0156 - R' Dworkin - Rogechover Said About Alter Rebbe

00:00 Rabbi Zalman Shimon Dvorkin also told me that when the Friedrich Rebbe was in Leningrad, the Bochrim used to come for Yontif to Leningrad. And when they would come to see to the Rebbe to Leningrad for Yontif, they would also pay a visit to the Rakachover who lived then in Leningrad. And he says he remember all kinds of things that the Rakachover used to tell them. First of all, the Rakachover used to be mechabed them very much. When they would walk in, the Rebbe, the Rakachover would say, "Ah, Tmimim. Tmimim would come." So he would give them the greatest kavod. For other people, he usually didn't have much patience, but for Tmimim, for Bochrim of Tmimim, he would have patience to talk to them. But he told me he once came in, and the Rakachover, they heard him speaking against one of the Achreinim. As we know him, he used to speak a lot against the Achreinim. And when he spoke against the Achreinim, so one of them asked him, "And what do you say about the Alter Rebbe?" So he answered that, "Afem hovech nishmat zogen, I can't say anything about him. Eri given a goen, a philosoph. He was a genius, a goen, and a philosopher." And Rabbi Zalman Shimon told me he doesn't know exactly what these words mean, a goen, a philosoph, but this is what the Rakachover answered him. Eri given a goen, a philosoph.