0290 - 3 Questions Asked to R' Yosef Fellig (2)

00:01 Rabbi Yosef Felig was one of the pillars of the Jewish community in Montreal, and especially of the Lubavitcher community. And later on, he moved to Miami, and here he was one of the pillars of the Jewish community, especially of the Lubavitcher community in Miami. And by one of the farbrengens, he told the following story. His daughter became a kallah to a very, very fine bocher, Isser Dovid Silverman from England. He's the one that's now the author of the very, very special, interesting, and inspirational book called Eternal Values. It's based on the Rebbe's teachings concerning Midas Teves, how Ayin Tovah Zach Tir, et cetera, et cetera. So he was the choson, and they had planned the chasunah for a few days before Pesach. The meaning was that before a chasunah, the parents and the choson kallah would go into yechidus. So two days after Purim, he and his wife and the kallah went into yechidus before the chasunah. Now he says usually when he would go into yechidus, the Rebbe would smile to him. Knowing Mr. Felig, you know it fits too. That was his, his nature, and the Rebbe would smile to him and be friend-- very friendly. This time he says when he went in, he saw right away that the Rebbe was very serious. The Rebbe read his Sicha, and after he read his Sicha, the Rebbe turns around to him and he says, "What's gonna be with Sheva Brachos?" He couldn't understand what the Rebbe's asking. What do you mean what's gonna

01:19 be with Sheva Brachos? Every chasunah, after the chasunah, you have Sheva Brachos. So he didn't answer. So the Rebbe asked him again, "What's gonna be with Sheva Brachos?" So this time he answered the Rebbe that, im yirtze Hashem, we're gonna make Sheva Brachos like after every chasunah. Then the Rebbe asks him another question: "What does the choson plan to do after the chasunah?" This time he won- wondered even more. Just a few days before, the Rebbe had answered a choson that he should go into kollel, the kollel that's in New York, the kollel next to Seven Seventy. So why is the Rebbe asking what the choson is gonna do? So he answered the Rebbe that the choson is going into kollel, as the Rebbe said. Then the Rebbe turns around and asks him a third question: "Where is the young couple, the married young couple, going to be for Pesach?" And here he again wondered, why would the Rebbe ask that? What is that-- why is that important? What does that have any special meaning? But anyway, he answered, since the choson is going to be in Montreal, so they're gonna be for Pesach in Montreal. They went out of yechidus, and they wondered. It was very strange. It seemed something very strange that the Rebbe asked these three strange questions, and even the kallah was very upset, and they didn't know what to make of it. Something is there. They went to the maskirim, and they asked the maskirim if they could explain it,

02:29 and they also said it's something very strange they didn't understand. Vel mamash when it came to the chasunah, everything was ready. The mechutonim, Mr. and Mrs. Silverman, came from England. They were accepted, received very nicely, and they really, really were very happy about it. And the chasunah was beautiful. And Rabbi Yosef Felig's brother, Rabbi Noson Felig, was the one that schaf, you know, was involved with the mechutonim to make them feel good, et cetera, et cetera. The day after the chasunah was the first Sheva Brachos, and Rabbi Noson Felig was going to make the Sheva Brachos. About six o'clock in the afternoon, he calls the hotel, speaks to Mrs. Silverman, the mechutoneste, and he says to her, "Are you ready to come to the Sheva Brachos?" She said, "My husband laid down. I'm going to wake him up, and we're gonna get ready. We're gonna come soon." She goes to wake him up. He wakes up, sits down, gets dressed, and when he's putting on his shoes, he didn't feel good. He fell back, and right away they had to call an ambulance because he had a heart attack. And obviously, the choson kallah and the others went to the hospital with the, with Mr. Silverman, and after a while, he nebech passed away. Now, since this happened, obviously there was no Sheva Brachos that night, and there was no Sheva Brachos at all because the levaya was in England. He was buried in England, so the choson kallah traveled to the levaya to England.

03:47 So obviously, there was no Sheva Brachos. Also, he couldn't go into kollel because his father left a business in middle of his business, so somebody had to take it over. So after correspondence with the Rebbe, the choson had to take over the business, so he didn't go into kollel. And then, since they were in England already, obviously they didn't come back for the Sheva Brachos to Montreal. So the Sheva Brachos-- I mean, the Pesach, they didn't come back to Montreal, so they stayed Pesach in England. So now they understood the three questions of the Rebbe because all the three things happened. The Sheva Brachos did not take place, the choson did not go to the kollel, and they did not stay in Montreal for Pesach. So here we see how every word of the Rebbe has meaning, and you have to take it seriously.