"The Story of 24 Teives—The Alter Rebbe's Last Days

tonight we are observing the yard side he Lula of the alter rebbe ballot Anya Marshall Senora changed the light okay that's that's the ire of snake oil after ever was the poise ik in Ziggler and and Mister as he is implied by his name Schnee are the two lights and his two great works the Tonya which is the terrible salve of cities and the Chicano Tokarev which is his revision and new presentation of the halacha social another tonight's presentation is chiefly a biographical look at the life of the Alta dabba and more specifically at one very particular to Kufa or period in the life of the Alta debe the the months roughly about a hundred forty days leading up to the event that we commemorate tonight so we're gonna be speaking about focusing on the last few months of the Alta Deborah's life before before we do so I just wanted to share a an idea a thought a Torah thought happens do you hear something good and you want to share it you know it's like some people money burns a hole in their pocket others you hear a good vort and you you have to share it so Shabbos I was actually in Crown Heights they had the young professionals chabot own so I was able to get away for a little bit in da ville' in 770 and Friday night time show Brooke from LA Hawk came over and he opened up the tiny to that day sleep us which was that that Friday just a few days ago which is the end of pedicured gimel and he pointed something out to me and I want I want to share it with you in in the end of pedicured gimel of tanya the alta rebus speaking about how abandoning a regular person if he'll really work he can get himself into that zone where he's feeling of Accession he's really feeling love Hashem and his never shabam miss is asleep and it's not bothering him there's no distractions there's no nothing and it's as if he were at Sadiq in that in that moment then the question though becomes is that Alvis Hashem authentic or not now why why would you question that because there's a general concept you know I think was Mark Twain who said if you never lie you never have to remember anything right what does that mean is that a lie is different every time so you have to every time somebody asks you you have to remember what you said last time to make sure that it'll be consistent but if you always tell the truth then you're always going to be consistent because the truth never changes the truth is the truth this is what King Solomon the wisest of all men also said you see he said vos amis the language of truth tequila odd it endures forever whereas in contrast but the idea lushing shocker that a lie lasts only for a minute so here's the question the Beynon II he gets himself into that zone where he's feeling gava session but then he finishes navin he goes out into the street and he feels either for other things that are not Hashem so maybe the whole time he was diving and he thought he was having office a sham it was a bluff maybe he's fooling himself because if it were authentic it would never change so the Alta never addresses this the Alta River says I'm aware of the concept that's fast a mistaken lod that's something that's real is unchanging however says the alter dabeh after peeking notwithstanding the fact that generally truth should be constant legate madrasa Beynon him relatively speaking you can't grade everybody according to the same test you have to look at each person according to their level so relatively speaking nekrasov aid that Tama Bama Slama tey shall ahem their love of a Shem is authentic it is genuine love shall ahem according to them relative to who they are each ishka fema degas a but me dragisa baden him each one of them according to their level as Beynon him in other words you have to differentiate you have to tailor-make the expectations to be appropriate to each individual right like any good mechanic therefore says the outfit of the halay Neko above awesome I hereby declare or read about there hava about dabei nene and his love of a Shem ship it feel awesome that they feel during their Davin II GaN Cannes vas a mystique on wad I also call its famous even though it doesn't last forever but he says he gives a user an explanation it doesn't last forever but whenever they want to get it back if they'll put in the work they could always get it back so that in itself is a certain type of constancy that anytime they want to put in and invest the effort they could get the Alpha back so in that way it's constant now what's interesting is one word here honey we know the word ha Dania we say it every day hopefully right attaining Makabe let mr. Sesay show the after layer go make it right hooray me what is hanging mean I hereby it's in the first person I heard a I this is the only place in Tanya except for the dumbest of Malacca where the alternative is speaking as himself but in the body of Tanya in the gang croak him it's the only place for the out there but writes in first person it's very strange why is the alternative saying hey rainy I call it fast I'm mistaken of course you say you wrote the whole book everything here is what you say you hear the question okay so in here the answer I'll tell you though just a few minutes ago before you came in I had the real event the real event was the children's program that we had before I came in for the adults program I bought some beautiful cloth doll at Ava's children's program we sang the Gundam they we had a raffle mark she was beautiful so I told them this fort they followed by the way and I asked if anyone any of the boys there had the name snare and I know I figured you know in a room full of twenty Lubavitcher kids you know statistically speaking I'll probably find one right so there were a few and the one who was not too bashful and it was able to speak up so I said to him perfect I don't know how old the kid was maybe six seven eight I mean I can't judge but I'm not a good judge of how old the kid is but I said to him listen listen I'd want to put you on the spot so if you don't know that's fine but do you know that there's a minute of saying Apothic for yourself and for the rabbit at the end of Sherman si says yeah I'm aware of the minute so I said what's the plastic for schneir so he says it's the plastic you just said I said what is it he's like and he couldn't start us it's fast a mess and then then he rattled off ticking loudly lotion chocolate I said you say that three times a day right shabbos jumped off or asteroid you say four times you can Khepri say five times dr. Eva's name was snare her rainy coda I read this plastic doctor he was talking about himself because every single day he was saying that pausing now just to add to that after heard the fourth and I was walking back to Oh Leto