The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-＂השכינה שורה על זה＂ - הגאון הינוקא עם חפצים נדירים של צדיקים וניגוני חב＂ד@TheYanukaRavShlomoYehuda

2:56 That's who this Admor was, yes. This is also a printing — what is it? The Zhitomir printing. The Zhitomir printing, but here you have the grandsons of Slavita. - Yes, yes. Grandsons of Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz. A very important printing. It's a printing that is holy like a Sefer Torah — the holy Chozeh of Lublin said. The Chozeh of Lublin said that the Slavita printing, wherever the holy hands of Slavita touched, it is holy with the holiness of a Sefer Torah. So Rabbi Pinchas of Koretz expressed it, may his merit protect them — [unclear] on this.

3:22 - Are there notes of his inside? - No. There are no notes. This was printed a few years before the Admor the Tzemach Tzedek passed away. Printed in 860. Yes, he passed away [unclear], in '66. Here there is also a maamar of the Admor the Rashab — not in his handwriting, but in the handwriting of one of the Rebbe Rashab's chozrim, It is a maamar that is not known.

3:46 This transcript is not known. This also... - That's the father of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak. Was this written at his table? - It's one of the chozrim of his Torah. This had not been revealed until now. It's original. This is a letter that the Rashab sent on Chanukah.

4:18 He gives words of Torah about Chanukah, and he added here also in his own handwriting. - Is this the signature? - Original holy handwriting. This is the signature, and here he added 'with a blessing for healing', 'with a blessing for healing'... The Rebbe [unclear] with a complete recovery, and [unclear]. You can see: Ezrachia Segal. He is the rav in Tel Aviv, a neighborhood rav in Tel Aviv. Rav, can one say that whoever holds a letter like this, in which the Rebbe blesses for a complete recovery — is there some segulah that continues to work today as well?

4:50 - Certainly. A question. Everything that was written — tzaddikim, it is their holy handwriting; it is all the spirit of Hashem. The Rebbe Rayatz said that the Shechinah rests on the objects of the tzaddikim as it did in their lifetime. There. The Rebbe also [unclear] this in the Hayom Yom. Right?

5:15 About the importance of the object of the tzaddik. [unclear] everything to the place that... - This is a salt shaker [unclear]. - Really? - Yes, the salt shaker that he used for salt, Rav. that he would take with him on his journeys. - Ah, is this really the salt shaker he used? - Yes, yes, yes. It came from the family.

5:42 It came from his daughter, with a written confirmation from the daughter. Yes, it is of pure silver. - [unclear]? - Yes, he would take it with him on the journeys in the United States, when he was visiting Chicago for a few days; he took this [unclear] with him, together. - Is there still salt left? - [unclear].

6:06 - Nice, very nice. - I brought a few more things besides Lubavitch, to show the Rav, from my collection. First, I brought here the pidyon nefesh of the Shelah, in the handwriting of the Shelah himself. The holy Shelah. This thing is already almost four hundred years old; it is very, very ancient. This too is from a collector who decided to sell the... It had been with him for many years; now he decided to sell, half a year ago.

6:52 Here he decided that after the pidyon is placed, he would stand and say - Is this something that was printed? - Yes, yes, it's a known thing of the Shelah; this is the original, this is his handwriting. They say there are four who are called 'the holy': the holy Shelah, the holy Alshich, the holy Ohr HaChaim, the holy Arizal, the holy Arizal.

7:55 Tremendous — very, very, very. This is a book; now, here you have one of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz. Here is his stamp. He already has a grandson, already. - Which book — a commentary on Megillas Esther? Are there notes of his here? - No.

8:30 - It's the Megillah with a commentary on the side, in principle, not... - Is it handwritten? - Yes. - Which printing is this? - It's Amsterdam. In Amsterdam they used to do the printing with molds, the printing.

8:56 Do you know what that is? - No. - They would take an iron mold of the letters, and they would, You can even look at it — you see? It's raised, it's raised, yes. The embossing. The embossing, yes. Really very hard work, and these printings have a higher level of holiness in terms of halachah than books that are printed today. Their level of holiness is much higher than new books that are printed.

