Maamar Nasa Na 1931#1- History of Maamar - Zevuv is acronym for ppl liking you

we're on page 129 the M Alana we learned it years ago but it's worth repeating and explaining a little more in depth let me give you a background to this mimer this MIM was said in 1931 in a city in Lithuania called Riki not not far from vilna and there were in this city in fact the RO in this city for many years was a very prominent famous kabad who made his way to America in 1938 his name was Rabbi schmu Levitan and he was the the senior kid in cron heits from then till his passing in he has a son who's the head to the state of Washington he's been in Seattle Washington from the early 70s his name is Rabbi shomit and this is his grandfather who was the Riki now this entire yes yes this is this is his son I'm sorry is L in Washington this is his father or his grandfather this is his grandfather this Grand so who is his father his father was Rabbi B lit who's already passed on this Rabbi sh vit was born in 1883 he is said to have been the first name given after the passing of the reab marash in 1882 reab marash's name was shmu and shortly thereafter this the father of his name was uh gave him a name so he was gifted I believe a picture of the marash there there's only one well there for years there had been only one picture that we that we were told there existed of the Reb marash but because the picture has him his face with boils and it doesn't look very uh he doesn't look very healthy they never publicized the picture but there was a picture in fact that re mentioned inaan that there is a picture of theb marash in my book kabad portraits volume two when I talk about the re marash at the beginning of the chapter I published a picture of the marash that was printed in theas newspaper in yush about 15 or so years ago and the story is that one of theb marash's daughter married a a someone named Ginsburg that was the last name and this gin this a great grandson of this Ginsburg gave this picture over and he said that he he got it in the family it was M that this is a picture of the marash I then published it republished it in my book I asked the librarian of kabad RAB sh 11 if he could authenticate the picture he said he cannot the picture seems to be very much the face of the previous however the picture looks to be a picture of a drawing of an artist it doesn't look like an original picture of his face in in in without the art artist kind of adding to the picture now we do know that our rebba would repeat many times a story that when the previous rebba was in is in 1929 when he visited a Jew came to see him and when when he came to see him he broke out you know crying and he said is a Russian word it means you look you're you're spitting image of your grandfather and whenever the reab mentioned this story he broke down in tears I I don't think there was ever a time that he said the story without breaking down either choking up for what it touched them very so we know that the looked like his grandfather and if you look at the picture that I printed in K porches volume two you will see that he's very similar to the way the previous rebba looks anyway this is an aside and we have to go further I just told you this because after the marash passed away the first one to get a name after the marash was V and this vit part of the time while he was in Russia while he was in Europe he was inik okay this tells us that Rik although was near Vila and vill vilna was the Bastion of the Lish movement headed by such yeen as Umi and although a very good friend of the he was a was a he wasn't a and he had a bezin and there was very much they used to they called it Yim of of Europe was V and it there were in fact there was a there and later there was a Yesa there but nevertheless the main stay of L of V were lit after the re came back from America in 1930 I've been telling you I just finished a book on the previous re's year from September of 1929 till July 16th of 1930 the Reba was in America and he visited Philadelphia and Baltimore S Lewis Chicago and many and many cities and then when he came back the the purpose of the one of the one of the purposes of the of the of his travels besides raising funds for his brethren in Russia and strengthed in Gish kite by American Jews was to see if he could make a permanent change and move to the United States the people in Chicago in particular really wanted that to come the people people New York wanted him to come just yesterday I read that the people in the South Bronx it it the Bronx was full of ye and and shoes can someone take off ai ai take mute yourself send them a note please send them a note everybody there's a way to do it how do you do how do I do it um now you can hear me or you can't hear [Applause] me go where the mic is it says have uh it says select SEL select a speaker yeah that's microphone like there should be for everybody's microphone or something microphone should say mute for everybody or mute just for me same ass system same ass system Mo Moshe send him a note to please oh he did it thank the Lord hallelujah okay wow that was worse than get hen he's back oh my gosh what happened I SP too quickly AI mute yourself okay [Music] anyway anyway so the Abby Abby are you okay Abby like could you call him Moshe could you call him this is this is getting absurd he's quiet now but regardless he's quiet okay so the bottom line is that after theba came back from America and he decided he's not ready to move yet to America he's going to he's going to mute in a second he just got home thank you rabid dolphin we can't hear you I think I think you m I think you okay now now you can hear me so after the thank you after the E came back from America he decided he's not ready to move to America because the people there are not ready for him and there are different ways of spinning it and explaining it the bottom line is that although he had a very serious thought he even wrote letters his secretaries wrote WR letters this is in 1930 but in 1930 31 after returned around he he wrote that he's not coming sidm didn't see the Reba