where they had the the dinner for the young professionals so I was thinking a little bit more about it what a beautiful concept that is all today we know you know when the the rabbit told the story about the alpha dismiss it is nefesh for the Yale list for the woman who had given birth and how he he went and he cooked soup for her and he took care of her that ever makes a point saying look you're talking about the Altair ever in the middle of da Vernon could you uh could you think of anything holier than the out together and the out that ever Dominic I mean that's like the pinnacle so every time the Alta Rabbid abend you know you could imagine what kind of diverting you're talking about real space amis and nevertheless the Outernet didn't step back out of SHM an ester until he mentioned our Dominic that's an Aussie three times a day four times our Shabbos Australian y2 five times in Yom Kippur the Altair but didn't finish diving his his Fela as a tonic with real spots and mystique and lot until he mentioned on the rest of us that were also included the nasi lifts us all up to his level beautiful thought at any rate I want to now focus on the life of the alto Demba specifically as we said the last few months which coincide with a period of great turmoil historically in in the world even those who are not familiar with Chabad history and Jewish history are very familiar with this period of time which are the Napoleonic Wars a little bit of a background there was a revolution in France in the late 1700s the 1790s that revolution throughout the king that's putting it nicely they chopped his head off with a guillotine and his whole family and they started a republic and that was a polygon I mean I'm not giving a whole French history but they attempted to get rid of the monarch and install some type of republic and it was the first French Republic and the the thing was a disaster and along came a nobody he didn't come from royal stock I mean a monarch is a is a hereditary position right you have to have your hosts came a guy named Bonaparte Napoleon Bonaparte then he wasn't he wasn't from royal lineage he was a soldier career soldier and you wanted us where's my Shiva Bastion I remember one time remember our Shabbos on long Iowa called the East Hampton remember the shops in East Hampton as years ago my Shero bachchan told me a great vort you remember the vote you told me I'm gonna remind you right now that they asked Napoleon how did he become the Emperor of France and then at one point the Emperor of basically all of Europe he was a nobody with who how did he rise to such prominence so he said to them after the Revolution after they threw out the king the crown was lying on the floor and nobody bothered to bend over and pick it up so I picked it up and I put it on and that's how I became the Emperor remember you told me that I think by the way that itself even though even though Napoleon was a was a real clipper as we're gonna discuss you can learn something from everything you can learn even from Napoleon sometimes the only reason why an opportunity hasn't been seized is just because nobody bothered to seize it and comes along somebody who says hey you know what this thing isn't being done but it can be done and it should be right okay so Napoleon heroes from out of nowhere he becomes this Emperor and he is expanding across he with he who was a soldier so he was a military tactician he is spreading across Europe and he's not just winning battles but he is applying policy see Napoleon interesting interestingly he wasn't he was an emperors and so in that respect who sort of a throwback to the monarchy but he at least ostensibly represented the ideals of the revolution the revolution was a leftist movement to throw out authority so you know liberty fraternity equality that those were the the ideals of the revolution Napoleon officially stood for those ideas liberty fraternity equality and he was a liberator in other words he was giving rights to people who never had rights because if you think about it how was Europe run for centuries from millennia is you had an absolute monarch who ruled by divine right that means every political scientist of the day would say why is it who's the king who why should he rule what do you mean because the image they're installed him there was a concept there was everyone understood that a king is a representative of a chef it's interesting because it says the same thing it says that a head of state is like an antenna the Ashbaugh that comes into the world through the eye in sodom the seventy ministering angels which represent each country to country the seventy always have you know like the seventy wolves surrounding the one lamb so the nations the pro donations that are enumerated in in Patras Nayak there are seventy of them this there's seventy ministering angels a head of state the president a king or whoever is like one of those but he's the embodiment on earth and he sort of acts as a conduit for all the hush ba all of the the affluence of blessing for the the country over which he rules and that's how it was understood a king is is is is is God's representative and you don't mess with him so came Napoleon and he and he sort of rode in on the revolutionary ideas and he was a liberator and he was going around giving rights to people that they never had before now included in those to whom he was giving rights were an oppressed disenfranchised minority in Europe known as the Jews the Jews didn't have rights I mean the Jews had less rights than everybody else and Napoleon came along and he started giving rights to Jews and people were very excited about this to the extent that even in the Hasidic world many of the citizens the tsadikim Tommy they imagined were very Pro Napoleon in fact they almost all were fated looked favorably upon Napoleon coming into Eastern Europe hoping that he would bring some of the liberation into Eastern Europe that he had already installed in Western Europe and there was really one dissenter there was one opposition among the Hasidic brothers meaning the Talmud a hamaji and that was the AL together and in fact there's a letter the Alpha ever wrote a letter to make sure Meisels great cousin Misha myzel czar meislish in fact the letter is in in the book base rather it's also in the egress Kadish of the out that's as different from the Agera sucker you get us ok just a part of Tanya eager Scottish are letters at the Alta barrowton were compiled he wrote a letter that I wrote a letter to Misha miles and he tells Misha miles he says Napoleon as a clipper as a clipper kasha he's a bad guy he there's a kya ha Toma to him he's he's bad stuff he's a he's a spiritual impurity and if he's going to succeed and he's going to conquer Eastern