0457 - Person Didn't Finish Writing His Note Before Yechidus

00:01 In the early Choffs, there was this person who was in the United States Army, and he was stationed overseas. I think it was in Germany, but I'm not sure. And he came home to America for a while in the middle of his term. And then when he was ready to go back, someone convinced him to go ask for a brocha by the Rebbe. So he got an appointment to go into Yechidas the night before he was supposed to leave back overseas. He came to 770, and he was ready to go in, and there was a turn. He was waiting for his turn, and it was already the time that he was next to go in. So somebody was in Yechidas by the Rebbe, and when that person would come out, it was his turn to go in. And when he's waiting there, someone told him that the say that is that you write a settle, and you write your request on the settle. And when you go in, you give the settle to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe reads it, and then he answers what the Rebbe wants to answer. But he hadn't written the settle. So they said, okay, write it now. So he went into the shul upstairs, and he gave him a piece of paper with a pen, and they told him what to write. So he sat down and started writing. And he managed to write the heading as he would always write, Kved Kedusha Sadmur Shlita. And then he was

01:09 going to write his request. But after he finished this line, the person that was inside before him had already come out. So they came running to him. He says, the person came out. It's your turn. You got to go in. The Rebbe can't wait. So he had the paper in his hand, and he ran over, went into the Rebbe, holding that paper, which all it said was Kved Kedusha Sadmur Shlita. It doesn't say what he wanted to write, that he's going overseas and asking for a brocha. And when he walked in, the Rebbe saw him walking in with holding a settle in his hand. So the Rebbe stuck out his hand, and he gave the Rebbe the settle. The Rebbe looked at it, and the Rebbe tells him, it seems that you're planning to go overseas. And the Rebbe gave him a brocha for his trip overseas. So here we see that the Rebbe didn't see what he wrote. He didn't write anything, but the Rebbe knew what he was planning to write and gave him the brocha. Now, obviously, I wasn't there to hear what the Rebbe said. The truth is I didn't even hear it from the person himself. But the next day, I heard it from different people who heard it from him that night that when he went out of Yechidas, this is what he told over to the people. And this was mefursem at that time in 770, that the Rebbe looked at that settle and said, gave him a

02:19 brocha for what he was planning to write, even though he didn't write it.