0027 - Munaktcher Rebbe; Mikve Erev Yom Kippur

00:03 תשח, when the Rebbe sat shiva after his mother, a lot of Rebbes and Rabbonim and great people came to be Menachem Mendel Rebbe. I happened to be inside the room when they were inside many of the times. Not the whole time, but many of the times when they came in, I was sitting, I was standing there. I was able to listen. They didn't let people in, but I got in. I don't know why. Maybe because of Chazara or something. I don't know, but I was inside, so I heard. So I want to repeat what happened when the Munkatcher Rebbe came. First, the Satmar Rebbe was there. The Satmar Rebbe spoke with the Rebbe, but when the Satmar Rebbe got up, the Munkatcher Rebbe sat down. I don't think the Rebbe ever saw him or even saw a picture of him. When he sat down, I remember the Rebbe just turned around to Rabbi Groner and says to him, "This is the Minchas Elazar's grandson?" And he said yes. So the Rebbe started talking to him, and the first thing the Rebbe said was like this. "When we were in Russia, we were, you know, separated, isolated from the world." So once the Rebbe said, "I saw the Shver writing a letter, and the title, there was a title of five, six lines to the person he was writing. So I asked the Shver to who is he writing, and he said to Ir Zayden." That's what he told him. And then he spoke to him

01:24 about printing the Seforim of the Minchas Elazar, and he said, he answered him, but they're like a printer, but the Rebbe said that they should print more Tshuva's if there is. One of the things that was going on then is the Rebbe wanted to go to the Mikveh before Mincha on Erev Yom Kippur. Erev Yom Kippur, the Rebbe got up from Shiva, but he don't get up till later, till Somach Lach She'echat says. But Erev Yom Kippur, you go to the Mikveh, and the Rebbe wanted to go before Mincha. Al Pi Din says he shouldn't. So the Rebbe was looking for a heter. So the Rebbe asked a lot of the Rabbonim. He asked the Satmar Rebbe for a heter, and he asked others. The only one, I think, the way Midgeret Yamo, the Rabbi Rivkin, the Rebbe said to him, he said yes, and the Rebbe said to him, "I didn't find somebody else." So the Rebbe would ask different Rabbonim. So the Rebbe told the Munkatcher, he said that, "I would have found a heter to go to the Mikveh for Mincha a long time ago." And he said his Seforim are so, are good because there are so many questions that other people ask in Halacha about the meaning of Chasidim, and the Minchas Elazar gives answers to all these questions Al Pi Nigla. So that's why it's so important. And he said, "I definitely, I'm sure I would have found a heter to go to the Mikveh for Mincha."