Veyadata #1 Mitzva to Know G-d not just believe in Him - History of Raayatz in Latvia 1930s

so this mimer that we're about to begin learning it's on page if you're using the memorable look at uh mulkatim of the previous rep of volume 3 it's on page 203 there but actually the meiber was said shabbos pasta's pakude excuse me tough fresh sodic base 1932 in a city called pastov i believe somewhere in lithuania let me give you a little history and background and that is that the previous rabbit of yazoo yitzhak once he was forced out of russia he moved he moved to to riga latvia it was really a temporary a place for him it wasn't where he planned on settling and the simple reason is because his heart and soul was with the russian his his brothers and sisters in russia and he was hopeful that he might you know might be able to return there and even if not riga was very um you know like yakish and it it there weren't many hasidim there not just it wasn't a bastion for hasidim so the rebbe as a labacher who would and everything else this was something that he wasn't he didn't feel he'll have the greatest exposure and ability to do that there and they won't be appreciated because the culture of hasidic judaism and riga like uh judaism was like night and day nevertheless he persisted while he was there to teach and share and inspire and he accomplished a great deal especially through the help of two individuals rabbi khadikov who became later a secretary of his and then the rebels when he came to america mordechai isaac khadakov and the other one was rabbi mark heideuben who was actually a parliamentary member of the latvian government who was influential in helping defeat the kireba in the in various things throughout the years that he was there and even later uh so those two individuals were very were lubavitchers and and and very close to the previous celeb and they were very helpful but nevertheless uh riga was never a place where he really you know could call home so one so throughout the 1930s it from his letters it it shows that he was looking to move and was hopeful that uh america would be a place for him so in 1930 29 30 when he came to america and he visited chicago detroit st louis uh of course new york and brooklyn and bronx and and other cities um in 1930 in either may or june he he writes to his um secretary who communicates it to to other people he wrote to some other people that unfortunately he decided he's not going to move to america now because because he was disappointed in the in the um the level of yiddishkeit and i guess also the level of support and interest um it was uh disappointing for what he was hoping for so although there was a bikush a a strong desire of his hasidim in america in new york and chicago in particular to have the rabbit move to either of those cities the rabbit changed his mind and made a quick u-turn and returned to america in july of 1930 and said that uh he's not moving so that was one at that time at that time so the question is where do you go from here so he he he was hoping to go to poland to warsaw because varsha warsaw was really a heavy uh area of of of yiddish kite both you know secular yiddish tried and from yiddish hasidic judaism the garrick hasid and the amsterdam um the the um what's it called the alexander khasid poland was very very large and krakow and warsaw up and down lublin up and down you had mayor shapiro and he started it was it was happening giddeshka was really really the center of yiddish kite in the 30s was not in russia because stalin shut everything down but it wasn't in poland so that ebba hoped to move there and indeed in 1933 uh he moved i believe to to uh to warsaw and then he and and he also had another rule that he wants a yeshiva of his to be near him because the babashi yeshiva and the the dynasty of chabad were always from the rabara shab's time when he started the yeshiva in 1897 they went hand in hand so for example where was the the the the the shul and and the place of of the rebel assad was in the the courtyard of the yeshiva and that's where they lived and then that's what they forbranged and that's where they dove and then the cemetery was nearby everything was there and the mitchell was there etc etc so that's what he wanted also so he couldn't get that in in latvia and rigalatvia so he was hoping to do that in warsaw because in warsaw from 1921 on there was a yeshiva alibaba that was founded and he had a lot of nakas from the yeshiva in fact he said once the yeshiva in warsaw poland is similar to what the yeshiva was in lubavitch and the yeshiva lubavitch was a one-of-a-kind yeshiva very hasidic to seven hours they learned kimura i heard this from from one of the students that some students would not would avoid going to the bathroom because they didn't want to break their studies seven consecutive hours of learning so it was a very very strong yeshiva both nigler talmud and hasidis as well of course and the main was the hasidis and the and the darwining voider and the mashpeem the fabregas it was a a life change for those that came to the yeshiva and stayed with the program not everyone stayed but those that stayed became real real from yidden and very pious so he wanted to have the same thing in poland that he felt that in warsaw he could have it because of the yeshiva because it started in 21 and it was so good so he moved in 33 he moved to um to uh to warsaw and he was there for two years and then he because of his health and other reasons he moved to optus which is i was there it's a suburb of of warsaw about 22 minutes 20 25 minutes outside of warsaw and um they found a beautiful house and i was at their property uh and it has a great backyard with trees uh uh what was like considered the countryside of one of the countrysides of warsaw and it was a better air supposedly because of the air pattern i don't understand it but it because it's so close to warsaw but um the the trees a lot a lot of trees and the greenery the trees and the in the air pattern made it a place at foots for uh even healing the tuberculosis there were sanitariums there that were specially made for healing of tuberculosis so they never moved over there because he he did suffer from you know out of his ms or als or or tuberculosis but never had a you know an illness that required him to have better air so he moved there and he moved the yeshiva from warsaw in 1935 he moved it to atvatsk so again the yeshiva was near him this mimer that we have that we're going to study now was said in 1932 and during those years from 1930 to 30 from actually earlier when he left in uh 27 until 19 um to 1933 when it went to poland he traveled to so first territory 29 and then america and the 30 was in america and then at 31 and 32 he traveled around to different cities where there were you know the babbage uh post outpost uh either a small haider or yeshiva or some khasid and they you know they wanted the rabbit to come because they they for them traveling was much more difficult and um they wanted to have here see the rebel and here hasid is from him and have you heard this with him and