Ears to Hear 21 | The Staff of Moshiach Within Each Person

00:00 Speaker 1 And Hashem gave you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear.

00:08 Speaker 2 Ears to Hear. Audio programs for the Temimim, from the World Atah organization.

00:15 Speaker 3 Moshiach Headquarters isn’t an office in Kfar Chabad, with everyone waiting to see what Moshiach Headquarters will do next. Each person has his own Moshiach Headquarters within himself. As you say, it depends on each individual: how much does he live with matters of Moshiach? Do we live with Moshiach the way we did in 5773, 5774? I think much less. I remember bochurim getting stuck on a train and immediately breaking into a dance, singing “Yechi Adoneinu.” Today, we see “Yechi Adoneinu” like this: [unclear] they held a farbrengen here and went to 770. Every niggun they started, he sang with the words “Yechi Adoneinu.” That’s how it was. Imagine the Rebbe coming out and dancing to “Yechi Adoneinu.” “Yechi Adoneinu”—that’s the reality. That’s everything. That’s the purpose of it all.

01:01 Speaker 2 Shalom aleichem to all the Temimim in Chabad-Lubavitch yeshivos throughout the Holy Land and around the world. We’re now beginning another program in the Ears to Hear audio series, a program permeated with a spirit of firm hiskashrus to the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach shlita, and to his primary concern: bringing Moshiach in actual reality. In this program, we’ll speak with Rabbi Shmuel HaKohen Hendel, chairman of Moshiach Headquarters in the Holy Land, about its establishment and how the idea arose from the sicha of 28 Nissan—the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach’s clear demand that we do everything in our power to bring Moshiach. How can every Tomim, every chossid, wherever he may be, use his own abilities and strengths to activate the Moshiach Headquarters within himself, work on matters of Moshiach, and live with them consistently in everyday life? Before we begin, we’d like to mention the sponsors of this program, the Moshe family, in honor of the birth of their daughter. May they have great success in all their affairs, materially and spiritually. Let’s begin this special program with Rabbi Hendel. Shalom aleichem, Rabbi Hendel. Yechi HaMelech.

02:21 Speaker 3 Yechi HaMelech HaMoshiach. Aleichem shalom.

02:23 Speaker 2 Baruch Hashem, we’re here for a very special program about Moshiach Headquarters: the general headquarters, Moshiach Headquarters in the Holy Land, and the Moshiach Headquarters within each of us. Before we begin, let’s lay the foundation for this whole subject, starting with Moshiach himself. First, let’s talk about what gave rise to all the activities and everything concerning Moshiach that brought us to such a powerful point. Let’s talk about the sicha of 28 Nissan, which is really the foundation of it all. It led to the establishment of Moshiach Headquarters, and we should pause to understand what happened as a result of that sicha. Did something happen here that changed our whole outlook in a way we hadn’t seen before? Did something new begin, or was it simply a strengthening of something that already existed, with the Rebbe reinforcing the matter of Moshiach? Let’s spend a little time on that sicha, and then we’ll understand the broader idea.

03:13 Speaker 3 Well, let’s explain: when was the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, born? The Rebbe was born as Melech HaMoshiach during the time of the Rebbe Rashab. As the Rebbe says, we see specifically Moshiach, whose name is Menachem, whose names include Yehudah, Yosef Yitzchak, Dovid, Dovber. So the Rebbe has been Moshiach since then. There were different periods, apparently, during the time of the Rebbe Rashab and the Frierdiker Rebbe, until the Rebbe accepted the nesius. Right away, in his first maamar, the Rebbe began: our generation, the last generation of exile and the first of Geulah, is the seventh generation—the seventh from the Alter Rebbe, just as Moshe Rabbeinu was the seventh from Avraham Avinu. So this is the generation of Moshiach, and ever since then the Rebbe has been leading our entire generation toward Moshiach. The Rebbe cried out, “We want Moshiach now!” Everyone knew a Chabadnik was someone [unclear] about Moshiach. Crazy people! Moshiach was the thing those crazy Chabadniks talked about. It had always been that way: “We want Moshiach now!” The Rebbe spoke about it all the time, but it was alongside all the mivtzoim. We don’t know about heavenly matters. Suddenly, the Rebbe saw that something here needed to change—or I don’t know what—and then the Rebbe delivered the sicha of “Do everything in your power.” The Rebbe said, “I have done everything in my power. From here on, you must do everything in your power.” That sicha shook everyone to the core. Some people were even frightened. They thought, “What’s happening here? The Rebbe is using expressions like these!” As people say, in that sicha the Rebbe shook the lectern. It was tremendous. Everyone was alarmed. I remember that I was a bochur then, in the younger yeshiva. At the shul, they played that sicha after we’d heard it on the broadcast, and everyone was alarmed. They kept playing it. It was Thursday night, and they played it through Shabbos. There was no video. There were recordings copied from a tape, and they played it over a loudspeaker—

04:51 Speaker 3 a big loudspeaker. They kept playing it until Shabbos. Everyone was stunned by the sicha and didn’t know what to do. Then there was a meeting on Motzoei Shabbos at Beis Menachem in Kfar Chabad. All the rabbonim came and decided they needed to issue a ruling that the Rebbe is Melech HaMoshiach, and they sent the ruling to the Rebbe. Right afterward came “the direct path”: studying matters of Moshiach, as the Rebbe said, [unclear]. That’s when all the activity around Moshiach began. But matters of Moshiach began to emerge as a subject in their own right. I also heard that it happened specifically when several bochurim wrote to the Rebbe about studying matters of Moshiach; the Rebbe approved it and then spoke about it in a sicha. Suddenly it became a focus. I want to tell you: the Rebbe gave this instruction so many times—I don’t know, five times, ten times, I don’t know—to study matters of Moshiach, engage in matters of Moshiach, and live with matters of Moshiach. Since that sicha in 5751, “Do everything in your power,” the Rebbe spoke about it dozens, maybe hundreds, of times: living with Moshiach and studying matters of Moshiach. It gained momentum to the point that it wasn’t just that you put tefillin on someone to bring the Geulah closer. There were some responses along those lines, because of course you put on tefillin. What is Geulah? Geulah is tefillin, Geulah is Torah, Geulah is mitzvos. It’s the perfection of Torah and mitzvos, restoring the kingdom of Dovid to its former state and original sovereignty. But it also meant studying matters of Moshiach. And as the Rebbe said, explaining the concept of Moshiach became the central task. In Parshas Chayei Sarah, the Rebbe said that the only shlichus remaining is to receive our righteous Melech HaMoshiach, and that involves explaining who Moshiach is. In other words, there’s something special here about engaging with this and illuminating the people—and not

06:24 Speaker 3 only illuminating the people, but illuminating ourselves, the shluchim—each person himself—with matters of Moshiach.

