Ep. 45:Noteworthy Documents & Correspondences of R' Dovid Raskin Part II with Rabbi Bentzion Pearson

00:00 Speaker 1 As we see, uh, the answer to the Rebbe that it was al-always a keli to be mekayem the, the he'rois. And I think, uh, that, um, he'ro really applies to every, every Chassid. Sometimes we doubt ourselves if we are a keli, uh, if we have, we have the keichas. We don't have the keichas, and I don't have the merits, I don't have them in the mood. The Rebbe's saying that every single Chassid has the capacity for all the k-all of his keichas.

00:28 Speaker 2 I'm Yossi Kamen. Welcome to Among Chassidim by Der Her, an ongoing farbrengen about life as a Chassid, our vibrant connection with the Rebbe, and inspired living shaped by the way he teaches us each and every day. Shalom Aleichem, Benji. We're ready to, uh, do part two. How's it going?

00:48 Speaker 1 Great. Looking forward.

00:50 Speaker 2 Okay. So, um, in part one, as I mentioned then, we didn't even get into all of the folders that you have here with so many kisvei yad and documentation. I don't know kisvei yad, answers from the Rebbe, documents, letters. Um, so it would be very beneficial if you can go through some of them and highlight. Can't do everything, but highlight those that, uh, you wanna highlight. So let's do that.

01:18 Speaker 1 Okay. Um, so as I mentioned during the, um, part one, um, because Marozheida wrote in so often and be- and considering the amount of things he was involved with throughout the years, I, I can't say he pr- he received the most of any Chassidim, but he, he received thousands and thousands of responses throughout the years. So, um, to narrow it down exactly what to address was it's a little of a challenge, but, um, we'll do our best with the time we have. Um, so starting with, um, his yachas with the Fidei Rebbe. So as I mentioned in part one, um, when he was a bachur in Brinoa in Taf Shin Ches, Taf Shin Tes, those years until he came to the America on, um, on this Chanukah Taf Shin Yud, he was constantly asking the Fidei Rebbe for shuls to go to, um, Beshem all the bachurim, of course. So, uh, when his request was granted, um, that, um, that started a whole rev- a whole revolution in Lubavitch, uh, with the first group of Russian bachurim coming to the, uh, to America. So, um, so even the time when he was in Brinoa, he communicated with the Fidei Rebbe. This is just one letter to him from Chaf Vav Nissan Taf Shin Zayin. Fidei Rebbe writes to him, "In response to your question about, um, about learning and understanding Chassidus, the, um, the main idea is to understand the concepts. You don't have to worry so much about knowing the words." The Fidei Rebbe

02:55 Speaker 1 writes, "Farshteyn de minyan. Hashem Is boruch hi, bazri b'gashmias ruchnias" and the Fidei Rebbe's chassidim. The Yiddishe will help you to, uh, to understand Chassidus, but the meaning-- the main thing is to farshteyn, um, de minyan and not to worry so much about the, the wording of the maimar. Um, there's a bunch of, um, things over here, answers over here about maimit. Think about how much should a-- how much money did a bachur have? But maimit was such an ikar of his kashrus that you did whatever you could, um, to send in Fidei Rebbe a few, uh, a few coins.

03:27 Speaker 2 And so far, these letters that you're showing are they don't have the Fidei Rebbe's signature. It's signed by the maskir.

03:33 Speaker 1 Yeah. Um, yeah. This was from, sent from New York all the way to France. Um, and this is another very, very important, uh, letter which many of us can learn from. Fidei Rebbe was writing to Marozheida here, um, that he should be mesader himself b'shgit of hasmadah nigleh and dach, uli spalel b'mesinos, beli arichas. Shtaven stoli, it doesn't have to be at length. And, uh, velei leilech be'darchi avedah shelamailam muhusi. You know, you shouldn't, um, exert yourself to do some- to do, uh, to, you know, be active in avodas Hashem wh-when you don't h- you're not holding at that madrega. So you have to know where you're holding at. You have to know, um, you have to know your, your dargah and v'hu da'as v'chulu v'chulu. And, um, then Fidei Rebbe tells him to do tanya ba'pe and, um, and b'rach shlamat salacha in all of his yomim b'gashmias ruchnias. It's a beautiful letter, but, uh, what really hit me was this, uh, this idea of when you daven, it should be mesinos beli arichas, which, um, is a very important he'ro.

04:46 Speaker 2 And how old was Marozheida at the time?

04:49 Speaker 1 Uh, this is Taf Shin Ches. He was born Peh Zayin, so he was about, um, he was about twenty-one.

04:55 Speaker 2 Hmm.

04:55 Speaker 1 Yeah.

04:55 Speaker 2 So an older bachur already.

04:57 Speaker 1 Yeah.

04:57 Speaker 2 Okay.

05:00 Speaker 1 Um, and a bunch of other letters over here about maimit, um, and other... And, uh, Fidei Rebbe gave him hadro- uh, he'ro to learn zvi cho and, um, and shchita. This was in, um, this was in Taf Shin Ches. Him and a group of bachurim then went to Ireland, uh, to do shchita. I think there was a, um, Zalman Scherr was with him, his brother, Shalom Ber. Uh, there was a whole group of Chassidim then. I think it was led by, um-

05:29 Speaker 2 Zalman Shimin, no?

05:30 Speaker 1 Zalman Shimin and, um, Elijah Plotkin. There were a few Chassidim then-

05:34 Speaker 2 There's a whole bunch of people in Ireland doing, uh, doing shchita.

05:38 Speaker 1 Yeah. It was a, it was a very, um, big deal then because I think that's when they allowed, um, shochtim to do their work.

05:46 Speaker 2 Shal Dochman was part of it, uh, maybe.

05:48 Speaker 1 Yeah. I think actually Shalom Dochman was born in Ireland.

05:50 Speaker 2 Okay.

05:50 Speaker 1 A lot of Chassidim were living there then. Um, okay. So here, this again is, uh, many, many, uh... A lot of it is, again, as I said, it's maimit reia. I mean, I don't know how much emphasis it... But then it was like, uh, ikar his kashrus was to send money. And then there's, here is a, uh, letter wishing him mazel tov for receiving the visa, and, uh, from France to America should be, uh,

06:20 Speaker 2 What's the date?

06:21 Speaker 1 This is

06:24 Speaker 2 Wow. Okay.

06:26 Speaker 1 So, um, and I, I think I mentioned in part one that during their ride to America, the seas were very stormy, and, uh, they were expecting the worst. And, um, my Zayde wrote to his father, uh, afterwards when he got to America that, um, holding the letter, this letter right here that the Rebbe sent me gave me that that, uh, everything will work out, and we'll get there safely. So, uh, this is the letter here. Um, and then this is the, this is the when he got to America, which obviously we discussed last time.

06:59 Speaker 2 You said that the Rebbe, um... He, he, he discussed it with the Rebbe afterwards.

07:05 Speaker 1 Yeah. Um, okay. Um, just going now into the, uh, when he got to America. So this is a very powerful answer from, uh, Tavshin, um, Alef. M- there was-- My Zayde was going through a lot then with-

07:23 Speaker 2 Tavshin Mem Alef.

07:24 Speaker 1 Yeah. The reason-

07:26 Speaker 2 1981.

07:26 Speaker 1 Yeah. The reason why I'm bringing that up now is 'cause my grandfather wrote to the Rebbe then. They were going through a lot then, and his personal matters. He wrote to... And there was in some of the meistes. So he wrote that he's not a and he's not a . He has no connection. My Zayde's writing to this, to the Rebbe. And, um, he writes, "From the day that I arrived in America, my entire... I on- I strived only to be, um, to be, to that the Rebbe wants from us." Um, he writes the, everything that he went through, that, "When the Rebbe wanted me to be involved with Tzacha, I did it. When the Rebbe wanted me to be involved with Yeshiva, I did it." Everything from that moment on, um, and he brings here the when the Rebbe then to, uh, to, you know, to devote themselves to their and to the to others. Um, but it's a very powerful letter that he, uh, he writes that, um, "I made it up on my mind then that I'm throwing myself into the ." And he asks a brocha, a brocha then that all the meistes and everything should work out and, um, yeah. I, I don't, I don't have an answer on that. Um-

08:40 Speaker 2 There's no answer?

