Chassidim's Farbrengen on the Night of 11 Nissan 5762 in Kfar Chabad

00:04 Speaker 1 [unclear] That is his memory. That is a memory [unclear]. But in practice, the idea is that one needs this, that is what it means. And to know where [unclear]. How was it? How was it? Nu, how was it? [unclear] Yoel was still young in Russia. The Rebbe came to everyone. He sat with [unclear] at a farbrengen. The Rebbe farbrenged, and [unclear] he began to think and think. And the Rebbe said, “Someone comes with a question [unclear]. What about grandchildren? What about grandchildren? [unclear] with grandchildren?” The Rebbe said, “Do you know what [unclear] with grandchildren is? [unclear].” [unclear] “Must I do teshuvah today for all of this?” [unclear] Do you know what [unclear] with grandchildren is? [unclear]. There was a woman going to the Rebbe’s [unclear]; there was a woman there too.

04:28 Speaker 2 Yes.

04:29 Speaker 1 A woman stood there in line for two hours. She came up to the Rebbe and said, “Rebbe, I’ve been standing here for two hours. I couldn’t take it anymore.” And the Rebbe? The Rebbe would stand for nine hours, eight hours.

04:43 Speaker 2 Always.

04:44 Speaker 1 Eight hours, nine hours. How could he do it? So the Rebbe answered, “You see, when you count the days…” You don’t get tired. That was a saying of the Rebbe. And there’s more to the story. It wasn’t just nine hours; it was those nine hours before daybreak.

05:08 Speaker 2 Which ones?

05:10 Speaker 1 There really was a trip.

05:12 Speaker 2 Yes.

05:13 Speaker 1 He would travel to the Rebbe, [unclear]. To be in the light for so long—it’s unbelievable.

05:25 Speaker 2 You see, he had command of two worlds. Literally. Literally, he had command of two worlds. When I was nine, I learned Chumash Bereishis. It says that Yosef Hatzaddik ruled Egypt and ruled the whole world. Anyone who wanted to buy a loaf of bread had to go to Yosef Hatzaddik. Yosef Hatzaddik was so busy. That’s how it was. [unclear] That’s what he tells us. [unclear] A bank, the state bank. Nu, in Russia, the arrangement there was that the manager sat in his closed office. You had to call, ask, and make an appointment. But out here sat dozens of clerks, each one at work. Back then they had those things with the beads—the abacus, yes. You could hear the beads being moved. You haven’t seen one. To do calculations then, there was a device with twelve rows of wooden beads. You move one here and one there, subtract and add, and get the balance. It made a racket: tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok, tok. The noise could drive you mad, but each person still knew his own account. He didn’t get confused. He worked in a bank, so he had to keep control of his mind, while all that noise filled the whole building. But it didn’t affect him. He calculated his account precisely amid the noise. That was Yosef Hatzaddik. That was his task. But where was he really? He was above. Yosef Hatzaddik was connected Above. This was the hard work he had to do, and he did it. That’s how we have to understand what—

08:22 Speaker 2 a tzaddik is. A tzaddik is occupied with what goes on outside. Outside, he has to do the—

08:32 Speaker 5 [unclear] a story about a young man in Sichat HaShavua.

08:37 Speaker 2 Yes.

08:37 Speaker 5 It was really in Yiddish. There was a young man in Sichat HaShavua, and then there was—where?

08:45 Speaker 2 Where?

08:46 Speaker 5 Ah, I don’t understand. This week in Sichat HaShavua there was a story about a young man, Moti, who fell in love with a non-Jewish girl.

09:00 Speaker 2 Yes.

09:03 Speaker 5 And they didn’t know what to do. They didn’t know what to do. It was hard for him to leave her. He knew her from work, and he already wanted to marry her. Anyway, I’m not repeating what it says in Sichat HaShavua.

09:19 Speaker 2 Yes, yes, yes.

09:21 Speaker 5 Otherwise it’s [unclear]. To climb a ladder. Anyway, someone suggested to him—the shliach, the Chabad people, suggested: “Go to the wedding.” He stood facing him boldly.

13:13 Speaker 6 The merit, whatever happens in the world. And the Rebbe agreed that a palace should be built in Kfar Chabad. And [unclear] let me first say something in their defense, and this is for Zusha.

13:33 Speaker 7 So what about his father? Can you say that to his father? Can you say it to Zusha?

13:38 Speaker 6 The young man’s father is a chazzan.

13:40 Speaker 7 Now I’ll tell you what this means in practice.

13:43 Speaker 6 Sheishel, Sheishel.

13:44 Speaker 7 And [unclear]—

13:47 Speaker 6 Sheishel.

13:47 Speaker 7 And [unclear] Yaknovsky [?] said—

13:53 Speaker 6 What are you saying?

13:54 Speaker 7 I haven’t argued yet.

13:55 Speaker 6 What do you know?

13:56 Speaker 7 He said that in financial matters there are [unclear]. Everyone in Kfar Chabad who was there during the period of [unclear]—may we have the merit. The greatest merit is—

14:13 Speaker 6 [unclear].

14:14 Speaker 7 He says that the foundations are buried deep in the ground, but the whole building stands on them. The foundations are buried in the ground and you can’t see them. But the greatest merit is for us to have a share in the foundations of the palace of the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, especially in Kfar Chabad. It is our privilege, and everyone should break into a dance on 11 Nissan: we have the privilege that on the Rebbe’s hundredth birthday, construction of the palace actually begins. [unclear]. And that is a merit for Kfar Chabad. [unclear]. L’chaim. L’chaim.

15:06 Speaker 8 And then you convince yourself.

15:08 Speaker 7 L’chaim, l’chaim. Of course. Come on.

15:10 Speaker 8 We’re starting.

15:14 Speaker 7 Of course. I’ll tell you exactly what happened. I’ll tell you the truth about what happened.

15:17 Speaker 8 There is a Torah teaching about dancing.

15:19 Speaker 7 It’s a miracle. Nu, it’s organic. It’s not something [unclear]. When the Rebbe [unclear], everything was [unclear].

