0065 - The Rebbe's Tevilos

00:01 It is known that the Rebbe, when he would go to the mikveh, would tavil many, many times. Even have stories from before Dinasi as people try to count it. It's all shmuas, as we know. I just want to say something that I saw myself. Once when I went to the Kerester mikveh across the street of 770, the corner of Brooklyn and Eastern Parkway, and the Rebbe Tzchen, he was the one that took care of the mikveh. I walked in, and he tells me, "You can't go in now." He was sitting there in the front room. He says, "You can't go in now in the mikveh to the mikveh place because the Rebbe's there." So obviously, I waited outside there, but the Rebbe was already in the middle of being tavil. So I stood by the door, I guess this side of the door, and I was listening, and I heard the Rebbe in the mikveh, and I heard him tavil many, many times. I don't know how long, how many times he did, because when I started listening, it was already in the middle. The Rebbe was already tavil. And I stood there for quite a while, and he was going down. You could hear the water clap a lot, a lot of times. So from there, I saw that it's like a truth that the Rebbe tavils many, many times. Exactly how many times, I don't know. There are stories about it that people say, but I only try to say things which I'm

01:09 involved myself. So this is what I could say, that I was there, and I heard many, many times. I don't know, maybe what I heard maybe was, I would thought it was probably 100 times. I don't know, something like that. I can't say exactly. I didn't count. But it sounded very many times, and this was from when it started from a long time before. So I don't know exactly how much, but for sure the Rebbe taviled many, many times.