The Story of 12-13 Tammuz

I think we're live. You have an opening uh niggan for us open. I don't know like like maybe save one of those the ones that we discussed. Maybe save those. You have something to open with. You got something? Okay. All right. That's a good question. [Music] Yeah. [Music] From Brooklyn Heights, right? You were here. D. [Music] Get closer to the mic. You're not speaking yet. I know. I'm quite aware that we're live. I know you're talking to me. Yah. [Music] Yeah. N [Music] did The benches the benches [Music] beautiful. Okay, first of all, we want to welcome two groups that I know about. Maybe it could be a third group just came in, but I know that the staff of uh is it called GIO? Is that the name of Yeah, I see the shirts. Yeah, the yellow shirts, yellow Golo shirts are well, hold make sure I get it right. Are from Roslin. You can cheer for yourselves. You're not on camera. It's okay. and the blue GSL shirt from Greenwich, Connecticut. Oh wow, that was much louder. Okay, camps. And what is was there another group that came in from CGI Melville? Okay, excellent. There are different various groups coming in. Um, this is it's the summer and one of the things that happens in the summer is summer camp and we have incredible staff, young people who have dedicated their summer to giving a positive Jewish experience to children. And uh that's really the theme or one of the big themes of Yud Basudgamos which in case people don't know is the anniversary of the liberation from imprisonment of the previous reb. And he was imprisoned for his heroic efforts to sustain and even enlarge Jewish life even under the darkest days of Stalinist oppression. and specifically specifically and this is what got him in trouble was promoting Jewish education among youth. So it's very appropriate and I'm very honored and humbled to have people who are devoting their summer to the Jewish youth here with us. So thank you for making this Yudb Yudgama's gathering all the more meaningful. And of course, we're at the Soul Word's house, just a half a block from the IHOP. Okay, what we're going to do tonight, Hashem should help us. Um, I'm not I'm going to try to avoid getting too deep like concepts or anything. Um, I'm just going to tell the story. I'm going to tell the history. And uh my dear friend Reb Elli is going to also tell the story but in his own way in his own language in the language of the uh the soul which is ngina which is cassidic melody. Okay. You may notice because I have my transparent that what translucent is it translucent? Trans. Okay. It's definitely not opaque. That's certainly. So, you may notice that here on my uh lovely loose site, I have a book. It's called Our Days. And the subtitle is a journey through the Kabad calendar. And what it is, it goes through all of the significant dates of the year in the Kabad tradition. And it gives us the background, the history and also how those days were observed by the Rebe. And this is a publication, wonderful two volume publication from the deer magazine. And I heavily relied upon this new publication um in preparing tonight's tonight's presentation. So let's begin like this. Yudb Yudgim Tamos Yudb Tamos 12th day of the month of Tamos as we mentioned is the anniversary of the previous Rabbis's liberation from imprison imprisonment in 1927 but before that it was his birthday I mean continues to be his birthday that's it's the day he was born to re me which is 1880 so uh before we tell the story of the the imprisonment and the liberation will tell a little bit of the uh the birth and the childhood of the previous Reb. The previous Reb was born as we said Yud Bamos the year that he was born that was a Monday. What do you know? Um [Music] Monday when Yudbamos is Monday. Do you know what happens? Shabas becomes yud zamos which is famous as a fast day but when it falls on shabas it's a nidka it gets pushed off so is shalom was but pushed off because when the fast falls on shabas it gets pushed off to Sunday um at the v at the vid bris. It said that he was crying as many children cry at their bris and his grandfather the reb the Reb Maharash was the fourth Reb of Kabad was comforting him and saying to him why are you crying you will grow up one day and you will be a reb and you will explain this very clearly. Um the freed grew up as the only child only son only child of his parents the rebab who was the fifth rabb of kabad and his rabbit rabbit it's known that when the fabba was a child he actually would sleep in a room where the rabb where his father would often study and there's a story that once the rabb was learning with his krosa who was as in this particular uh instance was aid by the name of Yanke Mora who is also known as the famous Palto Rav. Oh, you sing that one. I heard you at Kineslukim sing Palto Nigum. Maybe we'll cue that one up maybe. I just just came to Sometimes they get inspired in the moment. Yeah. So uh they were learning together and uh Bianca pointed out how sweet and pure the Fredab looked as a little child. And the Reb said he felt an enormous love like a father feels for a child and he wanted to go over and and and kiss him. And he said what he did at that moment is he channeled the love that he had for his child. Instead of a kiss, he channeled it into a mimer discourse called how wondrous, how many are your works. Ostensibly, one of those works of Hashem, one of those great miracles that this father was lauding was the miracle of his of his child, his dear child. At any rate, the rebab then put the mimemer away and then eight years later after the incident, he gave the mimer to the Fred Grabber. Uh, but he didn't tell him what it was. Fred Grabber was 12 years old. He gave him the mimer and he just gave it to him as a gift. And then it was only uh four years after that when the fab was 16 that the rebashab revealed to him the story and that's how we know the story. As a child, the rabbi encouraged the Fredic to learn Mishna Balpe and he became quite proficient even at a very young age in memorizing the words of Mishna. Um, the Fredub is Yeah, sure. Just uh slide it over here. Okay. Inconspicuous, incognito. Okay. Thank you. Um the fidic's proficiency in memorizing Mishnas actually came to great use during a particular incident of his childhood. Trivia question. How many and nothing is trivial about the but uh fun fact quiz question. How many times was the grab imprisoned? How many imprisonments did he have? It's an odd number. seven and he but yet he he wrote that he was in prison seven times. The last time was the one that we're celebrating the release of tonight. The first time is the story I'm about to tell you right now. And he also mentioned that there were five imprisonments under the Zar and two under the communists in case you're keeping score. So what's the story of his first imprisonment? He was uh he was 11 years old. He had just turned 11. It was that summer that he turned 11. And um his father, the rabbi, used to give him money for memorizing Mishnayas. And what did he do with the money? You know what does an 11-year-old do with money? Buy toys, buy candy. But the vida took his money and he made a gamak. He made a free loan society. And and particularly uh Jewish businessmen who were not so successful. They didn't have a lot of capital. So they depended on having some money to go to the market and buy some merchandise and then turn around and sell that at a meager profit margin. And so they needed money every day to to be able to do their business. And so the Fed kebab would that was one of the main uses of the free loan society. particular there was a there was aid named Rabd and uh so the 11-year-old Fred Kraba was was in the market and he was talking to Rabb David and all of a sudden a police officer came over and he started harassing Rebavid and the Fed um never wanted to back down or shy away especially in the face of oppression especially in the face of injust justice. He stood up to the policeman. He called him a drunk. He