0425 - Connection of Other Rabbanim to Chabad Part 7

00:01 HaRav Laser Silver, who was the Nosi of Agudas HaRabbonim in his time, lived in Cincinnati, and his shaichas to the Rebbe, Friedrich Rebbe is known. He was close to the Friedrich Rebbe and later by the Rebbe, et cetera, et cetera. But what I heard from HaRav Sharfstein, that when the Skulener Rebbe was arrested in Romania, when he lived in Romania, the Rebbe was working to get him out. So Rabbi Chadakov called HaRav Sharfstein in the name of the Rebbe to speak to HaRav Silver to see if he could go to the State Department and see what he could do to get the Skulener Rebbe out. And when HaRav Sharfstein told him, asked him to do it in the name of the Rebbe, he said, "Certainly do it." I don't remember the details of what he said. He made some comments that for sure he's gonna do what the Rebbe wants, even though it seemed like it wasn't so easy for him, but he's going to do it anyway because of his respect for the Rebbe. I also wanna mention that since he was in Cincinnati, which is not far from Cleveland, once by a Mesibah, they had a special Mesibah, whether it was a Malav Amalke or a dinner for the Mikvah or something, he was there. I think he was the guest of honor. And the Telzer Rosh Yeshivas were there, and other people were there. And in middle, he turns around to my father, which I think was the emcee, and HaRav Silver

01:11 says to my father, , he wants to speak . So my father grabbed the opportunity and got up, and he said, "HaRav Silver . HaRav Silver's gonna speak now in ." And the Telzer Rosh Yeshivas got very, you know, saying, "What is this? It sounded like he's making a joke of it, of HaRav Silver's gonna speak . So my father says, "Yeah, he asked to speak ." So they turned around to him, and he said, "Yeah, yeah . I asked. I wanna speak ." And he spoke some . This shows his connection to . He wanted to speak . By the way, just wanna mention, when I was a kid of six years old, he tested me. He came once also to Cleveland for a dinner of the Cheder that I was learning in. And, uh, when we greeted him at the airport, they took me over to him. I was six years old. He was old, older. He was a big gun, and he should speak to me. So he asked me something in the Chumash and Parsha of the week. It was Parsha Nosay, I think. So I told him that this is written at the end of the Parsha, and we only learned the beginning of the Parsha. So he tells me, "." A big thing to know what you learned. I wanna see if you know what you didn't learn. This is just, by the way, to show what style he had, because he was that type of person, that

02:29 he'd always be very sharp. But, uh, in his shaichas to Lubavitch, we could see that his shaichas to Chassidus and Lubavitch was strong.