0076 - Crossed Out City's Name

00:01 One of the years in the end of the Chos, I went to Merkes Lichas during the summer with a friend, and one of the places we went was the state of Texas. And in Texas, we went to a few cities. We went to Dallas and Houston, and we went to a city called Corpus Christi. Now, the word Corpus Christi means corpus, the guf, the body of Yoshke, Veis HaReish. But anyway, these were the three cities we went to Texas. Now, those years, I don't know how it's now, I don't know how it was before, Tzach would send out a letter to the different rabbis in the cities that the Bochum were planning to visit to tell them that the Bochum are coming, to see that they should make Kabbalah upon him us and help us. So Tzach gave, wrote up a letter writing to the different rabbis of the different cities. And what they say there was then that Tzach, every letter that went out from Tzach went through the Rebbe. They would give it into the Rebbe. Most cases, the Rebbe wouldn't even comment, but it went through the Rebbe. So Rabbi Castel wrote up these letters, and he gave them into the Rebbe. Also, he wouldn't only give in the letter, he gave it in together with the envelope. The envelope that says, are you typed with the address, a full letter ready to be sent, and it went through the Rebbe. So on this, what the Rebbe did was when it came

01:12 to the letter of Corpus Christi, they say there in English, I don't know, I think things change now, but they say there used to be that if you write a formal letter, you would have to write on top of the letter, the beginning of the letter, you'd write the date and the address of where the place is going to, the name of the person you're sending it to, and the address of where it's sending. And then it would say dear or whatever the lotion is. So here it said on all the letters written to every city, the name of the rabbi you're sending it to or whoever the person is, and the address and the name of the city and the state, et cetera. And so too on the envelope. So the Rebbe in this letter, when it came to the letters written to the people in Corpus Christi, the Rebbe crossed out the whole line Corpus Christi, Texas. On the envelope, obviously he didn't. In other words, the Rebbe didn't want they should write that word because that word means Yoshke's body. So he crossed it out. On the envelope, he had to leave it because if you don't write the name of the city, it won't get there. But in the letter where you formally write the address, there's no really need to write these words again. So I remember the Rebbe crossed out the words Corpus Christi, Texas in all the letters written to the people of that state, of that city.

02:20 But in the envelope, the Rebbe left it.