especially since he was imprisoned in 1927 and it was during Stalin's times it was very difficult and they wanted to see him so they asked him to come to them you know people the people didn't have the funds you know and the Reb conceded and the re made a trip to different cities in Lithuania actually to one city at this time bik which was the city that he chose to accommodate the people from vilner the from vilner luach poov these are different cities nearby in fact we learned the mimer earlier how re how are there in L in l l like where they come from they came from the they were there before the lit Fox cuz had 100,000 in the 1850s in the 1840s and 50s theed was the king of Russia and Europe and way he hadum all over and then he cuz he had six Sons and they traveled and they made there there were leiters all over understandably in Vila the bul were lit Fox but there was a nice amount ofid and in the smaller like Rik Rik was what I was told is Rik had more that with fox in other words you know it's like you move to to a neighborhood now sometimes you move because you want to you want to be next to a certain Rabbi next to next to school certain school next to sh right for whatever the same thing then and then if you if you if in that time too people married wasn't the only laich the people the Lish and the leiters married each other it was very common this even spilled over I I knew such people I knew this this this hardcore litak from who whose wife was from a laich home and and his kids became two his sons became liches his daughters not you had that in fact the someone in New Haven whose father came from a city Kitz Kitz which also I don't think is far from vilna and he said that the and the had more in common that than they had with the the poisha and the hungarians the poock sorry the the poisha and the hungarians were further away in culture between the L and theab they basically would have SA different even the way the hav you know a a real says the yish just like alab I mean there there are a little Nuance difference but pretty much it's not [Applause] or I'll kill him or I'll kill him I'll so The sayses KES KES and maybe a will Sayes KES KES so both in the verbal use expressions and the way they spoke and they went to the same groceries and to the same places in fact why encourage his to open in the various places in and in other places because kids from his were learning over there and they weren't learning was very difficult to travel in fact this he had a son who said they said was was like the most gifted gifted he had many many kids and where did he learn in TS 1936 37 38 he was in TS and I found out and I wrote about this in my book on TS it was a whole group of of La intels why travel was very difficult TS was a mus like Isa it had some similarities to kabad some and more importantly its leadership was very favorable at the time with leich and the and and gnik you heard of the family named gnik y gutnik of Australia the philanthropist his father Alman the told his mother whose husband passed away young to say he she asked wish I sent my son she said to tells why because they learn muser it's very good that he's learning you know he'll get the later he'll get the and he joined the of as well later my point is that there was a a um a togetherness between the L and the anders so the this answers your question or's question had in in in in many of these cities you know it's not it wasn't 100 years before during the time the AL were fighting and it was terrible that passed from theed time on it slowly dissipated and dissipated that's because in 1843 known as the son ofer who was the proom the pro pry student of the V he he went together with theed to Petersburg to stand up for yish kite famous conference in 1843 in in Petersburg who went together hand in handed so that broke the barrier and so from you could say from 1843 and on it really uh not going to say at all there were some hardcore mm who remain that way but by and large the average person the man on the street didn't have that feeling so the but they weren't the ones who invited the Reb to come to Rik who invited the Reb to come to rakas were his who had a stle and they wanted to see him and hear him so he came this is a 1931 so at this point it seems to me that the re although his stationary which said Ria because he after he was forced out of Russia it said zman zmani means temporary the reaban never intended on staying in Ria and that's understandable is L has more of the yha you know Tor approach that's not it's that's not lfish and that's not kidish it's it's something for itself so a real l and a real it's not their home you do the best and they did the best but Lita had its own culture I'm sorry laia had its own culture Tor so on the stationary it says M the never intended on staying there after he he sees that he that America is not ready for him and not ready to go to America where should he go so he starts thinking about Poland because Poland warsa became known as the capital where yish Kai was thriving when it was was a Cosmopolitan and that's why Tak 1933 he moved to Warsaw so this mimer is still 31 where he's addressing the Jews in Rik and the in in L so you'll find here not in here but we do have the talks that the re gave he was there for nine days in other yeah he was there for nine days and he spoke listen to this wait wait he spoke to men he spoke to women he spoke to the modern Orthodox you would call you know everyone want to hear from the sadic there was Yeshiva called yav it was more on the modern side they came they said we want you to come and speak to our students older students younger students feris B was the group of students who went to what go ahead we just lost your sound but it came back on yeah B was the the group that of students that either went to college or worked and at night they would come to study for several hours it was something the previous Reb had set up years before called to feris B they came they weren't all the biters you know just ye students worker working class so from all sides they came out yes Moshe he wanted