Ep. 6: The Vision For the World with Rabbi Mendy Greenberg

00:00 Speaker 1 So we have to push it to sit down. If you're a shliach or if you're a chas-chasid, that's really a shliach of the Rebbe. Every Yid is a shliach. Push it to Mizbeinen to think about who the Rebbe is. Who, who, who do we stand for? What's Chassidus? What's Chassidus Chabad? What's Chassidus Bechalal? What's Yiddishkeit? What's the Eibishter? What's the Rebbe? And what's the Rebbe of our generation? Who is he? What does he stand for? What, what does he represent? And I was chosen. I just saw someone posted a sicha. The Rebbe said how, uh, from all the billion people, the Eibishter chose a few people and gave them his peyrah, peyrah sei. The-- Out of all the billions of people, the Eibishter cho-chose us and made us Chassidus Chabad, and made, made us in Derush V. And gave us the Rebbe. And out of all the Rabbeim of Chassidus Chabad, gave us the last Rebbe, the Rebbe, the Rebbe of Derush V. And the Rebbe of Derush V takes each one of us and chooses each one of us and says, "Your job and your mission in this world is to bring the ultimate purpose of creation into this world." And it's not pshat. A Yid in Russia, you have to believe there's this concept of Derush V. We see it happening in front of our eyes. I'm Yossi Kamen. Welcome to Among Chassidim By Der Her, an ongoing farbrengen about life as a chasid, our vibrant connection with the Rebbe, and inspired living

01:13 Speaker 1 shaped by the way he teaches us each and every day. This episode is dedicated to the nishmas of Rav Saadia Ben Rav Mordechai Alavashalom Dahan, and the refuah shleima for Chana bas Nechama Dina by Shaul and Shaindy Dahan. Mendy Greenberg, how are you? Baruch Hashem, how are you, Rabbi Yossi? Baruch Hashem, I'm doing good. Shakir for making the time, and, um, it's a lot to talk about, a lot, a lot we can talk about. So I hope, uh, I hope you're ready. My pleasure. For the Der Her, anything. Okay. Um, so there's a lot of things we can talk about, but I, I, I think-- I see behind you, you have... Is that a proclamation? Yep, correct. That's a local proclamation? That's a state- Yes ... proclamation? Yeah, it's, uh, the Alaska State Legislator proclamation for this year. For the Rebbe? Mm-hmm. Three Dalet Nissan, yeah. Okay. So one of the-- O-one of the things I think we should talk about because the, you know, Baruch Hashem, you're multifaceted, but, uh, I know that you have a special koch in this whole idea of making proclamations, right? Proclamations for the, uh, for the Rebbe's birthday, the Dalet Nissan. And so what's going on? Why, why is that so, so important to-- in Bechalal and important to you? What, what, what's the story? Well, do you want me to go back to how I started getting, uh, koch in this? Uh, should I start from there? Or should I just- Sure ... speak about the Indian--

02:50 Speaker 1 Okay. No. So, um- You should s- you should say it the way you wanna say it. Okay. So I, I, I guess I'll say it, uh, I'll give it my personal, uh, how I personally got, um, uh, into this thing. Um, so actually it was from my first years on shlichus. We're right now on shlichus, um, here in this area. Like, I was-- I moved on shlichus when I was one years old, uh, to Alaska. But I'm saying like since, uh, I came here with my, uh, rebbetzin and we started a Chabad House, our own Chabad House, where this summer we're celebrating ten years. So in my first-- in our first years of shlichus here, um, so I used to bring my children to the preschool in the Chabad House in Anchorage, so I was driving a lot. Um, so the, the one advantage of driving in, in and out, in and out was that I had a lot of time in the car, um, which meant that Baruch Hashem I was on the group, uh, that Mendel Sharf has. Maybe some people are familiar with it. He has a group, a WhatsApp group for many years already, that every week he posts a farbrengen of the Rebbe. So even though I don't want to listen to farbrengens all the time, but everyone listens together to a certain farbrengen. So unfortunately, now I'm not that involved in that group. But then when I was driving a lot, I was listening a lot to farbrengens. So

04:05 Speaker 1 I don't, uh, I don't remember what it was. For my second year on shlichus, whatever. Anyway, he would-- they were listening to the farbrengens of the year of Taf Shin Lamid Ches. Now, the year of Taf Shin Lamid Ches is the year of the heart attack, which, uh, Hagah, you know, one of the things that we, we were get-- the, one of the, the gifts-- It's hard to say a gift, but one of the things that we have from Taf Shin Lamid Ches, Taf Shin Lamid Ches is two full years of Shabbos digga farbrengens, um, that are Motzaei Shabbos. The Rebbe farbrengen instead of on Shabbos afternoon, the Rebbe farbrengen Motzaei Shabbos. So they're all on tape. That was due, that was due to the fact-- That was connected to the Rebbe's health situation. The heart attack. Yeah. And the, the Rebbe shouldn't have to, uh, strain himself to speak louder without a mic. So this way, the Rebbe could speak Motzaei Shabbos. In the beginning, initially, the Rebbe was farbrengen from his, from his room. The Rebbe was saying sichas and Meimadim from his room, from Meshichisman. Even after- That was being played downstairs. That people heard downstairs and, and obviously was hook up as well to the whole world. But that started already from Motzaei Simchas Torah, and the sicha started getting longer and longer and longer. Um, and even after Rosh Chodesh Kislev when the Rebbe went home, there were still sichas and farbrengens from the Rebbe's room. And even after Yut

05:13 Speaker 1 Tes Kislev when the Rebbe came downstairs, I think the first time to farbreng with the Olam, there was still-- there still were sichas from his room. But anyway, the bottom line is the Rebbe was farbrengen Motzaei Shabbos. But e-even after the Rebbe stopped farbrengen from his room, all the farbrengens were trans-- were, were changed to Motzaei Shabbos instead of Shabbos afternoon. So you could push it, listen to a full Ma-Mamash two years of farbrengens of Shabbos, like a Shabbos-style farbrengen, Rashi sichas and, uh, Pirkei Avos sichas, uh, the two sichas from before, the Meimadim. Anyway, it's a very, very, very Gishmeke two years. Um, and it's, it's just amazing. It's amazing, amazing s- uh, stuff that we have. Anyway, so, uh, that year they were li-listening to the farbrengens of Taf Shin Lamid Ches. So I tried listening every week to the, to that, to that week's farbrengen. Um, and then I heard the farbrengen of Yud Alef Nissan Taf Shin Lamid Ches. And that was the first year that education that the, the, uh, U-US, uh, s- um, legislator, the House, the Senate, made a joint resolution, and the president, Jimmy Carter, signed a proclamation that the Rebbe's birthday, 19 Nissan, uh, will be Education Day USA. Now, and then the Rebbe-- So the Rebbe speaks about it. I would say probably the majority of the farbrengen, it wasn't such a long farbrengen maybe because of Tashlamim Ches, maybe because of the year. There were three or four sichas in the farbrengen. The majority

06:32 Speaker 1 of the farbrengen is dedicated to Education Day. And I always knew about Education Day before. I always knew that that happens, and I alway-- But I never understood-- And I al-also knew the Rebbe spoke about it, the Rebbe thanked the president for the honor, but I never realized ad kedei how much this was by the Rebbe, like, a thing. This was like, uh-- And I heard the farbrengen, I thought I was going out of my kelim. I was like, "Oh my gosh, this is like..." The Rebbe started speaking about how this is-- this-- The Rebbe started saying that this is a new shlav in the haschalah and the emtza of, of, uh, of the kolam m'shach hamashich. Basically, that this Education Day is like a new, a new shlav in coming, in the coming of Mashiach. Like, to me, that when I heard that, I was like, "Whoa." Like, this is not just, you know, oh, you know, my great uncle, Rav Mel Shenef had an idea and made Education Day, and the Rebbe appreciated it, the Rebbe said thank you to the president. This is something that the Rebbe saw as extremely crucial to the whole, to the whole purpose of, of Mashiach, which is the purpose, obviously, of creation and the purpose of Chassidus Chabad-

07:32 Speaker 2 What, what did the Rebbe explain? Wh-wh-why is that part of it?

07:35 Speaker 1 The Rebbe, the Rebbe was explaining that basically that the fact that the malchus hakiah dir baolam, the most-- the super, the superpower of the world, United States, um, s- which rep- in other words, represents all of humanity, basically. Uh, w-- The Rebbe explained many times that all countries all over the world look up to the United States, um, for-- They follow them, they follow their lead, they follow their, their, uh, initiatives, v'chulu v'chulu. The fact that they should declare the importance of education and that, that ad kedei kach to designate a s- a unique day special for this concept, later on, the Rebbe spoke m-much, you know, later on, it became much more clear that it was about in the years later through President Reagan, President Bush, was openly, uh, about, uh, Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach and about the Aibishter and about the Ten Commandments. Uh, but even then in Tashlamim Ches when that wasn't that clear, the Rebbe made it very clear that the entire purpose is to bring an awareness, uh, with education of children that without emunah, without belief in God, without belief in the Aibishter, um, there's no-- There's-- That, that's the yossei of Chinuch, and that's the pu-purpose of Education Day to bring an awareness by all, all, uh, students, by all children that, uh, education is not just an e-education of information, of, of knowledge, of reading, writing, math, science, uh, history, v'chulu. But the foundation and the most important part of education is the education of that there's

08:55 Speaker 1 an eye that sees, an ear that hears, that there's a creator of the world, that each per-per-person has a purpose, and, uh, there's-- it's not, it's not-- the, the world is not a jungle. And ye-yesh be'al ha'bayis libi rozu. There's a-- There, there's, there's order in this world and, and the Aibishter is watching every single thing everyone does. Um, and therefore, children have to make, have to-- all people, all humanity have to make, uh, decisions based on th-this idea. The lo tirtzach, lo tinov, n-not, not to murder, not to, not to steal. Um, v'chulu v'chulu, basically to be moral and upright standing people is all founded on the idea of emunah in Hashem. And the Rebbe went on to explain barichas. The Rebbe said, "Where-- L'chayim, where does this come from to make one day for education? L'chayim is a mitzvah to every-- Education is always a mitzvah. So what's up this one day?" And the Rebbe starts saying, giving proofs from Pesach, from Shavuot, from Rosh Hashanah to what's Pesach? Zeich l'ziyat Mitzrayim. L'chayim, every day there's a mitzvah zeich l'ziyat Mitzrayim. And Af al pi ken, we designate one day to celebrate Mitzrayim. And the Rebbe said, "Der Rosh Hashanah. Rosh Hashanah is Kabbalat hilakh shmayim." Every day you have to have Kabbalat hilakh shmayim. Elamai, one day a year is designated, that is the ikar focus, uh, Kabbalat hilakh shmayim. So the Rebbe said the same thing with Chinuch. The Rebbe gives dugmaot from Pesach, Rosh Hashanah, Yom, Yom Tovim from Deirisa,

10:06 Speaker 1 from Minatira to give, like, heichochas and ra'ayas why it's appropriate to, to designate one day for Chinuch. So I don't-- I just walked out of the, the-- And there's so much more to say about the farbrengen, but anyway-

10:18 Speaker 2 So that, so that's why it's, it's an integral part of, of the coming of Mashiach, because that's what Mashiach is, kol ha'am y'du eysi, that there's going to be the knowledge of the Aibishter all over the-- Yeah. The Rebbe was connecting-

10:30 Speaker 1 Yeah, that all humanity and, and the, and the fact-- And who is deci-- who's recognizing this? In other words, like, in, s-so to speak, the king of the wor-- In other words, the king of, of Umot HaOlam, the king, the, the leading force, the leading power all o- all of humanity and from money-wise, from power, from, from influence. When the United States says that this is something that's essential, it has ashpun the entire world. And the Rebbe doesn't say it there, the Rebbe doesn't say clearly. Late, in later years, it's much more clear how it's connected specifically to the Rebbe and to Yad Al Finison, but i-it's, it's self-understood. Um, and the Rebbe-- Anyway, so I walked out of the farbrengen, listening to the farbrengen, I was pasha blown away. And one of the first things that was bothering me was like, how does not every single citizen of the United States know about Education Day? Um, the, the Rebbe is saying that this is a, a, a, a serious shlav in, in, uh, the coming of Mashiach, and this happens every single year. I mean, how many people know about it? And how many Lubavitchers bachalam know that the president every year puts out a new proclamation, at least at that time? I mean, it was-- And like sh- every-- Like this is-- To the Rebbe, this is extremely important. Like, why doesn't everyone know about it? And I remember I was talking to friends on WhatsApp and this and that, how, what can

11:40 Speaker 1 we do? How can we make it? Uh, anyway, we could add vagen them, and it was a kind of state in the world of talk. Fine. Then came Chaf Ov, and, uh, we were listening to the farbrengen of Chaf Ov Tashlamim Ches. And, uh, all of a sudden, the Rebbe starts speaking about Education Day. And the Rebbe says, just, just like a few months ago, the United States, uh, Congress and the president declared, uh, that it is Education Day. So the Rebbe says this should be, uh, replicated in every single Um, country, state, city, uh, every-- basically any type of government body throughout the world should imitate, should do what, what, uh, what the, what the, you know, the federal government in America did. And the Rebbe starts explaining that it's very easy now. Now that it was already done, it's easy to convince other countries and other people to, to follow because United States is some-- is, is-- has such a influence on the entire world. People will follow, uh, the lead of the United States, um, and, and I'm hearing this, and again, and I'm kind of blown away. The Rebbe's saying that every single city, every single state, every single-- everyone should, should do Education Day. Um, and that to me, I was like, "Okay, now I know exactly what I..." I was complaining why no one knows about Education Day. So right away I'm like, "Okay, now I have, I have my-- I ha- I know what I'm meant to do."

13:03 Speaker 2 You're saying till then you didn't realize that it was-- you thought it's just done on the gov-- on, on the-

13:09 Speaker 1 Yeah

13:09 Speaker 2 ... on the government level, you know, the federal government.

13:12 Speaker 1 Federal government.

13:12 Speaker 2 You didn't realize that it's for every locale should happen as well. Okay.

13:16 Speaker 1 That's right. So till then, I didn't know what, how exactly could I help, uh, what, what happens in Washington. I don't have anything to do with Washington. But now, now I say, "Okay, in my little city, I..." And someone could say, "Ooh, you-- what's the big deal? You're a little city, you should do it." Yeah. The Rebbe said every single city. So, uh, I was speaking to Chabad in be-- uh, after that session, I was like, "Does the Rebbe mean like we have to do this?" And anyway, you know how it works. Uh, so before, you know, when things, things weren't done for a long time, so, uh, peop- uh, you know, people never heard of it, people-- no one ever did it, no one saw, no one this, no one that.

13:48 Speaker 2 So was it done then?

13:50 Speaker 1 It was done at, at the time in . I mean, later on I found out. I did my research, yeah. After and then when the Rebbe spoke about it in many cities, in many states, and for sure in the United States did it. Um, the-- in Israel it was done. The, the Minister of Education put out a proclamation for, uh, Education Day in Ta- in . Um, I don't know about other states, other countries. But anyway, it was definitely done then. And then throughout the years, throughout the mems and the nuns, many shluchim, uh, in cities and states and different countries, uh, did, uh, Education Day, and there's answers from the Rebbe about it, and yaahas from the Rebbe, and letters from the Rebbe. Uh, the mayor of Tel Aviv a few times, Rabbi Gerlitsky arranged that there should be Education Day, and the Rebbe sent letters, uh, about it. Um, so, uh, there's, there's actually Alaska, there's a, uh, a very sharp answer about, um, Bochurim that did Education Day in Alaska on Shabbos. Um, wasn't their fault. I mean, they didn't realize, but the Rebbe was very sharp about the fact that it was done on Shabbos. And you could, you could have said, you know, how many people even knew? Hmm?

14:45 Speaker 2 They were doing different dates? They weren't doing the ofteness?

14:48 Speaker 1 So first of all, when the Rebbe spoke to uh, half of was the-

14:53 Speaker 2 After

14:53 Speaker 1 ... ofteness.

14:54 Speaker 2 Right.

14:54 Speaker 1 The Rebbe said-- The Rebbe actually said they should do it before the new year, before the new school year. Um, so the, the Nekuda was the designated day, and all the proclamations always connected to the Rebbe. It was always in honor of the Rebbe, no matter what, what day it was in the year. So Bochurim came America to Alaska in, uh, in . So they were here in the summer. So they had a meeting with the governor. Two Bochurim had a meeting with the governor. So yala, they made, they managed it, they made-- Actually, it was called Rabbi Menachem Schneerson Day.

15:21 Speaker 2 Hmm.

15:21 Speaker 1 And, uh, they called Mosdos to find out what day should they do it. So someone in Mosdos told them, "is coming." is a good day. Without realizing the -

15:34 Speaker 2 It's Shabbos

15:34 Speaker 1 ... that year was on Shabbos. They got the idea from Mosdos. It wasn't their idea. So when they sent it in to the Rebbe, the Rebbe wrote a long answer, very sharp. Um, basically, how, how the no one realized that this is on Shabbos. The Rebbe says most of the things that are done to honor a special day in the United States are connected with hilul Shabbos, whether it's, uh, writing an article or calling, uh, calling phone calls or mazel tov or this or that. How-- And, and this was all done in the name of Chinuch Bnei Yisrael, I guess Chinuch. This is in, in the name of Chinuch Bnei Yisrael.

16:09 Speaker 2 Of Education Day.

16:10 Speaker 1 Education, yeah.

16:11 Speaker 2 Okay.

16:11 Speaker 1 This is done in the name of Lubavitch, and now the name of it is-- The Rebbe didn't say his name, obviously, but the name the day is Rabbi Menachem Schneerson Day. Um, very sharp. Very sharp and, um, and mazel-- Basically, it showed how-- To me, even though it's a sharp answer, it shows how much, how serious the Rebbe takes it. So, you know, a, a cynic could say, how many people even knew about that proclamation in Alaska? The for-- The governor made a proclamation. It wasn't print- printed in the papers. I mean, I don't think so. How many people even know-- knew about it? And yet to the Rebbe it was hilul Shabbos.

16:44 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.

16:45 Speaker 1 So it basically, it, it was something that the Rebbe, the Rebbe sees as extremely important. Anyway, so back to Alaska. Anyway, so, so I, I put, I put, put together a, a, proclamation. I asked-- I sent it probably was-- till I got, I got the courage to do it, I sent it to the, to the mayor probably two weeks before the ofteness, to the mayor of Palmer, Alaska. Palmer, Alaska, has maybe, you know, eight thousand official, uh, residents. Um, and I sent it to my mayor, and I asked the mayor, "Would you be able to do a proclamation?" And she emailed me, "Yeah, sure, we will do it." So I took the-- I made a screenshot of that email, and I sent it to a friend, mama's friends or cousins, and boom, a bunch of shluchim started copying, started, started, uh, copying it and started doing the same thing. They asked me for the , whatever, and that's it. That's how the ball, the ball started rolling, and, uh, and years-- in, in the following years, there was all the st- governors of all the states, you know, different, different countries, um, different cities, whatever. Hundreds and hundreds of proclamations since then started, uh, became, became very, uh, common. Um, again, this is noth- nothing new. It wasn't-- It's not a Chidush. This is how-- This is, this was happening for many years, uh, before . For whatever reason, it was kind of-

17:57 Speaker 2 It was Chidush Hayashanus, taking something that-

17:59 Speaker 1 Yeah

17:59 Speaker 2 ... people kind of forgot about and making sure that... Yeah, and every year, the ofteness, and I, I think since then, there's been a big awareness that amongst shluchim and others that have influence to, uh, make sure that it happens, that these proclamations actually are issued. 'Cause at the-- Ultimately, they're done on a local level, so it, it needs someone to, uh- That maybe, maybe that it should happen. Um, so before, before we get in, I wanna kn-know a little bit more about like the philosophy behind Education Day. Just on a practical level, I think the Rebbe once said that Rebbe's vision for it is that it should be as popular as, as Mother's Day or some... Is that what the Rebbe said?