08:41 Speaker 1 Yeah. So Shemini Tavshin Yud Beis, there was a very, uh, it's a very known for bringing in Chassidim would refer to as Shabbos HaGadol. It was a few weeks after Rebbe's 50th birthday, and, um, Shabbos after Pesach already. And, um, there was a very big koch still from, from that big, um, you know, jubilee year. Um, during that Fabringen of, um, Shemini Yud Beis, the Rebbe took a lot of mashgiach. Um, I think there's the description, and the Rebbe, like, turned his head, um, backwards or upside down, one of the, one of the two. And, um, the Rebbe singled out many Chassidim during that Fabringen. This is upstairs in the zone. Um, my Zayde then got a lot of kruvim from the Rebbe. One of the expressions the Rebbe said then was, um, every-- Um, and he held onto the Berel Yonik's beard during that Fabringen for a few moments, and he, uh, expressed, uh, the idea that Mein David. The Rebbe said that, that, uh, that term.

09:54 Speaker 2 Rebbe was telling Berel Yonik-

09:55 Speaker 1 Yeah

09:55 Speaker 2 ... about David Askun, and the Rebbe referred to him as Mein David.

09:59 Speaker 1 And then there was also the, um, so the Fabringen went mamash almost to Mincha. The Rebbe says, "Shein shvat, the Bochum darf again Chazzan Chassidis, so Zevi Berel Yonik and David Askun." Um, could be, could be the Rebbe mentioned other Chassidim also, but there was, was a lot of kruvim, um, during that Fabringen.

10:15 Speaker 2 Rebbe said it's late.

10:16 Speaker 1 Yeah. Shein shvat at Bochum darf shin Chazzan, uh, again, the shul Chazzan Chassidis. That was a big shturm then. They were both very involved with, uh, like I mentioned in part one, Badchazzaras Dach, going to shuls during, um, Mincha and, uh, Chazzan Chassidis, Sichas, uh, whatever it was. Just the Rebbe wasn't being . A few, a few years later, that started, but it was still, you know, from the Fidich Rebbe and from, from Sefer Ma'amadim Yiddish, whatever they had then. That's, um, that's what they chazzed. Um, these are, these are a bunch of smichas that he received over here from various rabbonim. This is from Baruch Shefrin. This is from, uh, from... Various other rabbonim. I can't-- Oh, this is from the, from in Paris, from Mitzvah, whoever the mashpi-- the rabbonim then were. This is from Rabbi Bakarsky, from Rabbi Bryomson from Montreal. He came to New York, then he fared Bochum. And, um, basically, this is, he was doing all this because the Rebbe was, was koching that Bochum should receive smicha, and they should, they re- receive, uh, yera yera and b'chol ha'bachot.

11:25 Speaker 2 So he got multiple smichas.

11:26 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

11:28 Speaker 2 Okay.

11:28 Speaker 1 Um, and then... Oh, this is a v- another very powerful, uh, this is actually the original Hagai's over here on a, uh, the Fabringen from Shemini Tav Shin Yud. This was, um, during that tekufa that my Zayde was very involved with the Sichas, so I guess somehow or another, um, he was involved with, um, the, the publishment of, the publishing of this, so he received the, um, the kisvei yad for that.

11:55 Speaker 2 Can I see that?

11:55 Speaker 1 Sure.

11:57 Speaker 2 So the Rebbe, so this is like a hanacha, basically, of the, of the Fabringen.

12:01 Speaker 1 Yeah, on paper.

12:03 Speaker 2 And there's all these Hagai's. It was, was it printed, but these Hagai's?

12:07 Speaker 1 Yeah. I said, uh, I think I sent it to Chamshol, he has it. The Hagai's then

12:13 Speaker 2 About a lot of, a lot of Haggai series.

12:15 Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

12:18 Speaker 2 Okay.

12:19 Speaker 1 You asked last time about different expressions that Rebbe said, that Rebbe said about him. One time, uh, I heard this from both brothers of Ramle in the Pinye Koruv aleihem hashalom. Um, it was chaf, kuf, yud gimel, and they ran out of mashke. So, um, I think Rabbi Zalman Garrari asked Moshiach to bring a bottle. Moshiach Bachal always had in his locker, whatever it was then. Um, in '77, he always had in his mashke prepared for, you know, if-

12:44 Speaker 2 Case of emergencies.

12:45 Speaker 1 Exactly. So, um, so he c- when Moshiach came back with a bottle of mashke, the Rebbe said, "David tut vos me hisatem tan." David does what we, um, asked him to do. Um, we asked him to, uh, learn with Bacharim, learn to Bacharim, to make havdalah misnagdim, to make havdalah misnagdim. "Ast vos, uh, ast vos me hisatem tut there." That was a, um, they were-- It's interesting that they remember that 'cause they b-both like personify, like, Kabbalah sale, you know, Avraham Lynn, the Pinye Koruv.

13:15 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.

13:16 Speaker 1 So I guess that's what stuck with them 'cause that's what they relate to the most. They said they re- they remember the guest they had, the rebbe. They were telling me how the rebbe, uh, expressed that on a, on a Chasid, that they "tut vos me hisatem tan."

13:29 Speaker 2 Yep.

13:30 Speaker 1 So yeah, that, uh, that kind of sums up his, um, his-

13:34 Speaker 2 We ways.

13:35 Speaker 1 Yeah. Um, okay, these are the Haggadot on that fabricant from Beis Ear. It's actually printed in the beginning of Tehilas Menachem, Taf Shin Alef. So very encouraged for especially Bacharim to, to learn that entire fabricant, which a large part of it, the rebbe was magia.

13:52 Speaker 2 You don't have the original?

13:54 Speaker 1 No, I don't have the original, but, um, this is a copy. Um, I think the original Rebbe El doesn't reveal his reshuz. Um, okay. This is a very powerful Yechidus with the Rebbe's Haggadot on it, which I did not mention last time, which on the part one. Um, Moshiach here is asking about... This is from Er Lechai Kislev Taf Shin Yud Beis, 1951. Um, Moshiach is asking a brachah here for various yanyam, what things are going on in, in his life, his pers- in his learning, in his personal life, things that Bacharim struggle with. And he asked the Rebbe a brachah that, uh, the Rebbe should help him to be a, uh, Emes HaChasid, that he should be a keili to be Emes HaChasid. Um, it's interesting the Rebbe actually writes here alef, beis, gimel, daled, the different points in the Yechidus. So the Rebbe writes over here, "The keili of the brachah, zein Emes HaChasid, ve'en kikhash benes in them," the things that he mentioned that are being involved with him, the things from Sir, Sir Meirav Hachulum.

15:00 Speaker 2 The Rebbe says to have less-

15:03 Speaker 1 To have-

15:04 Speaker 2 Translate what you're saying.

15:05 Speaker 1 So the Rebbe said that the, the brachah, that to be a real chasid, true chasid is to stop thinking, stop indulging yourself in all the, all the, the misdeeds that you did, and all your, all your setbacks, and all those things that, um, you know, you shouldn't be involved with. Stop indulge, stop getting so caught up in it. Um, the, the last Yechidus the Rebbe wrote, wrote over here in pencil, "Aran gribl, aran gribl zikhndem," to, I guess, not to indulge yourself. Um, "Ivr gemen zikh tzum lernen, chasidus, ve'hanhoga, ve'darkei chasidus," to devote yourself, uh, to learning, uh, chasidus and the, uh, conduct of, and to conduct yourself in the darkei chasidus. "The Ibish will help fin izo taka zein Emes HaChasid." Hashem should help you that you should taka be Emes HaChasid 'cause that's, that's really what, uh, he wants, and that's really the kashat of every single chasid to, um, to, uh, to be a Emes, to be a keili, to, uh, to be Emes HaChasid. Which reminds me, um, the Rebbe used a very similar expression to him, uh, once. This is in a letter from Chav Zion Nissan, Taf Shin Lamed. He was, Tach then was going through a financial struggle and, um, I actually have it right over here. And, um, he basically asked the Rebbe for a brachah, and he wasn't even taking a salary for himself then. They were in such a bad matzav. So, uh, the Rebbe basically said that, um, that's not the correct hanhoga. Uh,

16:35 Speaker 1 this is the rishas Rebbe Sina Sino to, um, take a salary for yourself. And then he asked at the end that he should be zocheh to be a keili, to be mekabel the Rebbe's, um, to g- be mekabel hereis of the Rebbe. I'm just gonna read it for you right here. So he, he wrote to the Rebbe here that, um, he's not taking a salary from Tach, and Rebbe wrote, "Ve'enochnin klal." That's not the, um-

17:06 Speaker 2 It's not proper.

