0379 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Levi Yitzchak Freidin Part 1

00:00 The next few broadcasts, I'm going to repeat some of the things that happened with the Rebbe and Rebbe Leibitzchok Freidin. Rebbe Leibitzchok Freidin was the one that used to come to the Rebbe many, many years for Tishrei, and some years even for other occasions, and he would take pictures and videos of the Rebbe. And many of the pictures and videos that we have are the ones that he took. He's a relative of ours, of our family. He's my father's first cousin. So whenever he used to come, he used to stay in the house of my brother Gabriel and his wife Rachel. He even used to tell the Rebbe about it, spoke to the Rebbe about it sometimes, etc. So I'm going to repeat over some of the things that happened with him and the Rebbe without any special order. Some of the things I remember myself since he's a relative of ours. I was involved, so I remember myself. But to make sure, I confirmed it with my brother Gabriel because he stayed in the house, so he knows these stories exact. And some of the things I heard from my brother Gabriel. The first thing is that the first year that he came and he took pictures of the Rebbe, so the Rebbe told him at one occasion he should tell the Bochrim that they should learn Torah with the same merits, the same energy as he takes pictures. So he went into the zal and gave a patch on the table, gave a

01:09 bang on the table, and he announced to the Bochrim that the Rebbe told him to tell the Bochrim that they should learn Torah with the same energy as he takes the pictures. Another time when he came to New York, it wasn't for Tishrei, it was for the bar mitzvah of my nephew Gabriel's son, Mordechai, all of Hashem. Since he was a kodov, a relative of ours, and he also stayed in Gabriel's house, but mainly he came to that bar mitzvah. What he used to do whenever he used to come to the Rebbe, the first thing would go is to the Rebbe's house, wait outside knowing when the Rebbe was going to 770, and say k'viyochal hello to the Rebbe. So this time also, he came to the Rebbe's house waiting for the Rebbe to go out. When the Rebbe went out and he saw him, opened the door and he saw him, the Rebbe said to him, gute zachen kumen um gerichter heit. With a smile he said, good things come when you don't expect it. One year when he went to the Rebbe, when he came in the month of Elul and he went to the Rebbe's house as he always did, so the Rebbe invited him to go into his car to get a ride to 770. So he told the Rebbe, vos far aponim vetes hom ba'di bochim. What would it look like to the Bochrim if I do this? And the Rebbe smiled. But the second time when this happened and

02:22 the Rebbe invited him to go into the car, he actually went into the car and he came to 770 and everyone was looking, was wondering how he came to the 770 in the Rebbe's car, but the Rebbe invited him to come into the car.