The Unbreakable Link: Rebbe-Talmud Connection in Chassidic Heritage

0:01 Chassidim rock. It just seems like they're always b'simcha Chassidim. You know Litvox cannot recreate their kugel, their chalun. There's just something about chassidim It's with simcha, it's with ahava and it's pretty cool. And even Rabbi Ruch Mlovavut once praised the chassidim for the way that they dress, with a very regal approach, always in a frack, in an up hat, almost in like an old school style and something that is much desired, b'siman hazeh. But the praise doesn't stop there And to build it up here we go listen to this paschak.

0:48 This is at the time in Parshis, baha Loshcha, where Maishir Abaynu has just brought the complaints from the Jewish people up to the Almighty, as the Jews were petitioning that we want meat and this monotonous diet of man will not suffice. But Moshe threw in an extra petition. He said I could use some help down here, perhaps some other prophets. So Hashem responded ve otsaltim in haruach, i will increase from your spirit your divine spirit. I shall allow you, i will put it on. Eventually, the 70 elders Shibem Zekaynem would be crowned as other leaders, along with Moshe.

1:33 Rabbeinu Eda, a little bit lesser of a level of prophecy, but Fracture of Vobah. Why didn't Hashem just create prophets? Why did Hashem have to say I'm going to take from you b'saltim in haruach from your first prophecy and then connect it to build other 70, why Just make new prophets? It says Rashi, and Revolba explains Maishir Abaynu was like a candle and his prophecy was like the fire that it can continue to light many other candles and it never loses even the littlest bit of its own fire. T'ayra Kedusha Ruach Hashem, it is a tradition, it's a Masayra and it must be passed through Rebbe to Talmud.

2:20 Revolba explains like a candle lighting other candles, you must be in line to receive fire from the candle to be a part of the Jewish tradition. And Chassidim, oh Chassidim, they will not budge without the advice, without the words of their saintly Rebbe, and even Rebbe Salsalantar did at times talk about the idea of having this real commitment to a teacher, in a way of a Rebbe Maishir Abaynu arayane'em on, our trusted shepherd, our Rebbe. It's remarkable, and I just came across a Gemara in Barachos this morning, on page Mem Zayin, that talks about who is an Amh-a-Auraz, who is an ignoramus, who is an unlearned person, someone who doesn't do she must amidechah ha'amim, somebody who doesn't look at how rabbis and holy people, their teacher, acts When they're in the bathroom, when they're walking down the street, how do they act, how do they carry themselves?

3:18 We see an unbelievable hiddish, a tremendously new, novel insight that if you're inside this genealogy, this heritage of the Jewish people, if you're in line with the tradition and the Masora, then your candle gets lit. But even if you take all of the Torah with you into a private midbar by yourself, you will never turn into that bright, shining candle. It is only from Rebbe to Talmud, from teacher to student, that the Torah is transmitted. So get yourself a Rebbe and hang on tight.