said, "Why are you bothering this person, this innocent person?" And uh the uh there were no uh body cameras. So the uh the policeman arrested the Fred Greba and said, "He tore my badge. He tore my badge." And he arrested him and he brought this little little 11-year-old kid down to to prison. He put him in jail. So he's sitting in jail and uh what's he supposed to do there? Uh he says, 'You know, I know all of these words of Mishna by heart. I shouldn't waste time. So he was reciting the holy words of Mishna by heart while he was in prison. And interestingly, while he was there, he heard like groaning or moaning. He wasn't exactly sure what it was. It's kind of an eerie sound coming from like a dark corner of the jail. And then uh eventually he discovered it was a calf was a little little cow, baby cow. And when he was finally released, his uncle Razah Rab Zaman Aarin had political connections. The Rabbi Rashab had a brother, an older brother, Reb Zaman Aarin. So he got the Fed released and in fact they had to apologize. We're sorry. We didn't know you were Rabb Zamanarin's nephew. And then when he was released, he said, "By the way, I saw a little cow in the cell." And they put two and two together, they realized that this same police officer who had dragged the feder into jail was accusing David, that same David of having stolen a cow, which was not true. Actually, the cop stole the cow and was hiding it in the jail for himself. and uh his whole plot came became exposed and uh he was brought to justice. Afterwards the freed was speaking to his father to the debab about his experience and his father said to him from this story you learned a valuable lesson of the advantage the advantage of a human being over an animal. You had holy words of Torah to recite because you'd memorized them. You'd spent your youth memorizing these these words and you were in jail. You had no books. You had nothing to read. You had nothing productive to do. But you were able to be to be productive because you had those words memorized and you were able to study Torah even in that in that place. And if you hadn't had that ability, then what would be the big difference between you and that little calf? But because you had spent your youth learning the holy words of Torah and memorizing them, you were able to not be just another creature there in that prison. You were you were a full human being. So that was that was the fidic's uh first imprisonment. Tell you a little bit more about the Vidaba's youth. Um he started putting on fill in two years before his bar mitzvah in secret. Yeah. In public he did what is the normal custom. Two months before the bar mitzvah he started putting on fillin in public. Um and at his bar mitzvah the uh the rebab said uh various in fact there were seven days like a shabraas like when a kala get married you have seven days of wedding festivals. So when the faba turned 13, his bar mitzvah was a whole week of celebration. And one of the myarim that the rebab said was the words. It started with the the words that uh that Rebab that that King David said to his son to King Solomon, you should strengthen yourself and and become a man. be a man. And that was one of the them that the that Abashab said in connection with the fir mitzvah. Now I'm going to tell you a story. I mentioned I don't know if everyone heard this earlier when I welcomed some of the camp staff who are here and if you're tuning in to the live stream pointing the camera. Hi live stream people. If you're tuning maybe you're tuning in late. Uh a lot of our crowd here are uh camp staff. They devoted their their summer to helping Jewish children have a positive Jewish experience. So, I want to tell you a little story in connection with uh this event. What's up, Isro? What? My mic is good. Playing with the cords makes me nervous. Maybe I kicked something or unplugged something. It's all good. Someone wrote on the uh live stream, by the way, in the YouTube chat. very interested in the story tonight. Can't lie, at least partly because it's my birthday, too. Glad there's live music. Okay, so happy birthday to you as well. That's very special. You birthday is the Fred KB's birthday. It's amazing. And I don't know what that person's name is. I just see the YouTube uh handle. Okay, so here's a story. Um 1968, Rabbi Misha Feller, may he be well to Minnesota was in the Catskills at a BBYO camp youth organization, not a religious organization. And meaning to say these kids there were not from religious homes. They were not observant or even very traditional at all. And uh somehow he was able to be a camp rabbi or a visiting rabbi scholar and residence some type of arrangement like that. And actually he said that it one of the things he was doing there is he was learning with the staff with the counselors. and he said there were a group of guys who sort of not all of them but a group of them who sort of connected with him and were very interested in learning with him and so it was yud tamos and so he says you know what am I going to do yamos I'm going to talk to them about the story I'm going to tell them about the fba about his imprisonment and his courage and the whole story so he he tells them today is yud bas tamos 12th dead Hebrew month of tamos this is the anniversary of the previous reb's liberation and he told them all about the story. They were very inspired and he said Rabbi Feller said and uh on this date which is a very important date our reb has a fabbran well they didn't know what that was so he had to explain it's a gathering and it's in 770 the Labavich world headquarters in in Crown Heights and it's a very special thing and in fact I just want to let you know I'm going to take the bus to Brooklyn and I'm going to go to the Rabbis Fabren and then I'm going to come right back and I'm gonna be with you guys again. So one of the boys, one of the counselors says to Rabbi Feller, "Well, h how can you leave us and go to the Fbrangan in Brooklyn, you need the Febang with us here?" Now I don't have to tell you guys any of the lab should ever hear that and knows there's no way you turn that down. And he he was very conflicted because obviously where did he want to be for Yudbamos? wanted to be by the rebang of course. But how is he going to show his face in front of the Reb when these teenage kids these these boys who are not from religious homes and who are getting closer to Yiddish kite and kite and they're asking for a faban he's what's he going to do? He's going to say no. So it was very hard for him but he held himself back and he stayed away from the yudos fabbrangan by the reba and he made a fabangan for the staff there at the uh BBYO camp. Okay. So um remember I told you the year the freed was born yudos was a Monday and I told you his shalom was on a well every sham was on shabas but shabas was right. Okay. So this year 1968 when this story takes place Thomas was also on a Monday. The fast of Shivas was a nida was pushed off. So it was a Sunday. So what Rabbi Feller did is after Shabas then he went to Brooklyn on Sunday on the fast day and then he stayed over one more day. He stayed until Monday. And on Monday, Rabbi Binyan Klein, one of the the Reb secretaries says to Rabbi Feller, um, stick around because the Reb wants to see you. And, uh, he said actually the the Reb called in three, Abeller, uh, Rabbi Kunin from California and, uh, Rabbi Groner from Australia. And they each hadis and there was this very unusual thing unprecedented a 1 in the afternoon faban on well what's the date uh yudes Thomas right because Thomas was shabas it was pushed off the fast day was Sunday which was yudas so this story is Monday yudes okay so it's yudes Thomas 1 pm fabangan short little fabbran about an hour at the mimer. The opening words of the mimemer was which you'll recognize as one of the that we mentioned earlier that the said in conjunction with the bar mitzvah. Many of the if not most of them are based on reiterations of mym of the previous. And after