Yud Beis Tammuz Farbrengen 2021 - Stories of Self Sacrifice - Relevance of Day in the 21st Century

we'll make uh a little fabregan it should base thomas good yamchiv today is the day when our rabbit afraid who we we really learn is my modern and i share by the way i've been sharing i've been fabrega here in various places last night we were bringing until 11 30 at night huh and us in hollywood in a in a chabad anash community it's called walnut creek it's like a little enclave in hollywood and uh there must have been about uh you know 30 a nosh that came or so and um i mentioned to them that we learned the future what yeah does the word anas just mean like balabatim is that the implication of that term well anash is an acronym for slow maintenance yeah but it means like our for fraternity so the anasha bells is the anasha bells the those that anash part of the this casitas or this movement or whatever the it could be i don't know i don't i don't know if you if i if i've ever heard i've only seen that but that's what's going to be my question i've only seen that in the safer tanya that that particular phrase so i just wonder if it's commonly used in other groups it's not commonly used in other groups no no anyway so uh i encourage them to learn the fluid cabinets by modern that's my last campaign and shabbos i was in boca raton and if i played over there and encouraged them you know the rap is my modern you know we've discussed this at different times need to be learned but they're a different type you know and in a way much more difficult and it's it's haskola it's it's more intellectual without you need a lot of background he's my mottom lend himself to definitely a sheer barabbin and you know psychological and emotional characteristics and of course we have ideas in it so just you know that's something that um like i shared the word that we learned yesterday about hashem hashem the kenu i told i sent it over last night and two you know hardcore laboratories i saw they want to know where the mimer is and they want to look it up and they want to learn it i'm saying you know so you should know that our learning in the morning is a springboard to to draw many other people in it's amazing how from our little sheer here we could you know accomplish so much anyway so today's with bass thomas and and you should also know that we that i thought of it this morning and saying so beautiful but hillary that's only one day but it's a good beginning it's a good beginning so you know um today uh in 1927 due to math almost a hundred years ago is the day when the the frida kerabid of youtube was liberated from his um imprisonment from his hard labor gimmel thomas of that year another week and a half before they told him that they won't kill him they'll have mercy on him and they'll let him die in jail by sending him away and starving him and with typhus and everything else he went to a place called it was sent to a place called castra and uh on your base tamils they told him he's a free man but like our good you know russian brethren uh they don't let you out even though they gave you they told you why because the officers were closed so why don't they wait to tell them to the next day on your gimble no they tell him it's all part of their evil they tell him on the 12th but meanwhile he has to sit in jail another day it's all to try to break break the person that however when he spoke about this several times he said that's what they had in mind but what we've benefited is that we gained an extra day of jumped and we don't say talking for two days and you know it's not just you know a funny fact it's an attitude that that ever shares it's an approach what it's very rare not to say it's very rare not to say if you know your side kabat says and by the way we're not the only hasidis uh the the square has in chernobyl they also say on every yard site of when many other hasidic groups don't they do say except on their own rabbis your side i'm based listen they don't so we're not the only ones in this but anyway the point is that the message from this fact that ebba said is that when you have something negative happen or it seems to be negative and then later on you you see that there's a positive there was a positive twist to it so but what happened what happened is that uh in 1920 in 1920 before the rabbit asha passed away he called his son on i think on his birthday which happens to be your base thomas is the frieza canada's birthday he was born in 1880 he called him in and he said it should be he wished him a brother and he said he said it should be behested of with kindness and mercy now he was how old he was 40 years old he was a grown man with children very active and everything else and his father gives them such a wish such a brother and the and then then after that pissed away so he didn't know what to make of it so he writes in his uh memoirs he writes that it took me seven years to understand the broker that my father gave me seven years ago only in 1927 when i was i was taken away on the 15th of seven until gimmel thomas and then you based thomas i understood my father's broker of seven years ago that what will happen to me in my life should be because in those years from 1922 when stalin came out with his edict of um of being anti-religion and all that and tita um those were very very hard years for all of russian jewelry uh and many of them left if they were able to escape territory or to america most literature others they they tried