0138 - Young Couple with Seven Bedrooms

00:01 Before I got married, this was in the year תשי"ל, I was looking for an apartment to rent. So it's a gemachte pes a dirah in one of someone's house, which means he had a two-family house and there's a dirah downstairs. And, uh, I wrote to the Rebbe asking if I should rent the apartment, the dirah. And I described to Rebbe the dirah and I wrote that the dirah has shivecha dorim, has seven rooms. So the answer was the Rebbe circled around the words shivecha dorim and he added the words, "Ma yaseim." In other words, it meant, "Ma yaseim shivecha dorim." What are you gonna do with seven rooms? You're just a married couple. What do you need seven rooms for? Now, in other words, the Rebbe was saying not to do it. So obviously, I didn't rent it. Then it's a gemachte another dirah, which is a smaller dirah, and I wrote to the Rebbe asking if I should rent it. And the r- and last words I wrote was, "Ha'im, v'nisha'el k'dusha d'mashlita, ha'im lisker dirah zu." So the Rebbe crossed out ha'im and left the words lisker dirah zu, but added another few words. After the words lisker dirah zu, he added, "B'im ein b'daitoi lichnes bayis." Which means the Rebbe said, "If you don't have a mind to buy a house, then you should rent this dirah." So in other words, the Rebbe was telling me it's k'dait that you should buy a house. So obviously, I bought a house and, uh,

01:15 and I lived there till I moved out of Crown Heights. But the vital we see that the Rebbe was being very practical that the dirah might be a good dirah, but what are you gonna do with seven rooms? And b'meila, I didn't take it.