What is What does the Rebbe say about that in י״ט כסלו? Hayom Yom, it says, no? Was it Rebbe Rashab, no? The other one yesterday, a buyer only got once a week and the, the... He was here, yeah? So how do you...? There's a maaseh with the... There's a maaseh with the Ruzhiner. Reb' Isaac Hamel'er was by the Ruzhiner. He was sent by the Tzemach Tzedek, anyway he was standing there by the Ruzhiner, he was... The Ruzhiner was מקבל people. So one guy he sees that some guy comes, two people came. One guy came who wrote a sefer of מעשיות, מעשי צדיקים, and one guy wrote a ספר חידושי תורה. And the גבאי was telling the Ruzhiner, \"We have these two people.\" So the Ruzhiner says, \"Okay, read me a little bit from the maasiyot.\" He read him from the maasiyot, okay. Then he said, \"Now read me a little bit from the חידושי תורה.\" He read for him. So he gave him a הסכמה, he wrote him a צעטל, so he wrote first for the guy the maasiyot and then for the guy חידושי תורה. So Reb' Isaac Hamel'er was standing there. Reb' Isaac Hamel'er, the Alter Rebbe's a chasid, but this was in the Mitteler Rebbe's time, Tzemach Tzedek, so, but he called him the, the ליטווישער, 'cause Lubavitch, the גבאי and others like... So he's, and Reb' Isaac was standing there, so the

Ruzhiner says, \"The ליטווישער גאון וואונדערט זיך, פארוואס עפעס first I gave kavod to the מעשי צדיקים, and then a, then then with the חידושי תורה? It should be the opposite.\" So he said, \"The Torah takes a זאג געטאן. הייבט זיך אן with maasiyot, with בראשית ברא אלקים. And it says, Rashi freget, 'לא הוצרך להתחיל את התורה אלא מהחודש הזה לכם,' אלא 'כח מעשיו הגיד לעמו.' The erste zach is כח מעשיו, the maasiyos, that that gives the yiras shamayim, that that helps.\" So that's the... So a פרט it's a... That was like Karliner, like Rabbi' Shlomo Karlin or who had the burnt mark from the Chanukah lights, because the Chanukah light was so is so clean that there's no remnant of it. But one one time it it burned up and he was overjoyed because he had a... And for the whole year, I think, it stayed after. Yeah. So there's just like What time is Maariv? 6:00. Okay, that's good. I remember when we were in the Cadillac Hotel, there was a big crowd in the Remember it used to be a big, a lot of guys from Collins Avenue used to come. It was Nittel Nacht, it was crazy, about 75 people. So I told So I told a story, famous story with the Bach with the Pope, a long maaseh, it took me a half hour to tell, famous story, you know? You want to hear a story? Let's hear it. Let's hear the story. On Purim? It was in wintertime. Because on Carl is that people just... Cadillac you started in the Cadillac? Started before that, started in the Ocean Spray. Ocean Spray. And then it was Cadillac, and then we came here, yeah. We we traveled Who soon went into the Cadillac? Yeah. We don't go from the Cadillac to Ocean Spray, Ocean Spray to Cadillac, nachdem the Mercedes. If you give עשר גליות גולסות on גולסה ליובאוויטש. Carl's name, Cadillac the owner The brother's Noah. Well, Caribbean was the Shechter. Schechter's, yeah, but this was They were caterers, ain't? No, no, no. It's just by the wedding hall. You don't want to miss the story. You want to hear a story? Yeah, I want to hear the story. It's lots It's a long story. How long were we were there? A few years. Quite a few years, yeah. It's good. Story with the Bach, it's a it's a known a known, I mean, I don't know how much people know it, but. It was one time, it was in the time when the the Bach, but this was a The Pope who was then, that's why it's connected to Nittel Nacht. The Pope came with an idea. This was what about what year? Just more or less. Oh, much Early 1600s, I'm sure. Early 1600s. The Bach was in the time of the Beis Yosef, he was a little bit the time of the Arizal. This goes back, the Arizal, almost almost 500, 400 450 years. Thank you, thank you. So, so they had The Pope. Uh. Yeah. Come, come on, don't interrupt. It's his yahrzeit, no? Oh. It's likely. All right. All right, this whole story is not for The end is the story with the Bach. The Pope came with an idea. The Pope came with an idea that he wants to the the Vatican and the and the buildings and everything there were already getting old, so he wanted to rebuild and build a a new mansion and a new palace. So, he decided that he wants that all these, all the Christians, all the Catholics should participate and give a lot of money, and they should build it. So, he gathered a meeting with all the cardinals and they brought them this plan that what he wants to do, and they all