06:29 Speaker 4 The way you’re putting it, the central idea is that this isn’t an appendix or just another item alongside everything else. It has a place of its own. It’s a subject in its own right—the main thing we’re occupied with now. And that really changed the outlook of Chabad chassidim.

06:43 Speaker 3 Yes, and perhaps the best way to define it is through the beginning of the sicha of Parshas Chayei Sarah 5751. There the Rebbe says that every era has a gateway through which all matters pass, and now too there is a gateway. This gateway is an overarching matter that encompasses all of Yiddishkeit. So it isn’t suddenly just another gateway, like Mivtza Tefillin, the Shabbos candle campaign, or [unclear]. It was there before, too, but not as the gateway. Now it’s the main gateway. The Rebbe suddenly made the focus Moshiach—only Moshiach. There were sichos in 5752, as we all know, in which the weekly parsha didn’t come up at all. In several sichos there was no discussion of the weekly parsha whatsoever. The Rebbe spoke only about Moshiach. The whole period was filled with Moshiach. So the chassidim understood that something special was happening. They were stirred to action and said, “Let’s establish something.” You’re asking about Moshiach Headquarters, and that’s what we want to discuss. Moshiach Headquarters is every single chossid. In other words, every Chabad House is a Moshiach Headquarters; every chassidishe home is a Moshiach Headquarters. They established a dedicated headquarters to work on matters of Moshiach, and then they held classes on matters of Moshiach. They organized—what do you call it?—twenty-four-hour study of matters of Moshiach, among Anash and the Temimim: studying the maamarim and sichos about Moshiach, all in order to live with matters of Moshiach. More than that, the Rebbe himself gave us the best material, because of the response concerning Likkutei Sichos. We know about the Likkutei Sichos volumes on matters of Moshiach. The first volume was published; when they prepared the second, the Rebbe held it back. It was with the Rebbe and wasn’t released. What can you do? People knew that what went in to the Rebbe didn’t come back out. It wasn’t released. Eventually it came out in 5750—

08:11 Speaker 4 on 3 Shvat.

08:13 Speaker 3 Yes, exactly. After several powerful sichos, the Rebbe said to add material from the recent sichos. So we saw that the Rebbe gave us the task of working on matters of Moshiach. Now, matters of Moshiach encompass the whole Torah and mitzvos. But I remember Rabbi Yoel Kahn speaking—I don’t remember what year it was, maybe 5753—and he said: Today, when you go out into the street and ask someone to put on tefillin, you don’t just say, “Come, fellow Jew, put on tefillin,” and then say the work is done. Today you tell him, “To bring Moshiach closer, to welcome Moshiach—come put on tefillin.”

08:45 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

08:45 Speaker 3 In other words, today the whole Torah and all the mitzvos have come to revolve around this. So we had to establish something specifically devoted to matters of Moshiach.

08:54 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

08:55 Speaker 5 When we established the headquarters the Rebbe had called for years earlier—a Moshiach headquarters under Agudas Chassidei Chabad—that also raised the standing of Agudas Chassidei Chabad as an institution.

09:13 Speaker 4 So now we really want to focus on the Moshiach headquarters in the Holy Land. We’re skipping over the worldwide Moshiach headquarters that Rabbi Butman established right after the sicha about Rabbi Chanina, and the details of how the headquarters for matters of Moshiach was established in the Holy Land by [unclear], by Tzach, and everything else. We’re coming straight to the establishment of the present-day Moshiach headquarters, which works on matters of Moshiach—the headquarters that you chair and direct, under Agudas Chassidei Chabad in the Holy Land, as represented by Rabbi Sholom [unclear]. If we could talk for a moment about this headquarters, about the idea of a Moshiach headquarters in the Holy Land, whose whole purpose is to work on matters of Moshiach and bring Moshiach to everyone, to every segment of the public. First of all, what does the headquarters do? What are its main, substantial projects, and what’s on the way?

10:09 Speaker 3 First, I’ll add something to what we said earlier. This past Shabbos, or perhaps two weeks ago, we were davening at 770 in Kfar Chabad, and someone repeated the maamar Be’itah Achishenah. One of the young married men in Kfar Chabad listened to the maamar, and he said to me, “Listen, I suddenly realize that the lesson of Be’itah Achishenah is [unclear]. Even someone who is in the street—not only at a time of pressure, [unclear]—must always feel the pain that Moshiach hasn’t come.” He said, “I think that only happens when you’re involved in matters of Moshiach, because someone who is out in the street and isn’t involved in matters of Moshiach—”

10:46 Speaker 4 Then he feels no pain at all.

10:47 Speaker 3 Then he feels no sense that something is missing; he feels no pain.

10:49 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

10:49 Speaker 3 In other words, that’s also the lesson of Be’itah Achishenah, the maamar the Rebbe distributed to everyone. The lesson is to study and live with matters of Moshiach. Only then can you feel the pain that Moshiach hasn’t come. Otherwise—

11:01 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

11:01 Speaker 3 You don’t come close to that feeling.

11:02 Speaker 4 And you have the privilege of being involved in this twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, through the Moshiach headquarters. So what are the headquarters’ main projects?

11:09 Speaker 3 Well, when I joined the Moshiach headquarters, I was a young married man; I had only just gotten married. They had established the Moshiach headquarters in Israel and wanted to bring all the organizations and all the people working on matters of Moshiach together under one umbrella. There was a very serious leadership team, but they were looking for a young man to take care of it, to actually run it. There wasn’t even an office yet, nothing concrete. Professor Herman Branover, may he be well, was chairman of the Moshiach headquarters, and he called on me to work on matters of Moshiach. If there’s room for it, I can tell you personally how that happened. I had many offers to go on shlichus. I had even spent several years working professionally with wealthy people and so on, and they wanted me to—

11:57 Speaker 4 That was with Smith Barney.