15:51 Speaker 9 [unclear] came there. Yes. He came down wearing his robe, weak. “Well, what brought you here?” “I brought you the matzah. You’re sick—I heard you were sick—so I brought it. How many guests do you have?” “Yes, there are a few guests.” “Nu, in that case I brought six matzos. I’ll give you six [unclear].” “Fine, all right.” We began to sit down. I told him the matter, and he said, “That’s already taken care of. His lawyer was here ten minutes ago. We’ve arranged it; in another two days he’ll be home.” That was it. So what happened? After [unclear], he said to me, “Listen, people are saying that the Lubavitcher Rebbe wants to be Moshiach.” I said to him, “What? You heard that? [unclear] Pinchas Kortzer [unclear]. You accept such foolishness? To talk about that? Nu, people talk; people tell tall tales. [unclear] Pinchas Kortzer. [unclear] Remember? How could that be? If so, let’s speak the way chassidim understand it. I heard from my father, z”l, that foolish chassidim have no Rebbe. [unclear] They hear it even from the activists. People are talking about it. So they come out looking like foolish chassidim. The Rebbe speaks in his own way, [unclear]. You understand [unclear], because I’m saying this, so to speak. [unclear] All right, better not. [unclear] Look.”

18:16 Speaker 10 The Klausenberger Rebbe—I heard this from a student of his who was there when it happened. He was ill and in the hospital after an operation, and it was Shabbos. Every Shabbos, the Klausenberger Rebbe would explain a passage for about two or three hours, at every meal. Now he was in the hospital, with nobody there, and he began giving a derashah and explaining the passage. They asked him, “You’re ill. What are you doing? There’s nobody here.” He said, “Do you think that when I give a derashah, I say it for people? I give a derashah so that the explanation will be stated here. I’m speaking to the Master of the Universe. What difference does it make whether anyone is here?” There was nobody there, and he gave a two-hour derashah. In the hospital!

19:11 Speaker 9 I knew him—

19:12 Speaker 10 A two-hour explanation.

19:13 Speaker 9 I knew him.

19:14 Speaker 10 “Do I give a derashah for people? There’s an explanation I give for people, and there’s a derashah I give for the Master of the Universe.”

19:21 Speaker 9 I knew him. He was at the—at that hotel in Jerusalem.

19:28 Speaker 10 Who?

19:29 Speaker 9 Klausenburg. Nu, he farbrenged. I got there at ten at night. You could see he had already been farbrenging for two or three hours. He went on farbrenging a little longer. [unclear] From what I knew of him, you... Nu, he farbrenged. At twelve o’clock, [unclear]. At twelve, eleven-thirty, they gave him something to smell. Fine, let him farbreng, [unclear]. But he was entirely, entirely different. He had taken on a different appearance. He also encouraged the Rebbe, [unclear]. He even said, [unclear], that his connection was with Lubavitch. It later emerged that after he came from [unclear], he went in to the Frierdiker Rebbe—not on his first visit, but on his second. He asked [unclear]. For half a year, the Klausenburger came twice a week to learn Chassidus.

21:23 Speaker 11 To learn Chassidus?

21:24 Speaker 9 To learn Chassidus at [unclear].

21:26 Speaker 11 Who? Reb Bure?

21:29 Speaker 9 To learn Chassidus. [unclear] Chassidus, that’s a firm—

21:33 Speaker 11 In America, they never met?

21:36 Speaker 9 Who?

21:36 Speaker 11 The Rebbe with the—back then, with the Rebbe.

21:39 Speaker 9 The Klausenburger. In America he was in New York. He was there at first, when he arrived, and he also gave [unclear]. Klausenburg.

21:51 Speaker 11 Just like that.

21:52 Speaker 9 It was all right.

21:53 Speaker 11 All right.

21:54 Speaker 9 They hadn’t yet seen, hadn’t yet known that this was the Klausenburger.

21:58 Speaker 11 Now—

21:59 Speaker 9 It became known.

22:00 Speaker 11 There was a whole book; Shיחת Hashavua wrote about fifty rabbis. Yes, things that had been hidden.

22:09 Speaker 9 Hidden.

22:10 Speaker 11 Yes, with pictures and their entire conversations. What connection did they have with the Rebbe? People don’t know what a connection they had.

22:19 Speaker 9 With the Lubavitcher Rebbe?

22:20 Speaker 11 Yes.

22:21 Speaker 9 Yes, everything was all right.

22:22 Speaker 11 Yes, a lot of things. You know, all those people.

22:24 Speaker 9 Why did it have to be all right?

22:25 Speaker 11 I have an uncle.

22:26 Speaker 9 Look, why? Look.

22:28 Speaker 11 I’ll tell you.

22:29 Speaker 9 There was once a matter.

22:31 Speaker 11 Nu, if they had stopped giving a chossid... Yes, I’ll tell you an astonishing story.

22:36 Speaker 9 To that extent.

22:37 Speaker 11 My uncle, my uncle was the gabbai of the Sadigura Rebbe. The Sadigura Rebbe. The Sadigura Rebbe basically followed the approach of the Chabad Rebbe, the approach of [unclear].

22:54 Speaker 9 [unclear].

22:56 Speaker 11 Yes, and the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah. Yes, there was a disagreement. He was in favor. In general, he was in favor of Eretz Yisroel from the outset, yes. So much so that one morning someone found the Sadigura Rebbe cleaning the street.

23:19 Speaker 9 Yes.

23:20 Speaker 11 He asked him, “What’s this?” It was morning. So he said, “For me, the cleanliness of Eretz Yisroel is [unclear].”

23:29 Speaker 9 [unclear].

23:29 Speaker 11 “I’ll go myself—I know it’s a mitzvah [unclear].” To that extent.

23:35 Speaker 9 That yesterday.

23:36 Speaker 11 He hadn’t finished.

23:39 Speaker 9 The Sadigura Rebbe.

23:39 Speaker 11 [unclear].

23:44 Speaker 9 [unclear].

23:46 Speaker 11 The Sadigura Rebbe sent my uncle because there was a commotion there in the Moetzes, and he wanted answers to several questions.

23:56 Speaker 9 By the way.

23:57 Speaker 11 By the way, answers to several questions, because they had to sit on the Moetzes. So he quickly sent my uncle there to ask the Rebbe various questions, because the Moetzes needed to decide the matter now. My uncle tells the story—and I heard this firsthand from my uncle. He had only just walked in. He hadn’t even started speaking. How long did he expect the yechidus to take? Five minutes? Ten minutes? Fifteen minutes? He had only just walked in. He hadn’t started speaking. Who was he? And the Rebbe began telling him all the problems the Sadigura Rebbe was facing, and began explaining them to him. My uncle told me this. He had traveled abroad for that very purpose. He hadn’t spoken to the Rebbe at all. The Rebbe spoke for forty-five minutes. My uncle had nothing to say. He saw that the Rebbe grasped the whole picture—things my uncle hadn’t even told him. The Rebbe saw the situation in Eretz Yisroel so clearly.

25:11 Speaker 12 From what he was telling him.

