What Is Shlichus? • Rabbi Michoel Dahan

in me giml in the summer me giml I was head counselor in the day camp and I wrote the I wrote to and I received a letter from the is dated and is a you know kind of a like a letter that sends many people who wrote a for the new year so the is giving for the new year and uh my letter was not about the new year. It was the end of camp. I sent a d I sent a a p that I made the children write, sent pictures. I received this letter at the end of so it's about two months after it was written. I got the letter was in and the writes. So for a to get especially when you're still in Shiva is something very strange. I mean not strange very rare >> unusual. Thank you. And and I so already then the says the writes um and then in pen and the was included in the were received and they would be read at the and then the whole for the new year. At the end of the letter is typed and before the signature the writes with a pen. So the lions is also unusual. Yes. Success in education of Jewish children. A proper Jewish education pure education. And then the rebite here. This is I would say the third letter that I the third answer that I got from the Reb that put me in a shock. I was then I was 18 years old maybe 19 years old and I thought that means going to a city. You take over the world. You turn around the city. you make this and you open school and this and the other is before was printed you know and uh that's the way that's the way I understood and this was my dream this is what I wanted to do and I saw in this letter as if the is directing me to give me so of course I went to the mash I went to listen the letter and I said listen is the telling me that I should work on on in so listen look at the letter and he says what did you write? I said camp said, "Oh, you wrote to the gin." I said, "Listen, I like your answer, but you know, this is talking here. It's not just you wrote, he wrote, right? So, what what so he said, don't worry." So I was happy thinking that maybe my is not going to be in and as I said I tried all kind of different things when I was I went on in you know very interesting places you know being a Frenchy in70 by the way we're not that many as many as today those years maybe were thousand Frenches >> there were there were French guests particip not not learning >> oh thousands of course but 770 a whole year in 770 were maybe a dozen And we don't get much privileges but one privilege we got is that my English speaking friends went to Milwaukee you know I went to I went to the Caribbeans I went to Africa you know places where I speak French >> so so I I I that's where I saw myself and like I said after I got married I went on everything was fine the whatever but they had a different And it's about 10 years after this letter, 11 years after I got this letter, I ended up in Montreal and uh ever since this is what is and I don't see myself doing anything else and I tell people who think that is a cup out you want to you want to be a at the same time you want to have fresh uh baked goods and your kids in a it's not a copout. It's a talent. If you have the talent, the chose you to go on that. If your talent is to talk to people to student university you know there isn't in the letter that sent before he says we should go speak in the should go and speak to the youth there is you know there is different if you are if you are fit to speak as a rabbi in a that's your job That's if you are fit, if you are talented to be able to have an influence on the youngsters, that is so basically is not necessarily what you want. It is what the Reb wants you to do. >> Well, what's the job to chop? That's also that's also because by definition is doing the will and the of the not about your career. It's about it's about fulfilling the that was given to you. So, you know, maybe da if you if you're doing the that you didn't think you're going to be doing, you're you're you're doing it more for the right reason for for for the for the male. So,