Korach: 5784 - "It came to pass in the thirtieth year": The Rebbe's affairs, in quantity and quality, constantly growing throughout the entire world. A collection of stories about the Rebbe and a profound lesson for every chossid. Rabbi Shimon…

00:01 Speaker 1 We are on the eve of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz, just before Gimmel Tammuz, the Rebbe’s yahrzeit. It has already been thirty years since the Rebbe has not been with us. Perhaps that expression isn’t right. Not with us? He is with us, because the life of a tzaddik is not physical life. It is love and awe of Hashem. It is spiritual life, and so these things are eternal. We see that everything connected with the Rebbe keeps growing, both in quantity and in quality, throughout the world. Because the life of a tzaddik is spiritual, it is eternal. And when a tzaddik’s yahrzeit comes, it is an opportunity to connect with him. That is why we see so many Jews coming on the Rebbe’s yahrzeit to the Rebbe’s holy Ohel, to pray, to make requests and to receive blessings. There are so many stories of people who have been helped even today after coming to the holy Ohel, or sending a letter with various requests, and receiving help from Heaven. They tell a story about the Rebbe Maharash. He had a gabbai, an attendant, who once said to one of the great chassidim, “I don’t understand. When the Rebbe receives people for yechidus, afterward I have to bring him clothes to change into, because all his clothes are completely soaked with sweat. Why is he sweating so much?” He couldn’t understand it. This came to the Rebbe’s attention. He called that attendant in and said, “I’ll explain why. When a Jew comes to me for yechidus and asks me for advice and a blessing, to answer him I need to enter his situation, to feel what he feels. When I am in my own state, wearing my own garments, I cannot understand him. To understand his situation,

02:27 Speaker 1 I have to put on his garments, as though I were him. Then I understand his problem. Afterward, when I need to give him advice, to give him an answer, I cannot do it while I am wearing his garments. Just as he cannot help himself and does not know what to do, neither can I while I am in his situation. So I have to return to myself, as it were, and put my own garments back on. For every Jew, I have to do this twice: put on that Jew’s garments and then return to my own. Twenty-five people come in to see me. That makes fifty times. Now tell me: after putting on and taking off garments fifty times, is it any wonder that I sweat so much?” This is a true story about the Rebbe Maharash. Anyone who knows even a little about how many Jews came to the Rebbe for yechidus, or even to receive dollars, knows that we are talking about thousands upon thousands of people. In a single day, thousands of Jews could come while the Rebbe stood for six hours, giving each and every Jew a dollar and blessing them. Many people asked questions right then, and the Rebbe answered them. How many times did the Rebbe have to put on and take off those garments? And the Rebbe stood for hours and hours, helping and answering each and every Jew. These things are difficult even to imagine. They are beyond human strength. Once, an elderly woman stood in line on a Sunday to receive a dollar from the Rebbe. She was old and frail. She stood in line for two hours until finally her turn came. She said to the Rebbe, “I’ve been standing for two hours, and I’m almost collapsing. You’ve been standing here for hours. How do you do it?” That is what she asked the Rebbe. The Rebbe told her,

04:26 Speaker 1 “When you count diamonds, you don’t get tired.” To the Rebbe, every Jew was a precious diamond, and so the Rebbe did not get tired or sweat or anything of the sort. I once heard Rabbi Groner, the Rebbe’s secretary, when he was here at the shul for a farbrengen, say something remarkable. He said the Rebbe would stand for, say, six hours, giving out dollars. Ordinarily, a person needs to use the restroom, especially an older person. The Rebbe would stand for hours without a break or anything. It was something beyond the ordinary human capacity. And we believe that just as he stood and served before, he stands and serves now as well. When we connect with the tzaddik, make requests and pray—especially on Gimmel Tammuz, when the custom is to send the Rebbe a pan, a pidyon nefesh—the Rebbe surely pleads on behalf of each and every Jew. And with Hashem’s help, may we merit to see the Rebbe in a physical body here below, with the true and complete Geulah.

05:38 Speaker 2 Amen, amen!