9:23 - Why? - Because it is really like handwriting; it is handwork, and done for its own sake, and it is all very great holiness. [unclear] on every book. - Yes, it's like... The Slavita printing — it is holy like a Sefer Torah, as he said... Now, they immersed — they used to immerse all their work tools in a mikveh. - Yes, yes. - Because they immersed the [unclear]. I brought something from my collection — I am very connected to the Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk.

9:52 - Oh, the Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk! - I have a huge collection of his things. I [unclear] items, and I travel once a month to his tziyun — of Shlomo HaKohen of Radomsk. Yes. So this is a very special thing that has not yet been printed. I also want to get the Rav's approbation to print it. It's a complete work by the rav of the Tiferes Shlomo, and also of the Tiferes Shlomo. It's a handwritten work on the order of the Torah portions by a student of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk; his name was [unclear] HaKohen of Volshovtze.

10:18 He was in the generation of the Rav of Lublin, of Rabbi Dovid of Lelov, and they would say his words of Torah. It's Torah that he wrote on the order of the portions; this is [unclear], here it's Noach, and some of the pages are in his handwriting, some are the Tiferes Shlomo's, and this, for example, is the writing of the Tiferes Shlomo, and that's it. The Tiferes Shlomo — there are about seven pages here that he wrote, and the whole volume passed to the Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk, as he writes at the beginning. - Wait, this handwriting is Rabbi Shlomo's? - This is the Tiferes Shlomo, and this is his rav. There is Parashas Noach, Parashas Metzora, and also the other portions he wrote.

10:47 - Do you know that when he was small, he was with the holy Chozeh in Lublin? He told his father to watch over him. He said to him: 'Child, what is written in Parashas Kedoshim?' The child was four years old. So he said to him: 'You shall be holy, for I am holy.' That is how Rabbi Shlomo HaKohen of Radomsk said it to him. So he said to him: 'Holy, holy, you will be holy.' He said that all the holiness of the covenant that he attained all his life — when he heard the mouth of the holy Chozeh saying 'holy,' 'holy, holy you shall be' — so he said.

11:17 From this, that he only said the word 'holy', all his holiness in life — he never had any wavering — only when he was small, when he was with - You know, I have a small piece of the Chozeh of Lublin's handwriting. - Really? - One like it in the world. Nobody has one like it. - What is the handwriting about? From his book? - No. He wrote a piece, Rabbi Aharon [unclear] of Brody kept it. - You see, his student, who went up to the Land, to Jerusalem. - Right, right, his student.

11:47 And this — I have the Levushei Serad with his glosses, and his handwriting, and another piece that was tucked in, from the holy Chozeh. - Does the Rav have it here? - Not here; I don't have any [unclear]. So according to the list, he signs here at the beginning. - What is the content of [unclear]? - It's hard to see. It's not — it's a piece that he kept; written there is 'with fear and love', and more, from the Shulchan Aruch of [unclear]; [unclear] he kept from his rebbe.

12:15 He writes: 'Let it be known that the book belongs to Shlomo, son of Dov Tzvi HaKohen.' He signed here, and also his grandsons testify in books that already came out before the war, in the book Ohel Shlomo, which came out 120 years ago, that they have this manuscript. I don't know why they didn't print it; it's a holy wonder, a whole book of Chassidus, a complete work. Here in the book, the Tiferes Shlomo also writes, this is also his handwriting. - What is this?

12:40 - This is a description of the manuscript, so that we know... 'This book was composed by the Rav, the Gaon, [unclear], the famous,' 'a distinguished student of the holy Rav, Rabbi Elimelech,' 'And then I heard that the holy Rav of Lublin,' 'the Chozeh, would say words of Torah on Shabbos before a few listeners' 'and for the holy Rav [unclear].' This — the Tiferes Shlomo writes this about the author of the manuscript. This has not been printed yet — a whole Chassidic book that has not been printed to this day.

13:09 He would go a lot to... Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk, That is to say, [unclear] this elder, that he did not forget us. The whole matter of people traveling to Lizhensk today is in the merit of the Tiferes Shlomo; he also made the fence [unclear], around the tziyun — he also arranged for it to be made. - There's no picture — does he have a picture? Is this a picture of him? - The Tiferes Shlomo has no picture. There's no picture, right? - No picture, no; he [unclear]. I saw some drawing that is attributed to him.

