't stop being an
influencer
especially now
inertis royal
asher
galle
there are waves of heresy
waging war
negan and mercedes
versace
there's there's war against the
tradition that is growing expanding
and you have no right nobody has a right
to sit this out if they have any ability
to do something about this
there are these waves of assimilation
in israel warring against
tradition
and if you can do anything even a tiny
amount to stave that off you don't have
a right to sit it out because of your
inferiority complex or your imposter
syndrome
yeah
the imla esato en vioje
that if
till now you're not in a position to be
a high-ranking officer
all of lamale says
actual military even if you can't be a a
general or a top-ranking official
and then you'll work through the ranks
you'll get a promotion you start off as
a private you become a corporal you
become a sergeant eventually you you'll
get promoted you got to start off though
at the
gotta start at the the the first level
commission
for hammer for summers
we see this for ourselves this is a
known thing i don't have to prove this
to you i don't have to back this up go
go this is the way of the world
people start off on a simple level and
they work their way up so just do that
if you'll just go and use your talents
and your knowledge whatever whatever
talents and knowledge you have
shiela otto whatever you have now
kaholyakolta whatever ability to your
best ability now ubiquin
and use it in a good direction
move
you're going to see
results very soon
not just saving one person
which by the way even saving one person
is saving a world alakam of akama
fascist vacuum but you're going to save
many souls meaning you're going to save
many worlds
so just start with whatever meager
abilities you have
and i promise you very soon you're going
to see results you're going to save
lives
you can't leave these girls hanging
these these girls need you
so please stop stop with the
self-disqualifying
okay
and like i wrote in my previous letter
there's a previous letter to this
i don't know if it
this previous letter is the one that's
in galactas of the igress there may be
more letters to this woman but certainly
there is one to the same woman that's in
heilig tassel
so like i wrote to her in the previous
letter
as haqqael assassinated
hashem does everything in the right time
in the right way
so since you are fortunate enough that
you are part of
the chabad community
that's the place where you're going to
find fulfillment
in discharging your your duty
protest
because divine providence brought you to
this particular place
uh ubisman plainly at this particular
time
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everyone knows hashem is the ultimate
good shalom
therefore when hashem gives a person
a duty
nice in like
hashem has already granted that person
the ability the potential i mean you got
to cash it in but hashem has already
given you the potential to rise to that
task
i wish you would just use out your
potential
a hundred percent
okay so this this is also one of the
things you see a lot from the rabbit and
we had this
in our previous letter about the resh
kargusa right even the warden of a well
the the block party uh committee
chairman even a small uh remember the
letter to robbie rosenberg from titus
emis that said if you have any type of
authority
don't think that that happened randomly
that was ash
because
that if you have some position of
authority hashem chose you for that
that that was that was directly from on
high
so
you have to realize hashem knows what
he's doing and hashem is good and he
puts you into this position
already armed with whatever it is that
you're going to need to be able to
effectively discharge your your duty
okay
uh
another yeah another concept here but
masha kesevasaid is his vadas habanes
now that ebba speaks about the girls
fabregans and this i think is the third
time that we've had in 15 letters that
ever mentioned women's fabregans and
khan homokim this would be a good place
to mention the fabregan that's going to
be oily
nissan
at the oil uh please reserve it is rsvp
only the women's gathering
about a block from the oil it is uh
limited in space so go to thirty
letters30days.com
if you are interested in attending that
event again earlier nissan that is
monday night april 11th okay
so that ebba says regarding what you
wrote about the girls fabregans
experience has proven here and in many
places
if you get the girls themselves involved
by getting them to speak
merits yes
it gets them more involved it gets them
more interested
we had something similar to that if you
remember the la the letter to rabbi
schusterman
that i think that was uh
the night going into purim yeah that was
the night going into porn
uh we had the letter to rabbi shusterman
from chicago and that ebba said it was
good that you had the junior minion
where you gave them jobs one could be a
gabai one could be a shamish because
when they have responsibility they get
more involved similarly here that i was
saying at the fabregas get the girls to
speak you know give them advaitora to
prepare and to to give over and that
will make sure that they're very engaged
okay that's uh oh do we have people who
are willing to speak you're olive nissan
let us know at 30 letters 30 days that i
mean 30 days 30
oh 30 letters 30 days dot com yeah
uh
behind the gaya let's august
misman liz man now regarding the shows
the productions they call it productions
regarding the shows that you make
periodically
it's really good i like it very very
good they're doing like dramas some type
of uh you know they're putting on
performances that says very very good a
la shiesh lee sharma menyanam shidoshima
simba akiv but just be careful about
certain things that a lot of times
people are
um not careful about
misuri toyota even though these things
are actually
um
forbidden according to toyota and yet
people tend to be
on i guess what do you call the
lacks people tend to be lacks about it
like for girls to wear men's clothing
don't do that you know in a production
sometimes you have a girl playing a male
character right so you have to be
careful about that inyone michelle
zimmerman also be careful about you know
the kulesha issues about women singing
in public obviously if it's done in a
way where it's a women's audience and
it's done privately then
that's fine that i was saying just be
careful that that's the way it is done
and yani tyrov
said you also have to be careful about
mixing of genders
and all that kind of stuff anyways the
productions the the plays that they're
doing are excellent keep it up just you
know make sure to make everything
correct according to
okay almost done
remember when this letter was from right
we said that this letter was
uh
wow
how many pages is this letter uh judge
davis okay fine so yurchas davis
so now that i was going to speak about
yud schwart which is about three weeks
henceforth
judge fat being the york site the aim he
lula of the rabbis
in connection with
that's coming up
on
it would be a good thing if the girls at
least the older girls should write an
essay about some aspect of my
father-in-law's aveda or some of his
secrets
um et cetera et cetera i i find this
very interesting also um wow if i had
another hour i would speak all about
the need to get students to think
creatively critically
and to write their own thoughts
you see that ebb was very into that
short answer tests
which are so
uh common
in
unfortunately most schools for various
reasons
uh they
are good at
forcing people to cram for tests they're
good at rewarding people who are good at
retaining
memory without necessarily comprehension
but if you want people to think things
through and understand it you got to get
them to communicate so that ebb was
telling this teacher i want them to
write essays let them write essays about
my father-in-law
and uh that should be part of their
preparation
for
the
yard site on youtube
with blessings that you should increase
your involvement in the education
of
our young girls massim
sienu akidashim
you should increase whatever gives you a
bracha to increase her involvement in
educating educating the girls in
accordance with the desire of our holy
rabbits
in other words not according to your
desire that's not enough according to
the desire of the rabbis which
that's a tall order but
that i was giving her a bracha here
with you're going to see
good reward for your toil
you're going to see a lot of nachos from
your own
children
but ever said this very often that when
you take care of other people's children
abrisha takes care of your children
i'm awaiting
good news
in all of the aforementioned
and i'm giving you a bra
that all of what we spoke about should
happen
quickly should happen soon
wow
so much here to
to unpack to think about
and thank you for bearing with me i'm
sorry that it took this long but uh
sometimes that's how long it takes
we'll see you tomorrow night