11:58 Speaker 3 That was with Smith Barney in Manhattan, and they wanted me to stay with them as an employee. Later they saw that wasn’t going to happen—only shlichus. So they wanted me to open a Chabad House in Manhattan, and—

12:09 Speaker 4 What do you mean, open a Chabad House in Manhattan? That’s no small thing. What did that involve?

12:13 Speaker 3 They had agreed that they would buy a building in Midtown Manhattan, at least three floors. One floor would be our home, one a shul, and the third for activities. There were three wealthy men partnering in it, each covering a third of the expenses. They spoke with my wife and with my parents, and we had already gone to visit. I knew them very well.

12:36 Speaker 4 They wanted to put you to the test with the whole street aspect of it—

12:40 Speaker 3 And I had no problem with it. I simply wrote to the Rebbe, and my wife agreed too. I wrote to the Rebbe, but there was no answer yet. So I waited. I said, “Let’s wait through the first year.” Meanwhile, other offers came up in Israel, and then there was the offer from the Moshiach headquarters. The Moshiach headquarters really didn’t seem right for me. For various reasons, it just didn’t seem—

12:59 Speaker 4 Realistic.

13:00 Speaker 3 Right. And it didn’t have the resources in place yet. I didn’t think I should take it on. Professor Branover called me.

13:06 Speaker 4 Did he know you beforehand, or...?

13:07 Speaker 3 He didn’t know me. He had no idea who I was. I was a young married man, but I knew of him. I greatly admired him from his book and his lectures. I saw that he was a genuine person, and I had a great deal of respect for him. So we met. Just a little anecdote: back then I didn’t even have a driver’s license or a car. I was a young married man getting around Kfar Chabad on a bicycle. We arranged to meet in the lobby of a hotel in Jerusalem. So we set out from Kfar Chabad to catch a bus from the Kfar Chabad junction to Jerusalem. We had no car. I said to my wife, “Since this is about matters of Moshiach, which, as we said earlier, are of the utmost importance, we’ll get a ride from here all the way to Jerusalem.” Before I had even finished speaking, someone from Kfar Chabad who was going to Jerusalem stopped and took us right to the hotel.

13:51 Speaker 4 You could see that there was [unclear] leading you to it.

13:54 Speaker 3 Yes. I said it was matters of Moshiach. Then we sat down and talked. I should mention that Shlomo Maidanchik stood behind the whole thing. He kept pushing and encouraging me in all sorts of ways. After all, I was just a young married man—“green in Chabad communal work,” as Shlomo Maidanchik put it. At first I said to him, “What are you asking of me? Every campaign, whatever it is, involves large sums of money. I can’t handle the finances.” He said, “Someone else will take care of the money, and you’ll run the activities.” “So what should I do?” I asked. He said, “That’s why we chose you. Plan what to do. You plan it.”

14:25 Speaker 4 But he was the one backing the idea.

14:29 Speaker 3 Shlomo Maidanchik was chairman of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, and he gave the Moshiach headquarters its official backing: the Moshiach headquarters under Agudas Chassidei Chabad in the Holy Land, the most official, established institution there could be. He gave the headquarters his full support.

14:54 Speaker 4 And from its establishment to the start of the projects—what did you begin with?

14:59 Speaker 3 I sat down and planned. A few things had been done before I came in, but when I planned what to do, I think the first thing I did was a very large study event on matters of Moshiach. We held it at the Modiin halls in Bnei Brak. I don’t know whether that venue still exists. Even back then, about twenty-five years ago—I don’t remember exactly how many—we brought in an audiovisual presentation, a laser show on matters of Moshiach. We brought in Sholom Ber Kalman [?] from Cincinnati. We went all out, and hundreds of people came to the study event. It was an evening program with hundreds of people and a meat meal. I remember to this day how successful it was.

15:37 Speaker 4 Was it for the Chabad community, or for the general public?

15:38 Speaker 3 It was for the Chabad community. After that we began publishing the Geulah newsletter. It’s remarkable to think what a huge project that was, coming out every week. The shluchim told me, “We never believed it would keep coming out at all after it started.” At first it would arrive after Shabbos, and every week, every month, there was a financial shortfall. It was a very, very substantial project.

16:03 Speaker 4 But you sensed that the public was thirsty for content on matters of Moshiach—for a newsletter with intellectual substance that spoke to people clearly about matters of Moshiach.

16:14 Speaker 3 Yes, the most important thing of all is explaining the concept of Moshiach within Chabad and to the wider public. And what better way than a newsletter that speaks to the wider public? Since then, it’s improved and changed; we’ve upgraded it several times. And now, when you ask about the future, we’re planning, with Hashem’s help, to work on the newsletter again very soon—to upgrade it, improve it, and distribute it even more widely. It’s already distributed in tens of thousands of copies, and even shluchim for whom this isn’t necessarily their main focus appreciate the newsletter and use it. So that’s our strongest way of explaining the concept of Moshiach. [unclear] in fine vessels. We went through several difficult periods when people suggested lowering the newsletter’s quality because it was financially difficult. We said, “No, no. We’re not compromising on making it the best it can be.” That was one of the projects back then. I remember from the beginning. Since this is a program for the Temimim to listen to, I remember that when we first started our activities, we ran campaigns for the Temimim. Atah Haolami wasn’t really—

17:06 Speaker 4 It hadn’t actually been established yet.

17:07 Speaker 3 Maybe it hadn’t been established yet. I don’t quite remember. So we ran a campaign for the bochurim to study topics about Moshiach. I may still have something in the archives.

17:14 Speaker 4 Copies.

17:14 Speaker 3 Yes, we ran a campaign with airline tickets to visit the Rebbe. Later there was a campaign for children. On 11 Nissan, we held children’s gatherings all over the country. I think the heading was “Celebrating the Rebbe’s Birthday.” We ran a campaign called “Only Moshiach—Do a Mitzvah and Be a Partner.” Back then, people went out into the streets. We ordered large posters throughout the country, with publicity material. I remember Rabbi Yeshurun Segal [?], Harlavitz [?], Chagai Ginzburg, and Avraham Meizlish going out to the intersections—Ramle, Beit Dagan, all the intersections. There were big signs saying—oh, this was also “We Deserve Moshiach.” We put “We Deserve Moshiach” signs on buses. We used the Maximedia company and put them on the backs of buses everywhere: “Only Moshiach—Do a Mitzvah and Be a Partner,” with a picture of the Rebbe.

