Yud Kislev Farbrengen #2- Do you really Fear G-d? R' Soloveitchik's Chabad melamed - Yiras shamayim

CL in general a fa real fa not talking about there weren't too many formalities the whole idea of formalities is a contradiction to so whatever someone felt at the fa they said hopefully it wasn't foolish but if you have something to say or you want to ask something be my guest it's not a it's not a it's not a show here it's not a you know this isn't a lecture if you came for a lecture go back home sit together talk a little bit and if you need a little to help you say one of the things that that he he spoke a lot about was also the idea of what does mean what what am I asking what do I'll tell you a story it's not a story you know again stories it's not story time you want Story Time go elsewhere point it was aich came from Russia he learned the laich's name was drizen there the drizen family so he would come our in was and he would bring him once a year comeing just parenthetically I want you again you need a background if you have a background you can understand better V when a when when when a mashia who is not a Russian mashia he wants to he wants the boys he wants the he wants the students to really see The Real McCoy he brings The Real McCoy you know real mcoy the you know real mcoy means the real thing the MS learned in laich in 1913 or 14 he came to laich and he learned seven eight years in and then he was one of the a lot to say about this so our people who was born and he was a very special ye I'm sure he knew Shas not and I'm I'm telling you this man knew sh he knew every book ofus he knew Z anything that was printed he he would learn with us sometimes in his room he' call you in and he said he was a gifted person A Gifted A Gifted mind came from aalana home father was above my father remembers when he came to my father's older members came to the to to to anyway so he brings for us you know here we are we're Yankee Doodles I learned to this is Shiva here in Ocean Park way this is my Al this Yesa the 1970s I remember when the Yeshiva opened how do I remember you want to hear a cute story a story within a story the first Friday Yeshiva open I was I believe in fourth grade yeah fourth grade and the buses are waiting and I had this kind of not fear but you know maybe the bus is going to leave and we lived at the time I think still we lived in these flat Bush I'm not sure we we used to live in these flat Bush then moved to bur Park so I ran out I ran down the steps from my class through the everything's brand new brand new building it's the whole story about how the building got built who gave the money how there's a lot of pro but people don't know read the books and you'll see everything everything's in the books all the history is in the books all all the juicy stuff is in the footnotes not in the text the footnotes so if you're a real reader you read the footnotes anyway so so I came running down and as I'm walking down those same steps that are there today those steps I going down running towards the bus I'm a fourth grade and I fall flat at on the wet cement they had just built the steps and it looked real and I didn't know and I had an imprint of my body and when I came over my father let me have it I was it was a it was a window I that's my recollection of O par the Yesa but we we had very good learning anyway still Rec ah I remember to like like now like now like it's yesterday you know you're a young boy and you have such a thing you know and your father when you come home get he really lets you have it what do you out of your mind you know all that anyway but kid said so the me brought to Marist toown froming with us American boys who are learning and growing up with the re but still you know the russan from you know they it's different like I told you in the previous previous talk it's a different it's a it's it's a it's a different it's a different world and 11 is probably from the last remaining moans as we say it's it's a breed that doesn't exist anymore M there 20 30 that's it that's it that's the way it is you know laich moved away from Russia came there Isel came to Canada came to America so just you know you guys don't know what you got over here so use it up I'm very serious I'm not I'm not saying it to make him great I'm just saying you have a a from from Russia that's still healthy for many years the cupit and and he's fresh squeeze him use him find out he doesn't like to talk a lot about himself Russ hate to talk about thems it's the worst crime the worst crimes you talk about yourself and they're right it is but us Americans you know that's the way it is you know you got to push yourself you know that's anyway I don't understand what you're saying if you're saying it in Russian but okay you're selling good but that's the truth it's the EMS did I say anything that's not emis it's em it's em it's mem at we know that we don't know what at least we know what we don't know about now that you know you know what your job is before too okay anyway let's let's get to get to the point so so um came to the Yesa and and if we asked him he told us how did he get to laich now now again there you need some background what what do you mean how he got he was if he came from kind of aab home wouldn't he go to laaba he wouldn't go to SL the other big Yesa the time was SL so he told us no he wanted to go to slot if he wanted to go his father wanted him slot had a name because if you take a look at pictures of slot everyone's dressed clean suits sharp tied Mish the outer appearance of a was was elegant was elegant came [Laughter] TOA and ab came TOA why he told us why they didn't have room from him for him and his cousin SL again he came from a aab okay he did come from aabad GE home but in that in those days you know first