0401 - Everything From the Rebbe Needs to be Correct - R' Nissan Mindel

00:01 I heard from Reb Yael that he once spoke to Reb Nissan Mendel, who was the Rebbe's secretary, and he would write the letters for the Rebbe, English letters and many of the Hebrew letters. Also, he would write for the Rebbe. The Rebbe would dictate it, and then he would write it. But he would write English things like articles that he would write for Lubavitch and write for the Rebbe. And the Rebbe would look it over and make a lot of changes. Sometimes the changes that the Rebbe made, he would take one word and change it into a different word. He didn't really understand what difference does it make, but he didn't ask. But one time, on one of the changes that the Rebbe made in a different word, he couldn't understand what the change means, why does the Rebbe care to make the change. So he asked the Rebbe, and the Rebbe explained to him the difference between this word and that word, and that's why the word that the Rebbe changed is the right word that fits here. But then he asked the Rebbe, people who this is made for will know this difference. The Rebbe knows this difference, the whole idea is that each word has its deep meaning and whatever it is. But do they know the difference? So why is it important to change it for the publication? And the Rebbe answered him, that whatever comes out from here, from the Rebbe, has to be right. Whether the people understand it

01:19 is something else. But with the Rebbe, whatever he gives out has to be right. And therefore, the Rebbe told him to change the word.