they have private audience so this is one of the places where they ever visited was passed off and it and and this is a mimer that the rabbit said there on the um on the shabbos uh parshas pakude okay so that's what we're about to learn okay are we ready okay for your dieter skip the little uh you know introduction we'll go right to the mimer it begins with the words it's a passage in deuteronomy um no in in your volume you should have volume three of the safer we're using page 203 203. you're welcome the auditor you should know today and you should make your heart be attentive to what ki hashem who ali kim to the fact that god is elokim that the youth cave buffeke the church of gramatin the name of god that's the holiest of the seven names of god which equals twenty six which is known as havaya yudkeva fk the four letter name it is uh elokim it is god but it is god in the form of another name of god i.e the name elokim and we'll talk about that later but this idea that havayah who hello kim is in the heaven from of of above the allah and on earth mitakas from below ain't there's nothing besides god now this verse has become a mainstay in habakkuk thinking and uh and maybe even in brazil of course saying this where they talk about enlightenment but this this verse encapsulates the approach of using the das a person's brains a person's intelligence intelligent fact faculties to comprehend how it is that god the supernal infinite god is one with the god that is limited to nature and we're going to talk about that but this is not just another verse in the titan and you look at look at look at look at the opening of the verse the odeito hayoim you should know so the word is you should have das meaning you should really focus and concentrate on this that itself is very pr uh very important number two what should you do how you aim today now vacher voice you should make your heart be attentive in other words it's not enough to have your dot for your data to have the knowledge even if the knowledge is so profound that you are able to focus and concentrate on it which is the idea of das but that's not adequate you have to get your heart to be hashe vaso what does hashem mean attentive you know there's listening and there's listening sometimes you listen it goes in from the right ear through the left and from the left back to the right and it comes out and you don't have any idea what was said and you have it's like you never heard it at first the first in the first place why is that because there was no hashi vasa there was just a cursory you know hearing and listening but if you want something to really penetrate and make a difference and make an impact for that you need vaccine you need to have make your heart be attentive kihavaya who ellie kim and and and what is it that i have to make that i have to a for your diet i have to really focus and concentrate on which is the idea of dos and number two that i need to make my heart be attentive to it and kind of so it results in a feeling of the heart that you'd kevke is elokim because elohim is nature and nature doesn't be speak the supernatural god the transcendental god the miraculous god nature talks of nature and the nature of fact which equals 86 which is the same gematria as the word hotev the nature it conceals god so the verse is telling you you should know and make your heart be attentive that it's not that way that havayah who elokim that in nature there is the utke buff gay the infinite god the supernatural god and it's so true that this is the case by miami mao that it's in the heaven and what's above heaven from above the allah orders and it's on earth from up below anoint obviously this these words aren't extra redundant words but they refer to much more profound ideas as we will discuss in the mimer i also wanted to say that i forgot a moment ago to tell you when i gave the the monologue is that this mimer was set in post of because impostor like in the other cities in lithuania you had a lot of literature lit lit to address the the crowds and the overall environment of the area so even though maybe it was said in alabama maybe it was said and then there where they were khasid and the lit fox didn't come the fact is the fact is that that they would hear about it because one person tells the other and in those days you should know there wasn't this hashem today there's much less of it but there wasn't this animosity and fighting between see them and snag them and lit fox happens to be in those days there was a very good relationship and the was really a cultural thing so you could have two people living side by side one was a real lit one was a real closet and they shop together and they ate together they spoke together and they left together they cried together there wasn't such a thing maybe maybe the only thing that they did differently is they dive in the different block so you have the karl box sure you have the kabat shoe you have the minion factory lit visual and you have rubbish elevator and you have ace cold dish and you have the other shoe the marshall which they call i think now so i was told the touristy show right you're naming it for a tour scale of a show whatever the case each shoe has it's all different orientation depending on what you want to gravitate towards and live with and all that that's the sh shall you choose but really everyone was kind of friends and and together so that evan knew that so by saying that my mercy is on such a verse which is you'll see it's a deep minor and very profound and intellectual in the sense that these concepts that we have to really think about it it it it fits in to the lit fish mindset the lichfish mindset is a very intellectual mindset of study and selling the literature mindset you know a heart without mind usually doesn't work once they're impacted by the mind they're willing to hear more about the heart in fact i read and i think i told you this many a long time ago that the altar ebba was known as the lit the previous rapper writes this the alternate because it came from lithuania so the rebel once said that the altar ebba how did he what style and approach did he use to share this with with the lit with everyone including the literature world was he impressed them first with his knowledge in nigler in talbot and so first he was known as [Applause] and when they heard that and they learned and they saw his great depth in sukhum and all that they said oh this is a man we can respect he talks our language he thinks our way little do they know that he doesn't think their way because he's a hostage and he believed in the bel-shemptiv when he learned from the balshampton in the market of mizritch but they were open to hearing from such a person because such a person teaches hasidis that means it's coming from a place which they call the elite fishing world the right place the right place is nigler you come in shooting hasidis and janis and i have had occasions over the years to discuss this living in betramish and different they're going to different clothes and people and all that and shoes and sometimes you get kind of