#2 Misnagdim burned Chasidic Texts - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

you guys make my day I feel lousy I have a cold I've gone through half a box of tissues I'm gonna come to teach you guys I'm animated so yeah so a little more history before we go to the afro patients today we're going to read learn the approbations on page four in the Tanya the approbations that the alternative received from two of his colleagues students of the market and reposition of alipoli probably the name of zushiovanni Paul is more familiar to you than the beautiful coin in the general Jewish Hasidic world the Jewish world for that matter he's known as Republic uh in Chabad they call him that's the Russian dialect of saying okay and what happened is that I'm going to make this brief because it's really a past but it's important historically to understand know this you know that there was great opposition to the belsheptov he woke at the time what was called the Miss not them the opponents felt that this is something Innovative and as we spoke about at Great length in our previous 35 theorem about the the satmer and the turkata attacks um feeling that its Innovation their Outreach approach so anytime you have something that's new or looks new or smells new or Sounds new an alarm goes off well the same thing was 200 plus years ago the exact same thing so the balcantov came along and he said what's primary is the soul of a Jew not their mind that was a revolution because until then if you knew how to learn Gamora if you will learn it you were something if you weren't learned you were second class literally not not figurative literally the belchem to go comes along and he says no you have it all wrong now you could you imagine you could imagine that that would cause an alarm and people would say you're a heretic you're not because and that's exactly what happened so they started to issue Bans right on on Hasidic writing 80 81 82 one of those years the reason I'm saying one of those years because I heard too conflicting I read two conflicting dates so I'm not sure which one it is the first Hasidic Cipher was printed it was called this Yakov Yosef in the Hasidic world and it's it's known as the told us if you hear the word that told us it's referring to this book called teldos Yak of Yosef who is Jacob Joseph he was the the primary student PR of the belshantev rabbiakov Yosef of ponoi it was a city and the Ukraine maybe sometimes Poland depending on what what period and he was a rough there for many years he was arrive in other places in fact he was a REV in was near where my not far from my father was born in Romania what's called bucavina and my brother my grandmother allowed Sheldon told my father that she at some point went to the the show there's a shoe I think of Still Standing today I don't know if it's open but it wasn't bombed and destroyed by the Nazis in maximum and that was the shoot in which of Yosef was out of and she told my father that that that the tradition was that when you go into the shoe you smell the rayach of Dunedin the scent of paradise and she said she wasn't that sure with God's help one day I would like to go see the shoe so it's because it's in the general area when my father was born and called bucavina Romania anyway sort of yaakov Yosef was a rough in various places but primarily it's known as jakov of his safer which were teachings of the of of the Magid and the monsantov was the first printed Hasidic safer came out 18 1880 to 1882. when that happened it caused hysteria the um came out with more bands and it was livid and guess what they did they burned to safer don't think it just started today they burnt the safer you know in the time of the rambam uh had the rambas made on the volkenberg in the time of the hasidim and the lit Fox it was not them they burnt it I'm Jacob Joyce is safer the outerep at that time already formulated his his philosophy of Chabad so he started to write for himself a a a a position paper you could call it AI which later became the Tanya explaining and justifying the balcanto and shita that a Jew is is special because of danishama you know you could say if if you had to express it kind of in one word what is the Tanya it's it's to show what a Jew is the true meaning of a yeet which is the dashama and this is highlighted in motion chapter 32 and Tanya which talks about Elvis Israel and the altariba says you think how can you have obviously thrilled to listen to this fellow you're so much smarter you came from this family he comes from nowhere on and on and on says the ultimate but guess what maybe he has a higher the shama than you do so why you a big shot who are you after all formulates that in chapter 32 but in a nutshell that's the overall message of the safe ratania which came one one of the reasons was to defend the balcantov after the bassento's talmuds pupils book uh safer told us Yakov Yosef was burnt okay how did had Dr Reba had studied and written for himself this book in front of us the Tanya 20 years 20 years and the story is that his brother came in once and the altareba was was had a pen in his right hand and he was sitting with his left hand like this lost in thought and the brother the Maria who delayed was his name he asked him brother what are you thinking about so he said I'm thinking about whether there should be above in front of a word in chapter 41. so he says okay and how long have you been thinking about is this three weeks three weeks for One Love okay so the meticulousness of every not word letter in Tanya the author spent weeks and months and years on hence it took him 20 years then in 18 in 1892 of approximately oh in 17 sorry in 17 in 17 before I said 18 it should be 17. I missed 100 years before okay please make that correction I meant 1700. 