17:07 Speaker 1 That's not the proper approach. And, um, the Rebbe wrote, "Hades eh derishas rebbe Sino ve'chayitz bozel lekachos," to, uh, to take the salary. Uh, there's some other personal things in the Tach, in the, in that, uh, doch. Then the, he write, he writes at the end, "Ve'yaze Hashem yisbarech, Hashem shall help ve'shameshech hayomim ad Beis Ear." This was right before Beis Ear, Chav Zion Nissan. "Until, uh, Beis Ear, I should be mekaven, um, to know what to do," which is very, I think, very applicable today for after Gimel Tammuz, that we should have the, uh, we should all be mekaven to Rebbe's kavvana. "Ve'she'ezker le'hereis mifroshes ve'she'eh, ve'she'eh yehi keili to be mekayem the Rebbe's ratzon and to be gimel nachas ruach mitechar chavam itis." So where he wrote that he should be, uh, zocheh to be a, uh, keili to hereis mifroshes to be mekayem the Rebbe's ratzon. The Rebbe scr- uh, crossed out the words "ve'she'eh yehi," and I should be a keili, and he r- and he wrote, "Kvar me'azu." Already from, um, he wrote at the beginning of the doch, from Beis Ear, from the beginning of his work in Tach, Kach ve'kach And he, um, the Rebbe's making reference that he always was a wield too.

18:19 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.

18:21 Speaker 1 Which was a very, very powerful, um, um, testament to his work. Um, that was just, uh, in regards to his Aveda and Tzach. Um, obviously we can't go through all this now. This is just a bunch of Yechidas and his Chassan Yechidas, which was a very, very special Yechidas. Um, what the Rebbe says where the Kabbalat Panim should be, and where he wanted the Rebbe to come to the, uh, Kabbalat Panim, so he made the Kabbalat Panim in the zal opposite 770. Um, he said actually what the Rebbe said by Farbrengens under the window. Um, and he wanted the Rebbe to come out. That was the first Chassanah the Rebbe didn't come to, uh, Kabbalat Panim. He stopped going to Chassanahs from the wedding before already. Um, I think it was the first Chassanah also in 770. So, um, he-- And he asked Moize to make the Chassanah in the Farband where the Koil is today in order for the Rebbe to, um, to be there. And as you mentioned in part one, the Rebbe w-walked by, went on Kingston that night instead of Brooklyn in order to encourage the sing, the singing and the dancing.

19:25 Speaker 2 But the Rebbe told him he's not coming to the Kabbalat Panim.

19:28 Speaker 1 Yeah. He was... So the entire time he was trying... He actually w-wrote this in the, in the Yechidas, in Tzanacha. He wrote, uh, he wr-- he's doing Yechida 'cause he wants the Rebbe to, to, uh, go. And the Rebbe says, "Thus, ˈTafam basically read with Balabatim of Anganem." Basically what to say there is that, um, Chad, the Rebbe I don't think liked making changes in or-in o-order not to make other people jealous.

19:48 Speaker 2 Who's Balabatim?

19:51 Speaker 1 Um, I guess those who are more in the know about how things, uh, what to say there is.

19:55 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm. Okay.

19:57 Speaker 1 Jungle light. That was the ˈSh-Shachach. "Bachad, thus Tafam duch redden with Balabatim, jungle light. Thus need my union, machen is nar besser." Wherever I guess it's, uh, more convenient for people, that's where you should, uh, ev- all the arrangements should be. Okay. Um, right. These-- It's very interesting. Uh, there's a bunch of, uh, Shone Table letters that he received throughout the years. Um, so already Taf Shin Yud Dalet, he was a bachar that ever wrote a beautiful, uh, beautiful, uh, title on him.

20:35 Speaker 2 There are certain people-

20:36 Speaker 1 Yeah

20:36 Speaker 2 ...who get Shone Table letters. Like-

20:38 Speaker 1 Yeah

20:38 Speaker 2 ...and a lot, a lot of people-

20:39 Speaker 1 I, I heard that, um, if you wrote to the Rebbe throughout the year, you got a Shone Table letter for whatever matter it was. Um, you got a... I guess, I think that was a, that was a thing.

20:48 Speaker 2 That was a continuing to be expanded? I, I don't know.

20:50 Speaker 1 So that, I guess you have to ask Moshiach how that worked. But, um-

20:53 Speaker 2 There was many people that got a Shone Table letter, but certain, certain, uh, group of people.

21:00 Speaker 1 Interesting.

21:00 Speaker 2 Yeah.

21:01 Speaker 1 So it's actually very interesting. If you notice, almost every single letter, there's a different title for him.

21:08 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.

21:09 Speaker 1 So I think basically it's depending on his, what he was dealing with during that tekufah. Malach de-Malach Hashemayim, Yitzhak Sakritiber. Here it doesn't have that Radf Polim the Rebbe added a few times, uh, to the title, or just Reish Peh. Um-

21:27 Speaker 2 And the Rebbe's adding stuff by the signature.

21:28 Speaker 1 Yeah. Everyone also at the end, the birkas, the Rebbe would usually add something, um, Tzach Moflogo, Babedes Vakedish, or Pshureteva, Pshuretevis, Prat, Bachlam. It was always a, uh, or not, I can say always, but there was very often a Hisafa, um, to letters to them. And it's, again, it's very interesting to see the, the different, uh, see that's when Achdum Malach Hashemayim, and, uh, Yitzhak Sakritiber, almost every other, uh, title is different. Sometimes it's, it's Yitzhak Sakritiber Bachlam, sometimes without the Bachlam. So, um, I don't know all the Klalim, but, um, the Rebbe r- says in the, in the Sichein Taf Shin Yud, "When the fizik writes titles on a Hasid, it's not stam." On, on anyone, it's not stam. It's actually, uh, that's the Amites Union. Over here the Rebbe adds Morenu Harav.

22:16 Speaker 2 Yeah.

22:17 Speaker 1 The other ones that didn't have Morenu Harav just had in, in a Bachlam. What were you saying? The last one was one?

22:23 Speaker 2 The

22:26 Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That, uh, yeah, these are just a lot of Shone Table letters and, um, birth of children. Okay. Um, this is the, um, this is the early years, um, in that, um, in that capacity. These are beautiful pictures from, um, this time in Berlin-

22:51 Speaker 2 Let's see

22:51 Speaker 1 ...and in, I'm sorry, in Berlin. Wow.

22:53 Speaker 2 What's before that?

22:55 Speaker 1 Here.

22:56 Speaker 2 I see some

22:56 Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. This is the letter that the Rebbe, that he asked, uh, on his brother Leibel's behalf. He would often write letters, um, bacashas to Leibel, I mean, from L- his brother Leibel Morocco to the Rebbe, that he's, th-he's the Re- Leibel's asking if he should, uh, rent a house or he should buy a house. And, um, whatever the response was on that, um, the Rebbe actually, uh, writes over here, he underlines the, the, that he should rent a house and should be Bat Stacha Bagor. Kadoshim Bekav, Askir Atzion. Rebbe says, "As I, uh, indicated with-"

23:33 Speaker 2 The line.

23:34 Speaker 1 Yeah.

23:34 Speaker 2 The line. Mm-hmm.

23:39 Speaker 1 Yeah. Um, okay. Um, so this is a very interesting, uh, news clip from the Cincinnati local news from August 1952 of Him American Shlichas. And-

24:00 Speaker 2 Famous picture.

24:01 Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm just pointing this out because the Rebbe Tzachana, uh, he went to Rebbe Tzachana, he told him before what he, uh, where he's going and, uh, who he's going with. He writes about this in his Yeman. And Rebbe Tzachana asked him if he could, uh, try to be back for Chafov.

24:15 Speaker 2 Mm-hmm.

