It’s Time I Told You About This…

[@jimdeane3667]

Oh Yossi. Beautiful. Not a single word from this talk is off the mark. It reminds me of something I saw many years ago while visiting in 770. At one point, during the weekday davening, this wild activity broke out and some group took the Rebbe’s chair from before his shtender and started moving it around the raised platform. It startled me and upset some others who started to confront the other group. For me personally, from that point forward, I don’t want to be around such behavior. But what thought entered my mind was that yes, כבוד אב also involves deference, respect for father’s chair, his lamp, his table, his bed, but what is father’s reaction when he sees his own small children or his grandchildren playing with these things? His heart warms, he smiles and his eyes shine with love because he sees his grandchildren playing. G-d bless you my friend.

[@jacobJ-jt8ky]

I firmly believe this generation can benefit from learning the Rebbe Rayatz ספר השיחות because it’s focused on inner refinement of the soul with direct application in עבודה ה׳.

[@144Donn]

The Rebbi clearly was not of this world, but he certainly, definitely & most bewilderingly understood it far better than most.

[@ingela_injeela]

But was he the Moshiach? Did he fulfill *any* of the nevu'ot?

[@jingojingo1]

So ur saying he understood this life better then hearafter?

[@jacobJ-jt8ky]

Very beautiful to listen to your wisdom. And this approach is correct and truthful. The rebbe is alive in every Jewish heart since we all have a חלק של נשמה של משה רבינו we just have to remove and wash away the dirt over the heart to expose the יחידה שבנפש to reveal our connection and living rebbe soul in our physical bodies. So yes the rebbe is alive within every jew. Remove the stone over the נשמה that’s covering the משה רבינו within us as the Rebbe Rayatz expounded on the stone that covers the נשמה.

[@DavidBrown-wh1ix]

Excellent answer and explanation. Respect to you for not been drawn on the other elements of the question.

[@raffiazari]

Awesome

[@AsherBKNY]

‏חזק וברוך כבוד הרב

[@mottyk8491]

That was a beautiful story for an explanation - and a smart answer at the end

[@davidjasse8386]

Excellent thanks for sharing

[@avremelkatz6006]

Rabbi paltiel, what would you say regarding making a shvil? Is that the same as the shtender and chair? And what would you say regarding setting up dollars? ... kos shel bracha, vechulu.

[@BennyFitter]

Go set up a table next to the tzfatim and say your dollars are fake mine are real, the Rebbe told me

[@Michael-NYC]

@avremelkatz6006 Respectfully, he did answer it, very humbly & honestly. He said “I don’t know”. I find it so soothing to hear a Rabbi say I don’t know, especially on a public forum. Kudos. Even though sadly we know, as he said in the onset of this 10 min response. I don’t want to get in the details or nitty gritty of this subject for obvious reasons (using my own words here). Due to the extreme sensitivity of the subject one would or should not deal with most of the questions they were all have, as you yourself stated. I personally think there are 2 parts to your question, 1) is this right, is this what the Rebbe wants, is this permissible according to Halacha, etc etc. 2) if the answers to part 1 is yes, for argument sake. Then come the next stage to ask if all of the above is something I can push down others throats, if I believe this is right that I should have permission to force anyone and everyone to follow suite especially in the Rebbes Shul/presence as Kovod for the Rebbe physically being here. And… as far as part 2 is absolutely A) תלוי בהרגש -pending each individuals feelings. B) as the Rebbe said אורות דתהו וכלים דתיקון simply translated it must be done in away that an other will be able to accept it. Means without force without violence. In a way of Ahavas Yisroel in a way that the other person feels ok to accept it. Therefore the Rabbi didn’t want to get into these specifics because of the deep rooted ugly controversy.

[@avremelkatz6006]

Another question could be asked , that although all the rebbeim said about their fathers what was said in the beginning of the video, but as far as I know they didn't keep the chair and shtender ... usually we learn what to do from maysoh ovos. I would argue you can't bring a proof from the yom tov meals at the friedike rebbe apartment, because that's a family honor , personally my in laws have set my mother in laws place at the table . The only hint I would think of , I heard in 78 after the rebbes heart attack, when the rebbe was in his office he asked the regular place be set up as if the rebbe was downstairs

[@BennyFitter]

@@avremelkatz6006 the rebbe said he is the rebbe, oh wow

[@BennyFitter]

@@avremelkatz6006 he's pulling these answers out of his you know what, all philosophizing. I never heard one Gemara out of these so called rabbis, just stories, oy what foolishness this kabbalah from Moses de leon has brought upon us.

[@meirnstiefel1793]

Didn’t the rebbe say in a sichah that there is no inyan of histalkus in this generation?