to get out ramosa feinstein uh who who was uh rav in a city called lu ban which is in russia he he tried in the early 30s of the 20 late 20s and 30s to get out i printed it in documents they i got hold of the the tick the file of ramosa's trying to make aliyah he wanted to come to eretz's role and the documents show clearly he tried once and he tried and they gave and they gave him they gave him permission they gave him a visa but for some reason he didn't apply in time so he missed one deadline and by the time he came it was too late he had to reapply the bottom line is he didn't come territorial he came to america but for years i think like four or five years he was actively involved in getting himself and his family out and so other abundant to his people to his hasidim we need to stay here to save jewry we as a general rule should not believe there were individuals that he sent to america but you can count them on your hands he had the policy to continue yiddish kite teaching talmud teres and mikvis and everything else in the underground and what he created was a network called the underground network the clandestine operation of yiddish kite in the heart of the lion and it's it's it's known and uh sadly in a way that uh many of those people never uh never they were killed they were murdered or starved but the rabbi the rabbit demanded messiness self-sacrifice i just came from shul and there's uh a hussed his name is rabbi ichidrism he was the first shliaf to berkeley california he came to berkeley in 1972 and he bought he opened the the bad house there be rabbit and bought the chabadas but he was the first rabbi to get and then he hired rabbi citron was in los angeles so this rabbi jerusalem his father was one of my mashpeem was elder hussein slash mayor he came from a little city a village whatever called mayor so they called him and he was really really uh a lively hussit a smart clustered he had nine children and the kgb was after him eight out of the nine were born in different cities because he was on the run no one had more than two three four children in those days you couldn't and and avraham a year somehow did i remember in 1983 when i came back from los angeles as a as a shiva and so i asked him to teach us and tanya so he said sure so we met in the shul i remember the winter was cold and we met in the shul it was a light on and from the tanya he told us warrior stories he told us stories of how he survived and beat the kgb fascinating i wish we didn't tape it i wish i would have taped it because it was like stories out of uh you couldn't believe it i'll give you an example he once he said he put on a long what they call a trench coat coat right and and so he and he had had deep pockets and very deep pockets so he was able to i think maybe holds trillion all the way down in his deep pocket and and the agents didn't pick it up i mean he came up with all kinds of clever ways how to how to beat them so this avromayor and he would say the following he would say like this anyone that's not ready to give themself to allow themselves to be slaughtered there's nothing with all your tell you and all you mixed with if you're not ready to go to the shrita forget it now you imagine and and he defeated could ever made that they will do or die for yiddish guide anything they will continue on the underground with the mcpherson tomatoes and if they kill you they kill you and they say that he was one of the ten that i'm ready so he would talk you know you know those uh disrupt and discuss it and all this one second he says are you ready to let yourself be slaughtered you're not ready okay you're a good guy but you're not you're not in yet yes moishe hey rabbit dolphin do we know who those 10 individuals were um i i do not know i cannot tell you exactly who the ten are there was uh someone named paul tover during the con they say benja shemtif so you know you hear names but um i don't believe that there's any document showing who the 10 are but you know it's something maybe i could ask i doubt it anyway okay just curious yes i'm curious too i've i've thought about your question for years you know but the point being the point being that this this dedication to yeah you can search the archives of the kgb today maybe you can find them online yeah maybe maybe that's a joke yeah right right i got it anyway the the point is that the frida kedabba he was mr mercedes nephesh and because of this when he came to america in 1930 to visit and later in 40 to settle he was given the red carpet by everyone by everyone cross it not closer jewel have the because when they heard that this person gave his life and was ready to die for for for god so i'll give you an example rabbi eliasa silver you've heard that name rabbi elijah silver was the head of the orthodox union of rabbanim in the uh 30s 40s and 50s until his passing the late 60s he was a a lit a great talmud a rav and an activist and he loved he loved every year was he yeah well is he the same rabbi silver yeah yeah yeah but but he before it was called the goddess rabbit whatever yeah and and and when the friday cadet needed visas to to save his students who were in poland when the nazis imagine bombarded and started their campaign and all that rabbi silver single-handedly got for defeated cannabis his son-in-law the visas you know and and there was no there was no i'm elite for sure i should give it first to the literature yes had an open door by everyone because they all knew let's call a