0272 - Connection with Harav Yolles Part 1

00:01 Harav Efraim Yoeles was the chief rabbi of Philadelphia, and he was in America even before the Friediker Rebbe came. And the Friediker Rebbe, when he came, was very much mekarev him. And the reason they say is because he helped the Friediker Rebbe in his work. Not like other people, even other rabbonim, who opposed what the Friediker Rebbe did, but he was on the Friediker Rebbe's side and helped, and the Friediker Rebbe was very much mekarev him. Right after Yut Shvat, Tov Shin Yud, when the Friediker Rebbe was nostalgic, not long after that, he wrote a letter to Anash to be nisgasha to the Rebbe that he knows the Rebbe, and he wrote very meide diket atei and made descriptions on the Rebbe. He used to come to the Rebbe every Chalomed, Chalomed Pesach and Chalomed Sukis, and he said the reason is because it says, "Chay vodam lahadbut mei rabi beregel." You have to go to your Rebbe on Yontev. And Yontev itself, he didn't come because he had his shul, he had-- he was the rav in Philadelphia. But Chalomed, he would come, and he would always, after davening, walk over to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe would say some words with him and talk to him a little bit, and sometimes they would even go into the room together. He also would come before Shvu'ot, and he would come to davening, and then he would walk over to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe would always make a siyum ha-mesichta sotet that you learn

01:20 during sefirat til Shvu'ot, and he'd make it for him. Sometimes he would even go into the Rebbe's room. He was so close, the Rebbe was so much mekarev him, that it was one night which was the vach nacht of a grandson of his. So he came to the Rebbe a Thursday night, Parshat Chayei Sarah. The date was Chof, Vav, Ches, from Tov Shin Tezayin. He came to Yechidut of the Rebbe in honor of the vach nacht of his einikel, of his grandson. And the Rebbe said a maimer especially for him then. And he came out, out and chazet a maimer, and it was written down. And later on, Tov Shin Nun Alef, the Rebbe was magiya this maimer, and it came out in the kuntres for Chai Yud Ches Nisan, Tov Shin Nun Alef, which was the beginning of the ninetieth year of the Rebbe's bris, because the Rebbe's bris was on Chai Nisan. And this was also the date of the yom yeledet, of the birthday of the Rebbe's father. So for that date, the Rebbe was magiya. This maimeret was said to Rav Yoeles in Yechidut in Tov Shin Tezayin, and it came out in that kuntres. He also used to come from Philadelphia to all weekday farbrengens, and he would sit on the bima, on the bima of the Rebbe, and he would sit on a special chair that they put for him, and this was on the right hand of the Rebbe. But once something happened in connection to this seat

02:44 that he had, and that I will tell in the next broadcast.