18:40 Speaker 1 I think that the, the Rebbe, the Rebbe in the English there's so a lotion saying that, that the Rebbe believes that the, that Education Day will help enforce the cur-- the days that already exist in the United States, like Father's Day and Mother's Day, um, that it will, that it will enhance and it will, it will help. The Rebbe basically saw it as it, it will work very well. The Reb- I guess that's how the Rebbe was explaining how it's gonna be good for the world, that it will be, uh, you know, good for United States, that it's going to enhance the current culture of United States and make it better . Um, by the way, one of the things the Rebbe said in the was that, that because the Halakha is the Dina d'Malchusa Dina, uh, that, uh, that, that the law of the land is out-- is according to Halakha, when the, the n- the, the local government makes a law, if it-- as long as it's not contradiction, co-contradicting to Torah law, then it's, then it's, uh, then, then, then every Jew is obligated to follow their law. So because it was a law made by the US government, so Education Day, Al Pi Halakha, is binding on every Yid.

19:43 Speaker 2 Hmm.

19:44 Speaker 1 Um, so in other words, the Rebbe saying even-- the Rebbe basically says, Al Pi Halakha, uh, because the government did it then because it's not a state of the Torah, so therefore it's, it's, I mean, it's, um, has a together of Halakha to, to follow, to, to celebrate or to recognize whatever Education Day.

19:59 Speaker 2 Is there, is there, um... W-what's-- w-when something becomes like a, like a legal holiday, w-what is that? That, that's like another level legislation? Like, what, what's, what's the details how that happens, you know?

20:13 Speaker 1 I don't know. I gue- I guess there's, there's different levels of stuff. Uh, there's-- When-- Legal holidays, I think they, they... There's, they there's no work, right? They, they-

20:19 Speaker 2 No, you know what I'm saying? Is the vision for Education Day to be not only proclamations, but eventually that it should, I don't know, be printed on every calendar, let's say, or, or something like, you know, that it's a, that it's an official holiday in the United States?

20:34 Speaker 1 Um-

20:35 Speaker 2 And I, I'm asking if you understand what the Rebbe's vision for it is. I don't know.

20:38 Speaker 1 I, I think that, I think that, I think that the... Uh, and what the Rebbe sa- I'll tell you what the Rebbe says. The Rebbe says it's a day to, to, to be in the purpose of education. The Rebbe spoke about putting out pamphlets with, with, with ideas, uh, explaining the purpose of education. So it's a time to bring an awareness of the importance of education and, uh, educa-- and what does it mean, education? The real purpose of education, which is education on that, on, on, on the, on the, on morals and values that are being used, that are founded on emunah, faith in God, and, uh, and keeping the mitzvahs that are relevant to all, uh, humanity, to all the n- uh, to, to all s- And, um, the Rebbe spoke in Israel, when the Rebbe wrote letters to the mayor of Tel Aviv, for instance, he's connected it to Matan Torah, that the whole chinuch is about Matan Torah and the, the, the and the To- and Tariach Mitzvahs. So in other words, for Jews, it's the, the and chinuch of, of doing what Jews have to do. And for, for the nations of the world, it's to what the nations of the world have to do, their obligation.

21:39 Speaker 2 Uh, I, so maybe-maybe, uh, we're brainstorming over here, just trying to-

21:43 Speaker 1 Okay

21:43 Speaker 2 ... legitimately understand. It-- Perhaps the next frontier in advancing Education Day is to figure out what legislation needs to happen to make it an, like, like an official holiday. Is that, is that something that anyone ever... Has-- That to your knowledge, has anyone ever explored that?

22:01 Speaker 1 I don't know. One, uh, one of the issues I do know is that the, it's a, the day changes every single year. Because the day, because it's on the Rebbe's Hebrew birthday, so every year the date is different, which makes it more complicated, I think, to designate a day. Um, I know for sure the mashal, uh, by me and our, and our local, uh, state legislator. So, uh, we w-- So the proclamations from the governor and from mayors happen all the time, and even what, like what I have behind me is like a, like a proclamation of the state legislator. But I also tried getting, uh, resolutions, like an official resolution. So one year I did it, um, but it was spent a months and months going through committees. I got the committees. I know different states don't... It's not that complicated to do, to do a, uh, a resolution, but by me the resolutions take, I don't know, uh, it was went through months and months of, of committees and meetings and votings. Uh, and it wa- uh, it took a long time. So one of the things that our, my, the la-legislators that I'm close with said, "You know, we should put this in the system. We should do it once, and it should be official, and this is make one resolution for a choice, a hundred years." But then the problem came, well, the date changes every da- every year. So the, then one of the ideas was, maybe let's just put

23:09 Speaker 1 in, you know, this day and this day, and this day, and this day, and this day for the next hundred years is Education, is Education Day as a, as a, as a resolution. Anyway, it-- we never got to that yet, but, um, it could be that might be one of the, one of the issues of making a, a holiday. I, I don't know. I'm not-

23:24 Speaker 2 Okay. So this is something to explore. We'll let, uh-

23:27 Speaker 1 Yeah

23:27 Speaker 2 ... those that, uh, think that they might understand what the Rebbe's kavanah is to, uh, figure out if this is something to explore and figure out who has to do that. I mean, I mean-

23:36 Speaker 1 I, I could say is, I could say-

23:38 Speaker 2 No, I would think, I would think it's a next step. I, I don't, I don't know for sure, you know.

23:42 Speaker 1 I, I'll tell you, I, I honestly don't think it's so much anymore about the proclamations or what the governments do. In other words, that obviously should be done, but it's more about... Put it this way, Father's Day and Mother's Day is a mitzvahs in America whether or not the president puts out a proclamation.

23:58 Speaker 2 There's also no-

23:58 Speaker 1 You understand?

23:59 Speaker 2 Right, right, right. Right.

24:00 Speaker 1 It, it's the cult-- It's part of the culture. And this... By the, by the way, I'm not even sure if they put a proclamation every year. There's a lot of days that became days in the United States that there's no proclamations for it on a, on a yearly basis. In other words, it has a life of its own. It became, this is Father's Day, this is Mother's Day, and celebrated, and all the companies hop on it. Which by the way, the last few years, if you, if you make some re-research, you'll see different random companies, uh, put out, uh, announcements, social media announcements for Education Day. I don't know if you saw. In the last few years, it's catching on, and there are random coffee, coffee shops, this thing, that thing, they put out Education Day, Happy Education Day, da, da, da, da, something about education. Random places, which gradually also a few years ago, there was a organization, I mean, uh, on behalf of the UN, um, who ma- they made an entire event on Zoom in honor of forty years of Education Day. I actually spoke to the guy who, uh, arranged it. Someone that's not Jewish, he had nothing to do with Lubavitch, he never spoke to any Shliach. He found out about Education Day, and they made an entire event, all s- from the top to the bottom, ran by people that are not Jewish, from, from, uh, on behalf of the, uh, a certain organization on behalf of the UN,

25:09 Speaker 1 all about Education Day. And they speak about the Rebbe there. They say it's all about the Rebbe and who the Rebbe is, So it's something that's, that's, that... In other words, my point I'm trying to say is that ultimately the point is it's how much we, the Rebbe shlichim, and in general people bring this idea to, uh, the world and get it really, you know, that the, that, that the Olam, the regular Am Ha'Aretz, the regular crowd connects to these ideas and, uh, celebrates these ideas and, uh, implements these ideas. I think that's, that's really where, where the focus should be. That should be a Yinon Pnim, it should be a real thing that's part of American culture and the, the global culture.

25:47 Speaker 3 So what do you, what do you do locally like to help celebrate or spread the word about Education Day in, in your community?

25:55 Speaker 1 So what-- Well, for, for instance, one of the things that, uh, that we do here, but every single... So I go to, I go to every... So in my shlichim, I'm officially, my shlichim is the Mat-Su, Mat-Su Valley. It's a big section, a big area in, uh, in Alaska. Anyway, so there's official four-- there are four official cities within, uh, the Mat-Su. So I go to every single, uh, from, uh, from beginning of Adar, um, try, I try to do it, get it done early. I go to every single, um, city meeting, city council meeting. I go to the borough meeting. I go, I guess I go from meeting to meeting to meeting where they present the proclamation. I give a speech about the Rebbe and about Education Day, about Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach. Also in, in our, uh, location, thanks to the essay just about Education Day, I also, uh, we-- I connected with the school district, and we have moment of silence here. So I speak about moment of silence as well and what, what should be done by the moment of silence. Anyway, and then at the end, I give out to everybody, uh, the ark, the yellow ark, the, the tzakah box, for those who are not familiar. Uh, it stands for Acts of Ro-Routine Kindness, and we give it out, we give out the tzakah box-

26:59 Speaker 3 Routine, not random.

27:01 Speaker 1 Routine, yeah, routine kindness with a, a card. Um, I should have had it here. But anyway, the card with the Rebbe's picture on it, uh, explaining the connection to Education Day and explaining that one of the ways to, uh, educate the, to educate our children with, uh, with morals and values is by teaching them the dinim of tzakah, and, uh, it resonates with people in a, in an unbelievable way. You tell them that the, the idea of charity is not... Most people see charity as, oh, you know, someone that has a lot of money, you can write a big check to an organization.

27:29 Speaker 3 Right.

27:29 Speaker 1 But you say no, that the, the idea of tzakah is also for the giver. That, uh, when you train a child, a little kid, which naturally children and people think about themselves. You know, you see kids playing, they, they want everything for th- they want everything for themselves. So to train a kid to, uh, to give away something from themselves to someone else, uh, that, the Rebbe explains that, that, that, that's mechanech the kid to have more fear of Hashem, to have more honor to their parents, honor to their, to their, to their, uh, teachers, uh, how they treat, uh, other children. And the Rebbe explained many times the idea of tzakah is, is part of the Sheva Mitzvot B'nei Noach, and it's relevant to all, uh, nations of the world. So it's, it's something that's universal. And the Rebbe said also in Taf Sirion Beis to CNN to add increase in a-acts of goodness and kindness to make Mashiach come. So this was something, the idea of tzakah is relevant to all, uh, people. So anyway, so you, you give out, we give out to all the members of people sitting on the council, to the mayor, to all the people sitting in the room at the meetings. You give them out the tzakah box with the Rebbe's picture. And I, I... It's unbelievable. It has, has a meitiktik effect on people. People love it. People are very inspired by it. Um, I, I go back to the city's town, I go for Hanukkah

28:40 Speaker 1 for, uh, to, to, to fill out a form for, uh, for, um, permission to put up a Menorah somewhere, and I see at all the desks in the city hall, there's a p- pushka, and very often also with the Rebbe's picture. I went back to Juneau, the, the, the capital of Alaska, um, two years after I was there before. In other words, I went one Eid Al Fitr, and I came back two years later, and I see in many offices the arks with the Rebbe's picture with a card right next to it. So you have people in their offices, pictures of the Rebbe and the, the tzakah pushkas half full all o- all over the place. It ha- Like it leaves that, that imprint in tons of areas, and it's, it, um... And I talk to people all the time, Jews and non-Jews, and they're, they're very, very, uh, inspired by, by it. That's just one thing, um, we do with the arks. Another thing we do is, um, just this past, uh, I, I made a whole, uh, uh, book signing event for the book Letters for Life that Levi Shemtov just put out, of the Rebbe's letters regarding emotional health and wellness in connection with Education Day. And we connected with-- we partnered with, uh, eight different organization, local organizations in town, Chassidic organizations that deal with youth, that deal with, uh, troubled youth, um, with PR organizations, newspapers, radio stations. Um, and there was 100 people that showed up. There was a

29:56 Speaker 1 nice dinner. There was program for the children. 100 people showed up for the, for the book, and a few of the people, a few of the organizations that partnered with us, I gave them the book a week before to tell them about it. They came back, they read the entire book, and they spoke at the event. They quoted letters from the Rebbe and spoke about how much the, the-- One of them actually cried. She said that, that her husband died, uh, suddenly a few months ago, and it was a very hard time for her, and, uh, that this book gave her inspiration and really helped her, uh, heal for, heal. Um, so anyway, it, it was to see how the Rebbe's message resonates with every single human being, um, and inspires them to, to live better lives, to li- to li-live more meaningful life. Um, and that is, that, that is, in other words, that, that's the idea of Education Day ultimately is basically lo- as the Rebbe said from Taf Sirion Ches, love of the Kol Yisrael shecha me'achad.

30:47 Speaker 3 So, so l-let's talk about the, the, the Rebbe's vision-

30:51 Speaker 1 Mm-hmm

30:51 Speaker 3 ... a little bit. We'll go into the, the vision of this. I mean, we all know, le-let's talk about the Rebbe, what, what, you know, the, the accomplishment of shlichim. That the Rebbe, we were really in-- Chabad is famous. We are go-- reaching out to every single Jew and bringing mekarav every single Jew, no matter what level they're holding in their observance. And there's Chabad houses all over the world that cater to all Jewish needs, physical and spiritual, chulu v'chulu. There's a whole nother facet to the Rebbe, which I don't know if it's appreciated enough or maybe doesn't look like it's the main focus, but the Rebbe's vision, which is ultimately, you know, Torah's vision, where the Rebbe, the way the Rebbe was teaching it for the whole entire world. And obviously, we're looking to change the world because we believe that every day. What is Moshiach? Moshiach is going to be the revelation of Hashem in the world, like it says in Yeshayahu and many other places. And really it seems that this is such, um-- it's a very big focus of the Rebbe beyond what we can do for our fellow Yidden, , et cetera. But there's also, you know, and we talk, like talking about that the Jewish people, the , and we need to be a light on the nations. And the Rebbe, I think, is the first one that really said, "Let's do this through education day, through moment of silence and other methods." And it may not be even

32:37 Speaker 3 for Yidden. People might not under, A, understand it, B, be involved in it at all. I don't know, may-maybe you can elaborate a little bit on what, what's going on here. Why, why is this so important?

32:49 Speaker 1 Um, yeah. So, uh, first of all, the Rebbe himself speaks about how, how the idea of Shavuot mitzvahs, you know, rubbed many people wrong, and one of the questions was, you know, if this isn't just similar to Chassidus. What, what was one of the questions on Chassidus? If this is so important, where was it till now? The Rebbe, the, the famous answers about that. The same thing, the question was, why didn't my Zayde, why didn't my alter Zayde do in Shavuot mitzvahs? Why we never heard from Rabbanim? Yeah, that every year there's-- it has to be, uh, to accept Shavuot mitzvahs, to influence on all the Sha- the nations of the world to fulfill the Shavuot mitzvahs. But at the end of the day, we never saw anyone doing it, actually doing it.

33:31 Speaker 3 The way the Rebbe explained the Rambam, the Halakhic part of it is that that's Halakha in the Rambam. I-- we never saw anyone doing it, so the Rebbe said in previous generations, there would've been persecution-

33:42 Speaker 1 Right

33:42 Speaker 3 ... if, if, if Yidden were teaching non-Jews about, about, about God, about the Aish Ter. So the Rebbe says, . Now that we don't have this, that, that, uh, obstacle, so the Halakha that, that's brought in the Rambam now applies since we don't have that obstacle in fr- you know, in front of us.

34:03 Speaker 1 Right. Exactly. So the, so the Rebbe-- basically, that's what the Rebbe is saying, that, that we didn't-- we-- it wasn't possible to do to fulfill this Halakha, but now that we are, we are obligated to do it. And, you know, obviously, this was something that was very, uh, very revolutionary and, um, for the Yiddish-- I think for the all-- for the Yiddishe world in general and including Chabad also. I think, um, Simon-- Rabbi Simon Jacobson has a word that he says that, um, if you look in Sefer Ha'icham on the , if it would've been written a few years later, it probably would've looked very different. Um, but now the point is that basically, in other words, that the Rebbe, that the, that, uh, you know, the, the, the way how it was-- the way how this topic was viewed even by, you know, by Chassidim and, and, and Chassidus and Yiddishkeit bachlal, there was a certain way of viewing it. And then what the Rebbe, what the Rebbe and the Rebbe's Chidush and the Rebbe's Torah and the Lameds in the, in the seventies, and especially the eighties and the mems, and the, the nuns was a very ra- very radical, um, uh, very different. A, a big, a revolution in this whole-- in the way how we-- in the outlook on this concept, on this topic. Um, actually, I heard of a bringing from, uh, from after I think was now, you know, Gem, uh, on Gem TV. There's big there's big, uh,

35:27 Speaker 1 revelations on a lot, a lot of stuff that used to be, uh, not, uh, open to the public. So one of the things that came out lately was a bringing from Rebbe Yael, a bringing seven seventy after Chabad Shvat, maybe for the end of the, the end of the shiva or the shlishim. Very bringing. I think it's from that time. Anyway, one-- there is a conversation over there about Shavuot mitzvahs, and you could see-- it, it seems like to me at least, that Rebbe Yael is trying to figure out what the and, and Bnei Yisrael. Uh, and for those who, who are, who are familiar a little bit about, you know, Rebbe Yael very often speaks, you know, Chassidus, the Rebbe's Torah, what's the world, the, the Aish Ter, Yidden. And, um, anyway, the place of you don't, you don't hear that much. At least I didn't hear that much from, uh, in Rebbe Yael's articles or speeches. Uh, you go every Fabringen in the me- in the mems, the Rebbe spoke on television. The Rebbe spoke to the world. And the Rebbe, the Rebbe's vision, the Rebbe is very, very strong about his vision to the world, about the place of all the in, in this process. In Sim- the night of Simchas Torah, Tash Mem Zain, um, before Akafos. The Rebbe's, uh, beautiful sikha, the Rebbe speaks there about the Chidush of every Rebbe over the other Rebbe. In other words, how went to new extremes at every single Rebbe, from the Alter

36:44 Speaker 1 Rebbe to the Mittler, Mittler Rebbe to the Machpizdike, to Machpizdike, Rav Rashab. Explains how each one, the Mittler Rebbe's, the Rebbe Shnar's, Binod, the Machpizdike is the of Nigle and Chassidus. The . And then he says, the Friediker Rebbe, the Sederenu, what's the Chidush of Sederenu? So the Rebbe many times would say that the Friediker Rebbe translated Chassidus into many languages. So bachlal, you look in the sikhas of the early years-

37:04 Speaker 3 But what's the worth of translating Chassidus into many languages? For Jews who don't read Hebrew.

