Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman – Biography – History of the Tziyun – Part 1

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman – Biography – History of the Tziyun – Part 1 – Speaker: Rabbi Yechiel Michel Dorfman zal. (Recorded in Jerusalem, Abt. 1999.)
00:00 – I’ve been in Eretz Yisrael almost 30 years.
01:10 – The first thing I want to speak about is how I become a Breslover chossid at age 14-15.
02:33 – He said he’s a Breslover chassid…
02:48 – I attended an underground (hidden) “Polish” yeshiva in Kiev. The Rosh Yeshiva was a Boyaner chossid.
03:01 – Hishtapkhus HaNefesh
03:32 – I came to Uman, to the Breslover klois…
04:00 – When I came to the tziyun, I saw for the first time in my life…
05:31 – I returned from the tziyun and received a letter from my father
07:32 – I was 16 years and 7 months old when I married Rav Avrohom zal’s granddaughter …
08:27 – At first we lived in Uman… (?)
08:54 – The Rebbe’s seforim: Sipurei Maasiyos, Likutey Moharan, LIkutey Halakhos…
09:39 – Now I want to speak about another thing…
09:43 – When the Rebbe’s neshoma was going to be sent to the world, there was one who objected…
10:36 – Story of the Rabbi’s Only Son (Sipurey Maasios).
11:20 – 50 years…
12:24 – Breslover chassidim were accused of undermining communism…
13:15 – they asked him in Ukrainian…
13:38 – Where is our ammunition? He put his tzitzis on the table and said, “Here’s our ammunition…”
13:52 – Tzitzis…
14:40 – Traveling to Siberia in a train car for animals, not for people…
15:33 – There was a person who worked in the pharmacy… (clinic?)
15:55 – An open, lively person…
16:24 – Standing in cold water… they amputated his feet…
18:08 – Breslov and Chabad were the most hated by the communists…
18:21 – It took 38 years…
18:42 – My thoughts were always in Eretz Yisrael but my feet were there…
19:34 – 62 years I was there.
19:43 – I lived in Melakhavka, near Moscow…
24:03 – Kiev
30:57 – Broken heart…
31:45 – All the neshomos there…
32:13 – Kiev…
32:54 – Only 3 or at most 4 people could ride in a cab…
33:55 – 8 day vacation from work…
34:18 – There were no buses, only a taxi…
35:27 – I sat in front with the driver and we drove to the police
36:42 – Passport
37:03 – Red hats?
37:29 – I told him “You sleep.” He slept.
39:35 – 30 or 35 kilometers…
39:42 – I asked the driver…
39:52 – He saw an empty place near me, he hitched a ride…
40:17 – And Baruch Hashem I stayed alive… we traveled on…
40:38 – That Reb Zanvil built….
40:44 – In front of the window was plain earth, with stands… there was no marker.
40:51 – No one else would have known that the tizyun is there, but we knew the tziyun is there.
41:46 – Reb Gedaliah [Fleer] – 5 kapitlach Tehillim.
42:06 – We traveled a different way back to avoid the police.
42:56 – he went back to his hotel…
43:03 – American items… The Ebishter helped – I wasn’t questioned – and came home.
43:16 – Gedaliah Fleer visited us and told [Rabbi] Zvi Aryeh [Rosenfeld zal] the whole story
43:19 – Zvi ARyeh … 12 to 14 people – Leibel Berger.
44:12 – The owner of the house next to the Tziyun started screaming “there’s no grave here!”
44:27 – Gedaliah called [Rabbi] Zvi Aryeh [Rosenfeld zal].
44:51 – Americans could travel but Israeli citizens had to travel with false passports…
45:06 – Tape is turned over to the other side. “This is the story…” – “There’s a lot to tell…”
46:02 – Story of the Berger and the Oni (Sipurey Maasios).
46:11 – He did a wild think – mamash a crazy thing
46:35 – Holy things can result from wild things. Mesiras nefesh…
47:20 – I was very happy… Ech farmug epes a zach – that I was allowed to do such a thing?
47:30 – …that there was a way. Only with help from Above…
47:41 – Why was I the one?
47:56 – Living there is exactly as if one isn’t alive.
48:26 – The story of the Berger and the Oni and the story of the Rabbi’s Only Son gave me strength…
48:40 – This was not a simple thing. It took mesiras nefesh to accomplish…
48:58 – Exactly what the Rebbe described in the story is what happened with me…
49:02 – I had been in Siberia. I knew who these people are.
49:11 – I did it with the greatest love, to do something for the Rebbe…
49:53 – People come to Uman from 28 different countries…
50:35 – People also come by private car with no permit, so maybe it’s 30 or more countries…
51:18 – These words should bring hischadshus – renewal…
51:32 – The Baal Davar opposed every step…
51:36 – I have something else to relate. Each thing is more beautiful than the next…
51:43 – Today is Tuesday. Tomorrow is Wednesday. Maybe Thursday – wondrous things…
52:27 – There are factions… but I don’t belong to any group. I’m from the previous generation. Oy – prastik, prastik, prastik! (Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!)
52:52 – Holy factions…
53:28 – Simplicity – prastik prastik prastik is the true Kita – faction…
53:42 – Closing blessing.
55:07 – A person can turn the Gehinnam of this world into a Gan Eden if he lives according to the Rebbe’s advice.

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