24:16 Speaker 1 You know, she felt a certain closeness with him because he was involved with the original, in the original Chafov Taf Shin Dalet. He was there Beshas the Istalkas of, of the Rebbe's father, and, um, and of course, was Eiche with his siblings to be Mishamaish and his parents to be Mishamaish. The Rebbe's parents in Amatas. The Rebbe Tzachana wanted him to be there, um, for Chafov. Um-

24:42 Speaker 2 Yes

24:42 Speaker 1 ...there's, there's much more of that as well. But of course, we're limited on time and, uh, film, I guess. This is a very powerful, um, doch over here. He writes about things he was going through, and he writes, he writes, he's giving, uh, ex- his personal expenses for the fizik Rebbe, for the Rebbe's, um, you know, expenses.

25:05 Speaker 2 He's what?

25:06 Speaker 1 He's writing... He's giving from his personal money to, for the Rebbe's expenses, for whatever the Rebbe wants to use it for. And the Rebbe wrote, "Nilkach V'tach." So whatever the rebbe wants to use it for. And the rebbe wrote, "

31:07 Speaker 3 Thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of the podcast.

31:10 Speaker 1 So, yeah, this is actually a very, uh, powerful answer. This is from Chaf Tevis, Taf Shim Lamad Vav. So there was a concept called, uh, there was a publication called, it was very active before Dehair.

31:23 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

31:23 Speaker 1 There was something called the Ufaratsa Journal.

31:25 Speaker 3 Yeah.

31:26 Speaker 1 This was like the Dehair, uh, Beshaite.

31:29 Speaker 3 I've heard from some people that were involved in it.

31:32 Speaker 1 Yeah. Uh-

31:32 Speaker 3 And they were when Dehair-

31:33 Speaker 1 Meir Simcha Rifkin, today he lives in Faradach. He was, uh, the main publisher.

31:36 Speaker 3 Yeah, when Dehair started-

31:37 Speaker 1 Put in a lot of work

31:38 Speaker 3 ... they told me that the first edition, the first version of such a thing was, was the Ufaratsa-

31:44 Speaker 1 Yeah

31:44 Speaker 3 ... Journal. Okay.

31:47 Speaker 1 So, um, they wrote over then this Lamad Vav. Obviously, the Rebbe was shtuuring very much in Shtachim, not giving away, uh, territories, Yehuda B'Shomron, in Eretz Yisrael, not giving back any territories to, um, to the Arabs, Chulum. So they wrote to the Rebbe that, um, Metzuv Rizah in this, uh, article, in this upcoming, uh, magazine, will be featuring an article on the Rebbe's Shita of, um, of not giving back, uh, land. So this is mamish, like, this is such a nuanced response. Pashut Shelo Hatfis this. The Rebbe's saying not to print the article on his own Shita, on his own stance on, uh, giving away territory. Sha'arei Tzarech Liyus Ufaratsa, the name of, of the publication called Ufaratsa Journal. The whole, the whole idea of this is Ufaratsa Amitis, true Ufaratsa. Haina Ukoilo Kikim Teirimitzis Gam Al Yedei Elu Shedaytam Benagea Lehashtachim Hovchis Mehanal. Meaning to say this has to reach people whose stance on giving away territory, meaning they could be pro that for whatever reason, is, um, is Hepech Machshita.

32:55 Speaker 3 So Ufaratsa means that it should also reach such people that may have a different Shita-

33:01 Speaker 1 Yeah

33:01 Speaker 3 ... than me.

33:02 Speaker 1 Yeah.

33:02 Speaker 3 That's what I was saying.

33:03 Speaker 1 So-

33:03 Speaker 3 To therefore not to print it.

33:04 Speaker 1 But at the same time the Rebbe sh-

33:06 Speaker 3 In the Ufaratsa, it's under an Ufaratsa piece.

33:08 Speaker 1 Right. But at the same time the Rebbe is shtuuring about, uh-

33:11 Speaker 3 Evi Fevregen, the Rebbe's piece. Yeah

33:12 Speaker 1 ... yeah, literally Evi Fevregen. The Rebbe's, uh, screaming about that. But on the other hand, when it comes to in Yanum Fevregin, Ufaratsa to be, uh, sensitive not to print it because, um, you know, it should have its appropriate effect, um, desired effect. Um, he just writes throughout the doch how many people looked it over, and it's all ready to go. And it's basically, it basically be to being Gayim Nachas Ruach the Rebbe going to print, uh, like your Shita on this. And the Rebbe said, um, not to print that. So in Taf Shim Lamad Vav, um, nineteen seventy-six, um, after Pesach, there was a very big shturim, um, the Rebbe coined it Shnas HaChinuch, um, the year of Torah education. Um, the Rebbe then spoke, uh, like Ba'emer, the first six of which will be, which would be twelve pesukim. Um, and in general, there was a very big shturim then to enroll Jewish children in Torah day schools and, uh, in the summer and, and, um, and summer camps. Um, so Tzach then, um, produced a brochure. Um, here it is. It said, um, Chachilat said actually, "What will your child, um, grow up to be? Jewish?" Question mark. That was the, um, that's how they, you know, marketed the campaign to really, you know, hit home the, that point that like you never know what your child's gonna grow up to be if they don't get a Jewish education now. Um, when they sent in that, um, brochure to the Rebbe, they

34:54 Speaker 1 got an answer, which, uh, I was told by Rabbi Yossi Karlitsky in Tel Aviv. He's a shlichter in Tel Aviv who was very involved as a bachur in the pools of Tzach. The Rebbe wrote, um, Yidden, even though they, you know, sinned, meaning they didn't get the proper upbringing, um, they're still Yidden Yisroel.

35:21 Speaker 3 So what's the question of the brochure? Yeah. What are you asking the brochure?

35:24 Speaker 1 How can you even, uh-

35:25 Speaker 3 Will they grow up to be Jewish?

35:25 Speaker 1 Yeah. How can you advertise it in such a way? Um, there's no question.

35:28 Speaker 3 By the way, it teaches you a big lesson. When you're marketing, you know, so your clickbait and all that type of things, you wanna, you wanna-

35:36 Speaker 1 Right

35:36 Speaker 3 ... get a, get the hook. But if it's not proper, it's not iska halton. You can't, you can't do it, you know? Even if it's good marketing. So it's-

35:44 Speaker 1 Yeah. In general, I mean, uh, on that note, there is a ton of hadracha. Obviously, we can't... We're limited on time. We can't go through everything now that Tzach received, especially, um, in regards to pegishas, the men's and the women's pegishas. Um, there's one famous one from, uh, Tevis Taf Shim Mem He, where they made a brochure. Um, what is Purim more similar to, Halloween or Yom Kippur? Think about it. It's very-- It's a catchy thing-

36:17 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm

36:17 Speaker 1 ... 'cause lechayra, I mean, Purim, Halloween, and kidua Purim, Kid Purim. So it's a nice, uh, twist, play on the words. Anyways, they got... It was such a sharp answer back. The Rebbe said basically to burn every remaining copy of it. First, take off the Beis He. Chalahz, that's something that Tzach always got lechayra. Make sure the He is a Beis He, underline two time. Un- always on Beis He's was a very big lechayra, um, on all publications that have Beis He. And, um, uh, getting back to the answer, um question mark, exclamation point. I think there were multiple question mark and exclamation points then. Um, I s- I don't have the mine in front of me now, but it's, it's around. It's printed. But, but yeah. But, but on the note you're saying that it's sometimes can really be, you know, appealing and engaging, um, to have such a, uh, headline. But of course, um, this is not Eiska Halten. So the Rebbe doesn't say to put it in Shemos or to throw it out, to burn every remaining copy. The Shoray, the Hashmed, whatever the Lashon was. Um, so that's that. So getting back to this answer, um, to Rebbe, Rebbe wrote, "HaYisro, af b'shchat Yisrohu, oma makam m'd'shaila," to ask, well, will they grow up Jewish? So they change it to be, does your child know what it means to be a Jew? You see over here, they mean multiple, uh, colors for, you know, three aged children.

37:46 Speaker 3 And they wrote, "What will your sons and daughters be when they grow up? Jews, of course. But will they appreciate why?"

37:52 Speaker 1 Right.

37:52 Speaker 3 "Or know how?"

