0442 - Connection of Other Rabbanim to Chabad Part 11

00:01 Concerning the yachas of other Gedolim Rabbonim to Lubavitch, I want to add concerning the yachas of the Satmar Rebbe, the Satmar Rebbe Reb Yoel. So I heard from one of the elder Satmar Chassidim that remembers when he was a bochur, this was in the beginning of the Yuds, maybe it was he said Yud Gimel Yud Daled, those years. The Satmar Rebbe Purim took a lot of mashke by his tish, and he spoke very highly about the Vilna Gaon. He spoke about the greatness of his lamdis, and he was describing how great of a gaon he was and the greatness of the Vilna Gaon. But then someone asked him, and what about the Baal HaTanya? What about, which is Alter Rebbe? So on that he said, oh, the Baal HaTanya, er is gor andesh. He was completely beyond everybody else. He was completely beyond in his lamdis he was talking about. He was talking about the learning of nigleh. So he said the Baal HaTanya, after he spoke the greatness, the greatness of the lamdis of the Gra, he said the Baal HaTanya, dos is gor andesh. He's completely different, completely beyond. Another thing I heard from Reb Moshe Friedman, who was the gabbai of the previous Satmar Rebbe, the Beis HaRachmeshe. So he says that when the Friediker Rebbe was nesaleh, huge chovat, and his levaya was on Sunday, the Satmar Rebbe, Reb Yoel, wanted to go to the levaya. But he had a bris that morning. I guess it was Sunday for the bris.

01:28 And according to the timing, he would have made it after the bris to be able to go to the levaya. So he says, this Reb Moshe Friedman tells me that his father was there with the Satmar Rebbe by the bris, and it was getting late. You know, by a bris sometimes it's not on time. And he was very upset that it's not on time so he could miss the levaya. Le'poel mamesh, it pushed off, pushed off, and he was late coming to 770 when the levaya was leaving. So he said he's going all the way to the Beis HaChaim. So he went all the way to the cemetery, which he never did. But this time he went all the way to the cemetery in order not to miss the levaya of the Friediker Rebbe. Which is in addition to the fact that when, years before, he went once to the Friediker Rebbe, I guess for a broche. So the Satmar Rebbe went to the Friediker Rebbe. But by the levaya, he said he made sure to be there. And if he couldn't be there in 770 by the levaya, he went all the way to the Beis HaKodesh to be able to be by the levaya of the Friediker Rebbe.