spade a spade they ran away from russia they saved their hide okay that's a fact and this man stays and not only does he stay those conceited at this day so you you you know with that you can't say and by the way this attitude spilled over in a positive way in the 60s 70s 80s when chabad had an active organization called ezra helping the brothers where there were russian khasid who paid to america they they had an organization to help russian jews when they started to come over in the late 60s and 70s and they would send packages of food and in many ways they helped the russian jews in in in in america and they helped also those state who still were in russia and there too it's amazing let's say a shoe like uh in long island blue uh a big young israel very prominent young israel forget now the ref's name and he will what rabbi billet yes hershey yes yes you know it's it's a very prominent young israel for where wealthy people and you know it's a it it's a whole it's it's it's a a city for itself and when these people from azerbaijan asked him to to solicit people to raise money he did it he did it without a question and he's a he's a student he was a student to represent of why you russian hidden they're the top all this all this came from your base thomas so today you know when you ask a self-motion question i said this to the people last night millions of people were killed stalin yamakuma killed them so many jews were killed or lost their faith and all that and the babies makes a big deal about this youth-based thomas for for a handful full of eden how do you how do you understand that and the answer is because of these things that i just told you as as examples it shows that the vision of what they've ever had the previous rabbi had goes continues today it still continues the the ripper and and another example in the 1960s or 70s a young israel leader came to the red but he says we want to start sending people to russia and we need addresses we need people's name and we know that you the babies come from russia and you have contact there and they haven't told them this is on gem if you haven't seen it you should see it the rabbit told him i forget his name who this is rabbit told him i'm i'm willing to share with you but you have to follow our conditions and rules because this is clandestine information it still wasn't you know glasnost and perestroika and everyone is in jeopardy so you know if you will agree to to the way we do things quietly i'll be willing to work with you and that by the way is why the rebbe disagreed with mayor kahala's approach of the public demonstrations in the 70s for russian jewelry the rebel felt and that as a russian jew felt that quiet diplomacy will get much further and red mayor you know hashem gingkam of who was about will happen to see the snapper she he was taken from us because he stood up for yiddish kite they may have had a hard hard time with that public demonstrations public demonstrations ever said no with russian jewelry high velvee we're talking all about your your culture your name your the russian guidance your base thomas it's a yum tif so it's a nice day for you to wear that white and green in the in the hospital or the doctor's office i'm telling i'm telling this evidence that today's day you based tamils was planted almost 100 years ago and on one hand you say how how why make such a big deal if only a few people were saved and and that rebel was saved okay so it's a personal holiday for the barbecues okay i understand but then our episode is no and the defeated could happen says no the frieza kevin writes in the letter that he wrote a year later the first celebration of your base thomas as a what we call yo yo maggie ula a day of redemption he says not only i was re released redeemed today but call whoever is only nicknamed even if he's only nicknamed a jew was redeemed on this day really every jew the one walking face on the beach the venice beach now who's jewish and enjoying the sun and the sun bathing he is released on your base thomas really the answer is yes why because the nakuda the the idea that you don't allow teva like we learned learning the mimer you don't allow nature to dominate you because we as jews are inherently supernatural that's rude-based thomas and only that's and and that was the only way that the frida karabiners kasitham survived stalin and and and and company otherwise they would have given up a long time ago so today was a is a day a festive day not only for the barbecues it's for every single year the celebration of kedusha over klippa that's today's day holiness one over uh negativity just like chanukah right we say in the alanisim today is the same day the same idea kedusha over clipper and when a person and when we experience such a day it's it's a day of opportunity you know we say and i said this and it's worth repeating um my table the outcomes it's an auspicious time it's an auspicious day today is one of those days that there's an ace russo so today the bracha an opportunity for your father for example you need to have a food is greater today than another day if you identify with this energy and you make it part of your entire family that it's an astronauts that's the same whether it be in health parlosa children grandchildren and anything else today is a day so this happened on youtube thomas 1927 and it's repeated every single year on the same day now another could another point that we find is that the frida kareva writes in the letter that