0186 - When Shaza'r Became President

00:00 After Shazar became president of Eretz Yisroel, the Rebbe spoke about it by a fabregen. It was Shabbos Parshas Nosrei Tov Shin Chav Gimel. And the Rebbe said that he's going to say something which is putting him into an engenort, that means a narrow place, which means he's going to say something that's controversial. And he says he doesn't know farvos et av zach sparn or the sh- sh- sh- sh- krichin in a engenort. He doesn't know why he has to push himself into such a narrow place, which means say something that's controversial, but he thinks that it's going to come out good out of it. Therefore, he's going to say it. And that is that a certain person was eila ligdula. That means a certain person rose to a high position. And since the position was given to him by Yidden, and amongst them were also many frum Yidden, bemeile we could apply to that what it says in Yerushalmi that kol eila ligdula meichnun leya kol havan esav. Whoever rises to gdula, to a great position, a high position, Hashem forgives him for all his averas. And the Rebbe said, therefore, Hashem will definitely forgive him for all his averas. And from now on, he's only going to do good things. And he says, I hope that he will be able to withstand all the obstacles, the hardships he's going to have and all the nisyonos he's going to have. And then the Rebbe said that some people have questions about this whole thing. So

01:23 the Rebbe said that the Friediker Rebbe said that if you want to check on something, if it's good, see what are going to be the results, the outcome. So we saw right away, as soon as he became president, he did something very good. He pardoned a Yid that was able to go home to his wife and his children. And that's definitely a great thing. And the Rebbe says, I know it wasn't easy for him to do it. And he did it, and he did it with rezus. So that already shows that this is a good thing. And then the Rebbe says that since, especially that he had broches from the Friediker Rebbe, definitely he's going to use it for afotze sayados, afotze samayones. And he'll use all his keches for the best that he has. And he's going to help other Yidden, et cetera, et cetera. More things. I don't remember exactly the expressions that the Rebbe used. Now, I would like to explain what does it mean that he pardoned a Yid. This is concerning the uncle of Yosef Schumacher. At that time, there was a whole tumult in the world that there was a boy. His name was Yosef. His last name was Schumacher. His parents were not frum, but his grandfather was frum, his mother's father. And his mother's father kept him and took him away from the parents in order to raise him frum because by the parents, he would be not raised not frum. And the whole world was tumulting

02:37 against it. And they claimed that this is kidnapping. And they had all the, even the FBI involved and the whole world. And finally, they caught, they found where he is. And they arrested and put into prison his, one of his uncles. So he was in the prison Eretz Yisroel for this. And when Shazar became president, he pardoned him and let him go out. But the Rebbe, this was a very big thing. And since he do that, did that as soon as he became president, the Rebbe said that shows that this is something very good. B'negeh what the Rebbe said that he's saying something controversial. Takya, what happened later was that a whole delegation of Esavta Sarabanim came to the Rebbe of Rabbonim, tying him to the Rebbe. He toch and he said something like this. Now, obviously, no one was in there besides them, except probably the Maskirim. But nevertheless, we heard some verta of what he said, what the Rebbe said. And when they came in and they atained, the Rebbe b'chlal did not accept him in such a nice way, meaning smiling to them and thinking it was very like they came to attack. So the Rebbe had to answer them the same way. So there's just a few things that I remember what they said over that the Rebbe said. They came and said to the Rebbe, how could the Rebbe say such a thing b'negeh Shazar? So the Rebbe said, what should I do? It says in Yerushalmi. In Yerushalmi it

03:50 says, kol ha'eila ligdula meichnun leya kol havan esav. So they said, but the gantze velt shturim ta'kengen dem. The whole world is storming against it. So the Rebbe said, vos alichton adi velt shturim ta'kengen ha'Yerushalmi. What could I do? The world is going against the Yerushalmi. But then they said to the Rebbe, if that's so, then why can't we say the same thing about Ben-Gurion himself? So the Rebbe said to them, vos artaych az the Rebbe shturit meichnun ven afti averes v'nocha yidden. In other words, if that's what it, if it is, it is so. What's the problem? And we saw takya lepel mamesh that after he became president, there were so many inyonim that he did for the teyve of Yiddishkeit, as the Rebbe had predicted before. And therefore, what the Rebbe was, did gave him chizuk and a meile. He was able to do more things to help Yiddishkeit and Torah nafat samayones.