0071 - Bracha for Russian Jewry

00:01 In one of the later years of the Chof, Rabbi Yechezkel Gordon told me it was a day, it was Erev in Kippur, that he went into the Rebbe. I think it was the Rebbe gave him then money for pidion kaparos, and maybe it was even the time when he gave the Rebbe malchis. I remember he was completely, you know, pale when he told this to me. So he was, went to the Rebbe, and I used to go every year. He punkt saw that day, he told me, a sicha that came out from one of the previous farbrengens of the Rebbe, Bilti Mugia, and there the Rebbe spoke about the Rusishe Yidden. And the Rebbe gave a bracha that the Rusishe Yidden should come out from Russia. So he says, punkt, he saw it that day. So when he went into the Rebbe, he asked the Rebbe, he said that why does the Rebbe always ask and give a bracha and his palel that Yidden should go out of Russia? Why doesn't he give a bracha that, and say that in Russia should become better? Adorten iz a vel gut. And the Rebbe told him that, I don't remember the exact wording that he said that the Rebbe said, but the teichen I remember. The teichen was that that is basically asking too much. It's really not practical to expect that that should happen. And therefore, what he's asking for is that the Yidden zal nar iz gein, they should go out, un a meiseral amer,

01:09 they should go out of Russia. And the reason he told this to me was because he knew that I had to do with writing the sicha, so punkt he got the sicha that came out. It was a sicha from a previous farbrengen, but that punkt he got it that day, or maybe it came out that day, and he read it. That's why he, there it said that the Rebbe's asking, uh, giving a bracha that they should go out of Russia. So that's why he asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe told him, as I said before. Now from here we see, by the way, the big nes that happened later on in Tov Shinun, Shnas Nissim, that it, the communism fell, that in the end of the Chof, the Rebbe still felt that that's something that's impossible, so to speak, that therefore he didn't even ask for that. And later on happened such a nes that that Russia fell and over there in Russia became good.