More comments from the Rav.

You can read the first part HERE.

Enjoy!

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[The Rav starts talking about Shuvu Banim’s hakafot on Simchat Torah, and continues:]

In Breslev, the dancing [on Simchat Torah] is not ‘simcha’ (happiness) – it’s in order to nullify all the harsh decrees in the whole world.

If they would have danced [hakafot shniot after Simchat Torah 5784, when October 7th happened]…[1]

Rubinstein arranged things, but the Badatz said it’s assur to dance! They put out a psak.

You weren’t there, this was two years’ ago, you don’t remember.

It’s forbidden to dance!

What is this?! The dancing got them out of captivity! If there wasn’t dancing, they would have stayed there, in captivity. We wanted to get everyone out.

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The hostages said that there were gates [i.e. the openings that the terrorists made in the fence around the Gaza Strip].

The whole border [around the Gaza Envelope], 60 kms, 120 ‘gates’. They opened ‘gates’ the size of a palace, like the Sanctuary of the Beit HaMikdash, 40 amot. It was open – everyone says this.

They said that it was a fence that it was impossible to ever breach it, and that whoever even came close, they would shoot. It would shoot at them automatically. And everyone said, we have such a fence, we don’t need to be scared of anyone!!!

[But really], the openings were 10 meters wide, 20 meters. [The terrorists] from Gaza came to holiday in Israel – they came to tour around. They went touring. Like on Shabbat afternoon.

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They came back again, and kidnapped more people – all the Gazans.

They entered homes and kidnapped more – whoever wasn’t burnt alive. 800 houses were burnt. 80 houses were burnt, in 20 kibbutzim. Each kibbutz, this was 40 [burnt] houses. All the ‘houses’ there were doing aveirot… they got burnt.

In a kibbutz, it’s permitted to do aveirot… everything got burnt. Everything went up in flames. Not a single house remained. 800 houses were burnt, in 20 kibbutzim, each kibbutz, 40 houses.

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So Shmuel Isaac Rubinstein [on the night after Simchat Torah] said dafka, dance! Dance until 6am!

He got everyone dancing here. He got everyone dancing, here. We didn’t want to be in the mercaz (centre), so that the Badatz wouldn’t say that we’d ignored the words of the Badatz – but it was exactly the opposite! The dancing would free people from captivity.

If you see someone taken hostage, then immediately you need to start dancing.

The Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman of Breslev] spoke of: “the world you create with your legs.” That by way of the dancing, you can win.

Now, Odi [the Rav’s daughter Odele] told me that the dancing is the tikkun (rectification) for the sin of Michal [wife of King David].

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[Skipping some]

So, all the Teplinskis come from Teplinski.

They are his grandsons, and so they are all tzaddikim. They also descend from the Megaleh Amukot. And all the Tzukers, they are from Trolobitsch.

There was Avraham Mordechai, who used to distribute free food across the whole of Jerusalem.

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He never came home.

In his life, he never saw his wife. He didn’t know who his wife was. He didn’t meet her. After havdalah, he used to disappear. He simply disappeared.

He didn’t say where he was going, where he was disappearing to. Immediately after havdalah, he disappeared, and he came back just before candle lighting, half an hour beforehand, in order to put the samovar (shabbos kettle), maybe they hadn’t cooked the fish. He appeared half an hour before candle lighting, and after havdalah he disappeared.

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It was like that for a year or two, until Yonah Laibl.

He was the most merciful person in the whole of the world – Yonah Laibl. We also have Avraham Isaac, who married a Laibl. In truth, she was the greatest tzaddeket in the whole of Jerusalem. What was she called?

Hannah Laibl was the mother, but [what was] the wife of Avraham called, the brother of Meir David? We need to know, these are tzaddikim.

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Hannah used to make the food for the whole of Meron, with another frummer, I don’t know which one, exactly.

They made the food for the whole of Meron. A thousand people came to Meron, 2,000 people, today, 40,000 go there. It used to be 100,000 – now, they limited it because of the disaster.

They did that on purpose.

The police wanted to limit the aliyah [ascending to Meron on L’ag B’omer]. They did this on purpose.

They closed all the exits and just left one exit open, and there, they shoved together 2,000 people.

Dov’leh got to there exactly then, with the baby stroller, and there was a miracle, that he didn’t manage to go in, because of the crowding. And one person crushed the other.

The police did this especially. They also got rid of all the cameras [the day before].

Everything, everything, was done on purpose.

There was no ‘coincidences’ here.

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TBC

Translated and excerpted from Shivivei Or 428.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] The State of Israel forbid all the hakafot shniot that year.