0427 - Connection of Other Rabbanim to Chabad Part 9

00:01 I want to mention more Rabbonim who I spoke to. They didn't not necessarily came to the yeshiva, but I spoke to them and I heard their yachas to Lubavitch. For instance, HaRav Libes. HaRav Libes was the Av Bes of Iggud HaRabbonim, a big talmud chacham. He wrote Shaylos and Teshuvas Beis Ovi, I think five big volumes. There's actually a teshuvah to me in one of the volumes, I think a Chel Revi, because since he used to come to Miami, I got very friendly with him. I would talk to him a lot, ask him shaylos. So on one of the shaylos, he sent me a teshuvah later, a long teshuvah, and then he printed it in the Sefer Beis Ovi. So he also spoke very highly about the Rebbe, about Lubavitch. He even told me a story that about the Rebbe, something that he heard that the Rebbe did, the Rebbe said, and that he wanted to base a certain halacha, which I never heard. I don't want to repeat it because I don't think he heard it k'levishin, so firsthand, and therefore I don't know if it's a story that you could repeat. It sounds a little strange to me, but the main thing I'm trying to show that he took the Rebbe's story and built on that certain things because his yachas to Lubavitch was very strong. When I mention more Rabbonim, for instance, on Merkes Lichas, I was together with Reb Sholom Ber Levitan, who's in Seattle. We went to HaRav Yalov. He

01:16 was the Rav in Syracuse. He used to even come to the Rebbe's farbrengen sometimes, and he spoke about the Rebbe Meir Edik. He's a mechaber of Sforim, Shalmi Shmul, Mincha Shmul, and he spoke about the Rebbe Meir Edik, that the Rebbe saved Yiddishkeit in America. The whole thing, mamish, very great about the Rebbe. Also, when I was on Merkes Lichas with Yosel Minkowitz from Montreal, so we were in Panama, so we met HaRav Tzion Levi. Tzion Levi was the Rav of the Sfaradish commune in Panama. Very choshev HaRav. Actually, when he was young, he was a chavrusa of HaRav Yosef, Rav Adi Yosef, and he knew how to learn. So when we came into his office and we told him we're Merkes Lichas, we started talking Lubavitch. He thought, what does he know about the Rebbe? What does he know about Lubavitch? He knows the Rebbe does. So he tells us, you have to tell us about the Rebbe. He picked up his sefer, and his desk was a glass, like a lot of desks have a glass on top. So when he picked up his sefer, under the sefer, in the glass, was a picture of the Rebbe. He says, you're telling us, telling me about Lubavitcher Rebbe? Here it is. I have a picture of the Rebbe. And he told us his closeness, how close he is to the Rebbe. Also met HaRav Aharon Soloveitchik. Also, we know his connection to the Rebbe, his closeness to Lubavitch was very, very much. So I

02:35 was once in Chicago. I went to speak to him. So we spoke in learning, but then he was telling me about the greatness of the Rebbe and Lubavitch, et cetera, et cetera. So here I hear more Rabbonim who I personally heard from them their yachas to Lubavitch.