0201 - Sholom Yisroel Chadakov Learning on Erev Pesach

00:01 Rabbi Yael told me that it was Erev Pesach. I think it was in the beginning of the Nesius, when the Rebbe would still himself walk into the Merkaz office and speak to them. So the Rebbe wanted the letter to be typed. And the Rebbe walked into the office, and there was nobody there besides Rabbi Yael was around. And then there was Rabbi Sholom Yisroel Chadakov, he was a little child then, and he was there in the office. And the Rebbe asked Rabbi Yael if he could type up a letter for him. Well, obviously, Rabbi Yael said yes, and the Rebbe told him what to write. Then the Rebbe gave him a sefer, and he showed him where-- which lines to copy out of the sefer in middle of the letter. And the Rebbe said to him, he's leaving it with him, he's going back into his room, and in a few minutes, he's gonna come back to pick up the letter. The Rebbe walked out, and Rabbi Yael right away started typing and started typing the parts that the Rebbe gave him from that sefer. And a few minutes later, the Rebbe walked back into Merkaz. When he walked in, Rabbi Yael wasn't finished yet. So the Rebbe saw that he's almost finished, so he stood there and waited. While the Rebbe was waiting, the Rebbe turned around to the boy, Sholom Yisroel Chadakov, and he says to him, "Why aren't you in yeshiva today?" I don't know which he used. So he said, "Because

01:14 today is Erev Pesach, so there is no no yeshiva." So the Rebbe said, "Aber ." And the Rebbe said to him like this. He took the sefer that he gave Rabbi Yael to type from. He to the back of the sefer, and he showed him the amount of pages. You see how many pages this sefer has? And then the Rebbe turns around and he says... looks at all the seforim which are in, in the office, and he said to him, "You see all these seforim? When are you gonna start-- get knowledgeable in this sefer, this sefer, and all the other seforim? By not going to yeshiva, by not learning, you won't get to know all these things." So it seems from here that the Rebbe felt that even though it was Erev Pesach, and Erev Pesach there's no , nevertheless, you should always keep on learning.