[@yitzchokmarks119]

פרשת בא תשנ"ב

[@ytsi7505]

Thank you rabbi paltiel for this insight into the נדר על דעת רבים the רבי made not to go to גן עדן

[@williamrobbins5562]

There is no comparison between the story of Rabbainu Hakodesh and the Rebbe. Rabbainu Hakodesh was PHYSICALY present after his death.

[@davidschalit907]

WTH?!?!

[@ShmuelMunkes]

So is the rebbe the only difference is that those in the time of rabbainu hakadosh were on a high enough level to see him but we are not on a high enough level to see the rebbe

[@rationalistssj6540]

@@ShmuelMunkes If you believe that, you're insane. This is one reason why Chabad is completely ostracized and disconnected from mainstream Judaism

[@ShmuelMunkes]

@@rationalistssj6540 but we are not ostracized from mainstream Judaism almost every gadol from Rabbi soloveitchik to Rabbi Jonathan sacks from the vizhnitzer rebbe to the gerer rebbe from ovadya Yosef to the babasali all had tremendous respect and reverence for the rebbe none of them treated the rebbe like they were his equals they all tried the rebbe like the Minister treats the king

[@rationalistssj6540]

@@ShmuelMunkes R' Aharon Kotler, R' Yaakov Kaminetzky, R' Shach, the Satmar rebbe and many more, all of whom were greater in nigleh and nister than the rebbe, had nothing to do with him and held that many of his shitos were problematic; and today we see how true that was, when most of the chassidim are completely off the rails, espousing crazy heretical beliefs

[@YelenaG]

Thank you for this insightful explanation and your honesty in sharing it❤❤❤

[@private464]

I listened to this twice. Thank you for making this video...and making it only 11 minutes, short & sweet. The Previous Rebbe is in Gan Eden and no longer here, and so is the Rebbe. The Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid are in Gan Eden and no longer here. Rabeinu HaKodesh is in Gan Eden and no longer here. Those Friday nights were a HUGE exception. Many people confuse deeper ideas with the simple reality.

[@mrskn5333]

Chassidus is the description of reality. No one is confusing anything here.

[@davidschalit907]

Chassidus is a description of living in a fantasy world and at the same time trying to live in the real world, while calling the fantasy world the real one. Chassidus is also Avoda Zara.

[@zalmtee8981]

chas veshalom to say the rebbe is no longer here! that is a lie. same also about the frierdiker rebbe. however by the rebbe, its already after the time which as the rebbe says in the sicha after the shiva of the rebetzin, that the aspect of "dovid melech yisroel chay vekayam" was already drawn down into the reality of the world, and therefore the whole inyon of speaking about how to connect to the rebbe, when you cannot see him - this only adds to the everlasting life of "dovid malko meshicha", and as the rebbe said in the sicha of shabbos parshas bo, תשנ''ב that in this generation we dont have the "diminishing of the luminaries" as was the histalkus of the previous rebbe, since all the great revelations, were already drawn into the world

[@davidschalit907]

@@zalmtee8981 Literally nothing you wrote makes even the slightest bit of sense.

[@zalmtee8981]

@@davidschalit907 this video is an inside chabad focus. if you want to understand the qoutes and sources i brought, you might want to look up the original. you obviously have no idea what its talking about.

[@peninaweese7849]

Wow!!

[@aryeh-xw7mi]

Beautiful story of the Rebbe the Temach Tzedek, and beautifully told. Just one point: The decision was זכאי zakai, which means "meritourious" or "innocent", not "not guilty". There's a difference.

[@hillelfergusson2141]

How do we know the rebbe is alive? Did he tell Anybody he’s still alive? Why do we assume he’s alive physically? Do any rebbes die? Is the alter rebbe still alive?

[@ingela_injeela]

@@hillelfergusson2141 One Rebbe *died - and rose again* ! Genesis 3:15 - "Seed of the Woman" Jeremiah 31:31-34 a New Covenant Isaiah 7:14 - SIGN - Virgin - Immanu-El Micah 5:2 - Born in Bethlehem Psalm 2 - "Kiss the Son!" Issiah 53 - "the Suffering Servant Psalm 22 - "Pierced my hands and feet" Zechariah 12:10 "Look upon ME, whom they pierced"

[@arib2159]

Based on his texts, that we believe like Torah

[@ingela_injeela]

@@arib2159 But how can you believe he is the Moshiach? Did he even fulfill ONE of the prophecies? Micah the prophet says that Moshiach should be born in Bethlehem. Has the Rebbe even *been* to ha Aretz?

[@hillelfergusson2141]

Like which texts?

