0381 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Levi Yitzchak Freidin Part 3

00:00 It was Erevim Kipper, Or Tov Shimen, Dalard Or Tov Shimen, hey. The Rebbe came to Shachris. The Rebbe gave nickels to the kids, like he would do many times when he'd come into Davin. He would give nickels to the children to put into the tzedakah box. And he was there taking pictures. And when the Rebbe finished with the kids, the Rebbe gave him also a nickel. And the Rebbe said to him with a smile, "for the nickel. Take a picture of the nickel." Right after davening, after Shachris, he ran home right away, didn't eat anything. He rushed to Manhattan. Remember, it's Erevim Kipper. He didn't eat anything. He rushed to Manhattan, went to B&H, bought a special lens that he should be able to take a picture of the nickel, and he didn't eat yet. He took a picture of the nickel, rushed to Borough Park to develop the negative. Those years, you had to have... It was a negative, and you had to develop the negative, and it would take time. But he rushed and had the neg-negative developed, and he had a picture of the nickel. And he rushed back, and he came to 770 before Mincha. After Mincha, he took the picture, got close, walked over to the Rebbe, and told the Rebbe, "I did the ratzon of the Rebbe." And he gave the Rebbe the picture of the nickel. The Rebbe looked at him pretty serious and told him, "" Now, we don't know what was behind all this,

01:24 but we do see the way a Hasid... The Rebbe says a word. It sounds like the Rebbe made, like, a stickle joke or something. But you know, there's no jokes by the Rebbe. If he said it, there must be something there in what he did. And he ran and did it and didn't even eat anything yet and ran to make sure that by Mincha he should be able to bring the picture of the nickel to the Rebbe. And the Rebbe took a very serious... The Rebbe looked at him very seriously, and the Rebbe told him, ""