the fabangan the short little fabangan there was this and Rabbi Feller came in and he hadn't told the Reb the story about BBO but he comes in and the Reb says to him as you held yourself back from coming here on Thomas for you. I said this mimemer this continuation of the Rebab's mimer and then the Reba proceeded to explain what I had mentioned earlier that the Fredba's bar mitzvah was celebrated for seven whole days like the Shvraas of a of a wedding and that this was one of the and if you do the math so that date yudess tamos the 19th day of Tamos was the seventh day coming out of Yudb Tamos. So, we're going to talk a lot about the Midus Neafes, the sacrifice of the previous Reb Soviet Russia, the real risk to life and limb that he and his were able to endure with with with courage and with dignity. But I also want to mention the midus nefish of of dashi of our generation that a young person puts aside their own desires and dedicates themselves to Jewish education to Jewish youth. And I want you to know those who are doing this this summer, all of you who are in camp, it's not easy. It's not easy. But you're doing something that is so precious to the Reb, so dear and cherished and it is a sacrifice, but it's it's well worth it. And my braha for you, for whatever it's worth, you know that there will be payro, there will be fruit from your labor. But my braha to you is that's not my braha. That's a for you know that you're going to there's going to be results. My braha to you, my bas is that you should get to see a little bit of the the nas. You should get to know a little bit of the effect he had. What's up, every time you come up here, I get nervous. What? I should be. Why? Okay, fine. You're just waiting for Ellie to start singing. Thank you. This is my son. He has incredible uh he's hanging on every word for from his father. He wants to Ellie to sing. Okay. At any rate, he just wants me to test the mic. It's working. It's working. Okay. And hey, remember that niggan that I mentioned before? Yes. The the You still know that one? Uh, yeah, I still know it. Okay. You want to pull that one out? [Music] Oh yeah. Nana. Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. Nana. Oh yeah. [Music] I am. Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh yeah. Right in my shot. Oh my. [Music] Oh yeah. [Music] Oh. [Music] Oh. [Music] What's happening? Thank you for always being absolutely spontaneous on the fly. Good sport in the flow flow state. Appreciate it. Um let's talk about the uh imprisonment of the federbe. A little bit of background. Um so I mentioned it was 1927 to pay Zion. So this happened in the summer. I mean the summer right now the grabber was arrested uh Tess Vivven the 15th day of Civven and was finally released like we mentioned baseimos. So just short of a month of imprisonment but I want to go back half a year or so before a little bit more than half a year to the Roshash of that year. There's actually a that's why I have this gimmel here. There's a inim of page 157. with the title base. And the beginning of the Reb quotes what the firb himself wrote about himself that the Roshashimm it's a customary thing a reb will say mymash. So the of pion that the said he said that in the mimer he spoke about the bal's approach to Ashkahas know there are different different schools of thought about divine providence and the balv has the most radical approach to to divine providence. The BMP says that individualized supervision is on every single level of the creation even down to inanimate objects. Every detail is meticulously orchestrated by design actively by the creator. And that's the Balsham's approach. So the VBA says that uh in the Roshana of that year he mentioned this idea about the Balsham's approach to hashkah to divine providence and he said that afterwards it was strange that he he thought it's strange that he had even mentioned it because it was not the point of the mimemer. was kind of off topic. Sort of just came up. And in fact, interestingly enough, if you look at the printed version, the edited printed version of that mimemer of that discourse, the part where the Fredba speaks about the BMT's approach to is not there. It was edited out precisely because as the as the Fed said, it wasn't really on point. It was like a it was off topic. So that's Rash later on. What are you talking nine months later in the summer, right? Count it out. I don't know if it was an ib. I have to go find out. At least one. Okay. Tomos. So you're talking about nine t months later. The fir says that when he was arrested and he was subjected to the type of treatment that the communists subjected him to which was they were masters of manipulation. That was their whole point was to break people to intimidate people was psychological warfare and they tried to break him. Fred Ga said upon reflection after his release that if it had not been for the fact that on Roshashana already 10 months earlier he'd been thinking about the Balsham's approach to divine providence he would not have been able to endure his imprisonment because what got him through the imprisonment was the ability to constantly be aware that Hashem is running the show not these people not his capttors they are not in charge Hashem is in charge and that literally Literally every detail of his imprisonment is divinely orchestrated. And it was that crystalclear faith at every moment of his imprisonment that allowed him to go through it with courage and with dignity and peace of mind. And they couldn't rattle him. They couldn't they tried. They couldn't. But like I said, I'm not here to uh talk about deep ideas. I want to tell you stories. So the Fed was arrested. What What date did I say? date tess vavv s 15th of s. It was midnight and they came to his house. They came to his house. He had been granting yhidas personal audiences all night. He was very tired. He'd been meeting one-on-one. That's something that a rabbi does. Meets uh one-on-one with people. By the way, where where was the fug living at this time? Leningrad. It was called Leningrad by that time. Used to be called Yeah. or Peterberg in Yiddish which uh was the imperial capital. That's the Tsarist capital. The communists changed the capital to Moscow. And then they changed Petberg to Leningrad named after Lenin. So the Fredaba was live living in Lenningrad. You know that after the fa left Labavich they went to Rustavv during World War I and then eventually you went to Leningrad and in fact for a certain period of time even under communism it wasn't I shouldn't say it wasn't that bad it was bad but they were able to function they had for instance they had fabangans uh there was a schul in the fed of his house they were able to davenin there was a certain amount of freedom um obviously the underground ground the underground schools for children. I mentioned earlier the the thing the communists were really sticklers about was they had officially had freedom of religion and they were very proud of the fact they had freedom of religion but don't don't indoctrinate the children. So that was their their big beef. Don't don't teach the children yiddish kite. So that was that was something that had to be done clandestinely in secret. But a lot of the things they were doing was was was not in secret at least to a certain point. What happened is that the unfortunately there was the Jewish division of the of the GPU which later is known as the KGB uh theia the Jewish division and these were Jews who joined the communists and they uh were a real thorn in the side of the Jewish community and they would prove their loyalty to the communists by being especially hateful toward toward uh religion and religious Jews. They were not very powerful for a while, but without getting into all the, you know, the the politics of the of the 1920s, something happened where they were kind of like unofficial for a while and then they they were brought in and made official. They were given a bunch of power. Uh later on, they