[@jacobJ-jt8ky]

Would to add that the stone represents the physical coarseness of the body which is the dirt over the heart

[@iradbaumel5019]

Great story🙏

[@dikduk]

For this reason, chassidim should stop using mashke at the fabregen to attach to the Aibeshter. And instead, connect the Rebbe!

[@ingela_injeela]

"Connect the Rebbe"?!? Isn't talking to the *dead* forbidden in the Tanakh?

[@yehudacohen9151]

​@ingela_injeela through אוב and ידוני

[@efraimyochananbenavraham639]

David hamelech and Saoul hamelech both they had the same rebbe :Smouel hanavi. .... Saoul because Hashem didn't answer to him, brought his rebbe "physically" in this world. David , in many cases when he needed advice , he went to Nathan the prophet who was with him, alive of course in this world. He never tried to bring here Smouel. Also Elisha who received double portion of rouach from Eliyahu, never claimed that Eliyahu was phisically here, even if we have an intervention of Eliyahu documented in the mikra when he send a letter to a rashah king in Judea, after his depart from this world with his physical body. He didn't die. He and Hanoch. Moshe rabbeinu died . All rebbes died also. Are they alive ? Of course, with Hashem. Are they coming back ? Of course. Be ibour or be gilgoul, Can they appear to other tzadikim ? Yes . But nobody is here physically with his body. You confuse yourselves with matters that they don't have any sense or value, and you lose the main. Be like David, don't be like Saoul in your connection with Hashem.

[@stefanobrusco3272]

No, the Rebbe is not alive.

[@Mendy_A]

יש״כ

[@torahbits3750]

Don't u need 2 witnesses? To establish a sighting that dead people are alive ?

[@hst3403]

Please, mixing higher kabala ides and understandings with simple questions of regular Jew, is extremely harmful and misleading which will ultimately lead to חילול ה׳

[@SeventyFive-gn9kh]

I don't think any Rebbe of the past is alive.

[@Chosidchosid770]

That’s cool. Many disagree with you and have upon whom to rely

[@ingela_injeela]

That's true. They are dead. But Yeshua is alive!

[@SeventyFive-gn9kh]

Yes, as a transcendent, non-physical being imho.

[@ingela_injeela]

@@SeventyFive-gn9kh One Rebbe *died - and rose again* ! Genesis 3:15 - "Seed of the Woman" Jeremiah 31:31-34 a New Covenant Isaiah 7:14 - SIGN - Virgin - Immanu-El Micah 5:2 - Born in Bethlehem Psalm 2 - "Kiss the Son!" Daniel 9:26 - Messiah *before* 70 AD Issiah 53 - "the Suffering Servant Psalm 22 - "Pierced my hands and feet" Zechariah 12:10 - "Look upon ME, whom they pierced"

[@SeventyFive-gn9kh]

Do you mean Jesus of Nazareth, rose from death? If he had he would be still around. IMHO. :-)

[@BennyFitter]

Meshugena zachin a shanda

[@davidschalit907]

Getting your "connection" to Hashem through a Rebbe is Avoda Zarah.

[@charlesgoldberg8121]

This is the problem with all חסידות. Connection to God through holy men is not a Jewish idea.

[@BennyFitter]

Agree

[@ShmuelChanowitz]

www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2367724/jewish/Tzaddik.htm

[@ShmuelChanowitz]

There's a concept of והיו עיניך רואות את מוריך

[@jimdeane3667]

Exodus Chap. 14, 31 וירא ישראל את היד הגדלה אשר עשה יהוה במצרים וייראו העם את יהוה ויאמינו ביהוה ובמשה עבדו

[@DroriShmueli]

Shneerson is NOT the Moshiach!!!!

[@Chosidchosid770]

Cool story bruh. Go eat some cholent and calm down

[@rationalistssj6540]

And he is dead

[@arib2159]

Respecting the Rebbe will only give you blessings...

[@arib2159]

​@@rationalistssj6540respect the Rebbe and be abundantly blessed ....

[@arib2159]

Respect the Rebbe and be blessed

[@Creactivatm-la]

For Chassidim these subjects are quite subjective and loaded of emotion. The Rebbe is alive when people speak his Torah and he moves his lips and he is irreplaceable leaving a huge void that nobody can fill and I am sure he prays for all and ask grace for everyone but being ALIVE in the physical form is delusion, gaslight and not a very Jewish concept, is stupid to discuss this and is not a kiddush Hashem ask all non Chabad people and major Gedolim today what they think about this ? Also if you read the Arizal a Tzadik of this stature can't leave this world without making Iburim and for sure there is one Tzadik alive with similarities of The Rebbe and quite low key while everyone is distracted not knowing that might be here part of his soul but in other human being full of holiness also.