18:02 Speaker 4 We’re talking about the later years.

18:05 Speaker 3 The early 5760s.

18:08 Speaker 4 The very early years.

18:08 Speaker 3 The early 5760s.

18:10 Speaker 4 And where do the large gatherings fit in among all these activities about Geulah and Moshiach, the newsletter, and everything else you mentioned?

18:17 Speaker 3 Well, first there was a study day. Later we held another study day at the Daniel Hotel in Herzliya. You’re bringing back memories for me. What comes to mind? You’re reminding me—it was very, very powerful. Explaining the concept of Moshiach... There wasn’t a gathering on 28 Nissan. What we had on 28 Nissan was the first “A Shabbos Entirely About Moshiach.”

18:33 Speaker 4 That was when—

18:34 Speaker 3 That was when we held “A Shabbos Entirely About Moshiach.” We reserved a hundred rooms in a hotel—a hotel with fourteen or fifteen floors. We took a hundred rooms for the week after Pesach. 28 Nissan fell on the Shabbos after Pesach. How many days did we have? Hardly any. We put together a list of a hundred new classes on topics about Moshiach. None of it was in color; it was all printed—

18:56 Speaker 4 In black and white.

18:57 Speaker 3 In black and white. We had a chart of all the new classes on topics about Moshiach, and we printed it: the chart on one side, and on the other, “A Shabbos Entirely About Moshiach,” taking place during the week of Chol Hamoed. It was black and white, and we distributed it. Registration took off within two days. We had only a week to publicize it—it was right after Pesach. Within two or three days, all hundred places were taken. We didn’t know what to do. Then I heard from N’shei Chabad in Tzfas—through my mother—about a time they’d run out of space and the Rebbe had told them not to say there was no room. So we said, “We won’t say there’s no room.” We approached the hotel and took another hundred rooms. People came and climbed fifteen floors on Shabbos, just to take part in that Shabbos. I think it was in 5760. It was something else. After that, people even stayed at another hotel half an hour’s walk away so they could come and join the meal, because there was no room left in the hotel.

19:51 Speaker 4 The main purpose of these Shabbos gatherings was to take a person for twenty-four hours and lift him into the days of Moshiach, quite literally. Then, when he returned to everyday life, his whole focus would be Moshiach.

20:03 Speaker 3 You entered a special atmosphere centered on Moshiach. Everything revolved around Moshiach—living with it. One of the things we did, which people may not remember today, was reach out to the wider public. I don’t know if you even know about this: we made a Moshiach-themed amusement park. We took a large area in Kfar Chabad, brought in tractors, loaders, and a D9 bulldozer, and prepared the site. We approached the whole pub— We hired the only company in the country that had electric rides. It cost us about 400,000 shekels. It was all on a grand scale. I remember admission was thirty-five shekels for the whole day, throughout Chol Hamoed Pesach, and we invited the wider public. Kfar Chabad filled up. People came by train and bus; everyone came. There was a huge swing ride, and on it was a sign: “We’ll swing our G-d into revealing our Moshiach.” There was a simulator, like—you know those spacecraft rides where you get in and feel as if you’re inside one? The heading on it was “Waking Up from the Dream of Exile.” In the middle there was a stand with a stage, performances, a giant video of the Rebbe, and everything. In short, it was about bringing Moshiach into everything. We did it for quite a few years. It was an expense without income, because the rabbi covered the costs, but it was very powerful. We did these things for a number of years, up until 5764. That was the first time—it was a decade since Gimmel Tammuz, and we said we’d do something big on 11 Nissan. In Israel, 11 Nissan was always marked, especially in Tzfas. My mother brought me up here in Tzfas, where there was always a gathering for all the children before Pesach. We held a children’s gathering on 11 Nissan at the Inbar halls, the main hall, and went around with BMX bicycles on a car through all the city’s neighborhoods, in [unclear].

21:50 Speaker 3 We drove around like that. I remember the first prize was a BMX bicycle. That was the whole thing—a thousand children would come.

21:55 Speaker 4 So 11 Nissan was—

21:57 Speaker 3 Engraved in your soul as the greatest day of the year, as it truly is.

22:00 Speaker 4 So when 5764 came, it was obvious to you that you’d do something for 11 Nissan.

22:03 Speaker 3 It was clear to us that we were doing something big for Gimmel Tam—f-for 11 Nissan. So we went ahead, and I drew up a budget estimate. What were we talking about? I’m talking about money, but never mind. The stories about the money—and how I came to handle the finances—is a story in itself, but we’ll never finish. I worked out an estimate with a few of the guys: between fifty and sixty thousand dollars. In other words, fifty thousand dollars, or sixty thousand if we went over budget. Then we went to meet the general manager of Yad Eliyahu. It was called Yad Eliyahu then; today it’s called Nokia. The general manager was Nir Pratzeloner [?]. We met with him and talked. I remember sitting there with another two or three organizers. We said to him, “Listen, this is the budget.” He shouted at us: “You’re off by a factor of two. It isn’t fifty or sixty thousand; it’s a hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty thousand dollars.” At the time, the dollar was worth four and a half shekels. We thought he was just trying to take advantage of us. What? Fifty or sixty thousand? There was no way it could be that much. After quite an argument, we went outside and said, “Let’s call Rami Aharonov, alav hashalom.” He had organized a gathering at [unclear]. Rami Aharonov had held a large gathering on 2 Nissan. Yes, there had been one at Cinerama, and after that a gathering on 2 Nissan. It was a large gathering. We asked him, and he said, “Yes, he’s right. It won’t cost less than a hundred and twenty or a hundred and thirty thousand dollars.” The guys told me to drop the whole thing. It seemed there was no choice. People made all kinds of other suggestions and told me not to do it. I went home with a real weight on my mind. What, we weren’t going to do it? I really couldn’t fall asleep. It was far from simple. I woke up at five in the morning. I don’t know when—

23:37 Speaker 3 I’d gone to sleep, but I decided to write a letter to the Rebbe. I wrote and reported what was happening. Then I opened Igros Kodesh and found an answer. It said something about a certain matter—maybe a venue [?], I don’t know—that it was out of the question not to proceed. I felt it applied to this. I said, “We’re going ahead.” I remember taking my first loan, for fifty thousand dollars, from Naftali Astolin, may he be well. For me, it was like climbing Mount Everest. Undertaking something like that was a huge mountain to climb. But I went ahead, and boruch Hashem, it succeeded beyond the natural order. And afterward, I saw that we were still standing.