Europe it will be materially beneficial for the Jews they will have rights and they'll have material opportunities but it will be spiritually devastating it will be spiritually there it will lead to assimilation and the Jewish people will will be destroyed cannot let him win we have to support the Tsar and in fact this same issue my souls to whom the letter was written actually stood up as a cross it does when his rabbit tells him something is important and he voted with his feet and he actually helped he assisted tangibly the the effort of the Russians in defeating Napoleon what's the story I'm sure many of us are aware at least a little bit of it because it's mentioned in a high game game there's the hanging above your tests other Shanee anybody has a birthday you test other Shanee anyone who's Bucky and how yangyang you know the high aiming your tests other Shanee okay we'll get to it maisha measles was a polyglot he was multilingual he spoke French German and Russian polish so the Alta Revit told them that he should use his knowledge of languages to get hired by French intelligence and that when he'll be hired by the French intelligence he'll have insight information and then he should smuggle out the information to the Russians to give them an advantage in other words to be a spy so Misha miles was a spy for the Russians against the French and in fact there was one very pivotal contribution that he made it's known that the the French when they were coming into Eastern Europe and they came into Russia they would attack the Armory's I don't know what an armory is right like that there's there's an armory in Brooklyn they don't use it for an armory anymore they use it for you they sought me to see them to make their what the huh file of Kislev but you know what an armory is no an armory is a place where armies keep their stuff it's full of what it's the tanks yeah exactly yeah that's where they keep their armaments that's where they keep their weapons so if you can go and attack an armory you're cutting off the military supply it's it's pretty devastating so the French had already done this and they were next bahding to hit the armory in Vilna Vilna had an armory and Meisha Meisels lived in Vilna which that's a story for another time but Delma was a bastion of his Magnus of opposition to say this and there were a few great Siddim of the alte Deborah who lived in Vilna who were instrumental in in fighting those battles but that's maybe a story for another time maybe you test kiss live but at any rate maisha mies was the one who found out the French were plotting to hit the armory in Vilna he got news to the Russians before it happened they were able to stave off the attack we normally only had a certain amount of guards are guarding an armory but then they reinforced the the the troops and this was considered extremely pivotal to the Russian ultimately to the Russian victory so and in fact the Tsar had instructed his army to provide any support that rabbi bought a Kovich will ask for because he was considered to be such an important asset to the state to the Russian monarchy okay so oh the hame hame i forgot that you tests other shame so the famous story what was the story maisha miles is one time he's in the war room with a bunch of French generals and they had the maps open and they're looking where they're going where the armies are were they going to move them and he's the interpreter and all of a sudden the door flew open he said the door flew open so violently I thought it was the enemy I thought we were being attacked we're all gonna be killed but then I looked and I saw it was Napoleon himself Napoleon he was the Emperor he had generals at this point who did you know who worked on actual battle plans so he wasn't expecting to see Napoleon Napoleon barged in he says Napoleon looks at me I looked a little bit different in my surmise it looked like a from a year right and so he's standing there Orthodox Jew amongst you know these these generals and Napoleon he is immediately looks at me like I'm funny you know something that something got a place and he walked right up to me he says you're a spy and then he took his hand and he put it on my heart and Napoleon apparently he was sort of like a human polygraph test right that could read the heart rate and he could tell if a guilty person was you know if his heart was responding like a like a guilty person he could tell so he came over and he says to me show - you're a spy and then he puts his hand right on my shoe miles his heart when she myzel says what did we learn from the Alpharetta may of sha la la llave that the brain has to rule over the heart so I thought to myself you know what I'm not afraid and that's it I reacted like an innocent person and Napoleon felt that it was like yeah it's okay good and they left and saved his life so let's tell the story now of the last few months of the Alta Devas life where should we begin I think the story really begins Tish above tisha bhav we know is a day of devastation historically for the Jewish people many dates throughout history or many events throughout history occurred on that date and tisha bhav tough hoof iein base the summer of 1812 and the day of Tisha bhav Napoleon entered Russia he crossed the border the boundary into Russia okay from Tish above untold rush era fresh hi - ello so we're talking 20 days from the 9th of of - the 29th of of Napoleon was moving at an incredibly fast pace so much so that from having just entered Russia just having crossed the border i'm tish above already Hoff tests of 20 days later less than three weeks he's already holding by Lea deep now the altered ever we we we know that the alter has spent most of his life in Liana but following the second imprisonment you know the al-khattab it was in prison twice so the first liberation was the liberation that we celebrate you test kissless then there was a second imprisonment in a second liberation which was the liberation of gimel de Hanukkah after the second liberation the alte debe didn't want to go back to Liana and he made his new home in Leo D so the Altair ever lived in Lodi from tough hoof sama Aleph that's 1801 until tough hoof ayan gimel until 1813 meaning that the very end of his life the last 12 years of his life the Alta double left Leo D only because Napoleon was literally hours away from entering the town and he knew that it was not safe for him that if Napoleon comes into the town it's not going to be good so from Tish above when then when Napoleon entered Russia until Hoth tests the 29th of of 20 days later which was aired afresh kadish ello which was also at of Shabbos that year Rasheeda sh ella was on a Shabbos and an air of Shabbos the al together with his entire family picked up from the