CHAZAQ’s Torah Talks #19: Rabbi Paysach Krohn - Emunah & Bitachon in Turbulent Times

welcome everyone to the kazakh hour we have with us a very very special guest a very dear friend a man that barack hashem thank you hashem has inspired tens of thousands of people all around the world we have with us rabbi pesach crone shlita world renowned lecturer the author of the mogad series by art scroll a fifth generation mohawk and i could go on and on about the great accomplishments rebbe that robbie crone has done but we don't want to embarrass him too much but yeshika thank you very much rabbi for uh having uh agreeing to be on the program and it's such a pleasure to have you well i can just tell you that you and i know that i've been right with hazak almost right from the beginning that's right right and i i feel that you do such tremendous work not only in queens but for all over the world where people hear about hazak and that's why anytime you call i try always to be there no matter where it is always readily available for kazakh and for clawley's draw all these different programs you know i'm just going to give one shout out to our friend dr jonathan donahue oh my goodness one of the newest programs daily giving advisor of the organization he's on the board over there dailygiving.org oh my goodness what a great organization where a person gives a dollar a day and he signs up and they have given out over tens of thousands of dollars since they started in 2019 it's just absolutely incredible sure and and even now they have so much to give out in the next year they'll give out over a million dollars it's just amazing and uh when they asked me about hazak i said listen right it's got to be right up front and center right switch right so we encourage everyone to check that out as well so tonight's topic is trying times and uh as rebbe knows and as everyone knows it's been very very difficult times with a pandemic and they would like to hear some physic from the rebbe well i i think the first thing is aposic and you're shy i'd like to read it it's in your shayman malef possible now even though the technically is not referring to what i'm going to be saying it's referring to but still many many goddalam and the nob minsky rabbi used to quote this passage very often when he would come to ankurish israel conventions and he would talk on a mata shabbos and he would say ich a person has to help his friend and to his friend that's right that's the plastic for kazakh that's exactly why i wanted to start with it because that's what we need more than anything else we need each other we've gone through difficult very difficult times and you know you never must tell you that in many different communities of course i can't mention the names but i have spoken on zoom right here from this table right here and what the rabonim have asked me please talk about unity and because people never you know i told them that we all know that in the word community you have the word unity but you know what i came up with in the word pandemic is the word panic and you know only because i thought that i have to prepare about unity did i realize that in a time of pandemic there is panic there is panic in a person's own family as you say you know people have lost jobs they've lost relatives and they've lost self-confidence because they're just not what they were before so there's a panic and then when you come to a show whether you do wear a mask or don't wear a mask or whether you dab it inside or where you're dabbing outside everybody has different opinions and it sets a panic in a community and we have to know how do we get along and how do we stop this panic and how do we try to give each other and i can just tell you that i remember that many many years ago of course i was i wasn't even born when this happened but it's something that gives me a lot of many times when i take these trips to poland i tell people this pasek that the imrae ms who was the third guerrebee now he was able to get out of poland he was lucky and he was saved but after the war the hasidim the gerhasim came over to him and they said rebbe please write a letter to all the hasidim wherever they may be in the world to give them and this is a letter that he wrote and i i'd like to read part of it and he quotes a passage that we all know erev right so we all know that possible right it's the beginning of the torah it was evening it was daytime it was one day but he darshanned it in a way of drush and he said like this he writes to my brothers to the brothers of clarissa wherever you may be who have you been spared from the sword all those that were saved from the holocaust to whatever country they were or in earth israel and whatever hashem should be with you and then he touches like this by his we know that there's darkness and there are people in the same family go through darkness have the same family there are certain people that have nachas but we have to know yamaha it all comes from that source of light which is hashem and that's the first thing that we have to know so many good islands so many leaders i mean community activists have have left i have you know went through my rebbe yeah of course in the number of musicals you mentioned so many wonderful noah tier who did so much for claude israel it's so difficult you know we've lost so many many many good people and i'll tell you one of the things that i think that we have to hold on to is there are certain great great books now i know that you're going to interview this sonic rub shalom arush you know who wrote the garden of amuno which is out of this world and you know living in muna could you believe how many yeah rabbi yashir it's it's unbelievable it's like i think this is the fifth volume can i know i believe that oscar told me they sold over a hundred thousand of these it's amazing they also have the children's one which i yes really no kidding and i think that that's what we have to begin reading these kind of books and then there's this woman um her name is risa rothman i met her in auntie's trial now i'll tell you who she is and i'll tell you something that she told me that is out of this world now she if you remember that terrible incident that