24:12 Speaker 4 Mm-hm.

24:13 Speaker 3 That was it. Then 5766 passed, and before 5767 we came to hold the gathering again. They said we couldn’t use Yad Eliyahu because there was some event there. I don’t remember what Final Four it was, who won, and all that.

24:28 Speaker 4 And then the idea of Bloomfield came up.

24:30 Speaker 3 Yes, it took quite a while for the idea of Bloomfield to come up. There were three proposals, and then Bloomfield came up, but it seemed completely out of reach. We held a meeting; I brought together eight young married men.

24:42 Speaker 4 It seemed out of reach not just financially, but mainly because of the challenge of filling a venue that size.

24:48 Speaker 3 Exactly, exactly. Both financially and in terms of filling the venue. I remember how it happened. I gathered eight young married men. We sat together, and I presented all three options we’d been offered, including Bloomfield. We discussed and discussed every aspect—the money, the crowd, everything. They told me, “Listen, write to the Rebbe and ask what to do.” I went home and wrote to the Rebbe, but I didn’t see any answer.

25:12 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

25:13 Speaker 3 I went back to them, and they said, “Then apparently the committee needs to make a decision, and afterward you should write to the Rebbe.” So I convened the executive committee of Shabbos HaMoshiach. Rabbi Wilshansky and Rabbi Siginzorg[?] from Ramat Aviv were there. I even remember where we sat and talked. We reached a conclusion: we decided to go with Bloomfield. But “we decided” meant I was going with Bloomfield.

25:31 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

25:31 Speaker 3 In other words, it was a commitment. The whole responsibility was mine.

25:34 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

25:35 Speaker 3 I went home, but I couldn’t write that day. I said, “Tomorrow morning I’ll get up, learn Chassidus, daven, and then write to the Rebbe.” I spent perhaps several hours at home writing the letter. I cried as I wrote it. I had to write that we’d decided on Bloomfield—but I knew what making that decision meant.

25:50 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

25:50 Speaker 3 As you said, financially, it meant suddenly taking a leap beyond anything we’d done before. Even the wider religious community had never held an event at Bloomfield. Chabad certainly hadn’t, not in fifty years. The biggest venue we’d ever used was Yad Eliyahu.

26:00 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

26:00 Speaker 3 Suddenly you’re jumping to Bloomfield. What are you doing? Who are you? How is this going to work? And through all of that, I had a large picture of the Rebbe. I remember exactly how the Rebbe looked at me in 770, with that same gaze. I stood in front of the Rebbe’s picture and wrote, as though I were handing the letter directly to the Rebbe. Then I placed it in the Igros Kodesh, and I really cried. When I opened the Igros Kodesh, the answer I got spoke about Nissan—it was Nissan—and said that the lesson we learn from Nachshon ben Aminadav applies not only to Nachshon and not only to Pesach and the splitting of the sea, but to every Jew and every breakthrough in matters of Yiddishkeit, and so on. To me, that was a clear answer.

26:42 Speaker 4 This was a real splitting of the sea: go all the way with it.

26:45 Speaker 3 To my mind, Yad Eliyahu had already been a splitting of the sea. This wasn’t just another splitting of the sea; it was staggering. That’s really how it felt. So I called an activist—I won’t name him. He started shouting at me on the phone: “Are you crazy? Never mind the money; you’ll be stuck with that on your own. But what if, G-d forbid, this brings embarrassment to Moshiach? Who’s going to come? You think you’ll fill it? You’ll make a spectacle of yourself.” I’d called him because he was very active in this area and very close to it. He really gave me an earful in my office. People told me, “You’re getting into an adventure you won’t know how to get out of.” I told them, “Listen, we’ve already considered all those arguments.”

27:18 Speaker 4 You wrote to the Rebbe.

27:19 Speaker 3 I wrote to the Rebbe because of all that. After everything, after we’d made the decision, the Rebbe’s answer spoke of Nissan and Nachshon ben Aminadav. So what else was there to say? That was the answer. I threw all my strength into it. That night, I was sitting down to say Krias Shema. I always say Krias Shema wearing my hat, jacket, and gartel. As I was about to begin, the answering machine came on. Back then, if someone called and you didn’t answer, it recorded their message on a cassette, and you could hear them leaving it.

27:48 Speaker 4 Right.

27:49 Speaker 3 I didn’t answer, and I heard: “This is Blumenfeld from Boro Park. Rabbi Kendel, please call me.” He left his phone number.

28:01 Speaker 4 Did you know him?

28:01 Speaker 3 I knew there was someone by that name. I’d never seen him, never spoken to him, never given him any particular thought. There was no connection at all.

28:09 Speaker 4 And suddenly he called you.

28:10 Speaker 3 He left me a message, and I heard it before Krias Shema. It still hadn’t clicked. I said, “Okay, I’ll call him.” But right then? After Krias Shema, I have a practice that goes back to my yeshiva days in Kiryat Gat. Before Gimmel Tammuz, Rabbi Baruch Kahana taught us that to learn the Rebbe’s views, we should study the Igros Kodesh after Krias Shema. It’s good to go to sleep with a letter from the Rebbe.

28:32 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

28:32 Speaker 3 So I always open the Igros Kodesh after Krias Shema. Some people read the letters in order; I open to a random page.

28:38 Speaker 4 Whatever you need.

28:38 Speaker 3 After Gimmel Tammuz, all kinds of answers would suddenly come up when you opened it...

28:42 Speaker 4 Mm-hmm.

28:42 Speaker 3 So after Krias Shema, I opened the Igros Kodesh and saw: “Yosef Baruch Blumenfeld, may he live.” Suddenly it all clicked. I’d been dealing with Bloomfield all day, and now I saw Blumenfeld. Suddenly I said—

28:52 Speaker 4 And you’d received a message from Blumenfeld.

28:53 Speaker 3 I said, “Wait a minute.” Now it hit me that Blumenfeld had called me, and here was Blumenfeld in the letter. I thought maybe it was him, or his father, or something. Anyway, I called him right back and said, “Mr. Blumenfeld? I’m Shmulik Kendel. What did you need?” He said, “Are you from Or Yehuda?” I said, “No, that’s my brother.” He said, “Oh, I need your brother. I got mixed up looking in the phone book.” So I told him, “Listen, you’re involved in an extraordinary instance of hashgachah pratis. I can’t tell you the details right now.” I told him he was involved, without even telling him in what. At the time, we were afraid to reveal what we were doing.

