0304 - R' Dovid Bravman Said He's a Rebbsker Yid

00:00 In Tofshim Zion, the Rebbe, at that time wasn't Rebbe, it was in the time of the Nesisa, the Friedrich Rebbe, traveled to Paris. The reason was because his mother came out of Russia, escaped Russia together with a lot of Anash, and the Rebbe went there to bring her back with him to America, to live in America. Anash, a lot of Anash, who were at that time in the DP camps in Germany, in Pocking, sent a few Hasidim to meet with the Rebbe. One of them was Reb Dovid Bravman, who was a real Hasidish Erid, Hasidish Yungerman. He was the brother-in-law of Reb Dovid Raskin, and he was one of the people who went to meet with the Rebbe. This Reb Dovid Bravman was a very close friend of my father, all of Hashem. Actually, my father told him to ask the Rebbe a certain question that he had at that time. And when he came back, he told him the answer that the Rebbe gave. But the nekud I'm trying to say is that my father asked him, and he came back, what impression do you have from the Ramash, the Rebbe's son-in-law, the Friedrich Rebbe's son-in-law? And he answered in one vort, er is a Rebskerid. What we could see is that he is a Yid, which in the category of a Rebbe. In other words, he wasn't the Rebbe at that time. But er is a Rebskerid already in Tofshim Zion. He said to my father, er is a Rebskerid. That's the impression

01:18 that he got from the Ramash. And the Rebbe actually at that time actually spoke to him about printing Sforim because in Germany at that time, it was cheaper to print Sforim. The Rebbe wanted, the Rebbe was in charge of printing Sforim in Kos, wanted they should print Sforim in Germany. So he spoke to him a lot about it, and he actually appointed him to be the one in charge. And there are a lot of letters from the Rebbe to him from that time about Sforim back and forth, things that he's supposed to do, et cetera, et cetera. But the main point I'm trying to make is that he told my father this is the impression that he got of the Rebbe at that time, er is a Rebskerid.