0317 - Harav Hutner - Saved From Hijacking

00:01 In Tofshin Lamed, which is 1970, terrorists hijacked a plane and took it to Jordan, and it stayed there for a long time. In this plane was also a famous Rosh Yeshiva and Rav, HaRav Yitzchak Hutner. This HaRav Yitzchak Hutner, chas v'chalila, was very much involved in the Maraal Miprog's Sforim. He even had a Kehilal in Crown Heights called Kehilal Gur Aryeh because the Maraal's Sefer on Rashi is called Gur Aryeh, so he called his Kehilal Gur Aryeh because he was much involved in the Maraal's Sefer, Sforim Bechalal. So Shabbos, Parshas Kisov, Chay Elul, Tofshin Lamed, the Rebbe spoke about it. The Rebbe said that besides Chay Elul being the Yemeleches, the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, it's also the Yemei Stalkos, the Yortzeit of the Maraal Miprog. So he said, so the zechus of the Maraal Miprog, especially on this day, is so strong, it could help a person who is involved in the Maraal's Sforim. Especially that Chasidim say, he says he didn't hear it from the Friedike Rebbe, but Chasidim say that when the Alter Rebbe writes in the beginning of Tanya in the Shabalat that he took it mitri Sforim, mitri Seferim, it goes on the Maraal's Sforim. And the Rebbe says it makes sense because in the Shalshalos Hayichas that the Friedike Rebbe wrote in the Gate of the Alter Rebbe, he goes back all the way to the Maraal, as it says also in the Sefer Azchrenus of the Friedike Rebbe. The Friedike Rebbe told

01:16 that he was in Prague once, and he went up to the Beidim, to the attic of the shul there, where the remains of the Maraal Miprog, of the Maraal Miprog put the remains of the Gelem there. And the Rebbe said, I told this story once, and now he told it over again. And he says, since the day is the Yemei Stalkos, the Maraal Miprog, and the day of his stalk is the avoda that he did his whole lifetime goes up, it all comes together. So Yoma Meil and Niskoram Benasim. So the father's chus is great that it could help somebody who is involved in the Maraal's Sforim. And just like by the Maraal, he did miracles, even miracles, Lamaila, Mederech Hateva. If he needed a nes, he did a nes. And he was involved with kings, et cetera, et cetera. So too, in this case, David Shuku could help that if it needed a nes, it should be a nes and it should free the people or the person, I don't remember which loshon he said, that the Maraal, involved in the Maraal's Sforim. This is what the Rebbe said on Shabbos Parshas Kisov, the Tov Shin Lamed. Not long after that, actually, B'derech Nes, they freed the hijackers, freed the people, and this Arab Hutner was also freed at that time. And it was obvious that it was connected to what the Rebbe said because the Rebbe spoke about it openly. He didn't mention his name, but he spoke openly about a person who's

02:31 involved in the Maraal's Sforim. So obviously, we knew he meant him. Everyone knew it meant him, even though the Rebbe didn't mention my name. And right not long after that, he was actually freed B'derech Nes. So it's connected to this. Not only do we assume it's connected to this, but I heard later from HaRav Zev Katz that he has a cousin, which is called HaRav Fishman, who is an aidim by Rebbe Avram Ziskin, the famous Rebbe Avram Ziskin, who was the Reisha Kehilal by the Rinsam 70, and he was a big lamdan. So he had an aidim called HaRav Fishman, who was the head of Teudim Seder, who was a Talmud of Rav Hutner. He learned the Chaim Berlin. So after he was freed, so Rav Zev Katz told me that his cousin, HaRav Fishman, told him that HaRav Chadakof called him and told him, are you aware that the Rebbe spoke about it before on Shabbos Parshas Kisov and Shabbos Chay Elul? And this is the zechus what got him actually freed. He wanted to make him aware. Now, we don't know if the Rebbe asked him to call him or not, but labele we see it was very clear that this was a mefis of the Rebbe, that the Rebbe spoke about him, and that zechus of the Rebbe, the zechus of the Maraal, the Rebbe brought it out, that got him freed. And this was in the fabringen of Shabbos Parshas Kisov and Tov Shin Lamed.