Yud Tes Kislev is the Rosh Hashana of Chasidim What are you doing to be Chasidic? Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

um this is a faing for this year it's chabas so we can't faing online on the actual day so we're doing it now so Utes is known in inad as the holiday of all holidays in other words this is the festival that's most important to kism to and all ofis out of all the festivals you know festivals this one is the crown and why is that that's because like the gor says regarding if not for this day the day of M Torah I think it's a I think how many Ys are there on the market plenty so what makes this ysf special the T So using that phrase from the gor applying it to kism there are many holidays there many uh days in which celebrate all different are different days but this day of is the this this day makes all the other days important and what happened on this day so what happened outwardly and what we read about in a history book even in a Jewish history book and aabad history book and AIC history book is that there were people who opposed at the time they were called MIM opponents and they they um succeeded in informing on the balat and others people think only theab re sat in jail it's a mistake historically it's incorrect for example the leich leich I believe his name was he sat in jail too and he's the father figure of the so I went over to a grandson of the here in B Park and he's a serious man a big and I said why don't you guys celebrate and he looked at me and he says I don't know it's a good question this isn't just about and the AL when they again I don't know if they imprisoned everyone on the same day but in the same time so what was the issue the issue was that a group of Jews who called themselves Who had rebes rebies who were students of the mag of M who was a student of the Holy belov created a new way of serving God up until then a Jew was what you would call today an orthodox Jew a from Jew a religious Jew you know and and he served Hashem without dancing without really a lot of singing without studying about God in the form of kism using cabalistic ideas even though the go OFA do you know that the go OFA wrote more they say on Caba onor onig and the writes in his pish Mish The Reel always cited this whoever does not study T the T of the of the concealed I Caba has no right to pasin now go tell that to every R and B you know how could that be but that's what he writes it's a mish take it out you you don't got to believe anyone just look it up I looked it up once it's there right so and that's notus that's Caba so so sorry Rabbi who said that who said that the vill the vill writes this in his commentary on Mishay in I don't remember the citation now but I did look it up the Reber always cited it to people who gave him who challenged him on this concept he said what do you want your forefather the V writes this and the V what I'm telling you is he wrote more commentary and on Caba than he did on on on gamor now again is not Caba that's very important to know that it's not Caba it uses cabalistic words and ideas but it's not Caba anyway let's get to the point let's not get lost so so um so outwardly this idea of studying using C cabalistic idea and and wording this was very foreign and this happened to come the Advent of kism came just about 50 years 50 to 75 years 75 years so later after the helmet itki PRS in Pia in 1648 and it came also following the shap and the PES and the Frank the false Messiahs so everyone was very fearful you know when when I had my zoning ISU Marin County of you know allowing a sh in the residential area Church versus State and all of that right what what the bottom line was is what we call in English xenophobia you know what xenophobia means the fear of the unknown here's a man with a long beard actually fear of foreigners right fear of foreigners thank you so you know that that time my beard was black but it was still a long unraveled you know uh beard and yamaka and walking shabas 95° with a hat and a jacket and a Talis in the street to this is foreigners so they're up to something the at the time after the false Messiah and the helit PS were suspect who are you who are you martians who are you guys you know and and so you have to put yourself in that time and in that position and why it created such a fear another point is that in the 1760s early 1700s actually 1770s I've told you this but just to mention again there was a group of known as the to the of actually 1770 T and they wanted to destroy mnm the approach to hasem of just the the the norm where everything is intellectual and everything's about a piece of G and you know and everything like that so they did things to make themselves silly they wanted to they wanted to show that intelligence is not the seat of God but rather the hardest so they went into a store a grocery store and they asked for a pound of nails how much do a pound of nails cost for example the guy looked at him what are you out you you your mind this is a grocery store we sell foodie we don't sell nails so that was a way of of laughing at themselves they they they they they did things to laugh at themselves you want to say something hello no I just thought you were going like this I no uh I I just wondered where that movement came from like who started it well okay so they I think that they were offshoot of Caren Caren Caren the Caren seems like even before kabad were most popular at that time because in the interrogation papers which by the way you could read because it's been translated into Hebrew from the Russian we have the interrogation papers of the balatan you know that and in those interrogation papers they they identify him as as like you know Ken so you think about why Caren he was kabad because the the ones from 1770 you know went one step further again not not not what khina khina they they took it to the streets and they and they uh again so I I don't I I want to be honest I don't remember now if they were technically carer I don't remember that but you know kism just began you know the mag passed away in 1772 right and uh and and this is 1770 bmov you know passes away in 1745 I think yeah so you're talking everything was new you know we talk about it today as though you have to you have to put yourself in the shoes of what was going on then so because of all thism got a a bad rap what you know they were sumersault in the streets like in you know like wild wild things and we have some of that wild stuff going on today in different communities cidic communities without going into DET details everyone knows that and it's not just one Community okay I can give you a list of 10 different and show you and prove to you that they're wild in