were all executed. By the way, the the the the communists never really cared for them. But uh for a few years they had a run where they were given a lot of authority and that's when it became a nightmare. That's when it became a nightmare and many sid were arrested before the freed was arrested was arrested. Uh the Goradetskis were arrested. Um who else in that same period of time? There were many many arrests even before the feder was arrested. So they came to his house. So was it was midnight and uh it's interesting the federba's daughters were there his three daughters and the two members of the of the ysaxia who came to arrest the feda were were were actually not just of Jewish extraction but they were descended from I shouldn't even say descended from um I'll talk about it later but one of the two had a father who was still actively aid and would learn by Zan Misha in Neville which we'll we'll we'll talk about that I'll explain what that even means but um Nakmanson and Lulov that's that's the that that were those were their names so they came in and obviously they were trying to intimidate that was their whole mo was to intimidate and they asked the freed's daughters to what party do you belong Now you know what they want to hear. You know communist party and I want to tell you what they said and I think we should all remember this. Every should remember this said I belong to my father's party. So if anyone asks you have you registered to vote which party do you belong to? I belong to the Debb's party. That's That's my party. That's my party. The Reb's party. The Fred Gabba's mother was there and she was hysterical. She was crying. She said, "Why are you doing this to my son? All he does is help people. Does nothing for himself. Leave him alone." And she even ple pleaded with them. She said, "Take me." She was an elderly woman already at the time. She said, "Take me. It's interesting Fredba says that the one moment he saw maybe a little bit of humanity in Nakmanson, he said Lulov was much more crass. Nakmanson was half a mench. The one moment when he saw a little bit of compassion was that moment when the federa's mother was crying and nahonson told uh the feda take her to the other room and calm her down and he said he didn't say it in a like a snide way. He said it in a way like he seemed like he was somewhat legitimately concerned. Of course also writes in his diary that later on when they got to Spalera to the prison it completely changed and Nakmanson became a monster and a lot of promises that were made uh during the arrest the arrest took a long time it was dragged out for a long time um took many hours and I'll I'll tell you about the hashka of that about the arrest taking so long they they wanted Splaka prison was only a few blocks away from the grabb's house. They wanted him to walk. He said he wasn't well. He needed a van. And for whatever reason, it took him a long time to get the van. It actually took hours. They didn't bring him out, I think, until about 2 in the morning. So, during the two hours of delay, it was supposed to be chickak. During the two-hour delay, the Reba, our Reb, who was in Lenningrad, ran to Haim Lieberman's house, that was the freed secretary, and started confiscating documents that would have been incriminating, lists of them who were involved in underground activities. And all of that was able to happen because of the delay. Um there were promises made like I mentioned uh the Fed insisted that he should be able to bring his his talisant villain and that they should agree that he could and he and he he mentioned that under the new government meaning under the communists there's supposed to be religious freedom and they said of course we would we wouldn't interfere with your religious freedom of course you can bring your religious articles and then they confiscated it from him when he was actually uh admitted into the prison actually Fred Gab uh he he made a a hunger strike. He didn't eat for three days because he insisted that they return his talis and film to him. At any rate, um eventually they put him in the van and they drove him to the prison. At that point all knew what was going on. Uh the main way that they knew was actually that the Reba Arba came to the Fred Reba's house and saw that it looked strange like something looked strange. There was the lights were on too much activity. It was so late and he didn't come inside. He knew there was something wrong about what whatever was going on inside. So he actually walked around to a window and his betrothed his future wife opened up the window and said we have guests and the Reba understood very well what that meant who those guests were and what type of business they were there for. So that's how began to find out what was happening. Uh interesting one of the who was there and writes a writes a a diary about this episode. He says that the were spying to see what was happening. And the way that they were incognito, the way they were uh undercover is they would stumble around in the street like drunks pretending to be drunk. And at each corner of each block as the van that the Fed was being brought to Spelera to the prison uh they would pass Nakmanson and Lula would actually comment and say look at these Jews who are stumbling around drunk but really they were spying. They were undercover. They wanted to see at each corner what was happening. Um meanwhile there was a whole uh debate what type of channels they should use to try to secure the federubba's release. Uh first and foremost were spiritual channels and I just want everyone to know especially because we are half a block away from the aisle right now. Uh the main instruction the Figgaba gave when he was arrested before he was taken away was that Schlim emissaries should go to Hadichin Lubavich and Rusttov. Those are the respectively the locations of the resting place of the rebum. Had is the alterbin is the mit. Labavich is the tamakadic and the rabbi marash and is the reb should be brought to the oil of each rabb that was the primary channel or channels that were pursued but then in natural means down to earth means what was supposed to be done there was quite a bit of confusion they were not sure what they should do because a lot of the things that went on then had to be done quietly. They you had to be careful not to upset the wrong people. Uh there the people in charge had very uh fragile egos and if they felt they they were being publicly ridiculed then they could get even more spiteful or more vengeful. So there were different like different debates. What do we do? Because like there was some like infighting in the communist uh like infrastructure. There was this was Leningrad. So there was the Leningrad office of the GPU, but then there was the Moscow office. So then they thought maybe we should go appeal to the Moscow office. But no, then the Lenrad office will get really mad at us that we got them in trouble. Um and so it went back and forth like this for quite a bit of time. And also they were trying to ascertain the freed status. They they weren't even sure, you know, if he was still living. They didn't know what his uh what his situation was. Um I'll tell you one of the ways that they actually ended up getting inside information about the f the freed's well-being. So I mentioned to you, remember I said earlier that Nakmanson actually his father was in in Neville and he was learning to say this with Zama Misha. I'm talking about Zam Misha. Zaman Mesha Yitkaki who uh you know from the Drizzen family is from from Zaman Misha. Um his son-in-law was Araor. He didn't have sons. He had a son-in-law of Raayor Drison. So uh Zaman Misha was one of the Mashiam in Neville. Uh he used to give maybe more than one. But this Nakmanson his father still lived in Neville and he learned this by uh by Zam Misha. So they sent aid by the name of Zman Dman I don't mean my friend Zman Dman from uh from Kabad but his namesake the the off the author of the lashen famous uh book