37:53 Speaker 1 And they add that, et cetera. Yeah. And, um, in general, all these, um, publications, as mentioned, the Rebbe looked over and in great detail because you need to remember, the Rebbe was then laying down the foundation for all, um, for all, you know, Lubavitch's Pulas until, you know, until time, until Mashiach comes. And till today, Shluchim are, are operating based of these hedo- off these hedoys and these ha- and these ha- this hadracho that Tzach received then. And of course, other Shluchim received, but, uh, Tzach was the main, uh, Mesid, um, which was operating these mitzvim chulum, uh, and executing these mitzvim. Um, so okay. So just going, this is Lamidvav, going back a little bit, um, I... As mentioned in part one, a huge chunk of my grandfather's life, of his life of activism, um, was the years of Taf Shin Lamed Heh Daled and Taf Shin Lamed Heh. Those two years, um, it was like a marathon of mitzvim and pulas and new hedoys. Things were coming out in a, in a very fast-paced, uh, uh, motion. And, um, what's his name? Um, it was Yasser Galitsky in Nachman that said that after P'fabringen, Zemi'at Hakofa, my Zayde would, uh, go to his office downstairs in the Library. We had his office, and he would call, uh, Shluchim, Nachman Tzedek in London, Mulazimov in Paris, um, Shluchim in America. And then it was ready, you know, at four o'clock in the morning with the time the P'fabringen end over here.

39:30 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

39:30 Speaker 1 In Europe and other places, um, Eretz Yisro, it was, uh, already much later. So he would say, "Nachman, Nachman, did you schwof?" With his wallet. "You can't schwofen. The Rebbe, what did you do already? The Rebbe s- just spoke about the P'fabringen, that we have to make sure that every child gets a Jewish education, and that, uh, you know, the next, the c- upcoming Yom Tov, there has to be Medagan Sturum. You can't schwofen." So Yasser Galitsky told me sometimes he would say, "Wait a little bit. Let's wait for some of the Elims to start going to sleep, and then we'll call."

40:01 Speaker 3 On purpose.

40:03 Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, so, um, that was his palach, where everything operate in general from the Jewish life, right?

40:08 Speaker 3 I was speaking to Shliach and a Shlucha during Shlichus again in the memes, is we didn't have plans. We got a fax Motzei Shabbos. We knew what the plans were for the, for the week, you know?

40:20 Speaker 1 Yeah, the, the general give orders for that week.

40:21 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

40:23 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. So, um, Taf Shin Lamed Heh Daled, Lamed Heh, again, those were very, very, um... And Lamed Vav. Those years right before the heart attack on Shemini Atzeres, there wa- there was like a very, very big, um, push for all Yanim, um, Hafatza. Um, and of course, as the head of Tzach, Mesid, which, um, ex- were, was res-response- was responsible to execute these, uh, pulas, um, the head of it was, was my Zayde. So all these hedoys, the one TaNaCH went through him to the Mesid, et cetera. Um, so there was Baruch Hashem, there was, there's a ton of, ton of Hadrachon answers to, um, to updates and what was happening since the P'fabringen, what they were printing and, and, uh, et cetera, et cetera, all the resources. And it's interesting, um, during that Tukofa on, on Tes Zayin Adar, Taf Shin Lamed Heh, my Zayde's parents, uh, from Eretz Yisro, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef and Dreiza Raskin were in New York then for a chasuna of their ainikhl, um, ainikhl Bravman, Rivka Bravman, which, uh, was then getting married to Yechinan Gerrari, who today sh- they serve as Shluchim in Holon. Um, and they were zeich then to, to have a yichidis. So I mean, Rabbi Yaakov Yosef and the Rebbe, they had a very, um... There was, there was a lot of, there was a lot of answers to him, and the Rebbe had a lot of hakaras hatev that he was from the, um, Gerrishams Askim with his father and, um, and

42:01 Speaker 1 Ama Ata together with his children. So there's a lot of history there. So in that yichidis of Tes Zayin Adar, Lamed Heh, the Rebbe told him the following. I have the nochah of it right here, which, uh, testifies very much on, um, my grandfather's, uh, askanus during that Tukofa. The Rebbe told him as follows. Um, firstly, the Rebbe says, "Rabbi Yaakov Yosef, what's machter?" Um, ach akak ponoh to his wife. The Rebbe returned to his wife, b'ponim tzo- tzo face, with a beaming face, and, uh, he asked her how she was doing. V'cholo, v'cholo. It was all with a very simcha- simchatic, uh, um, you know, atmosphere. And then he writes as follows: "I gave the Rebbe then the pan, um, concerning my son, David, and his personal matzav. Rebbe took the pan and, um, he said that he will bring it to the Tzion, um, in addition to the, um, other panim that I gave him," I guess his own pan. And the Rebbe wrote-- And the Rebbe said as follows He writes, "He's called Shabach as David, this pool ISOF." He started praising, uh, David and all of his pools. For Omar, the rabbi said, "Ait ertut asach ermacht Eden ertut asach in Yiddishkeit." But linen dem tzet and afin tzion. But, uh, to translate that, um, ertut asach, he does much. Uh, ermacht Eden, he transforms, uh, Jewish lives. Ertut asach in Yiddishkeit, he does much in the realm of spreading Yiddishkeit. Um, so it's just very interesting, just on a very

43:53 Speaker 1 human, um, level to see how just seeing Tuchas, Niskabel, Batach, he's reporting, updating what, what's being done after Fabregans, um, and what the bachurim are, are up to, what the shluchim are up to. To see that the rabbi was, like, telling parents, "By the way, your son is, is doing very good work here, um, in my work, in Afatz Mayos. And I just wanted to, you know, inform you about that." So it's, uh, you know, it's, it's, uh, touches me very much to see that, uh, how the rabbi related to parents about, um, you know, even Sar Ev David. Ev David was with Tach, Yeshiva. He summons the asking Granitz. The rabbi sees it as a, as a parent and a child.

44:34 Speaker 3 Yeah.

44:35 Speaker 1 It's a totally different lens. So, um, that is that. Um, and just to go over one brochure, um, of Tzach. They wrote in then that, um, they ha- they, they then gave out brochures for all the, um, Siman. Every single... You can see over here, for example. This is actually an original. For the envelopes of Tzach, they, um, they ha- they printed Siman in every one of them. For first there were five, and then there were ten.

45:16 Speaker 3 So the rabbi's writing here is all English hagos.

45:19 Speaker 1 Yeah.

45:19 Speaker 3 'Cause those on every right, the rabbi writes un- under every right door post. Um, every bo- home should have a basic Torah books. Home should sit until the rabbi added in et cetera.

45:33 Speaker 1 And added the Yosel-

45:34 Speaker 3 A siddur

45:35 Speaker 1 ... yeah. Extra day siddur.

45:36 Speaker 3 With three Ds.

45:37 Speaker 1 Yeah.

45:38 Speaker 3 Candlelighting for Shabbos, and the rabbi changed it, crossed out four, X out four, and the rabbi wrote, "Erev Shabbos-"

45:46 Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

45:46 Speaker 3 "-in Yom Tov." And then approximately. It says, "By women and girls from three years of age," the rabbi wrote, "Approximately."

45:56 Speaker 1 They should light Shabbos candles.

45:57 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

45:58 Speaker 1 The rabbi wrote that, yeah.

46:00 Speaker 3 But, um-

46:01 Speaker 1 But, uh, I think the, the editor was also very... It's very interesting. Like most people, they write a, a, um, you know, they put together a campaign to light, uh, Shabbos candles. They write, "Light for Shabbos." For Shabbos can mean on Shabbos itself, chas v'shalom.

46:16 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm.

46:17 Speaker 1 So the rabbi made sure to, uh, add the word Erev. Um-

46:20 Speaker 3 This is like on an envelope.

46:22 Speaker 1 Yeah, that was a-

46:22 Speaker 3 Yeah.

46:23 Speaker 1 Every envelope, Tzach, uh, and every s- really older stationery, even on the back of this.

46:28 Speaker 3 Right.

46:28 Speaker 1 You notice.

46:30 Speaker 3 Everything has campaigns.

46:30 Speaker 1 You have all the, all the campaigns. That was Tzach's main thing, the ten-

46:33 Speaker 3 This here?

46:34 Speaker 1 This is after the, uh, the hagos.

46:36 Speaker 3 Right. I'm looking if they have it. Yeah, on the right door post, approximately. They wrote, "Erev Shabbos in Yom-- Every Shabbos in Yom Tov eve at the proper time."