25:13 Speaker 11 He spoke as though he were there. My uncle, who had lived in Eretz Yisroel all those years, didn’t know the things the Rebbe was discussing with him, and the Rebbe spoke with him for forty-five minutes. Do you know what it means, to someone in Chabad, for the Rebbe to speak for forty-five minutes? He was stunned. Do you know what forty-five minutes is? He had traveled all the way abroad especially for this, and in the end he didn’t speak, because he had nothing left to say.

25:47 Speaker 12 Yes, the Rebbe laid all the cards on the table for him.

25:49 Speaker 11 There’s a story: chassidim from various communities had gathered, including chassidim of the Rebbe Rashab. Each person began recounting a miracle performed by his Rebbe. Someone from one community told of a miracle performed by his Rebbe, and everyone was impressed. Then a Chabad chossid told of a miracle of the Rebbe Rashab. He said he had a large business and wanted to do various things to make it grow.

26:30 Speaker 3 So it would remain intact.

26:32 Speaker 11 But before anything else, you have to ask the Rebbe what the Rebbe wants. Was it really worthwhile to continue or not? So he went to the Rebbe Rashab. The Rebbe Rashab gave him a blessing—blessing and success—and told him to carry on. The chossid continued his story: not long afterward, the entire business collapsed. He lost all his money and was left with nothing. Everyone waited for the miracle, for some turnaround to come. So they asked him to finish the story. He said, “The story is finished.” What did he mean? That was the miracle itself: even after such things happened, he remained a chossid. In other words, the Rebbe’s miracle was that he had instilled such a deep, essential hiskashrus in the chossid that it didn’t require a miracle. If you want to offer an intellectual explanation, you could say that there had been some decree from Above concerning my family’s health.

27:48 Speaker 3 Still, let me explain this story to you. My father always tells an astonishing story about the Belzer Rebbe, the previous Belzer Rebbe.

28:00 Speaker 11 He, he.

28:02 Speaker 3 Yes, he had lived abroad all those years. When he came to Eretz Yisroel, people were shaken by a very well-known story. What happened? He had a wealthy chossid who supplied the Rebbe’s household with whatever it needed. Whatever they needed, one phone call and he would provide it all. One day, before Yom Kippur, this chossid came in with a kvittel. The Rebbe said, “Oy vey,” and looked at the kvittel... And the Rebbe said again, “Oy vey,” looking at the kvittel... You understand what that means? “Oy, what a—what a request I have here...” In short, on Erev Yom Kippur, all that man’s wealth was in danger. He was the only distributor, the only producer in Eretz Yisroel of—

29:29 Speaker 11 Sugar.

29:30 Speaker 3 Sugar. He was very wealthy; he had money to give to the Rebbe’s household. In short, he came crying to the Rebbe. He said, “Rebbe, help me. Look what happened to me.” The Rebbe said, “On Erev Yom Kippur, I saw what was in store for you... I saw right away that your factory was going to burn down. Oy, that kvittel.” What? Yes. He had come to the Rebbe crying because his factory had burned down. So the Rebbe told him, “You should be happy. When I saw you on Erev Yom Kippur and said to you...” He had handed him the kvittel, and I said to you, “Oy, what a kvittel I made for you.” Yes, when the Rebbe... the kvittel. He pleaded on his behalf. The Rebbe meant that he had changed the decree against him: instead of a death sentence, the Rebbe changed it so that he would lose his wealth. The chossid went on to say, yes, that if you need to find an explanation, you can find one, as you said. The Rebbe changed a decree. There had been a decree concerning my family’s health, and he changed it so that it would affect my wealth... But he said you don’t have to resort to that. A chossid’s hiskashrus with the Rebbe is not based on intellect. Yes. It is an essential bond. Even if you see something that, on the face of it, you suddenly can’t understand, don’t turn to your intellect to keep your bond with the Rebbe from weakening. Intellect... the bond is an essential bond. You know that the Rebbe is [unclear], and everything is clear to his holy mind. So why do you need explanations for your bond, your faith, to remain whole? “And you shall know today and take it to heart.” Nu. There should be knowledge. There should be daas, daas.

31:50 Speaker 3 But even if there is... daas, there is the—

31:54 Speaker 4 The foundation receives from all ten; the foundation receives from all ten.

31:56 Speaker 3 Yes. Miracles and wonders. I’ll tell you, your test, the test of... But miracles and wonders. Your test is... miracles and wonders. Again: the test of... there should be daas, that there is daas. Nu. To the heart. Exactly. What happens when you don’t have daas? Yes, but it says, “And you shall know today and take it to heart,” so what happens when you don’t have daas? Will you take off your yarmulke? Yes, but what I want to say is that in our generation, in hardship, many people could have turned away from Yiddishkeit because they saw some tragedy, because they saw the... because they saw... That’s the point. Yes. So because of that, you can’t instill the concept of simple faith in everyone. Simple faith is a lofty level, and not

00:04 Speaker 1 The Rebbe knew the secret—that’s the short version. People knew him wherever he went. Right, friends who had studied with him, who knew how he conducted himself in [unclear]. His cousin was a minister under Stalin. We weren’t allowed to reveal it, but now I can. So he obtained [unclear]. There was a Jew who later became a rabbi, Moshe Axelrod from Ramat Gan. He was a young man then, with a way of talking, and... The Frierdiker Rebbe sent him: “Go to Gershon.” He came and introduced himself. It was around ten-thirty. I was a child then, coming in on a tractor [unclear]. Normal, very good. All right, matters concerning religion. So you had to give them a cup of tea, a cup of coffee. I had an arrangement with my mother: I would serve it, then come in, stay there, and so on. The student’s instructor. So he came and said the Rebbe had sent him to repair the mikveh. In the small towns, all the well-off Jews and the middle class had fled, because anyone who didn’t flee was sent to Siberia. They took away the rabbis and the others, and only the shoemaker and tailor were left in those towns. There was no one. So the mikvaos closed. There were no people to run them. He sent him to reopen them.

