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Historic Treasures · Episode 74 · 6 Adar 5781 · 20:53

Rebbe’s Reply to the Family of a Woman in a Coma

The Rebbe’s response to the family of a woman who had spent many years in a vegetative state in the hospital: the world was created for a purpose, nothing is in vain, and one must not lose hope. Also included are thoughts on increasing charitable giving, particularly before Pesach; parenthood as a constant, twenty-four-hour-a-day responsibility; welcoming guests in the tent of Avraham Avinu; and the responsibility to care for elderly parents.

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Welcome to my weekly program, the Inside Story, [unclear] Mindel [unclear]. This program is dedicated to [unclear] my mother [unclear] and my father [unclear] this Monday [unclear] my mother's [unclear].

[unclear] every morning [unclear].

There is no limit, no fixed measurement, for when a person [unclear] for poor people — this measurement is as much as you want. [unclear] before Pesach [unclear]. [unclear] as much as you want.

By the way, at the end of this program I want you — and we should [unclear] — [unclear] a short story [unclear] to somebody very, very important.

I spoke to children, and each one [unclear].

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[unclear — "chai Yid," a living/Chassidic Jew] [unclear] very important [unclear] the parents. [unclear] within you, and the mother [unclear] within you. If you add a mother, a father — you have a mother and a father, a lovely mother and a father. [unclear] like a parent. You have it already — a chai Yid, twenty-four hours a day you are a parent. You sleep like a parent. You feed [unclear] like a parent. You drive a car like a parent. You go shopping like a parent. Everything you do, you are a father and mother.

[unclear] this is within you, and the mother — that is within you.

[unclear] longer [unclear] the father, this is again — and that's my joy [unclear]. A chai Yid is [unclear] even in [unclear].

[unclear] the parents or [unclear] for over four generations and generations. This is [unclear] Olam Haba [unclear].

[unclear] teach [them] how to face that — G-d, I want to stress [unclear].

[unclear] for people, and [unclear] his name is John [unclear]. A person has to be in a [unclear] partnership.

[unclear — reference to children and what is in their "coach"/"cost," connected to Abraham] [unclear] two in the morning and in the evening, to be in the show [unclear].

[unclear] the walking tour [unclear] the temple [unclear] dialogue [unclear]. People ask why [unclear] a door here [unclear] people already [unclear]. [unclear] enjoy the temple [unclear].

[unclear — repeated references to "home of Abraham"] [unclear] walking in [unclear] you walk into the house and [unclear] tea, coffee [unclear] thirty dollars and [unclear] houses [unclear].

[unclear] a group of [unclear]. [unclear] became a guest [unclear]. [unclear] choose your color, wife [unclear].

[unclear — "connection," "patient," "spoiled"] [unclear] this is my — you go to show freedom, and the few people — like, you can only come to see [unclear]. [unclear] expect a wider view [unclear].

Sometimes a person — you think he is doing a mitzvah, but maybe that person is not feeling well. [unclear] we have to be very careful [unclear].

[unclear] care and quality of care, and showbiz, and then they come into the houses [unclear] and YouTube [unclear] thinking — what the hell, discussion about that [unclear].

[unclear] easy, buy [unclear]. [unclear] column is like machine learning [unclear] is the nicest [unclear] this column [unclear] make it clear in every column [unclear]. [unclear] spend more time speaking about learning [unclear] be more time [unclear] connected [unclear] all those strings, before this is done properly [unclear] get up every morning [unclear] the code shown in [unclear]. [unclear] all those strings [unclear] connect [unclear] column [unclear].

[unclear] a very short story: [unclear] his mother is in a vegetative state [chaise/vegetable] in the hospital [unclear]. [unclear] his children and his grandchildren [unclear] over time, twenty [unclear]. Never take hope away — my mother, my mother [unclear].

The world is created for a purpose — nothing is for nothing. What's the purpose of her living in this world? [unclear] important [unclear] doctors in the hospital [unclear]. [unclear] other family members, grandchildren [unclear]. Her eye [unclear] mother [unclear] this is a lesson — this is what the purpose of leading [one's life, and] living is [unclear].

[unclear] my parents — my mother's father, my father's father, my mother's father was there, a teacher. My father [unclear]. My brother's, my sister's [unclear].

[unclear] nowadays, unfortunately, people have elderly parents [unclear] too much trouble [unclear]. [unclear] update [unclear] emotional [unclear] finance [unclear]. This is wherein you [must] take care — the balance [unclear]. Since today [unclear].

[unclear — repeated "podium" references, possibly a mis-transcription of another word] [unclear] opposite — you eat, you drink [unclear]. [unclear] choose a creation [unclear] breakfast [unclear] start meditating [unclear].

[unclear] this show is [unclear].

[unclear] let us continue our program in two weeks. Thank you.