0367 - Publishing Sefer of Letters Regarding Rabanus

00:01 In the mems, Vaad Rabbono Lubavitch had an idea that they would collect all the letters of the Rebbe that have to do with Rabbonus, different in Yonah for Rabbonim and different things that have to do with Rabbonus, and print all these letters in a separate sefer or a separate kuntres and give it out as a safer of the Rebbe's letters concerning Rabbonus. And they asked the Rebbe, and this is what the Rebbe answered. I'm gonna read it and translate it. The Rebbe wrote like this, "If you will find," and the word "" the Rebbe wrote Nekudis, a chirik under the Yud, a komets under the mem, and a tsere under the tzadik, which means, "If you will, it'll be found, somebody who's fit to this job." "And a reliable person," and the word samche was underlined, "for the responsibility." And what's the responsibility here? But even though these letters were written to different places and at different, complete different times as it is now, and the word was also with Nekudis. A chirik under the mem, a sh'va under the daled, a patach under the ayin, a komets under the kuf, which means midata from now. And dash, and this person thinks, and it still will be a te'eles, a benefit by publicizing these letters. And at least it will not harm. Dash, then the Rebbe says, , you should print it. If there is a doubt that this will be so, dash, So stay back and don't do, and the Rebbe underlined the word

01:43 taysah, which means al taysah. And then in brackets, the Rebbe wrote, to bavon this in the hagdome, that this is in different times, et cetera. does not help. Dash. Because people don't pay attention to such introductions. The bottom line the Rebbe was saying here is that these letters were written different places to different times. For mainly the situation changes, and you can't learn from those times to this time. Things change. So the only one, the only way the Rebbe's maskim, if the person will take responsibility and he's a reliable person to make sure that he'll print these letters in a way that people will realize that you can't learn from it because not always is the same thing. At least it won't do any harm, then print it. But if there's a safek, don't do it. And to bavon, to write in the hagdome that this is the idea, you can't learn from these to other times, is not enough. People don't pay attention to these introductions. So the Rebbe gave a clear thing, and since the Rebbe made it pretty, pretty clear that it's a big, big, so to speak, danger to print it, make such a safer. So therefore, the hachlotah, the decision of Admor Rabbono Lubavitch was not to print the safer. But there was a hachlota not to print all these letters in the safer, but at least to make a list of mareh mekomos, of a mifteach, of an index where you could find letters dealing with Rabbonus. So if

03:09 someone wants to look into something that has to do with a certain thing, he could look in and then decide that it's totally, when you look it up, it's not giving it out to everybody that every person will make his own decision, take his own hachlotis from these letters. That they asked the Rebbe if that we could do, and the Rebbe agreed, and therefore that was printed then a page or a few pages of mifteach of where we find letters about Rabbonus. But to print the letters themselves in a special volume or a special kuntres in itself, that the Rebbe wrote is not so simple, and it was not printed.