17 1989 I mentioned this yesterday but I have more of the facts today in 1789 that some acidic was born an out of Rosh Hashanah first time that the altered spoke 1789. and he begins with the gamara neither the gemara says an oath is administered to the soul to the baby this fetus before it comes into the world that's because why did he start with that one of the reasons is because his grandson was born the day before explain some of 1789. so Anonymous grandson's birth the grandson of a knockumental of the Bible it's the first one that samach was born out of relationship of 1789 the next day or the two days whenever he said the mimer he said he began he said the first three chapters of Tanya he taught it publicly that was the first time but it was all oral then it said in 1792 what happened was people got wind of this this teachings and they said this is this is amazing and we want to learn so the altareba allowed it to be copied now when I say aloud it you have to know this in general the the attitude of both you know an alcoholism was one second my ship was we don't we don't print our own swarm you know we don't allow ours for him to be printed that's conceit it's ego that was the attitude I'm not talking about being taped to video like this they're just talking about you wrote something or you said something you were dead set against anyone recording it and writing and Publishing in any form what happened was the altogether got requests from people primarily who heard these discourses over the from 1789 to 8 1792 for years of hearing discourses that had Association to Tanya they said we want it in writing we we we wanted we want to write it down finally finally he agreed but what happened was once people wrote it down and it was copied there was no copy machine so it'll copy us who copy it some of them wanted to make trouble for The Elder Rebels they got a hold of it and they forged what he wrote and they were a group of masnada and the story is that they printed a hundred a thousand of these they had sold 150 and they they and they met they met the two two people they didn't know they were hasidim and the people said to them you know this is great stuff we'd like to buy their 850 rest and they had their wealthy and they bought all the leftover copies of this contraceome of these pamphlets which were the pamphlets of Tanya part of the pamphlets of Tanya and this way they they stopped the the fallacy and forgery to continue but this prompted the altered in 1796 to then say okay having like you know uh journals and messages and papers it leads to forgery I'll give you an example you know you got in our shoes every Shabbos we have a plethora of handouts English Hebrew Yiddish French Spanish you name it right in any school anywhere almost in the world this the Precision is not there I mean it's good stuff but when what you know mistakes can happen because it's really just a handout and It ultimately ends up in the garbage or if you're very from and Sheamus okay but but by and large it's not a safer and you know being in the in the same in the book writing business and what I do I I know this firsthand a safe or a book and that's why I encourage you always to have your own swarm is eternal and permanent it's not just for the bookshelf right the rabbit gave me this Tanya in 1982. I'm learning from itanya the laboratory rabbit handed to me and many others at the fibranium for his birthday for your truck right it's on my shelf most of the year now that I'm teaching Tanya I said to my wife I'd like to have one of the tanyas that I have from the red but I teach the class so she handed me this this this the cover is already torn as you can see but I have it right it it feels good it it feels valuable it's a safer the Precision of punctuality and exactness in a safer is completely different than a handout so doubt that ever realized in the 18th in 1796 if I continue giving out these pamphlets to satisfy the hasidim and others who want to learn the Tanya that will be more and more forgery unfortunately will lead to issues because they forged things and they blend you out the red book kind of saying things that were against the Gomorrah against the Torah on and on so the alphabet said okay but I need permission I need an approbation and I need to ask friends who are older students of the magic and who I feel are trustworthy knowledgeable and if they give the the stamp of approval it's great and that's we're gonna start learning soon he went to two of his friends who wrote him this these two approbations and that's what and that's how the Tanya came out after they approved it and they said it's very worthy to be published and and even so even with that you'll see later when we get to the introduction Dr Emma warns anyone to not make any forgery in the soaring Maisha you had some question or comment said it was born you said it would you say every person shut up 1789 yes yes but he said so what so at the day you said the day after the day or two after on rosh hashan of 1789 again whether it was the first day the second day Dr redback said a mimer and the Mima was the first three chapters of Tanya that's okay correct okay that was my question okay so now let's turn to the hospitals page four and we're going to read it rather on the quicker side uh because you know it's pretty much straightforward the first one the the pop the one that's not public and known godly man kadish holy he said to be Moreno arrived here you see