place where they'd been living for 1213 years and they left at an air of Shabbos and an air of Shabbos you understand what that means an inner of Shabbos I mean just to try to wrap our minds around it we know there's a famous story about you test kiss live when they came and he brought it when they took the outfit ever way to prison maybe but when they brought him toward Pat de Berg you know the story on the air of Shabbos when the Altair ever refused to travel and he told him I'm not going to travel because it's out of Shabbos and what happened the axle broke and then they went to fix the axle and then the horse died and no no no matter what they did they couldn't get the the wagon the budge they understood the outer devil was using some type of powers to make this happen and finally they begged him they said rather fine let us just get to the village we're not going to continue travelling we just get to a nearby village he told him no we're not gonna budge and they spent Shabbos at that spot in fact there was a tree that grew there was outside of the town of Nevel and there were people who knew where it was for many many generations afterwards so the Freda could ever once said it's not such a miracle that the Alka Deb was able to disable the wagon so that they would be forced not to travel on Chavez because Sadiq will never be brought to sin so for this we know he has divine protection the Freda care about rights what's the miracle is it happened so many hours before Shabbos it was hours before Shabbos and the out that I was saying I'm not gonna travel so you see miracles happen and the Alta Devas behalf that he shouldn't have to travel at of Shabbos caught' SLO and of Shabbos ed of Rosh Chodesh I'm a contest of anniversary shovel they were traveling on out of Shabbos not only they traveled on out of Shabbos they didn't get to the town where they spent Chavez to last until 30 minutes before Shabbos so it was a serious issue was life and death it was no joke now Alta dabba left with his family he left with all of his possessions I think there were 60 wagons they were also accompanied by a military guard this was not an honor guard it wasn't for pomp and circumstance it was for protection because it was a war zone and the Alta rebel was a targeted individual so they left Lee Adi they got about 10 miles away and the Alta Devas had stopped we got to go back he told the rest of the entourage you continue at your pace I'm gonna go back with some of the army with some of the soldiers and we're gonna catch up with you so the Alta devil with some of the soldiers they went back to Lee Adi they went to the house valtor Ibis says check the house make sure that everything was taken from the house they went back in the house and they found a few articles that were left is a pair of slippers a couple of other objects so they brought them out they brought them to the Alpha Devin the Alpha says now burn the place to the ground they burnt the out Kaiba's home to the ground they got back in the wagons and they turned around they caught up with the rest of the the to rush hours later the French army arrived with none other than Napoleon himself and Napoleon was asking bring me to the home of rebel Kovich and when they brought him there and he saw it was on fire he was irate after he saw that the house was burnt down he sent out emissaries all over town to ask if anyone has an object they might have received from the Alta rabbit what was this the Alta Reba understood very well what was going to happen that's why he burnt down the house Napoleon like the Alta says was a clipper he had a carrot Toma and he wanted to get hold of an object that the outer ever had owned because an object that it's odd the cones has a connection to the topic and thereby who was going to try to do some type of you know spiritual some black magic and that's what the out there a bit burnt everything down from this by the way we can see the power that's in an object that was handled by it Sadiq we know how the debe gave out two dollars in Contras him and these objects have a holiness have a power to them a real power it's not just a keepsake a memento nostalgia there's a real power in an object that was handled by at Sadiq Nepal hmm so it could be it could so the Clipper could use that power yeah that's the point there's a power to the object and if you use it right you use it right but God forbid the opposite could be and that's how the Polian wanted to do he wanted to get a hold of that object and use it in a negative way so at any rate they they made it to the town about a half an hour before Shabbos and during that whole time they were fleeing and it's interesting the mitla rebus says that they would be receiving news from the front you know it wasn't like it could turn on CNN but word would travel through you know messengers and they had the army with them so seemingly the army had some type of a way of communicating getting messages from the front so they would get messages obviously the messages would take time so they would find things out after it happened I don't know the lag time but the point is the mitla data said that all during this whole to Kufa while they were running he says the alta devil would be openly discussing the current events and he'll be talking about Napoleon and the Tsar and the wars and he said there was such real courage open navour the alta devil would be describing what's happening and it would everything that he was described would happen exactly as he described it the middle it ever says during this time this the this this these last months the Alta bebut was revealing things he never revealed before which will get to him it's a sham I want to talk about at the end so they're they're fleeing when they would have when they would come to a fork in the road it was the outer rubber who would decide which way they're going to go now I should mention they left let me just make sure everyone's awake do you remember when they left what day they left early ID cuff tests are very good era fresh Swedish yellow which is a month before Rosh Hashanah when they left the Alta Deborah said it's very important that we should be in Poltava for Rosh Hashanah now that if I said it everyone knew that they knew that was the goal and it was a reasonable goal they would come to different Forks in the road the Alta never was the one who would say not the army not anyone else he would say which way they're going sometimes the Alta rabba would look from his carriage he was the third carriage in the procession sometimes he would get out of his carriage he would walk into the fork in the road he would lean on his cane and he would enter a state of Vegas and then he would point one direction or the other and that's the they