0131 - Rav Gifter About the Rebbe and Lubavitch

00:01 Our family lived in Cleveland, and we know that in Cleveland you have Yeshiva of Tels, and then those years, years ago, it was a very big yeshiva, very, you know, known yeshiva, yeshiva. And one of the yeshivas was a Rav Gifter, and he was close with my father. So I remember once by a chasune, after chuppah, Rav Gifter tells my father he wants to talk to him. And they went to the side, and I was even there. I, I don't remember why I was there, but I was there, and I was watching from far, and they were standing for a long time and talking. And what he was telling him was that we should know that we're not against Lubavitch. On the contrary, we have the greatest respect for the Rebbe. He just said that you think that the Rebbe is the gadol hador, but we think that he's from the gdol hador, but we definitely hold of the Rebbe. He even told him there was a bocher that he heard in the yeshiva in Tels that spoke against Lubavitcher Rebbe, so I called him in. That's what Rav Gifter said. I called him in, and I told him, "You have to go to seven seventy, take off your shoes, and be mekabel mezizah from Lubavitcher Rebbe." He just said, "We don't like that you guys call us klippas. You don't do this, this, and which." But etzem we hold from the Rebbe. And he said, "I would like you to tell this to the

01:03 Rebbe." So next time when my father was in Yechidas, this was after simchas dayenu, so he went into Yechidas, and after he finished his own personal things, he says to the Rebbe, "I have a shlichas to speak to the Rebbe, to tell the Rebbe from Rav Gifter." So the Rebbe listened, and he started telling him everything that Rav Gifter said. So the Rebbe, while he's listening, you could see on his face that-- I wasn't in Yechidas, but my father said you could see on his face that the Rebbe was, had liked it. And mechabbal, you know, the Rebbe, aside by fabrengen and aside by Yechidas, didn't sit back on his chair. He would sit on the edge of the chair. So he was sitting at the edge of the chair. When he started listening to this, the Rebbe leaned back on the back of the chair and was continuing to listen. And then the Rebbe, after he heard the whole thing, so the Rebbe said, "." There's no greater pleasure lamailo than when a certain goes away. Rebbe-- By the Rebbe, this was a very, very important thing.