37:08 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

37:09 Speaker 3 For the, for the "" Jews or for Jews that don't know Chassidus, who, you know, are not that educated, that they could also learn Chassidus. What is the Rebbe saying in Tafshim Zim? It's for Umos HaOlam. For the na-- for the, for the nations of the world to be able to understand Achdas HaBayam. Clear. The Chiddush of Nisui HaDereinu of translating Chassidus is that non-Jews can learn Chassidus. And the Rebbe said, uh, in the Chaf Tsade already that one of the My question is, this is many people's question, that I wanna, I wanna continue talking about like the philosophy behind it. But before, before that, there's a shailah that ultimately if you look at the Sichas, so that's it. The Chabad houses should become, uh, global, you know, God, God, godly centers, you know, wisdom, wisdom centers, whatever. And we should open up all the doors to, uh, to the whole world, and that's it. Call it a day. Um, yet I do know that there are were-- You know, when the Rebbe was speaking to Sichas, there were some shluchim that started making devoted activities, uh, to, for Shavuot mitzvahs, and there were some answers from the Rebbe that that's not necessarily the kavana. So what, what, what... In your understanding, what is the, what is the fine line and the balance that needs to be done for people b'klal, but particularly for, for shluchim? So that's a good question, and everything I'm saying is based on my understanding. I'm sure there are-

43:07 Speaker 1 Different people that, uh, feel differently or whole differently, but I'll just say what I think, and I'm, and I'm... In no way am I saying that whatever I th- whatever I'm saying is, is, uh, is, is whatever. I'm just saying what I think. Maybe I'm wrong. Um, so first of all, a few things. First of all, I think that there could be a misconception and a mistake by some that think that Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach or our influence in the world means the Chas V'Shalom that blurs, that blurs the, the, the, the, the Havdalah Bnei Yisrael HaAmim, or that blurs the Havdalah of Shulchan Aruch, and deal with Shulchan Aruch, and Hidur Bnei Mitzvot. And all of a sudden it makes everyone one big lovey-dovey, uh, what's it called? Chas V'Shalom, v'Chas V'Shalom, and there's actually a Sicha from a Yechidus Klal in Tov Shenon, I forgot the date. There's a video of it. The Rebbe says clearly, the Rebbe says, obviously, that, um, that a Yid that when they go out and deal with Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach, it's after that they are sh- uh, um, careful B'tachlis in keeping their Taryag Mitzvahs, and therefore there's no, there's no-- And because they're so careful in Taryag Mitzvahs, there's no Hashash that being involved with the Umot HaOlam will have a bad Hashpah on them. Af in Averter. So in other words, dealing, dealing with Umot HaOlam doesn't mean that, that, uh, that all of a sudden, uh, that, that there's any Varkert. The fact

44:37 Speaker 1 that w- the fact that we're going and having an influence on Umot HaOlam means that we recognize who we are, that we, we recognize we're Am Hanifchar. The Abarach Shem chose us and gave us Taryag Mitzvahs, and gave us Taryag Mitzvahs. Bechol-- And, and, and, and, and, and, uh, and, and, uh, Sheva Mitzvahs of the Rabbanam. And Hidur and, and Minhag Yisrael, and Hidur became a Mitzvot Bechol. So in other words, it's not one, it's not in any way, shape, or form, um, uh, uh, i-i-in any way a Schwachkeit in being proud and strong about the, the, the Havdalah of a Yid and, and-

45:09 Speaker 3 So-

45:09 Speaker 1 And, and-

45:11 Speaker 3 In other words, what you're saying is that perhaps one of the reasons why, you know, the Rebbe gave guidelines like how this should happen is for this reason, so that, you know, to be clear that, "Wait, wait, one second. First of all, you're a Yid, and you call yourself a Rebbes and Taryag Mitzvahs, and we're here, we're here to help every single Jew." And that's, you know, that, that, that, that's, that's who we are. And th- And with that, there's also the obligation that we have for the world at large. But it's not, it's not on the ex-- It shouldn't be on the expense or, or blur or blu-blur these two things together.

45:54 Speaker 1 I, I, I don't know if it's w- one is like the Ichun, one is like the, the addition. I don't know if that's, that's from the Rebbe. It doesn't seem like that. I'm just saying is that it's, that it-

46:02 Speaker 3 But there were, but there were Shtukhan that wanted to open up, uh-

46:05 Speaker 1 Oh, so that's another-

46:06 Speaker 3 Centers. Cen-centers.

46:06 Speaker 1 I'm getting, I'm getting-

46:07 Speaker 3 Okay, okay. Yeah.

46:08 Speaker 1 The, the, the next thing is, I think that... So that's-- I just want to say that I think that's a very important thing for us, for those who are, w-who think about getting involved in these things, to understand that this is extremely important, that it means being a, a, a Frum Yid B'tachlis and a Chasidish Yid B'tachlis and a Mahadar in Kio Mitzvahs and, and, and no playing around with, with, with one Shi-- with one Inyan Halakhah. I mean, I know I... When you deal with Umot HaOlam, you could come to questions about speaking about other religions, this, this, that. The, the-

46:39 Speaker 3 I just wanna say that I, I, I wanna, I wanna say that y-you deal with this i-in your, in your, in your locale. The, the, that you actually do this. Like this is-

46:47 Speaker 1 Yeah, and I tell-

46:47 Speaker 3 Not a, not a theory.

46:49 Speaker 1 And, uh, yeah, and, and, and it's something-- I'm just saying that, yeah, oh, it's the moment that we, we're, you're Nete from one Prat in Halakhah, the Davar HaPashut, that you're going against the whole Kavan Ha'aliyah. The whole, the whole Sheva Mitzvahs and the whole Mashiach and everything, if, if it's, if it means, uh, compromising on Halakhah and Ki Hu Zeh, then it, then, then, then it's Heif HaKavan. It's not even a Shayel Bechol. So, so like, you know, in Moshiach, you speak to non-Jews, very often, uh, they start bringing up their, their faiths, their religions. And I tell them openly, "A Jew is not allowed to engage in other faiths and other religions, so therefore, I don't know about anything you're talking about, and I'm not gonna talk about it." And I s- I, and, and the Rebbe Bechol, I just saw a few Sichas from Tashlamim Hey. The Rebbe is a very strong believer that when you tell a non-Jew strong-- That B'takeiv HaMa'asim, but Bedarichinem, Bedarich Shalom, that you have guidelines of your Halakhah, and this is how it is. You say the truth without, without... That, that non-Jews will respect you more.

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49:50 Speaker 1 The Rebbe said, "Miguel, the Tanya, when the Tanya was printed in English." The Rebbe said that those who are afraid that Umot HaOlam are gonna see what it says there, and they'll be turned off. Ash says I was talking about the, the, the, yeah. So-

50:01 Speaker 3 Paraphes.

50:03 Speaker 1 Uh, para-- Yeah, paragalo- and the paragalo.

50:04 Speaker 3 Yeah, galo, yeah.

50:05 Speaker 1 Um, and there's a famous, there's famous back and forth with, with, uh, with Zalman Jaffe. But the Rebbe says in a Sicha, the Rebbe says that the, the, the Umot HaOlam are gonna see that this is the Emes and that they're gonna they're gonna respect it more for it. So when you s-- when, when a Yid is strong and, and, and sure and confident in who they are and what they represent, there's poshut no one to be afraid of. There's nothing to be afraid of in Farher. The more honest we are, the more truthful we are, the more Hasidis we are, the more Frum you are, the more the Velt will, will, uh, respect you and, and, and appreciate you. That's just a very important, I think, Yisroel. Um, regarding the, the, the meaning of, of... I think there's also, uh, what-- that's what he's talking about, the answers the Rebbe gave to Schluchim. So I think i-in, in our Mifhtayim mindset, in, uh, the typical Chabad mindset, so, you know, what do you very often like? Which by the way, I think the problem could also be with Yidden also. You know, like some-- if a Shliach has a meeting with a Jew and the-- and he asked them during the meeting to put on tefillin with the Yid, and the Yid said he doesn't wanna put on tefillin. If a Shliach walks away from that meeting, and they feel like it was a waste of time or was not success, it's posha shtus.

51:17 Speaker 1 Y-you're not just-- You-- The Rebbe didn't send you to this place to get more men to put on tefillin, and your success is, is valued based on how many Yidden put on tefillin. Of course, you should try to get people to put on tefillin, but it's not just about tefillin. There's more to the, there's more to the connection. The fact that you connected with a Yid, the fact that, that you sat down with a Yid, and even seemingly had a casual conversation. Alotzu kamu kamuf. You mentioned a, a Indian Hasidis, an Indian Nigleh, an Indian Yiddish guy. This itself is, is the, is, is an unbelievable accomplishment. It, it, it, it's not, it's not-- We're not measured. So yeah, the Rebbe wants Mifhtayim also. The Rebbe made Mifhtayim in the midst of tefillin. You should try to get Yidden to put on tefillin. But if the guy doesn't wanna put on tefillin, there's, there's, there's other things. There's-- In other words, there's, there's a deeper purpose.

52:03 Speaker 3 Mift-avodah Yisroel also .

52:05 Speaker 1 Avodah Yisroel, exactly.

52:07 Speaker 3 Mift, mift, mift, mift Staka.

52:09 Speaker 1 Mift Staka. And even if you can't get a mift, in other words, e-- not everything is, is, is in the box of Mifhtayim. The very fact that you live in a location and your house is called a Chabad house, Beis Chabad, you're the Lubavitch Rebbe's ambassador in this location, and that itself is the ultimate goal and ultimate purpose. Every person, every person, man, woman, child, Jew or La-Lazl, uh, uh, from the , you, you, you're-- That, that is already an accomplishment. So based on that, within the mindset of Mifhtayim, so we think Sheva Mitzvot. What does Sheva Mitzvot mean? Oh, so you have to go to a non-Jew, uh, so you need something instead of tefillin, so you shove down his throat and you say the Sheva Mitzvot. You read, you read off, rattle off the S- the Sheva Mitzvot. You give them a card.

52:53 Speaker 3 You give them a, you give them a card, a Sheva Mitzvot cards.

52:55 Speaker 1 So I mean, I'm not saying that that's... So, so, so what were some Schluchim doing? Okay, so we have to teach Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach. They started giving Shiurim for Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach. Now, any Shliach, I mean, I know for sure, if I would make an announcement, I'm giving classes in the Bible or giving classes, uh, about God, would I have hundreds of people coming to my, to, to my Chabad House, non-Jews to, to, to study? And w-- the, one of the Schluchim wrote to the Rebbe, "I have a group that comes to me every single week," or whatever, comes to him so, every so often, and, uh, they're, they're leaving their churches, they're leaving this, and they're having questions about, uh, what type of Yom Tov they could do, what type of tzitzit they could do, what's the halachas. They're starting getting very close, and he's, he's asking the Rebbe, should, should they come into Chabad House? Could they be part of this? Could they be part of that? So the Rebbe sent him to Rabbonim, and the Rebbe said the Rabbonim should, should give Maran Mikemes, uh, and, and it, and it's-- The Rebbe made it very, very clear. It has to be very serious, uh, psak. And the Shliach said that Rabbonim basically couldn't figure out, couldn't come to a consensus of what, what should be done and what shouldn't be done, and therefore, the whole thing fell flat. And the Shliach felt from this that basically, that the fact that

53:59 Speaker 1 the Rebbe sent him to Rabbonim, the Rabbonim didn't know what to do, is a rayah that basically, that the Rebbe was n- obviously, in some way, basically telling him no. And he stopped all his classes. He stopped all his-

54:09 Speaker 3 And there were, there were other Schluchim that actually the Rebbe did tell them not to do these type of things, no?

54:15 Speaker 1 I mean, there's, there's different things. Each thing has to be dealt, dealt with. I'm not sure wh- which-- I actually over the last half a year. I spoke to a Shliach who since the Rebbe started-

54:23 Speaker 3 Didn't, uh... I don't know if we're supposed to men- to mention names here, but didn't Rabbi Weg have an answer from the Rebbe about it?

54:27 Speaker 1 That's what I'm talking about. So the answer was to go to Rabbonim.

54:29 Speaker 3 That's what the answer was.

54:30 Speaker 1 The answer was to go to Rabbonim and maybe even clear the Rebbe said VaAd Rabbonim Lubavitch, I think. He went to VaAd Rabbonim Lubavitch. The-- His letter to the Rebbe and the Rebbe's answer to him is public. Uh, so as you can-

54:39 Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah

54:39 Speaker 1 ... you read it. So, um, yeah, the, the Rebbe sent him to Rabbonim. The Rebbe said the Rabbonim should give him a psak be-beksav, I think, with Maran Mikemes. Basically not stumped to give a psak. There should be a really-

54:49 Speaker 3 Oh, that's that. Okay. That's it

54:50 Speaker 1 ... a really, uh, you know, a, a, a real source-based psak. And I think maybe the Rebbe even said something like it should be serious. It wa-- From the Rebbe's-

54:59 Speaker 3 The way he under-- Well, the way he understood it was there was a little bit of a rejection about his formalizing this.

55:05 Speaker 1 Yes. And, and then, and then I think he also spoke to Rabbi Avraham Schemtov, and Avraham Schemtov also said that different times that he, he tried, um, doing something, the Rebbe basically paused it. So Rabbi Weg has an understanding that even though the Rebbe spoke in Sichas very strongly about Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach, yet when it came to Pail Maavetz, the Rebbe put brakes on a lot, on... Well, he, he feels on everything. The Rebbe basically, when it came to practical, the Rebbe stopped things. I mean, we know that the Rebbe wanted a, a book to be printed, uh, that, that, that Nissen Mandel was meant to do, and that also never came out. I think the Rebbe didn't let it come out then. So there's this-

55:40 Speaker 3 So, so what does this mean? What does this mean?

55:42 Speaker 1 Well, the fact that... So my-- So first of all-

55:43 Speaker 3 Well, a lot of people struggle with it 'cause you read the Sichas-

55:46 Speaker 1 Yeah, I know

55:46 Speaker 3 ... and the Rebbe is very clear about it, and then all of a sudden you hear these stories. So, so what, what does this all mean?

55:50 Speaker 1 The fact of the matter is there are people that did get, get permission. So for instance, uh, uh, Dovid Nachsun and Avi Taub, they, uh, they printed, uh, they printed, um, uh, brochures to give out in the Diamond District or something like that. What is it called? In- Whatever, Avi Tal used to do business in the Diamond District, maybe Manhattan or whatever.

56:07 Speaker 3 In Manhattan? Yeah, Diamond District, yeah.

56:08 Speaker 1 They made, uh, they made brochures, and they got answers from the Rebbe, and the Rebbe actually was mezadez them, and the Rebbe think-- they said, "Niskabel v'tach," or whatever. There's a whole back and forth about it. They wrote about the Re-- at one time they didn't write about the Rebbe, next time they wrote about the Rebbe. The Rebbe gave them more compliments. Anyway, they got clear, uh, herut. There was back and forth about, uh, making a... And there's, and there's other examples of things that the Rebbe gave permission to do for Shabbos mitzvahs, practical stuff, real things. So I, I don't-- Uh, and then another thing, the whole Education Day, Yeshivias Mir, all the proclamations at Education Day. Rabbi Menachem Schneerson himself went from country to country trying to get, uh, leaders of every country to sign the National Scroll-- uh, the International Scroll of Honor, which was signed first by President Reagan to, in honor of the Rebbe, declaring about Shabbos mitzvahs. The Rebbe spoke about this. There's letters about this. So of course, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson doesn't think that the whole Shabbos mitzvahs are shut down. But I think what I, what I understand, and I think that the, the, this, this is why I understand it, that the Rebbe, in other words like this, okay, this is, this is how I, I coin it, maybe I'm wrong. That the inyan of the atam to look to echad echad is special for Jews. The inyan of reaching out to every individual-

57:16 Speaker 3 Seeking out every-

57:18 Speaker 1 Seeking out one by one

57:18 Speaker 3 Like, like, uh, uh, like Rabbi Sacks says, the same way, uh, Hitler seeked out every Jew with hate, we, we-- the Rebbe has his people seeking out every Jew with love. You see, that inyan of seeking every Jewish person out.

57:30 Speaker 1 That inyan of-

57:30 Speaker 3 Our job is to seek out every Yid.

57:32 Speaker 1 Every Yid, every one Jewish child that, uh, that, that learns Tayre, one Yid that puts on tefillin, one w-woman that lights Shabbos candle.

57:39 Speaker 3 The Rebbe Kadikover was calling shluchim and saying, "How many Jewish kids are there in your city? Do they all have a Jewish education?" Hanging up the phone, these, these type of things.

57:46 Speaker 1 Exactly. Exactly. That, that, that's special for, for, for, for Yidden.

57:51 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

57:52 Speaker 1 I, I don't think that the, the job... In other words, a shliach, if, if you think about it even pr-practically, there's not enough shluchim for sure now, but even, uh, in 100 years, there's not enough shluchim to deal with every single one of the billions of y- people o-on the planet on a one-on-one basis.

58:09 Speaker 3 Okay, but that's not an answer 'cause the Rebbe was saying to reach out to every Yid when there was, when there was 10 shluchim in the world.

58:13 Speaker 1 No, because it's, it's-- because that, that's, that's a chassaron in us. The fact that we, that we can't reach out to... The fact there wasn't 5,000 shluchim 70 years ago is a chassaron in the, in the gavra, not in the knef. In other words, practically it was shaya. It's still poel that, uh, we, we didn't work fast enough for the Rebbe's, for the Rebbe. But in inyan, what we have now could have happened-

58:32 Speaker 3 But you're saying there's not en-- if every Yid would be a, a shliach, there's still not enough Yidden-

58:36 Speaker 1 Exactly

58:36 Speaker 3 ...to influence every single non-Jew. Okay. That's what you're saying.

58:39 Speaker 1 Exactly. That-

58:39 Speaker 3 Okay.

58:39 Speaker 1 And b'klal, the Rebbe always spoke about the eichas. By Yidden, there's still the inyan of eichas. By the world, there's-

58:44 Speaker 3 The neshamah, the chelek hamamar, the manas.

58:47 Speaker 1 And, and, and, and you see practically, right? The, the, uh... Anyway, fine. Akapanam, the, the point is that eichas is, is, is... The Rebbe always spoke about that. In Yiddishkeit, always the eichas was always gave you the kamas. I mean, even, even in, even in, in the Menachem of, of the world, right? What do people always say? Uh, and this is not our talking points. We always say, you know, "Oh, how many of the Nobel Prize winners are Jewish? V'hu v'hu." Why is that? Because by, by-- in Bnei Yisrael, there's the inyan of eichas. We, we never, we never were successful in ka- our kamas is not our, is not our thing. We're inyan of eichas.

59:19 Speaker 3 Okay.

59:19 Speaker 1 When it comes to Olam Ha'Eilam, you need kamas. You need to reach the masses. You need to get to everybody. So to sit and make a cha-- if, if a shliach, if, if you have a vision of Shabbos mitzvahs as, uh, you know, how many Yechidim are gonna come into your Chabad House and come to Shabbos Mir, you lost the plot. That's, that's not the point. The point is how... You have to reach, you have to bring the Rebbe's message and the message of, of, of, of Yiddishkeit to every person possible. And that's not by the typical Chabad House format. It's not by getting people into your Chabad House. So first of all, you have to be careful about la- the havdil ben Yisrael l'amim, that there shouldn't be-- your Chabad House shouldn't be a mix of, uh, Yidden and non-Jews, v'hu v'hu. Your, your pr-- the Chabad House in the typical Chabad House form is meant to be for Yidden. The connection, the, the... So, so you have to reach the world. How do you reach the world? By big things like, like, like, like the proclamation.

