Yud Shevat Children's Program: The Rebbe Spends Shabbos in a Bar

[Music] Candela I'm going to share with you an amazing story the story takes us back more than 100 years ago the beginning of the 1900s we travel to a famous country where many of us come from Russia at that time the king of Russia is a man named nicholas Nicholas the second he's the Czar of Russia in just a few years he and his family would be killed but in the beginning of the 1900s he was the king he was desire Nicholas - the prime minister of Russia was a man named Stolypin first he was what's called the interior minister of Russia meaning in charged on security of the country and then he becomes the Prime Minister of Russia one of the most powerful people in the country Stanley Penn was a major anti-semite he hated the Jewish people with a passion to the extent that many of the pogroms that occurred in Russia over those years he was behind them in fact one year 1905 he was planning in one summer to arrange 116 pogroms in cities in Russia that killed Jews in different cities in Russia Baruch Hashem thank God I didn't materialize but this was the leaping and here is the story one day the rabble ashab the revered our shop of course rabbi Shalom Dave Bahr shnayerson the fifth drebber of Chabad Lubavitch finds out that stallion is about to issue forth on Luke Zahra a new decree against the Jewish people how does their ever I shall find this out their ever had his people that lived in Petra burg in st. Petersburg which was then the capital of Russia and from his people he found out that Stalin is about to issue forth a new decree and they already tried to do different things in order to get him not to do it but nothing helped what do you do what's a pogrom a pogrom was a very tragic and terrible thing when who lived in a particular town or city would start a riot and they would loot Jewish homes they would kill people they would beat beat people they would break glasses and stores they would steal this was a pogrom and this guy's stallion was known for arranging a lot of these pogroms in different cities of Russia and there were many times that different great leaders of Russia went to meet him and there was sometimes successful we know there ever are Shopp writes about a few meetings he writes about one meeting that he himself had was to Lipan in fact there's a very cute story very nice story once the river our shop went to meets the lip and together with two other people Rep Ryan Briscoe reprisal of a chick who was one of the greatest robbed on him and go enum of the time wherever time Solomon and he was very close to the beverage shop he was in the city of brisk in Lithuania so he's known as the crime brisker together with another person whose name was Zev tomb King Vladimir tomb Caen and they went to meet Stalin and Stella pan was in a big rush so he wanted to finish the meeting very fast so he gave one hand to the repair shop and this other hand he gave two tomb c'n and of kind risk it was the third one he didn't give him a hand and he gave them both a hand and he wished them good bought so on the way out that every da shop fell that ryan briscoe who was a great great man might feel Bansi tells him you know it says in the Haggadah clearly before we read about the ten moccasin the Haggadah we say double-rocker be your Kazakh style so the Deborah shop says when a dollar here gives a yo Kazakh it's just I am you know what a diversion is that over here is a casa so when ad over after a Houser gives his hand this wrong end it's just I am it's the two people so everybody had a good laugh and they went on so whenever I shop heard about this era that they cannot revoke what do you do so he called in his son the three of the quran there are ayaats Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn whose yard site is on Gujarat the tenth of schrott and he sent him there was no choice he sent him to go to Petersburg to Petra Berg to the capital and see what he could do so the Reber ayats who wasn't a rabbit yet went to petersburg and he started to examine different ways how to deal with it and they realized that with stalin there's no way to do there's nothing to do so the rebel ayats' figure it out he came up with an idea there was an old man whose name was Constantine Bobby Adonis Tov why such a what why such a long name aha a lot of the Russians had had very long names so this guy at a very his first name was Constantine his last name okay last name was pub yeah Donna stuff what it means I don't know but I know that it's a very long name and a hard name to pronounce and remember now this puppy Adonis have was an old man very very learn it and he was stallions rabba star lip and looked up to him because he taught him this this this this old man puppy Adonis tov was a tutor - Nicholas - to the Tsar he was a student he was young and he was even a tutor to the previous our Alexander so he was a very influential person he was very very smart he was very educated he was a very strong Christian and stallion the interior minister and the Prime Minister looked up to him very much now poppy Adonis Tov did not like Jews either he also despised Jews he also hated Jews very very deeply but he had a very deep respect for religion his father was a gala his father was a priest and he himself was very involved with the Orthodox Church in Russia so he had a very big respect to religion so if we had a lot of respect for rabbis for not Bonin so the three the Carrera there ever a yachts managed to get an interview with this man he was already out of the government he was already out of being involved in the government but he still had a lot of influence on Stalin he managed to get an interview with this man with Bo BIA Donna Steph one problem he gave him the interview Friday night late at night now how do we know this story how do I know this story the free of the collaborative ayaats told this story to the rabbit to his son-in-law and the rebus said this story publicly a few times the rebus said at once of Dalit a vast ocean your Alif 1951 less than one year after their ever they had passed away he said it you taught options offered if I bring in the end of schrott 1960 he said it cuff you smart option memo I love 1981 each time he said different details of the story the last time he said the story he said that this guy has given I filled a mensch he was a wild guy and he had very wild very wild ways he did things he didn't have a normal structure so he gives them this interview Friday night late problem number two he didn't live in Petersburg he didn't live in Petra port he lived in a suburb a few