Yud Shevat Farbrengen 2026- Kollel Beit Shemesh: Over the Top, Raayatz & Rebbe - RC Dalfin

So today is the yard site of the rabbis his father 76 years since he passed away 1950. It's also the day which the Rebba became our Reb and as I explained yesterday at the Fabrangan and if I can get it to work I'll forward it to you. um that the Reba began his career, if you want to call it that way, as a Reba not in 1951, but in 1950 cuz the moment the previous one passes away, the new Reba becomes Reba, the manifestation of which was a year later. We've discussed over the years in our shurim and in fabangans the you know the the leadership transition from the previous rebba to the rebba and each time that I you know revisit that I'm always fascinated fascinated with the with the the makeup and the development and and the and the the vision that we had 50 76 years ago. But together with that, we have to focus for a few minutes at least on the previous Reb's life. So I want to share with you a story. I shared it last night. I'm I'm making it brief. It's on um the WhatsApps uh you know more at length, but it's a story that was related by a who passed away this year. His name was Mik Mik Vashetski. He lived in Karabad. He was a Russian who lived in America, got married in America, excuse me, and was here for many years and then went there to he tells over the following story that he heard from his father who I believe was at this Fabangan or was told by someone who was at the Fabrangan. This was I think in Lenigrad while the freed still lived there and the previous Reb was was was fabing and he was saying a mimer and all of a sudden someone's knocking on the door because when the Reb said a fab a mimer they closed the door because they didn't want people to disturb. So once people were in the room, they close the door and all of a sudden is knocking on the door and the stops in the middle of his mimer and that itself is a a pella a wonder and he says see who it is and they tell him there's someone who has at the door and he would like to come in and the Reba says let him come in. He comes in and he doesn't seem at all to be religious. Okay. And he and the and he parks himself there and the Reb continues the mimer. After the mimer, he goes over to the Reb and the there hear and observe this. He says, "Rebed in Russian, he said or Yiddish, he said, "Whatever you want from me, I will do." Heard those words. They said, "Wow, look, he comes in for to hear a a piece of ammo from the from the Reba and he's ready to become a Balthoua." So the Reb is probably going to tell him now to keep Shabas and put on film every day and keep kosher, right? Baltua looks up at him and he says, "What I want of you is that whenever you hear there's aidic, not just with they're sitting abring are a guest rabbi, you have this OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A BALU." HE SAYS, "WHATEVER YOU WANT, I'LL DO." And what do you tell him? not to put on, not to keep kosher, not to keep Shabas, but whenever there's a fab, make sure to be there. The long story is that of course he started to go to every fabulan whenever he is faban talking about in Russia during Stalin's times and ultimately he became a Balthoua and he has kids and grandkids all through and all that. What happened was that his uh I think wife I don't remember this did either she wasn't well or or something else and and deathly ill and someone said to him there's a sadic in lengra there's a great rabbi rabbi go to him for a braha he's a Russ a regular Russian ged you know he's a you know Stalin is pressuring the Jews And somehow they convinced him to go and he goes to the Fabangan. He goes to the Reba and he tells theb that his wife is very ill. And the Reba gives a blessing and miraculously his wife recovers survives. And that's why that's why he came running to the Reb's Fabangan at at at at a later time when when he got news of his wife's health and recovery and he said to the Reb like you know I see that you're a great sadic you're a great man what comes out of your mouth is fulfilled. So he said to the I'll do whatever it is and what does the Reb tell him to go to is whenever he wherever possible and uh that again this is a short version and maybe I have a a detail or two wrong but um I heard this and it it's a very important our great uncle known He had the following line. Listen to this. He said like this. He said aidic learning. You're supposed to learn before davening. It spills over to a kidic ding. If you daven well, what that leads to is I'm sorry. If you learn wellidis then it leads to dvening with proper intent and focus and dvening spills over causes one to have a trueic fabang learning followed by dvening followed by the ultimate which is a fabbranking. So why is this that and this is I would say unique in Kabad because a fabangin is not a kumitz. We've discussed that and I think we don't need to spend time in it. Everyone understand this isn't a kumitz with playing guitars and eating popcorn and and and and those nuts that you guys crack in Israel seis right a fabangan is a serious experience. It's a lifealtering opportunity to really become different and uplifted and inspired. It's not tikun, you know, to give tikun for of a parent, of a friend, of a reb. It's another thing very important is a time when yeden get together. Jews get together, all kinds of Jews. You don't have to be aid then you don't have to be this or that. But primarily make it a habitat of so in in the Jewish world people are trying to kind of snatch the fabangan model but it don't work. I mean they can just it's you know it's not a kum it's a very different thing. There's a mashia an elder or even a younger singing of certain nigunim more meditative nigunim even the lively nigunim are very focused sometimes there's a recitation of a part of a mimer or a mimer and there's words of inspiration it's an entire culture the alterb the founder of kabad who the Reb says in his mimer of basilani that we learned. Why is the seventh special? Why are we the seventh generation special? Cuz we're the seventh to the first, right? If you don't have a one, you don't have a seven. And when you have the proper one, then you can have the proper seven. Who's the one? And in the case of the it's the alterb and the alterb teaches that