agreed to it that this is a good idea. And they decided they're going to choose two people to be the collectors to go around to collect money all over the all over the world. collect money and all these people would give. So he chose two cardinals that they should go, and he called them in and he gave them instructions what they should do. They should go to the different cities, and he is going to send letters first to all the cities beforehand that they should expect them, and they come they should get the greatest kavod, and they should help them make an appeal and they would get money. And he made a gantsa cheshboynes that when you collect money make sure to change it into bigger bills, so you won't collect. When you travel from one place to another, get dressed get dressed like beggars, don't get dressed don't be a chashuv, because then people will think that you're chashuv. Then when you come to the city, then you should put on your clothes and and you stay there to collect money. And also made up with them that from every city they come, when they come there and when they accomplished what they did, they should send a letter back to the Pope, and the Pope would know vos hert zich and know exactly where they're holding and which way they are. And so they take went and they were matzliach. They were going from city to city and they came to They collected a lot of money and they made and they kept all the things, and they used to write letters back to him. So finally, they came close to the city of Crocke. They came to close city of Crocke, the city of Crocke they came late at night. Krakow? Krakow. They came there late at night, the gates were closed already. So what should they do? Where should they stay? So they looked around and they saw one house had a light on. There was fire. This was a house of an אלמנה, that's a lady who her husband was rich and he passed away, and he had a business that he had like a blacksmith things and think, but anyway the fire there to keep the heat of the fire for the what they did was burning 24 hours a day. And so so they saw a fire. So they came into the house, the only place they had, it was late at night, they knocked on the door, so this lady answered, and they said, \"We're traveling, and we got stuck here, we don't know what to do, but don't worry, can we stay in your house?\" She said, \"Fine.\" So she took him into the house, and she gave him food, and then she showed him into the room, and then they were they were, you know, very tired from the traveling. Not far was a river. So she told them about the river, she said they want They said, \"After before we go to sleep, we want we want to go to take a swim, to to cool ourselves off.\" And they went, and she went into her room, in her place, and she went to sleep. In the morning, she woke up, and she was waiting for them to come out, so she could give them food. She waited, she waited, she waited, they didn't come out. Anyway, she knocked on the door, no answer. She opened the door, there's nobody there. Fell in the river? Nobody there, she didn't know what to do. So she knew that they were going to the river, anyway, she came to the river to check. She sees their clothes that they took off when they went into the river was laying there, and they're nowhere to be found. She understood what happened to them, they probably Drowned. drowned. She went into the room, back into the room, and she looked through their clothes, and she she was afraid, who knows what they're going People are going to say, they're going to find out that it was there. She took the clothes and put it away up into the basement there, so so no one should dervayl, days passed, the people from Crocke, the the the the the גלח from Crocke is waiting for them to come, cuz they got the letters and they didn't come. The Pope, in this place, is waiting for their דוח to show that the report, what is doing, and he's not getting it. He got very nervous, he sent letters. Un dervayl, days, weeks weeks passed, and she also didn't know, she heard about this, anyway, she went down to the to the basement to look at the clothes, she found in the clothes a big bag. She opened up the bag, it had all the money that they had collected, mamash millions of whatever money is collected. She didn't know what to do now, she knows they're going to look around, they're going to find, anyway, she went, she took the clothes and she threw it into the fire, she burned it, and the money she hid some place. And waiting, she didn't know what to do, what what to do with it. Yeah, a