1:00:12 Speaker 3 Like a gov-

1:00:12 Speaker 1 Like a proclamation

1:00:13 Speaker 3 Using the government bo- governing body-

1:00:15 Speaker 1 So you go to the government body

1:00:15 Speaker 3 ...or going to very influential people.

1:00:17 Speaker 1 Exactly. So you go to... You have a-

1:00:19 Speaker 3 So, so the way you under-- chassid, the way you understand it is the Rebbe does want his chassidim and his shluchim to be involved in it, but doesn't-- but not necessarily is it in the format of, you know, mefsadim, like you're going to find every Yid and just getting them to do one more mitzvah and, uh-

1:00:34 Speaker 1 Or shir or whatever

1:00:35 Speaker 3 ...whatever or whatever one... It's more of how can we, by using our position in the world, also influence the whole world, like o-on, on a global scale or on a mag- big, you know, on a, on a bigger scale. And that's why davka for that, you need government, and you need influential people to be involved. So basically, a little bit behind the scenes or causing things to happen.

1:00:59 Speaker 1 Exactly. Exactly. So in other words, when a shliach goes to the government and influences their government or influences whatever, that all the public schools have a moment of silence, right? I, I, I did it in my, in my, in my area. So 19,000 students begin their day every day with a moment of silence. I just reached all the kids in my area without anybody even knowing, right? So I didn't bring-- I didn't-- I'm not making a mitzvah of getting public school kids into my Chabad House and to talk to them about God, and maybe I'll get 15 kids, maybe I'll get 20 kids. I reached 19,000 kids in their public schools through the, the school, through the school, school board president, through whatever, through, through the, the whole... So first of all, it's not Cha- it's not about my reach. It's about bringing the, obviously, the message of, of, uh, of, of, of goodness and kindness and, and, uh, humanity, v'hu v'hu. But I'm saying that, in other words, the point is not to reach each individual. Yeah, exactly as you said. So through government or through influential people, through the newspapers, through the radios, through the, the radio, through television, through, uh, social media. Not to sit there and, and, and just like you have a JLI shiur, you have a, a, a Parsha class in your Chabad House and seven and a half people show up, and you feel all good. You got seven people to learn Chumash. So you can get 10

1:02:15 Speaker 1 people that are not Jewish to learn the Halachas of Shabbos mitzvahs That I, I don't think that's the rabbi-- I don't think that was the Kavanah. The Kavanah was we should get all the nations-

1:02:23 Speaker 3 So should, so but should there be organizations that are dedicated to this, uh, to this cause?

1:02:28 Speaker 1 Which cause?

1:02:29 Speaker 3 Sheva Mitzvahs.

1:02:31 Speaker 1 I, uh, I'm not telling what other, what other things should be done. I'm, I'm, I'm saying what I... I-- Put it, put it this way, I think that, I think the Marshall Education Day I think could be much more-- have a much bigger impact if there would be a designated org-organization to, to, uh, work on it. I think so. I think Alder said the Mitzvah Stocka has a massive potential to mamash take over the world. I think moment of silence, um, st- I mean, the Rebbe wants clearly moment of silence in all the public schools and, uh, shluchim the last few years. Uh, Florida was thanks to shluchim, Arizona was thanks to shluchim. Uh, uh, what's it called? Um, another place, another state, I forgot what was the name, is right now working moment of silence there. This shluchim in the last ten years, seven years, shluchim are working very, very hard on their local schools, uh, to get moment of silence done, and I think definitely much more work could be done to, to, to do that, and that is clearly one of the Sheva Mitzvahs.

1:03:24 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm. Okay. So let-let's, let's move back towards the, uh, the philosophy behind all of this. So why is this, why is this... I guess it's connected to the Rebbe's vision of the world Bechalal, which is to actually bring Mashiach and ch- actually change the world this time for good, and actually finally make a Didan Betachtanim, see Basei Lagani for more details. And this is, this is the, the way the Rebbe laid it out in the beginning. So how are we gonna make a Didan Betachtanim through Yidden doing Torah and Mitzvahs? And through what's gonna happen by when Mashiach comes that, uh, the whole world will, will Kamayim Hayam, Kamal Arez days Havay, Kamayim Yam Lechaas, and the whole world will, will be filled with the knowledge of the Aibishter. So in order to hasten that... It's also connected, I think, to what the Rebbe-- way the Rebbe speaks about Mashiach, and we're not, uh, uh, yes, Mashiach is miraculous, but we're not only waiting for a Mashiach to come down from the sky out of the blue, but that there's a natural progression that the world has to go through in order for Mashiach to come, and we could be part of it, right? Like, there's a Chiddash that the Rebbe told students that while Mashiach is miraculous, I don't always like to view it only like that. Mmm, not, I'm not saying exact quote, but I'm paraphrasing. And the Rebbe says that, you know, for example, maybe Mashiach will be a master in technology,

1:04:54 Speaker 3 and he'll influence the world that way. So basically, what we're doing here with, with, with influencing the world is, first of all, what we're doing here with, with, with, uh, getting all the Yidden to do Torah and Mitzvahs is to help bring Mashiach and make a Didan Betachtanim. And we're doing here with the other-- with influencing the world is finally getting, uh, people to have Hashem and par- have God being part of their life. And ultimately, the fulfillment of that will be the coming of Mashiach, but that this is part of the process, right? Is that-

1:05:22 Speaker 1 So, but yeah, by the way, if you mentioned the, the Chiddash, it's a Meor D'kemeor D'ki Chiddash. I think the DeHah printed it lately, maybe.

1:05:28 Speaker 3 Um, we printed it a long time ago. Maybe we printed it again recently.

1:05:31 Speaker 1 A long time ago.

1:05:31 Speaker 3 Yeah, but we did, we did pr- uh, print it, yes.

1:05:33 Speaker 1 It's a Meor D'ki Chiddash. And if I could, um, mesaken a little bit what, what, what you said. That, that they asked the-

1:05:40 Speaker 3 I'm gla- I'm glad, I'm glad that I gave a disclaimer that I'm paraphrasing 'cause I, I didn't, I didn't read it recently.

1:05:45 Speaker 1 Yeah. The Re- the Rebbe said, the Rebbe said that, um, they, they asked the Rebbe questions about Mashiach. Um, and the Rebbe basically said... The Rebbe gave an example. The Rebbe said basically Mashiach is a real-- uh, uh, again, maybe I'm making a mistake. But the Rebbe was basically trying to say that Mashiach could be a, a, a relatable reality. Um, and the Rebbe said, he gave-- the Rebbe gave an example. He said, "Imagine if somebody would come up with a weapon that would be the most powerful weapon in the world, and all nations would need that weapon." So the Rebbe said, "Obviously, all nations of the world will have to be now buttlings of this person." Right? Look, look, look, look what, you know, what's going on with the, the nuclear, the nuclear weapon in Iran. Look how the entire world is all of a sudden siding with Israel to destroy Iran's nuclear weapon. It c- in other words, this little weapon is all of a sudden has an influence on the entire world. So imagine if somebody-- And that's something everyone can understand, that someone could create to-today in modern technology, someone all of a sudden creates something. And to me, af- I, I read it in a stammer during COVID. They think about COVID, right? If you told somebody before COVID that there'll be five months that the entire world will shut down, there'll be no flights, there'll be no this, no that, uh, uh, schools will be shut down, everyone would

1:06:49 Speaker 1 laugh at you, and they'd make meshuga there. But all of a sudden, one little stupid virus has such an influence. If a s- little virus could have an influence on the entire world, someone can make a, a, a, a... With AI, okay, someone could come up with a, with a, with a concept. And the Rebbe said, the Rebbe said Chiddash, imagine if somebody came up with a technology that the entire world needs. Boom. The whole world is buttled to that one person. The Rebbe's giving example of a, a one man, one person, one individual will have it, and the Rebbe says that's what Mashiach is. Mashiach will be able to get the entire world in a, in a physical way, not just an, an-

1:07:20 Speaker 3 And, and in, and in a positive way.

1:07:21 Speaker 1 Yeah. But, but the point is that-

1:07:22 Speaker 3 The things we're talking now are negative.

1:07:24 Speaker 1 Right. But, but the point is that, that, that in a rational, tevadiik way, Mashiach will have a way to get all nations of the world to, to come to him. So that they tell the Rebbe at the end, the Rab- they say to the Rebbe, "Wow, you know, usually we view Mashiach as a, you know, supernatural, miracles, and here you're giving such a rational, rational, like tevadiika staklas of Mashiach." So the Rebbe said, "I also think Mashiach is, is supernatural, is gonna come with miracles and supernatural, su-uh, supernatural bechulu." The Rebbe says sometimes they feel that it's harder for people to stomach if, if everything is maifsim. So I like to give, give also, uh, understanding in a physical way, and I think that's the, the, the Tanayim of the Rambam is also without all the maifsim. You know, when the Rebbe spoke, spoke in sessions about Mashiach-

1:08:07 Speaker 3 The Ramb- the Rambam says that, uh, the shibed malchis bovad. That n-

1:08:11 Speaker 1 Right

1:08:11 Speaker 3 ... he negates the whole, uh, miracles of Mashiach coming.

1:08:15 Speaker 1 Right. Right. So, so... And I think the Rebbe's explanation is, 'cause Rambam says that's, that's what's muchak al pi halacha. But doesn't, it's not, it doesn't say it's not shailah that can't be maifsim also Um, I mean, the Rebbe speaks-- when the Rebbe speaks about Mashiach, he's-- he always talks about moisture, you know.

1:08:29 Speaker 3 Yeah, the Rebbe speaks about the and the, the that's coming down from the sky. Yeah, the Rebbe always speaks like those words.

1:08:37 Speaker 1 He doesn't say... Yeah, yeah. So, so it's not a, so it's not a stir. Anyway, so how do we get here about almost-- Oh, I was thinking I'll tell you like this, you know, uh, um, uh, what's it called? Like, um, la-lately I'm, uh, th-this year I was trying to, I'm trying to learn, like, the, the every week. So, so, um, uh, when I-

1:08:56 Speaker 3 To learn the whole thing?

1:08:57 Speaker 1 Yeah, the who-the whole, the whole Parsha. So, so, um-

1:09:00 Speaker 3 How do you make it a Klata?

1:09:03 Speaker 1 I don't talk about that. Okay. So, so basically that-

1:09:06 Speaker 3 As long as you remember what we're going back to.

1:09:08 Speaker 1 Okay, we're going back to, um, Sheva Mitzvahs that's connected. Okay. so the, the vort is why the, the Rebbe said in the Farbrengen of, uh, and to learn the entire when the Rebbe printed again in the Rebbe made a whole mitzvah to learn the entire Parsha every week, and the Rebbe told whoever's, whoever learnt it, said was a whole thing about that. Um, and then throughout the years, the Rebbe always spoke about it. I remember the Rebbe learning Farbrengen once in the mems, that the Rebbe said that just like the Parsha has in one that's to each part of the week, so too the Parsha also has a that's to each day of the week, just we don't know which one is belongs to what. Um, so anyway-

1:09:51 Speaker 3 No, there's a sicha, there's a sicha, so it's a weekly sicha, it's a video.

1:09:55 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:09:56 Speaker 3 And, um, I actually remember watching it, and I think you were there.

1:10:00 Speaker 1 Okay.

1:10:00 Speaker 3 The Rebbe sa- the Rebbe says that it ju-- the Parsha is just like the regular Parsha, just like the regular Parsha, each Aliyah is connected to the day of the week, right? Rishon is Sunday-

1:10:11 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

1:10:11 Speaker 3 Rishon is Monday. So the same thing with the Parsha.

1:10:15 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:10:16 Speaker 3 But we don't know which one is which, w-which part of the-

1:10:19 Speaker 1 Right.

1:10:20 Speaker 3 Parsha is connected to which day. However, we do know that the beginning, right in the beginning must be connected to the first day, right? 'Cause it's the beginning.

1:10:29 Speaker 1 Right.

1:10:29 Speaker 3 So since today is Sunday, I'm going to explain now something from the beginning of this exclusive Parsha.

1:10:34 Speaker 1 It was a weekly Farbrengen, you sure?

1:10:35 Speaker 3 A weekly sicha. It was a sicha in the front.

1:10:38 Speaker 1 For some reason, I remember learning it inside.

1:10:40 Speaker 3 Yeah. If anyone, if anyone remembers, please, uh, post the date of this, uh, sicha. Thank you.

1:10:44 Speaker 1 Okay. Um, yeah, but I... Yeah, I remember that, I remember that, that thing. I thought the Rebbe was saying the end is to Shabbos. I thought it was a Shabbos Farbrengen. The Rebbe said the end of the Parsha, whatever.

1:10:53 Speaker 3 I don't know. I, I might be making something up, but, uh-

1:10:55 Speaker 1 I might be.

1:10:56 Speaker 3 I'm pretty sure I saw that the Rebbe says that. Yeah, okay, go ahead.

1:10:59 Speaker 1 Another thing the Rebbe's Mashal Hanukkah I think the Rebbe said a sicha, the Rebbe said about learning a Parsha. The Rebbe said, learn the from is... What was the Mashal? Learn the from . Oh, it was a Mashal. It's like a but not, didn't have a . They said, what was the Mashal? Anyway, to learn the from was obvious, basically. But in addition, after learn from , something like that. In other words, you have to learn the , um... What was the Mashal? But anyway-

1:11:33 Speaker 3 You're saying, you're saying, you're saying that obviously a learns the Rebbe's .

1:11:37 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:11:38 Speaker 3 But, um-

1:11:40 Speaker 1 Exactly.

1:11:41 Speaker 3 But Parsha is a fundamental thing that's very important.

1:11:44 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:11:44 Speaker 3 I mean, the whole siddur-- the whole siddur is taken from . So...

1:11:48 Speaker 1 Yeah. The Rebbe once said about how, how that a tata would learn with these little children the, the, the Parsha of the week. Some people say that that means the Rebbe's father. I don't know if the Rebbe was ever-

1:11:57 Speaker 3 No, this is a story, 'cause it's a story.

1:12:00 Speaker 1 The Rebbe-- Oh, that he-

1:12:01 Speaker 3 The Rebbe, the Rebbe said what you just said by Farbrengen, that there used-

1:12:03 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:12:03 Speaker 3 There was a thing that people that, that learned it with their kids and, uh, I think the Rebbe says, "I don't know why people don't do it."

1:12:10 Speaker 1 Okay.

1:12:10 Speaker 3 Right? The Rebbe says that.

1:12:11 Speaker 1 I don't remember. I don't remember. Yeah.

1:12:12 Speaker 3 And there's a whole story. I think it was Yitchok Dubov. I don't know.

1:12:16 Speaker 1 Yeah, I think it was the-

1:12:16 Speaker 3 I think it's Yitch- I think it was Yitchok Dubov. I think it was him. He saw the Rebbe-- He saw the Rebbe's father reading and the Rebbe was a little kid next to the Rebbe, basically reading it to the Rebbe. And he asked a, a Farshate that he doesn't understand, and basically, I think the Rebbe's father said to ask him, and the Rebbe un- the Rebbe knew the content of, of . So this story came out, I don't know, you know, more recently, whatever, it became famous recently, but then there's a sicha. The Rebbe says there was a minig that parents used to learn with their children. So the Rebbe was talking about himself.

1:12:50 Speaker 1 That meant it all.

1:12:51 Speaker 3 Yeah.

1:12:52 Speaker 1 Oh, yeah? So , yeah. So, so then, but the Rebbe spoke by the the famous Farbrengen of the last that we were saying here the Rebbe-

1:13:03 Speaker 3 The Rebbe said that only left is to be . That, that sicha, yeah.

1:13:09 Speaker 1 Yeah. Very, very strong sicha that, uh, that is also v- you know, is also used a lot to quote a lot . Um, and so even in the Mugdiger Sicha, but especially when you look at the Bilteel Mugdiger Sicha, the Rebbe is talking in that Farbrengen majorly in the Parsha. Um, the Rebbe to the point that in the Bilteel Mugia, in the Mugia it's not, it's not written that way. In the Bilteel Mugia, the Rebbe said that the is the of .

1:13:39 Speaker 3 Usually it says that about Tanya.

1:13:40 Speaker 1 Tanya. Usually it says about Tanya. Here the Rebbe said-- And the Rebbe said a, a fascinating line the Rebbe said over there was that just like there is a minig to finish the entire Rambam, to complete learning Rambam in a year, so too you, you should also finish the entire with Shir Hashirim in a year. And to me, that was like Pashat, it's like Rambam is the Rebbe's Chiddush. It's like the Rebbe's, the Rebbe's Takana, personal Takana is Rambam. you know, Jews have been learning for two hundred and fifty years, like it's a, it's a basic Chassidisha thing, learning .

1:14:17 Speaker 3 Yeah, back in the day when there was barely any Sefardim, you know, what, what, what were people learning? They were learning-

1:14:22 Speaker 1 that was the, that was the book. And here the Rebbe says, just like we, we learn Rambam, I mean, Rambam is how many years was there already after Takana Rambam? Five years, six years, seven years, whatever. And yeah, the... How m-- Yeah, about five years, whatever, six years.

1:14:38 Speaker 3 From .

1:14:39 Speaker 1 From and here the Rebbe says, just like you learn the entire Rambam every year, so too you should also finish the Parsha, uh, with Shir Hashirim every year. Um, anyway, and come upon throughout the Farbrengen, the Rebbe brings it up again, 'cause the Rebbe was kept on quoting the end of Shir Hashirim about Mauban, Yitzchak and Rivka, the whole thing is, is from Shir Hashirim. Um, it's a very, very s-central theme. In, in the Mugia also it brings out, but it's in the Bilteel Mugia it's much more, uh, you see that, you know, something that was very much part of the Farbrengen. I remember when the first time I learned the Bilteel Mugia Farbrengen when I was a bachur still, it, it really, uh, it really, uh, shocked me. You know, like, because, you know, you th-- in a very, um, immature... In my immature head or, or when you don't, when you don't really... I think, I think when, uh, I don't know what the right words to say is. I, I think there's, there's a very childish way of seeing, you know, thinking about Mashiach, thinking about the, the-- is, is, is like-- I-in other words, h-how many times has Chayai Sar have been, Netzach Yisrael been quoted and, and that, that's not... But I guess what I'm trying to say is like this, that what's Mashiach basically? What is Mashiach? The Rebbe's screaming that Mashiach is here, and it's our job to tell the entire world Mashiach is . What does that

1:15:56 Speaker 1 mean? What it means is, uh, is, is, is, is, um, you know, what's Mashiach? I just heard, uh, peop-keep, keep on-- people keep on-

1:16:04 Speaker 5 Are you, uh, uh, are you tying this back to the Sheva Mitzvot thing, or this is-

1:16:07 Speaker 1 Not yet. Not yet.

1:16:08 Speaker 5 Different track. Okay, yeah.

1:16:09 Speaker 1 A little bit of a different track, but maybe it's, maybe it's connected.

1:16:12 Speaker 5 Yeah.