ofidic stories in fact some of the details I'm telling you actually are from that book so Zman Dman was sent from Leningrad he was living in Leningrad at that time it was before he moved to Samaran So he uh he went from Lengrad to Neville and he actually went to Nakmanson's father and said look your son you know what you know your son is a is a communist and uh he actually arrested the Rebe and we need to get inside information will you come back with me to Lennenrad he didn't want to go but they called him I think that means on the telephone they called him uh some from uh from Lenrad and they convinced him to come And uh actually that's how they got a lot of the inside information. He would find out from his son and he would leak the information to Zand Dukman who would tell the um so they're working on various different diplomatic channels. There was a lot of international pressure. Uh the decision was made. Let me let me backtrack. They weren't sure how public to be. Remember I mentioned they weren't sure how public to be about it or not. Sometimes it's better to put pressure privately because if you make it public it can make it even worse. When the information was finally leaked, it took a few days but they found out that the sentence with a death was a death sentence. Then they said we have nothing to lose. So at that point they went public and they started to use the channels of of of international diplomacy and uh it became world news. Within a few days newspapers in in in every country where there was a Jewish community were uh writing about this this story about the arrest of the uh of the firbe. Um eventually the sentence because of the pressure was commuted was not acquitted but they were able to change the sentence from a death sentence to exile in uh in a place called Castramma which is a they say it's 900 kilometers from Leningrad but I don't know what kilometers are. All right. No freedom units. So, somebody can pull up your calculator on your phone and let me know how many miles that is. But in 1927, it was a 24-hour train ride. I don't think that means a 24-hour train ride going directly. I think probably it was indirect. I think there were probably stops, but it took 24 hours on by way of train from Leningrad from Leningrad to Castramma. when the feder was released meaning not released to go free but sent into exile was gimmel I'll tell you an interesting behind the scenes about gimmelamos now of course we know gimlamos that is yortite but I'll tell you an interesting behind the scenes again Neville mentioning a lot about Neville here but uh there was a an argument in Neville whether or not that theid them should say on Gimmel Thomas. I'm saying at the time when it was happening because the Fed was arrested what? Tes. So you're talking about two and a half weeks later and now he's released from Spellelera prison. Yeah. He's sent into exile, but that's a lot better than still being in prison. It's better than the death sentence. So there was a there was a debate. uh Vitten is the one who says that he and Zaman Misha the aforementioned Zman Misha said that this is worthy of saying and uh Mayor Simain said no it's not yet time until the Fred is completely free you don't say and then after the fact said he felt vindicated because he noticed that years later for the the years afterwards that would not say onimlamos. So I said, "Aha, I was right that even already gimmels, even though it was not a complete gula, it was the gul, you could already say." At any rate, so the uh the goes into exile, like I said, 24-hour train ride. And who accompanies him? His right-hand man, but it's not a man, it's a woman. his trusted daughter, his uh power of attorney, Rabbi Kayushka, she goes with her father into exile. And we know that when the when the frig was eventually released, when he was told he was completely acquitted, he got the news on Yudbas tamos, but it was a Soviet holiday, so they couldn't process the paperwork. So they said, "Come back tomorrow and we'll really let you go." So he was released on Yudgimlamos. And they say that because the Soviets added a holiday, it backfired on them and we ended up getting a two-day yam because we have yud base yud. Why is it you ever ask yourself that question? Why is it you base y'amos? Why is it both days? Because the freed got the news of his release on yud base, but they couldn't process the paperwork because it was a Soviet holiday. So he was released on Yudglim. So the both we got both days as a holiday and when he got the news that he was released which was the day also of his birthday as we mentioned y'all's birthday which is maz go the day when his soul is shining bright. So when he got that news, his daughter sang theic protest song. There's no one but God himself. And Ellie, that's called a segue. Caught you off guard. You're jumping to the end. Yeah, that was too soon. No. Oh, no. No. No. It's not too soon. Nothing's too soon. Nothing's too soon. Everything in its time. Yeah. I didn't know that was the finale. Yeah, that's the finale. Oh, we're going to play out with that one. Okay. We'll have to do that. Not all of them. Okay. Yeah. You know what? Let's do Okay. You want to tell the story about that? I mean, it's not much of a story, but Okay, we'll start. There's a niggan. It's a niggan. Yeah. Yes. Okay. um of nigun are a whole like genre of nigunim but uh this particular nigun was composed to express the feeling of theim through the orals of the frab's imprisonment. So that as far as I you're the musical one, but as far as I understand the different tanuas of the niggan are supposed to express the confusion, the the frustration, the pain, the fear, and then the triumph. Is that you've heard something like that? Some something like that. Something like that. Each they they always had to be talking that that was going to come out. But they some I read that the niggan expresses like how could this happen? Mhm. How could how could Hashem allow this to happen? But each there's three parts of the niggan and each part ends with that with that uh with the with the with a melody of of triumph. That's sounds triumphant. Yeah, it's great. So, it's niggan. I couldn't find it because uh the I told you earlier I was going to bring in the um National Library of Israel I don't know they took off a bunch of a bunch of things that were available online and now it's no longer available online but in the Gishuri notebooks uh was a a Jewish historian musicologist who collected nigunim from uh all over the world and he writes it's probably was collected in the 30s or 40s he writes about this niggan Right. He didn't know the name of it. He called this a new niggan that came from Russia because it was composed at that time. Yeah. So this is youth based game and composed by [Music] you know mo [Music] M yoyo. Oh yeah. Oh, you know [Music] m [Music] it [Music] m M [Music] you know it D. Oh yo. [Music] Oh. [Music] M [Music] I la [Music] I heard it. That's the nicking. You heard it before? No. You heard the You heard the the triumph. Yeah. Okay. So, let me backtrack. All right. you you felt it was premature. I wanted I got to the net. Yeah, I'm sorry. I No, no, no, no problem. We could go back. There's plenty of interesting things to talk about. Um, when the vida was released from Spelera before he went to Castra, he was able to go home for a few hours. I'll tell you an interesting little episode that took place. He asked While I was away, you know, for those two and a half weeks, did you learn? Now, I'm going to ask you a question. Let's be honest. Let's be real. In the type of emotional state and mental state that were in during those two and a half weeks, do you think they were learning deep my think they had the presence of mind? No. So, they answered honestly. We were saying to him, okay, to him when somebody I mean we say to him also, thank God in times of joy as well, but we say to him also when we're brokenhearted when we're we're we're crying out to Hashem. So they said