Yiddishe woman, yeah. She didn't know what to do with it. She waited weeks and weeks and weeks, and the meantime, the Pope started getting nervous, sent out letters, and they sent out search committees to search, and they searched all over, and they got started making a cheshbon where were they where were they, and they said they got reports from till Crocke, and then after Crocke they didn't, so obviously it's around Crocke. So they went around in that place, and they said there must be something over there. They went around, they searched around, and anyway, they came into her house also, but they couldn't find anything, and finally they left. And she still has this money, she didn't know what to do, but dervayl the money is there. Time passed, there's eppes one of the rich men in Crocke got married, his wife died, so someone came to matzia a shidduch her, she should marry this guy. Anyway, finally, eppes she married this guy. She married this guy, and he started he had a big business, and after a while, The אלמנה? The אלמנה remarried to this guy, this alman. She started taking out the money from She still didn't use the money, she was afraid, but since she married a rich man, like this, people would wonder, \"Where'd you get money from?\" others, but she started adding money to the business, and the She didn't tell her husband where she got the money. Finally, once the husband, you know, was asking her, \"Where do you get the money?\" She wouldn't tell him, she was afraid to tell anyone. She by the who knows the word will get back to, you know, to the pope. She got she didn't know what He tried everything, she wouldn't tell him. But finally She knows it's from the pope. She heard, yeah. She figured out after she heard all the things in the newspapers and everything And the husband was nudging her and nudging her, where did you get the money? Finally she had no choice anyway, she told him. She told him, so he said, I don't know, we have to ask a she'elah if you are allowed to use this money. It's money that belongs to somebody else, can you use it? It's called an aveidah whatever. So he said he can't What's the eitzah? The eitzah to go ask the rav. Who was the rav? The rav was the Bach. We'll go to the Bach. So they went into the city, they lived outside the city, they went to the city of Kraków, came to the beit midrash of the Bach, came to the Bach. It's the middle of a shiur. In the shiur, they waited until he finished the shiur, he went into his room and she comes in with her husband, says, \"We want to talk to you something private. Make sure that nobody listens because this is a very private matter.\" So he said, \"Fine.\" He told everyone to leave, and everyone left. When they were about to talk, she turns around and sees one talmid is still standing there. He was the talmid So she says mit he had that no one's going to listen. He said, \"This talmid is my best talmid, you can trust him like you trust me. I mean, there's nothing to worry about, he's\" So he And she tells him the whole story, how the maaseh and that she figured out what happened and and she asked the Bach the she'elah if she's allowed to use it. And the Bach, I guess, looked into it, and the Bach paskent that she's that she's allowed to use it. Oh, so it went out, the husband was very happy, it went out. This talmid, something happened, he got into a fight with another talmid and his thing and he left the yeshivah, and the one he got very angry at the yeshivah and got angry at the Bach, like things happen, and he left left Yiddishkeit. Left Yiddishkeit, and he was very smart, he went to school, he went to religious school, and he became a cardinal. He became, although a גלח, and he became a cardinal. Wow. And then after what happened, that only became a cardinal, the pope picked by the gestorben, and they looked to him to make pope, and they made him pope. And he remembered the whole story. I'm sorry, Bach. There you go. Not the whole story that they told the Bach, that this lady has Now, he doesn't come to the Bach, so he's thinking to himself, he got to do something here because he's the pope and he's in the, but he can't just come like this. So he made an announcement that as pope, he's going to make in Kraków, pope is like Rome, but in Kraków he's going to make a big אֲסֵפָה and he wants all the cardinals and all the priests, גלחים from all over to come. And he he called, he notified the government of Kraków that he's coming there, and he has a speech to say, something special to speak, but he wants everyone to be there. They