1:16:12 Speaker 1 Um, but actually few people-- I see people on the podcast keep on mentioning Shalom Ber Lipsker. I just heard a speech of, uh, Shalom Ber Lipsker, I think from Monalif in seven seventy. So he says, you know, "What's Mashiach? Mashiach means, uh, people are instead of doing what they want, they're gonna be learning siddurs." Yeah. In other words, Mashiach, Mashiach, what's Mashiach? Mashiach means they're gonna be busy all day learning siddurs or, or, or experiencing siddurs or-

1:16:33 Speaker 5 I, I, I think, I think what he-- I listened to it also. I think what he says is, "It's not that you're gonna have better h-better herring at the, uh, at the Farbrengen."

1:16:41 Speaker 1 Exactly. If you think Mashiach is gonna be a picnic like, uh, you know, it does... So it's, it's where we tell to the kids that the chocolates will grow on the trees. S- Mashiach means Achdas Avaya, it means it means-

1:16:53 Speaker 5 I just, I just told my four-year-old that, and he was very excited.

1:16:57 Speaker 1 The candies.

1:16:58 Speaker 5 He's always looking for candies. By the way, I told him, "By the way, soon you're gonna have a lot of them."

1:17:04 Speaker 1 And what did the Rebbe say? means that the all the, the, the delicacies of the of the world will be to us like dust, will mean nothing to us. Which by the way, a Shliach called me the other day, and he was telling me that the whole, you know, the whole of the world of AI, that AI, AI will take over, uh, will take over people's jobs and take over people's work. The whole part of AI is that the, the dream of AI, that they're possibly in twenty-five years, everyone will have everything, there'll be plenty. And if-- what's the fear? That people will be bored. When people will be bored, the Elul will go wild. But what, what's, what's the Nevu- what does the Ramam say about Mashiach? That everything-

1:17:42 Speaker 5 Pnuim

1:17:42 Speaker 1 ...will be in abundance. Uh?

1:17:43 Speaker 5 We will be Pnuim.

1:17:45 Speaker 1 Yeah. We'll have, uh,

1:17:46 Speaker 5 We'll have, we'll have time on our hands.

1:17:48 Speaker 1 Yeah. First we'll, we'll, we'll have no needs. All our needs will be taken care of. First, and here-- And by the way, what the Rebbe said in the Yechidas, how he likes giving a to, to see it in a way. AI based on this dream that AI can take over all jobs and whatever, it's possibly in a physical way we could see in our own eyes that, that how in a, a reality that the world won't need to work. We'll possibly be-- Everything we'll have, we'll ha-we'll have in abundance, and we'll have nothing else to do besides, uh, learning siddurs. the point is, what, what am I saying? So I th-I, I feel that the, what the Rebbe said in, in, in Shabbos Kinos the last, uh, Kinos to the Shluchim the Rebbe spoke and all these about Mashiach, and then the same Farbrengen the Rebbe had such a about learning the Chassidushe Parsha, the whole thing. Someone could say, you know, "A Shliach is so busy, this, that." If your whole job is to, is to bring Mashiach and to say that the Shlich- the last Shlichus is that what does it mean? What does it mean ? What does it mean Mashiach? What does it mean? It means that you have nothing else in your life that bothers you besides first thing besides living Achdas Avaya. So if it means that a Shliach spends five hours on Shabbos to learn, uh, the Parshas Bamidbar or Parshas Shlach, which is this week, which is,

1:19:01 Speaker 1 uh, which is, uh, is insane. Uh, it is a massive, very, very long, which could take hours and hours and hours and hours to learn. Yo, what's Mashiach? Mashiach means hours and hours having one Hashem. So there could be no there could be no better way in tasting and, and the only way you could give over Mashiach to Andra is if you have a to Mashiach yourself. So when a Shliach is busy hours and hours a week, partially learning partially the, the kamoz, forget about the just the kamoz, the amount of time it takes to read those words, even if you don't understand. Which by the way, there's, there's minus the Rebbe about the people that complain, they don't understand, do understand. It was very clear from the Rebbe that uh, even if they have a hard time understanding, they'll-- they have to finish all of the episode. I think one but one mayimra to know to learn well, the and the rest to-

1:19:52 Speaker 5 I think one the beginning.

1:19:54 Speaker 1 The beginning of the first mayimra, yeah. the, the point is that, that, uh-- Yes, so, so anyway, so that always, uh, you know, had a, had a big impact on me, obviously. I think on many people. I think there are many people learning because of that, that Farbrengen. Um, and I learned it a few times-- I learned a few times before, but, uh, whenever it came to it was always Pesach time, I always fell off when it came to . This year, actually, uh, Yossi Jacobson, um, Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, Hayaduah, um, posted on a group a to learn the Chassidushe Parsha, and, uh, I decided, uh, to jump on. He was meyer me. I was thinking about it from yeah, no, I wasn't sure. I should or shouldn't. Anyway, I got inspired and decided to do it. So, yeah.

1:20:36 Speaker 5 He gets the credit.

1:20:37 Speaker 1 He gets the credit. Call out, okay, call out .

1:20:40 Speaker 5 Okay, very good.

1:20:41 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:20:41 Speaker 5 I also learned but I don't know if I finished the whole thing. I definitely start. Um-

1:20:48 Speaker 1 Actually, I was mafarsim, I was mafarsim, um, on my status, um, about the um, in the beginning of the year, and there were a few shluchim that started learning it. I know at the end of when I finished at least one Shliach, maybe more, told me that, that, uh, they learned the entire for the first time in their life that year. This year.

1:21:08 Speaker 5 It's beautiful. Okay. So how did this-- so let's tie it back. You mentioned the Torah because we share the mitzvahs. Let's go back.

1:21:17 Speaker 1 Oh, one of the things I was thinking when, when you learn Torah, Torah-- When I learned Torah and Likutei Torah, I can't talk for anybody else. When I learned Torah and Likutei Torah, um, I-- it doesn't feel like we, we said before about it feels like-- to me, it feels like the Rebbe talking. So first, so first of all, I mean to do, uh, that the Rebbe's first and you learn a from the Rebbe, and you learned that week's Torah and Likutei Torah, chances are there's gonna be something touched upon from Torah and Likutei Torah. You learn the first -

1:21:52 Speaker 5 Es-especially if you learn Likutei Sichos. Especially the early Halacha-

1:21:56 Speaker 1 Early Halacha

1:21:57 Speaker 5 ...that Rebbe's giving the foundations there. It's always Likutei Torah. That, that's what-- That-- All the famous thing. Now, this week's Parsha, you know, the, the Menaglim, the whole things, they didn't wanna be involved in goshmiyus.

1:22:09 Speaker 1 Right.

1:22:09 Speaker 5 Where do you think it comes from? It comes from Likutei Torah, the whole, the whole thing.

1:22:12 Speaker 1 Yeah. And the same thing with Mashiach, the same thing with, uh, how many times the Alter Rebbe say in Likutei Torah and It's all over Torah and Likutei Torah, thousand times. Um, so like-- And you do have the Rebbe used to tell everybody that the, that Chezdrim, that the, the to, to prepare for, for bringing, to learn the from the, from of that week. The Rebbe's has-- the, the first few Sichos on, on the-- what the Alter Rebbe and say on, on the Parsha of that week. So, so that's, that's probably one reason why, why I see the Rebbe there. But I, I think that the ets-- in etzem, in its etzem, Chassidus, it's The Pilpul, the Rebbe said once that maybe the name of the Rebbe that he-- the question was in the, in the Shar blat of the Rabbeim to write Now, I'm talking about on the Shar blat of the Rabbeim's Torah, it says, Chassidus, right? Anyway, the, the chain of the oy or I should say the chain of the moy. And the Rab-- the Rebbe said, should be a moy because, because moy-- It's all one thing. Chassidus is all one, one thing. The Rebbe said, it was written because there can't be any There can't be any in moy. In the source of the light is the source. There's no Only in oy there could be a chain. Whatever. The point is that basically in, in, in many ways, Chassidus, the Rabbeim, all the Rabbeim are in, in s--

1:23:54 Speaker 1 in a-- in some ways are all one Inian. It's all one . It's all one concept. The, the Chiddush is that each Rebbe took this Inian and brought it to a whole new level in Hofatsa. Brought it to a whole new level in, in, in Chutzah. So in other words, the same Mashiach that in etzem, the same Mashiach the Rebbe speaks about, the Chassidim Alter Rebbe already heard about. But then what did Hofatsa MeYanus mean? That a Yid, uh, that you're n- the Seichel Hagashmi of a person, of a Jew sitting in shul in a little vinkle in Russia, that was Chutzah. The Seichel is Chutzah. So the Seichel understands Chassidus and the Seichel-

1:24:31 Speaker 5 It's Chutzah from your, from your Nefesh Elokius.

1:24:33 Speaker 1 I mean, yeah, from Nefesh Elokius. So when the Seichel, the Nefesh Abhamis understands and appreciates Chassidus-

1:24:38 Speaker 5 I heard, I heard that when the Rebbe started introducing the , there was a certain Mashpia or somewhere that, uh, was-- they were saying you have to and the Mashpia was like, "What do you mean? We always do. We're always doing this. We're, we're spreading, uh, to, to Nefesh Abhamis, to your Seichel." Yeah.

1:24:54 Speaker 1 Yeah. So Hofatsa-- So Hofatsa I mean, there was there was, uh, there was a to have Chassidus in shuls and to influence other Jews to influence Chassidus.

1:25:05 Speaker 5 And, and printing Chassidus. I mean, this is all-

1:25:06 Speaker 1 Printing Chassidus

1:25:07 Speaker 5 ...so, but it was-

1:25:08 Speaker 1 Yeah. So-

1:25:09 Speaker 5 It came in stages.

1:25:10 Speaker 1 Exactly. So it's not like the-- it was always about just the, the Yid on, on theirself. But yet there were plenty of people that you know, that, that's what Hofatsa MeYanus was, that I should learn Chassidus and I should daven, and I should, and I should be And that-- And I, the Alter Rebbe is saying against the whole world, you know, how they understand Mashiach then. So for them, Mashiach and the world meant myself, my Nefesh Abhamis, my Yetzer Hara, whatever, you know, the, the of the entire world even, even within the Jewish world, but for sure. And every generation and by the Rebbe, these things Parsha take on a real pr-- Not-- When I say real, w-well, transit is, uh, two-- right? Das Alein says the the true existence and Das Tachnun says that the, that the-- here the world is the real existence, is the real reality, and the is something we don't understand. It's be up above our understanding. And the whole point is to make a of both. the, the Rebbe's Nekuda is to take the, the physical disconnected world and say that this physical world in all its-- in its lowest level, in its simplest, lowest, crass, uh, grubby level, has to be totally with the highest levels of . And i-in every-- I think every generation it meant what it meant for that generation, and the Rebbe basically take, takes it down and says it means every Jew in the most lowest levels in everywhere in the world, the

1:26:47 Speaker 1 whole in the most-- everything is in the most literal sense. These things are already said in-- it's already stated in Likutei Torah and Torah Or. But the Rebbe takes it and says, "This is for like, for..." Again, you have to be careful when you say for real. For real is . But for real, this means like, uh-- In other words, if you told a Chassid in time of the Alter Rebbe that uh, a, a non-Jew should, uh, should, uh, should have a moment of silence and think about God, right? Or, or, or, or, or give Tzedakah because the Rebbe said, or have a Shacharis They'll laugh at you not only in that time of the Rebbe, but I think even in the Deir Shvi, and I think even, uh, big siddim like big M'Kasharam of the Rebbe would, would think that it's, it's, it's that's not an inyan even. And by the Rebbe it's no, th-this, this is that Mashiach is a practical real world change, that the world will change, every detail of the world will change, and not just through nisim, not necessarily only through nisim and mofsim that Mashiach will come and make nisim and mofsim and change the world. But in a, in, in a, in a kiilu in a teva dikah way, that the teva alein will be in his dachach, will be refined and elevated to be a kli to the alien, to be a kli to, to the Elokos. And that in, in, in other words, I think

1:28:02 Speaker 1 our avoda, I think the avoda of, of bringing Mashiach and the shluchim of the Rebbe is-- in other words, if the nis-- the miracles, the miraculous Mashiach, that's not-- that's the job of Mashiach to do. Our job is to make the, in, in a natural way, to make the world ready naturally for Mashiach. The Rebbe, the, the, the Rebbe sent Yechidas after the Six-Day War to, um, to Chaim Gutnick, to Rabbi Chaim Gutnick from, uh, from Australia, which just mamash recently came out at recording of Rabbi Chaim Gutnick saying this, saying over this Yechidas mamash right after it happened in seventeen seventy. He's saying it-

1:28:37 Speaker 5 It's been printed for a long time. In Tat HaKlimala it was printed originally.

1:28:41 Speaker 1 Yeah, it was printed for a long time, but here you hear, you hear him how he's talking to Yechida and Gordon. Yechida and Gordon is sitting at that conversation, and he's talking to Yechida and Gordon and other siddim. It's like fresh, right a- right after he heard it. One of the things the Rebbe said, the Rebbe was speaking to him, they were speaking very strongly about Mashiach, and one of the things the Rebbe spoke about was the inyan of Mashiach. So Chaim Gutnick asked, "How is it possible that Mashiach will yachol kol Yisroel? How is that possible that one man will, like, literally influence every single Jew to go on to their mitzvahs?" So the Rebbe said, "It doesn't have to be Mashiach himself. It could be through a shluchim."

1:29:11 Speaker 5 Shluchim or shluchi shluchav, I think the Rebbe-

1:29:13 Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe

1:29:13 Speaker 5 ... the Rebbe said.

1:29:14 Speaker 1 Shluchim, shluchim. Anyway, that so in other words, every, uh, shliach, every shliach in the world, I mean, the Rebbe said in, in Sichas many times that shliach is, is Gematria Shl- uh, Mashiach ve'yes os es ekets and etash.

1:29:27 Speaker 5 I see. Yeah.

1:29:28 Speaker 1 So our job is, like, we have to see ourselves, and we have to realize that-

1:29:34 Speaker 5 And every, every Yid is a, is a nitzitz Mashiach, like the Rebbe says-

1:29:37 Speaker 1 Every Yid

1:29:38 Speaker 5 ... from, from the-

1:29:38 Speaker 1 For sure

1:29:39 Speaker 5 ... from the einain.

1:29:40 Speaker 1 That's right. And, and the Rebbe said that, um, the Rebbe said in Tashim Mem Dalet that every single Yid bedereinu zeh is a shliach of nesidereinu, is a avdei of nesidereinu, a shliach of nesidereinu. And the Rebbe said that, um, that just like, and it-- whether you like it or not, it's not up to you. The Rebbe said just like a Jew, once you're born a Jew, you're a Jew. You can't change it, right? That's where Chabad we're, we're, we're, we're, uh, masters at telling people that you're Jewish no matter what, whether you are, you do behave that way, you don't behave that way. You're born Jewish, you're Jewish. Just like a Jew is born Jewish, every Jew in this generation since the Rebbe became the nasi ha'dor is a shliach of nesidereinu, whether he likes it or not. What's your bechira? Your bechira is I-- how much I can live according to that reality. Just like a Jew, right? You're Jewish whether you like it or not. It's up to you to let that truth, um, be, uh, lived and realized in your life on a day-to-day l-level or not. You could do one mitzvah, you could do thirty-odd mitzvahs. The more you do it, the more you're living according to your true identity. Same thing. The, the only question is, how much are we going to, um, embrace this reality that we are shluchim of the nasi ha'dor? But every Jew is a shliach of nasi ha'dor. So every single Yid, and especially

1:30:57 Speaker 1 those who are officially are associated with the Rebbe, officially asso-associated with Chabad, we are all the Rebbe's shluchim, and our job is to, um, to basically do Mashiach's job, is to, is to influence every single Jew to go on the ways of the Torah and mitzvahs, to get the world ready. Love dikulam shecha meichad. So back to the, the whole topic of shabbos mitzvahs, I think that, um, you know, that, that in other words, that, that this-- when we're, you're talking about wh-why is this a chiddush of the Rebbe? I think that the Rebbe's-- the Rebbe basically took love dikulam shecha meichad, which was a concept in Chassidus maybe or whatever in Torah, and made it, pushed it, and brought it down to reality. It literally means to, that every single non-Jew will be influenced by the Aibishter, will be influenced by Torah, will be inspired to follow the, the Manege Israel of our generation, which that's, by the way, a very ex-- uh, central po-point, as the Rebbe me-mentioned many times, that Siva Moshe, that, that it's, that if, that the Rambam says that it's important that a, that a non-Jew knows the Shabbos mitzvahs was given through Moshe Rabbeinu. Um, the Rebbe-

1:31:58 Speaker 5 The other, the other, uh, so like v-very often when the Rebbe mentions Shabbos mitzvahs, he mentions that line from the Rambam, that, that, that, that what are we talking about? We're talking the Shabbos mitzvahs that came through Moshe Rabbeinu. Like the-- I think the point is that it's, it's, it's, it's given at, at, at Sinai, right? That, that's-

1:32:14 Speaker 1 But Moshe Rabbeinu knows from Moshe. The name Moshe is part of it.

1:32:17 Speaker 5 Same, okay.

1:32:18 Speaker 1 It's through, it's through Siva Moshe. The Rebbe, there's a whole sicha of which then was the first Siyum Rambam, and there was also, uh, eight hundred and fifty years of the Rambam or something like that. The Rebbe spoke a whole sicha about how it's important that the Umos HaOlam should, uh, give covet to the Rambam. And the Rebbe speaks about how it's important that the Umos HaOlam should, uh, they should make stamps in honor of the Rambam, and they should make events and proclamations. And mamash, the Rebbe was making a whole shturim that the, the different governments of the world should do things in honor of the eight hundred and fifty years of the Rambam. Then the Rebbe goes and says, "What's the vort? What's the of the..." First of all, the Rebbe explains how you could go to a non-Jew and a non-Jewish government and explain to them why they should care about the Rambam Halachah. The Rebbe doesn't say, "Oh, you know, give honor to a Jewish rabbi." No. The Rebbe explains that the Rambam was dedicated for the well-being of non-Jews. The Rambam writes that he was a doctor, and a big part of his career, a big part of his, his work as a doctor was pushing to help. He, he, so he didn't sleep, he didn't have koach just to help non-Jews. Especially by Gashmius, the Rambam was dedicated to the well-being of non-Jew-- uh, of, of the, of the nations of the world. Also in the Rambam's Torah, the

1:33:36 Speaker 1 Rambam is the only-- from the only Yidden in-- that wrote a whole s- a whole Halakh in his, in his Rambam, in his Torah for the non-Jews. He writes about the commandments of Noach . And he says about Mashiach, what does, what does the Rambam say when it comes to Mashiach? The yield, the, the purpose of the whole creation that, uh, that's including Umot HaOlam. So the Rambam ha- writes the vision about the purpose of the world, the Goyim are part of that. The fact that the occupation of the entire world will only be to know God, that's part of, that's part-- the, the, the non-Jews are included. So say in his Torah and say in his actions, the Rambam was dedicated to non-Jews, and therefore it makes sense that non-Jews should do things to honor and recognize the Rambam. And then the Rebbe says, and those are saying, "What's the big uf to? The non-Jews will give Kavod to the Rambam." So the Rebbe says, one of the greatest berachahs that Jews are benched is that the nations of the world give a berachah to, to the Yidden. So the fact that nations of the world recognize the Godless of the Rambam is one of the greatest blessings to-- the Yidden have. Then the Rebbe goes and says how, uh, in the Megillah it speaks about Mordechai, uh, that Mar-- that these are-- the, the fact that the nations of the world recognize the Godless of Yidden, and more specifically, obviously, the leaders of

1:34:50 Speaker 1 the Yidden, Mordechai, the Rambam, thi-this is a very-- this is a-- and there's a, there's a-- the Rebbe said in a Ma'amar, which actually someone pointed out to me that it was just a few months after Education Day, in Yud Gimmel Tishrei Taf Shin Lamed Tes, um, you carry on tape, and it's also Muga. The Rebbe says the story about the Reb Maharash. The Reb Maharash was one time taking a walk or going with his wagon, and he took a different route than he usually took, and he was going through a bunch of non-Jews who were walking by. And the nat-- the G- the non-Jews that saw him bowed to the ground. And the Rebbe is crying when he says this, says the story. It's... Mam-- the Rebbe starts crying. I mean, in general, the Rebbe cried many times when he said stories about the Reb Maharash. Maybe that's a whole nother discussion. But anyway, the Rebbe starts crying when the, uh, when the Re-- when they said the story. So the person who was with the Reb Maharash, I forgot who it was, the Hasid or whatever, he asked the Reb Maharash, . So the Reb Maharash said-

1:35:42 Speaker 6 Wait, wait, what was, what was the question?