what aidic fab can accomplish even the angel malik mik cannot accomplish. You've heard that many times and it's not just you know a story a fable. A malik is limited. And we see that in the Tyra, right? The malik that came to heal Sor the Malik that came to heal Aram couldn't do the same job as as saving light, right? Why? Because each malik has its mission. So as holy and as great as a Malik is, it's limited. comes along and says that from heaven they decreed that can accomplish more. Why? What's the logic of this saying? The logic is because about being together told me, you know, several weeks ago that they're still having after Kdesh or during Keshabas a group of sitting together like a mini fat and that idea of not just you know eating and running but sitting and talking together, sharing a vert, sharing a niggan. That's what a fabangan is. And the more authentic the fabangan, the more the real accomplishments. And and and let me explain what I mean. A fabbrangan is not a sermon. Unfortunately, sometimes it's become drious sermonizing. People have scholarly ideas and they come to fabin and they share it WITH YOU. WELL, THAT'S VERY NICE FOR A sheer abran you know last night Daniel the from the the HBO producer over here for this documentary he says to me you didn't look into a script for two hours like where do you have this information from? I said from my heart when I FANG I I TALK I TRY TALKING FROM MY heart I'm not I don't want to talk from here from talk is when I give a lecture give a sh give a class a fab is what does the heart feel and this is so unique and that's why it's even greater than a malik what a malik can accomplish a malik is limited to its MISSION SO IF ITS MISSION is not what you need, the Malik can't do it. But when you go to and you sit together sit together you didn't sit together and everyone feels for the other one and and at the at the same time I want to publicly say that the other day someone someone one of our friends and people you know needed help and I got the message when I come to school 5:30 6 in the morning 5 5:30 right he sends me a message can I and I contacted some of our several hours later the issue was resolved. That's what a faban is. Okay. It didn't take the style of a faban. But when we sit together and we help each other, right? Last night the you'll ask Usher Musha as I come in he shows me see the the property next door. Used to be a a church, Chinese church or something, Korean church. They sold it to Kabad. They got It took a year to get approval. It's a 100 by 100 lot which and it's next door to his house. And now HE HAS TWO MONTHS TO COME UP WITH $1.9 million. SO I SPOKE QUITE A BIT ABOUT THIS AT THE fabangan and his own people are saying well it'll take us two years I said two years are you a laber are younik mean two years you're going to go you're going to go over the top you're going to go out there and it's going to happen because this is what Hashem wants is. Yeah, you got to work hard. That's right. There's no easy work. You got to go raise the money, knock on doors, make a tamula and the will send it. And one person, Rabbi Napali stolen, you hear this, in in Los Angeles, he used to be he's the the the official rabbi for the Russians starting from the early 70s, those that know LA a little bit. and he had a shul on third street and Lera. I was in that shoe. One day someone comes into him and a Russian Jew or maybe an American Jew and he says he needs to say kadesh. He says kadesh and he has to say kadesh for the year. Says kadesh and one day he just hands him a $500,000 check. You're talking about now like 30 years ago. unsolicited, right? And he took that money and he bought a property where their sho is today uh you know nearby. What I'm saying is we don't know how the brahas of hashem will will come into our life. What we do know is that if we go on the right path and we go the and we go over the top, it'll happen. And those that have another approach, which is another approach, it's an approach, but it could take two years and four years and 10 years, you know, I I I I don't know, you know, but the stolen here on 16th Avenue, a borrow park, they bought their property in the 1960s. It took them 60 years to start putting up a building and they had some very strong fundraisers. The Piltchid brothers, very fine people. So, I don't know. I don't know the background. I'm not pointing fingers, but I'm just just telling you it took 60 years for some reason. 60 years to put up now putting up a multi-story building because of our in particular and it's his day when he became the he taught us over the top over my years in in in doing work of the which is since my early 20s I always had the following thought I'm not afraid of money. I'm afraid of people. What do I mean? Imagine you build a building and it's empty. The money's came. No. Where are the people? People. You need people to fill a building. Now they say, "Of course you have a building, people will come." Some Yeah. Many times they do and sometimes they don't. So, so when we talk about and over the top and we talk about we talk about the previous how he lived a life of over the top having self-sacrifice in Russia yesterday last night at the Fabangan there was a lab there who I was I I I said that don't think that our people didn't suffer for spreading either guide in Russia. Many of them never came back. And I threw out a name and then I REALIZED THE GRANDSON IS SITTING RIGHT there with the same name cuz his grandfather was shot in 1938. Rabbi Elhan Marov, tremendous, secretary of the previous Rebin Labavich. SO AS I WAS SAYING IT, EVERYONE SAID he's here right here. I SAID I'M TALKING ABOUT HIS GRANDFATHER WHO THEY SHOT AND he's a name. So he is proof that of his grandfather that he was murdered for being a ye. It continues over the top because the fida teaches us in his discourses and his see his talks and his life look at look at a person he comes in 1940 he comes to America he's wheelchair bound you would think that this man and they told him reb you survived Stalin you survived the Nazis moment right you went through so much. You finally came to America. Relax. Go to the beach. Get some fresh air. Goes to no beach and he continues teaching and writing and guiding albeit as a as someone whose health was compromised. But