0373 - Two Bochurim Sent Home to Eretz Yisroel Become Shluchim

00:01 We know the Rebbe that even things that were negative would turn it around to make something positive out of it. So I want to give an example of something that happened in the Yeshiva in seventy-seven, the end of the Chofs. There were two bochrim who played a joke on another bochur, a prank. They didn't realize that this is gonna lead to something that wasn't so good, and it did lead to it. And the anholler had no choice but to ask the bochrim to go home, back to Eretz Yisroel. That Shabbos when this was known, the Rebbe by one of the sichas finished off a sicha with very strong expression saying, "Ein pereitz, ve'ein yetzes, ve'ein spochah becherev seineinu." That from now on, there shouldn't be anything negative by us. And it was obvious that the Rebbe was referring to this. That's how everyone felt. But anyway, these bochrim were going to go home. They went into yechidus before they went home. I don't know if the Rebbe called them into yechidus himself, or they asked to go in, but lapel they went into yechidus. Exactly the details that the Rebbe spoke to them, we don't know, but I just remember what they told over. The Rebbe gave each one of them a siddur, a small siddur, Tehillat Hashem, and the Rebbe made them into shluchim. The Rebbe said to them that you're going back to Eretz Yisroel now, you should be my shluchim. And over there, you should work on nefotzi samayones, and you should

01:19 work there on being mashpia on others. And they went out of yechidus feeling that now they're shluchim, and they came back to Eretz Yisroel, and that's exactly what they did. They taught, they learned with others. They did a lot of nafetzet film, other nafetzoyim. They did a lot of nafotzi samayones. They kept their shlichas. So here, the Rebbe took something that seemed to be negative. They were-- went home because of a negative reason, and the Rebbe turned it around and made them into shluchim. And bemeile, they did all kinds of great things, and they were good, very, very good bochrim. Atkedekah that one of them said over that a while later, he wrote to the Rebbe asking the Rebbe if he could come back. And the Rebbe said to him, berech like this. I can't say the lotion exactly, but it was berech like this. "chas veshalom la'azev Eretz Hakodesh ad sheyigmar ha'shlichas." Chas veshalom to leave Eretz Yisroel before you finish your shlichas. In other words, the Rebbe wanted this should be a real shlichas, and before you finish your shlichas, you can't come back. A while later, he asked the Rebbe again, and then the Rebbe said, "Speak to your anholler in Eretz Yisroel." He spoke to the anholler, and the anholler gave him the shur, so he came back and everything was fine. But what this story shows that the Rebbe took something that seemed to be negative. They didn't know this is gonna lead to something negative, but lapel it did,

02:40 and therefore they had to go back to Eretz Yisroel. But the Rebbe turned it around and made them into shluchim and picked them up in such a madregah that they became gvaldik bochrim. And th-this is the sayte of the Rebbe in everything, that he would take something negative and utilize it. It should turn positive even better than it was before.