to say something M I want to ask again I just want to clarify um when we say again during this time period the rabbi was again I'm sorry he was based in Ria Ria Ria laia okay okay and but raki was said as in Lithuania correct okay okay thanks right after he came back from United States he went to his temporary home which lasted for from 1920 uh uh 7 to 1933 that's 5 to six years it was you know but the entire time he was hoping to to Mo to move to a settled place where we would have more people who were interested inas so he thought he would find it in America and for and and and it was a good try but he felt he concluded not ready yet so then he then he goes back to Ria this is 31 cuz 1930 he was in America in 31 he's back and then in 33 he finally moves over cuz there wasn't funding whatever it wasn't right away when he came back already in 3031 he wanted to go to Poland to to Warsaw but there wasn't money for it yes so so so 1933 that's that's when he went to Warsaw yeah I think the end of 33 something like that right I just say before 1927 we know that's when he was arrested put in he was put in prison when he got out of prison he then how long after like where was he then the next day he had to go but go go where oh he went from lenrad he he was imprisoned in Petersburg but he live he lived in lenrad right he was and then the next day out you can't be here it this is all written up by the way in detail but basically I don't know the next day the next week right away out in other words they said to him you're lucky you're alive get out of here that was the attitude so it's with this this background so when he's saying this MIM now how many M did he say in Rik during those nine days four that's a lot for my of and this is the fourth one on Thursday this is the day I think that he left in the he left in the evening or the next day Friday he left back to Ria he said this mimer and this mimer in a way addresses what a Jew of any kind from the most liberal most modern the most cidic the most Lish how to serve hem and he begins with the PK in malim Chapter 2 malim I'm sorry malim 2 where it says over there a story the story briefly is that there was a woman who was known as Isa hasis we say this in the of pares V right who was married to a person named of we said this year we read the entire which is the entire book of aadya It's a small safer aadya was a very special person he was a convert what was special about him besid that he was a convert he loved Hashem and he wouldn't stand for the fact that the king OAS and his evil wife known as eel killed the Kohan famous story tanak and she put I'm sorry not the Kohan the and a large amount of nim prophets and instead of the Nim she put false prophets who worshiped the bow the idol a saw this so he took a group of Kim and he hid them but he needed to feed them so he borrowed money didn't have he got money and he bought food and shelter and all of a sudden he dies after he dies his wife was left left with with debts she has to pay the people that her her husband owed money to she doesn't have money so she comes to the prophet Alicia right and she says help me so he says bring me your J your jug so she brings him a little jug of oil and then he says the famous words Cale small amount of vessels you should not have you got to have large vessels and he tells her to go home and bring any type of vessel that they have and to go down to the water and they're going to start making noise I think anyway the bottom line is the the vessels he blessed the vessels that all of a sudden she had a lot of oil and she was able to sell it and she was able to pay off the creditors the as an ass not used this phrase from that from this piece of tanak to Rabun in 1983 when he had $17 million in debt literally not figuratively I was there in LA at the time and he came to the rebba Sunday and the rebba gave him a nickel a nickel and then the Reba said to him Cale raim Al I don't want small vessels a little nickel and a year or two later after Weinberg there was a wealthy person who owned the kala Hilton in Hawaii heran Weinberg they came from Brooklyn if you drive on Bay Parkway in Brooklyn in Ben Hurst you'll see the JCC it's a huge building it's 100 years old all Solid Rock and it has the name Weinberg it's this Weinberg I knew I knew someone who was related to this Weinberg so I know about this them so they mooved to California very wealthy he's married to her they end up in a big divorce she becomes sick Jerry Wi TR the famous producer Hollywood producer who became very close to Rabbi cunan tells cunan go visit her in the hospital cunan goes a Jew is in the hospital he becomes close to her you know he goes several times she dies passes on and she leaves over $120 million to three Charities 40 to kabad 40 to multiple sclerosis and 40 to the hard Association or whatever $40 million of course her husband and Sons contest the will I was there during that whole period and rudan had people fly to Hawaii to take stock of what they were it was biggest lawyers he you know he's not going to let $40 million go two years into the into the court case case he gets a call we want to settle with you how much 21 million he goes to his boss the rebba should I settle the Reba says yes he settles and walks away with $21 million he drives with his laaber accountant who was a friend of mine Yol adelen and they drive around La with a checkbook and CA writes out a check a million5 $100 and from da door pays off everybody $17 million he's left with 4 million he gives the Yeshiva one he bring he buys that property on Pico for the kabad girl school and then a little bit this and again he's out of money and it starts again but the re it's a real story this is not an exaggeration it happened the re told Cunin before it happened when he gave him the nickel the same P that the Alisha told the ISA should not miss and all of a sudden her one jug of oil which was so minute blossomed and she had enough to pay off everybody that's one part of Thea the next part of Thea is the story of her having a child and the child dies after she's blessed by