would go at one point they came to a fork in the road now after to give his instructions and the one who would implement it was a grandson i altered of his grandson the midlet of his son that had Menachem Menachem it occurred one time they were travelling and there were many miles after a certain fork in the road and the altar Deb asked when are we arriving at such-and-such village now that village was not on the way that they were going anymore it was on the way that they had just not gone so when Menachem Menachem heard this he realized he messed up that he took them on the wrong way that somehow there was a misunderstanding he went not the way the outfit ever had wanted them to go and he was panicked and he came to the altar and he says we're on the wrong path we can turn around right now and go back and the alte Debbie said fortunate is the grandfather whose grandson follows in his way unfortunate is the grandfather who follows in the grandsons way no we're not turning back now that we're heading this way we're gonna continue and they did not reach Poltava for Rosh Hashanah and for the rest of his life Menachem Menachem blamed himself that a few months later what transpired is what we know what we're commemorating tonight uncarved Allah Davis that the out that ever was nostalgia and doubt that his grandson always felt that if he would have gone the right way and he would have made it - Poltava for OSHA Shana then this whole journey would not have ended as it did Rosh Hashanah somehow it was known I don't know how to decompose things but however they know that if you could blow Schieffer before the other two deacon then your army that you're supporting is gonna win so the Alta rabbit was if he would blow Schaefer first Russia Shana talk about tough hoof I in gimel then then then the Tsar is gonna win and if the Sadiq at Poland meaning the other Familia magid including who you throw caution it says the cousin it's a maggot Arrancar leaner and in fact even Reb levy it took birth achiever I in fact on the way over here I was talking to my son and I mentioned I blame he gets credit Shiva was one of the Pro Napoleon said he kept Palin's my son said maybe it's but did you very mean it was so much on the same page with the Alta rabba so I wish Lima is just this is from the boy but I said you know maybe it's a it was such a lover of Jews maybe he was he was just yet so much so much compassion that he just wanted it to be easier on them push a B'gosh meais and that's the outlet lacunae alma that i'll turn ever agreed that if the napoleon's gonna win B'gosh meais materially it's gonna be it's gonna be beneficial it's gonna be an easier life at any rate russia Shana the cause units are magna to be sort of cousin it sir he got up got it before dawn went to mikvah and he started down in chakras right at the first possible moment and he was diving in quicker than he ever died before in his life until he got to the kiyose and he and then he did the kiss and then after he finished you said the Litvak copped it already they tell me they are Magadh used to call the alpha dab of the Litvak because they were pale uh sure and he was a literature he was from belarus which was little he spoke different than they say get yom tov he said good Yom Tov right he was a lip lock I can tell it's a click they said that's why he was my friend he was Habad and they were the paler show you know the emotional huh gasps at any rate said that Litvak he already happened it he already got it how did the out there ever beat them well everyone who goes on if saw him or anyone has to come on us on their wife before they go to shul knows about this eight sir right you don't have to do two keas in Dominick you can do kiss the first thing in the morning so they're the out that ever got up he did the kiyose and then he went and Arvind later on that Rosh Hashana the alte debe was speaking to the MIT whatever and he said to the military says things have changed now remember we're now we're talking about 41 days is that the right math since the Napolitan to Napoleon entered Russia from Tisch above told Rosh Hashana uh-huh and for these 41 days Napoleon he's winning every battle and he's moving he's moving fast he's trucking and rosh hashanah the alto never says to the mitla robber he says it's changed there's been a change I'm gonna tell you what's gonna happen he's gonna reach mask out he's gonna take Moscow but then he's gonna get turned around and he's gonna have to run away and that's gonna be his ultimate defeat his complete downfall and when the Sydenham heard this they were overjoyed and so this rosh hashanah that that year was was exceptionally labid Akande they said lehayim that napoleon's having his downfall now ed of yom kippur Napoleon took Moscow meeting nine days later right in Kippur is 10 the tenth of Tishri so editing Peter the ninth of of Tishrei so the the alte Libous said an olive tisha and Rosh Hashanah he's gonna take Moscow that's what happened nine days later out of Yom Kippur Napoleon took Moscow afterwards the midlet ever came to the Alta Devin he was crying and he said he he already took Moscow and he's still there he's still there he's not going away you said he's gonna take Moscow but then he's gonna get turned around he's gonna run away and that's gonna be his ultimate downfall he took Moscow and he's staying in Moscow valtor never was davon he had his filling out and he said to the middle of it says you see I'm wearing Philip and I'm only gonna tell you the truth I told you he's gonna take Moscow but he's only gonna hold on to it for a while and then I'm telling you he's gonna run and that's gonna be his ultimate downfall we see also that sometimes that ever tells us something's gonna happen and it doesn't happen in the timeline that we don't we understand that it's gonna happen but in the end what the Dabba says is gonna happen and that's precisely what occurred and it's something that historians study to this day how Napoleon who was so successful was turned around and he had to leave Moscow had the retreat so when the rabbit tells us what's going to happen sooner or later that's exactly what's gonna happen it's actually there's a Horton look at the surface the never speaks about that between the the commandment to make a Michigan intrument it's a V you have a key CICA CICA is heppa eagle so you have an interruption of a very negative thing but between vehicleand pakoda theokoles maisha is gathering the iddin the chordae is they actually put together the michigan there's never a half second some years the yak you'll improve code they are separate so you've got to wait a little bit you got to wait till the next Shabbos but there's not a half sick because once moisture gathers the Jews and says this