02:16 Speaker 1 They knew which towns had no mikveh. So what did they do? In those days, mikvaos were built together with bathhouses. My father, z”l, secured authorization from the minister of health for this man to come on behalf of the Ministry of Health to establish bathhouses. No mention of a mikveh; whether they knew about it or not, I don’t know. He would come looking for the bathhouse attendant. There was an attendant, or barely someone still holding on to the place. “I’m speaking to you now. I’m an emissary. I’ve been sent by the Ministry of Health.” He was a young man, six feet tall, with broad shoulders. [unclear]. Do you understand Yiddish? He showed him the document: he’d been sent to get the bathhouse running. Well, for that you need money to buy wood and heat the water. There was no money. He said, “Fine, give me a receipt. I’ll give you fifty rubles against the budget you’ll receive. Go buy wood, start heating the bathhouse, and heat the mikveh too.” No one needed to say anything about that. “Where’s the town council?” “The council meets on Monday.” On Tuesday he would go to the council and show them his papers. “All right,” he’d say, “I’m an emissary from the Ministry of Health. The bathhouse needs to be heated, so you need a budget. Here are the forms. Fill them out with how much money you need, and I’ll try to get you a budget. Meanwhile, take another fifty rubles. Give me a receipt against the budget. I’ll arrange it.” Then he’d move on. That’s how he got twenty mikvaos running within a year. Not within a year—within two months, during the school holidays. Then all the [unclear] weren’t there, and it was possible to settle matters with the person in charge. Fine. The next year he came and did it again, without a budget from the ministry. My father had the budget arranged.

05:13 Speaker 2 Na—na—na—

05:14 Speaker 1 What?

05:14 Speaker 2 Nadat.

05:15 Speaker 1 What?

05:15 Speaker 2 Nadat.

05:18 Speaker 1 “Father” means my father. He was a merchant, and merchants were allowed to do that then. He was a member of the committee—he was on all the committees. Huh? My father. He was my father.

05:31 Speaker 2 His name?

05:32 Speaker 1 Huh?

05:33 Speaker 2 His name?

05:34 Speaker 1 His name was Gershon. No, everything was all right. No, he didn’t allow it to be publicized. None of these things were publicized. Huh? He didn’t allow any of it to be publicized. Until three years ago, I didn’t tell the story either. Yes, it went against [unclear], against everything negative, against everything negative. Huh? These stories.

06:00 Speaker 2 Three years ago, it was still against [unclear].

06:03 Speaker 1 Three years ago, it was already a long way from nineteen hundred... He finished that communal work in nineteen twenty-f—f—f—five. For fifty years or so, it was kept closed.

06:19 Speaker 2 So why until three years ago?

06:22 Speaker 1 That was the agreement, and there was also a condition: for fifty years, nobody could know. You have to understand—nobody was supposed to know for fifty years, and he kept to it. Well, then. There were quite a few matters that the Frierdiker Rebbe referred to my father, who arranged for them to be taken care of. He knew not to publicize things like that [unclear] Lubavitch [unclear]. What did they call it? Committees. Until... Well, the whole town was closed on Shabbos. How did he do it? He sat on the tax collection committee, and he introduced a rule: anyone who took one day off each week would get a fifteen-percent reduction in taxes. Inspectors were appointed to check whether anyone opened secretly. If he did, he lost the fifteen percent, and they were entitled to take it away. So everything was closed. The barber wasn’t allowed to open, so he would arrange for the barber to go to anyone who wanted a haircut and cut his hair in the kitchen, at two or three o’clock before Shabbos. Then [unclear]. Once, twice—everyone got the message. From two o’clock on Friday until eight-thirty on Motzaei Shabbos, it was closed. After that, you could add five hours. That was the rule. [unclear], but it was approved. It was approved from Heaven. The Communist authorities had to give every worker a day off. How? He wasn’t working, he wasn’t [unclear]. So there was a reduction, and that’s how they got everything through. [unclear]. Stalin also wanted approval. Fine. So twice he arranged [unclear].

09:23 Speaker 1 Once he traveled to Leningrad, and when he arrived, the Rebbe had left for Moscow the day before. There was a clandestine meeting of rabbis. The Rebbe had gone there to deliver a note, to let Gershon Solovkiov[?] know that he could meet him in Moscow, that he was in Moscow—but an hour before that, he had returned to Leningrad. That happened twice: they arranged for him to travel to Moscow, and he was able to go. It was a three-day train journey. In the meantime, it turned out that he had to leave, and they didn’t meet. But they wrote to each other, and there was contact for the mission. I, too, was in contact with the Frierdiker Rebbe during the war, when I was in Tashkent dealing with various matters. There were many things I had to carry out. [unclear] Hapoel Yerushalayim. In public they called me “Hapoel Yerushalayim”—Zalman from Hapoel Yerushalayim. That saved me. Chabad chassidim—Hapoel Yerushalayim. Hapoel Yerushalayim. They didn’t know my surname; that was the secret cover. Zalman Karso[?]. I built a little town there—that’s a long story. So, chassidim, through a Chabadnik from Hapoel Yerushalayim. “You’re against us Torah scholars.” As a Hapoel Yerushalayim man, I couldn’t study with people my own age, but that’s how it was. With Hapoel Yerushalayim, there was no one to talk to. When they were looking for Chabadniks, where would they look? At Hapoel Yerushalayim.

11:24 Speaker 3 We were talking about you during the war.

11:28 Speaker 1 During the war?

11:29 Speaker 3 Yes.

11:29 Speaker 1 During the war, [unclear]. That’s Hapoel Yerushalayim. What could you do? In later years they treated me with respect as a Hapoel Yerushalayim man. I was also starving. I had a cover for everything. If you want to keep mitzvos, you need a cover.

12:04 Speaker 3 Hapoel Yerushalayim was a good cover. For me, it was just that one thing. Without it, no, it wouldn’t have worked out. I did one thing, I did two, I did three. You want to tell me You see me? There’s something here that doesn’t want You. Master of the Universe, wait—draw me close to You. Wait—love me. Wait—I want You. For a moment there’s a pull. Listen again.

16:29 Speaker 4 “Give me money and attention. Jews, Jews, give me money.” Well, I didn’t have any money with me. Then who says that? So it wasn’t [unclear]. And listen to me. Noam Shimon. [unclear] from Paris toward Berlin, toward Berlin, or...? [unclear]. Noam Shimon. [unclear]. What? [unclear]. “Don’t come inside.” [unclear]. So, fine. In short. Yoni—Yoni came up to me once and said, “Hey, you know what? I’m too close to the Rebbe’s house. I want to be a chossid.” [unclear]. I met the Rebbe in [unclear] in Paris. He invited me. Noach was with two other children, and he spoke with them [unclear]. He spoke with me, but [unclear]. He spoke with him much more. He spoke about it [unclear], but he treated me like a good child.

18:42 Speaker 5 Why are you so big?

18:45 Speaker 4 His laugh.

18:48 Speaker 5 Even [unclear] you.

18:50 Speaker 4 But [unclear].

19:06 Speaker 5 Earlier.