happened in hanov remember right now four people fought sadiq and nebuchad were brutally killed her husband was the fifth one but most people didn't realize that why because he didn't die right away he was in a coma and she asked me to come to her house and i know if i came to her apartment and she was writing this book and she knew that i had written for art school and she wanted to discuss a title for the book and we discussed that and she told me how you know after a few months everybody forgets about tragedies and they go on with life and never every day she would go to the hospital to see if her husband was coming out of the coma and after a year nabakhi passed away and she wrote something in here in this book and eventually i gave her a title but oscar came up with a much better title and that's terror and amuna and hanov and also you talk about emunah you talk about a woman who had who has emunah and i'll tell you something that she wrote and i'd like to quote it because you would think that a roshiva wrote it and i just want to read it and she said to me that there were many many people that would ask her are you in limbo a limbo means like are you hanging in midair you know to wait for something to happen and on page 251 of this book she writes no there is no such thing as limbo jews are never in limbo whether they are waiting for a shidduch a baby or any other salvation of yeshua they are exactly in the place they are meant to be and and then she writes their men their awareness hashem this is the place where i am meant to be at this time to serve hashem and that is for all jews at any time or any place in their journey and what this sadekis is saying is we're on a journey to cry we're on a journey and if hashem gives us a test life is a test and we're not in limbo this is where we're supposed to be right now and and that's our mission to try to remain strong and the question is how do we remain strong and i think what you're doing by making a program of hazak for kizok is is the best thing that we can do we got to hold on now i want to tell you something that i think that it gives me strength and i think would give everybody strength and you know there's a wonderful safer it's a safer kadesh it's written in english it's called rav schwab on prayer i actually have it at home yeah and take a look at what he says about shema israel and i'm going to tell everybody now in the audience how raph schwab understands shema israel and you'll see that it'll give you khizuk i know it gives me and i'll tell you an amazing thing and he writes like this he quotes a zoyar khadash in the rus and he says like this vasa la banash the remedy or the medication for a person baha'i almo in this world is behold the one who reads everyday krishna the way he's supposed to read it and rob schwab says an amazing thing you ever think about this there's six words in chemical israel and there are six words in baroque and there are six or a miglat in eretz israel or rey miklot is a city where a person finds security he's saved miklot he could they can run away and he says that's what my israel is if you say she's myself those six words and borrow shame those six words that's your orabiglot how let me tell you how watch when you say schmeichel on this way you'll see that you're going to get i know i certainly get and this is like this we know that there are different names for hashem there's hashem and there's a liquid volcano there's actually 72 names which is nike machia yanis the wonder he's still holy so now listen to this so he says like this hashem that every single one of us no matter where you are in the world there is good in your life if you have children that's wonderful if you have a spouse that you like that's wonderful if you have a house if you have a job if you have friends you have a rov there there's good in every person's life that's hashem there's a volcano there's judgment many times we go through difficult times a person knows somebody that's closed and that's very sick i know here in key gardens never we have people that maybe a number of people have passed away and one number of people who just went through terrible illnesses so that's a volcano that's judgment that's going on right so there's hashem and there's a volcano right but the gemara sarcoma says just remember hang in there because at the end of time you're going to see why all these things had to happen and that's what raf shaw was saying seisma just know there's good there's difficult there's there's hashem there's a volcano but just remember it's going to come a time when we're all going to be able to understand why it had to happen and and that's and that's that should give us right now i'll tell you a story that happened to me it's not easy to talk about but when i was 21 my father was very sick right and my father passed away right but that shabbos a couple weeks before he passed away i was born of schwab of shimmer schwab in washington heights and the reason that i was there my father was in the hospital in the washington heights my brother calm and i were there and he was a talmud of roughshod trial was a rebbe and there is baltimore before he became the rabbi in washington heights so he knew my father now we went to the hospital after moses we dominated in the washington heights kehillah and then we came home and he asked me how's your father so i said to him i've been talking that he'll be well and he got very stern with me and he said battalion does not mean that your father's going to get well i almost fainted when he said that here i'm 21 and i know if he dies i got to take over and i'm going to you know run the family and responsibilities the family and pronouns everything right and he says but doesn't mean your father is going to be well but means that hashem has a master plan and hopefully one one day he'll be able to understand it and that's what betohen is and i think that that's how we have to and that's how we have to cope we can't understand it anybody who tells you they know why covet came is either a navi or out of his mind and no but we don't have the vehicle today that's what we dive please bring us back the advisors so nobody can say because it happened because