is what's gonna happen this is what's gonna happen can the law so at any rate the mitla debe was crying he took Moscow he's in Moscow he's still there he's holding it out there but told don't worry you wait and you see he's gonna get turned around from Moscow now I should mention that during that same exact Kufa whether the alter rebbe is telling the middle little bit don't worry let's rewind a few days to shava shava the Shabbos between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur the altar ever was weeping and the middle Arab and that some outside that came to him and they asked him about it and he said that he's thinking about after the after the French have to retreat from Moscow it's still not over he says because as they're retreating and they're going back to France he says I see already the devastation to the Jewish communities that's going to be inflicted by these French soldiers as they go through belarus then they go through white russia and out the rebel was weeping about this and indeed that was the case that even after they were defeated but you know they there were pogroms as the the french retreated back through belarus you know never never pass up an opportunity to inflict violence upon the jews i guess so it's a month later okay ed of Yom Kippur is when Napoleon took Moscow okay a month later now two months later two months and one day later so from air of Yom Kippur until your kiss life two months one day it was months of Shabbos Pasha's for yet say the altar ever turned to the Sydenham and he said this is it it's here the downfall is coming he's going to be run out of Moscow okay two months after Napoleon conquered Moscow and it still didn't happen but on the 15th of Kislev five days after that months of Shabbos when the alford ever said it's going to happen whether does anyone know what the 15th of Kislev is tes love kiss live have any Hebdo Kadisha fasting very good so shortest day of the year yeah so the Alpha Deb was in the cavalry kanesha and he would fast that day as was his custom all his life were at least even since his young years when he became a member of public addition so when he broke the fast at the end of tests love kiss slave at the break fast he said lehayim today he was chased out of Moscow remember I told you before there's no CNN you had to wait for news to come from the front they waited they waited finally what day did they get news did they get confirmation that Napoleon was chased out of Moscow let me see if anyone knows here Hasidic trivia although we can't call trivia because nothing considers cat is trivial but there's a day of the year that's called yeah ha basura the day of good tidings does anyone know the game of bisoder the day of good the day a lot of good things happen on that day starting with the liberation of the Alta render your test kiss Lavoisier member soda there's a safer Silas a Childress minish shamayim and over there it says that you'd test kiss liver the a member Sudha so on your test kiss live they got the news that indeed it was as the out that ever had said Napoleon had been chased out of Moscow there it was now they were still not done running they had to I mean they were living out of wagons and they couldn't go back remember the the land had been devastated there were they were they were still soldiers there even though they were retreating they had to find a place to settle and in fact this is an important thing to remember the Midler rabbit was not present with the alto debe at his historical because mitla rebel was sent on a special slickest to scout out possible towns where they would settle and when the outer Deborah was nostalgic coughed a lot Davis the midlet ever was in Kremenchuk come on shook was a seditious doctor became even more later generations so the mitla Deborah was scouting out that maybe they were gonna live there and that's where he was when the when the altered ever was nostalgia Polian had been chased out of moscow and the eighth of tavis they arrived in the village of piano piano we know that we know piano because that's the last place with the outfit ever lived and he lived there for sixteen days now i mentioned you before the mitla dub had said that during that whole to Kufa that hundred forty some days that the alto Deb was speaking open navour the whole time I I should add also that the alto Deborah was revealing sidess on a totally new level the entire time and especially those last 16 days from the 8th of tavis till the 24th of tavis two and a half weeks the Alta dabit was revealing see this on a level unprecedented and during those 16 days altima wrote two very very important works of a cities he wrote what later became simming HOF of a ghetto sock a dish and an essay known as nefesh Fela the humble soul and they both are about the same topic what topic are they both about the outer ever brought out a whole new perspective on the value of physicality that it's not just like we think you know and Tonya talks about the outfit ever broader that's me yeah that's what I sound like I got to stop talking it's always weird to hear your own voice recorded we know and Tonya and put om la Matt Hale I'm involved lemon Zion so over there talks about Mitsu spiciest get up attack attain him but over there what does the altered ever say he says why is my see important why is the stuff that you do in the physical world with a body important he says because it's a usin element equation basically because this world is the lowest world so the image there appreciates it most you know it's like when you're really thirsty you appreciate a glass of water so when it's in a dark place you really appreciate the light and the later see this that the algebra is ready mamas the last days of his life he brought out a whole new level he starts explaining know in the whole stay that is doubtless in all of the world's the only place where you can really experience the essence of godliness is in the physical world that in the spiritual world that's gilliam that's fireworks but down here with a body with a simple action that's Ausmus that by the way is one of the theme boss Allah Ghani and now we're coming up to your shot and see them are thinking already in terms of Wasilla Ghani and you trot and caballes and Macias that's one of the themes there in the minor as well that that in the physical world you have the greatest ability to actually have godliness then in the spiritual world you see godliness in the physical world you could actually be godliness because you can become an extension of a Shems will by surrendering yourself to his mitzvahs at any rate and it's all because you the the physical world is it reflects the idea of Hashem optimist that just like Hashem has no precedent nothing came before him