29:27 Speaker 4 You never knew who might cause it to fall through.

29:29 Speaker 3 Exactly. It’s unbelievable. We’d book an event for the general public, bring in a major performer and pay him a deposit, and we’d still be afraid that he’d suddenly hear “Moshiachists” and decide not to come. That’s how things were.

29:45 Speaker 4 Today you can see how much more ready the world is for the Geulah.

29:48 Speaker 3 The world is ready for the Geulah today. It’s ready, ready for the Geulah.

29:50 Speaker 4 But back then, the whole concept was still in its infancy.

29:52 Speaker 3 Yes, and unfortunately, even within the Chabad community, there were still... I remember that after Bloomfield—after that gathering, just as an aside—I have a brother who’s a shliach in Marine Park, near Flatbush. People there told him, “The Moshiachists held a huge gathering in Israel.” It made waves throughout the—

30:12 Speaker 4 You mean people who weren’t Chabad.

30:14 Speaker 3 People who weren’t Chabad, in Flatbush.

30:15 Speaker 4 So it reached that far, because people understood that—

30:17 Speaker 3 There was no WhatsApp then, where everything spreads in a second. It was remarkable that—

30:22 Speaker 4 The news spread far and wide. Coming together to speak about Moshiach’s day, the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, and Yechi in such a prominent venue gave it a name and a stamp of legitimacy.

30:30 Speaker 3 What the backdrop was, which performers appeared—that wasn’t the point.

30:34 Speaker 4 What an event.

30:35 Speaker 3 A birthday celebration. Today everyone celebrates the Rebbe’s birthday. Think about it: after Gimmel Tammuz, throughout Chabad, even among those who don’t say Yechi, it’s taken for granted. It wasn’t like that then. And here the general public was celebrating the birthday of the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach. You can’t get much more public than that, you understand? It was almost unbelievable. And then we got to work organizing it. Never mind that we didn’t have a single shekel and I signed a million-shekel commitment without a shekel to my name—that’s a story of its own, and its own kind of madness. But we started organizing the gathering. This was also the first time we were holding it in an open-air venue rather than an enclosed one. Yad Eliyahu was—

31:17 Speaker 4 Covered.

31:17 Speaker 3 Covered, and this one wasn’t. There was a risk of rain. People told me, “Listen, the army has a more sophisticated, more advanced meteorological service. They can tell you two weeks in advance. Call the army’s systems and find out.”

31:29 Speaker 4 Back then it was the army; today anyone can check.

31:30 Speaker 3 Today anyone can hear it on their phone. Back then, that wasn’t the case. People waited to hear what they said on the radio. So I told him, “No problem, I’ll call the weather service.” But I said to myself, “I’m not calling. Why should I call? The Rebbe told me Bloomfield. Everything will be fine.” And things kept moving forward. Then, I don’t know how many days before, they started announcing on the radio that Tuesday would be rainy. Everyone called me: “Write to the Rebbe, write to the Rebbe.” I said, “I’ll write to the Rebbe right away.” But I told myself, “I’m not writing. I’ve already received an answer from the Rebbe, and there’s a million shekels invested here.” You understand? Not by somebody with hundreds of millions. No.

32:06 Speaker 4 Did you feel it in reduced ticket sales because of that, or anything like that? Or didn’t you notice?

32:10 Speaker 3 No, not really. The tickets didn’t come close to covering the event anyway. And it wasn’t like today, with ticketing online. These were physical tickets that you handed out to coordinators. They didn’t cover the costs. But no, people didn’t really know much about it.

32:23 Speaker 4 So you still hadn’t written to the Rebbe.

32:24 Speaker 3 I hadn’t written, no. I said, “I don’t need to write.” Maybe I shouldn’t state an opinion here. Maybe I should have written again. But I said, “I’m not writing. I already have an answer.” Then Tuesday, the day of the gathering, arrived. I remember my mother-in-law called me early in the morning. I’d gotten up early. She said, “It’s raining. What do we do?” I told her, “It’s going to stop.” I even went to the mikveh in Kfar Chabad. There was a fellow there—I won’t mention his name. He said to me, “It’s raining.” I told him, “It’s going to stop.” He said, “Did you hear that?” I said, “Yes.” I hadn’t heard anything. Then I went home, and Yoni Kahana, the event producer, called me from Bloomfield. He said, “Listen, the guys are packing up the equipment. Raindrops have started falling.”

33:03 Speaker 4 Wow.

33:03 Speaker 3 They were packing up the equipment. We’d paid for the sound system—I remember it cost eighty thousand shekels to rent. The equipment there was worth millions, so they weren’t going to risk it. He said, “They’re packing up. What do we do? Write to the Rebbe right now.” I hung up. I’d told him, “I’m sitting down to write to the Rebbe this minute.” But I told my wife, “I’m not writing. The Rebbe said Bloomfield; the rain is going to stop.” We started learning Chassidus, the skies cleared, and the sun came out. Bloomfield was so full that I can’t say on this recording just how full. But we had a gate—tickets had run out—and there was one gate where we had tickets to give out for free. We saw crowds outside. Thousands had come and were left outside.

33:42 Speaker 4 Wow.

33:42 Speaker 3 Our coordinators arrived on buses from the north and were left outside. So we gave tickets to everyone, and the place filled up. The police realized what was happening. Rabbi Deri from Be’er Sheva had come to the gathering, and it took me an hour and a half just to get him inside.

33:58 Speaker 4 Wow.

33:58 Speaker 3 It caused an enormous stir. The gathering ended at eleven. By law, you can’t make noise outdoors after that. At one minute past eleven, it was over. At twelve, two fellows called me—I won’t mention names. One said, “I’m driving on the Coastal Highway, and the windshield wipers can’t keep up with the rain.”

34:17 Speaker 4 Wow.

34:17 Speaker 3 In short, the rain held off until after the gathering.

34:20 Speaker 4 Wow, wow.

34:21 Speaker 3 Unbelievable.

34:21 Speaker 4 This story isn’t only about being so deeply involved in matters of Moshiach. It’s really a story about faith in the Rebbe’s words, faith in the words of Melech HaMoshiach all the way, to the point that it has an effect. It’s simply amazing.

