0405 - Burned Sifrei Torah in Melbourne - Fasted Half a Day Ta'anis Sha'os

00:01 Since we lived in Cleveland, so I only went to learn in New York in the Lubavitch Yeshiva at the end of Tov Shin Chof. So it's right after my bar mitzvah. So I remember being there the first year. The middle of the year, I don't remember what part of the year, there was a Tainish Shoes that even the kids in the school, chastes, and the kids in the yeshiva there, who were young kids, our class was thirteen years old, the class above was fourteen years old, the younger kids fasted a half a day. And the way we were told then, I don't remember the details, I'm just gonna say the general thing that happened, and other people who remember better will probably be able to say it, that we fasted a half a day because I think in Australia there was a fire in one of the Lubavitcher meses, and they say fertayter or many sefertayters, few sefertayters got burnt. And because of that, they paskened, and I think it came from the Rebbe, that's what they said then, but I don't remember correct- exactly, or the Rebbe agreed to it, that all Lubavitch all over the world should fast a half a day because of that. Now, maybe the adults fasted a full day. I don't remember. I just remember that what they told us that on a certain day, we should fast the time they show us a half a day, and it's because of what happened in Australia. So from this, we

01:22 see that certain things that if they're major, and they happen in a Lubavitcher place, Lubavitcher meset, it affects all of Lubavitch, and all of it have to have pass- to participate. I don't know the exact details of it. You can't take out any dini from here, any things from here. It's kedai to look into this, but this is what I remember very general, that we fasted a half a day because of something that happened in Australia. I think it was a sefertayter got burnt. If I do find out more details, I will do this broadcast again.