i mentioned earlier in the year the first celebration of youth based tables that the way to celebrate the yo magi ula is to learn and that set of mimer the the previous and then our [Music] khabar it's known as the mayma so we're still we still have our work cut out for us we need to get 10 people to learn every day together we're close eight seven eight nine but we need ten we need a minion so that's something that we should work towards yesterday i just wanna clarify is that uh that was a mimer of the freya no no i don't know i don't think so you know the truth is maybe it's in volume two or three i don't think he checked maybe i'm wrong um but the the code the dakota is one year hilo i think the rebels said and i think in 1975 he said three my moral with the same beginning i think anyway what year i think 1975 i think the red the rebel would would and you'd base thomas always say america's right and certain years the opening was [Music] and it was based on his father-in-law's reminder the point being that the youth based tamils so in other words i guess what's the connection between 10 years learning together and and uh and what's it called and his googler taita has the redeeming factor because when you immerse yourself in tighter learning and not as an individual but as a group was created as something greater than the individual and i could tell you that and i believe you'll you you'll agree that us learning we learn together every morning we've created something greater than just learning you see that happens that happens when you learn together in a group the give and take and the dialogue and the smile and and and the feeling all of that comes when you sit and learn together and thereby the frida kareba pushed that point now understand please people were scared to go out and learn in public um my father-in-law told me he remembers i heard this one that mental foot of us and my father-in-law some of the russians don't say that hey they say the gimbal and this avrom found himself sleeping one night together with her mental footifies in the same room and a mendel told told me he told me this when he visited my home in 1988 or 89 in california in marin county because he's our great uncle so here rabbi raichik stayed with us for one night remember was a jew who didn't mince any word words and he would tell you what you need to know he was an older hostage you know there are all the hasidim who they're to themselves and mendel was a bundle came somewhere and he met another jew he would talk to him and and demand of him you know it was a mashpia a real spear so here he has this american young man who came out to california in to do the shlikas of the rebel and now it's four or five years later and he happens to be a relative but he's gonna take the opportunity to level me and he spent hours hours talking to me he asked what what are you doing so i told him what i'm doing this program that program this and and then he started to analyze it he started to give his ideas and then he started to give me moosa and i just ate it all up i have here such a jew who who sat eight nine years in in jail and hard labor and everything and he's taking the time to be moderate to educate me as she lived like a real year in a real closet it was wonderful anyway it's one of the things he told me and he would say dolphin the heads dolphin you're here he says you gotta lose ego so i say absolutely so jesus but let me tell you a story everything he had a story he had a story he says this is the story there was a yidra above avraham of gomul he says and one day i ended up sleeping with him in the same room and i'm laying in my bed and he's saying you know and i i i hear him going and the noises are coming from under his nose and it sounds pretty weird and i can't fall asleep i get out of my bed and i say that what are you making these funny strange noises he says let me tell you you know the three decade in the 1920s said that we have to continue the khadar and the haders and the mikris and the talmud and the main thing is the children right because you know stalin and company weren't against older folk learning and davening in fact they kept it's so funny i told you this in moscow which i visited two years ago a few blocks from one of the kgb offices there's a shul over there and they kept it open in 1927 when they imprisoned that there been others why because old geezers we have no problem because they want to show face face we are against religion uh we're not against religion go old men david but not children educating children the next generation no that we're not going to let you so the fleet of cannabis message was this hasidim we have to share and encourage people to send their children to yeshiva haider and tamatora this avrom was one of the khasiddhim and he went up to the bema in ashu between myrov and he gave a patch on the bhima and he spoke about this what i just what it ever wants of him to share with others now i can't imagine how dangerous it was for him to do that because there were the kgb ages the uh the other sets here of jews that were caught and you know in their web they were called schmeckers you heard of the word schmecker the word schmidt is yiddish yeah but wait schmeck means to smell the the in the shules they would have those have assets here would go to shul davin they knew how to dive or they pretended to david and they would smell who is teaching jewish children i.e they were called schmeckers and then they would go to