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6:07 The Ben Ish Chai. The Ben Ish Chai. His handwriting. This is the Kaf HaChaim. This too. Wow. This is Rabbi Nosson of Breslov. Wow. A manuscript. Rabbi Nosson of Breslov. Wow. Likutei Halachos, actual Likutei Halachos. - This is the Tzemach Tzedek.

6:38 The Tzemach Tzedek's handwriting. Wow. Derech Mitzvosecha? Which sefer is it? This - I don't know. - Is it an Igeres Kodesh? A letter. - I don't think so. These are his glosses. All sorts of his glosses. Chiddushim. The actual Tzemach Tzedek. The Tzemach Tzedek. So Menachem - your son Menachem - is that also after the Tzemach Tzedek? - Yes, yes. Rabbi...

7:04 I had in mind both the Tzemach Tzedek and the Pri HaAretz. Yes. Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, yes. This is the Ben Ish Chai too, in his derush. All in the handwriting of Rabbi Yosef Chaim. May his merit protect us. Here are all sorts of things that he wrote. You've heard of the holy Rashash, right?

7:33 This is the Rashash, the Rashash. The Rashash? - The holy one, yes, the Rashash. This one comes out... you saw it, though. Rabbi Nosson. Halachos... on the festivals, this one.

8:05 This is a manuscript of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, the first Rashash. Before the second Rashash; the famous Rashash is the second one. Rabbi Shalom Sharabi was born on the day that he passed away. This is a sefer that was in Yemen, the holiest one to the Jews there, and the king wanted to burn it, and it would disappear.

8:38 To hurt the Jews, to cause them pain. It would disappear, this sefer. Once the king seized the sefer and laid it beside him as he slept, so that it would not disappear. And at night the sefer opened by itself beside him, and snakes came out of it, out of this sefer. And he fled, he guarded this sefer and made it...

9:07 he said that it is holy to the Jews, and he restored the whole grave of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi, his grave. He is the tzaddik to whom they said from Heaven... when they said to him from Heaven: "Whatever you choose and desire to do in this world, do." That's it. He was a very great worker of wonders.

9:38 This, this is the Tzemach Tzedek; this is the Rebbe. This is from the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel. Our Rebbe. Here: "...that a son was born to them, mazel tov." Wow. "May it be the will of Hashem, blessed be He, that they bring him into Torah, to the chuppah and to good deeds, and raise him, together with his wife, may she live, amid abundance."

10:08 Now look: "With the blessing of mazel tov." Now listen to what happened here. A man came to me, before... after the bris, by Hashgachah pratis, who wanted to give me a gift; he knows that I am attached to tzaddikim, so he brought me a gift. I said to him: "The Rebbe sent me a mazel tov." When did the honored Rav receive this? - After the bris, just now, this week.

10:36 Here, what it says: the 15th of Tammuz, and I... that is the date of the holy Ohr HaChaim. And I prayed on the Ohr HaChaim's date for children. And then my wife, as it were, Hashem... The Ohr HaChaim, in order to have children. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak - listen. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, the Rebbe Rayatz.

11:04 I am very attached to him. I dreamed of the Rebbe Rayatz. Many, many years ago I dreamed a dream: I see him sitting, and I am sitting, and he blessed me. He put his hand on my head. He put my kippah on me, straightened it for me like this, like a Krembo, and put his fingers on it, and I felt it like this on my head - his hand on my head.

11:29 And I get up from the dream, I awoke from the dream, and I wrote it down for myself, 20 years ago. I wrote it down in my notebook of dreams; I write down things each time. Ah, he's translating. I understand. We understand. You understand? - Yes, yes. And I understand. He had a dream 20 years ago, that the Rebbe Rayatz appeared to him... "He put his hand on me" - he put a big hand on him, with big fingers.

12:04 When I wake up I go to the mirror, and I see my kippah on my head in the same shape as in the dream, and on it was the shape of fingers. And ever since I have been very, very attached to him, to the Rebbe Rayatz. There is a picture here that the Rebbe loved the most, when he would look at it.

12:33 I saw that he spoke of it, that it was dear to him. Look, here he is looking like this. I truly love him; I love him very, very much. - How much I... Very attached to him. He was Mashiach. Mashiach. Had we merited, there would have been geulah - Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak.

13:03 And there was such a light, something... There was such a thing. The Rebbe used to say: the Nasi of the generation is a person... Yes. This is in Boston or Baltimore, I think.

13:37 Ah, this - no. Is that my grandfather? No, no, no, no. There are pictures; this is from my grandfather. I wonder if... - No, only... Where is this picture? No, no. Your grandfather was... - It could be that this was my grandfather; I can't believe it. Rabbi Yaakov... how is that? It's not, it's not. Not that one. This is Rabbi Hodakov. This is the son - how do you say it - son-in-law.

14:03 This is Rabbi Hodakov. But not Hodakov; this is Rabbi... Gurary. Gurary. Here, this is the picture the Rebbe loved. Of what? The Rebbe had a picture. Ah, the Rebbe would... he would look at it all the time. The Rebbe had a picture, there is a picture in the room, and it's this one. This is the picture. This is the picture in the Rebbe's room. - At home.

14:31 Yes, yes. It was the dearest to him; I know that about this one he said it was the dearest. He has a picture in the bedroom. His bedroom? - Yes. He knows that this was the dearest to him. It's moving. These are pictures you haven't seen, right? - No.

15:04 And Chabad chassidim haven't seen these pictures. Here is the passport. Wow. Every scrap there is about the Rebbe Rayatz gets collected. Everything. I have more pictures of the Rebbe Rayatz, more than what is in this album. - Yes. - I have another album.

