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Massachusetts Boys Ask Role Models 'Who Is the Rebbe to You?'
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Who is the Reb to you?
>> The Reb number one is a saddic
and the Reb cared and loved every person
and that's what I try to do.
>> Who is
>> when was the first time you met the Reb?
>> I think it was Yud Thomas Fbran
maybe 1967.
I remember my mother bringing me to the
entrance of 770 and those my father was
sitting at the Ferbrangan and I was
passed all all the people were squeezed
into the benches and I was passed over a
hand by hand to where my father was
sitting. A few years later
I remember sitting at the Fbrangan and
they were singing was very lively. It
was pro most likely Shiovois and that
was the first year that they made a song
a niggan for the Reb's capitol.
>> How do you connect with the to the Reba?
The Reb didn't want to create followers,
but the Reb wanted to create leaders,
right? So that's what the Reb wants us
to do, right? Learn with somebody and
learn with somebody that they should
learn the olive base, for example, and
that they should teach the olive.
>> What advice do you have to students who
want to connect to the rabbi?
>> I would say by watching videos, by um
hearing from rabbis that were there,
they could probably describe better what
it was like. Personally, I enjoy
listening to different podcasts that I'm
hearing from different that talk about
their experiences that they had.
I would
>> What teaching of the Reb most inspires
you?
>> That the Reb writes in is that a person
we can be in this world for 70 or 80
years just to do a favor for a fellow
Jew. Therefore, when an opportunity
comes our way, take that opportunity and
and and and do it
to understand
that the Reba
that each person was important to the
Reba. I mean, obviously, it's to study
the Reb's teachings and to follow the
lessons. You don't have to even study
teachings. You read stories of the Reb
and you find over and over that the Reb
answered people reminded them to do. He
said, "Are you still doing?"
And
uh so we know that that's important just
from that we know that that's important.
So to be able to learn kittas for
example
um but the
in the very first
um mimer basilani when the rebba I'm
sorry in the very first fbrangan and
mimer the rebba um accepted to be the
rebba then he
he said that
things are going to be different now
down he said I'm not going going to be
the Reba and everyone's going to rely on
me to do all the work. He said, "I'll be
the Reba, but from now on, everyone has
to get involved, too."
And there was a new idea and that's when
he started to demand that the people
learn Tyra and uh and and go into
so it was a whole it was a new concept
at the time and the Reb demanded that
each of us get involved in Hafata
that means to to not only to learn but
to teach
and to
educate people and to work with people
to visit people whatever it takes to
bring people closer to yishkite.
>> What teaching of the rebba inspires you
most? with the way the spoke about a Jew
and then of Yid how a Yid is connected
to Hashem no matter what and the way you
look at a Jew and Hashem looks at a
child a Jew like like his only child and
to look at the nishama
the soul of a Jew regardless of all the
externals
>> has never met the rabbi how would you
describe the rabbi to him
>> the Reb cared personally about each
person,
the Reb. If
>> a student has never met the Reb, how
would you describe the Reb?
>> Everything that you could imagine. Um, a
sadic, a a scholar,
um, you know, a leader, right? The
greatest type of of of of of leader. But
again, like I said before, the Reb was
in in a way different than than other
leaders. The Reb didn't want to just
create followers, right? The Reb wanted
to create leaders. That's why, right?
We're commemorating the 32nd yard, the
32nd yard site of the Rebotas and Kabad
is
stronger. Every year it gets stronger.
There's more going out, right? Cuz
that's what the Reb wanted. The Reb
wanted to touch every single Jew,
connect with every single Jew, and
that's what we can all learn from.
>> Thank you.
>> Out. So
your
God.