nothing caused him to be the physical world is the only place and also their spouses that sees its it sees its reality as if it came from nowhere as if it just exists by itself and even though it's incorrect but the fact that it can even see it that way shows that there's a certain truth to it which is that the physical world is the one place we can actually become one with God not like in the spiritual worlds where they watch God they behold God they're impressed by God this is where you become one with him through mitzvahs mices the fiddler could ever wrote there from the cities that the alta baroque per se from of in the last days of his life he brought out he opened up a new mayan you know we talked about to see this is her father Sammy honest so there was a new Mayan a new spring opened up just those last few days now I also think it's to die for us to think about this something that the the the never pointed out that it was Daphne in the end of the altar of his life Bal Medina in this physical world where the deepest cities came out and that ever said that Saavik as he approaches the climax the culmination of his life so the essence of his teachings start to become revealed and I think I mean for us and darish v it's so clear things that out that things that there debe was was I wouldn't want to say hinting at because that ever spoke clearly but saying in a gentle way in tough Shinya Dolloff that ever was saying in such a powerful way suction and I'll lift ocean and base that habit brought that the essence of his teachings the real the core of his message which is Messiah that came out in the last sickness in the later years in the most revealed and most potent way and they never said this on the Alta rabbit we see this with its I think it's interesting because in the world you have a teacher you have a quorum and he's he's considered an expert and everybody relies on him but then towards the end of his life people don't rely on him because they say maybe he's not so sharp anymore maybe he lost his edge but with Talmudic a corpsman and at Sadiq and especially enough see it's the exact opposite because his whole life is spirituality so even though packet in those those days the out that Eva's body was deteriorating the alternative physically because of the the traveling in the journey in dogmas nefesh he physically was getting weaker but spiritually he was getting stronger and stronger and stronger so that his deepest sadness which was the core of his message all along was coming out in those last days coughs Dalit atheist as we mentioned was ultimately the Alton abysus tulkus it was a matzo Shabbos the alter rebbe divan vitamin abdullah actually he made Abdullah and avid might have in that order and what's a Shabbos he was nostalgic in Vienna and he was buried nearby in havoc now that's basically the biography but I wanted to also speak a little bit about some of the deeper significance of the alte Devi's opposition to Napoleon especially in light of some things that the rabis said particularly in in the later years the alte debe vehemently opposed Napoleon as we've said at the very beginning and and he gave the reason why that Napoleon would bring rights and and and material prosperity to the Jews but spiritually it would be devastating for them would lead to assimilation as I mentioned Napoleon was a liberating force he represented the Revolution which was a leftist movement to throw out the established authority a monarchy and basically what that means is that the spirit of liberation that the that that Napoleon represented was a poison a spiritual poison which had to be opposed at all costs now here's the thing in torsion on bass interestingly enough we're mentioning how that Eva's deepest teachings came out in the later series Shabbos ma volkema Kadish Davis Shabbos parshas variation there was the French Fabian there are a group of French balla bottom people who had contributed a bunch of money to the shiven brunoise and the rabbit was clearly acknowledging them and one point they saying there is for Munna to the tune of the Messiah the way that ever taught it simcha Stata tuff Chien llama Dalit some castrated optional Amidala that ever saying oh there is my monitor yeah so they saying that and that ever started speaking about so fast so fast as the biblical hebrew fir for friends and how it's become a tree of 770 which is also parrots de which means breaking forth bursting through barriers and started speaking about how french values the liberation ideology the throwing off of old convention and old authority which used to be spiritual poison in which the alte debe therefore had to oppose has been transformed into a positive force that we can use I think it's important to point this out the rabbit did not change the position from what the Alta never established should that ever stuck to the Alta Devi's position and said that this is how the is applied in our day and age because conditions are different it's I don't want to bring in you know an elephant in the room and distract everybody but maybe it's a good Marshall maybe it's a terrible Marshall because it'll distract people with a whole new train of thought but for instance for instance can just indulge me and then promise to end this conversation and go back to our main conversation but as I'm Marshall I want to get Dogma people who don't understand that as about Cicero might think that you know the rebel Shaab was anti-zionist and and and the Vedic Arab was anti Zionist and there ever was such a big supporter of the the political military strength of Israel and but the truth is is not a reversal of position I mean in hi a Mian which is the dead was safer he includes teachings of the free to grab which say how people shouldn't put their hopes in having a political state and that it's false hopes and it's it was even says worse more negative things than that so that ever wasn't a Zionist he never became a Zionist but the way to ensure safety and security of Jews was to support the the state as a political and military entity so it wasn't the change in in in the policies it was a change in the way the facts on the ground had had changed and therefore to remain consistent you have to change the way that you apply things so again I said I don't want to get off into that as a there's a whole side conversation but the drabers approach was the same as the alter Davis approach it's just in the in the Alta Davis time this this liberalism of a French revolutionary idealism wit was a clipper it was about pre castle liberalism was just throwing off all of the convention all the authority and why because remember remember we might not be able to relate to this so well because we don't we never had a king so we think a king is a weird