honestly, they said we weren't learning. We were um we were saying to Haleim and the did not like that answer. He said to them, this is during the few hours between his release from the prison and boarding the train to go into exile. He says, "I wrote my modem until they took away the pencil from me." He's saying in prison meaning to say the value of of the of the isim like it's very nice you're saying till but even at the time or maybe especially at the time when you feel like life is falling apart that's when you have to be learning my and like like I mentioned earlier that the attributed his ability to endure his old imprisonment to the mym that he had said rash Um during those few hours the fir then took remember he says I wrote my modem till they took away the pencil. So where were the where were the myim? He brought them out of prison and he gave the manuscript to the Reb to our Reb to his son-in-law and the Reb was the one who then transmitted transmitted the mimer to to the at the train station at the train platform. There was a there was a mob and remember the fed is still a prisoner. He's not in prison. He's going into exile but he's still not free to go. And yet he spoke with absolute defiance there on the train platform and he delivered a famous short sikh but famous where he quoted his father that a shab by the way this image that you're seeing here is uh an image from this time period. It's right after the imprisonment. After the imprisonment, the freed eventually uh later that year left the Soviet Union and went to you know where the freed went after the Soviet Union? Ria Latafia. Very good. Which was not part of the Soviet Union at that time. Um, so this picture actually they say that most likely it's a passport photo although the passport the fra is Soviet passport from that time has never been found so we're not sure but they say it's presumably his passport photo from that period. So this is what he looked like at that time. Okay. Okay. At any rate, so on the train platform, the the Freda who's still technically a prisoner speaks defiantly and he speaks to the and he quotes his father that Abashab and he says that it is only our bodies that were sent into exile, not our souls. And no power, no human power has any control over the Jewish people. It was not by our will that we went into exile. It is not by our will that we will leave exile. It is only by God's will. He said a warning to the Soviets and anyone else who would dare to interfere with Yidden and Yiddishkite. Do not touch my anointed ones. Hands off. Don't mess. A real defiant message. And this again this was on um this was still when the the freed was was a prisoner. This is Gimlamos when he was released from prison but still under the uh under the he was still a captive not freed to go. Um maybe we'll tell you a little bit more about what happened during those uh wasn't that long, a little over a week in Castramma. It's uh somebody put in the YouTube comments by the way 559 miles. Oh, Yav put that Yav from Bokeh. I remember I was speaking in Bokeh. Is that am I correct by the way? You can just write in the chat if I'm correct from Bokeh. I remember meeting her at a Shabaton at Rabbi Nuz Shul. Is that right? Am I remembering that correctly? Because I meet a lot of people. Just let me know if I'm remembering the right person. Anyway, she wrote 559 miles. Okay. So, the Veda was in Kuster for uh well from you know Gimmel Thomas until uh Yudgiml Thomas. I talk about 10 days. He was there for a shabas. There are about a hundred Jews in that little town. They had a shul. Maybe they had more than one shul, but there was one the shul that the deficin. They say that his presence was a spectacle. They had never seen a yid davening all shabas. And uh a crowd was forming. In fact, the Reb spoke about it a uh I think it was for sure and I think in the Yuds maybe it was maybe it was good base but the Reb described the the scene that occurred when the Fedba was dotting all day on Shabas remember he's a he's a prisoner like remember the Fed was asking the were you learning my mimm while I was in prison they were like no we didn't have the presence in mind to be learning my mimm we were we were saying tell And yet the vidba is a prisoner and he's writing my mimm and he's dvening at length. So he was dvening all shabas until late in the afternoon. And the rebb tells this story. He says to the extent like the whole town even the non-Jews were coming out to the shul to watch this this holy man who was praying all shabas long and even the town priest came to watch to see what is this what is this unusual uh spectacle here point again though is that even at these times of real danger the had presence of mind. Um, he was unshakable. Very I I I I'm going to break my rule. I said I'm here to tell stories. I'm It's so much against my nature to not at least put in a little dvarra. You know what they say about the dvarra? They say, you know, how often can a rabbi recycle his material? So it depends on the type of material because different things people remember different amounts of time. So a good joke you could only repeat it once every five years because people will remember a good joke for a long time. So you could you got to wait five years and then you could bring back a good joke. A good story you could wait a year and you could bring back people will remember it but you know about a year and then you could bring back they'll after a year they'll forget the story and you could tell the story again. and the dvarra multiple times in the same speech because they didn't hear it, they didn't remember it, they didn't want to hear it. Okay? So, please uh indulge me. Last week we our para was uh was hookas. This week our para is boloc. Sometimes they're together. Hookas bol this or not it's interesting at the end of paras hookas is the war against you remember who o the giant and hashem tells me al don't be afraid and rashi actually has to chime in there because the Jews are winning wars like crazy why why why al why be afraid. So he says because o had a special yapolit the fugitive came um he was the one who uh came and told a about light. At any rate he had some history with uh with Misha's ancestors. The point is he might have had epis some type of a merit that could have stood him in goodstead and prevented him from being defeated at least being defeated easily. So Misha knew this. He knew had a had a had a special merit. So Hashem has to come to him like don't don't worry about it. It's good. Um that that's the end of Bolik. I mean the end of hookas. It flows right into the beginning of Bolik. The beginning of Bolik is the Bolik. Bolik saw the Yoger and his nation. was afraid. Bollock the king saw and the nation was afraid. How did the nation get afraid about what the king saw? So Rashi explains that Bullock called a press conference and he said, "Everybody, I don't mean to panic, but panic. The Jews are coming. We're all done for." Right? And he scared everyone. It was a fear-monger. So, the Reba juxtaposes the end of Parsha's hookas with the beginning of Parsha's bllock. Misha knew something about it that could have made him a formidable challenge. He knew, but he kept it to himself and he projected confidence. That's a leader. Bullock knew something. And what did he do? He made everyone else afraid. So the Reb says it's that those paras come around the same time as yudimos because the says if anyone understood the seriousness. Can I get more seltzer over here? Do we have more seltzer? Soulward's house has cold seltzer, cold water. Wow. Amazing. Thank you. Don't worry, you're not on camera. You were not on camera. Yeah, we were careful about So the Reb says that if anyone understood how serious the threat of the communists really really was, like how Obviously, in the end, Hashem gets his way and Mashiach is coming and it all works out good for us. But on paper, it looked really, really dark. It looked really, really bad. And if anybody understood just