13:35 He is still checking it. I'm not [unclear]; I have been researching him a lot already. - There is a prayer that Rabbi Meir of Apta — 'Master of the worlds, I know.' - Right, he brought it. It's him, when he would say it every day. - Yes, yes. So my father composed the song 'Master of the world, I know' — my father's melody. - Ah, nice. - What is it called? - Pinchas [unclear]. He composed a lot — [unclear], 'I adjure,' 'I adjure, I adjure you.' - Really, that's his song? - To my father's melody.

14:01 - Ah, nice. [unclear], and brought all the... I also play — this I know. - Yes, I'll play for you, I'll play niggunim for you. - Wow. We'll play you a few new pieces here. I have here another book, Bris Menuchah, which belonged to the Tiferes Shlomo and to his son. Kindness forever. This is Bris Menuchah.

14:29 This is a book that the holy Baal Shem Tov would learn all the time. - Is it about the Name of Yom Kippur, no? - Yes. He held this book in very high regard, even though the Baal Shem Tov did not occupy himself much with books of Kabbalah, because he did not need to, because he attained the things from his own wisdom, but Bris Menuchah is a book he valued very, very much, very, very. - This is the stamp of the Tiferes Shlomo, with the symbol of the Priestly Blessing.

14:59 He was a Kohen. At the end it is clearer: 'Shlomo, Kohen, Rab...' On the last one you can read it more clearly. 'Shlomo HaKohen Rabinowitz, Av Beis Din of Radomsk.' Here he writes about the secret of kefitzas ha'aretz, the shortening of the way. On the last page — how one does kefitzas haderech. All kinds of things are here. - Are there secrets about kefitzas haderech here? - Here, here — kefitzas haderech, here.

15:24 - Do you use this from time to time? - I don't; I use the regular way, whatever the Holy One, blessed be He, wants. It's a Name: [unclear]. There is a story about it. - Yes. - That [unclear] had to travel to some place and it got late, so a gabbai said to him: 'Let the Rav focus his intention.' Meaning, in Yiddish, [unclear]. - Yes, who can, today? Who can focus his intention today?

15:49 - It's the acronym of this Name. Rabbi Yehoshua, the father of Rabbi Yissachar Dov, the Rebbe of Belz — that's the grandfather of Rabbi Aharon of Belz, right? - The son of Rabbi Sar Shalom of Belz; that is [unclear]. That's what they called him. He received Torah from the Chozeh of Lublin, yes. Here there's a very special prayer, have you seen it, yes? - About what? Here, it seems they already marked it for you here.

16:14 They wanted to preserve their things. - No, no, they marked this prayer for you, this is a very, very important prayer. [unclear] and the Ofanim close by. This is a prayer very, very, very valuable and meaningful, this prayer. I'm sure many tzaddikim pray it a great deal. It begins here and it ends here. It continues until here, and here it ends.

16:43 Here. Ah, they marked it for you. Did you know this? - No. Okay. I've shown you something new. - Nice. And here there's also the signature of his son, Avraham [unclear] HaKohen Rabinowitz, the author of the Chesed LeAvraham. He was called by the name of [unclear]. Rabbi Rabinowitz, yes? - Yes. But there's also an approbation from the Kedushas Levi on this edition.

17:10 Yes. Very beautiful, all the old drawings they used to make in the past, and this is very great awe. How spiritual they were, and...

17:36 Truly. But the Rav says there's a picture of [unclear], I haven't seen it. - A drawing. - A drawing, that's special, [unclear]? - Special, [unclear], yes. I have lots of pictures. I have lots, I have a collection of pictures, old ones too, of many tzaddikim. I have an old picture like this of Rabbi Dovid Moshe of Chortkov. Is there some picture of him walking in a field? Where he's walking in a field, or... - There's a picture they took of him [unclear].

18:01 I have pictures like that, there are pictures of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar, I have a picture of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz, a drawing, really old things. I really have a collection of many things, it's... I can show you a lot, but it's... it will take you a lot of time. That's beautiful. What else? Very interesting, I can understand, there are many things that... Yes, yes, I have a collection.