of this available you know many different people they have a favorite alvera that they like to blame the whole world they say that's why it happened right i don't want to give examples because but the point is we don't know and because we don't know we have to hang on to each other that's what the positive is telling us we got to hang in there we have to hang in there and there will come a time and you know meshiach is around the corner i'll tell you something that the benediction says that's out of this world you know the four letters on the dreidel yeah noon gimmel shin and hey that's geishno by the way that's this week's bar show right that's where they went goshna and he says that that the dreidel is the spinning of the world the world history he says grenada matriarch 358 and he says the nun represents the nephesh that's the soul that was broken when we lost the first place i made the shows we couldn't bring up runners gimmel is the goof that was haman tried to kill us shin is the seiko ivanama tried to change our culture hey it's our coil today we got everything they're trying to change our culture they're trying to kill us said you know there's nobody some migdash but at all no dreidel he says can spend forever it's going to fall how much does gershon equal 358. when that 358 fourth there's another 358 coming mashiach 358 and that's what he says and that's what we have to know this gullis is not lasting forever they got the vaccine they got good things are happening and eventually michelle's going to come and that 358 is going to fall and that's hashem that's what the gomorrah sacrament afternoon says just remember in this world when we hear good news we say when we hear bad news we say dynamous but but at the end then we're gonna know and that's why this program is so important what you're doing this is the most important program give kizok hang in there give khizuk to each other that's what is telling us is you got the right name right very there's another indian of hezek which is right now very permanent is is a topic of employment due to the pandemic a lot of people have lost their jobs pronounced is a very very big maybe give us some physic on that topic as well for a moment i'll tell you something very interesting i spoke in lubavitch and i hardly ever get to speak in crown heights right but they had a unity secretary three wonderful guys man that was some program it was a six hour concert very well yeah oh you know the guys yeah right right right right wonderful guys now so we were talking about kizok and you know they sliced through that to the whole world so it was only a chabad audience in crown heights but basically the whole world you know and over 300 000 people participated in buying letters you know for the safer toyota but the point is that when we were speaking about unity so there was one fellow and he mentioned a very very beautiful point he said we know a lot of people that are out of jobs but we know people that are having being still being mad the acharyas of people that are being muslim to look out for those who don't have panasonic and see how you can how you can pay tuition bills you can call for esmosha you can call are you soil you can call oh you're sure it doesn't exist i mean you shoot with tana i'm dating myself right that's right in other words you could call the principal and say well call the executive director look there's got to be people that don't have money to pay he has 150 dollars here's two hundred dollars go to rosalooms you know go to any grocery store and you know give them money or pay tuition or they're people that are sick and they have a lot of doctor bills call them up and say listen i've got a fund i know i can i can help you out and that's how we can get through with it you know it's difficult for those people but last night i was on the phone with the lady and i said listen i've got five hundred dollars for you for medical bills and she said you know bro i'm right now i don't need it but i said but just remember the cushion is there you need it i've got it that's crazy right and that's what they need we have these cases every single day as well people reach out to us about this definition we try to help them out or we try to find others to help out of weekends exactly there's many great organizations in claudia's room that's what david miller you know when he when he was up at night and in the morning there were people that he would say claudia cheryl can support each other that's what it is claudia's health can support there's no question there are people out there they're wolfson's out there they're great people and it doesn't have to be only the wolfsons you know they like to support cura but there's other people who can support other things and they're great people we've got to tap into them and if they're listening they have to know that they have to reach out it's not to have to wait until they get called many people something right now come to reaching out meaning to these organization individuals so if these individuals reach out to them it'll be for them that big yeah that's a tremendous thing that's a bigger crisis benched you you know you're the hashem part so there's some people that are volcano you know they're going through judgment let's make it hashem that that's the artist that's the unity that's that's really what we can do and if we do that you know people get tremendous amount of results there's a topic of an old nelvado that's always been thrown around there's magnets there's stickers there's let me could touch on that topic as well i'll tell you something from practical experience you know practical experience i once heard that the briskeroff said that if somebody is in a jam and it just doesn't know how to get out of it many people like that just say these three words i said hashem i'm giving it over to you you take it over i can't do it it's only up to you and i'm telling you i have been in situations where i figured there's no way how am i going to get out of this they just say hey nord move on they just say the words and i can't say it's magic but i'm just telling you that it does help because all of a sudden you're throwing it on somebody else you're throwing it