how perilous the situation was, it was the FB who understood it because he knew what was going on. and he had information. He had intelligence. He he had he had people telling him what was going on. He knew the situation. Also, you know, he knew because however knows things. But at any rate, if anyone knew how serious the threat of the communists really really was, it was the fa. And instead of being afraid and making others afraid, he encouraged his to be fearless. And that's one of the lessons of Judb Yudgam is uh is fearlessness that no matter what the situation looks like on paper, no matter what the pundits may be saying, we know that Hashem is with us. In fact, the video writes about in his in his diary that when he was in prison at one point he had like a little twinge of like I don't want to call it panic but like he said he started thinking to himself here I am in prison. I'm a father. I'm a husband. I'm a father-in-law. I have people who depend on me. you know, a wife and children and not to mention people are depending on me and I'm in prison and what am I supposed to do? And he says he immediately calmed himself and he said they are dependent on me but I and they are dependent on Hashem. And with that he came back to himself and he was completely present in that in that dark place. Didn't didn't get to him. Didn't take him away from his from his center. And this is one of the lessons of Yudbgimos is that each of us can find this this center within ourselves of of of fearlessness that no matter what's going on on a personal level or on a communal level, Hashem is in charge and uh we're going to be okay. We're going to be better than okay. We're going to be great. It's all going to be good because Hashem is in charge and there's nothing but Hashem. Yeah. Or in Russian, how would you say that? Say that. And that's called a segue. Huh? Yeah. And this is the song that sang when they got the news. Yeah. Is that smooth? Yeah. You're getting you're getting better at this. By next you're basically it'll be smooth as silk. The Reb told the whole story about Darkin with the bottle of Mashka with the Saut. Yeah. Well, interesting. Uh which shout out to Yasi Cam for uh calling me this morning and told me about it. Um when they heard the news um they went to the uh to the office out the government had to register every every week. Once a week you had to register with the government office and when they went to register the guys told him that that uh he's been released but it's a holiday. It's a it's a legal holiday so the office is closed. So when he when he found out that he took this uh little sodka I think I understood correctly says he didn't drink it didn't drink it and he took the sodka yeah and he danced uh around the house and explains the whole song and how he says uh what it means. So it's um then so it's so funny how the asks for somebody to sing it. It's 1965 and nobody knows it. And and the Reb says, you know, I would sing it, but it's not, so I can't sing it. So, [Music] Yeah. [Music] Yeah. I la [Music] [Applause] from La [Music] which means there is no one except for Hashem except for him. Um, and that's the only that's the only thing to be afraid of in that's the message of the song. [Music] Ever [Music] mentioning also um when she found out the news, she told the but she told them ble pierome which means without publication, without publicity. Um, so actually the first Yudbas tamos was not a big celebration because it was like, you know, keep it quiet. I mean the communists are still kind of, you know, watching. The first time Yudb Yudgamos was celebrated properly was the first anniversary, meaning a year later. And by that time, the Fed was in Ria, Latvia already. And that's when said the famous words that on this day of my liberation not only not just I was released but every Jew and then he says those who are is those who keep Torah and even those that that the name of Jew is you can translate to like it's almost like it's called can't do justice in English but It's like people that you can I guess technically call Jewish, right? I guess hocically they're Jewish. What meaning to say someone who doesn't necessarily identify as Jewish, maybe even they they're hiding the fact that they're Jewish. Maybe even, God forbid, a self-hating Jew, and yet the redemption of the Fedba from imprisonment is a is is a redemption not just for him, but for every single kind of Jew. Because deep down every Jew is awake to this this truth that Ellie was singing about of uh Anid Milvad that there's nothing but Hashem. And it's our job to reach out with love. And uh even people who dare I say who are God forbid the the modern-day equivalent of uh Ysexia, people who are the modern-day equivalent of uh card carrying Communist Party members. We have to reach out and remind them who they are. Remind them that that they are Jews and they don't belong to any party but the Reb's party. Now I have a little surprise. I'm going to read from our days which I said is from the deair magazine. Wonderful book. I'm going to read here from this page page uh 212. See Yasi, I hope you're watching. Okay. Page 212. He said he's gonna be watching. Okay. Yasi, please watch. Page 212. During the Lebanon War in the summer of 5742, that's 1982, the Reb requested that Tanya be printed in 15 locations across Lebanon, including one specifically within what could be halically considered as the boundaries of the capital city Beirut. The Reba actually when he gave the the the instructions um described it as a place where on a get you would write Beerus would you Beirut meaning a place that is not near Beirut but halically the city of Beirut. You know the Reb was into printing Tanyas everywhere where Jews lived. So historically there were Jewish communities in Lebanon for centuries for millennia. So when during 1982 when uh Israel was in Lebanon the Reba said they should print Tanyas and specifically in Beirut. Despite facing numerous initial obstacles, the Tanyas were successfully printed with the official permission and assistance of the IDF. In a delivered at the Fabangan of Yudgamos, meaning today, the the Reb spoke about his insistence that the Israeli army finish their military goals within Beirut and not procrastinate any longer. In the fabbran, the rebba spoke about this clearly in case people make any mistake about this and think it's hawkish. The rebba said that this will save lives both Jewish and non-Jewish for the military operation to be to be finished effectively actually is to save lives both Jewish and non-Jewish. Okay. Quote, "The Israeli forces are already in the city." The Reba said, "And right here there's a clear proof." As the Reba said these words, he picked up three small Tanyas from the table. Here on the t on the table lies a Tanya that was printed in Beirut a few days ago with enough time for it to arrive here and be on the table during the Yud base and Yudgiml Thomas Fabangan. The Reba said explaining that this printing was made possible through the direct involvement of the IDF soldiers on the ground in Beirut. It is yud based tamos half a block from the aisle and we are fabanging and this is a Tanya that was printed in Beirut Mamesh. You can see on the cover it says Beirut. This is one of the Beirut Tanyas right here on our desk on our desk part of our Yudb Yudgim Thomas Fabangan. And I want to learn from it because it's not just here to to hold it. It's it's to learn from it. And I'm just going to learn a couple of lines from the second volume of Tanya from which is all about how everything in the world is really hashem. It's Hashem speaking the world into being and there's nothing else. We'll learn a few lines here from the Beirut printed in Beirut. It says in kufotas, "Behold, Hashem, your word stands forever in the heavens." Which words? The words when Hashem spoke the sky, the firmament into being on the second day of creation. explained your word that you spoke when you said let there be a sky. These words and these