15:33 Wow. Another album, a different one, something big, beautiful. And of the Rebbe too. There are also ones of the Rebbe together with him. He is learning Tanya. He is learning Tanya. He is writing, he is writing, he is writing. He is learning...

15:59 With a Tanya. He is thinking, writing. Beautiful, right. I didn't know that... - He would often go, for his health, to the baths, natural ones.

16:25 No - to enjoy, too, but... - What, to enjoy? To enjoy - also for the benefit of body and soul. Is that really him? Wow. It's amazing. - The Temimim, the Temimim, yes. Wow. Is this the Rebbe giving a blessing? Do you know where this is?

16:55 It's at the Tomchei Temimim dinner. This? - Yes. At the Tomchei Temimim dinner. - Wait, but Rabbi Yoel of Satmar also held a dinner here. Could that be? Rabbi Yoel of Satmar also held a dinner here? For Tomchei Temimim? - No, in this place. There is a picture of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar too? It isn't Chabad's. - Ah, it isn't Chabad's, right, it's... it's for all of them.

17:24 We would have had to bring them into the same room at the same time, at the same table. - Rare ones of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar? Rare ones - also an album this big, only of Rabbi Yoel of Satmar. Rare, very rare. This is someone from Chabad, one of yours. Yours - ours, ours.

17:52 I don't feel that I am attached to any of them; I feel that I am the farthest away. I cannot include myself with anything at all. If only I were worth something. Someone brought me a picture of a person who, they said, was very attached to the Rebbe Rayatz. I put it in. You don't know who this is?

18:17 I recognize him, but no, no... All right. They told me he was attached to him, so I put him in here. If I think of it, I'll tell you, okay? I think... I think I'll tell you. And I'll tell you. Have you actually seen this one?

18:42 Yes, yes. This one became very famous. One of the most famous. No, really not. I... almost 99% of them you don't know; you have never seen them. What a smile. There are no smiles at all. Here there is a smile. Ah, I have a picture of him smiling - laughing, even. Yes, yes. That too. But almost all of them... All the pictures were at his tziyun.

19:08 All the pictures were at his tziyun. They brought... back from his grave. Okay. Usually his face is like fire, it's like... Yes, it's fire. Fire. Serious, yes. Here, on the wagon - have you seen this? Ah, of course not! A horse and wagon. - We have never seen any of these pictures, ever. A horse and wagon. It rectifies the soul to see him.

19:38 It rectifies you inside. My grandfather - he started many of the Rebbe Rayatz's institutions, Yeshivas Hadar HaTorah, for baalei teshuvah, and all the activities - many of the activities - my grandfather, he started them, he started them.

20:14 Yes, yes. This one I haven't seen. Wow. Rare, right. - Really, really rare. He is wearing glasses and laughing. Glasses, and laughing. This you haven't seen. Glasses. With glasses - that you surely haven't seen.

20:42 Okay. This was at 770. You think this was at 770? Yes. Yes. This too, this too, yes. This is a really beautiful picture; I love this one the most. What - wait? Yes. With the Rebbe and... It's amazing. Ah, I think this was when they stamped the... his passport. The passport of the...

21:12 This is rare; it's really crazy, crazy. What is this? What is this? What is this? What? Is it his hands? Something in his hand? - It's with a cigarette. With that kind of holder that the cigarette goes into. - It's a filter holder, right? - Yes, yes. Wow.

21:37 Wow, wow, may I see it? Rare. Yes. What I love about almost... about many of these pictures is that he knows - it's not that someone snapped a picture of him; he is sitting there, accepting the picture. He is sitting there, accepting the picture.

22:03 I don't think he was in this world. I agree. Look, look, what a picture - with a Sefer Torah. It is truly awe-inspiring. Very, very much... ...I enjoyed. - Mordechai Yaakov. - Mordechai Yaakov, son of Rivkah.

22:29 A good life. - Amen. - Joy, and happy forever. - Amen. It was very moving, your niggun. To put it out? Beautiful. May the Holy One, blessed be He, watch over you and gladden you, and may you succeed, and may you succeed. You have a beautiful voice, very, and you sing beautifully and very movingly. Thank you very much. - May you succeed. I was very happy to meet you.

22:53 Success and joy. Amen. Good tidings. This isn't... it's not the sichah, but this is the most important sichah in Likkutei Dibburim. It's just... it's the sichah of the Rashbi to Rav... Yes, this one - and this is word for word, Do you want to? Read it, go ahead. - This is word for word, but...

23:23 [reading from the sefer] ...namely, "that physical existence, which is created existence - its root is from the True Existence. However, since it is at the level of revelations, it is perceived as the physical. And only now did it become known to him that it is from the Root and Essence of all, whose main point is bittul, specifically by way of refining and purifying, and that through this one draws down the Essence itself."

23:50 He is saying that every created being that has selfhood and substance must nullify itself to its root, where it is all ayin - there is nothing at all. To know that at the root all is one, and there is only Hashem. Yes. "Since precisely through this one fulfills the supernal intent in creating existence: that the Essence, blessed be He, be revealed - the Essence alone, not revelations and not levels." - Our whole purpose here in the world, the reason we exist, our purpose is to reveal His G-dliness, blessed be He, in the world.

24:21 Not to reveal ourselves, and not to attribute anything to ourselves. We must reveal G-dliness in the entire world. "And from this he was so moved that he bowed down and kissed the dust," He went and he kissed the ground, "to show the greatness of existence, and the purpose of the chain of the worlds, as our Rebbe wrote in chapter 36." May his merit protect us, Amen. Ay, ay, ay. His merit - the Admor Rayatz. His merit - the Admor Rayatz. May his merit protect us, and all Israel, our brothers, Amen. - Amen. - Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak, the Admor Rayatz.