the office and the next thing they took away the hostage and you never saw him again so for avraham of humu of gomu to get up on the beamer and make that announcement was walking into the lion's den because there were schmeckers all around and he did it and then he continues telling the remainder fortifies he tells him but the guyver that i had from standing on the beamer and lecturing to the people and talking to the people i have to get rid of it so i'm doing chuva for it and my and i'm like talking to myself and humming and and brimming the word and making those but he's crying to himself for the guy that he had standing on the bema relaying the message of the rabbit do you understand what a jew is do you understand how i what we do is nothing compared to a jew like that this is a man who risked his life and what bothers him years later that he took a public stance and that's ego so that mental foot of us turned to me dolphin he says dolphin now you understand what it means to get rid of ego this is you know when we when we share this these stories and i i grew up with these things you know at least you you want to hear it and you could think about it and you can work about it so when we learn when the friday cadaver says us people should learn together as a result of you based thomas a year later what's his message for claud israel and hasidim and his own khasiddhim to make public and to get up and do this this was the call of the hour and that happened knowing how scared people were including his husband he had to give them that courage and he had to teach them and instruct them and encourage them that learning yourself in your corner is not comparable to learning with other jews in 1928 in 1929 now barak hashem we don't have those this yoiners okay we don't have those tests we don't have those you know trials but we do have a simple test if you could have when he came to america he said in europe the test was poverty no one had what to eat and where to sleep and the good and they would running after you with the yiddish kite in america and you saw the free world after what's our test wealth well people have what they eat they have even if they're not wealthy wealthy they have their basic needs no give up some of your basic needs for hakadosh baruch you know and this rabbit said the freedom the baalhagi ullah of your beijing says this is our avoider our aveda no longer on this level but rather hasidah says hillel that the word nephesh comes from the word is associated with the word will ain't is a possible [Music] give away your soul meaning not to allow yourself to be shocked you finish that give away your will like it says in pirkei elvis and this is very very relevant especially especially you know the gospel is it's one thing to do a favor to help a person with a loan to help a person with with food and clothing and then there's also someone who appreciates learning and davening to take away time from their own learning and daviding and give it to someone else that's a great messiness netflix i remember when i was in yeshiva based madrid about 17 years old you know and i i was i would my previous years i would learn with weaker students in yeshiva and i said you know i'm going to base madrid i want to really learn with a top havrusa so he and i are on the same level and we can really coast coast into the depths of toyota of gemara my principal comes over to me a survivor special jew rabbi tenenbaum and he says hi and he says there's a boy who came from italy and he needs some help can you be his cavruso i say revertable i've been doing this all my life i finally got to basement i want to really excel in learning is higher you'll gain more from learning with him than with with someone else on your level and he was right because i had to prepare the mother better and the profession and bar hashem he was right so when what a person gives of themselves to teach others that's the highest type of messiah's nephesh today and it brings only only brother goodness so kind to everyone that we should have a good yomtiv everyone should have paddock in good health happiness and we should present her to the ghoulish lame already the sheer should come any comments or questions before we close yeah i just want to make a personal comment that these stories particularly the uh post holocaust and po and for coming out of communist russia these sorts of courage were very instrumental inspiring me on the path of torah because i came out of having been kind of in a hindu-esque group and uh very self-you know self-absorbed absorbed yeah and i had to ask myself i had to ask myself the question like what made it worth it for people to undergo such extraordinary suffering and mysteriousness and that sort of that kind of question brought me to torah and uh brought me to really struggle to learn to to make to teach myself and to become a part of uh group life and really kept me going so this and especially you know the heroism of the fria de caravas one of the great stories i think of that century yeah thank you it's after you said very very important very meaningful for eternity for eternity banis i'm not saying to flatter you because you know um it's it's very telling and that and that shows that that you'd base thomas is relevant a hundred years later for what he'll have just said what he just said is is proof to what i said earlier about your base thomas kevin have a great day we'll see everyone tomorrow we'll continue the mimer take care bye-bye