his real name yes motion was everything that you said before was that contained in the the the model rubber no there was a was it no no no no no no no the the motor Rabbi didn't learn because it's not part of the gitas that was added later the huskamas are part of the gitas and and and were printed initially when the Tanya was printed therefore we're learning it and that's why so hit us also you you'll see that the Alta remember his name not only is not mentioned in the title page and these has commas can you imagine David you asked me for an approbation to approve your book so I write Dear doesn't Dr margulis whatever your your one world your work is wonderful you'll see in a moment there's no mention of the out the rabbit's name in the approbations that his friends are giving him you know why he didn't want his name mentioned that's how modest he was let's learn inside let's learn inside so this is our scama from Zeus the student of the Muppet going behold seeing the writings of this God who was illuminated with the illumination of God the the time I said also it is good what he did for Hashem and that God made it wondrous God's kindness is wondrous through this work but nothing believable and God placed within the heart of of this person says call Ayla to do all this in other words to print the Tanya laharis amashem to give direction to the nation of God his holy path I mean that's a beautiful beautiful endorsement calling down today but according condition tired I mean you can't get any better okay let's continue but no name doesn't say his name who is he writing to doesn't say if it is I know he doesn't I'm paraphrasing his will was not to print to bring these writings to The Print House in other words I know this this man and his style is not to go and publish his own writings so he didn't want to do this Rock however but because the journals and and handouts were publicized by Kenneth call yourself amongst all Jewish communities in many copies done by the hands of strange scribes you understand what that alludes to they must knock them they didn't want to write an openly but safe for the machine him is a derogatory term right there's a sofa when you say you're any safer machine like you say a weird Cipher a strange Cipher that's a nice way of saying a cipher that opposes opposes what you want that what what you're writing so since many copies of the top of the of these quick of the Tanya as it was in contrast form in essay and pamphlet form pre-publication of the safer um saying this and because there were so many copies do a lot of mistakes a lot of mistakes so therefore he was forced he forced himself the word hookraf to the printing house is and Hashem illuminated the spirit of the partners the the the prestigious rabbis remember the pious ones Moreno Arafat that's who he was he later became the father-in-law of the samach said I'm sorry yeah father said it was right that's one person the same title but I don't have much I don't know who that is some other person they were involved in printing La Jovi I could trace them and now and they took these essays and and the pamphlets were based at first important to the to the printing house bislavita of course the sloviting I think Ukraine slaves Lavita or the stop or the Fallout cover this is absolutely writing and for their Good Deed or Martin I say thank you for doing this foreign who seemed to want to make problems and reprint without permission my friends I could tell you this is real because it happened to me about 15 10 to 10 years ago I to say for that we learned right we just finished 35 shioram I was asked to print that that's not my safer it's not my book someone came to me here in the Bible makes Madras who I know he says I can't release it under my name because he's another cusset and he was his family will give him a hard time so he said can you do it for me and I agreed and lo and behold I printed a thousand copies put it in the stores and all of a sudden in a few months after that there was a reprint of it okay that happened you know 10 15 years ago here in America or near to stroll same thing happened there so the absusa is warning them don't you dare reprint this because this belongs to the balatonya and the people that he gave permission to print the Tanya that's what we're learning at this moment even though he's commanderly beta League therefore although we know there will be people that will will want to reprint it we give we give our agreement no one should lift his hand nor their foot to cause damage to the printers they have the exclusive rights of printing it for us are safe for the now known as permission no person you see here here Maisha he's talking about an individual no individual has a right to print vatanya the the copyright on Tanya was given to these two printers by the altered and that's it building ideas unless you get permission from those printers if they give you permission to reprint the Tanya individually no problem you need their permission this became very controversial five years you know it's a it's a hundred year lease it was a five years no what happens after five years so naturally Chabad renewed it in every generation but that's why even today there's a Tanya printed by others not with the permission of Chabad and it's very and it's it's wrong or I'm sure one shade of Michelle I just was reading the Shabbos he mamished he showed how it was outrageous and there's no permission but like everything else people do what they want but anyway here it says in in 1796 when they wrote this five years we give no one permission and this is what we're writing is effective for