0337 - The Rebbe's Care with Hasogas Gevul Part 2

00:01 The first years when I moved to Miami, which is in the beginning of the Lamed, the Yiddishkeit wasn't so strong here, and therefore, all the frum Yidden, all the frum meis, they knew of each other and were connected. And therefore, even though there is Miami Beach and there is North Miami Beach, and it takes about twenty, twenty-five minutes on the highway to go from Miami Beach to North Miami Beach, but it was all basically like one, and we all knew all the things which are going on over there. They knew which was going on here. Later on, it became so much now that it's mamash two separate, uh, kehillahs in two separate places, but that time it wasn't. And therefore, there was one shtotische mikveh which was in Miami Beach, and everybody used it. It was the only mikveh for women, and everybody used it. Miami Beach and North Miami Beach, there was no other mikveh because this was all, this was all like one. At one point, they decided to make a mikveh in North Miami Beach, and this is because already the community grew, and now they could use their own mikveh there. And there was a man that was involved, and he wrote to the Rebbe asking for the, a letter. I don't remember it was for a dinner that they were making or just a haskomah, but he asked the Rebbe for a letter about building the mikveh that they were going to build in North Miami Beach. And actually, one,

01:12 they were gonna build two beis, two places where you could tevel. One of them would be a beis elok ba'beis, so it could accommodate the Lubavitchers, and one after beis elok ba'beis, and they're ready to do it. So he wrote to the Rebbe and asking the Rebbe for a letter. So I remember Rabbi Yomim Klein called me, and he said the Rebbe asked him to call and find out, is there any politics involved? Is this mikveh something that everyone agrees and it's fine, or is this taking away from another mikveh? Is this a kind of arasgas guhl that might be from another mikveh that's there? In other words, he didn't say these words, but in other words, if that's it, he's not gonna get involved, and he's not gonna send any letters. As much as by the Rebbe, every time you open the mikveh, which is something very special, in those days, he would even send letters if they, if it was appropriate, it was possible. In this case, he wanted to know if this is taking away from another one. In other words, there is politics, he said, and there is someone who feel that it's wrong of them to open another mikveh, he's not gonna send a letter. Le'hamamash, I found out that there is no politics. Everyone was happy because it grew, the community grew, and therefore they were able to have another mikveh. So the Rebbe actually sent a letter to the committee that was involved in building the mikveh in

02:20 North Miami Beach. But otherwise, the Rebbe wouldn't send because it would be agader of arasgas guhl.