19:07 Speaker 4 [unclear] the water. No, no, no, methods. There are good students. [unclear] a Jewish family [unclear]. Livelihood, too [unclear]. That’s something you can [unclear]. He doesn’t want to give it to me. [unclear].

20:15 Speaker 5 Soap.

20:15 Speaker 4 Soap, soap, soap.

20:16 Speaker 5 To arrange it, apparently.

20:18 Speaker 4 No, soap.

20:19 Speaker 5 To arrange the...

20:20 Speaker 4 [unclear].

20:21 Speaker 5 To arrange the...

20:23 Speaker 4 I’m making it at home.

20:23 Speaker 5 [unclear].

20:25 Speaker 4 Yes, soap, soap.

20:28 Speaker 5 Look.

20:29 Speaker 4 [unclear].

20:30 Speaker 5 Also, also.

20:30 Speaker 4 Nissan was a weak one.

20:32 Speaker 5 We’re talking about a story, after all. We’re talking about Moshiach in the literal sense.

20:36 Speaker 4 Past.

20:37 Speaker 5 [unclear].

20:38 Speaker 4 Where you’re standing.

20:38 Speaker 5 [unclear].

20:40 Speaker 4 Where you’re standing—what a good thing that is.

20:44 Speaker 5 [unclear].

20:46 Speaker 4 I’m telling you, I’m telling you this.

20:49 Speaker 5 [unclear] at the end of the newspaper, of thousands of newspapers.

20:53 Speaker 4 Money.

20:53 Speaker 5 [unclear]. What you have.

20:56 Speaker 4 I’ll tell you this.

20:57 Speaker 5 [unclear]. Ask him if it’s kosher, okay? Ask him if it’s kosher, kosher [unclear].

21:10 Speaker 4 Good.

21:11 Speaker 5 What do you need it for?

21:12 Speaker 4 Let me tell you this for a moment. Nissan is a month.

21:15 Speaker 5 Also, also.

21:16 Speaker 4 [unclear] that he wants.

21:17 Speaker 5 Also [unclear].

21:18 Speaker 4 That he has to count his things, or take stock of how things were [unclear]. I need to tell you about my difficult things. [unclear] helped me. [unclear] in the community.

21:38 Speaker 5 Ah.

21:39 Speaker 4 [unclear] in the community.

21:41 Speaker 5 I tremble [unclear].

21:42 Speaker 4 [unclear], but I remember myself back then.

21:45 Speaker 5 I’m saying something else [unclear]. I’m [unclear].

21:48 Speaker 4 How does it go? [unclear] his name [unclear].

21:51 Speaker 5 L’chaim, l’chaim.

21:52 Speaker 4 So, this is how it is, a Rebbe. And this was in Nissan. Nissan accepted it that way. [unclear]

22:10 Speaker 5 [unclear] the Shechinah [unclear] Megillas Eichah. Good thing we’ve already finished the end of the discussion. [unclear] a Sefer Torah [unclear] Schwartz. So it’s very similar to a mashpia [unclear] Torah. That’s what I said. So how is it? [unclear] He certainly would have demanded it of me.

22:39 Speaker 6 After that it was possible to [unclear].

22:42 Speaker 5 So how did [unclear], but, but [unclear].

22:47 Speaker 6 That is law and judgment.

22:48 Speaker 5 Yes, yes, yes.

22:50 Speaker 6 That is the way of [unclear].

22:53 Speaker 5 That’s what he said.

22:54 Speaker 6 How, how, how?

22:55 Speaker 5 That is proper [unclear].

22:57 Speaker 6 So that’s [unclear] a Rebbe was a Rebbe. How?

22:59 Speaker 5 Yes.

23:00 Speaker 6 That’s how we are.

23:01 Speaker 5 Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. [unclear]

23:07 Speaker 6 The rabbi said [unclear]. Yankel, Yankel, let’s finish this.

23:11 Speaker 5 Don’t finish when you’ve only just started. Did you come here to start or to finish?

23:16 Speaker 6 Not alone, here. Not only before we came in. Even if there’s that too, you also have to say that it’s very good for the family. It’ll be [unclear]. Pay attention, pay attention—I brought a brief account of what she does. [unclear] What can one be in exile? [unclear]

23:52 Speaker 5 Oy, oy.

23:53 Speaker 6 That was the foundation.

23:58 Speaker 5 That is, that is. That is [unclear].

24:01 Speaker 6 That is zero. By the way, [unclear]. The conduct [unclear] was, altogether, [unclear] to accept [unclear]. [unclear] Also [unclear]. It’s all material things, and nevertheless. [unclear] the conduct and laws of the Rebbe’s household. [unclear] L’chaim. So we already know. [unclear] I came for a trip.

24:38 Speaker 5 Nu, is that all right?

24:38 Speaker 6 [unclear] trip.

24:39 Speaker 5 It’s not all right.

24:40 Speaker 6 [unclear] What a nightmare [unclear].

24:43 Speaker 5 Amen. [unclear]. Amen. [unclear] Dinim, [unclear] dinim, the spirit of life [unclear].

24:57 Speaker 6 What rubbish.

24:58 Speaker 5 The spirit of life [unclear].

24:59 Speaker 6 That’s rubbish.

25:01 Speaker 5 There’s no judgment. You know the uncle. There’s no judgment. There is [unclear].

25:08 Speaker 6 Yes, yes, yes. [unclear], but it’s [unclear]. [unclear] What was that, Zalman [unclear]? Ah, Rabbi [unclear].

25:26 Speaker 5 I enlarged the teapot. So why did I enlarge the teapot?

25:29 Speaker 6 What?

25:29 Speaker 5 Simply, [unclear], but I enlarged the teapot.

25:33 Speaker 6 What teapot? What?

25:34 Speaker 5 It was good.

25:35 Speaker 6 What teapot? What? What [unclear]?

25:38 Speaker 5 [unclear]. I didn’t enlarge the teapot, but I enlarged the teapot. I enlarged the opening of the [unclear]. That’s [unclear]. Why a teapot? But why did I say “teapot”? If I enlarged it urgently, that’s the point. Wait, wait, [unclear]. I looked.

25:55 Speaker 6 Oh, oh.

25:57 Speaker 5 The teapot. He started handing out a teapot.

26:00 Speaker 6 That really isn’t the conclusion. [unclear] isn’t the conclusion. The conclusion.