five years foreign the year of our Redemption what year is that it's a dematria tough kufnun verb 1796. if you count up paid thou Advil you get 1700. and you get a nun valve is the equivalent of 96 in English that's also a tradition in Jewish writing that you many times don't write the actual year you use a Hebrew word as a remnants as hinting to the year the tradition is why did the absolutions to say noon because he he he he he he alluded to the fact that it will be through the Tanya that is the is an extension of the balcantov that we will have Redemption mashiach will come and teach Taylor not the you know the secrets of theta which is an extension uh through khasidis they pay the cotton that he says the the you know he humbles himself and I'm small Michelle let's just read now the left one a few more minutes the second one his name is the wisdom of man illuminates the face of Earth when I saw this Victoria the Holy Holy pure person clustered by Honor the khasid and the modest one it's been already revealed his secretness and oh it's his greatness yashif the Shabbos sitting in the company of of of smartness referring to the market in other words we sat together and learned Torah by the market so I know that is that's reference to the market the dollar any and we sharped we we fetched sorry Mayan water me bear my Ohio now look how the words bear my are embold in a large capitalized why the word bear my uncle and the word is also spells out avra now problem is online with us aleph vase race men if you take the lettuce me get Abram who are we talking about foreign and the story is that the market wanted the Alta River who was going to negle and he wrote the not of to teach his son ever said a fine I'll do that love it but on a condition I don't understand a condition I want your son your son who's a going and Kabbalah teach me Kabbalah and they had a they became partners cavruses so he's so he says here but don't let Miami bear my height that these writings of Tanya are also based on teachings of the outdated heard in Kabbalah from rabba from the malach so for those that say Tanya doesn't have Kabbalah in it it does and it's alluded to here okay it's not Kabbalah as we learned in quintessions but it has words and ideas of Kabbalah let's continue okay and now Israel will be happy again the word Israel is large why because it refers it refers two reviews through the teachings of Tanya of Chabad khasidis the balcanto's Torah will become revealed to the world so literally means the Jewish people might shall be happy through the teachings of Tanya and the printing of the safer Tanya but the reason it was it alludes to your the name Israel already they put it in bold in a large words let's continue may God is different country the the words of of Israel are being revealed to the Target yet and now they're being brought to the printing house everyone will see it when studying the inner the the words of Tanya things that are public and obvious don't need support he says just open the book and start learning and you will see very well that we're talking about Godly information that helps a person in the path to God Rock because there's a possibility no sorry because we're concerned of these um forged mistakes but because we have a situation where some people you know do things that are inappropriate in the sense of reprinting and it causes damage to the printers busy so again he comes along you who delay back to warn people about they don't lift your hands they're ugly retrace admission he also says for five days he does write tough 1796. in the positions at probation he writes which is 1796 but using a word our Redemption Wireless 1796 because the word verb is an acronym right this damnation tough is Tanya tough stands for Tanya kuf stands for kitaurus incense noon stands for the shama soul and love stands for ruach and spirit Tanya's incense for the soul and the spirit of a Jew that's what the layback in the tradition is that's why he wrote I failed to say the English doesn't make sense the Hebrew phrase doesn't make sense if you say and simple yeah what do you want to say that that was my question okay yeah take off the phone whoever's phone is ringing please put it on vibrate one more Point important the outer ever sent three people I forget now three of his cups of the market I believe to present the question whether it's worth printing the Tanya to an absolutions who the tradition is they both lived in alipoli it's very interesting right they're both they're both giving that scum on the same day that you imagine 200 plus years ago to travel from one place to the other would take time and here they both are riding and on the same day that means that somehow the three Messengers got to both of them so the tradition is that one second that they both lived in aleppoley in close proximity so the messages were able to get to both of them and and they both wrote the letter on it and it gave back to the messengers to bring back to the alternative yes Maisha so Mama should come out right next to each other and foreign beautiful beautiful any questions uh David happy anyone I've run many anything uh Hillel anything you you want to ask me before we sign off on this no but thank you thank you okay I hope it was I hope it was clear what else wasn't he the father right right right I I when I said it he was the father not the father-in-law thank you thank you this is why I need good students like moisha like all of you to stop me that's exactly what I want catch me on my mistakes have a great day everyone see you tomorrow Mr Shem Shalom bye bye have an easy fast easy fast mashiach now