0302 - R' Leibe Hoffman Said Rabei'im will Settle in America Before Moshiach

00:00 There was a story floating around in 1770 when I learned there that in Lubavitch, there was one of the Hasidim, the famous Hasidim. He was a Mekubal. His name was Reb Leiba Hoffman. He was brought down quite a few times in the Sichas of the Friediker Rebbe, and the Friediker Rebbe refers to him as a Chozid HaMekubal. That once he was farbrengen, and he said that he sees al pi kabbalah that before Mashiach, the Rabbeim will have to be in America. That's what he sees, the ga'avah, the birurim. I don't know exactly the birur he said, but he said al pi kabbalah. So it was known. I don't know where the makor is. Maybe it's in one of the sefarim written, whether it's Likutei Sefarim or Shemos Sefarim or Shemos Sefarim. I can't say. I don't remember offhand. Maybe it was from there, but it was a story that's known. I was once speaking to Reb Peretz Motzkin, and the truth is I didn't even remember the name. I just told him that I heard that in Lubavitch, once there was a psamekubal, that this Mekubal spoke, and he said that before Mashiach, the Rabbeim will have to be in America in the Chatzik HaDetacht. And I think that's the words that we heard used, that they'll be in America. So I told him a psamekubal said it. So he started laughing, and he said, "A psamekubal." He said, "Leiba Hoffman." He didn't refer to him with Reb because in Lubavitch, they didn't call the

01:11 people even with the title Reb. He says, "Leiba Hoffman." And he says, as if when I said a Mekubal, it sounds like a psamekubal. Who knows from where a psam-- a orphan a Mekubal. He says, "Leiba Hoffman." Like one of the Hasidim, Leiba Hoffman. And he says, and I think I'm pretty sure he told me that he was sitting by that farbrengen. He was there actually by that farbrengen where Reb Leiba Hoffman said this, that al pi kabbalah, he sees that Rabbeim will be-- have to be in America because that'll be the birur that'll be right before Mashiach will come. So I think he said that he himself was there and confirmed that, that this is true.