America 1940s - Follow and You"ll be Happy

so this week um had an opportunity to receive a link to a an interview that i did 10 years ago that i didn't know was even online and this was an interview that i did with zalman shakhtar who was a student of the frida karebes in the 1940s and in 770 and then an actual and then was sent by the defeated to the city of new haven to open yeshiva there in some rochester and then and he identified also with the redmond kept in touch and had hidden etc etc the reason i made this a clip because people are wondering is he was 85 years old at the time this was in 2010 he was 85 and he was on my radar for 25 30 years since i was a baker in yeshiva and i said to myself it's time to fly to boulder colorado and interview him on my own um my own money and time and energy and the reason was very simple without any fanfare maybe i'll say something that will arouse a chuva in a person who had such special yahas relationship with the rabiyan and at 85 years old he'll realize that all of those wonderful and special teachings and feelings are important and it's important to do it in the way that the days of the holy dictates and i flew out there for that reason we did a two-hour interview almost a two-hour interview and i'll share just a few ideas that were not there that i believe are important for background and also to understand the bavitch in the 1940s in america in 770. came to america with the vision and idea to bring mashiach through mitzvos in america and although he was limited by his physical health but he was surrounded by a tremendous staff and of course tremendous son-in-laws the rashad and of course who at the time was known as the ramash and the rabbit was appointed by the fruity crabber to head the three organizations was called kahosk and um and they went into full force and they turned over the place and who helped them the baharim the students of 770. now please understand we're not talking about 300 students talking about 20 30 students in total and these students some of them already had training through abyssal jacobson who taught them cds from in the 1930s while they were yet the tour of the das you could read all about that in my book tara vadasa lupavich and others who were younger became students of rabbi jacobson of witten rabbi mentality and they met rabbi pardeez and above romelu oxladies role students and it made a big impact on them this impact got these students like barrel bum garten and gets her growner and all and then and go ahead and the old times and the gordons and zelma shafter and shlaimakalba and alex and the list goes on and on and on who took to the streets so when the rebel called when the free clever called for mercedes shabbos groups to be started shabbos salman shafter and joshua goldstein i believe or or i've run weingarten rabbit weingarten was my third grade rebbe they went on out during the week and they put up signs in schools and on the streets and don't think they didn't get into trouble in fact one of them i've run manhattan height he put up some signs and he was arrested for 24 overnight so these these these soldiers these you know pay their dues and that's how messi bashaba started here in borough park and in other neighborhoods other activities that ebba defeated called for was mishnai the study and learning of missionaries about to write to become part of the missionaries and things like that and of course without the laguardia and the three four cochlear is the proclamations that philippe grabber came out and the publication of a creative douche these are all things i've written quite a bit about this in the books on you know lakewood and lubavitch and other such books where we we we talk about these issues as well so so the early soldiers of 770 were a very big asset to the rabbayim and to khadukov and mendel and the staff as well was there opposition there's always opposition but they went further and when they went out some of these when they went out to the yeshivas in new haven in rochester in buffalo in philadelphia there wasn't much to eat and there wasn't much money and they worked hard they married they started to have children and things weren't so easy but they kept on going not all of them some came back for various reasons but by and large most of them stayed rabbi fogerman and worcester rabbi shusterman in chicago rabbi zellman posner was hired as a reverend of shul in tennessee nashville i believe this was a way of introducing american judaism with what was called orthodoxy at the time now for the record it's important to know that rabbishaga fievel mendelovich the dean of yeshivatoravadas and a leader in his own right in 1944 43 or 44 he opened toro missouri and the whole idea of also making day schools and this discussion the the interaction between lobavich and toravasara i wrote about in that book tervadas because it's an interesting uh piece of information in history so between the rabbit yachts sending his soldiers to start the yeshivas and rabbi mendel over sending his people to start a few yeshivas yiddish kai judaism started to blossom in the 40s and more so in the 50s and howard ever he took the took in charge and he just went with it all the way and he just didn't limit it to yeshiva day schools but he opened of course houses and the sheikh habad and shahbaz was opened earlier 49 by the frida kadeva but rabbit really enhanced all of this so anyone that had part of the part of this mission was very fortunate so the question is how does it happen that someone can drift away from the mission and the answer is kabula sale the most difficult thing is to have acceptance of the yoke of god to follow what the titus says not to allow your innovative mind to run your life and this is a challenge and the more intellectual one is and bright the greater the challenge and this is if you think about it the awesomeness of that epis personality and character how such a genius just let's talk about forget from being a rebbe but just his mind his genius and simultaneously having such kabbalah soil to the abrasive and to defeat the keraba enters that combination is unique i don't know if you find that combination by any other rabbit before and the rabbi had this everyone has free will and if you're not willing to have cabola soil and follow the script you can end up in foreign pastures so to me the lesson we take from individuals who went through that experience who or or today youngsters who are thinking about these issues at the end of the day as we say in yiddish as lane it's not worth it it's not worth it because there is a lot of guilt shame anger associated with the trip so why go that route she'll say well i might have to compromise on some of my intellectual pursuits maybe but isn't it better to have a good marriage isn't it better to have a beautiful family isn't it better to be part of the froome yiddish community that deep down you desire because that's who you are and you admit openly that's who i am so why go through this anguish it's a special shabbos shabboshi this is the goodness why is the goodness because we conclude the entire safer beratious and berenice is about the others and the minds the patriarchs and the matriarchs the foundation of who we are isn't safe and voracious and we concluded with vaachi what type of may you be alive live live with tata live with mitchus live with his kashus and when you live with this you have freyja and hashem help to each and every one of us have called to seller only the best the gosh of in the material and spiritual sense with the coming of meshiach when all that need healing will be healed and all that need panaso will receive better parasites will receive no