thing but people believed in Kings I mentioned earlier at the beginning of the talk why do people believe in Kings because they believe that King had divine right who thought he was a representative of God so the reason people believed in Kings because they had some level of recognition that there there's a creator so it was a wholesome thing was a good thing that they represented a king and then for the revolutionaries to come in and get rid of the King it was it was it smacked of atheism or you know you're there sort of been a macabre it was throwing off the yoke of heaven and fighting against divine authority now by though it's interesting you're gonna say hold on a second there was an American Revolution too so they ever actually mentioned that the American Revolution 1776 which was during the time when the Alta Deborah was in mez ditch they never said that was a different kind of a revolution because the other revolutions were to throw off the yoke of heaven it was against God the American Revolution was using the belief in God right that all men were endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights and that the founding fathers were all believers whether there were deists or theists that's a discussion for another time exactly the what their theology was but the point is they believed in revolution because of their belief in God and the debet points out and that's why America was successful why America has had longevity and in fact I don't know people realize this but do you know the oldest existing government in the world it's very surprising because you know you go to Europe you go to England let's say and you stay in a house that's 500 years old it's not even a historical landmark it's just houses are 500 years old and in America there's something 100 years old it's you know it's ancient right I think the oldest Chabad House I've ever been in is in Marion Station Pennsylvania they bought a building from there was built 1695 which is the times of the Baal Shem Tov I think that's the oldest building that became a Chabad House you know that's ancient in America 1695 that ain't right and Europe 500 years 607 you go to air - so now things are a thousand years 2,000 years you know the crazy also the 2,000 years old right but surprisingly what's the oldest continuously existing government in the world the United States of America so even though it was a revolution but it was a theistic revolution was a revolution that was based on freedom of religion or like it like that ever pointed out not freedom from the freedom of religion freedom to practice religion and and and the belief in God and therefore it was it was miraculous it was blessed and it continues to this day the French they're their revolution I remember I told you they threw out the King and they put in a republic the republic didn't last i don't think it lasted a decade but you know how many republics france has had since their revolution i think they're in their fifth republic i think with the goal in the 50s they started the fifth republic and still go until now but every every 50 years they're changing it up making a new government why because it wasn't it wasn't based on God and therefore it's it's fleeting changes it's based on humanism it's based on you know a precursor but here's the kiddush that ever said that attitude of a freedom we could do it every wand we could throw off a thority at the time of the Alton Abbot was poison and it had to be addressed like that and that's what the outfit was my surname should die we know that his fight against Napoleon let's say it bluntly the Alpha Devas fight against Napoleon is what precipitated in his demise so he was nice in that wish to fight that clipper yet that ever comes out shabbos more from Kadish Davis Pasha's Valley a shift option and base and the rebel says now we can use it he said the spirit of Liberty fraternity quality the French liberalism the openness we can use it we're at a point now we're so close to Messiah we don't have to be afraid of it using us we have the ball about this cut we own it and then they never pointed out which is why we took their song we took them I say we turned it into our dentistry I'm gonna Latoya alum in which praises of Shem is the one who is eternal and and and exists forever so we're the boss we can use it and whatever even says an interesting thing there there's a concept in tighter of following meaning of monogamous there's an interesting concept the Kyra in English kite you have to have your print fools you don't change you don't fear you don't adapt and then ever since but yet in Toyota there's a concept of monogamy that when you're in a place you follow the style of the place so then episode what does that mean that different times and junctures in history there's a different rule and you have to know how to use it the right way so in the time of the alta dabba leftist revolutionary liberation ideology had to be opposed at all costs in our day so close to Messiah we could use it there are no limits you can do anything you want nobody can stop you you have all the freedom in the world we can be as Jewish as openly as we want to be we just have to have the right end that we have to understand the opportunity that it affords us now with any of us step forward and make that judgment call no but the rebus stood up in 1992 and he said we came to a new place we came to a new juncture in history and that the things that used to be a curse are now blessings so yeah if your great great great great grandparents would have suddenly had the affluence and the freedom that you have it would have been terrible for them but their ever says let's let's let's hear this that if you have affluence you have money and opportunity and freedom and you can go where you want and do what you want and nobody could stop you that's a blessing because you know how to use it that's real they're re-type stuff right like the out the debits to see them couldn't handle it we can handle it okay it wasn't our choice it wasn't our Aveda but we're dentistry we live in unique times we live in a time where we can use something that used to be a curse we can use it as a blessing we can use it as an opportunity see we went a little bit over time already so I'll just wrap up by saying just like the mitla debe says that in those last few months there was open real hakodesh and that the Alta rabbit was explaining everything that was going on in the world and revealing new depth of Sidis I think it's could die for us and dentistry to remember how the last see us the rabbit is describing reality and the depth is at the cutting edge and he's telling us exactly what's happening what's unfolding before our eyes serious stuff exciting stuff okay thanks [Applause]