0444 - Story of Rebbe Maharash Regarding Lacking Yiras Shamayim

00:02 The farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Bechukkesai, Tov Shin Chof Beis, at the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe said that there are three happy things that are going to happen this coming week. One of them is that there's going to be the dinner, the banquet for the yeshiva in Newark. The second is there's going to be the convention of Neshei Bnei Chabad, the seventh convention of Neshei Bnei Chabad. And the third thing is that tomorrow, meaning Sunday, is going to be the Chanukah Sabais of the new building of the yeshiva in Montreal. And the Rebbe said it came very hard and there are still cheves that they have to pay. And he gave a bracha that they get rid of all the cheves and everything should be atzlocha and other places should also build. But before the Rebbe mentioned about the building in Montreal, he said that it's already a mesh. It's been a long time without begging that the meizes, the institutions, should build buildings. And some build a little bit, some start, lashlish, lamachzel, lervia, like it's an expression, a third, a half, a quarter. Some started, didn't finish, some didn't even start. And the Rebbe says that he's begging this and it's not happening. And then the Rebbe said a story. I heard from one of the chasidim and he said even though he didn't hear it from the Friediker Rebbe, but it seems like it's a true story, that there was a chassid that came into the Rebbe Marash and he had

01:12 problems with shalom ba'is. And the Rebbe Marash told him he should make shalom ba'is. And he told the Rebbe Marash that everything you're going to tell me I'm going to listen to. And he taka did listen to everything the Rebbe said, but in this inyan I can't. He wanted to give a get and the Rebbe Marash told him not to give a get. So the Rebbe Marash said, so then it depends on me because the Gemara says in Broches, anybody who has yirah shamayim, his words are heard, are listened to. And if you're not listening to me, then it means it depends on me. He didn't say these words, but I don't have yirah shamayim. And the Rebbe Marash bent his head down for a while, I don't know, for a short while. And then he picked up his head and he told him again, I'm telling you to make shalom ba'is and not to give the get. And right away he said, okay, I accept. And the Rebbe says the pele is that what happened, what the Rebbe Marash did had a hashpoah on the other person, even though that person has pkirach hofshis, has free choice. Nevertheless, it had a hashpoah on him. And when the Rebbe said this, he himself hesitated. And if I remember correctly, he choked up because what he was saying is, why aren't people listening to him? So he's basically blaming himself k'viyochol that he doesn't have yirah shamayim. That's what it's, the way the Rebbe was saying.

02:36 He didn't say these words, but that's what came out. And that's why the Rebbe said it with such emotion. But then the Rebbe said, but I can't mix into other people's pkirah. In other words, I'm not going to do this and cause other people to change their pkirah, seemingly like by the Rebbe Marash it did happen. I don't know exactly what the Rebbe meant, but this is what he said. But basically he was k'viyochol blaming himself for why aren't people listening to him about this inyan, this inyan of building buildings is because of his own k'viyochol lack of yirah shamayim. And the Rebbe said it with such emotion. And it's self-understood that the Elam took it very hard when the Rebbe, so to speak, k'viyochol accused himself that he's k'viyochol lacking yirah shamayim.