46:50 Speaker 1 Yeah. Unfortunately, the-

46:53 Speaker 3 This doesn't say approximately here now. So I don't know if it was-

46:54 Speaker 1 Doesn't say approximately?

46:55 Speaker 3 No.

46:57 Speaker 1 Unfortunately, the- there were times where the rabbi's edits weren't, um, incorporated in, uh, for whatever reasons. Either there was, it was a copywriter or whoever it was, um, that didn't, um, incorporate the rabbi's hagos on previous, um, brochures. So the s- um, mistakes were repeated again and again, and that, uh, got the rabbi very upset, um, that how many times, um, will the mistake will be repeated. And there was one sharp, uh, answer that Tzach got. Um, again, this is, this was... A lot of this was very new. So, you know, we would all probably do make similar errors. Um, at a certain point, the rabbi wanted very much for, uh, Tzach on their own initiative, being Lubavitch. Tzach, again, was just serving at the, uh, forefront of all pools. Um, that on their own, that they shouldn't have to send in every single last thing, uh, to the rabbi, and that the rabbi should have to fix everything. The rabbi wanted, um, to train us that we should have tachila publish things, uh, be'efen mesukan. Um, this is here a letter from Beis Kis Lev Tach Shana Medein. The rabbi wrote, um, "L'chaira," in quotation marks. Um, "Kvar bo hazman," the time has arrived, "Shebékheich atsmem," on your own initiative. "Yoitzim le'er hanal ve'keitza ze be'efen mesukan." You should, uh, we should be publish... You should be publishing these, um, publications, um, in the correct manner. I shouldn't have to go through it every single time. Um, the rabbi writes, for example, they wrote

48:42 Speaker 1 that, um, "Tarah mishpacha, please keep this important tradition of family, um, purity." They wrote tradition. This is a mitzvah chashuva be'eser, um, and to be delivered.

48:55 Speaker 3 The rab- the rabbi wrote the English word?

48:56 Speaker 1 Yeah, tradition. And he writes it in Hebrew, but, uh, it's not a tradition. Um, "Be'alma ki im mitzvah chashuva, um, behulum," underlined. "Li'zar belashon shelo yuvan sheshar ha-sefseiim ein chashuvim chas v'shalom." Not to exclude that others are, aren't chashuva, rather. But you see how on top, uh, of these things the rabbi was. Um, then he writes at the... The rabbi writes at the end, "Betach yesh eid behulum," meaning definitely there are more, uh, edits-

49:26 Speaker 3 Mm-hmm

49:26 Speaker 1 ... um, to be made. But, uh, it's, it's very interesting to see how the rabbi trained us how to, how to think like him.

49:36 Speaker 3 Yeah.

49:36 Speaker 1 He, he was doing this, uh, over the years, and it's not even, like, an unknown. This is Lamed Zion. The rabbi's like, "I already gave you all these instructions. Why are these, uh, mistakes being repeated again?" Um, and again, it was, it was edited by a team of experts, and they were trying their best. But, um, either they didn't know previous hagos, either, you know, or they didn't know what to... What was incorporated, what was from the rabbi, what wasn't. But whatever it was, there wasn't, like, Google Docs back in the day where you could see, uh, you know, everyone was able... Was on the same doc. Everything was being done in a very, um, you know, just on paper. Um, so that was, uh, that was that. Um, this is-- there's a lot to discuss on the Mevshalim. Um, yeah, but mom's saying whatever said how many things could be said, and I wanna move over a little bit to, um, Yishuvim.

50:32 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

50:33 Speaker 1 Um, so actually that was his first, that was his first, uh, job, um, in Hasakanes HaTorahs as already a bachur in lamed-- in Gid Gimel or so. He married a Dalet, so he already started a year or so before his marriage to get involved with, um, Yeshivah. He was mashgiach, and then he w- he taught chasidus for the younger bachurim. Um, and then he took a more of an official capacity, um, in Dan Hollow, um, after, um, the kuf-- the tekufah of Teves Taf Shin Gid Zayin together with Reb Yael and, uh, Reb Shalom Arzov. So the three of them, as you see over here, they would, uh, from that tekufah on, they would constantly update the Rebbe on all matters of Yeshivah. They, they would write to the Rebbe on, uh, the matters of the bachurim.

51:20 Speaker 4 They were the young Hanahala.

51:21 Speaker 1 Yeah. The Rebbe said then, "Shkula v'em, uh, yunge Hanahala. My Nan Hollow." In the, uh, in the Hanahala then, and he appointed the three. Um, but yeah, the, the three of them were, uh, were, you know, were the Rebbe's boys, and they-- every, every single, every single thing in Hanahala, um, they would update in Yeshivah, I mean, they would update the Rebbe with-

51:46 Speaker 4 And the mom's asking the Rebbe what to do with this bachur and that bachur.

51:48 Speaker 1 Yeah, and they got herot proteas for various bachurim things where some things were very sensitive matters, certain things, uh, you know, things that a bachurim have to-- that Hanahala has to deal with, with, uh, bachurim. Yanem ivgezunt, yanem of somira and asitev, bechulum. The three of them also were in charge of the, uh, kanim, which came out in which the Rebbe, um, instituted in that tekufah of, uh, Taf Shin Yod Tes. Um, the Rebbe want-- he was koching very much in the Faradsta, and the Rebbe said there should be also a Faradsta in the M'nateiro. And he, Rebbe wanted s- uh, seven bachurim to save Pupulim in Chasidus. I think with say Shabbos was a time that it would happen. And seven bachurim to take a cha'erice Pupulim in, uh, Nigla. So, uh, I think Reb Mentlek and perhaps Shalom Arzov as well were in charge of Nigla, and, uh, Mezaken Reb Yael were in charge of, um, the ch- the parliament of Chasidus. Um, the three of them got a lot of he'erice over here. So if you see at the bottom over there, Mezaken asked the Rebbe, um, if the Rebbe can give him the-- instruct him what is it that-- what is the hismanus, what is the-

53:05 Speaker 4 What's the job of the, of the Hanahala?

53:06 Speaker 1 Yeah. What is the appointment of the Hanahala?

53:09 Speaker 4 The Rebbe says, "Ini kevel mi befrat." Sha'yach, the Rebbe's not saying who should do what.

53:16 Speaker 1 Avam yekarim.

53:17 Speaker 4 Avam yek-yekarim. V'likulum shachazah, what is lacking by the bachurim? Nitar de koch. There's no koch. V'ulagam pach is even less than a koch. Not, not, not only there's not a koch, but there isn't even less of that. V'beldim udnan learning Nigleh or Chasidus. V'eybin natsfiel nan davening. Kein in regesh tsug ebundenkait. This is, uh, this is printed. There's no feeling of connection to the Yeshivah. V'chaviva sei leha.

53:48 Speaker 1 Misada Hanahala.

53:51 Speaker 4 Misada bachurim. She'dem ashpia al Hanah. That effect-

53:55 Speaker 1 Right. Misada-

53:56 Speaker 4 ... the koch nimda nigleh chasidus.

53:58 Speaker 1 Yeah.

53:58 Speaker 4 Avat tamidim hanacha kenirim yisades al-

54:07 Speaker 1 It's a little hard to read because it's mamash on the bottom.

54:09 Speaker 4 Yeah, it's, it's a copy also.

54:10 Speaker 1 Yeah, and it goes around.

54:11 Speaker 4 Ashai Yeshivah leitis andim inigail eis tadrusam. The bachurim don't have this connection to the Yeshivah because they feel that Hanahala, and this is... That they don't have any-- that Hanahala is not interested in their well-being.

54:24 Speaker 1 Their status.

54:25 Speaker 4 Their status. I feel libisi yu eizer shi-shitia even to help them in any which way. Well, um, so as understood, the Rebbe says how this affects-

54:36 Speaker 1 The whole time

54:36 Speaker 4 ... the time of the Yeshivah.

54:38 Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

54:39 Speaker 4 And the main thing, v'eid iker v'gadol eich zer v'meshech. Hamav kamashan, how is this happening for already a few years?

54:49 Speaker 1 Doesn't concern anyone.

54:50 Speaker 4 Yeah.

54:51 Speaker 1 Is this Hanahala? You mean, uh, is this, uh... What's the lashon?

54:56 Speaker 4 Halaze manahala hanahala.

54:58 Speaker 1 Yekare.