of all travel was hard the money was hard and if there was a good Yeshiva near you you went to that Yeshiva you know you have to you know it's not like today everyone oh I belong to Tas I belong to Lakewood I belong to laich I belong to Bells it wasn't it wasn't really that way it wasn't not by most not by most so if there's a good Yesa that's closer to him and he hears good things about it it's going to go there but there was no room what's the next option Lage a new Yesa that opened up in 1897 called leich laich he comes he's 13 14 years old he's a a teenager comes into the Yeshiva and he sees the B are torn it's it's like they're wearing you know the the dress is torn because they didn't have money poor poverty up we say inish he wants to leave AB told us he wanted to leave he's not going to he came from Ab even though it came his house it looks like it was you know babaes here he is with slippers and he's a 13 14 year old you know he's they still you know what I'm saying he doesn't feel comfortable in this environment he wants to leave the environment he wants to leave all of a sudden he sees a b named David kman David Harder They called him and he sees that he davens every day for 3 four five hours when everyone's finished everyone goes into Bas M this bucker is still standing at the wall and his table praying daving and he's daving with great kav with great Focus you never thing you D in the morning you finish ding you go for breakfast and then you go to learn G then he sees another B Hil H from the city of P they called him Hil Hil this Hil is in a different world he's dobing for hours you try to go over to him and tap him he don't answer cuz he's not there where is he he's thinking about God he's ding to the abish after he saw this he said he says I can't leave this place is slatka they learn maybe gamorra better maybe but that's all they do in laich in addition and this AB told me himself we learned 7 hours straight he said from 12: to 7:00 and he told me we didn't go to the bathroom I used to hold myself in not to go to the bathroom because I didn't want to disturb my seven hours learning gor you go find me a lakeid bck who does that today or pun B and I'll give you a million dollars seven hour straight would go what even you're right but that commitment of of of how did that commitment come that he learned seven hours straight let be honest let's be honest how no but how did that come that came because he started to DAV he DAV to hasem you know in a way this is in English we say uh what's the p it's like a lost art a lost art it's a lost art sadly to say even by us it's a lost art but nevertheless theb says and I was by 11 I'm sure Heard It also theb says the fact that I don't talk about so much doesn't mean that it's not important it's because the and and they already clapped and talk I have to repeat it it's once in a while whatever he spoke about it but he didn't that he didn't wasn't passionate outwardly about that because but the fact is we're talking about the who this was at the beginning of of now I say beginning even though the AL preceded him of course but nevertheless it was just still a beginning he was still and you could say the after the made what's called where he said you can't just come here every Monday and Thursday you can't just come in here when you come toich to what are you bringing are you bringing something what are you bringing right are we givers or takers we just take we take we take or we give see them say means to take give means to give what are you giving in is the complete it's all about God he is that I'm gonna stay here with the torn pants with the with the Schmutz with everything else that was so poor and he stayed and because he stayed he became and he raised an entire generation of and everything else but it all started with so now let's let's break it down because everything has to be broken down in our lives the first thing is not to rush your daving not to rush this idea of rushing is not good it's unhealthy number two to take a few minutes to think about a word a sentence of what it means and guess what when you will do that one day it'll be this word another day it'll be this word and so you start focusing more on your words of davening that for us I think is pretty pretty possible and real other types of AA there are and if you're interested you'll talk to your local R Rabbi because there's a lot more but that's a very very beginning and a is you could say what the M wanted and created by his but I want to conclude this section with a a story a ver that a mle would always say that it's worth knowing because it's young B him here a mle once said like this he says what do you think were great they knew a lot of they spoke they lived there were a few that way absolutely but he says most s were regular people when the question was yank get Yul a CL yankle gives a jab to Yos and Yul responds with a jab back and and the question was that they had amongst each other clop who is going to jab and bang the other one last and know saying is saying was saying if you think that the middle see them all of them the most of them were get over it they weren't they were regular but their commitment to and to aad and to a re was powerful and that that we could walk away with that you know question that asked I'm sure 11's been asked this question because it's a good question what's the difference between having a Reb and having a God or a good what's the difference especially today where they've made what looks like sometimes who are very great into but they're not they don't have right unless the unless I'm wrong but but what's the difference for that we we'll sing a nigan and say and we'll talk about that soon [Music] I [Applause] heyy [Music] hey Hallelujah [Music] hey hey [Applause] [Music] h