0098 - Where is Isaac Karasik?

00:01 In the earlier years, like the Yuds and Chofs, the guests that used to come for Tishrei from Eretz Yisrael would keep one day Yontev. That means that Simchas Torah to them was really not Yontev, but Shemini Atzeres was their Simchas Torah. And the Rebbe knew about it because we know that the Rebbe would send on Simchas Torah sometimes some of the older people, the older Hasidim that stood behind the Rebbe's Bime, to get an Aliyah. But he wouldn't send Eretz Yisrael Dike because to them it's not Yontev. And we know that the Rebbe knew about it. So I remember Simchas Torah Tov Shin Chof Alef, which was the first year when they had a charter from Eretz Yisrael, a lot of people came. So I remember them having Hakofes upstairs. Shemini Atzeres when downstairs was the Rebbe's Minyan. Upstairs they had their own Minyan, all Eretz Yisrael Dike, and they had Hakofes afterwards because by them it's Simchas Torah. And after Hakofes, they sat down to Fabreng and they said, "L'Chaim, a zeibe sidaf tzu zayn", because to them it was Simchas Torah. That night was the Fabrengen. It was the night of Simchas Torah, which was the Fabrengen before Hakofes. So I remember by the Fabrengen, the Rebbe, middle of Fabrengen, asked, "Where is Isaac Arasik?" Isaac Arasik is one of the organizers of the charter. So the Rebbe wanted him to say L'Chaim. So the Rebbe said, "Isaac Arasik, zogn L'Chaim." He wasn't there. Why wasn't he there? Because he was there Fabrengen

01:26 during the day and he said L'Chaim, so I guess he wasn't able to come to the Fabrengen. But heyez, the Rebbe asked for him. So must have been somebody must have run to where he was staying to bring him. So I remember after a while he came. I remember they pushed him in right across the Rebbe. The Rebbe sat up front on the Bime and then on the bottom on the floor were all the tables, the long tables. So they pushed him in by the end of the tables that the Rebbe could see him. It was far, but the Rebbe could see him. So when the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe out loud across the room screamed to him, "Tsu gemach kiddush." So he answered, "Havdalah", because by him it was already after Yontev. So the Rebbe said like this, "Bifarhesia?" Which he meant the din is that even when Eretz Yisrael Dike keeps one day in Chutz Laaretz, which means he's allowed to do melacha on the second day Yontev, but not bifarhesia, not in public. So the Rebbe answered him, said to him when he said in public that he made Havdalah. So the Rebbe said, "Bifarhesia?" And then he said, "L'Chaim", and the Rebbe answered him, "L'Chaim."