Rabbi Shais Taub speaks LIVE: 3 Tammuz Farbrengen (POWERFUL & PRACTICAL)

anything that happens Here and Now can go to literally millions of people or why not billions why limited billions of people why not um that is actually what I wanted to talk about and reflect upon tonight on gimmel Thomas on the on the day of the Debussy art site the idea that something can appear to be small it can appear to be just happening in this space with the people that are present physically and that in reality from a spiritual point of view which is not limited by time and space the significance of the moment is infinite and it's so hard to speak about that but I think if we wanted to take one path to trying to say something to put into words some idea I think that might be a good way to try to do it and to basically say ah the Reb is view of reality was an infinite one and Infinity is a misunderstood concept people tend to think of infinity is that which is massive that which is so huge that nothing is too big for it but uh the truth is mathematically that's not even Infinity because Infinity is not just that which is so big that nothing is too big for it true Infinity is also that for which nothing is too small so a Galaxy is like a molecule but in turn just by the same very same token a molecule is a Galaxy that's Infinity so the rep is view we know nothing was too big for that ever no goal was too ambitious after the Holocaust question of Jewish continuity was really seriously considered is there a future for Judaism especially Torah observant Judaism and when when everyone else was speaking about survival that Abbott was thinking in terms that at that time could only be described as sci-fi science fiction not a no basis in reality at least the way anyone else was looking at at the time that we are going to conquer the world for goodness to bring the shrina to bring the divine presence back to the world and to make this world perfect a world that had seen Hitler and the Holocaust was going to be healed and become perfect and become Godly and for the rabbit that wasn't a job that was too big to accomplish no it can be done and we can break it down into steps and we can make a system and we can send out shlochum so nothing was too big but by the same exact token nothing was too small there was a schliach from Melbourne Australia Abrahim gutnik came to the rabbit and told him about his plans in Melbourne and the Reba suggested to him that it was time to start teaching Tara the laws of family Purity Mikvah and Rabbi gutnik felt that the community in Melbourne was not ready for that you know it can be a sensitive subject talking to people about their personal life their intimate life it's it's a difficult cell and uh didn't want to flat out say that he didn't feel the community was ready for it but um he sort of didn't give the most enthusiastic response and that ever told him no no you should do it and it's going to be good so he went back to Melbourne and with his rabbits and he started planning uh a course in tarasa mishbacha and that ever said it's going to be good so they rented a hole they got a venue you know to make sure they had enough seating for all the people who were going to come and they took out full page ads in the in the newspaper to advertise you're going to have a class and family purity and uh They promoted the class for weeks and the night of the class one woman showed up now that's worse than nobody showing up because right if nobody shows up what do you do you call it a day you go home and then maybe even you post online afterwards it was a great crowd wonderful evening wish you could have been there that's because no Witnesses no bystanders right but this is one woman showed up so he apologized to her and he said I'm sorry I don't know where the crowd is and uh so she said I'm I'm ready to learn so he taught this one woman and it but it was it was a series it wasn't a one-night thing it was a series of classes so he said don't worry next week it'll be better and what did they do they doubled down on the advertising they made a bigger advertising campaign so the next week would be a real crowd and the second week of the class came and one woman shot up the same woman nobody else just that one woman apologize again I'm sorry I don't know where the crowd is she said it's okay I'm ready to learn I'll learn with you so they learn and it went on like this for weeks and they finished the whole course whatever it was however many weeks the course was supposed to be and this one woman she learned she learned family Purity laws of Mikvah and that was it nobody else showed up so being in Melbourne which is very far away it's not like uhnick went back and forth to New York all the time it was more of a special trip so the next time he was in yehudas he was in a private audience with the rabbit was was a year later and he had a Year's worth of reports we called it a Duke he had a year of reports of what did they accomplish in Melbourne all the different programs classes the Outreach they were doing and so he wrote up a nice report that ever loved reports that I was always asking reports tell me what's going on always that I wanted updates so Remy gutnik wrote a whole nice report what's going on in in Melbourne and AF but he didn't write the debacle of the Tara samish Bacha series of classes because it was embarrassing one woman showed up so it wasn't included in the dock it wasn't in the in the write-up that ever went through the write-up and afterwards whatever said what's with the uh Tara classes that we discussed the last time you were here you know that's the the most uncomfortable question that Rabbi Goodman could have been asked so he said sheepishly that um we did it we advertised we rented a whole and it was a failure the whole series of classes just one woman