1:35:45 Speaker 1 I don't know. People are bowing to him. Something... He asked the question, "What, what is this about?" So the Reb Maharash said, or whatever, . Like, who do you think you're talking about when it says ? The Reb Maharash said? And the Rebbe's saying this, and then the Rebbe says the fact that the f- that, that this story came to us by Nesiv Dereinu, by a nasi Hader, and it was printed, means that the nasi Hader gave a Kayak that every Yid should be in this way. That that the Rebbe gave the Kayak, the Friediker Rebbe, whatever, they gave the Kayak that every Yid should, should have this concept as, as because . So the point is that, um, that all these ideas always existed, but yet the Rebbe brought it down into the, with the, into the, to this here and now in real world, that it's our job to reach out to the, the... Because Mashiach is this generation. It's not just in-- you could do the there was like there was a ketz from, from the Alter Rebbe in... What was it? Uh, uh, uh, Taf, Taf Res. Yeah. Well, whatever. What, what year was it? Whatever. Any Taf... Whatever. Anyway, one of the years, and there's a, a ketz on the Alter Rebbe and the Tamim-- and the, the Reb Maharash asked the Tamim... The Rebbe repeated the story many times. The Reb Maharash asked the Tamim what happened to the ketz, and the Tamim said, "The Kotzeter was printed." So

1:37:10 Speaker 1 he said, "We need the-- we need Mashiach ." So the Rebbe speaks about this whole, this whole topic. But anyway, the point is that from-- in other words, in the, in-- there was, there was times in history when the reality of Mashiach was the Kotzeter. That was-- and that is Batim. In, in, in, in Etzem, that is Mashiach. But the Rebbe, but the Rebbe was saying that the Reb Maharash said that Mashiach is , that it has to actually transform the physical Gashmiyus physical world. And that's, that's where, where we are. And so this, this is the generation of Mashiach. This is the generation, the last generation, God's first generation of Geulah. So that's why it's the Rebbe who introduced this whole concept of Shevet Mitzion, which is a radical change in Jewish history. It never happened before. Um, A, it wasn't possible, and it wasn't possible because it wasn't the time for it. Now it's the time for it, and only the Rebbe could say that it's the time for it. Only a person that has the breadth guide, the breadth of plates like the Rebbe that sees, that knows the essence of reality, knows the essence of reality because he is the essence of reality. The, and in it says that Mashiach is the of a whole, the whole Bria, the whole, the whole creation. So only the Yechida, only the Yechida of, of, of Seer Shaul could say when this is a time, because it's a, it's an unbelievable breadth guide to

1:38:22 Speaker 1 go and suggest that Yidden all of a sudden should go and start having influence on the nations of the world. And it's a breadth guide in many, many ways. And literally, I don't think anybody in the world ever till today feels that they're the-- they have that authority to make such a decision. It's, it's the Rebbe's decision, and it's because it's, it's the Rebbe's tafkid. This is the Rebbe's job. This is the Rebbe's tafkid. And as, as the Rebbe said about the Friediker Rebbe, that he, uh, that the Friediker Rebbe could have brought Mashiach himself and decided to have all the Yidden join him. So the same that they said about Dovid Hamelech, that Dovid Hamelech could have built the Beis Hamikdash him-himself, and he wanted to have all the Yidden join. And the Friediker Rebbe did this about the, the Sefer Torah Kabbalah of Mashiach. He could have wrote, wrote it himself, and he had all the Yidden join in. the point is that the Rebbe wants every Yid, and that's . He gave over the job to every single Jew that it's all of our-- we-- the Rebbe brought us all in, and not only are we part of it, but we have to take responsibility for the, for the goal. In other words, you could say that, uh, we have to do what the Rebbe tells us to do, and the Rebbe, you know, takes it to the goal and makes Mashiach come. But now the, the, the bottom line, the goal

1:39:27 Speaker 1 is also part of it. We have to know that, that, that, that the job of, of, of bringing the entire world to Mashiach is in our hands, and we are given the Kochos, the Rebbe gives us the Kochos for it, and, uh, a-and it's our job. We have to do it. with bringing the, the Jewish world, and bringing the non-Jewish world, and, uh, yeah.

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1:41:20 Speaker 7 So you said everything very factual, so I don't know if I should bring any shailas.

1:41:27 Speaker 6 All right.

1:41:27 Speaker 7 And then I don't wanna ruin it.

1:41:30 Speaker 6 No, may-maybe, may-maybe we should talk about it.

1:41:33 Speaker 7 Okay.

1:41:33 Speaker 6 What does it mean? What does it mean that the, the day to Achron of Galus and the addition of Geulah?

1:41:40 Speaker 7 What, what is it? What, what's the question?

1:41:42 Speaker 6 Uh, uh, the Rebbe said it, uh, the Rebbe said this many-- uh, throughout the Nesius many, many times. And there's Zkan Motamus, and there's thirty years. How, how does that fit in with the whole thing?

1:41:57 Speaker 7 Um, well, what, what, what, what does it mean, a generation? What does a generat-- what does a generation mean? And based on what? Based on who is a generation de-determined?

1:42:11 Speaker 6 Okay. Good question.

1:42:13 Speaker 7 So, so look, l'chayidat, l'chayidat, a, a generation. A generation to me-- the, the generations are determined not the, not by, uh, not by Kogul and Shalon. The generations are determined by, by the Nasi. Every, every generation has-- every generation-- I mean, who even told us about generations? Where do we even know about generations from? Like, the, the world is existing, uh, five thousand seven hundred eight, uh, you know, and, and, uh, who, who told us about generations?

1:42:38 Speaker 6 You're saying this, this whole, this whole thing about the seven Deidas and the whole thing and the actually-

1:42:42 Speaker 7 This is all, this, this is all created-- this was all was told to us by the Rebbe. I mean, even the Rab-- previous Rabbeim, I mean, who-- did they speak in this Lashon generations and Deidas?

1:42:50 Speaker 6 I mean, it's from the tra-- I mean, it's based on the, on the Midrash, right? Bas L'gan.

1:42:54 Speaker 7 Yeah. So the Midrash about, uh, from Tma Shebe.

1:42:56 Speaker 6 So the Rebbe is the one that said that there's seven Deidas and, and-

1:42:58 Speaker 7 Exactly

1:42:59 Speaker 6 ...the actually-

1:42:59 Speaker 7 Who, who told us about Deidas? Who told us about this whole thing?

1:43:02 Speaker 6 Right.

1:43:02 Speaker 7 The Rebbe told us, said in Bas-- the Rebbe found it important that in the very first Mimer, which by the way, it's Pasht. I, I, I sometimes-- I, I know, I know for myself that sometimes the things that are so-- that we know f- sometimes the things that, like... I was actually, uh, just now, I was sitting with a, a teenage boy that, uh, that, that thinks that because of October seventh, got very inspired about Yiddishkeit. He's, um, he learn with him every week. We did his Bar Mitzvah, but as the Rebbe said, uh, in American culture, the Bar Mitzvah is a graduation from Judaism, so he walked Kirgl. They-- he, you know, got disassociated. And on his own, he was inspired to, like, get involved in Yiddishkeit. So the last-- over the last year, we became very close. We come-- we sp- he's going to college next year anyway. This Jewish boy tell-tells me that one of his, his regret in life, like what bothers him is he wished he would've been raised as a Frum kid, as a kid that had Yiddishkeit in his life, the Eibish in his life, and that's, that's one of his regrets. His regrets, one of the things that, you know, hurts him. So I told him back, I said, "You know that actually there's a big advantage to being in your place because now you appreciate it. You know, you're, you're a sixteen, seventeen-year-old kid. You appreciate what Yiddishkeit is all about. You appreciate Davisht, you appreciate

1:44:14 Speaker 7 Teffilin, mezuzahs." I said that unfortunately, sometimes when you're, when you're raised in it, then it's, it's, it's hard to appreciate what you have because it's natural. It's-- comes obvious to you. So I'm saying is, Al Daat Hashem, I think that sometimes, you know, the things that we are raised with and we have in our mother's milk, we, we lose, um, sensitivity and, and, um, appreciation for the godless of it. One of those things, there's many things, but I think one of the things that I think Bakhalal, I think the Rebbe said this, I think sometimes we-- me, I'll talk for myself, you know, we, we, we, we, uh, forget and, and, and lose appreciation for what that means and, and how revolutionary and how amazing and how uplifting, how inspiring, all of these things, um, which is by the way, why we're officially meant to daven every day and think about the sh- the godless of the Eibish there again and again and again, Tzikin the Zimra and, and how they-

1:45:03 Speaker 6 To re-appreciate it.

1:45:04 Speaker 7 To, to, yeah, to, to again remember what's going on, to realize Vahulu Vahulu. But anyway, one of the things is Bas L'gan Tuchi Nidalef. The fact that the Rebbe showed up, the fact that Rebbe comes the first day of the Nesius in a little room in seven seventy, uh, with a few hundred people and says the Mimer Bas L'gan Tuchin Nidalef, which is-- I mean, till today it could blow you off, you know, makes-- it's unbelievable. It's Pasht unbelievable. The Friediker Rebbe do that, the Rebbe Rashab do that, the Alter Rebbe do that, the Baal Shem Tov do that. Like, Pasht coming the first day. First day, there's nothing-- like, I, I don't wanna, I, I wanna be careful with my words. I mean, like, h-how do you-- like, if you think from a, from a-- if you think a, a regular person, a re- Chas Veshalom, a Havdal of Havdalas, a regular leader, uh, you know, what do you have to show for it? Like, what, what's... Like, that's it. This is Deishvi, this is generation. Uh, uh, it's, it's all here, all now. This is it Like it's such a-- It's an-- such unbelievable. Um, so anyway, so the Rebbe says in that in-- So how do we get to Bas Of The Gani? So yeah. Anyway, so how do we get here? How do we get to Bas Of The Gani?

1:46:13 Speaker 6 We're talking about that the, the, that the Rebbe is the one that, that introduced the day, the concept of days-

1:46:19 Speaker 7 Oh, so the Rebbe, the Rebbe is the... Yeah. So the Rebbe is the one that, that taught us from day one thought it was important to tell us about this whole idea. Like how many Chassidim of the Rebbe Rashab knew about this Midrash? I mean, officially the Rebbe Rashab, I think the Rebbe Rashab said once his data shvi, the, the Bal Shem Tov.

1:46:35 Speaker 6 Yeah.

1:46:37 Speaker 7 Okay. But how many people-- And, and did he, did he, did he go through the Midrash? He, he, he-- I don't... I don't remember. I don't know.

1:46:42 Speaker 6 I mean the-

1:46:42 Speaker 7 Where does the Rebbe say it? Where does Shalam? Where does the-

1:46:43 Speaker 6 I mean de'be Tach, de'be Tachrei. I'm saying it's, it's in-

1:46:46 Speaker 7 Oh. De'be Tachrei is de'be Tachrei, but I'm saying the Midrash of, of, of the Rav Ram is mentioned.

1:46:50 Speaker 6 Of the Zaddikim. Okay.

1:46:51 Speaker 7 Yeah. Anyway, the, the Friediker Rebbe's, uh, obviously Bas HaGani brings it, but like that, that parallels in such a clear way that there's seven generations and that this is the data shvi, and this is the last gener-generation. And, and even if the Rebbe didn't say-- First of all, the Rebbe did say the, the term data shvi throughout the years a few times, but the main thing that the Rebbe said very often was, very, very often was the last generation of Galus and first generation of Geulah. And the Rebbe said in Tashfin Alef, we were almost Chaf Tes niv, the Rebbe put it-- added in the Ksav VeHakades that is all sefiras HaMalchus. You know, why are we Malchus and who decided based on what? Elokim, it's very clear that this-- that the Rebbe's, that the Rabbeim, each Rebbe is a-- comes-- A Rebbe is not just a leader. In other chassidim, a Rebbe is the one who's the tac- practical, technical leader of, of that group. The Rebbe is, is a Navi Hashem, is the-- is, is, is, uh, is Hashem's representative here in this generation to give the theme, to give the charge of this generation, what's our purpose? Where are we headed? Where are we going? Where we're coming? Um, he, he's the, he's, he's the king, he's the leader, he's the one that's, that, that leads the charge and tells us where, where we're going, where we're headed, what, what's the point, where's the purpose, where we start, where we end. And

1:48:12 Speaker 7 the Rebbe tell-told us day one, the first thing he found important to tell us. He didn't say after forty years that he had so many Chassidim, so many going to Chabad. Day one. There was no Chassidim, there was no Shluchim, there was no anything. The Rebbe started from day one saying that there's seven datas, and it started from the Alter Rebbe, and it corresponds to the Abram Avinu. And Meish Rabbeinu is this generation. And the Rebbe says that everything that was done from, from the Alter Rebbe to now, to the Friediker Rebbe, was all for this generation. So even though l'cheit, the Rebbe says we came to Olam HaBa that the Chassidim of the Alter Rebbe were obviously much bigger. Maybe the Rebbe means, uh, there's a concept that, that the told that Meish Rabbeinu that, that, uh, that he, that he's the that he-- that Avraham Avinu but you're the data shvi, and it's you are the one that's going to actually do the job to, to the purpose of creation, which is to bring the back in down, down Lamata. So the Rebbe says this is the tafkid of this generation, so that tafkid has still not been completed yet. First of all, the Rebbe-- the tafkid was started, and now they started, but they're very strong, as the Rebbe said throughout the years. Um, the Rebbe said Education Day is a, is a in this concept. But in the the Rebbe said Mashiach has already been paid by Elokim. The Rebbe said

1:49:28 Speaker 7 that the, the, the creation of the UN, uh, started in or whatever was built in-- I forgot the details. The Rebbe goes through all the details about the connection with the UN, the to, to the fact that the of the Rebbe or Friediker Rebbe, whatever, whatever the Rebbe uses that, that . So the generation is kos man, that the Rebbe is a Nasi, that's the generation. And, uh, and the Rebbe, the, the, the tafkid of our generation was set clearly by the Rebbe, and until that tafkid is not fully materialized, the generation continues. I mean, think that's, that's very, that's very, very straightforward. I mean, how, how-- what other way could there be?

1:50:04 Speaker 6 Okay.

1:50:05 Speaker 7 And what, what's, what's the generation? Because, uh, some... But what the Rebbe said, the Rebbe said a that, uh, even people that are, that were born before, before Nesiv Dareinu were born again after Nesiv Dareinu, I think. In Tashfin Alef the Rebbe said such a that everyone is born with the Friedi- with the, with the Nasia there. So so, uh, we, we all have the Rebbe's-- the Tat is yon. So, uh, we're either a hundred and twenty-three or seventy-five, and, um, and, uh, we see the world from that perspective, and, um, and that's it. And it's after so we already have My father always likes to quote what the Rebbe told Bibi Netanyahu in Tashfin Alef. Bibi, when Bibi Netanyahu went, went to the Knesset, he was starting his new career. He became an Israeli politician.

1:50:52 Speaker 6 I think you said it on the, on the podcast.

1:50:55 Speaker 7 Who said it? My father said it on the pod-

1:50:56 Speaker 6 Yeah. I believe so.

1:50:57 Speaker 7 So the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said, "I'm also my-- in the beginning of my, of my career."

1:51:01 Speaker 6 Yeah.

1:51:02 Speaker 7 Tashfin Alef, the Rebbe's in the beginning of the career. It's after already the Rebbe wrote the Tavo. It's after the Rebbe said the Tashfin Alef. You know, what, what does that mean? The Rebbe's in the beginning of the career, like... And whatever. Then I, I-- whatever. I think that we could talk about after I, I personally think that the Rebbe wanted the ultimate of both. The Rebbe wanted the ultimate of Giluy, is of, of Milah Melah Lamata and the ultimate of Milah Mata Lamayla. The Rebbe wanted the ultimate of and the ultimate inside the . And the Rebbe wanted it should be both together, and that's the ultimate. Um, but Rabbeinu-

1:51:47 Speaker 6 Just saying we had both.

