0419 - Connection of Other Rabbanim to Chabad Part 1

00:01 In the next few voice notes, I'm gonna talk about my personal connection to some of the Gdol Yisroel, some Rabbonim, and their connection and yachas and their outlook on Lubavitch and the Rebbe, et cetera, et cetera. I already once told over concerning the Yosef Ber Soloveitchik, the speech that he gave on Yud Tes Kislev 5700 in Boston between Lubavitch, between Chassidus, and also that he explained to me the reason why we sit in the Sukkah Shemini Atzeres, which is something that Lubavitch does. I also explained once a story with HaRav Mordechai Gifner when he told my father to tell the Rebbe his relationship to Lubavitch and the Rebbe that he holds that the Rebbe is from the Gdol Yisroel and somebody, a bocher in yeshiva who once spoke against the Rebbe, he told him to go ask mechilah from the Rebbe, et cetera, et cetera. I just wanna add regarding Mordechai Gifner that he spoke at my bar mitzvah, and the last words of his speech was, I remember, he said, "If the Rebbe should help him, as he'll grow in Torah and yirat shamayim, and Chabad too." Hashem should help, should grow in Torah, in yirat shamayim, and also in Chabad. Also, I mentioned before Rav Ruderman from Ner Yisroel, who also came to the yeshiva and gave a shiur, and he told us over what the Rebbe Rashab told him on Yechidus. I also mentioned in one of the previous voice notes that Rabbi Chadakov once told me on the phone, and the

01:24 Rebbe was on the line, that he knows for sure that the Satmar Rebbe gave over the Rosh Yeshiva of Satmar Yeshiva at the time when there was... they were making a machlokes with Lubavitch, that they should stop the machlokes with Lubavitch. So I also wanna add now also regarding the mikveh, even though we know that his shitah was that you shouldn't have a mikveh just with a beis agabeis, but nevertheless, he said clearly that if there is a beis on the side, but there's also a beis agabeis, it's a hundred percent good. Actually, there's a settlet signed by three Rabbonim. It was by the Sigeter Rebbe. This became later the Satmar Rebbe, but he was the Sigeter Rebbe first, and the Nirbater Rebbe and the Imler Rebbe who lived in Miami, saying clearly that he told them clearly that a beis agabeis doesn't make any chasdon, that it's definitely good if you also have a beis outside. But I wanna add that the Imler Rebbe told me that he knows that the Satmar Rebbe in one city where they were talking about making a mikveh, so he said they should make a beis outside. But he on his own said to the baal habayis that if there are Lubavitchers in that city, they should also add a beis agabeis, that this should also be besides the beis outside, the mikveh itself should be a beis agabeis. So we see here the connection that in the outlook they had regarding Lubavitch and the Rebbe. And in

02:40 the next voice notes, I will continue about the other Rabbonim.