26:06 Speaker 5 Zalman, Zalman, Zalman, Zalman—Zalman was good. It’s the same trick, the device that brings people close. Why is that the order of things? Freedom or [unclear]? Dr. Danny [unclear] also writes—he actually wrote—that there’s no great difference between [unclear] and [unclear]. That’s it. That’s close enough for me. Close to [unclear]—like what? What is love? What is love? Or according to the concept. All right. That’s what [unclear]. [unclear] the Shechinah. What is a bed? What is a bed? [unclear], [unclear]. The Shechinah. The Shechinah. What is Moshiach? Moshiach is a presumption. What is that? What is that? And the Shechinah is here, but that’s [unclear]. [unclear] in German. I need to read Chabad [unclear]. What message will [unclear] receive? [unclear]. That’s all right. That’s the end of the parsha. [unclear]. To fulfill Hashem’s will. Spirit. It’s like that. Look. Look. [unclear]. It’s all simple. Shauli, what’s wrong with you? A sick person also fulfills the Rebbe’s will. [unclear] a sick person fulfills it with the Rebbe’s permission. [unclear] Oy, oy, oy. What a sick person. Excellent. So the Rebbe [unclear]. At the bank, at the bank. All right, that’s all right. [unclear]. These are needs. Needs. Do we or don’t we need to understand [unclear]? So why is the school dirty? It drives [unclear] crazy. [unclear]. You’re also telling a story that had [unclear] politics. [unclear]. But it isn’t there. So the Rebbe. I’m standing. And you touched more on the merit—

29:28 Speaker 5 The Rebbe says. That’s only in the newspapers. That’s only in the newspapers. It’s similar. It’s similar. [unclear] Pushkin. [unclear] need [unclear]. And you know it’s not just a need. It’s a need. It’s serious. Serious. Yes. [unclear] We have this. This. This. This. [unclear]. Do you know what “needs” means? There is [unclear]. There is a lack. There is no lack. Nachas. And that’s—come, come. Rabbi. No, no, no, no. Yossele, go to Rabbi Rafael. But, but it spoils the ox, yes. [unclear] the Jews. That a Jew should just [unclear], but [unclear]. The car. But it spoils the ox. B-but it spoils it—a new one can’t begin. [unclear]. The whole world. Th-that’s bad for them. That’s how it goes. [unclear]. No, [unclear] school [unclear] the school office [unclear]. That’s [unclear] the Rebbe. [unclear] is a beautiful expression. [unclear] is a beautiful expression. Money is a beautiful expression. [unclear] a baal teshuvah. That makes a Jew. But Rabbi, Rabbi [unclear] fulfill [unclear]. [unclear] Azriel, [unclear] Mordechai [unclear]. With our tallis and with our [unclear]. The connection between our prayers [unclear]. [unclear] in school. [unclear]. Let’s set the situation straight. Our Jews will go and learn, after the school and the study hall. It conveys the path of “do not turn aside.” They are the same things that you [unclear]. At the end of the Sefer Torah [unclear]. [unclear] in Israel, precisely. Who [unclear]? He’ll hold a prize. He’ll hold a prize. [unclear]

31:56 Speaker 5 [unclear]. You want [unclear] school. [unclear] something. What can happen if there is a way of conducting oneself that requires more [unclear]? Can you tell who it is? [unclear]. It comes from the teachings of the Temimim and a way of conducting oneself that requires more [unclear]. What can’t happen? [unclear]. The Rebbe gave of himself [unclear] for ten years. What can’t happen? That there is a way of conducting oneself that requires more [unclear]. What can’t happen? One.

32:57 Speaker 7 …

33:00 Speaker 5 Well, and so on.

33:02 Speaker 7 …

00:06 Speaker 1 That’s very interesting.

00:07 Speaker 2 Shema Yisroel, the little one is going wild, huh?

00:08 Speaker 1 That’s nonsense. What’s this here? I think it’s [unclear] that was in the first drawer. Reb Nosson, what are you talking about?

00:19 Speaker 2 It intrigued me. It intrigued me. I’m still thinking about it. All right, don’t worry, I argue with it. Yes, I argue with it. Oy, why is that? What does the essence of it have to do with this? After all, it’s the essence—

00:40 Speaker 1 No, I want to ask that.

00:41 Speaker 2 The second verse is the doctor, Erez Chaim. Dovid, are you asleep? Sleep here beside you; you fell asleep even up close. Remarkable. A person doesn’t sneak in.

01:09 Speaker 1 Look, look, look at him.

01:10 Speaker 2 Go on. There, I see him. Dovid Roper.

01:23 Speaker 1 The non-Jew with the firstborn animal. The non-Jew with the firstborn animal.

01:29 Speaker 2 That’s my business. The non-Jew with the firstborn animal is my business. [unclear] my non-Jew with the firstborn animal.

01:35 Speaker 1 The non-Jew with the firstborn animal [unclear] Shmuel. Exactly—the non-Jew with the firstborn animal.

01:46 Speaker 2 My boys, my boys.

01:50 Speaker 1 Here, from today, this is [unclear], the burns and wounds of the Gra, and of the Gra too. So I have to work tomorrow.

02:06 Speaker 2 Look, your partner.

02:08 Speaker 1 That’s certainly [unclear], that’s certainly [unclear].

06:15 Speaker 4 Ya, ya, ya, ya; ya, ya, ya.

06:24 Speaker 3 Dovid.

06:25 Speaker 4 [unclear].

06:25 Speaker 3 Ah, ya, ya, ya, ya, yana.

06:31 Speaker 4 Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya.

06:38 Speaker 3 Ah, ya, ya, ya, yana.

07:05 Speaker 4 Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya.

07:08 Speaker 3 Look at yourself, look.

07:11 Speaker 4 Ayah.

07:14 Speaker 3 Ayah.

07:14 Speaker 4 Ayah.

07:18 Speaker 3 Ayah.

07:18 Speaker 4 Ayah.

07:19 Speaker 3 Ayah.

07:28 Speaker 4 Mama, ya, ya.

07:33 Speaker 3 [unclear] ayah.

07:37 Speaker 4 Ayah.

07:38 Speaker 3 Come on, all right, no point wasting time. All right, after they stick me with it.

07:43 Speaker 4 Ayah, ayah, ayah.

07:46 Speaker 3 Well done.

07:48 Speaker 4 Ayah, ayah, ayah.

07:51 Speaker 3 Yo, ya, yo, ya, ya.

07:56 Speaker 4 Ayah, ayah.

07:57 Speaker 3 Ta-dam.

08:00 Speaker 4 Ayah, ayah, ayah.

08:03 Speaker 3 Yah-dah, yah, yah. Dovid, you could be a mashpia. Dovid, lift your head and start kicking. Dovid, you start. Yah, yah.