he did it. And take a look at take a look at some of the pictures in America. you'll see that he's he he he he's functioning 10 years and the Reb says that he was 10 years a rebba in Russia 10 years kind of a reba in in Poland and 10 years in America and each schlav and each stage is different Russia's ms nephesh self-sacrifice 10 years in Poland he had to deal with his own brothers other groups who weren't happy that he's teaching in the Kabad way. The Reb says in a way that's even greater. Okay? Right? You can imagine, right? You live in Bish and and younik and everything and all of a sudden they the others say, "Why do we need you? Why can't you be like everyone else?" So that that idea and then he comes to America and America on one hand is the land of opportunity, right? Like we sing in the Star Band, no banner, right? It's you have right at the same time it's frigid and cold Yiddish. Drop your sh and your fill in. Just live a day. Stop with all this, you know, antiquated stuff. And here we make a place for T. >> I'm going to interrupt him in the middle of a speech. >> What? >> Yes. Uh, my grandson just got married to his great great granddaughter. >> To whose great >> to whose great grandaz? >> Oh, >> Maztov. Beautiful. Only >> in America. >> Okay. I didn't know. Thank you very much. Big Simka. You fell INTO A BIG KABAD family and THEY FELL INTO YOUR family and we get together and we grow. Anyway, going back to the point and we'll finish that that the previous reb was 10 years in America. He overcame all the challenges and then the younger son-in-law of his is chosen as the nextb. And here again a person who was from Russia, he was in France. He wanted to lead a private life. The Reb was not interested in being a pavoreb. He wasn't even interested in being a RABBI OF A SHUL because in 1935 or so there's a letter a letter I think 35 the previous rabbi writes him a letter I I was in touch with a rabbi in France AND THEY HAVE A JOB FOR YOU they would as a as a reul look at his response he says my dear father-in-law I so much appreciate it but I'm not interested and you know that he did whatever his father-in-law wanted. But he had a wife and for whatever reason he didn't want this responsibility. He wanted to be unknown. Just let me be. The deb was a person who didn't busy himself with himself. He didn't make an issue of himself. So when others wanted to make an issue of him, he fought it. And he fought it for years. But finally his wife the daughter of the says to her husband my dear husband if you don't accept the leadership of it's all going to go kaput there won't be that and and and and I understand this because I've studied this what we have today is only because of one man and this man is the labba who created a staff who created who created who continues through everyone to share this message for am. So today on yuchvat I really remind you if you haven't done so yet it's still not night to write a pigfan to the oh you can send it in online right you go ohel.com or whatever it is fill out all the names that you know that you want for braha and and write whatever your needs are and be open like you're writing to your father and to your mother to your brother to your sister to best friend. Be open. Don't mince words. And then pledge saddaka to one of the Reb's institutions, whatever that is, or or or to a person who's involved with that. That's what the Reba writes. Those that haven't lit a candle today should still light a candle now and say to light a candle and to share this message with your children and grandchildren and family and friends. These are basic instructions that the Reb wrote in 1951 for us to do. for us to do. And one more thing, if you're writing your pigeon pan on a paper, then to insert that paper into a um a mimemer or a sika or a kesh. That's what it says in the Reb's in letters. I'm sharing that with you. and then at some point to get it to the oh and over there it should be torn up and put into the oh so you could you know write it now and when either you or someone else you know is going to the oh send it with them in an envelope they don't have to read it you want them to read it they could but it should be torn up there if you could do this it would be a great a great a great thing if not then when you go to or you go to the whatever that's you But in this case as a of of of the previous and the we want to have the these particular on our be talk on our behalf to Hashem to bring down the brother. So that's why it's better if you can get the pig ne to the at some point. Okay. So there's two things. You could do it online but then it's not in written form. So you can do both. You can do it online. In addition to that you do it in hard copy by writing writing with your name your signature you know it's your own handwriting has more specialty. >> Is there is there today >> there is yes unless there's a there is so um tomorrow I have to travel so there won't be a she but Monday next week there'll be a shim. And what I'd like to learn is um there's a few other discourses of the Reba that are very important. Um I want to somehow see if it's online and ask you to download it somehow so you could follow. Um I think Zev or Mosa one of you said that or Iser has oh Iser the book he has the safer called lessons in my murin the same style like we've used in lessons inu and over there you have it Mosa excellent okay so that is so that is the one misha that I want to use but even if you don't have that the the second mimer m open up the second mimer is loa that's the second discourse so I that's the one I want to learn next so uh h how do we um if you don't if someone doesn't have the safer uh maybe we can find it online or or um uh maybe if not maybe Mo can I it's a lot of pages to to to to copy and all that but anyway that's the second mimer and if you could get the safer would be you know better if anyone's going to make a call and see if if they have that safer lessons in my mim and pick up a few copies for people on you know page each other and and and and buy it. I wish everyone only better health, better health, >> better health, happiness, and of course would say true peace. >> Amen. >> And and we should talk at the righteous mashia. Amen. Now, love you all to see you. See you on Monday. Shalom. Bye-bye.