0264 - Harav Rubenstein Saw the Rebbe in France

00:00 My zayde, Reb Zalman the Lenkin, who was the Rebbe's melamed, but he was very, very much mekushar to the Rebbe. So he told me that when he was in France, he once spoke to HaRav Rubinstein. HaRav Rubinstein was from the Rabbonim in France, from the Alter Rabbonim. And he was there also when the Rebbe was there at a time when the Rebbe went to university in, in France. He was there, and he saw the Rebbe then. So he told my zayde like this, that I believe, even though he says he's not a maven on these things, but I believe that the time that the Rebbe did the most of his avodas Hashem was during those years that he was in France then. He says the way he saw what the Rebbe was, he says, "I think that was the time when he did the greatest, highest madrega of avodas Hashem." And he said to him that he would be one of the first to send him a pidyon. If Rebbe would become Rebbe, he would be the first one to send him a krita, I think he said the loshon. Because he saw the greatness of the Rebbe actually in those years where superficially he was there and he went to the university, but he, he saw the way he davened, the way he behaved. He saw on him that this is a person that is in the highest madrega of avodas Hashem, he thinks. He says that there it was more than any other

01:15 place. At that time, his avodas Hashem was the highest madrega.