my away from petrol burn who's he poby adonis f stallions rapper probably adonis stuff didn't live in petersburg he lived a few miles away from petersburg together with many russian aristocrats who had big homes with big gardens and a lot of a lot of dogs they did not live in this city they lived outside of the city with his much more space a few miles from Petersburg and the interview is Friday night what's the problem the problem is there was no hotels around there so he can't stay there so how was he supposed to get there Shabbos and Petersburg starts around 4:00 o'clock p.m. in the winter the problem is that this old man Bobby Adonis F gave the freed the Kariba a strange time to come for a visit when was it Friday late at night now Jews at that time were not a lot of live in Petersburg but there were some Jews who had special permission to live there doctors big businessmen they could live there so if Bobby Adonis F would have lived in Petersburg did that but I yeah it's would have be able to find the place in Petersburg to stay in somebody's house on the hotel and Compton Friday night problem was he didn't live in the city he lived a few miles far from Petersburg in a suburb in the suburb around Petersburg where there's more space many of the Russian aristocrats lived wealthy people there's a lot of space so they had big homes big mansions with large Gardens and a lot of dogs and there was no hotel around there and there were no Jews who lived there and certainly there were no Jews allowed to be there at all and Petersburg Shabbos begins in the winter around 4 o'clock p.m. Friday 4 o'clock p.m. is Shabbos and the cold there is unbelievable you think we have cold here in the winter it's nothing like the cold in Russia in Petersburg and the cold deer is tremendous it's very very cold and Shabbos begins at four o'clock and the interview is late at night what is the Rebbe is supposed to do a hotel there was no hotel there to stay in Petersburg and walk all the way to his house would be a problem for a few reasons number one the cold number two it was dangerous number three tongue Shabbos we are a problem of calm shoppers once you leave the border of the city you now let it go more than 2,000 amis which is around 3,000 feet you now a little walk around his house he had nowhere to stay there was no hotel there was nobody's home and this was the only time that he got that that puppy adonis sev gave him a visit so what is he supposed to do so they never had no choice he was thinking what to do remember he has to be somewhere till he visits him and then he can't stay in his home the whole Shabbos after the interview after the visit he's gonna leave his house where is he gonna stay for the rest of Shabbos he can't walk back to Petersburg he can't stay in his house should he stay outside for 24 hours it's very very dangerous and the cold you can freeze you can get very sick you can die so you can't stay outside there's nowhere to stay nobody's gonna let him stay in the house remember this is a place where no drew was allowed to come even in the city you didn't have many Jews but outside and these suburbs or mama soldiers so their ever diets before Shabbos went to a bar he found a bar close to his house and I have to understand what type of places these bars were these bars Russians would come they would drink and drink and drink they would get drunk a lot of them were people a very low caliber very low character peasants or people who did not behave nicely it was a place of drunkards certainly not a Jewish place certainly not a place for a person like that ever it was a place where you get drunk and was people that debt that drank a lot you had their thieves you had their a lot subtypes of people that were not of the best quality she Kareem guzzle on him and that's what the Deborah went it was so cold he described the story was so cold so he took a footer mantle this is we know the story because the rabid I had sold it to his son-in-law I remember and their ever said this story a few times I know of three times he said the story once he said the stories of dollar Tavistock senior Aleph the 24th of Tavis 1951 the second time you've artificial huff the 10th of Schwab 1960 and the third time you trot ocean a mile of 1981 and each time he said different details so the rabbit took a footer mantle the fur coat okay I foot the mantle a fur coat to stay weren't warm to stay warm you see he covered himself and it was still so freezing so he had to go into the bar and in order to be there with all the wild people that were there he had to drink or make believe he's drinking but he couldn't actually drink because first of all this kiddush you have to first make it this right once here comes Friday sunset you can't drink till you make it doesn't matter to make it second of all some drinks are probably many drinks he couldn't drink there third of all he didn't want to drink with them but he had to make as though he's drinking because if not you know they would not let him be there besides all this it was very dangerous for a Jew these were people who did not like Jews and he has to spend a lot of time with them so it was very dangerous but this is what he did he stayed in the bar now he gave the guy in the bar money before Shabbos to walk with him to the house to the mansion of Pavia Dona Steph so the man walked with him till the mansion it was still a far walk and it was very cold so he had his fur coat but then he left him there and he went away now there ever had to go through the courtyard which was filled with dogs till he got into the house he knocks on the door poby Adonis have opens the door and sees him and says are you crazy you walk through this courtyard my dogs could have torn you to pieces and eaten you so the rabbit told him I eat hot knit my tafero hunt ah who taught murder for I eat a Jew is not afraid of a dog a dog is afraid of a Jew he sits there for a few hours he accomplished great things with him to be able to pray he persuaded him to be able to convince the Lipan to to change the situation and now where does he go he leaves the house in the middle of the night and he goes back to the bar and he stays there a whole Shabbos in the bar with all these drinking all these shakur him in his foot and mantle he's there and has to stay there a whole Shabbos the way back he walked alone despite the danger this story that ever died yachts told his son on what he told it ever Kindle ah I want to ask you what are the lessons we learned from this story every story about it Sadiq has a lesson to life every story in tighter teaches you something about your