34:44 Speaker 3 Looking back, we saw that all along the way. I could tell many stories of how you see Hakadosh Boruch Hu bringing all sorts of things your way. But even just now, before we sat down here, we were talking about the group of 5755. I remember that we were the first group after Gimmel Tammuz. I won’t get into names or who did what, but there were people who wanted to stop the group from going. For us—for those of us who did go—it was clear. I’m speaking for myself and for the other guys like me: there was no room even to discuss the possibility of there not being a group. I remember saying in our yeshivah, when we were in the fourth year, “There’s simply no such possibility. It’s an institution the Rebbe established. There’s no such thing.” I remember sitting at home and saying, “I’ll travel through Jordan, I’ll travel through Syria. As far as I’m concerned, I’m going for Tishrei with the whole group.” And we went. There were only thirty of us for Tishrei. Each person traveled his own way. There were no permits, nothing.

35:39 Speaker 4 Nothing was arranged—no residence permits, nothing.

35:42 Speaker 3 There was no [unclear][?], nothing, nothing, nothing. We went for Tishrei. After Tishrei, we held a meeting in the women’s section of—

36:15 Speaker 7 It really comes from the same root. I mean, when we believe in the Rebbe so absolutely, then when the Rebbe speaks about Moshiach, Moshiach naturally becomes what occupies us most. We don’t just take it as something dry; we feel that Moshiach is what occupies the Rebbe. And what the Rebbe asks of us is generally what occupies us. So faith in the Rebbe’s words and going with the Rebbe hand in hand, all the way, go together. Faith in the Rebbe and the matter of Moshiach—it’s so clear that both of these things are very apparent when people see you. Both Moshiach and—

36:48 Speaker 6 That’s why I think it’s important to tell everyone listening to this program: Moshiach Headquarters isn’t an office in Kfar Chabad that organizes Moshiach activities while everyone waits to see what it will do next, what its plans are. Every person has a Moshiach headquarters within himself. A Temim, a layman—every Jew can be a Temim and a Moshiach headquarters. As you said, it depends on how much each person lives with matters of Moshiach. Wherever you are, you need to truly live with the Rebbe’s concerns yourself: learn Chassidus with self-sacrifice, learn about Moshiach with self-sacrifice, live with it as much as you can. You know, I ask myself: do we live with Moshiach the way we did in 5753, 5754? I think much less. I remember bochurim got stuck on a train. The train stopped, and they immediately broke into a dance, singing “Yechi Adoneinu.” Do we live that way today?

37:40 Speaker 7 Right.

37:41 Speaker 6 Yes, do we live “Yechi Adoneinu” that way today? Reb Yoelke was leading a farbrengen, a Chabad farbrengen. At one farbrengen, every niggun they started, he sang with the words of “Yechi Adoneinu.” Think about it: the Rebbe goes out and proclaims “Yechi Adoneinu.” That was “Yechi Adoneinu.” That’s the reality. That’s everything. That’s the purpose of it all. If the Rebbe has, in quotation marks, “parted from us,” yes, and is not here in the flesh—“Long live our master, our teacher and our Rebbe, King Moshiach, forever and ever.” That’s the reality of everything. It encompasses everything. Now, that doesn’t mean a person has to—how did one of the shluchim put it? I don’t know if it’s appropriate for this program, but I’ll say it, because this is a demanding program. What does “Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach Leolam Vaed” mean? “Adoneinu” means he is our master. “Moreinu” means he is our teacher. “Rabbeinu” means he is our Rebbe. And then comes “Melech HaMoshiach Leolam Vaed.” But if you can’t really see that the Rebbe is someone’s master, or that the Rebbe is his teacher, or his Rebbe, then, as that shliach put it, he’ll never get to “Melech HaMoshiach Leolam Vaed.” That’s a bit sharp, yes? But every person can reach the King. Every person has Melech HaMoshiach within himself. To get there, though, each of us needs to connect to the Rebbe, learn the Rebbe’s sichos, learn about Moshiach, and live with the Rebbe’s concerns in general.

39:01 Speaker 7 The call to live with matters of Moshiach is understandable. But what you’re really asking for goes beyond learning about Geulah and Moshiach and doing the things we already do. You’re asking us to recapture the warm, burning feeling of the years when everything was so intense—5752, 5753, 5754. How can you recapture a feeling? Creating a feeling is—

39:22 Speaker 6 I’ll tell you.

39:22 Speaker 7 —something else entirely.

39:23 Speaker 6 I’ll tell you, I have a friend, a prominent American lawyer who became observant, and he grasped the point. He came from the outside and suddenly grasped this whole matter of Moshiach. He says he doesn’t understand where Chabad is. He sees the Rebbe’s sichos—he’s a lawyer by profession—and says, “Look what the Rebbe says here in the sichos. Where are you? Where are you?” So suddenly he wakes me up. We aren’t doing enough. You see? So you’re saying that the feeling, that whole aspect, comes on its own if you live with it. And by the way, you can’t study the Dvar Malchus, the sichos of 5751 and 5752, without living them. I see bochurim, and I don’t mean this negatively: you really have to live it, to know it. Not just know it. You studied it last year, and you studied it at the beginning of the week too. In my opinion, you don’t live it the way you do when you study it now, and then again, and keep seeing new insights all the time. It really stays alive. So you’re saying that everything connected with Moshiach awakens that feeling in you. Everything the Rebbe said about the end of galus—because everything that happens awakens you. But if this is our work, what did the Rebbe say about Moshiach? The Rebbe said that since this is the task of our generation, it applies to every single person, without exception. To explain who Moshiach is, [unclear], to every person. Since this is the shlichus, if you’ll pardon the expression, it applies to everyone without exception. If it’s our task, then just as we can say to someone on the street,

40:49 Speaker 6 “Come put on tefillin,” even if he’s from who-knows-which kibbutz, because it applies to him, so too the Rebbe says to explain Yud-Beis Tammuz to someone. What does Yud-Beis Tammuz have to do with him? He doesn’t know the Rebbe or the Frierdiker Rebbe. But you explain it to him because his neshamah knows it. You need to reveal it. It’s the same with Moshiach. It’s there in every one of us, certainly in us, the Rebbe’s chassidim. Every chossid, whatever his level, every shliach. Our task is to awaken it, to reveal it, and the only way to do that is through studying and engaging in matters of Moshiach, particularly the later years, from 5751 to 5754. That’s the Yechi of 5753 and 5754.

