0176 - R' Shneur Zalman Vilenkin Put Me on My Feet

00:01 My older brother is a son-in-law of Rabbi Nissan Mendel, the Rebbe's secretary, that he used to go into the Rebbe a few times a week, and the Rebbe would dictate letters to him, etc., etc. Well, my brother had his son, Schneer Zalman. So on the day of the Bris, it was one of the days that Rabbi Mendel went into the Rebbe. So that evening when he went into the Rebbe, the Rebbe gave him mazel tov for the Bris, and the Rebbe asked him what the name that he gave to the boy. And he answered Schneer Zalman, Nochon Zeiden. So after his grandfather, and grandfather is Reb Schneer Zalman Vilenkin, who was the Rebbe's melamed, the Rebbe's teacher. So when the Rebbe heard that, so the Rebbe said to Rabbi Mendel, Er is geven my melamed. He was my melamed. He was my teacher. And then the Rebbe added, Er is geven a geheiben arid, Eret mir ave gestalt av de fis. He was a high Yid of a high level, and he put me on my feet. So when we think about it, the zchus that he had, that the Rebbe, the Nosy Ador, says on him that he put me on my feet, that is a great zchus that he had, something that we can't imagine.