0356 - Sending Shluchim to Miami Part 2

00:01 When we opened the yeshiva in Miami, which was in the year , certain questions came up how the yeshiva's because we didn't have really exactly how . It's the first yeshiva that the Rebbe opened in America, because the first one that he opened was in Australia, and there he sent and in America was the first one was Miami, and we didn't know exactly. We heard certain things he said regarding Australia, so we didn't know if it applies to us also. So certain things I wanted to ask, so 'cause in the first year I used to ask, but I didn't want to ask the Rebbe directly because I didn't feel it's right to bother the Rebbe that with every little thing. Figure it out. Work on it. Why would I ask the Rebbe? But I would ask Rabbi Khadakov. I also knew that if you call Rabbi Khadakov and you ask him some question of the , he would answer you what he thinks. But if you write it to him , he always would give the letter to the Rebbe, even though it was written to him, and the Rebbe would answer. So that's what I used to do. I did wanna get an answer from the Rebbe, but I didn't feel it was right to write to the Rebbe. If Rabbi Khadakov wants to give it to the Rebbe, that's his business, and that's what I did. So one of the questions that I asked was, we had the that the Rebbe sent, and

01:09 there was more and more bocher that was a Miami bocher that came to learn in yeshiva. But then there was a bocher from New York, from the yeshiva in New York, that wanted to come to learn by us. So I didn't know if we should take him or not. I didn't know what, what we're supposed to do. So I asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered the letter this lo- this . "Ain inyono klal lehilochem betimchet mimim vedal." It's not their inyan at all, and he underlined the word klal, to fight with timchet mimim. Vedal, which means vedai lema'avan. In other words, you're not there. You didn't open the yeshiva to be competition with timchet mimim in New York, with timchet mimim. So therefore, basically not to take. But next time I went into yechidus, it was for Shavuot time. This was all in . I went to yechidus after Shavuot, and I s- wrote to the Rebbe on the letter that the Rebbe answered not to be competition with timchet mimim, but what happens if the hanhalah of timchet mimim wants? Because in that case that I was talking about, the hanhalah asked that we take that bocher. So the Rebbe answered that if the hanhalah is masme, hanhalah wants, and it's good for you, in other words, for the yeshiva it's good, but hanhalah from timchet mimim asks, then you could take. Then there was another shaila that I asked. Can we in middle of Seder allow bochrim to go and do in

02:22 the middle of Seder? And I said from time to time, yechidim. Didn't mean the whole yeshiva to close, but individuals should go. So the Rebbe circled around the words yechidim and the word mizan lezman, only in individuals, as individuals from time to time, and then he wrote these words: "Harei mefursim." It's known. And he underlined the word mefursim with two lines. That the timchet mimim here means in New York they do that. "Allen," he wrote in parentheses, "bocher hanhalah." But it has to be with receiving reshus from the hanhalah. "al daas atzmei de koleichot ve'echad." And not on daas of each one will decide when he'll do it. "Allen." He didn't write vedal. At the other letter he wrote vedal, vedai lema'avan, that you understand it, and here he wrote . It's very easy to understand that you need reshus, and it can't be on the daas of each bocher. But this is what he answered, that it's mefursim that in timchet mimim here they do that, and therefore you're able to do it. And I know when another yeshiva opened up in America, and they asked the Rebbe, . So the Rebbe answered to them, that's what I was told by the hanhalah there, that they should find out Miami, and they should copy the way it is done in Miami. And one of the things he said to them was that the kavana is that you should have also bochrim outside of Lubavitch to come in, and at that

03:48 time we had one bocher that was from Mirer Yeshiva that learned by us. So the Rebbe said, "Al derech like Miami that has one bocher," and the way the hanhalah from that yeshiva told me, the Rebbe used the bocher daas. Now, I don't know if they understood or something that he said to us. In Miami learned a bocher from daas. So that's one of the kavanas, to have bochrim from other yeshivas. But he told them to copy us because to us already the Rebbe had answered certain answers, so we were able to tell them the same answers.