different ways for one it's holding a flag for the other one it's it's say it's putting up non stuff on on walls for a third one it's twirling the pis and going like this the fourth one's taking zero haircuts and if you don't you're shus you know everyone has their Nuance everyone has their Nuance yeah and some are more outward with it so it makes more noise right butm kism is is not formal anyone that tries to formalize kism is is making a a big mistake know they would say like SL is the within because there's a a big formality there you know but the truth is even is not it's not formal it's just it's maybe a little more quiet quiet but at the end of the day Aid is not a formal man okay doesn't mean you have to be radical I I thought always the closest thing to to to Li box would be there are a lot of similarities yes that is true the closest the closest cultural I'm going to say it again the closest cultural uh similarity is because of their intellectual bent so instead you know they're learning on the G and is learning to understand God's creation and many other cultures in fact I'm glad you mentioned that y because I know someone whose father and grandfather came from the city kit kit is in Ukraine or Russia raban kandal the the today his grandson is the r Rashi one of them in B right the the Z who passed away at 95 I don't know if any of you still remember him he was from cordinates and his father and grandfather really authentic so this fellow who who whose grandparents also and father came from kit he told me his father told him that aich kabik was so much you couldn't tell the difference between a kabik and a lak in cits they both had full beards full beards they both spoke with a Russian accent they both were you know from and everything else and I and and they and that's why there's there were a lot of marriages inter marriages between the ladim and liches and katnik I can tell you give you a list now of 10 just 10 off the bat that with such marriages why cuz they live together they shop together they ate together they they they joke together they work together and they argue together what was their argument so there's a uh where you got you know there's two big shoes there one's called butand I told you that it's a San Sho it opened I think in 1909 it's very special Sho very great people Y and Dav there and kenberg there the visited anyway it's a holy place to say cap and right next to it not right next to but in in the courtyard a few few it's a courtyard is a big building it's called the BR I forget the name of the rabbi was who came over and and G had money and and he met up a big shoe what was so so here the lit fox D over there meltzer's father-in-law for example I think shabas used to in and so I asked I visited there 20 20 25 years ago I spent a lot of time over there and I I got to know still some of the older people and spoke to them and heard stories and so I asked so what was the difference he says everyone lived in peace the from the would run into the and they would scream out okay that was the extent of the of the and 100 years ago and that's and that's who wearing and you know doesn't wear you know that's the CU the culturei culture supersedes anything else used they used to no not the Reb I'm not talking about the re the re only wore in laich not outside traveled to Vienna and here and there he didn't wear he wore a AAL a caset theab when he was re in laich he was and his son also wore even during the lifetime of the but didn't wear everyone wor because that was the the Jerusalem dress code and Jerusalem supersede anything else they they're a culture for itself it's a different world and that's in a way is priority anyway we're going tangents and we only have a certain amount of time let's get back to to the it's interesting stuff but we got to stay focused so outwardly outwardly the reason for the opposition to and to was everything that I said until now but that was outwardly what was the the inside what was going on inside the pus it was about the study of and and we all know all of us here who have been studying who's been studying for five years now together and longer whatever you see what is it's it's it's a whole different approach within doesn't contradict anything but it's a different Mah and that really is what the bnm didn't relate to and I understand that it's like we NE we didn't hear such a way of teaching and learning until the B came along in so I I do understand I do understand their concern and by the way the Reb because people asked all these questions to the Reb and challenged him the Reb said a simple a simple answer he said he says when you're fearful of something and you suspect of something think we understand that but there's a result look at the bottom line what was the fear and the concern that theim are a cult and they will they will they will worship a foreign God and become not religious and not keep so the says it's 300 years later 250 years later next the safer like it says take the safer take the book and read and see from people are the on and on and on so you had a concern xenophobia you had reason to doubt and question and ridicule the some of the approach but at the end of the day and guess what the had a a a student of now wasn't your cic uh town was inhabited mostly by m was a real m city talking about 250 years ago 20 years ago in the time the bat the mag all that time was a son of hover came from his family name was shik h shik he was the second in command to the v m Myers you know there's the there's the president and there's the vice president the V was the President laav right andinis was like the vice president I mean that's that's up there okay when he heard that his son pinus when shik of heard that his son Pinas became a of the bat he sat sh for him he said he was caught in a cult of heresy that's it and this was the biggest busher biggest shame for rep how can you face the V going how can you face the his son was caught a few years go by he doesn't talk to him they don't hear from each other it's it's he doesn't want to know about his son he's walking in the park one day and he sees what looks like his son pinus and P he goes over he goes over for whatever reason or maybe P pin went to him one anyway they they come eye to eye and the father says you're pin the man's wearing a long reckle a Frack with a full beard probably maybe a whatever pay whatever no he says I thought you joined a cult I thought you're not religious anymore I thought you're in a bar drinking and sinning he says my father I have a re his name is because the father asked him and the father saw how meticulous he was in his mannerisms and his modesty and his frite his religiosity so he said where did you