55:00 Speaker 4 Avad ruchni v'ketev ze yekare. Can this be called a Hanahala or a manah ruchni?

55:06 Speaker 1 But the interesting thing is-

55:08 Speaker 4 Or-

55:08 Speaker 1 ... even after these answers, and my zayde did get halakh my fabricants.

55:12 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

55:12 Speaker 1 There was one fabricant in Kidua, and I think it was Vayeshem HaMalef about Yippe's Psukim booklets, and the Rebbe wanted it to be printed, and there was some disagreement how it should be done, whatever it was. Everything the Rebbe then said, um, y- a person could be a melech, but you don't have to be melech malchi hamlachim. There was... And the people wrote in, and the Rebbe still said it should be sha'yach to him. That he's still the person in charge. It's very interesting how the Rebbe operated that, you know-

55:37 Speaker 4 Well, someone that was working on the Hanachas was telling me that off air, he was saying that when they got these sharp answers from the Rebbe, it wasn't like, uh, you know, the way they took it w- it was, it was-

55:50 Speaker 1 It was kiruv.

55:51 Speaker 4 Yeah, like the Rebbe's telling them what to do. Like even, even if-

55:53 Speaker 1 You also, you're worth the Rebbe's, like, energy-

55:55 Speaker 4 Yeah. E-e-even if-

55:56 Speaker 1 ... to, to invest in you.

55:57 Speaker 4 Yeah, even if it's sharp, but like, yeah. Like it wasn't like... It w- it was-

56:01 Speaker 1 Yeah

56:01 Speaker 4 ... it was, uh, a positive.

56:02 Speaker 1 Sure.

56:02 Speaker 4 Yeah.

56:04 Speaker 1 Over here they write about the different of the Shiva there writes, uh, . The Rebbe was very careful that, uh, not to step into the Rashag's territory also. It's interesting.

56:16 Speaker 4 You should bring it to my Shager.

56:17 Speaker 1 Yeah, make su-- 'cause he's in charge of America's Yeshivas Neveh Zim, so this is .

56:21 Speaker 4 Right.

56:21 Speaker 1 You know, it was, uh, interesting to see the two, the departments of Lubavitch. Um, and then, um, yeah, there was, there, there was constantly, um, updates of meetings on Hanukkah. Um, meetings in Hanukkah that Rashag always wanted to hear. was the famous, uh, thing we spoke about in part one.

56:46 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

56:46 Speaker 1 Because after he was going to like that was, uh, he knew that he was like the Rebbe's in the, the Hanukkah. Anyways, um, this is a very, um... I don't know if I-- I think Lahak actually p-printed this in the, the back of the one, one week in the... And he saw this. This is an answer two weeks before . From Yud Adar Aleph . Um, they wrote to the Rebbe here. They said that actually, . So just a little background. After Rashag passed away, um, this is in Mem-Teth. First after Mentk passed away, Mem-Chét, then Rashag passed away a year later, another. So then Hanukkah took on a different, uh, a higher role, and Hanukkah Ruchnis basically took on, like, the entire Yeshivah, everything going on. Like, my Zayde then became, like, Maskir of Hanukkah. Everything's... The position started, uh, you know, shifting up a bit. So, uh, you see in a few of the , um, that he wrote from the of the meetings on Hanukkah, he signs Maskir and, um, and his name. Um, I think later he was also, I think, pr- technically had to be the president just for legal matters. But, uh, over here they write to the Rebbe that, uh, it seems like they're giving six percent of the salaries for the Yeshivah in order, I guess, the was, uh, . It was a little, you know, the financial matters of Yeshivah wasn't too good. So they, they write to the Rebbe how they were going to... I

58:19 Speaker 1 guess, I think, I think the, the pshat is that they're taking less for the salary, um, until the is more stable. The Rebbe writes here, um, and they ask that should be va- , which is a that the should be . So the Rebbe writes, . Again, this is just two weeks before . and tell him it says it should all go bread.

59:00 Speaker 4 It is . Yeah.

59:02 Speaker 1 Yeah. Um-

59:03 Speaker 4 It'll start with .

59:05 Speaker 1 The .

59:07 Speaker 4 Right.

59:07 Speaker 1 It's very, uh, . How many more were added to Yeshivah since the previous meeting?

59:20 Speaker 4 Meeting.

59:21 Speaker 1 Um, and another answer that's just very powerful answer. Another answer he received was , that it's . Um, have it somewhere over here. Um, and then for every, um, and for every milestone of , um, he would get another, uh, answer, um, about that number. Let's say for example, this is . Um, it was ninety-three years of . So the Rebbe compared that to . Like it says in the Mishnah, the . Um, . So I guess it was actually ninety-four years 'cause the previous year was . And, um, and it's just interesting to see how every year the Rebbe connected to that year of . Um, again, this is all from Mem-Teth and on, which it seems like the Rebbe also took on a new, a new in the role of . Um, that same , the Rebbe wrote in his . Um, . This was about the, um, of marking the . So, um, yeah, there was a lot of, um, there was a lot of , um, in those last, uh, four years or so from, uh, from Mem-Teth in an incredible way. But, um, that was... I just wanted to skip from Tzach Yeshivah because this was basically his whole life. You'll see like an envelope from Tzach for , the Matzah contest in Tishrei Mem. I'm not sure where you even got to, but that's, that was a whole . He's like writing the where we're going in . The, the shows for whatever, how many weeks. Everything was one,

1:01:14 Speaker 1 was one . Um-

1:01:15 Speaker 4 In the .

1:01:16 Speaker 1 Yeah. You see that clearly actually by when the Rebbe would give out dollars to that started, uh, I think . So my Zayde's there like, um, you know, helping the go by. We have a on one end, and my Zayde's like in the middle. There were two actually, uh, serving the same position of Adam HaSader. But in that moment, like in that time, he was serving like th-- uh, like three positions.

1:01:41 Speaker 4 Adam HaSader, Hanukkah-

1:01:43 Speaker 1 And Tzach.

1:01:44 Speaker 4 And Tzach. Yeah.

1:01:45 Speaker 1 But Tzach... Um, yeah. Like Mrs. Sternberg says when she was called in to a Yechidut, um, it was a little , uh, I think it was one of those years. So she walks in , and there were four people there.

1:02:01 Speaker 4 Um, in Seneshok.

1:02:01 Speaker 1 Yeah.

1:02:02 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

1:02:03 Speaker 1 She was called, she was called . The four p- uh, it was JJ Hecht was there, uh, Yosef Weinberg Rabbi Chadakov, my Zayde, they were all were in Gartlach, and she had to, like, figure out why each one was called in. Um, you know, Moshe Hecht was at the radio. Yossel Reinberg, um, I think was at also the radio. Also, he was in Chabad. He was involved with the Rebbe Chabad. Uh, my Zayde was involved with the tanks in Mivtsaim. And of course, she, she was, um, the rhai for, uh, Nashak. So, um, so I'm just-- I thought about that because of the positions. But what-- but during that time of tank, tankist, I mean, Mom saw that, that, uh, all of his various positions that, uh, that he played. Um, yeah. Um, and one of the pullas of, um, of the, the 10 Chutmim, like, Michlal 10 Chutmim was just Bedrach Lal was learning B'shkit V'smada Nigalev Dach. That's, that's what Yishuv is. There's no pullas. One of the rare times that the Rebbe wanted, uh, 10 Chutmim to get involved with the pulla was, was concerning, um, the Sifetei Rachlali, Tashmimbeyis. You familiar with that?

1:03:15 Speaker 4 Yeah, sure.

1:03:17 Speaker 1 So, um, I had the tetl here before. It's a very interesting tetl where he writes that, uh, we are trying to figure out how the, uh, letters should be split up, which sniff should take what. The Rebbe writes a response, "Everything about this doch is not negeh." How many letters were tachlis, were sold, were, were, were already bought?

1:03:43 Speaker 4 Purchased.

1:03:43 Speaker 1 Purchased. Um, in general, that was-- it seems like that was the Rebbe's approach. Of course, things have to be done and say the musoder and figure out. But, like, I think I wrote, "Kol ze v'chol chifz v'zeh in ikra klal," underlined. "Ki im kaman, uh, nishmum, nidrashmum pepel." How many were-

1:04:00 Speaker 4 Signed up.

