0024 - R' Sholom Ber Levitin Wedding

00:01 When Reb Sholom Ber Levitan got married, Rabbi Levitan, who is the shliach to the state of Washington, got married in California, a group of bochrim, a few bochrim went down to California to be by the chassan. And we were there for a few days. Thursday night, we were sitting in the house of Rabbi Reichig, and there was a call that came in, and it was Rabbi Chadikov on the line, and he asked to speak to one of the bochrim. So I took the phone, and Rabbi Chadikov says, "When are you planning to come back?" So I said, "We're planning to come back for Shabbos." So he said, "Why?" So I said, "Because there might be a Fabregen Shabbos, so we wanna, don't wanna miss the Fabregen." So he said, "I'm telling you there won't be a Fabregen Shabbos, so you could stay there and go speak in the shuls, and, you know, you make it semayones and stay there. The group of bochrim should stay there." So I started to argue with him. He said, "We're not so sure. Even though you said there won't be Fabregen, but maybe there will be. Never sure. We don't wanna miss it." And I basically was arguing with him that we'd really wanna come back. So he tells me, "I'd like to speak to Rabbi Reichig." So I gave the phone to Rabbi Reichig. Rabbi Reichig walked out for a few moments in another room, spoke on the phone, came back, and he told me, told all of

01:07 us that, "You should know, first of all, that when Rabbi Chadikov was talking to you, the Rebbe was on the line. And, uh, you should know that he really wants you to stay, and if the Rebbe was on the line, obviously that's the rotsan of the Rebbe." So far shhteit zich, obviously that there is no question about it, and we stayed. And the truth is, Rabbi Reichig actually take arranged that all the bochrim who s-- were there should speak in the shuls. I myself spoke in one shul in the morning, by Rabbi Halberstam shul in the morning before musaf, and by Shalashudas, a different shul, Rabbi Groman's shul. So I-- We spoke there, and the other bochrim spoke in the other shuls, and it was really, really a kiddush Hashem. When we came back, we found out what happened. We know that the Anheler goes, and we used to go into yechidas once a month, Thursday nights, and give a report to the Rebbe what was doing with the bochrim. So that time when they went in, so they gave the Rebbe a report, and they said that a group of bochrim went down to California. And one of the people in the Anheler, the main person in the Anheler was Rav Shmuel Levitan, who was the zeide of Rabbi Levitan, but he didn't go to the chassanah because he's older man, he couldn't go. So he was there, and the Rebbe said, when he heard this, he said, "When are they coming back?" They

02:15 said they're coming back for Shabbos. So the Rebbe said, "Then why should they come back for Shabbos? Why shouldn't they stay there and go out in the shuls and speak in the shuls?" And I think, I don't know if the rest of the Anheler walked out and Shmuel himself stayed, or they all stayed. I don't know exactly. I don't remember exactly how it was. But lepel, on the spot, the Rebbe buzzed Rabbi Chadikov, and he told Rabbi Chadikov to call the bochrim and tell the bochrim that they should stay for Shabbos. That's when Rabbi Chadikov called us, and it seems like the Rebbe was still on the line because he buzzed Rabbi Chadikov to call, and the Rebbe was still on the line. And that's when the call that we got, that Rabbi Chadikov said we should stay, and we stayed. And take it, the end was that that made a big kiddush Hashem in all the shuls we spoke as the Rebbe wanted. But this just shows how the Rebbe would want that the bochrim or anybody should take any opportunity that they're able to bring Chassidus and be mefarjes Chassidus and make a kiddush Hashem and be the king Shem Lubavitch has to be used 100% for this purpose. Time there's an opportunity to bring a kiddush Hashem, the Rebbe used the opportunity and pushed that this should be, we should bring Chassidus to the world.