18:27 Did I talk here, [unclear] when I was with the Rav, I talked about a niggun from the Rogatchover. When the Rogatchover would learn, at the time of learning, this too is something that, with Heaven's help, I merited. There was a Jew in Bnei Brak, he passed away twenty years ago already, he had a neighbor who was a Holocaust survivor, and he was a musician, a man who passed away without children, [unclear], and he preserved the niggun the Rogatchover had, that he would sing while he learned.

18:56 He heard it from the Rogatchover's attendant, and they recorded him, it's really a recording from thirty years ago. There's a recording of him. - There's a recording of him. Not of the Rogatchover, but of a Jew who heard it, when he actually heard him singing, yes. [unclear]? He'll make a niggun out of it. And they played this niggun for Rav Elyashiv, so he said you can really hear the flow of the Rogatchover's learning. - Yes, that was his way of learning. This is the learning, and then he stops.

20:10 Ya na na na. Here a question begins. Ya da na na na na. This is something that isn't known. If, with Heaven's help, I'll merit that the Rav makes it known to the public.

20:59 - A merit. I can make a niggun out of it. I'll try to do it for you once more now, a little. There's the eleventh of Adar, that's the yahrzeit of the Rogatchover. My grandfather still merited to see him in Vienna. - Really? My grandfather was the son-in-law of Rabbi Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal. - Mishneh Sachir, Em HaBanim Semeichah. - Right. My grandfather lived in Vienna. - Yesterday I mentioned him on Shabbos.

21:27 Which grandfather, do you know the Em HaBanim? Some call him by that name and some... - No, I mentioned him on Shabbos, his halachah. - That we say 'Migdol' on Chanukah? - Migdol. What did I mention him for? Someone asked me some question and I answered him from there. I mentioned him on Shabbos. I don't remember, someone asked me something, I mentioned him, I mentioned him. Exactly by Hashgachah pratis, and that's your grandfather? - Yes.

21:53 [unclear]. He has a [unclear] that one must say 'Migdol' on Chanukah too, which isn't connected to Musaf at all. Right, yes. That one must say 'Migdol' on Chanukah too. Yes. So my grandfather was a son-in-law who lived in Vienna, and he could see [unclear]. But now, when he passed away, in the last two or three weeks of his life, he passed away, he had surgery in Vienna. - He was in [unclear]. - Right, [unclear], and there he passed away. In the book there's a picture in the hospital there. - Right, you see him a little like this. A little like this, the picture, yes, you can photograph it. This is the last picture, and this is in Vienna.

22:26 Do you know the reason he didn't cut his hair? - He didn't have time. It's also from the story with the Tzemach Tzedek: when he was small, he told him to learn Nazir. Right? - Yes. He was with the Tzemach Tzedek? There's a chapter like that in the book. - There's a chapter in the book, it's not... the story with the Tzemach Tzedek, that he was with the Tzemach Tzedek, that's certain, at the age of three, and the Tzemach Tzedek placed his hands on him, and the Maharil of Kopust, the son of the Tzemach Tzedek, blessed him that he would be a learned scholar. After that there are already two versions.

22:51 There's a version that says he told him to learn Tractate Nazir. And there's a version that says it wasn't part of the conversation. Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's secretary, he sort of told it in the Rebbe's name. But there's no other source for it in Chabad, anywhere, that the Tzemach Tzedek said this. And I even heard from a Jew who was with the Rebbe at a yechidus, a private audience, the son of Rabbi Savitzky, Rabbi Savitzky was, he published books on the Torah of the Rogatchover, he also knew the Rogatchover, so he was with the Rebbe, so the Rebbe asked him: Do you know why the Rogatchover didn't cut his hair? Why he conducted himself in the way of a nazir?