get this he says I got it from my Reb he says your reer your reer who's supposed to be the the guru of heresy he taught you this I have to meet him if he could take you and make you into such a person I have to meet him so he says father the balat has a group of a little group with a little because mostly it's place and he comes once a year and he says and he and he says any and it's a wonderful shabas and much of shabas people go into to see him in some private audience without the but come go he comes and he can't believe what he sees the the warmth the seriousness the kadus M shabas he goes into theat and he [Music] says you guys know little Hebrew accept me except me under your wings your wings y turn off your thing please I'm yours I want to be a the second command under the vill wants to become AIC Jew he's so enamored with what he saw shest he never saw that in Villa singing a p is not ding for three hours and crying and foring and loving and looking at a Jew as as said what the re said to you know earlier so says to him I'm paraphrasing anyone could be a but to be a you have to have the following ideology you have to it has to become part of you after I've told you this once the shabas after usually we we the the the many people say they say additional prayers and it follows the olive dayss so for it says which literally means a cement of which didn't come out of kindness kindness comes out of that and for that you Merit to it's a reference to the T the the cement of Torah creates piousness which ultimately leads to the world to come but Al Ted it in the following way and share this this weekend as you guys go through TI T also means a uh a d a Tagle yish the word is tag not tag tag means days tle means D tit also has a meaning Tagle a d are formed because of the table because of the dough which D the dough of the ticken the the little cook with the little that you say on someone's tick someone's day and you say with a little from that you become a and then he turns to the p and he said and you the P are not made of that Tagle at least not yet so people ask what do he mean didn't want to accept him as a of course he did but he's telling him hey to be Aid you have to change your ideology you have to understand that with a is just as important as a piece of and if you can't accept that and understand and accept that you're a wonderful ye and you really are but not a this is is the Paradigm Shift of our our entire approach to life to hasem to life to family to everything is what is the eer and what is the T what is primary what is ancillary so the AL who was celebrating his day on the Al says that the primary thing of of cism is that is the primary issue foric Judaism and their and their Styles and the formats of H of what and when that's all semantics you know but in concept it's the ability to leave the I the yesh and and find the same Holiness in the mundane in the K and and that's and doesn't it doesn't happen just automatically because I want to be your you know we say by by by especially you want to be a what are you giving for it what are you doing for it I want to be h of course the door is open to everyone you know doors open always to everyone but what are you doing to give Hashem and theic movement and the and what are you what are you doing on your in yourself to to to to live that way and that and that and that is and that's why it's the holiday of all the in in in 1901 wasn't in for and the were shattered their re wasn't there if I braing with them say a m and everything else so the next so he wrote a letter because he was he was healing himself he had to be out of the country and he wrote a letter and this letter became kind of the the Bible of since the rashab like this morning a a b a serious B litak who comes from kabad gabad family and we always talk and and and and I mentioned to him it's it's I asked him as you see I have a lot of hair I said you think I should take a haircut for rash so he looks at me he's thinking for I said and he laughs cuz he knows he says so then his his rejoiner his response to me is that only started in he knew right away in 1901 that the in the letter calls so I said to him it's r on shabas I think I should take a haircut maybe right you're supposed to take your hair off have a lot of hair what's the why you think he was playing with words calling it are serious people intelligent people the are surely intelligent and what's the the the is that this is a the the the the nerve center comes from the brain is the brain so it's a short fa that we made I'm sure you're having more faans I think told RAB is coming I don't know for chabas or just he's coming for chabas or just coming for M shabas he's coming m shabas m shabas but shabas itselfa shabas itself is I went I I I called some people they gave some money and people gave some a guy gave me a a bottle of crown oy with a with a with a with a salami this morning he says I want you to use it for so you got it's Thursday Friday you got to prepare yourself put together a fa a KES even you guys yourselves and I'm not going home chabas I told my wife the shabas I'm I mean it's a short chabas you know 4:00 is but who's going home you know so far is doing a big you're doing a big event RBI far okay well be there and don't let go home don't let him go home it's it's you you stay in SHO you learn you you dance you say and it's once a year it's all right your wife your wife won't kick you out of the house don't worry everybody and and everyone else should bring br y do me a favor mute yourself says hi by the way Rabbi says hi to everybody bar who bar tal no bar um what's his last oh I forget I know yeah I haven't seen him in a long time anyway is a day a little wine a little a little water whatever say to the AL to the mag it's the mag yide the holy maged it it's a day for connection and and theim say that on such a day you by learning some of their open a open at the for the bat of the mag learn of share of story it's like bringing opinion to the Reb could you imagine we're going into the alter's room and we're giving him a note a petition note help myself and my family my children children my grandchildren especially now the situation this is the day so so take it take it make of it you know it's what you make of it okay y you wanted to say something please yes so I want to say two this first of all now I understand what the source of the K and the Herring is this is the source of the K right second of all make sure make sure this shabas you have some kho if that's the if that's the source okaya you better make sure that some and whatever else love you all see you all on Monday we'll learn chapter 39 in Tanya zun have a great shabas byebye bye take good