41:24 Speaker 8 So that runs through everything you focus on. Your emphasis is very strongly on study, on explaining these things. In other words, not just leaving things as they are and dealing with Moshiach in general, but focusing specifically on study, which is especially relevant to the Temimim.

41:39 Speaker 6 Absolutely. In other words, someone whose job is to speak on the radio has to think of ways to speak. Someone whose job is public speaking studies rhetoric and all kinds of techniques for capturing an audience. Someone in advertising figures out how to do it; a lawyer figures out how to bring Moshiach into the courtroom. I remember a friend who had a company called Dekalim [?], a T-shirt company, as they call them in the United States. He had a company logo, and on every print, in the small logo, it said in Hebrew, “Moshiach Now.” You see, he brought Moshiach into that too. Would you say that isn’t Moshiach? It is Moshiach. That’s required of the Temimim too. But the main thing is to live it. The Rebbe said that we have to live it ourselves, and then we can bring others to live it.

42:28 Speaker 8 Because for someone whose main occupation is Torah study, studying Geulah and Moshiach will generally be at the top of the list.

42:33 Speaker 6 Yes. What should the householders who don’t study Torah all day do? What can they do?

42:36 Speaker 8 Incidentally, you can say that in recent years the impact of studying matters of Geulah and Moshiach has become evident—seemingly even more than it was in those earlier years, as far as study is concerned.

42:47 Speaker 6 You mean among the Temimim? In general—you can see it throughout the world. One of the things we were involved in, which we haven’t talked about, was the book Beis Habechirah. It was published in a special format, together with the Temple Institute, and bore the words “Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu,” with the endorsement of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu and the Temple Institute. The details aren’t important, but when it came out, one of the authors was so excited that he recited Shehecheyanu. He had wanted to publish something small, and we wanted to do the whole thing on a grand scale. It was an album-size format, which cost a tremendous amount. Incidentally, it arrived from the printer at, say, five o’clock one day, and by five o’clock the next day not a single copy was left. Within three weeks we did another printing. There was tremendous demand from people studying Moshiach. But anyway, because of the Yechi and all that, this author had a chavrusa, a Torah scholar. He told him, “Mazel tov, I published the book.” His chavrusa saw the Yechi and distanced himself from it. The author was so angry with him that he didn’t speak to him for a week or two. In other words, it brought Yechi into that setting too. The names don’t matter.

43:56 Speaker 8 The study of [unclear] and Talmud brought in the message of “Yechi Adoneinu”—Moshiach is here.

44:00 Speaker 6 Moshiach’s name, the Rebbe, the Rebbe’s sichos, and the menorah [unclear], and so on. But what I want to say is that back when we published it, even the Temple Institute didn’t have enough lecturers on the Beis Hamikdash. We held lectures with slides all over the country. And today you can see the fruits of all this involvement with Moshiach. It isn’t only in Chabad; it’s among the Litvaks, among everyone. Today there are people arranging subscriptions for the Korban Pesach. They’ve overtaken Chabad in enthusiasm. So would you say there’s more vitality today? Today the whole world is ready for Moshiach. It’s astonishing that he hasn’t come. It’s astonishing that he hasn’t come. Everyone is ready. It’s beyond understanding.

44:40 Speaker 9 In terms of the Torah literature that has come out, it really is tremendous. When the Rebbe spoke in 5751 about studying matters of Geulah and Moshiach, what was there then? Gradually, baruch Hashem, many books, booklets, and projects came out, and today all you need to do is sit down and learn. Just sit down and learn. So, to conclude the program, Rabbi Mendel: how does a Tamim, how does a chossid, reach the Moshiach headquarters within each person? How does he establish his own Moshiach headquarters inside himself?

45:09 Speaker 6 There are no patented tricks, because there is one method the Rebbe gave us.

45:14 Speaker 9 It doesn’t need to be a registered trademark.

45:15 Speaker 6 It doesn’t need to be a registered trademark, and you don’t need to register a patent.

45:19 Speaker 9 No logo, no...

45:20 Speaker 6 Yes, there is that method. The Rebbe laid it out and spoke about it. The Rebbe said we must immediately instill the awareness that we stand on the threshold of the Geulah. And the Rebbe said that we have already completed everything; the only shlichus remaining is to welcome Moshiach Tzidkeinu, to help him carry out his mission and redeem the Jewish people, and to live with Moshiach. How can you live with Moshiach? A person gets up in the morning. He’s a physical human being, flesh and blood, with his own drives. We still have a G-dly soul and an animal soul, until, with Hashem’s help, “the glory of Hashem will be revealed, and all flesh will see,” and so on. How can we live with matters of Moshiach? Only through Torah teachings, which transcend the world and give us life in matters of Moshiach. Each person does this according to his capacity. So if he’s a Tamim, much more is expected of him: to live with matters of Moshiach and organize classes. I remember that in yeshivah, from 5742 to 5754, we had classes on matters of Moshiach. I studied in Kiryat Gat. Every evening we had a class on Moshiach, and of course they brought refreshments. We’d spend about ten minutes on cake and Geulah. Yes, the refreshments arrived and all that. But I remember that throughout the day we would read a halachah from the Rambam’s Hilchos Melachim, the laws of Moshiach. I remember that I knew all those halachos, and to this day I still know almost all of them by heart, word for word.

46:36 Speaker 9 The Rebbe said of himself that he knew those halachos by heart.

46:38 Speaker 6 Yes, that’s right. The Rebbe spoke about studying Rambam, particularly Hilchos Melachim and the laws of Moshiach. So you see—that’s the method. If you want a method for living with Moshiach, that’s it.

46:49 Speaker 9 Thank you very much, Rabbi Mendel. With Hashem’s help, may Mateh Moshiach continue to grow stronger in the Holy Land and throughout the world. And with Hashem’s help, may this lead each person to establish his own Moshiach headquarters within himself, engaging in matters of Moshiach and studying them. And with Hashem’s help, in this merit may we witness the full revelation of the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, immediately.

47:03 Speaker 6 L’chaim, l’chaim. Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach Leolam Vaed. L’chaim.

47:07 Speaker 9 Thank you very much, Rabbi Mendel.

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