1:04:00 Speaker 1 -signed up, pepel. But, uh, that was just in regards to, um, pullas of 10 Chutmim. But, um, besides for that, um, yeah, this, this was life. This was his life. My, my aunt, uh, I remember one time saying that on his way, on his way to shul, she used to think, like, the walk took, like, a half hour, 45 minutes from Montgomery. He lived in Montgomery between Kingston and Brooklyn to 770. But obviously, it's a, it's a seven-minute walk maybe. But the varti is every, every other person was blocking up davens. "I'm gonna ge this, I'm gonna ge this, I'm gonna ge the ashidach, I'm gonna ge, uh, the 10 Chutmim, I'm gonna ge yatzach, I'm gonna ge this pulla, I'm gonna ge this halva, I'm gonna ge..." There, there was-- he was, he was, uh, ish klalis. Everything was, you know, he had so much on his plate on a, on a regular basis. And, uh, yeah, this was his life. Kenain Hara. He was zecher to, to much herois. As we see, uh, the answer to the Rebbe that he was al-always a keili to be mechayim the, the herois. And I think, uh, that, um, hero really applies to every, every Chassid. Sometimes we doubt ourselves. If we are a keili, uh, if we have the, we have the keichas, we don't have the keichas, I don't have the merits, I don't have-- I'm not in the mood. The Rebbe's saying every single Chassid has the capacity for all the k- all

1:05:18 Speaker 1 of his keichas. We have to nerve them, you know?

1:05:22 Speaker 4 Yeah. And the Rebbe-

1:05:23 Speaker 1 We just need a want sometimes, and, uh, and, you know, things take effect when, when things start rolling, you know? Bedrach lal, uh, energy, uh, has its, uh, impact.

1:05:34 Speaker 4 Right. And it's also that the Rebbe's working with the people that make themselves available.

1:05:39 Speaker 1 That's true.

1:05:39 Speaker 4 So every one of us should be able to make ourselves available to the Rebbe's causes. And then, uh-

1:05:48 Speaker 1 Right. Uh, I'm just thinking as you're saying that to make yourself available, that means you have to be plugged in. I don't th-- besides for one or two times, my Zayde had to be in Eretz Yisrael for a family matzav. Yeah, I think when his mother-- his first yarzeit for his mother and some other times, which even then he wrote into the Rebbe for, uh, ashlichas. Um, yeah, I don't think he ever missed a fabringen of the Rebbe. From the first fabringen of Yumei Cheil that we spoke, uh, part one, of Beis Iyar 57 Yod until Vayakal in Beis, for one or two times, I don't think my Zayde ever missed a fabringen of the Rebbe, period.

1:06:24 Speaker 4 Really?

1:06:26 Speaker 1 Um, Rabbi Goldberg, alav ha-shalom, um, I think his name's Yaakov, Yaakov Shneor Goldberg.

1:06:35 Speaker 4 Who?

1:06:35 Speaker 1 He's a son in Morristown. He has a son, uh-

1:06:37 Speaker 4 Okay

1:06:37 Speaker 1 ...shlicha in Mezel. So he would say that, uh-

1:06:40 Speaker 4 He was mentioned by, uh, Pirshal Notik in the podcast.

1:06:43 Speaker 1 Oh, yeah?

1:06:44 Speaker 4 With the sichas, yeah.

1:06:45 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. He, he was a typer. So we'll get to that in a second. So he would s- he would tell his kid, I heard this from his kids just recently. Um, he told this to me, but his kid told me this, that my safa would always say in David Raskin that he has a ruach haKodesh. What's pshat? This was Mitzayim, Yom Kippur, 57 Yod Tes. I'm sorry, this was Mitzayim, Yom Kippur, 57 Chav Dalet. Um, it was after the, um, you know, every-- all davening v'cholum. Everyone home to break their fast.

1:07:15 Speaker 4 In Pshsei Mizrach, he spoke about it in the-

1:07:17 Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, he spoke about this? Yeah, it's, uh, it's a mitamul. Um, so Rabbi Goldberg is in my Zayde's room in 770, uh, typing, I think, the anach of, from the Rosh Hashanah fabringen. And he hears the phone ringing and ringing and ringing. There used to be a phone where the sink is today upstairs in 770 down the hallway where the sink is-

1:07:35 Speaker 4 Payphone

1:07:35 Speaker 1 ...there used to be a payphone there. I heard they took it down after the Rebbe spoke a sicha. Lag BaOmer Lamed Ches, that b'shas m'neren teira, it has to be like Shabbos.

1:07:44 Speaker 4 Imagine no phones ringing, yeah.

1:07:45 Speaker 1 No phone, no phones. Just imagine today, what if they-- It hits a little harder today with the-

1:07:50 Speaker 4 So they took out the payphone then? Okay

1:07:51 Speaker 1 ...the phone. So they took it, yeah. So they took out the ph-payphone. Anyways, the phone was ringing and ringing, and he was ignoring it, you know? Whoever it was, and it didn't stop. So he finally got up, and he went out of the room, and he went down the hall to see, uh, who was calling. It was my Zayde on the line. He goes, "Ve'tzer tich, 770?" So he says, "Tam, it's, it's empty. V'feen bachur im zal. They came back from the, the meal. But, uh, shach shtil." He said, "I'm, I'm in the middle of printing the Tanakh, but, uh, I'm in the middle of typing the Tanakh, but not much is happening." He said, "He goes, ." He goes, "What should be happening now?" he tells me. As he's on the phone, he's like looking down the hall, he sees the Rebbe leaving his room into the zal.

1:08:29 Speaker 4 The Rebbe went and said a ma'amar.

1:08:31 Speaker 1 Yeah, the Rebbe went all the way to the, I forgot the thing, the table, like where the window is, whatever it is, between the two, uh, rooms. And the, um, the Rebbe, , put on a , and he started saying a ma'amar. I think a ma'amar from the Alter Rebbe. There was a few , and a few other. And, um, so he tells, he tells the Rebbe, uh, he tells, uh, my zayde that, uh, the Rebbe just left his room. He's in, and he, and he hung up the phone and ran. He took-- he went to get his hat and jacket and ran into the zal. So my zayde did the same on his end. He went running from his house, and he came in the middle of the ma'amar. But, um, he said after that my for him was his next league.

1:09:13 Speaker 4 It was like he was-

1:09:14 Speaker 1 The fact that he felt that he, he was so in sync, um-

1:09:18 Speaker 4 The Rebbe.

1:09:19 Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm trying to shine, I'm s- I'm saying on that note that he, I don't know if he ever missed, like, I don't think he ever missed anything the Rebbe was involved with, um, farbrengen-wise. Um, when they w- then there was the ma'ase with Zusha Postelnik. When he went on shlichus, my zayde called, um, Zusha's sister's house where he was staying and said, "Besheim Tzach, we wanna make a tzizk in the Shalom for you." This was, I think, Elul, Taf Shin Chai. And, uh, in the middle of the farbrengen, Rabbi Chodikov, uh, went into the room, went into the zal where the were farbrengen. The zal where, where Tzach was, uh, hosting a farbrengen. And, um, he said, "For the that the Rebbe will come in and, uh, continue the farbrengen." So just again, how you see how Tzach was, uh, behind that, that Rebbe farbrengen because Tzach initiated it. In general, Tzach initiated many farbrengens of tzizkum the Shaloms of, uh, shluchim who were going out. I saw a few tzetlach. I know Rabbi Altin in Winnipeg went out. I think he went out Lamed Beis. There was a tzetl, uh, Rabbi Shalom . He went out also, I think Lamed He or so. Thought it may be earlier. Uh, to Seattle, so Tzach, um, put out a that Tzach, that they would be hosting a, a tzizkum Shalom for him. But, uh, yeah, I mean, then the charter planes from England when they came in in, uh, I think it was Chaf Alef.

1:10:39 Speaker 1 I saw the, uh, the signs in the z- in zal. It said, uh, "Besheim Tzach, ." They were, uh, taking a flight for all the , obviously of the Rebbe. But, uh, yeah, their grace is chosam. And, uh, .

1:10:59 Speaker 4 Okay.

1:10:59 Speaker 1 As much as we can.

1:11:01 Speaker 4 Yes, okay. and thank you so much.

1:11:03 Speaker 1 Yeah. Till next time.