0026 - R' JB Sloveichik Hafatzos Hamayonos

00:03 Another time when the opportunity was used and the Rebbe was very happy about when you go out and you speak to other Rabbonim, et cetera, et cetera, was Yutaskislev Tovshin Choftez. Yutaskislev Tovshin Choftez, one night was the Rebbe's fabrengen. The next night, there was a big, big mesibe in Boston that they made in honor of Yutaskislev. And it was like a dinner. And Rabbi Soloveitchik, Rabbi Yoshe Ber Soloveitchik was the guest speaker there. So they got people who were involved, got a group of bochrim to come down to there that in case we have to speak to him, there should be bochrim. We were able to speak to Rabbi Soloveitchik. The names of the bochrim were Rachmiel Stillman, Shon Ber Weinberg, Shon Ber Lipsker, Shon Ber Levitan, myself, Zalman Deitsch, and Abe Pekarsky. And we went down there. We came there. This is a very beautiful dinner. And you had Rabbi Soloveitchik there. And you had some of his talmidim there with him. And there was a whole program. But then when it came for him to speak, he got up and he spoke for a long time. He spoke for about, I would say, two hours. And the whole teich of his speech was to explain the union of Chassidus, what's the uft of Chassidus and the different Chassidus and the others and different than Tanya and Nevshecha Chayim. And he spoke very, very long ariches. After the big official part was over, people left. And he was still there with his talmidim. He

01:20 turns around to us, the bochrim, and he says, nu, so doch itas kislev, v'dats fabrengen. So we sat down to fabrengen. And we sat down. We started talking. So we were talking all about different nionim, about the Rebbe and different nionim in nigle that the Rebbe said. One of the things was Tovshin Choftez. Every fabrengen, the Rebbe explained another piece of the Geras HaTshuva. Poshit, he taught and explained biyurim in the Geras HaTshuva. Like, mamlish, like a mashpia speaking and teaching every fabrengen, next piece and next piece and next piece. So we were involved in the sichas. And since the Geras HaTshuva is a lot connected to Hilchas Tshuva and the Rambam, so we were, as bochrim, pretty clawed in Hilchas Tshuva la Rambam. By Rabbi Soloveitchik, Rambam is one of the most important things by him. And in the Rambam gufe, he was very strong into Hilchas Tshuva. So we were talking about Hilchas Tshuva la Rambam, different things that And he was nispol and his talmidim nispol, bochrim, even bochrim that know how to learn, they don't know Hilchas Tshuva, you know, maybe Hilchas Niske Momen. So he was nispol and we were talking. Then we spoke about the Kava Tairech and the Rebbe Shita and Kava Tairech and different nionim and the Rebbe's biyurim. And it made basically a kiddush Hashem. His talmidim were standing around and looking. It was very nice. We came back and we gave over to Anhole a report of what happened. It was punkt that Thursday night

02:30 that Anhole went to the yechidus. Like I said, they go into yechidus. They used to go into yechidus once a month to give a report. So whenever there was something nice, something good to tell about the bochrim, they would tell the Rebbe. So they told the Rebbe the whole thing of the whole story that we were telling them. So the Rebbe told them, first of all, one of the things we spoke about was about Sfira Kava Tairech. So the Rebbe mentioned to them an interesting midrash, which later in the sichas the Rebbe spoke a lot about it. The midrash that it says that when Sfira comes out on Sunday, it's tmimes. Eima saying tmimes when it comes out on Sunday. So the Rebbe said it's a strange midrash. And the Rebbe mentioned it behemsha to what they said we spoke about. But then the Rebbe said that they should tell us, the bochrim, that we should give them a report of what happened, what he spoke about and what this was all about. So when they came out, the Rebbe told me that the Rebbe wants a report to sit down. It's a report of a drosha from two hours or two and a half hours. It's so long that whatever he remembered. So I wrote down in the kudde the kitzur of what the Rebbe Soloveitchik said. I wrote that down. There was no recording from it. Actually, years, years, years later, we found a certain shtikle recording from one piece of his drosha,

03:43 about 15 minutes of his drosha, which is a very crucial piece of his drosha that we do have a recording of. But then we didn't have. So anyway, we wrote that down. Then I wrote down all the nekuddes of what we spoke about from the Rebbe's fabrengen. And I gave it in to the Rebbe. The Rebbe answered. And I'll read the answer the Rebbe wrote. The Rebbe wrote first, tach alad duch. And then a line. And then he wrote these words. Bevadai ki meduber kama poamim shoklu v'toru. And after the word shoklu v'toru, the Rebbe made an arrow circling the names because we signed this duch. We all signed our names. So the Rebbe made like a semicircle around all the names with an arrow pointing to the names and then an arrow pointing to after the word shoklu v'toru. In other words, he was saying, bevadai ki meduber kama poamim shoklu v'toru. You guys, shoklu v'toru. You spoke about gam mishalom. Underline the word mishalom. That you also for sure discussed your own inyonim, v'inyonim anal. In these inyonim, you probably gave your own input. And then in parentheses, loirak chazore v'hanidber ba'isvades. End of parentheses. And not only that, you just repeated what we spoke about the fabrengen. So the Rebbe really hoped that when we spoke, we also said our own things to show that, you know, you're learning not only you're chazing what the Rebbe said. And then the Rebbe added the words, v'tovei ayin veis v'tovei aleim brocha. The Rebbe

05:05 was very happy when he heard that there was something like this that brought the kiddush Hashem, kiddush Hashem Lubavitch, that their bochrim were able to speak in learning and make kiddush Hashem. That was something the Rebbe had great nachas from.