0246 - Gave First Print of Ben Pores Yosef to the Rebbe

00:01 We know that by dollars, when the Rebbe would distribute the dollars, and people would bring him things like svadim or other things, many times the Rebbe would ask, "Is this for me to keep?" And the people would answer, "Yes," and the Rebbe would put it away, and then the Rebbe would give a dollar. So I had also an experience like that, not by dollars, but years before that. I once found by somebody here, uh, the Sefer Ben Peires Yasef, written by the Toldas, the first print. And I planned to give it to the Rebbe. I found out if the Rebbe's library had it, and we found out that the Rebbe's library didn't have the first print of the Sefer, so I was gonna give it to the Rebbe. So when I came to New York next time, I told Rabbi Yom and Klein that I wanted to give it to the Rebbe. So I brought it to 770, and when I knew that Rabbi Yom is going into the Rebbe for letters or whatever, he used to go in quite a few times a day, I gave it to him. And I said, "Give it to the Rebbe." And I was standing outside. And he was inside as long as he was inside in the Rebbe's room. When he comes out, he tells me this is what happened. He went in, he gave the Rebbe, he said, "This is the first print of Ben Peires Yasef, and this was sent by Label Shapiro." The Rebbe

01:06 looked at it. Then the Rebbe turned around to him and asked, "Dos si famir av halten si dos nor av vaisen?" It's for me to keep, or he just wanted to show it to me. So he answered the Rebbe, "The Rebbe zal halten." So the Rebbe said to him, "Gibimi berayasha keyef." Tell him thank you. The Rebbe always would thank for anything that he got, and, but he made sure to ask that it's given to, for him to keep.