1:51:49 Speaker 7 The Rebbe was trying to do both. I'm afraid we only had one or not-- we didn't have enough of the other. Before Gimel Tammuz, it was the ultimate is Galus, uh, and the Rebbe wanted that- We should be able to pasamakim izech, be able to enjoy and appreciate this galas aliyan, and at the same time that we should, we should bring our tachin with us, that we should come as tachaynim in our gidre ha-tachaynim and buy in. And however much we bought in, ultimately, we were always on the Rebbe's, uh, makif. We were always hanging on the Rebbe's makif. And I, I just think that that's, that's the, that's-- I remember as a kid, uh, when I used to watch the video of Chof Ches Nisana Aleph, and, uh, my father pointed out to me that, uh, that after the sicha, the Rebbe tells, uh, Zalman Garary, uh, a second later, uh, "Leifaga v'leinaga, leinaga v'leifaga," whatever. And I used to always think to myself, like, I don't understand. If the chassidim in seven seventy who screamed Ad Moshiach the second after the Rebbe finished the sicha, and it looks like they're, you know, shell-shocked, and the Rebbe, the Rebbe himself is beyed, that he tells Zalman Garary seconds later that no one cares, it had no impact on anybody. So if then no one cared, and basically the Rebbe's like saying there's nobody home now, so now today, years later, anyone should care? But whatever. I think when I got older, I think it's,

1:53:18 Speaker 7 it's very understood. And, and, and that's not, that's not a question. Yeah. Why would, why would they be screaming Ad Moshiach? 'Cause the Rebbe screamed. The Rebbe said, "Mishayich Ad Moshiach p'ni ad sivui," that basically people don't care about Moshiach 'cause they care about it. They ca-- the baal teshuvas are screaming Ad Moshiach, Mishayich now 'cause the Rebbe said to, said to do it. So the Rebbe said, the Rebbe, we do it. Of course, the Rebbe told us to care about Moshiach. Did any chasid really care about Moshiach? Fakert. Look how many times people on this podcast will say, and, and there's a truth to that, that we didn't need Moshiach. We had the Rebbe. Who needed Moshiach when you had the, this gal, this galus of the Rebbe? And, and, and then, and then comes the weird question. Um, I think Rabbi Yossi will also said the Rebbe's crying, uh, Shana Rabbah Mem Dalet about Moshiach, and the Olam is like, "What, what Moshiach? Everything's great." And I, I think to some degree, I, I, I believe that many of us, many of us, I think myself included, I think till today we have a-- we, we're making a mistake in this concept. In other words, when you hear people say that we want Moshiach so we can see the Rebbe again, I think is, uh, is, is a failure, a, a big failure. Because obviously, you know, the Rebbe screamed Chof Ches Nisana Aleph, we had the Rebbe standing there, and the Rebbe

1:54:32 Speaker 7 was really not happy. He was not happy with that situation. So, so to, to say that we need-- we, we want Moshiach so we could see the Rebbe again, so I could be by farbrengen again, so I could be by mincha again, so I could bring my children to see the Rebbe, which by the way, just now was surfacing around on WhatsApp, what the Rebbe said in Tof Shin Zayin by farbrengen in, in Paris when he went to pick up his mother. He told the chassidim, he said, "I can't understand why you guys are not going to New York to see the Rebbe, to see the Friediker Rebbe." So the Fri-- the Rebbe said a line. He said, "Regarding those who saw the Rebbe already, You're not, you're not, you're not, you're not, you don't have, you don't, you know, you don't have gagoyim to see the Friediker Rebbe. And regarding those, regarding those who, uh, who, uh, who never saw the Rebbe, So, like, the fact that we need to see the Rebbe and the fact that our children, you know, me, me and you, we both were-- had the zechus to see the Rebbe, even though maybe we hardly remember. But so we need to see the Rebbe 'cause we need to see the Rebbe for sure. And our children need to see the Rebbe, it's So in other words, the fact that we have to see the Rebbe, that's not even a question. Um, and, and it's, it's a, an un-unbelievable tzar,

1:55:40 Speaker 7 and especially when we think about our children, um, it's, it's the most painful thing that, uh, that our kids don't see the Rebbe. Um, you know, kidua, a parent's care, you know, the, the feeling from a parent to their children, that's, that's one of the most painful things, I think, to any parent that, uh, that their kids don't, don't see the Rebbe. Um, so in other words, we-- that the f-- it's a, it's it's not even a shaila. Yet, Moshiach is not just that. First of all, we don't need Moshiach to see the Rebbe. Kidua, the, the Ksav v'Kedush that, um, that the Rebbe wrote in Tof Shin Yud Aleph, it was printed in Likkutei Sichos. Klar. It's, uh, The people ask, I say that we're gonna see the Rebbe, and the Rebbe will take us to Geulah. is a seder. First, Bi Yasem Moshiach, and then this, and then that, and then and then So how could it be I say that we should see the Rebbe, and then the Rebbe will take us to Geulah? So the Rebbe says, that's not gonna say they're of Moshiach. But what the Rebbe-- but the Rebbe says, of individuals, Haya was already and will be before Moshiach. In other words, there's a concept of, of-

1:56:51 Speaker 6 It's a, it's in, it's in Tanakh. There's, there's been-

1:56:53 Speaker 7 Yeah

1:56:53 Speaker 6 ...And, and, yeah.

1:56:55 Speaker 7 Yeah, and Abayel, and Abayel gives a dokma of, uh, of

1:57:00 Speaker 6 Yeah. No, it's, uh, yeah.

1:57:02 Speaker 7 Yeah, but in other words-

1:57:04 Speaker 6 It's not only Gemara, there's stories in, in Tanakh about it also, yeah.

1:57:06 Speaker 7 Yeah, and the Rebbe quoted There's a concept that throughout Jewish history, there were people that, that passed away, and they, and they, and they came back to life. And that's nothing to do with the coming of Moshiach. Nothing to do with, with the Amun and Tzadok Meson that's gonna be when Moshiach comes. So the Rebbe says very clearly that the Friediker Rebbe is in that-- is, is going to have an individual Tzadok Meson and, um, and, and he's gonna come before Moshiach comes, before this Galus HaMoshiach. So, um, I mean, whatever. I'm not gonna get into details, but anyway, I think, I think so, so we don't practically need Moshiach to come to see the Rebbe. That's first of all. So the, the bakasha that we wanna see the Rebbe is not necessarily connected or intertwined with the coming of Moshiach. And we need to see Moshiach 'cause-- and we need to see the Rebbe because it's, 'cause it's Koach Nefesh. Chassidim need to see the Rebbe, our children need to see the Rebbe, we need to see the Rebbe, just like it was in Aleph or in Lamed He or in, in Num Beis. But that's not Moshiach. Moshiach means, Moshiach means, as the Rebbe says in when the Rebbe gave out in Mem Aleph, the Maamar of Mem Aleph Tof Shin Beis- That a Yid is in because there's one that is-- there's no Gilul HaKodesh. There's one-- The fact that there's one corner of the world that the has not revealed, that

1:58:22 Speaker 7 causes a Yid to be . Can't handle it. And I think, yeah, how many people relate to that? I should care that, uh, the there's a corner of the world. I'm by the Rebbe's what do I care? And even if I go to that, that I'm doing it because the Rebbe wants me to, and I know it will give the Rebbe nachas. As someone said in one of the voi-- uh, uh, Zooms, that that was the-- one of the podcasts, that was the, the, the competition to get the Rebbe smile. In other words-- So yeah, to get the Rebbe to smile is like it's a very of a thing. But ultimately, it wasn't because we bought into what the Rebbe's trying to accomplish. It's because we love the Rebbe so much, and we are so-- And the, the, the greatest thing we could have done is to give the Rebbe nachas. That's not a bad thing, it's a very good thing. But did we buy into the Rebbe ? Do you like-- In other words, do you like-- Are you in love with what the Rebbe's in love with? The fact that the Rebbe wants Gilul HaKodesh in every single corner of the world, are you into that? Or are you just into that 'cause you love the Rebbe, and the Rebbe's into that? And when the Rebbe is saying that we, we say Ad Mosai because now it's you don't really care about Mashiach. You care because the Rebbe said to care. You don't

1:59:33 Speaker 7 even care. You're, you're saying the Rebbe said, the Rebbe said to put on tefillin, put on tefillin. The Rebbe said to say Mashiach, Mashiach. I saw a sicha and the Rebbe speaks about, um, about how when you deal with another Yid, when you reach out to another Yid, and the Rebbe says, um, that you should-- that, uh, that you sh-- that the Yid should-- that in order to have influence on other Yid, it has to be . And the Yid, the, the Jew that you're trying to influence to, to, to Yiddishkeit, to Tefillin, whatever, feels from you if you mean it or not, if you care for the person or not. Do you love, do you love me? When you come and tell me to put on tefillin, to learn, to light Shabbat candles, do you care for me or not? And based on how much you care for that person, that's how much influence you'll have on that person. Then the Rebbe said, what's the problem? The Nazi out there told you do Tefillin, you do Tefillin. I don't care about the guy I'm talking to. I'm doing what the Rebbe said. But the Rebbe said, the fact of the matter is people could feel, people sense if you're just doing it because you're doing it because you're told to do it, or you're doing it 'cause you really care about the person. Then the Rebbe says, uh, the Rebbe said, "If you would really be and we really, really..." In other words-- I,

2:00:48 Speaker 7 I gue-- I, I don't remember if the Rebbe said-- spelled it out or not, but the concept bas-- In other words, if you're really, really even if you don't care about the other Jew, if, if you-- if the Rebbe's, if, if the Rebbe's ratzon becomes your ratzon like so then you're totally-- you have now your, your own ratzon. So then when you go speak to a Yid just the Yid will feel the Rebbe's love to him. In other words, if you're really the Rebbe in a real way, in a real way, then when you talk to another Jew, the Jew should feel from you the Rebbe's love. Fact of the matter is, most of us are not on that level. So all the big that we say, "Oh, we're only doing it 'cause we care about the Rebbe says," you're not such a big . So therefore, when you go to the Yid and you stop him on the street, or you try to get him to your Chabadas, and the only reason why you're telling it to him is 'cause the Rebbe told you to do it, and besides yourself, besides your own feelings, you don't give, you don't give, uh, that, that much about that Jew, he feels it. And the, and, and the influ-- and the response is in, in kind. He's not interested. So therefore, the Rebbe says, because most of us are not real are not really therefore, in order to influence another Yid, the Yid has to feel that

2:01:51 Speaker 7 we really love him, really care for him. So in other words, I think the same thing could about Mashiach. You have to-- That for Mashiach, the, when the Rebbe says Ad Mosai, Ad Mosai means you're, you're-- you can't handle it. You can't-- You're asking, you want it to end. And that means is that you have to really-- you have to buy in. Just like the Rebbe screams Ad Mosai that we have to, to some degree, really care for this. Um, and I think that's what the Rebbe said and that, that was the Rebbe's, um, frustration and, uh, and, and I think it was very hard for, for a experiencing-- The Rebbe said many times, that by tzaddikim like the Rashbi, the didn't exist. When you were in the Rashbi's presence, you didn't feel the Purim. When you were in the Rebbe's presence, when you were in the-- around the Rebbe, you didn't feel the Purim. You didn't feel the need for Mashiach. It's, it's, it's not a-- These are not fake things. They're real-- This is real things. And yet the Rebbe, the Rebbe's not, the Rebbe's not-- When, when you're on the Rebbe's level, it's not-- The Rebbe is not happy with that. The Rebbe wants to take this-- In other words, the Rebbe said in as soon as you walk, as soon as you go over the as soon as you go over the-- How do you say in English?

2:03:03 Speaker 6 The door, the doorpost.

2:03:05 Speaker 7 The doorpost of the Rebbe, that's already It's missing in the of the Rebbe. So anywhere that's not meyer the Rebbe's in his-- the way how it is in his room, in the Rebbe's that's not-- that's already and we have to ma-- In other words, like, uh, the Rebbe said, the, the goal is to make every piece of this earth the Rebbe's room. That every piece of this earth should be the seven seventy. Should be the should be-- And there's a sicha that really talks to me about this concept. I feel like sometimes, you know, Gilul HaKodesh, do I care about Gilul HaKodesh? There's a sicha from famous um, people-- It's very famous because the Rebbe spoke then about the, the story of the Sfarim, of the Sfarim court case, then very sadistic things about it. The Rebbe also said a very powerful sicha about, um, which actually was since October seventh, was translated by Gem and was in that whole sicha Towards the end of that sicha, um, which obviously everyone should watch that sicha, it's a very powerful sicha if you didn't see it yet, um, regarding our situation today and, and whatever. Anyway, but at the end of the sicha, the Rebbe says, "Why am I screaming?" Like, what, who-- What's the point? Who-- In other words, who's listening and who's, who's-- Is this accomplishing anything? The Rebbe gives three answers. The Rebbe says, "First of all, because ." That's first of all. It's

2:04:33 Speaker 6 When it hurts. When it hurts, you scream.

2:04:34 Speaker 7 It hurts. It hurts, he's screaming. Second of all, the Rebbe said, You see Jewish blood being spilled, you have to, you have to do something about it. You can't just stand, stand there idly and, and do nothing. I think for each one of us, when we hear the Yidden are being killed and sh-sh-shechted in the streets in Israel, it has to make a We have to scream. Well, what, what's going on over here? Um, and third of all, the Rebbe said, every Yid is a We all are, we all are Yosef. Yosef. Yosef was a Yosef. Yosef had He dreamed and he dreamed and he-- and he sat in jail. And what happened at the end? Biladacha layadam yishas yadev es ragav. That he became the, the, the, the, the prime minister or whatever. He became the second in command to Egypt, which M- Mitzrayim was the, was, was the superpower of the world at that time. And it came to a point that no one was able to lift a hand or a foot without Yosef, without, without listening to Yosef. So in other words, Yosef dreamed and dreamed, and, uh, L'paiyo became the king, basically. He ca-- he took over. And the Rebbe said, "Every Yid is a Ba'al Chelemos. If it wouldn't be for being Ba'al Chelemos, we would never be able to handle the yesodim of Galus. We'd never be able to handle these yesodim." So bemehaile, then the Rebbe says, "Nit as a ch--" Then the Rebbe smiles. "Nit as

2:05:52 Speaker 7 a chaba chelem as with coming a tzeit. And then gan tzeit Yisroel with nisht, uh, heben a hand or a foot on fregin on mein reshuts. Dos aza chelem falt men nisht dein." That the Rebbe's saying basically, "I don't have a dream. There'll come a time that..." I don't remember. I just... Uh, don't quote me. It could be I'm saying a few words wrong, but, uh, I don't believe that I'm not-- I don't... Such a dream that there'll come a time that no one will lift a hand or a foot without asking by me, such a dream, and the Rebbe laughs, I don't have. But the Rebbe's like, "That, that, that I hope my dream basically... What is my dream? That everything I'm saying will h- bring a shemirat hamoshes on Yidden in Eretz Israel. That there'll be a additional protection because of what I'm screaming now. My dream is that it'll actually have an influence, and Jews will be more safe in Israel." But to me, what I took from that sicha was when I saw it for the first time, and every time I see it, the fact that the Rebbe, like, is shalo, I don't have such a dream. Like, in other words, such a wild dream that no one will do anything without lifting their hand and their foot, even s- such a dream I don't have. I felt that, that, that that's, that's, that's our dream. That that's, that's what a Chassid should dream. At least that's my dream. That

2:06:57 Speaker 7 became my dream of, uh, the Messianic era. That, uh, that, that ad meheft nisho a hand or, or their foot... I mean, we have to-- Let's go back to Yosef. Vayada misas yadev es raglav b'chol eretz Mitzrayim without Yosef. Yosef was, was-- Or Shlomo HaMelech, the Malchus Shva came to... That, that is, that is the vision of Mashiach. That, uh, layada misas yadev es raglav. So in other words, how-- For, for, for people that have, uh, that have a hard time, uh, taking lasheinus of my mon and mesiras and, and, and, and, uh, caring about it that much, uh, because we're, because we, you know, we, we like steak and, uh, other things. So I think that the, the vision that... In other words, that i- i- if you're a real Chassid of the Rebbe, if you really love the Rebbe, you really care for the Rebbe, how could you suffice with the fact that you need to see the Rebbe? With you need your children to see the Rebbe? How, how could you sit-- How could you be-- And I think that's what, I think that's what bothers the Rebbe also. I mean, that's what the Rebbe was screaming. In other words, the-- There's a speech that, that, uh, Adin Even Israel spoke Yut 2012, which many people were upset about, um, in seven-seventy. He says, uh, "Everyone's all happy. Hasheinu mateiv chalkeinu. Arbaim shanah." He said, "Where's all the millions of Jews? The Rebbe wants millions of Jews to be here. The Rebbe

2:08:17 Speaker 7 wants all of the Yid, Yidden to be here, all, all of humanity." In other words, Arbaim shanah, the Rebbe wants something a lot bigger than this. So in other words, azoy. The, the... And, and he says, he says that, you know, "Meshai the Rebbe shlofn nisht." It's-- That it's not-- Why is the Rebbe shlofn nisht? Chassidim shlofn. Uh, again, I'm not getting into justifying that speech. We're not justifying it, but there's a certain truth. Whether, whether or not that speech was good or not, there's a certain truth to, to what he's, what he's saying. In other words, if we have to lose sleep, that the Rebbe's losing sleep over Mashiach, and we weren't. The- there's a video of the dancing of after Hey Teves, Mem Zayin. So af-- so Hey Teves was Tuesday. Shabbos, the Rebbe spoke very strongly about Mashiach. Very, very strongly about Ad Mosai ad k'kaft el rabonim anasar b'Teves gave me a psak din about Mashiach to come. They gave it to the Rebbe when the Rebbe was on the way out to- The Rebbe in Maryland. Yeah. So there's videos of the dancing of Motzaei Shabbos after Nefesh Briyin. So all the dancing is... Until, till then was Ad D'nadzak, D'nadzak. That night there was a lot of Ad Mosais. Ad Mosai, Ad Mosai. You have guys, gansav ach mashkit, you know, jumping up and down. Ad Mosai, Ad Mosai. Someone grabs the mic and, uh, I don't know, whatever. Someone grabs the mic and says, "Keine..." Says, uh, he

2:09:35 Speaker 7 says, "Keine darf vil nisht Mashiach. Iz gern di D'nadzak. Di tzarim komen tzurik. Mir zaynen alle tzufrieden." He said, "There's no ein Yid in the velt dos vil Mashiach. Dos ba'al Ba'al Shem Tov Rebbe." Again, I don't know who it is, but I think the vort was very true. Everyone's screaming Ad Mosai, Ad Mosai. How was chassidishe chaynik? You're li-- With big smiles on your face screaming Ad Mosai. There's only one person wants Mashiach, and that's the Rebbe. Yeah. The only person I hear in this room in this movement that cares about Mashiach is the Ba'al Shem Tov Rebbe right now. Um, in other words, i- and, and like, again, I'm not, chas veshalom, putting down anyone that was dancing Hey Teves, and I'm not saying I, I, I think would do anything different, but I-- but there's a certain nekuda here that the Rebbe wanted the world, the Rebbe wanted to take over the world, the Rebbe want the, the, the Ibishter, the Dilibuta Chayim should happen. And Chassidim were happy. We were content with the fact that we had a place by our office, and then we had a place, uh, by the Rebbe L'bracha, and we had-- It was about us. Kirvas Elokeim litov. That's a beautiful thing. It's a high level and, and... But, but it's, but it's yashes. At the end of the day, it's yashes. We weren't fully... And, and this is all hagadah to say that I think today, unfortunately, that's the only way... In other words, I'm

2:10:46 Speaker 7 afr-- The, the Rebbe said that the, the reason why Yut 2012 happened was mashal chay-- the Melech was mashal chayim mineged to win the war, but to free the Rebbe. And one of the years, the Rebbe said that this chayay hagoyim, the revealed life In other words, that the Melech really passed away. He throws away his in order to get the Nirtzach Hamochamad. The Nirtzach Hamochamad so that, that winning the war is so i-ingrained in the essence of the king that his revealed life is less worth it than that. That the only way that if the Rebbe said Chaf Ges Nissan, that it's up to us, and we had a hard time stomaching that at the moment. Obviously, I mean, the f- we're, we're standing in the aftermath, right? It's 30-- It's almost thirty-one years later, that basically now is the time. There's no more, there's no, there's, there's no short... In other words, we can't anymore, um... In other words, we can't, we can't say, "Oh, you know, we have Mashiach already, so we, we have to like have need Kabbalah sale for Mashiach." We have to basically realize that we have to buy into the Rebbe's, to the Rebbe's mission. We have to buy in and, and really believe in Mashiach and care about Mashiach, and care about what Mashiach means, uh, and what it means to us and what it means to the world, and be dedicated to that, not just because we want our life to be better. Not just physically,