letters are continuing to stand inside of the sky in the heavens and continuing to enliven the skies the heavens that the words of our God stand forever and his words the words of God are living and existing for all time. Because if these words would depart for even one second and go back to their source, it would all go back not only to the way that it was before it was spoken and no longer exists from here on out, but it would be as if it had never existed even before because it would lose everything even its past. Meaning to say that everything in the world is only here because Hashem is actively putting it here at this second. And you can learn more in this holy safer called Tanya. Doesn't have to be the Beirut Tanya. Could be any copy of Tanya, but that's the idea that everything is exactly as Hashem is making it. And therefore we asim never have to be afraid. We never have to be nervous. Um we know what our job is. We know what our mission is. And we can do it with courage. And we can do it with dignity and with fearlessness until Msiah. Okay. Ellie, I don't know what's an appropriate Wow. Did you ever see the Bay Rupa? I I think so. Incredible. Really from Yeah. Does it say any any special that they would sing in Bamas at Fangans? We did Bumos. Also, oh, we didn't do the bane. We didn't do the bane yet. This is the the freed's official uh nigin. Okay. Oh, so what? Tanya Bayon say, how do we overlook that? Terrible. Terrible. The question is, how do the counselors not shout that out to us? Okay. Safanim. Yes. There you go. Yes. which is great about these fabangans and thank you to uh to Rabbi Shay that said I get to you let me sing whatever I want how I want whatever you like the bayon is a actually is a very complicated niggan and so complicated that most people weren't able to grasp it and it just became simplified the third part of the niggan so I'll take this opportunity to try to sing the uh the correct way uh as it was as it was composed and the Reb was actually there's um you can hear the Reb singing on ZB singing it in the but the just a quick background on the Bay again the same composer as composer Negan and out of respect In fact, he would sing it for another who was well known for his singing and his being a balagan and he presented him with his new niggan and kind of didn't exactly uh give him rave reviews. So he shelled it meaning should I take this to labave should I bring it to to the and uh he said no or he didn't didn't give his approval so he sheld it uh once was was by theb and he said you know what it's a good all due respect to it's a good n I'm going to sing it and he sang it forbid You can this niggan you can hear the avoid of the ben and that's why it's called the ben. Oh it wasn't called bayon before that was just the niggan. So um this became the n I actually just read earlier that at a faban in America um asked for a or asked for somebody to sing and somebody I think it was one of the guardskis to sing and he started singing I started singing the bayon and the fka said when my when my younger son-in-law will come he knows how to sing the bayon very So later when deb came to America they asked every to sing the sing the n. So I'll attempt I'll attempt the uh original the original authentic authentic that really somebody pointed out to me that uh you can if you watch the fabian you see that I was kind of following the niggan the first two parts then by the third part of the that were kind of not as not as involved in the All That [Music] m [Music] Oh [Music] mama. M [Music] you know [Music] oh you know you You don't you don't [Music] you know [Music] you know oh you You don't [Music] you know [Music] you know [Music] you [Music] You know, you know, [Music] you know Oh, you [Music] know [Music] you nom. Oh, you know that. Oh, you know. Oh, you don't [Music] know. That's where I lost it. [Music] I knew this was going to happen. No. I don't know. Try again. So I can edit this out. [Music] Oh yeah. You know how you [Music] know you know [Music] that was my attempt on the beautiful. Thank you. Try again. [Music] Oh, you know [Music] you know. All right. All right. Can see why the I got my point across. The adapted version. It's It's tough. It's a tough uh Yeah. Beautiful. Beautiful. appreciate the the stretch. By the way, some people would not even attempt on live uh live streaming and even they can't do it in their sleep, but this is you're aid. You're not here to perform. That's not not a concert. This is a Fabang. It's a it's a real thing. Absolutely. Raw. This is real. That's why I like you. Oh, thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here. Um people might have noticed, by the way, in a lot of our publicity, we mention, you know, we're half a block away from the aisle. There's a reason why we emphasize that like why do we say half a block away? Um because we're also I think we measured we're what 256 Amish or something like that. Um there's a story that uh who was Rabbi Fagelto from Montreal came to the rabbi after yhat after the stalkos and he had a conundrum that he wanted to go to the to the but the only time he could go was it was the intermediate days of the festival. So he asked the Reb what to do and um because you're not supposed to go to a cemetery on Kalamite on the intermediate days of the festival. So he asked the Reb and the Reb said, "If you are asking me whether or not it's permissible to visit a a cemetery on the intermediate days of the festival, then I'm afraid you already know the answer, which is that's not what we do." However, if what you're asking me is you would like to have this with my father-in-law just like you did here. They were in 770. So here means in 77 and the only difference is it's now going to take place a few blocks away meaning the oil is just you know a few few blocks away but it's it's you're going to the then by all means anytime is a good time. So the referred to the aisle as a few blocks away few blocks away from 770. So it's sort of meaningful to me to say you know we're a half a block away from a few blocks away. Um, and we are a half a block away. And it's not we're half a block away from the aisle. We're we're half a block away from the Reb. And I want to just share with you as we wrap up here a yudbased tamos actually the first yudbased tamos after yudat after the fabalos that the came to the aisle um on the fir's birthday and and yhagua and I won't tell the story because actually I have a beautiful video to share with you with uh rabbi hson all of who just actually passed away this year sharing his recol recollection. Actually, he's the only one who has this recollection because he was standing near the Reb and he was the only one who heard this and he shares his memory of the rebud tamos of tough shiny meaning right after the first Yudb tamos after the fed is his talcos. Um, can we uh and we went to the bamos and the rabbi said the minor and I remember that when he finished um he he was holding the minor or maybe he closed it and he looked to the mata. There was a m not not an oil and then he whispered in the way that I doubted that there was another human being that could hear that because I was so so low but I was so close to him that I he whispered a good yeah and the walked wal back few seers and I remember he he broke done. You know, uh this left me also a tremendous in my mind to the and we went to the forbos. Uh yeah, it's back to the day. Anyone who um happens to uh if you do visit uh the oil for Tamos, whether you go right now or you go anytime during the 48 hours of the Yamiff, please remember to be to give the Reba good news, including the good news that you participated in a Yudb Thomas Faban. Okay. want to play us out. That's what I got. I can't I got nothing else after that, Ellie. [Music] la [Music] my la [Music] my [Music] My My love. [Music] Hey [Music] my [Music] ite. I it [Music] okay thanks everyone for coming. The official uh program has ended. Uh you don't have to leave but uh I have to dab mid.