sent out, you know, notice of there's no all the גלחים and all the government, the officials, and everyone to come. And they prepared the whole city with, but the end was, when the date came, and he said one thing, he wants the Bach and this couple to come there too. And they knew what this is all about. So what do you do? You're very scared and anyway, at this point, what happened was, he the date came. For some reason, 's hot nisht ongenumen by the people and it wasn't the crowd that he expected. He expected that he'll have Ganze, all these. And he came to Kraków and it wasn't, so he says he's canceling it. He's canceling this whole thing. But, made a second date. And this time, he's ordering as pope everyone to come to Rome, to the Vatican. And he is going to give a speech and he wants everyone to come. And then they started decorating the city, and he wants that the Bach and this couple should come there, too. And they knew what's going to happen. They came to the Bach and they said, \"What are we going to do?\" The Bach said, \"Don't worry. Don't worry, the Eibershter will help, don't don't be scared.\" And the Bach realized who this pope was and it was his talmid. Finally, the the date came, the sat came and this time everyone came and this the city was full and they put up a big stage in the middle of the He had no idea that the Bach would know that he was the talmid, or he did? Well, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if took a took a chance, too, the he pushes for him the the Bach says, \"Well, who are you?\" I that that I don't know. How's your kids? Anyway, the the date came and everyone gathered around and they had and they made a big And the pope comes. Finally, and they're waiting for 2 years after all this, what's the pope going to say? And what he was planning to say is to get up and say that he knows, and this is that she took away this millions of dollars and whatever. Comes, everyone is waiting. The pope stepped up in the stage, and he orders the Bach He asks, \"Is the Bach here with them?\" Yeah, he orders them to come. No one understood, why in the world does he need the Bach for? Like no one knows this whole story. So the Bach, they come over, and the Bach walks walks over, משכמו ומעלה, and the Pope looks at him, and he forgot what he wants to say. Who did? The Pope. He's standing there, and he's standing there, and he doesn't know what he wants to say. And everyone is waiting, all the cardinals around there and all the גלחים and this and everything. It took, I don't know, a האלבע שעה, א שעה, and everyone's waiting, and he's standing there, and he doesn't he doesn't know what to say. And finally so it took נאך עטליכע שעה the bizyonot that were there for the for them that the bizyonot of of the Pope. And finally they saw that there is nothing to do, so the cardinals took him off and took him down and took him to a room, and the end was that they got rid of him because an אויס Pope and everything and that and that, and that's the end of the story. The Bach the story goes, the Bach looked at him, looked him in his face, and when he looked him in his face, he just forgot everything he wants to say. A מעשה שהיה. These are... but a name like the Bach, it's it's it's not a... Same time with the Shelah HaKadosh, the Bach with the Shelah? Yeah, be'erech, be'erech. Is the Taz his father-in-law? Taz his father-in-law. There's a famous phrase about the Taz and the Bach. After the... Taz was his son-in-law. Taz was the But the Bach The Taz writes מורי וחמי that's on on the Bach. But there's a story when the Bach when the Taz married the Bach's daughter he made up in the conditions he's going to eat kest. He's going to support him. But the the Taz said, \"I need meat. I need meat everyday because I need koach to learn, I want to learn.\" The Bach promised him. So then שווערע צייטן the Bach didn't have enough money how much money did he have? So he gave him the לעבערלעך. Liver was those days very cheap. It's the cheapest meat. And the Taz טענה'ט, \"That's not That's not what I meant. I meant it was good if I should have koach. This doesn't give me any koach, this doesn't give me anything.\" He didn't have any money. Once... Ah? Once, once the some a she'eilah happened on a liver. It got mixed with milk. So they came to the Rav, to the Bach, to ask a she'eilah. The Bach looks at it and he says, \"Well this shaila I want you to go to my son-in-law to ask him.\" They came to the Taz. They came to the Taz, and the Taz looked into it and he paskend it's treifa, it's basar bechalav. Later the Bach asked the Taz, \"You got the shaila here, what did you pasak?