[@bht5636]

the Sephardic Gedolah like Rabbi Ovadiah yosef's son signed a Psak Din saying the Rebbe is Moshiach. Some people dont relate to Lubavitchers or like how the Rebbe relates to his Rebbe or how the Rebbes Chassidim relate to him. you dont really know if they learnt all this information of how the Rebbe described his Rebbe as physically alive. how is this not such a "very Jewish concept" if Rabbeinu Hakadosh became physical after his passing and made his family Yotzei off of Kiddush?

[@marcel440]

The rebbe was very special, but the meshichists are doing great damage and some of their arguments are like those of the Christians about Jesus

[@CECS1]

Every tzaddik and great Rabbi of history had their fare share of followers who felt this way about each one.

[@Zensci18]

No

[@eliyahukonn3245]

I doubt if you could make out the words it would matter. If you lend credibility to xtianity this praying to the dead stuff makes sense......forbidden, but popular.

[@rationalistssj6540]

Pure insanity, comparing the rebbe, who DIED 30 years ago, to rabbeinu hakadosh of the Mishneh

[@arib2159]

Sorry to upset you, but as a chabadnik we believe the Rebbe is way more than rabenu hakadosh because he's the nasi hador of a way lower generation, like the aspect hoe Moshe rabenu envied the generation of the geulah and rabbi Akiva, besides as you know we strongly believe he's Mashiach, like we say in slichos about mashiach and not rabenu hakadosh...connect don't criticize

[@rationalistssj6540]

@@arib2159 If you believe that, you need a refuah sheleimah. There were many even in his generation who were greater than he was in all respects. And he cannot be Moshiach because he is dead (and San 98 means something else entirely); moreover, he did not fulfill any of the criteria for being Moshiach; he didn't battle and defeat the nations, didn't build the beis hamikdash, didn't gather the dispersed of klal Yisrael; see Rambam Melachim 11:4

[@arib2159]

@@rationalistssj6540 get a life! we are done with the days of misnagdim, shape up and stop fighting the fights gdolim thought we're fighting against chabad and rebbe

[@neuroshalom]

You have made another golden calf. This is pure idolatry. Another dead Mashiach that is going to resurrect and come a second time to finish what he was not able to do the first time. Shame on you and on the establishment for not standing for the honor of Hashem! You are lucky that the Sanhedrin is not present these days!

[@Chosidchosid770]

All he is doing is quoting things found in chassidus. Chassidic Judaism has been accepted as Judaism. Everything he said u can find in other branches of chassidus. Just because u don’t have the intellectual rigger to make distinctions and look at things in depth and perhaps lack general education on things said in our holy sources and by holy rebbes and gedolei yisroel doesn’t mean there isn’t what to rely on

[@akacfa13]

i envy you that you are worthy of defending Hashem and have the tzidkus to call out other Jews as heretics. You must be an amazing Misnagid.

[@rationalistssj6540]

You are 100% correct. What they believe is akin to the Christian 'second coming' which was an invention of convenience, seeing that J failed to fulfill all the key prohecies of Tanach.

[@Chosidchosid770]

@@rationalistssj6540 being similar is not a crime. They believe in the 10 commandments too shall we throw those out as well? The question is are there things in our tradition to rely upon. That’s the only relevant question

[@ingela_injeela]

I can't believe you would think that this man is Maschiach?? He doesn't fulfill *any* of the Tanakh messianic prophecies. Was he born of a *virgin* ? Is his name Immanu-El? (Isaiah) Was he born in Bethlehem? (Micah) Did he come *before* the destruction of the Second Temple? (Daniel) Was he the "Suffering Servant", Mashiach ben Yosef? This man is still *dead* . He can't save anybody.

[@akivatalansky]

Yeshayahu 7:14 doesn't say virgin. That prophecy is not about Mashiach, in any case.

[@dave-l2q]

No one asked you missionary freak

[@ingela_injeela]

@@akivatalansky No matter what 'עלםה' means *today* . What matters is what it *meant* to the readers, from the mouth and pen of Isaiah the Prophet - and from the Spirit of G-d. Whem *HE* says "The *Lord Himself* will give you a *SIGN* - what do you suggest it means? Are you *seriously* thinking that a "young woman" getting pregnant, is a *SIGN* from the Creator of Heaven and Earth?

[@ingela_injeela]

@@akivatalansky My question was "Did YOUR Rebbe fulfill *any* of the נבואות ?

[@rationalistssj6540]

@@ingela_injeela If you really believe that the verse refers to Jesus (which is absurd and false), how was was Jesus' birth 650 years later (!), at the end of the Second Temple era, a sign to King Achaz that he will win the war?! It makes no sense. All Christian "proofs" can be refuted in similar fashion.