23:25 In the manner of a nazir, that's how he said it, why did he grow his hair? So he said: I think it's connected to the matter of bittul Torah, wasting time from Torah. That is, the Rebbe inquired of Rabbi Savitzky, so if they say that the Rebbe, in the Rebbe's name, the matter of Nazir, then certainly it's... He had no time to deal with it. - Yes. I personally heard from the daughter of Rabbi Teitz, Pinchas Teitz from the United States, that his brother, Elchanan Teitz, told her: I don't know why they say the Rogatchover didn't cut his hair, I myself cut his hair several times, [unclear], he said, it's simply that he was, his hair had to be cut gently, because if he hadn't had a haircut for many years, it had already gotten tangled, such hair,

24:04 it already caused him pain, the matter of the haircut. Probably, I, the way I explained it, it could be that it's connected to his way: he was always thinking words of Torah, and he didn't want to be with his head uncovered, So simply, he also, his fear of Heaven was something truly astonishing. You see it also in all kinds of his practices, that were truly not ordinary. So it could be that it's...

24:28 We said that we even have his portrait, to see his face, his picture. I look at him every day, and I have, you know, his pictures, it's, yes, I have the picture here. Some painter said to me, 'What would you like me to paint for you?' Some painter came, at a public reception. 'I want to paint some tzaddik for you, tell me who you want me to paint for you?' I wanted him to paint me the Rogatchover. He painted him for me.

24:53 People called him the Rogatchover, even though most of his years he wasn't there at all, he was in Dvinsk. - Yes, the Ohr Somayach, he was, yes. Now the book of his life story, which I merited to publish, came out now in English, two months ago. Baruch Hashem, it's a very big success in sales; the distributors, the publishers do not, truly don't understand the success, truly. And I told the publisher who took this book, I told him: You'll see, with Hashem's help, with Heaven's help, that you'll have sales in your house after you publish this book, it's before and after, it's not it's not comparable. He says to me, all the time he says to me, 'They're selling, thousands of books, we... let's travel to Dvinsk, to the Rogatchover's grave, I want to say thank you.'

25:28 - Now you also published a book for children, right? - Yes, for children too. - Comics for children? - Comics? A real book? - A book, yes, not comics, a book for children and teens, yes. There's a story about when he was a child. So his father told him to eat on Yom Kippur, and when he came back, his father asked him: Did you say the blessing? Birkas HaMazon. Did you say Birkas HaMazon on Yom Kippur? He says: I don't need to bless. He said: Why? Because it's, because... the matter of, the whole matter of blessings at all is from the law of chinuch, training.

25:56 Now you, I don't want to eat; for the sake of honoring my father I ate, but when I'm grown up I won't be able to bless on Yom Kippur. So either way, why do I need to bless? Because when I'm grown up I won't eat, so... The whole matter of a blessing is from the law of chinuch, and I'm before bar mitzvah. And I added: perhaps because one should perhaps add that, on the other hand, there's Heaven's name in vain, since it's not [unclear] Hashem's name so much [unclear]. So if he isn't obligated by the law of chinuch, then there's also a reason here not to speak.

26:21 In Shevuos, page 34, and Nedarim, page 7. There Tosafos learn the prohibition of mentioning Heaven's name in vain. But yes, it's impossible to know; perhaps he already thought about... Perhaps for a child there's no problem at all of mentioning Heaven's name in vain. There's a story, but by the law of chinuch, by the law of chinuch certainly yes, because it's a Torah prohibition; by the law of chinuch he is certainly obligated. I heard a story about him: chinuch is only on [unclear]. A story about the Avnei Nezer, that as a child he ate without Kiddush, so he tells his father that he didn't make Kiddush for himself, because the law of chinuch doesn't apply here, because when will he make Kiddush on Yom Kippur?

26:56 Why chinuch? so that he can, or when it's permitted for him. Not at all. The Rogatchover was very unique in many things. Also, for example, there's the matter that in his letters there's no B"H, Baruch Hashem, or the matter of B"H, in none of his letters is it found, and he also has a view on this. Also the Chazon Ish, by the way, the Chazon Ish didn't write 'B'ezras Hashem' at the top of a letter. And there's about this in the Tzafnas Paneach, there are two responsa where he writes about it, that he doesn't want to, because perhaps the letter will get lost or be erased and there's the issue here of one who erases one letter of Hashem's name.

27:29 So there's a dispute between Beis Shammai and Beis Hillel whether he is liable or exempt, and he doesn't want to enter the doubt of the dispute, so that's why he doesn't write B"H. So I heard in the name of the Imrei Emes, that the Imrei Emes [unclear] the Tzafnas Paneach: what does it have to do with it? After all, in B"H the Heh isn't an abbreviation of Hashem's name, it's an abbreviation of the word 'Hashem', it's not a holy name. So what's the concern? But I found in the Tzafnas Paneach, somewhere, that the Rogatchover discusses whether on the tzitz of the Kohen was written 'Holy to Hashem', whether it said 'Holy to Hashem' or 'to Heh'.