\" \"I paskend it's treifa, it's basar bechalav.\" \"אה, leberlech is basar?!\" That's how the punchline goes? So this, \"Liver is basar! You tanent it's not basar. When we made up basar it is nisht kein basar. Az we made up basar this is not basar, you said, so leberlech is basar?!\" All the maasiyot with the ikar. They say, what's heiser a shver or a edim? A shver promises a eidem kest. A next day he didn't give him. He called him to a din Torah. So the shver screams to him, \"It's not true! Bring edim that that like you said.\" So he says, \"shver! Swear, shver!\" Actually the Taz sent his son to the Shabbetai Tzvi to check him out. And? He came back, he came back and he but didn't was confused, he doesn't know. Who, the Bach? The Taz's son. The Taz's son, the Taz sent him to go to the to the Shabbetai Tzvi, with the whole Tammuz was to check him out, to see what he is. And he came back and he said he doesn't know. In other words, he doesn't In other words, he he was very impressed with him. Most of the gedolim were impressed. Oh yeah. Not in But in Yerushalayim the gedolim were against. In Yerushalayim, they put him in cherem. I thought all the Sephardim... No, in Yerushalayim In other countries, yeah, Sephardim, but not in Yerushalayim. In Yerushalayim the gedolim in Yerushalayim, they threw him out, they didn't. But the Taz wanted to know, he sent his a son and they couldn't and they and and he came back and he said to his father, \"I don't know,\" because he was a big talmid chacham, a big gaon, a big מקובל, but he yeah, but he couldn't have a handle on him. He says, \"I don't know, I don't know.\" He came back. That was that was the Taz, yeah. The

Shach writes, the Shach was younger than the Taz, so the Shach writes in his הקדמה The Shach writes a lot of things. He doesn't, you know, against the Taz, but he says that once the Taz came to my house till we figured out who it was, he he him, and we spoke In the הקדמה, we spoke in learning, other words we're not and at the end, he thank, he kissed me on my forehead, I think he writes. The Taz was much older than the Shach. These were... Talk about the Shach the famous story with a דין תורה he had. Shach had had an argument with somebody, a גזלן. He says, \"Let's go to a דין תורה.\" Now, to which rabbanim could the Shach go? I mean, who is going to take a דין תורה if the Shach is involved? So they had to find a Rav that never saw the Shach, but has to be a Those days, no pictures, no one knew who who anyone is. So they found this a Rav who was a big talmid chacham in a shtetl, who never saw the Shach, never, and they didn't tell him who he was. And they came to a דין תורה, to have a דין תורה. Comes, it's all דין תורה, and what was? He paskened against the Shach. Says, \"Why?\" He says So he says to him, \"היכא דנתוני? Where did you see this?\" So he said, \"A new sefer just came out from this great gaon, the Shabbetai Kohen, came out, and there he says this and this sevara. Based on that sevara, you are wrong.\" So Shach אמת? Yeah. He didn't know it? The Shach said, \"דאס העט מען, אז מע קומט צו זיך.\" מגיד לו דבריו. מגיד לו דבריו, look at that. He said, that's right. He gave it Understand, the Shach, that's what the Gemara meant, that the Shach is The

Alter Rebbe writes that any sefer written up to the Shach and Taz, including the Shach and Taz, is beruach hakodesh. Imagine. Up to So at one time he said up to the Maharsha, Maharsha בכלל, and once he said Shach and Taz. At the same time, it's be'erech the same time. So the Shach wrote beruach hakodesh. We're talking about a person like that, he had no negios, he didn't So, קומט צו זיך, that's what he Later he said, \"דאס אייך, קומט צו זיך, comes to yourself.\" Look at the The Maharshal was bigger than the Rama. The only reason the Rama wrote the Mappah, because his uncle passed away. Who is bigger? They have all kinds of teshuvos back and forth, fighting, Rama and the Maharshal. The Maharshal was the was the zaken, he was the He was older, it doesn't mean he was greater, he was older. He was a contemporary of the Arizal. One of the teshuvos, דער גמרא אפילו חילוקים Yeah, yeah, why not? Yeah. דער גמרא אפילו חילוקים, דער ש\"ך האלט חושן משפט, ש\"ך חושן משפט. איינער פסק'נט אין הכי נמי, דאס איז נישט קיין סתירה. עס שטייט דאך אין ש\"ך. אין ש\"ך שטייט עס. If the If the Maharshal would have lived, there would be no Mappah in the Shulchan Aruch. There would be two Shulchan Aruch's, that would be a big קריגעריי. It would have been a big קריגעריי.