life the Toyota was given to be able to make our lives the happiest most meaningful enjoyable lives that can be what are the lessons you learn from this story a full beautiful you heard how much miss Cirrus nefesh you should have to help another Jew dear ever riots could have easily said you know this is not something I can do I mean stay stay a whole Shabbos in a bar in such cold put yourself in a very dangerous situation walk alone late at night to pub you'd honest serve I mean it's a very very dangerous task to do on many levels and yet What did he say he heard there's a non the Jewish people and he was ready to go I'm a serious nefesh to save another Jew and many Jews so the first lesson the Rebbe said we learned from this is every one of us has an opportunity and will have opportunities throughout our life to help another Jew to help another person to help many Jews and sometimes it demands of us to do something uncomfortable for us maybe to go to a place that's uncomfortable maybe to change a habit maybe to do something that's different for us that's difficult for us so you learn from ear he went that he spent you know what it is for Sadiq to spend shoppers in such a place instead of being in shul not diving with a minyan not having crease a toy they're not learning not giving a shear not teaching not being with other you know what it is to be there besides the danger and yet this is what he did knowing that perhaps he can nullify the IG's area nullify the decree it teaches us what we have to do in order to help another person to help another job even if it's difficult even if it's challenging even if it's sometimes against our nature but there's another lesson the other lesson is about being afraid in life what did they never tell him I he'd not miss my turf on a hunt the revenue that wherever you go Hashem is with you Hashem is with you in your heart always Hashem is the creator of the world and he loves you and he cares for you and he's with you and he holds your hand and he's in you every moment of your life and therefore when you're doing what he wants and you connected him don't be afraid of anybody don't be afraid even in very difficult situations you don't have to be afraid and then there's lesson number three that there ever once said at a far bring and you Chava Tufts animal of 1981 when I was a child from this story and that's give me the fur coats he said but they're ever there ever I asked didn't just go to the cold night of Petersburg he made sure he's wearing a warm thick fur coat because all of us are in the world and the world is sometimes a very cold place and in order to bring kedusha into the world and to help another person and to help another Jew you have to make sure you're dressed with a fur coat what does that mean it means you have to remain warm always warm in our life what that means is a Yid has to have vadym kites you want to have warmth when you're connected to Toyota to Mitzvahs a warm governing or warm Amin uhm a robber a warm capital tehilim are warm Baraka a warm Mitzvah you do emits it with warmth so then you're filled with worms even though it's very cold around you you don't get affected you're healthy and you can affect other people so now let's sing the negan that there ever a yachts the free the car ever loved so much known as the Boehner knee [Music] yeah [Music] [Applause] yeah [Music] you [Music] I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yah yah yah yah yah yah [Music] [Applause] [Music] could the luck I'm going to tell you another special story about their ever iets my grandfather my mother's father Reb Yankel Lipsky was to tell the story because he remembered what had happened this happened in America a family a father and a mother I think they lived in a city of st. Louis in the United States came to New York and they went to visit the free of the Kariba there a beret yachts who lived on in 770 Eastern Parkway on the second floor and they went to visit him to get a broker from him a blessing they were not custody in any way but they came to get a broker for much SABIC from wherever and they went into his room his he hid this room on your fitness for a private meeting with the with the diaper with the rabbit ayats' and they asked the Rebbe if he could bless their child they had I think he was eight years old seven or eight years old a young boy so the rebus said yes they should bring him over to him so they brought him over to his desk and there ever this is what he did he put his hand on the boy's head and he started to rub the head all around he's not to rub the head like this it's rubbing and rubbing and rubbing and the parents were not comfortable with it like why is this rabbi putting his hand on a head and rubbing it all around but out of respect to the rabid they didn't say anything but they weren't comfortable with it and he gave a broker and they left a room my Zaid that told us a few weeks later they lived in an apartment building and this boy was playing by the window this boy who was by the river with them was playing by the window and he fell out the window many many floors I think was around 8:00 store he fell down onto the sidewalk whoever saw it was certain that he will not survive he fell down and a few seconds later everybody was stunned the boy stood up and walked back into his house and then they realized that just a few weeks before that when there ever IAT's was rubbing him all over his head all over his head what was he doing very good very good he says he was making a cushion he was creating some type of roofing is the cushion alight rest of his body was fine the problem was his head I mean maybe he got some you know some scratches or wounds I don't know but the danger was his head then the head was cushioned and he fell and it was protected and when I heard this story I thought about it you know that the most important thing in our life is we have to cushion our heads we have to protect our heads and I don't mean only physically protect our heads how do we protect our heads we protect our heads through Taita when our yield learns tighter when a child learns tighter the more tighter we have in our head and around our head our head is cushioned because sometimes in this world we can fool the eighth suhara wants to make us fall but when our head is cushioned with Titor all around and around and around then our heads are protected and we are protected and that's why in life the greatest gift you can give yourself is tighter and more tighter and more tighter to fill your head constantly with tighter that creates the cushion that will protect you forever [Music]