AO to have the child she didn't have a child and then he performs the resurrection of the dead it's the second story that she she says you know there's this gentleman who passes our house he he comes and goes and comes and goes and she says is kados he's a holy person and since he's a holy person let let us make for him a room in our house in the Attic with a separate wall and let us put there a bed a table a chair and a candleabra right like I have here in my little room I have my bed I have my little table I have my chair and I have my light that's what I I said to myself also air condition cuz it gets hot here that's all I need of course I have a bathroom outside that's all I need I don't need more okay so she calls this person ish kados and she makes for him these four things the re in this mimer based on what it says in the Z the holy Z on this verse that these four items are the way to correct to be m s the name of Hashem that's in disrepair because of GH every one of us has to fix the name of hem so the zes says that the way to make this tick is through a table um a chair um a bed a b a bed table chair and a candle labra and a light and the re then takes it from just a concept in the Z and explains it inic terms what this means which is the a of at night what that means I'm going to talk about it it's very important and Shak and and it's a fascinating and a very important m in fact it's so important they translated it in a book that kabad gave out in the 70s called challenge I don't know if you've seen this book one is with a green cover it came out of England London and one is with a red cover the one of green covers what kabad does in England mostly and the one with the red is what kabad does had done in 70s 60s and70s in ER and in one of those volumes they translated this mimer so if you want to have an English translation um you could find it there what time is it now about 3:15 yeah what I just wanted to ask we did that had a similar opening that opened with an explanation and we're doing it again because it's the same one it's the same one I don't have notes on this one and I'm I took notes oh so that's that's that's I was going to give you a test Hill to see if you remember it yeah yeah U is it the same one or different one the same one same one okay yeah I don't have notes okay so now now write your notes remember the opening yeah yes listen yeah you know which the four four Nam of four you came off do you know which color I I don't but you know um we have to look up the Z and I don't know what the Z is but maybe in the Z over there it would say so the answer is I don't know I I have yeah and I if you give me the lists I'll be able to find it Well the the reference is it says later zo look at look at the fourth line from the bottom h y in middle of line zo volume two page 103 folio one folio one okay I'll check it out I'm not and I'm not sure you if it says it corresponds to the I should have not said that I I assume that it corresponds to four letters of God's name it might not so you have to check there but it he does bring this over here um and I would be very appreciative to you if you actually looked it up and tell tell us what it says there if it's corresponding to four letters of hashem's name or something else but I want to just end that in the maim in tanak how did she know Yoni that this fellow that's passing by is a holy guy so Rashi says because she saw that when he came in and she fed him and you know it's hot there were flies and normally flies came into the house flies hovered over the food and here he's eating and there aren't any flies so Rashi said that this was a assigned to her that this guy is a holy man that the Flies don't want to disturb him this is literally what Rashi says I heard once a beautiful interpretation that's worth mentioning the word in Hebrew for a fly is a z Zion baz V baz right the word Z is an acronym for Z b b which means this one like this and that one like this you know what that means that means that most people there are people that saying he is like this and the other guy says no he is like this in other words even if a person has so many people that say nice things about him comes along another person says no it's not that nice that's the acine of the word Z she saw Moshe that there was no Z she saw that this person everyone only has positive and nice things to say about him then she said he's holy if you find a person that everyone everyone of different kinds of people they all say only good and they don't have something negative to say about him that's a holy person I love I love this I heard it from my rebi who wrote it RAB bam milski my principal he wrote In the book VI you might have it somewhere in probably par V in his explanation volume one on bares over there and I I love it cuz Rashi just says she didn't you know she didn't see us V and this m will have another insight into that but practically you know when you meet a person and everyone you know only speaks positively about them that's that's a great accomplishment you know that's a great accompl and if after 120 we leave this world and people only have positive to say about what we did on on Earth we've we've left a great a great legacy you know it's it's not it's not it's not easy it's not easy because you know we are who we are we take positions and we have to make tough decisions and we rub people sometimes the wrong way you know and and listen part of life is to stand up and make decisions but there is a way of making a decision where someone can say I disagree with him but I respect him he's a mench about it you know to expect everyone to agree with us is ridiculous it's foolish but even those that disagree but still they respect them that's that can be done very important that can be done and should be done KRA we'll continue tomorrow I thank you for the time and uh we'll learn inside with ab's help maybe we should give Gaz Le Gaz I I need to be healthy I I got I got a cold you see in FLA in New York I didn't get a cold down here in Florida where it's 85 Degrees every day I get a cold how do you like that