0090 - R' Zalman Vileinkin Part 1

00:01 For the next few recordings, I would like to repeat a few things that I heard from my Zayde, Rav Zalman Velankin, who was the Rebbe's Melamed, lived in the city of Katrinislav, and he was a good chaver from youth yet, from Padabranke with the Rebbe's father, that's why he moved to Katrinislav. And he told me a few things. I would like to repeat a few things in the next few broadcasts. The first thing is he told me that once the Rebbe's father's brother, Reb Shmuel, Reb Levi Yitzchak's brother, who was the Rav in Nikolaev, came to Katrinislav, I guess to visit his brother, to visit the family. And he saw my Zayde, and he knew that my Zayde learned with the Rebbe. And I think the Rebbe was then about 15 years old. So he tells my Zayde, "I want you to know that he", meaning your talmid, and he called the Rebbe by his name, "You should know that by now, That by now, he knows by heart the whole Gemara, the whole Shas, with all the Tosfos, and the whole Likutey Torah with all the ayins. We know in the Likutey Torah, there's a lot of places where it says ayin, references, look up this place, look up this place, full, full, full, that he knows all those by heart. And it's interesting that it's known that they asked once Reb Shmuel Grenim, who was the Mashpia on the Bavitch, what he would like his gan eden should be. And he said he

01:29 wants his gan eden should be that he should be baki in the whole Likutey Torah with all the ayins. And this is what Reb Shmuel said to my Zayde, that now he, who is just about 15 years old, I think that was his age, is a chor, he's already baki in ,