showed up and the rubber looked very serious and said to have a good Nick zogmir tell me something this how many mothers did my sharabeno did Moses have more than one and that was the whole answer because not understood takes one mother to produce some one mother comes to a class and you can help her it's not just her it's the ripple effect the infinite ripple effect that doesn't stop with one person how can it stop with one person because each one of us is infinite each one of us is a soul which is infinite and eternal and by definition anything that touches a soul becomes infinite and eternal and it won't stay just in this room it goes viral mentioned but this was going viral before the internet maybe the whole reason we have the internet is to have a marshall to have a living metaphor to start to understand Infinity the infinity that goes on in this world when one Soul reaches out to another there's a line of poetry that I I've always found poignant from William Blake he said to see a world in a grain of sand and heaven and a wildflower hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour it's so Hasidic I looked it up by the way I said when did he write that it was uh it was 1803. it was the year that the altareba the balatanya put out the first sither with Sidis with Hasidic commentary based on the teachings of Sidis and according to the prayer right of the the arizal so that idea I mean that's pure exidis to see a world in a grain of sand and have it in a wildflower hold Infinity in the palm of your hand in eternity in an hour that's status about and I guess you know trickle trickle-down effect you know by the time the balshamtov started teaching it then then it was available in the world and William Blake was able to put it into his beautiful English but this is the concept we don't understand we have no clue we do not fathom the ripple effect the universal Cosmic repercussions of everything that happens and the power therefore that we have but the rebe having an infinite View saw the significance was tuned into the significance and was able to plan accordingly and that's why we all understand those of us who have been influenced by the rabbit but that means really at this point all of us whether we know it or not in this generation we understand that Every Good Deed counts every mitzvah oh what's the point somebody puts on filling on the street corner one time maybe he'll never do it again okay but that moment exists for eternity that moment is everything and a Mitzvah is infinite just like God who gave the Mitzvahs and the moment is infinite so Zalman told a story he's my friend though I call him Zalman he told a story it's good to have friends I don't have too many so barakashem I'm choosy with who with my friends Zaman told a story and I know that story I've known it for years it's an old story we all know that story in Chabad but I'm gonna retell the story that he told because now it's a different story to me it's a completely different story to me today than when I heard it years ago and when I tell you the story I want you to understand that the rabbis infinite View and that is Cosmic plan continues to unfold in our lives and every moment we become more and more aware of its significance and how it touches each and every one of us so here's a story and you all know the story because you heard it 20 minutes ago I'll tell it like this I'll start with a 12 year old kid in Curacao which is an island in the Netherlands Antilles got kicked out of school was a religious school that's all they had on the island the Jewish boy refused to go along with the with the prayers so he got kicked out his father asked him what are you doing do you even go to school no he goes and plays golf and became a contentious issue and they were getting letters you know truance truancy uh letters your child cannot be wandering around he has to go to school this Jewish boy didn't want to go to this non-jewish school so the fathers at wit's end he doesn't know what to do he's desperate and he has a dream and he remembers his grandmother telling him if you're ever in trouble can help you next day he goes to shul he has the custodian open up the orange the holy Ark where the torahs are kept and he cries and he says my grandmother told me if I'm ever in trouble can help me well I'm in trouble right now because my son won't go to school because he's Jewish he won't go to the non-jewish school and the whole island is upset at me meanwhile back in Brooklyn people know where Brooklyn is abimeisha kotlarski gets a call in the middle of the night negative Zalman said that said as he mentioned his father-in-law the chief secretary asks rabbi katlarski shengavasha negovasa did you wash your hands which means the Deb is on the line and he's told go to Curacao and that was it that was the entire instruction go to curse of the devastating go to curse out so he goes and uh he asked the cab driver take me to the synagogue he didn't even know where he's going he didn't know who he's supposed to meet with he just knows that Eva told him to go so he gets there and he tells the cab driver take me to the synagogue now I'll tell you the oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere is in Curacao it's called the Mikvah Israel Emmanuel synagogue it was founded by by spartic Jews from from the from the Netherlands in the 1600s it's historical it's a historical Shoal if you get into any cab and curse out and say take me to the synagogue that's where they would take it because that's it's a it's a historical landmark this was the one cab driver in Curacao who never heard of it and he took rabbit cutlarski to some Rinky Dink little shul that was the show where this father of this truant boy was standing before the open Ark and pouring out his heart and crying and saying the only thing he