08:46 Speaker 5 Mama, mama, yah, la, la, la, la, la.

08:53 Speaker 3 Ah, yah, yah.

08:57 Speaker 5 Ah, yah, yah.

09:02 Speaker 3 Ah, yah, ya, tadi.

09:06 Speaker 5 It’s fine, fine.

09:07 Speaker 3 That’s what—that’s what...

09:08 Speaker 5 That’s what...

09:08 Speaker 3 That’s what...

09:09 Speaker 5 That’s what...

09:13 Speaker 3 Wait, I’ll go rest a little. Okay.

09:28 Speaker 5 I have it. I’m not short of [unclear].

09:29 Speaker 3 No, it’s going to end. He recruited the rabbi.

09:35 Speaker 5 Yes, someone approached him with [unclear] or something like that.

09:38 Speaker 3 [Unclear] was already there. Start drilling today. It’s perfectly clear to me [unclear]. It’s perfect to give the Rebbe [unclear] to be a librarian [unclear] in hotels. No, no, there’s no problem. That’s the whole point. And [unclear], that’s the point: “and greet our righteous Moshiach.” Where are we? [Unclear] is a big matter. Why can’t we be happy for the Rebbe? [Unclear]. No, no, listen. It’s very, very [unclear]. [Unclear]. Very, very [unclear]. [Unclear]. So if we heard [unclear], we heard [unclear]. So if Dovid [unclear], the president. And [unclear] the Rebbe. And after quite a few years, they decided to ask me whether [unclear]. So he says, [unclear]. The Rebbe [unclear] in poverty and materially. It’s an elevator from the roof floor, materially speaking. [Unclear]. The Rebbe, that’s—that was [unclear].

10:46 Speaker 6 We came here to a small apartment.

10:48 Speaker 3 My wife and I.

10:51 Speaker 6 L’chaim.

10:52 Speaker 3 That should bring you Moshiach, and then [unclear] over all the nations. Why can’t people be happy for him? Why? Why? [Unclear] the Rebbe. Who’s persecuting him?

11:07 Speaker 6 The memory of a member of my community.

11:09 Speaker 3 Two weeks.

11:09 Speaker 6 Two weeks. L’chaim. L’chaim. I can’t keep listening to him every time they say l’chaim. And I immediately received [unclear].

11:22 Speaker 3 L’chaim.

11:22 Speaker 6 L’chaim.

11:25 Speaker 3 Do you understand what you’re...?

11:28 Speaker 6 Simple.

11:29 Speaker 3 If the Rebbe—if [unclear]. What is it, Dovid? [Unclear]. [Unclear] with the king, if the emperor. And [unclear]. And what is [unclear]? That’s [unclear]. It bears witness to King Dovid. So that’s another [unclear]. That’s our Rebbe. So if the emperor [unclear]. What does that have to do with the Rebbe? It’s only one aspect. But it also has to be there. It isn’t [unclear]. You need perspective. [Unclear]. The material side has to come into it. That’s between us, too. We learn Chassidus from a page.

12:25 Speaker 6 [Unclear] named Menachem.

12:28 Speaker 3 But Yechezkel.

12:29 Speaker 6 [unclear].

12:32 Speaker 3 [Unclear], [unclear], [unclear]—that’s a chillul Hashem. That’s precisely why I found myself [unclear].

12:37 Speaker 6 Thank you very much. The problem is that it’s all imagination. In a moment. There’s [unclear].

12:51 Speaker 3 But the Raavad is listed as [unclear]. That can’t be. There’s something to be done. Watch the video. Watch the video [unclear].

13:11 Speaker 6 That isn’t true. It’s [unclear] true.

13:15 Speaker 3 It’s true.

13:20 Speaker 6 True.

13:21 Speaker 3 [Unclear]. What kind of life?

13:23 Speaker 6 Enough.

13:23 Speaker 3 [Unclear]. Look, he’s approaching.

13:23 Speaker 6 For hours already.

13:25 Speaker 3 What is there to explain there? What?

13:27 Speaker 6 Your imagination is already in the material world.

13:31 Speaker 3 Who is it? Soon we traveled to live at [unclear]. Yay. Go, go, go—the material side is incidental. Especially if you listen. Vilnius, Kfar Chabad, Vilnius. But the Raavad is coming. The Raavad, come. We need to say “go” here.

14:01 Speaker 6 All his plans. He trained me. But I think that if [unclear].

14:25 Speaker 3 But that’s what we need. We shouldn’t invest in this. We need to put our energies and all that money into spreading Yiddishkeit and Chassidus.

14:32 Speaker 6 That’s the greatest spreading of Yiddishkeit in the world. The publicity it would bring. The only thing is to build [unclear] for the Rebbe.

14:44 Speaker 3 For someone to publish a book, it’s the same thing. [Unclear] the palace. The Rebbe didn’t put his energy into this matter. There are things the Rebbe spoke about all the time, and that’s where we need to put our energies.

14:50 Speaker 6 The Rebbe didn’t put energy into it because the Rebbe didn’t concern himself with his own needs, but we put in [unclear].

14:56 Speaker 3 We need to. We need to know what the Rebbe told us. We shouldn’t go looking for other things. Doing this isn’t something else. To say that it is—that’s looking for something else.

15:03 Speaker 6 It isn’t something else.

15:04 Speaker 3 Doing what the Rebbe wants means doing what the Rebbe said in his sichos.

15:06 Speaker 6 A Jew from [unclear] says to the Rebbe: “I’m going up there already. I heard the Rebbe wants to build a palace in Jerusalem, in the Holy Land. I want to be a partner, to help a little with it.” So the Rebbe tells him this. Incidentally, what he said wasn’t exactly that the Rebbe wanted to build a palace, but he says, “I heard the Rebbe wants to build a palace.” So the Rebbe tells him, “You need to speak with the administration of Kfar Chabad.” Whether they would agree to it, he didn’t know. He said nothing.

15:35 Speaker 3 All right.

15:35 Speaker 6 The Rebbe refers him to Kfar Chabad without [unclear] Kfar Chabad. The Rebbe tells him, “You need to speak with them.” Do you need to speak with them or not? Simply, regardless of you. So when the Rebbe says, “You need to speak with them,” and the people in Kfar Chabad’s administration said, “Absolutely not,” about something the Rebbe had agreed to—they say, “Absolutely not.” Are we going to [unclear], G-d forbid?

16:01 Speaker 3 Yes.