2:12:06 Speaker 7 but spiritually. Not just 'cause we wanna see the Rebbe, not just 'cause we want our kids to see the Rebbe. That's, that's a very valid, important a-a-existential need for us. But in addition, we have to buy into the Rebbe's mission, into the idea of that there should be not one that's not with the Rebbe. That's not with Chassidus, that's not with, with, with the Kavana Likkes. That's not aware of the Rebbe, that doesn't know about the Rebbe, that doesn't... That's not following the Rebbe's teachings, that's not learning the Rebbe's Torah. Uh, that... And, and, and it's not, it's n- we're not talking dreams. These are, these are reality. President Javier, the president of, of, of, uh, of Argentina, a non-Jew, just showed up to Eretz Yisrael. What was his gift to the Prime Minister of Israel? A picture of the Prime Minister with the Rebbe. And the Prime Minister of Israel makes a speech in the Knesset that he went into the private home of the President of Argentina, and what was on the wall? A picture of the Rebbe. And then the, the Speaker of the Knesset quotes the Rebbe in his speech in honor of the President of Argentina, and the President of Israel speaks about the Rebbe in honor, in honor of the President of Argentina. And then the next hours after the, the President of Argentina, Argentina leaves Israel, which the Pr-Prime Minister of Israel tell them that the Rebbe is a prophet, minutes later starts the war in Iran. Where

2:13:22 Speaker 7 was the President of the United States who right now is talking about getting involved in the, in the war in Iran? He went to the Rebbe for a berakhah, uh, when he, when he ran, when he ran, ran, we went, when he was running for elections. The point basically is, is that the Rebbe is, is, um... We talk about what the Rebbe said in a, in a natural way Mashiach coming, that, uh, that one person will have an influence on all the nations of the world. I mean, it, it's happening in front of our very eyes and years after Gematrios. What does it mean? Where-- W-why doesn't President Javier ask, uh, w- uh, "Is it Deir Eshvi now? Uh, what, what does it mean when the Rebbe said the last generation of Gals..." I, I ne- I didn't hear that he asked that question. And I, and I actually heard, uh, Rabbi G-Greenblatt said, Grunblatt said that, uh, he heard from his aid who has a connection to President Javier, that every day he looks at the Rebbe's picture for fifteen minutes and he's he's, he's, he's, he, he meditates. So President Javier has a from Rebbe. And, uh, and it's not... We're talking about presidents. I know people by me, non-Jews by me that, that's, that touched the Rebbe's Torah and a week later they became the biggest-- Actually, I'm right. I was talking in the beginning. I'm starting in a few weeks a, a, a 12-episode podcast with an import-- very, very, uh,

2:14:39 Speaker 7 uh, important organization in town dedicated to the Rebbe's letters. Boldly dedicated to the Rebbe's letters from the book, uh, Letters for Life. Th- and this was not my idea. This wasn't something I pulled off. This was something that she wanted. An- someone that's not Jewish, uh, a, a, a leader of a very important organization, prominent organization, and she was so inspired by the Rebbe's letters that she feels that she... This, this is gonna be a, a new podcast. Um, so the, it's, it's, it's, um, the, the concept of is broken. The next to the ocean, it's, it's dry. As Baruch Hashem, the sky by us, I think the Milui. And, uh, it's Pashut, it's, it's Ashud. It's like the, the world-- There's no one in the world that sees it this way besides, I think some of us, and I think each one of... I'm not talking to, I'm not pointing fingers at anybody. I'm pointing fingers at myself. I think, um, you know, we have to, we have to Pashut realize and I think, um, your brother-in-law mentioned on a podcast that, that he see-- the many Shluchim, you know, that he helps, very often a lot of them is, is Pashut, uh, missing in, in, in confidence, self-confidence in who they are and what they represent. I, I, I really, I believe that. I, I know it for myself. I mean, you look at the first Shluchim of the Rebbe from the Yuds. uh, you know, my grandfather, whatever, other people. I mean,

2:15:58 Speaker 7 these guys were from day one, you look at the Rebbe's maskiros, they went with such a with such confidence. Why? Because when you, when you were, when you were in the Rebbe's presence, the Rebbe lift-- The Rebbe, the the Rebbe picked you up, you were, you are the king of the world. You represented the Rebbe. There was nothing, there was nothing more. And so today you need Avoda. So we have to Pashut sit down. If you're a Shliach or if you're a Chas-Chassid, that's really a Shliach of the Rebbe, every Yid is Shliach, Pashut to Mizbeinen to think about who the Rebbe is. Who, who, who do we stand for? What's Chassidus? What's Chassidus Chabad? What's Chassidus Bechalal? What's Yiddishkeit? What's the Eibishter? What's the Rebbe? And what's the Rebbe of our generation? Who is he? What does he stand for? What, what does he represent? And I was chosen. I just saw someone posted a Sikha the Rebbe said how, uh, from all the billion people, the Eibishter chose a few people and gave them his Torah, Torah. The-- Out of all the billions of people, the Eibishter cho-chose us and made us Chassidim Chabad, and made, made us in Deir Eshvi, and gave us the Rebbe. Out of all the Rebbeim of Chassidim Chabad gave us the last Rebbe, the Rebbe of, the, the Rebbe of Deir Eshvi. And the Rebbe there takes each one of us and chooses each one of us and says, "Your job and your mission in this world

2:17:11 Speaker 7 is to bring the ultimate purpose of creation into this world." And it's not shot a Yid in Russia, you have to believe there's this concept of din v'chessed. We see it happening in front of our eyes. The, the, the world is changing as we speak. Presidents and leaders of the world are coming to the Rebbe. These things didn't happen fort- thirty-five years ago when we saw the Rebbe. Life was nice and dandy in, in Lubavitch, uh, standards. After years after Gimel Tammuz, thirty-one years later, the Rebbe's influence is, is . You think Javier has pressure to be a Hasid of the Rebbe? Anyone's convincing Javier? Anyone told Javier he's gonna be a, he's gonna be a schvantz or not be a Mekusher if he's not gonna come to the oil? So-someone told that to Trump. I mean, what, what do you think? They, they, they have a, they have a peer pressure. They have Jewish mom's guilt. They have a, they have a Mashpia telling them they're not gonna be cool enough. I mean, what, what, what do you think is happening here? And what about all the, what about all the Yidden that are learning chassidus? The the amount of Yidden that are learning chassidus today, the amount of Yidden that are, that are connecting to Lubavitch. And I speak to them. I s- I speak to them clear-- I s- I speak... I ask them, I ask them q- uh, very cl- uh, questions I don't wanna say over here about things that

2:18:18 Speaker 7 I would think that would deter them from coming to chassidus. And not the famous things that many people think. The things that bother a lot of the frum olam is not the things that may- many people may think. And I ask them why, why... And you, you hear from them. You hear why they're coming. They're coming for the emes. They have no pressure. They have no peer pressure to be a Lubavitcher. They don't have... Other Rebbe. They have pressure not to be a Hasid. So we, we see how the world is changing in front of our eyes. And the fact that the, you know, what does it mean, Derashiv? These are The Rebbe's, the Rebbe said once, But we see it. It's not pshat that the, the, the-- we're making, we're making it live on. The Rebbe's making it live, and that's why we're li- we're alive, and that's why we're able to go and, and touch other people. Uh, anyway, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's so, it's so simple. It's, the, it's, it's, uh, we have to just go out of our little, uh, Lubavitch box, out of our little, uh, uh, a- and break out of our, our galus, our galut panim, which after Rebbe also . Wanna break out of our galus panim, learn the Rebbe's Chassidus, learn the Rebbe's Torah, and, uh, connect to the Rebbe and see the Rebbe from the Rebbe's glasses, which I think is another thing. I, I, uh, I think that, um, but I think one

2:20:18 Speaker 7 of the things that I feel sometimes that is missing to many people, um... Again, I wanna take that back. I don't... Not many people. I think sometimes it could be missing by some is, uh, is, is, uh, is the of the Rebbe's, uh, of the Rebbe's farbrengens. It's the watching it, it's like listening to it, it's like learning the hanakos. And I think, um, and I think the reason why sometimes it's overlooked is because, you know, before Gimel Tammuz, you-- the Rebbe's farbrengen, you joined, or you listened to the hookup. Or if after Shabbos you weren't in town, you read the hanaha. But what did you learn? What was the Rebbe's Torah you learned? You learned the Likut of that week. But, uh, today, when the farbrengens are not like that, right? We have to make an effort to learn the farbrengen or to listen or to watch the farbrengen. And let, let's face it, Likutey Sichos was, was, uh, was, was, uh, is a, uh, arija, is, is, um, Sichos is nerach officially with the mind of to the Olam Haba. So there's a certain style of how the Rebbe wants the Likutey Sichos to be done, that it should be appropriate for the Olam Haba. Yeah. So it's a hundred percent the Rebbe's paid a million percent, the Rebbe done mashgiach in them, and the Rebbe put it-- invested in the . But if you wanna experience the Rebbe teaching you, the Rebbe inspiring you, the Rebbe-- We have the Rebbe talks unfiltered,

2:21:39 Speaker 7 unaltered, direct, fresh, straight . You have to experience the Rebbe's farbrengen. You have to... There's a way how the Rebbe speaks. There's a style the Rebbe, the Rebbe teaches, and I, I, I, I that's what I think. I think when you go through a farbrengen, a Shabbos farbrengen, the first two Sichos, the three Sichos, the Mayim, the Rashi, the Rambam, the Pirkei Avos, the whatever, the whole, the whole thing. You go through the entire farbrengen. The Rebbe-- And you do it week after week after week, consist- in a consistent basis. The Rebbe teaches you. The Rebbe pashut takes you by the hand like a teacher and teaches you how to think, how to look at things, how to see things, how to view things. The clarity that you get from, from the, from the sidetrack things, from the, the Mayim of Musgars, from the Rebbe's style, the Rebbe's cook. To-- You start seeing the world from the Rebbe's glasses. You, you see the Rebbe's world, the world from the Rebbe's glasses than anything you learn from the Rebbe's Torah, right? I think it's very much from the farbrengen, the whole farbrengen from beginning to the end, all the different Sichos, all the... The Rebbe gives you how he thinks. The Rebbe, he, he's, he puts himself in his Sichos. He pashut teaches you, and he uplifts you. And when you learn a farbrengen, I mean, I know for myself, I'm uplifted. I pashut feel like, yeah, I'm walking in a different world. The, the Rebbe

2:22:57 Speaker 7 just picked me up and brought him, brought him into his world. And when you're on the Rebbe's world, all of a sudden there's no , all of a sudden there's no hakbalas. There's, there's nothing could stand in the way of the . I mean, just the- So, you know, some-- when we were bochurim, sometimes people used to like think, make, make jokes of the people that are-- learn the sichas of or, or listen to the sichas of Mi Yehudi and Shelem Es Aretz as if it's like, oh, you're, you're into the politics, you're into the, the, the action. I think the Rebbe, I think the Rebbe once said something like that. Yeah. Yeah. There's, there's those that only wake up by those sichas. Yeah. Yeah. And the Rebbe, the Rebbe-- I think they say the Rebbe was heder from the Rebbe to put those sichas in the back, not to put it in the regular nochum. Mm-hmm. Bottom line is the Rebbe spent a lot, a lot of time talking about those-- uh, these topics. And I could say for myself, the amount of yiras shamayim and the amount of, um, emunah nashem that I got from davka from those sichas, hearing the Rebbe scream, "Dvara vayezu halacha, shulchan aruch." I mean, you, you can't hear those words, and it doesn't get into your kishkas. Like you, like, you part of sh-you part of shecksel for, for halacha and shulchan aruch. The Rebbe screams, "Dvara vayezu halacha, ketzei shulyud of shulchan aruch." When you hear

2:24:10 Speaker 7 the-- we hear the Rebbe say that, you, you part of start believing and living that the entire world is really totally in a ketze shul-ketze shulyud of a din of shulchan aruch. That the whole world like-- I mean, what-- The whole shin chaf tes thing. The Rebbe takes a halacha from, from, from halach-from shulchan aruch and makes this like the whole world is gonna plot. The whole world will go this way or go that way because halacha and shin chaf tes and hilchot Shabbos and shulchan aruch. Boom. Like that, that's the-- You say that, you say the zamud haChacham. No, the entire world, not just the world. Israeli policy, the g-the America with Washington, shin chaf tes, that's the beginning and the middle. Such a concept comes from only from-- first of all, it can only come from a person that really, really believes in the Aibishter, really, really believes in Torah, and really believes that every single, uh, movement of this world is totally in, in, in-- the Aibishter made the world, the pinkiusois, the ftirois is, is, is Torah. Anyway, the only way we could see ourselves live, first of all, and personally as a Yid, as a Chassid in our personal lives, need to keep halacha, to, to, to, to be Yidden the way the Aibishter wants, to believe in the Aibishter, to believe in Torah, to believe in mitzvahs, to be a Chassidim, and to bring this out to the world, to go to the world and, and influence other Jews,

2:25:23 Speaker 7 influence non-Jews, and make them close to the Aibishter. We have to, we have to, we have to see that the reality of the world is Torah. The reality of the world is, is Gadlus Kaj, is a Likkus. And this you get from the Rebbe, and v'chalah we get it from the Rebbe, but I really think that from the Rebbe's farbrengens, there's no look at the sichas of a, of a, of a, of a Mi Yehudi sicha. There's no look at the sichas of a, of a Shelem Es Aretz sicha. But, but what the Rebbe does over there, it's something that, that I, I, I don't-- I think that the havdala Ben Yisroel HaAm to, to-- that, that should be, you know... People, people love it nowadays, the, the talking points, the Jewish pride, Jewish pride. What Jewish pride? Stuff I bring and listen to a sicha about Shelem Es Aretz, about Mi Yehudi. That's Jewish pride. That's what, that's what real Jewish pride means, not the nonsense that, that we see from some certain organizations. Jewish pride means that the, the Aibishter was becher b'chirat ha'atzzmot of a Yid and becher Eretz Yisroel and becher in Torah, and th-that's, that's Jewish pride. So yeah, anyway, I th-- and that comes to Mashiach and comes to all the inyanim is, uh-- And, um, yeah, so it's a-- We need to, we need to listen to the Rebbe. We need, we, uh, need to strengthen ourself in, uh, the Rebbe's-- learning the Rebbe's Torah and to listen

2:26:34 Speaker 7 to the Rebbe's farbrengens and to learn the Rebbe's farbrengens and, um, and to really start, uh, taking on-- If the Rebbe says-- uh, to really start believing in the Rebbe's cause, to really start believing in, in the Rebbe's mission. And that, and that-- And I think, I think go-- turning back to Umos HaOlam, I think that this is something that is one of the ways how-- that the Rebbe's-- that the, uh-- to me at least, counsel Mashiach, the fact that has-- Mashiach has take over the whole world, right? Mashiach is gonna be physically a melech, that the whole entire world will be paval tu, will be, uh, uh... And, and I think one of those ways that, that, that's a big bitli to that. And again, back to about shluchim's, uh, confidence. Some-- I speak to shluchim, I speak to friends, friends of mine that are shluchim, you know, hamalochim shluchim, shluchim of thirty years ago, each one goes to a place of thousands of Jews and, uh, whatever, and that's small places. A small place that have six thousand Jews is a small place. Uh, but today's shluchim are going to places mamash hundreds of-- a hundred Yidden, two hundred Yidden, three hundred-- Mamash, very, very small places. And sometimes shluchim, and I know for myself, we could feel like-- we could feel, I mean, lonely, forget about it, but like, you know, bored. What do we do? You know. And, and when, when we already do something, only a few people show up,

2:27:39 Speaker 7 and, uh, and we feel like we're doing no-- What I, w-what I learned for myself, and I, and I matzia to my chaverim, is that we should stop looking at ourselves that way. We're not here to deal with just a few hundred Jews. And if the few hundred Jews don't show up, I mean, first of all, that itself is dayenu. But it's more than that. We are the Rebbe's ambassador to this city. The city has ten thousand, twenty thousand, fifty thousand, a hundred thousand, whatever this area has. Each person that's in this place is yerach reis. Is yerach reis to reach out to them. You are the representative of, of, of, of Gadlus Kaj to make sure that these people are going to be ready for Mashiach, which is through making sure that all those kids have in their schools moment of silence, which is making sure that every one of those kids have a tzedakah pushka, which is making sure that all those kids, uh, celebrate the Rebbe's birthday, and yahrtzeit, and not just kids, all people, um, which is make v'chulu v'chulu v'chulu. So all of a sudden, the, the, the, the, the job is endless. And I'll dare say the resources are endless. You don't have to only ask the five and a half balabatim, Jewish balabatim to give, to, to give money to Chabad. All of a sudden, what do you mean? If I'm, if I'm, if I'm influencing thousands of children to, to have a moment of silence, who should

2:28:49 Speaker 7 be paying for that? You know. So, so-- And, and the Rebbe said by dealing, dealing with Shabbos mitzvot will be financially beneficial for, for the-- for Yidden. So, um, all of a sudden, your whole perspective changes, your whole horizon changes. You're-- Durch dir coming to Allah Shpoys from the city of Reinu to this area, you represent the Rebbe. There's nothing-- You're the most important person in town. You're the most dignified person in town. You're the most busiest person, the most, most hashive person in town. And, and again, it's not about you. It's not about building up your own ego. Adaraba, the more it's about you, the, the worse you do. The more it's about ourselves, then the worse, the worse of a job we'll do. The more we milamal and master what we represent. But b'shas we have a recognition, and we have bitl, and we realize that we represent the Rebbe, we represent the Nasi HaDor, we represent the Shebei Bachar Hashem to be the Nasi HaDor of this generation, and we represent him, and it's not about you, then, then there's nothing that could stop you. Then, then you have, you have infinite keichas, you have in-infinite capabilities, you have infinite talents, you have infinite, infinite po-possibilities, and there's no door that should be closed for you. And even when a door is closed for you, it's only you know that's temporary, and the Rebbe will durf you. When you have that perspective, then, uh, you don't, you don't get turned down so

2:29:56 Speaker 7 badly. You don't get, uh, defeated so much, and I know it's not so, so, uh, so hard to handle and, uh, whatever. So it's, it's gonna happen. The Rebbe's gonna, the Rebbe's gonna-- Just like, just like till now, there, there are things that the Rebbe was working on, and the Rebbe's still working on it. Um, Shelem Es Aretz is one of the things the Rebbe screamed about for years. Is the Rebbe deterred? The Rebbe was screaming for years about Shlamei Moades, and Israel did what the Rebbe wanted? No. And October 7th happened. The Rebbe was screaming for years to prevent Oc-October 7th, and it happened. But the Rebbe's told, Emes is Emes, and the Rebbe's going to-- and the Rebbe's scream is Emes ma'aseh tzmach. It's going to, it's going to prevail. Rebbe, it took this long, but it's going to succeed. The Rebbe has time. Chas ve'shalom, not the Rebbe's time, but the Rebbe-- It's going to happen. One way or another, it's going to work-- it's going to happen. So, um, so therefore, the same thing in our own shlichas. This doesn't work, that doesn't work. Ze nisht basfall. It's gonna, it's gonna, it's gonna prevail and, uh, and wh-why is it gonna prevail? Not because you're very powerful, you're very smart, you're very ta-talented or because, you know... No, because, 'cause you represent the truth, you represent the Emes, and the Emes will always, always, always be .

2:31:00 Speaker 8 Okay. So we should, uh, buy in.

2:31:04 Speaker 7 Yeah, we should buy in, and we should be zecher to see the Rebbe and, um, we should be zecher to see the Rebbe and before and, uh, be-begali lan-- lan-- begal-- We should be able to see the Rebbe physically, and we should be able to see the Rebbe's kavana of, uh, of should be and the entire world should be and, uh, and the Rebbe will teach us and, uh, Amen.

2:31:39 Speaker 8 All right.