0358 - Instructions from the Rebbe Regarding Yeshiva Gedola of Miami Part 1

00:01 In the next few voice notes, I would like to relate some of the answers that the Rebbe wrote concerning the Yeshiva Gedolah to Dan Holler, or mainly to the Talmidi Mashluchim who were sent. These were the first years that the Yeshiva opened, so there were quite a few answers. I want to mention some of them. First, when we were just working on establishing the Yeshiva, before the Yeshiva opened, this was when I was still in New York. This is Tov Shin Lamed Gimel, summer of Tov Shin Lamed Gimel. There was a hatsa'ah that came from Sambalabatim in Miami, that there were ten boys that learned in a school, in a religious school, but a day school, a regular modern Jewish day school, and they finished high school. And they were planning to go to university, but they wanted to learn a half a day in Yeshiva. So someone said it's a good opportunity that we should take these bochrim. We're just opening the Yeshiva, so we'll have shluchim, and we'll take these boys, and a half a day they'll learn in Yeshiva. So we didn't know if we should do it or not. So we wrote to the Rebbe, and this is what the Rebbe answered. Al pi ze, lo yuchlu lishleach klal talmidim mimeiz tesenu mikam, kipashut. If you're going to do this, then we will not be able to send any talmidim from our institutions, our meizes here, kipashut. In other words, the Rebbe said you can't do that. In other words, you

01:23 can't start the Yeshiva or have the Yeshiva that should be a half a day Yeshiva. That means that the Yeshiva will have bochrim who will learn a half a day in college. That's not what the Yeshiva is for. So the Rebbe said not to do this, because this is not what the Yeshiva is. So much so that the Rebbe felt that if you're going to do it, we won't even be able to send any bochrim, any shluchim. So obviously, we did not do that. Then another thing, when the bochrim came, right at the beginning, it was in the beginning when the Rebbe started Mitzvah Mezuzah. And the bochrim started working on it, and they were pretty successful. They went out because the Rebbe started the Mitzvah, and they were bochrim who just started being shluchim. And then they wrote a duch to the Rebbe, and they wrote that the Meshech have a certain amount of time, not so long, they managed to put up 40 mezuzahs. Houses that didn't have mezuzahs before. When the Rebbe got this duch, this is what the Rebbe wrote. He circled the word arboyim, arboyim mezuzahs, and he wrote, In a city that has more than 40,000 Yidden, so you put up 40 mezuzahs? In other words, the Rebbe was not satisfied. We think we're satisfied, we do something. But the Rebbe, he wasn't satisfied with 40 mezuzahs, even though to put up mezuzah and people don't have mezuzahs, it's a hard job. And they felt that they were successful.

02:45 But the Rebbe wrote, In a city that has more than 40,000 Yidden. Then, later on, when it came before Yud Aleph Nisan, there was a fabrengin that the bochrim had together with other people from Anash who were living in Miami at that time. And there was a hachlote to give the Rebbe a present for Yud Aleph Nisan that everybody will chazer a peyrik Tanya Balpe. So they wrote this to the Rebbe, and they wrote that Shabbos Chanuk, Shabbos Nevorach Mutav is when there was a fabrengin in the yeshiva. We accepted a hachlote bli neder that everyone should chazer a peyrik echot Tanya. Besides whatever they know on their own from before, they should extra peyrik Tanya till Yud Shvat. And the answer of the Rebbe was like this. He circled the word peyrik echot, that you're going to learn one peyrik Tanya Balpe, and he wrote, This is like a rich man who brings a korban from a poor man, etc. There is a din b'negei korbonos. There are certain korbonos that there are levels. If you're rich, you could bring an animal. If you're poor, you could bring birds. If you're very poor, certain korban meil v'yered, you could bring even flour, a korban mincha. But the din is that osher shehevi korban oni lo yotzo. If a rich man brings the korban of a poor man, he's not yetzer. So the Rebbe wrote here that accepting to learn one peyrik Tanya Balpe is like a osher, a person who could afford more, and

04:12 he's only bringing a korban oni. And the Rebbe was not satisfied. Like the Rebbe always, whatever you think you wanted, the Rebbe was always wanted even more. And he said to bring, to learn one peyrik Tanya