0424 - Connection of Other Rabbanim to Chabad Part 6

00:01 From the people who visited the yeshiva and said a shir in the yeshiva was Arab Mordechai Eliyahu. His connection to Lubavitch and to the Rebbe is very, very well known. But when he was in the yeshiva and he said a shir, he spoke very, very warmly about the Rebbe. Actually, when he s- before he started the shir, when I introduced him, I said I apologized, um, speaking in Hebrew, my Hebrew is not so good, but I apologize, but I'm doing it in honor of the Rav of HaRav Eliyahu. When he started speaking, he said, "I want to mention that when the Rebbe spoke to me, the first thing that the Rebbe said," he said the exact same thing, the Rebbe apologized for speaking his Hebrew not so good, but he's doing it in his honor. And later on during the shir, he spoke about the Rebbe, and he spoke very, very warmly about the Rebbe. The truth is he also at that time spoke at a big gathering here in Miami. I think it was for a Yud Tes Kislev that year, maybe it's Yud Chei, a big gathering that we had, and he spoke there also very, very warmly, told over things, his connection to the Rebbe. He mentioned even, I remember that once the Rebbe called him, and behimot it was the middle of the night, and the first thing the Rebbe said to him on the telephone was that, "Are you before Tikkun Chatzois or after Tikkun Chatzois?" But his connection to

01:15 the Rebbe was, was beyond anything that you could imagine. Also, HaRav Bakshi-Daron, who was also chief rabbi in Eretz Yisrael at a certain time, also was in the yeshiva by us, gave a shir in the yeshiva, a very, very nice shir. And also at the end of the shir, he spoke about the Rebbe, and he spoke about Lubavitch very, very warmly. Also, HaRav Yitzchak Yosef, who's the present Rav Orosh in Eretz Yisrael, Sefardic Rav Orosh, also was in the yeshiva, spoke for a long time. I think it was an hour and a half that he spoke. I even remember dinionim that he spoke about the difference Minhogai Ashkenaz and Minhogai Sefard, and if you're allowed to change, whatever, all kinds of things, very interesting. And at the end, he also spoke about the Rebbe, spoke about Lubavitch very warmly. But I was surprised also, pleasantly surprised, how familiar he was with all the Rebbe's dinionim, the Rebbe's shitas, Minhagai Kabbalah, Tairech, and all other kinds of things of the Rebbe's shitas, he was familiar. And the Emesez, HaRav Bakshi-Daron also, when I spoke to him, he also showed a very big kias in the Rebbe's dinionim and the Rebbe's teire. This shows how much they learned the Rebbe's teire and how familiar they are with the Rebbe's teire, and that all shows their connection to Lubavitch.