16:01 Speaker 6 The Rebbe, when he enters Eretz Yisroel, it needs to be Kfar Chabad. Kfar Chabad. In the end he says, “We get a lot of nachas from the fact that the Rebbe [unclear], with all due respect to the government’s help.” I don’t want to take from people or cause them pain. Someone goes and keeps putting it off, putting it off, and so on. I opened a website for two thousand and... Nosson, but I don’t know if there are donations. A website made with good intentions isn’t enough, it isn’t enough. Someone approaches and says there may be [unclear]. Hashem have mercy. But I opened a website where [unclear], for someone who’s in that situation. I opened a website, and he didn’t have much.

16:49 Speaker 3 Put it in order.

16:49 Speaker 6 I wrote his name there, and the name of everyone [unclear] in your heart. A child—that’s a good name for a father and child. Do you know what a battle my life is? So they have the other side that way, too. Wait, give us your address. Get married, and that’ll be enough.

17:16 Speaker 3 Yes.

17:16 Speaker 6 That’s [unclear]. Now, for example, that isn’t everything I’ve acquired in this world. A life is an entire world. But if this imagination is [unclear], and with imagination you go to the market.

17:35 Speaker 3 It’s unbelievable what...

17:40 Speaker 6 Give us your address. A rabbi in Germany hears about it [unclear].

17:49 Speaker 3 How will you bring [unclear] the rabbi on Shabbos? But she [unclear], and [unclear] chassidim. It certainly needs to be like that. He wants to live [unclear].

18:07 Speaker 6 He is our king and will teach us [unclear] and bring [unclear].

18:13 Speaker 3 Ay, ay, ay.

18:14 Speaker 6 Not five.

18:17 Speaker 3 Take it like this, and I—I remember one time, like this. Uh... no, no, no. Like this, like this. I heard the Rebbe once on Shabbos. Yankele [unclear]. You see, you see.

19:45 Speaker 7 You’re imagining it, you’re imagining it. I’m crying, and I’m not imagining it. I’m presenting it, I’m presenting it, I’m presenting it. I’m not. I don’t understand what happened—the cassette broke on me, broke on me and did this to me. First of all.

20:03 Speaker 3 What was that, of the Rebbe’s davening?

20:05 Speaker 7 Of the Rebbe. The children were with me, and I had [unclear] seventy-nine, ninety-four, and she... [unclear] one moment with the Rebbe, one moment with the Rebbe in that minyan.

22:21 Speaker 8 What does “one moment” mean?

22:24 Speaker 7 But I want to tell you this: in terms of time, I spent months on it, on this matter.

22:32 Speaker 8 Even [unclear]? Even in my home, with the children?

22:34 Speaker 7 Yes, yes, yes, yes. They had no choice.

22:40 Speaker 8 There was no choice.

22:41 Speaker 7 There was no choice.

22:42 Speaker 8 I don’t know the language. There’s no choice.

22:44 Speaker 7 So what occurs to you? What occurs to me today [unclear] could turn everything upside down. I have no father, wife, children, or anything.

22:56 Speaker 8 Remind me of the assistant who founded the Rommash family[unclear].

22:59 Speaker 7 No, no, no.

23:00 Speaker 8 The Rommash family[unclear].

23:01 Speaker 7 That, that’s [unclear].

23:05 Speaker 8 I’m not—I’m not prepared to give the...

23:09 Speaker 7 Yankel, I didn’t. I didn’t sell my house. But listen, if there’s a situation where [unclear], then I felt that.

23:22 Speaker 8 Oh!

23:25 Speaker 7 I felt it. Everyone shouted at me that there was nothing to it.

23:31 Speaker 8 We weren’t there at all.

23:32 Speaker 7 And at the beginning.

23:33 Speaker 8 We weren’t there at all.

23:34 Speaker 7 It didn’t really trouble me. You know, there are things that seem like nothing at all. But it says, “[unclear].”

23:45 Speaker 8 I asked, yes, but I’m still asking.

23:49 Speaker 7 Tell me, do you remember that I once got a letter from Rabbi Chaim? [Unclear], Brook, Brook.

23:54 Speaker 8 Yes, Brook. It was just correspondence, in beautiful handwriting.

23:59 Speaker 7 Did you see me today?

24:01 Speaker 8 Afterward, that helps me. I hadn’t seen you for almost two weeks.

24:15 Speaker 7 That’s [unclear].

24:18 Speaker 8 One, a second turn, two thousand. Not bad for the heart. It’s not just that you come bringing regards from people.

24:30 Speaker 7 Why is that my imagination?

24:37 Speaker 8 I don’t understand.

24:38 Speaker 7 For me, a word from the Rebbe—you know.

24:42 Speaker 8 That’s not the reality.

24:47 Speaker 7 Now, now I’ll tell you where my imagination comes in. I was with the Rebbe. All right, just a second. I saw what the Rebbe’s davening was like. Be quiet. Leave me alone.

25:19 Speaker 8 Listen, listen.

25:20 Speaker 7 Listen, listen, listen. Listen to what the Rebbe’s davening was like. I heard it. Listen a moment: I stood dozens of times to greet the Rebbe. Do you remember, in 5737? Back then they didn’t sing songs when the Rebbe came out. The Rebbe came out along the path. I was a bochur in the yeshiva in Kfar Chabad, and I would always stand along the path. I stood there dozens of times. He didn’t give me a glance. I’m sitting there. I went there after Pesach, and on Shabbos Chanukah I stood along the path; on Sunday I traveled back to Eretz Yisroel.

26:01 Speaker 8 And [unclear].

26:02 Speaker 7 Yes, yes, I was there for half a year after that. I didn’t go into yechidus while I was abroad. Only after Pesach did I stand there, after Pesach, [unclear]. So it wasn’t right after Pesach. Then I passed by. I passed by.

26:16 Speaker 8 There was a group—

26:17 Speaker 7 I wasn’t part of a group, I wasn’t part of a group. I was at the Rebbe’s on my own then. After Pesach I went in, traveled back to Eretz Yisroel, and then passed by the Rebbe’s room. That was the only time. I never went in then. I mean, after my wedding I went in, but... It’s all [unclear], but on the last Shabbos I was there, the Rebbe passed by. Then I saw what a movement of the Rebbe’s is like. You know what encouraged me through all that? That the Rebbe says [unclear] thousands of times a month. I myself saw him, heard him, dozens of times along the path, and the Rebbe never said a word to me. On the last Shabbos before I traveled, [unclear].

26:58 Speaker 8 Poor fellow.

26:58 Speaker 7 Poor fellow. I saw that every movement of the Rebbe’s was considered and precise.