knew to say because he remembered in a dream that his grandmother's departed grandmother had told him when you're in trouble asking about it he comes out of school and Rabbi kalarski is there I'm here from the lab I was sent from Brooklyn from Crown Heights that ever sent me boom that's it now he knows why He's there for this one Jew for this one family and it's very moving it's very moving with everything on his plate running a global organization is sending someone to go help out one family it's very moving as almond mentioned the letter I actually printed the letter I just want to read part of it so this is the thank you letter that the father writes to the rabbit through rabbit katlarsky thank you for basically making time for a a small Jew from Curacao so the number writes back in English it's an English letter grismann P.O box 2073 breeder Strauss 74 cursao n a which I think is not non non-applicable I think it's Netherlands and Tilly's you don't see that abbreviation too often greeting and blessing I was pleased to receive your regards through our esteemed mutual friends I must however take exception to you referring to yourself as quote a small Jew from Curacao there is surely no need to emphasize to you at length that every Jew man or woman has an official accused that means a Godly soul which is a quote part of godliness above as explained in the Tanya beginning of chapter two thus there is no such thing as a small Jew and a Jew must never underestimate his or her tremendous underlying the word tremendous potential I read that letter probably a hundred times I once wrote a sermon about it I've heard the story for years it's a known story but it hits differently tonight because two nights ago we celebrated of my son Israel in Crown Heights who is engaged to multi-gracemann the granddaughter of the recipient of this letter the daughter of the truant boy who wouldn't attend the non-jewish school and now I find out a story that I've known for years was really about me the tereban is infinite View waking up Rabbi kotlarski in the middle of the night was thinking Way Way Beyond something that happened in 1983 that's when it happened by the way and I'm sure Way Beyond whatever we know about in 2023 because the story's just getting started isn't it you ask what's our connection to the dead on his 29th yard 29 years is a long time there are people who are born grew up got married started families of their own all in the past 29 years old after that is passing so how fresh how up-to-date can our relationship be so I'm telling you that Abbott just did a miracle for me that I just found out about two nights ago but I don't think I'm special I believe the lab is a hidden you're gonna say how's La Baba a hidden Sadiq this is world famous Chabad houses all over the world because as much as we think we know it's not the tip of the iceberg it's not even the tip of the iceberg I knew the story of no small Jew for years and I didn't know it was about me and my family and my son more and more is revealed all the time everyone in this room I promise you and I would bet anything on it is the recipient of Miracles of the labbe whether you know about it or you don't know about it yet for our part because the rabbit didn't like inspiration that I didn't just like getting people all worked up and then let's move on no let me talk practical hamisa like that episode all the time I want to talk practical has been pulling strings and continues to pull strings to make stuff happen in our families and our lives on a massive scale and also on an intimately personal scale if you are the recipient of such Loving Care then please get up and show the world your Infinity whatever it is you think is too big for you to accomplish go out and do double that to start with because there's no small Jew you are infinite you are eternal and the rabbit with his infinite view saw the eternality and the infinity within you and planned accordingly whether you know about it yet or not yet whatever I think that I owe the rubber whatever I thought I found out a couple days ago it's a whole lot more we're not here to be inspired inspiration as far as I'm concerned is a dirty word in Chabad you know what that means that means the intellect we're not here to get all emotionally enthralled and excited and dance around and call it an evening means the mind it means a paradigm shift it means seeing the world in a new light and acting accordingly when you know something you can never unknow it when you find out that there's a rabbi Israel literally ahead of the Jewish people who sees the big picture who sees the infinite View and is taking care of everything from the most massive to the tiniest most nitty-gritty detail when you know that you can never unknow it and then you have to live accordingly go out and do something reach out to another Jew whatever it is that you have in your Jewish Home whatever it is that your family possesses jewishly share it give it away this is another secret of the debit that ultimately the only Yiddish kite that any of us truly have is whatever Yiddish kite we are currently actively giving away to others and very very soon we're going to see how all of our work and all of the things we've been doing has had infinite significance it's all going to be revealed to us the whole big picture like Paul Harvey used to say the rest of the story we're going to see the big picture we're going to see what the devil saw all along when mashiach comes and will finally see we'll finally see reality as it is and we'll see the magnitude of our good deeds and we'll see the magnitude of each and every one of us and we'll see the devil again that was just an excerpt from our gimmel commas event at about the five towns to watch the entire Padre and the entire two and a half hour event click over here