0075 - Speaking About Mi Yehudi

00:01 Before Tisha B'Av in the year the Rebbe gave over a that people should go on Tisha B'Av to the different shuls and speak about Mi Yehudi, to make people aware of the of Mi Yehudi. So actually, I went in the morning to a shul, and I spoke about Mi Yehudi. They allowed me to say a few words. I went to a few other and I spoke about Mi Yehudi, 'cause one of the heroes of the Rebbe. Then in the morning by the Rebbe's davening, by the Rebbe's minyan, in middle of the last kaddish, that's after Shacharis, the Rebbe made a showed to that he should come over to him, and he came over to him, and the Rebbe told him that he should announce that whoever's gonna speak in the shuls about the of Mi Yehudi will get a dollar from the Rebbe. And they also arri- an- announce that anybody who's over 12 years old should go to the shuls. And that's like what happened. At two o'clock, the Rebbe stood by his room, and all the people who accepted upon themself were ready to go to speak in the shuls about Mi Yehudi, the Rebbe gave a dollar, and then he also gave a letter. The letter is printed in the in . So the Rebbe gave each one a dollar and a letter. And we were actually talking then. It was interesting sight to see. Uh, la- years later, we... It was a common thing that the Rebbe stand and give out

01:19 dollars and other things like this. The only time we saw the Rebbe stand by his door and give out something was Lekach. But to give out dollars, and especially on Tisha B'Av, Tisha B'Av, which is you know, uh, a sad day, and here the Rebbe standing, it, it makes it was happy that the Rebbe is giving dollars. But we, we were saying to ourselves that, uh, this is like a beginning of what will be when Moshiach will come. So this already had a 'cause the Rebbe was giving out dollars, and a letter to gave to each person who walked by. It was interesting sight to see. Just have to mention that I myself had a because I went in the morning to speak, but the that the announcement was, it seems like that's what the Rebbe said, that whoever is going to speak in the shuls for Mi Yehudi, about Mi Yehudi, will get a dollar from the Rebbe. So I already went. So I thought I was already. I went, but the was whoever will go. So I decided I have to go again to make sure that I'm what the Rebbe said, that anybody who will go. So I remember I went to the shul in Boro Park. They have a lot of minyanim, constant one after another. So I saw one minyan, so I wanted... After the minyan, I wanted to say a few words. So I went over to the gabbi who was in his room, and I said to him,

02:38 "Please, can I talk, say a few... It's for two minutes only in after the minyan." So he said, "Clearly no." So I walked out, but I know I had to do it. So I went into that minyan. I waited till the finished the min- the minyan, and before the second minyan started, they gave a . I said, "I have something very important to say." And for two minutes, I said the importance of the of Mi Yehudi, et cetera, et cetera, and I left. I heard later when he found out, he heard about it, he came running. I was already away, and he was upset, but . After that, the Rebbe got a letter from some people, and they also heard about the . So they also on Tisha B'Av went to the shuls in their cities where they were, to speak about Mi Yehudi. So they asked the Rebbe, they would also want to get a letter and a dollar. So the Rebbe answered them. This letter is also printed in the and the Rebbe answered them like this, . This is addressed to the Why should we miss out? And the Rebbe writes the words concerning the dollar that I gave on Tisha B'Av. So the Rebbe answered two things. Number one, Alef. This hap- that happened is where it says there . There it says concerning the King people would stand and watch what he did. Now he did different things. So it says whoever saw one of the things was not able

04:03 to see when he did the something else, let's say reading the Torah. And the Mishnah says not because you're not allowed. There's no issue in seeing the King do both, but impossible. If you had a good place and you saw the King doing something in this part of the , so when he went to do something in the other part of , you couldn't see because you didn't have a place there. So the other guy who stood there didn't see the first thing. I just wanna mention, the Rebbe doesn't write this, but it's all we knew. Some people had a nice, good place next to the Rebbe throughout the whole up front, and some people had a good place in middle of the shul next to the Rebbe when the Rebbe danced his , the first and the seventh. The one that had a good place throughout the next to the Rebbe didn't have a good place, couldn't see so good the Rebbe's . The one that had the good place at the Rebbe's couldn't see the other being close to the Rebbe, not because you're not allowed. it's not possible if you had a good place. You didn't have a good place there. So the Rebbe said so you couldn't be here, not because of anything wrong that you did, but you just couldn't be here. And the second thing, the Rebbe writes is that you got double, you got two dollar. Because the saying was that before you went to Rebbe would give

05:14 each group two dollars from the Rebbe. So the Rebbe's saying you got already your two dollars, so you can't complain because you got not one dollar, you got two dollars.