27:57 I said: so it could be that the Rogatchover, by his view, that the Heh by itself is Hashem's name, so he didn't want to get into it. Did you also [unclear] the new [unclear] with the... - No, that's Rabbi Birner. If only I merited. I try to help him with whatever I can, manuscripts, I send him, but I don't presume at all to approach the holy work; it's the work of an outstanding Torah scholar, and so on.

28:24 Outstanding merits. They say it's the Noam Elimelech.

40:19 The Noam Elimelech is [unclear], There's this, do you know about it? It's on words the Rebbe, the Rayatz, wrote. It's a niggun of the Rayatz, right? [unclear] yes. - Right, right. [unclear] All of these up top are Chabad books.

44:09 The whole upper part. Up to the side [unclear] it's Chabad; this here below is Chassidus. This is Likkutei Dibburim. - Yes, yes, books of sichos, talks, yes. - Is this the Rav's study room here? - This is my study room, and also for music. Here I... Music in general and [unclear]. By chance there's also here... He also made many niggunim, I think it's the Radomsker. Yes? Because people know less that it's his, but he also dealt very, very much with niggunim.

44:38 Look, music is the quill of the soul. The two songs that caught on most are his father's. Maybe the Rav, in honor of his father, so... - My grandfather, the composer of [unclear], composed thousands of songs in his life. 'Avinu Malkeinu' and [unclear]. - There's the video of Rabbi [unclear]. And Rabbi [unclear] sings it in his home. - Sings, yes, but it's... - Ashrei [unclear]. Most of the... - Ah, these are Father's songs? - A composer's. My father is a composer too, my father is also an educator, no? - My father is also an educator.

45:07 - A famous educator. - Ah, nice. I don't really know the niggunim; I usually play piano, I don't listen to singers much, I don't know singers, or, you know, melodies, I don't know them so much. The piano doesn't suit every song, only songs worth the harmony. One I'm very connected to is the composer Yossi Green. Listen, so the Tanya, Tanya, ever played the song 'Tanya'? - Yes, 'Tanya, said Rabbi Shmuel'.

50:00 [unclear] Moshe told that he had been in three incarnations. One incarnation, he remembered that he was a... Moshe and Korach. a sheep with Yaakov Avinu, Moshe and Korach. So that means he even remembers the song Yaakov Avinu sang to them, when he would walk with them [unclear]. That is, it's a song Yaakov Avinu sang to the sheep. - How... I'd like to ask, what? Afterwards they put it to [unclear], but it's the song of Yaakov Avinu. - But how do they know, as it were, what he writes, you understand?

50:31 - No, because the one who said it, and this passed from our generation to the generation of [unclear], you need to see, all in all two people. An old Jew of 100, who knew a Jew of 90, who knew him, that's not a long time. So this is the melody of Yaakov Avinu. I have a niggun, shall I play you a niggun of Eichah? - I'd be very glad. I'll play you a niggun. - Wow, [unclear], I'd be very glad. - Ah, sorry? - Yes. My wife, of Rabbi Dovid Yitzchak [unclear].

50:58 And I, of the holy Arizal. I'll play you something beautiful. This is a niggun, it's a melody that I, I compose my melodies after public receptions. It's when I hear all the troubles and all the troubles. Usually on Tuesdays, after public receptions, niggunim come out, and [unclear].

51:23 This is one niggun called, as it were, 'There Is Hope'. This niggun, very, very, there was a public reception, just one of the hardest things I've heard, about a small child, with an illness, [unclear], something. People don't know how hard it is to hear troubles and try to solve these problems, all kinds of cases, [unclear], all kinds of stories but usually nothing even remains, from one to the next and the piano, it seems, is like [unclear], it understands you, it simply cares, this is a niggun we recorded he simply recorded it, and I called it 'There Is Hope' but this niggun [unclear] One is 'from hope', and the second is 'always' [unclear].