on hashem and that and then once a person understands that that he's not running the world so whatever happens you're not in limbo that's what you're being tested you know robertson youngrise wrote a book called life is a test yeah amazing book and she was an amazing lady oh so many times and uh that book i encourage everyone as well i got to tell you one point that i'm so impressed that the fact that rabbit krone rebbe has been promoting other books as opposed to the margins books as well which are so inspiring as well if you i i have the market syria i don't know if i have everything but i have quite a few of them also inspiring and whatever you're missing i'll be happy to give you it's no problem but i'm i you know you know a person has to have an iron toy you have to be have be happy when there are people that are doing well you know there's a guy silly breasts are just he's a fabulous writer i'm sure you know and and i just wrote something on nishmasi you know it's a column tell him and that's what i did and you know and he's so happy you know because it takes it takes effort and you know these books i i remember when i'm showing i met him i had i met him in uman i know i don't go i don't go i don't go too man you know rashad i you know that's not my style but i went to ukraine in the summer with ellie islam with enos tours and we we were there we were in kiev we were on buddhism and we spent jobless in newman and he happened to be there and i had never met him and there was a guy around mother frank you ever meet your mother frank a lot of great jews out there so so so he was with us for shabbos and he says you know rap rav shalom is here and i can introduce you to them because you know he's not so busy over here and energy so you can't even get them so i said okay fine and he took me over to him he took my hand in his hand and i just melted i just smelled it again smile oh my goodness and we took a walk for a half hour i feel like i knew him forever and and then i asked him if he would come to charles shooters and speak for the people and he told us amazing story now i know you're going to interview him i don't know if he's going to tell the story but let me tell you the story that he told us so all the audience that you're going to be watching ralph shalom just take a look and listen to this story you will not believe one word that i'm about to tell you but i'm just telling you maybe if you get him to talk about it he'll tell you himself but he came and he's a beautiful looking man and he came it was a capote and a strangle yellow compote and everything and um the first was that he said to all of us a child shooters we had like 70 people on the trip right men women and he said take a look at me i used to be a jet israeli pilot fighter yeah yeah he was sorry right his friends yeah but what happened was that one day you know and he said that he had done called everything with all his friends i mean they were young guys and they had you know living the life of riley right secular israelis and he said that one day five of his israeli friends were killed in a helicopter crash and he just went crazy he couldn't talk he was just crying for days and days and he began to realize what his life all about it could just be snuffed out like that there's got to be a purpose to life and he started questioning and asking and searching and he became a halogen breast little hussain and then eventually he wrote this book you know the garden of amuna it sold millions and millions of copies and various so many different languages sometimes yeah it usually comes every year unfortunately pandemic we added virginia right right but the kids of the 100 and and then he said and of course you know i began to realize that we have a purpose in life how about the margin maybe [Laughter] rabbit crone maybe you could leave us with a final message that you could give over again during these trying times something that we could all take home and uh stay hazak i think a person could should never give up and know that never give up never and you know why because claudius has gone through much worse than this there's no question i mean when you think about it of course you know there's a lot of problems there's no question about it but let's face it you know zoom is not the concentration camp you know and it's not easy to learn on zoom and we have lost many kids and there are many wonderful organizations that are trying to get the kids back project masora you know from hari sharp and tites these are great guys that will get your kids into yeshiva boys school or girls school whatever you need and there are many many wonderful people and you have fabulous mahantrim today as you are interviewing rob i think come on and rabbi bender these are great people i mean rebellion britney robert reisman d we got great people in class and you could yeah double cohen i mean you know there are a lot of great people out there you just have to search them out and don't give up because we've gone through worse and uh you know berkeley most of us have food on the table and we have communities the government also opened up a food pantry for kazakh on right over main street in queensland unbelievable um just remember me conquest just remember they are great jews and one thing i want to say you know sometimes we hear that a jew does something and you know it's embarrassing it's a khalasha you know rabbit wine has a great expression don't blame judaism on jews a lot of great jews hang you out the good jews and it'll rub off on you it'll rub off on you and that's why i like to be with kazakh i like to be with toreti time you know a lot of great jews shimako yakov i mean look at that what this guy's doing it's unbelievable and a lot of good people so i'm so honored that you came to my house thank you very much robbie thank you very much rabbi krone and uh again uh it is always a because a big honor to hear from you a man that radiance love obviously throw a love for a fellow jew and uh really appreciate your time really appreciate we appreciate the inspiration and business i'm looking forward to being together with you uh the maggot wrote to your shalom with the ultimate redemption i mean thank you you