Tazria: 5782 - In light of recent events in Eretz Yisroel, a story from the shliach Rabbi Sholom Poizner and the Rebbe Rashab: Rabbi Shimon Zonnenfeld, with a story about his wife's grandfather, the shliach in Pittsburgh…

00:00 Speaker 1 Rabbi Sonnenfeld, please.

00:04 Speaker 2 In light of the events this week, with so much blood spilled in the streets, I’m reminded of something I once heard from my wife’s grandfather, Reb Posner. He was one of the students who learned in Lubavitch. This was during the First World War. The Communist Revolution took place, and they had to leave Lubavitch. The Rebbe Rashab left Lubavitch and moved to Rostov. Reb Posner was a young man learning in the yeshiva, and he and a few other young men decided—Pesach was approaching—that they wanted to spend Pesach with the Rebbe. But traveling on the roads then was a matter of life and death. To get to Rostov, they had to take a train. If they saw a Jew, they might grab him and throw him out the window. It was a matter of life and death. In any case, they—it’s a long story—they reached Rostov and spent Pesach with the Rebbe Rashab. He told me that he heard the following from the Rebbe Rashab himself. The revolution was going on. The Rebbe Rashab stood at the window, and a procession of young people passed by with flags and slogans. The Rebbe stood at the window and watched. And the Rebbe said—Reb Posner heard it himself: “They think they’ve finished off Judaism. As long as one Jew remains in the world, they haven’t even begun. Avraham was one man, and from Avraham came the entire House of Israel.” He was holding a picture of the—of the Rebbe in his hand. And all the more so when there are so many Jews. So all the enemies of the Jewish people will certainly, certainly not succeed in their schemes.

01:54 Speaker 1 Amen. Yasher koach! Have a good and blessed month.