0664 - R' Yoel Kahn 14 - Mashpia for Older Bochurim

00:00 Rabbi Yoel, besides being a chezer par excellence, a special chezer, he was also a mashpia. Mashpia which gave sure the Chassidus in the deepest way. He was a big maskil in Chassidus, understood Chassidus very well, and he was able to give it over. He had a keich hasbah out of the, out of this world. And, uh, he had hashpa'ah on hundreds, probably thousands of people. Um, he said-- he told me after he got married, I don't know if it's right away or a year later, a few years later, I don't know. He was in Chassidus, and the Rebbe told him he should become a mashpia. And the Rebbe also told the hanhalah of Tomchei Timim they should make him mashpia. So they made him a mashpia in one of the kitas in Bedford Avenue. Bedford was like the mesivta. Bedford were the younger boys, thirteen years old, fourteen, fifteen years old. So they made him a mashpia of one of the classes, the higher class there. There were three classes there. One Rabbi Liss, one was Reb Dovid Raskin, and one was him. He was the highest class, so they made him mashpia there. When he went to Chassidus later, I don't know if that year, next year, or whatever, but he's told me he went at Chassidus, and he told the Rebbe what he's doing, that he's mashpia in Bedford. Uh, the Rebbe was not happy. I don't remember exactly. It's even possible that the Rebbe said, "Ni dos hob ich gemeint." That I--

01:20 this is not what I meant. Uh, maybe the Rebbe didn't say it, and the Rebbe just showed that that wasn't happy. I don't remember, but definitely the Rebbe showed that he was unhappy that... 'Cause he says, "What I meant was that you should be a mashpia on eltere bochurim, on bochurim, not on, on young kids, on young, young bochurim lach of fourteen, fifteen years old." Rebbe l'chatchilah wanted him mashpia on big bochurim who are needed a real, a real mashpia, a real hashpa'ah. And lepel mamish take a little later, he also take a became beside, besides remaining the mashpia in Bedford on one of the kitas, he also became a mashpia in 770.