0309 - What the Rebbe Said to the Israeli Delegation on Simchas Torah 5734

00:01 Every year to Hakofes on Simchas Torah, there would be a delegation of the Israeli government from the Israeli embassy would come to the Rebbe. And the Rebbe would be mechabed them with saying pesukim if it was still the middle of Atareisa or mechabed with Hakofe. And the Rebbe would also, by his place in front of the shul, he would speak to them. So I remember Tovshin Lamadalet, which was during the Yom Kippur War, delegation came, and the Rebbe spoke to them for a long, long time. The Olam was waiting. The whole Olam, thousands of people were waiting, and the Rebbe was up front speaking to them. I stood right next to the Rebbe's bime, a few feet away from the Rebbe, so I was able to hear many times of what the Rebbe was speaking to them. So I overheard many things that the Rebbe spoke to them that year when it was the middle of the Yom Kippur War. Now, he said a lot of things he said to them was things that he spoke by Fabringed also. And one of the things is that you have to go to Damesek. You should continue and conquer Damascus, he said to them. And I remember they said to the Rebbe, we can't do it because it's very rocky on the way and the tanks can't go. And the Rebbe said, what? He said, that's no such thing. Sure you can go and you have to go. And then there's another thing that the Rebbe said,

01:11 which I am not 100% sure. I remember that, but I became a sophic. So therefore, I'm going to say it, but I'm saying again that I'm not 100% sure that he said it. When he said that you should go to Damesek, he said, but I don't mean that you should keep it. Go to Damesek, conquer it, but I don't mean that we should hold on to it. That for sure he said. That he said by Fabringed also. But I remember, I think he said, go to Damesek, go into all the banks, take out all the money, and then leave. And I think he even used the lotion, let them become a mamloch ashfala, but I can't remember exactly if he said this, but I think this is in the kudda that he said. Go to the banks, take out all the money, and then you leave.