0465 - The Rebbe Inquired About the Liebermans

00:01 We know that the Rebbe had everyone on his mind. He knew their names, their mothers' names, whether you're a Cohen or a Levi, and all other details. So I want to give just a few examples from my wife's family. My schweer, my father-in-law, Walter Lieberman, had a brother whose name was Ramshia, and he lived in Eretz Yisroel. At one point, he came to America because he was printing the Imrei Noam, the Sefer Imrei Noam, and he did other things that in business that he was doing. So when he was here, he went into Yechidus. That was a time when my brothers-in-law were very small kids. Years later, about eight years later, when my brother-in-law Chaim Meyer became Bar Mitzvah, so the family went into Yechidus. So when they went into Yechidus, the Rebbe put up his hand on the table as if to give Shalom Aleichem to my schweer. So my schweer says to the Rebbe, "I understand, az migit nit. I understand that we don't give." So the Rebbe smiled. But then the Rebbe asked him, "Vos macht aye bruder in Eretz Yisroel?" The Rebbe remembered that his brother was there, which was eight years before. Another time, when my brother-in-law Yankel was about seven or eight, maybe nine, in the middle of the night, he had appendix attack, appendix attack. So middle of the night, they called to Rabbi Chadikov, that's the Rebbe for a broche. So Rabbi Chadikov called back and said over a broche from the Rebbe, but the Rebbe said,

01:21 "Dach tzich az er is a Levi." I think he's a Levi because when they wrote him the name, they didn't mention he's a Levi. So the Rebbe said, "Dach tzich az er is a Levi." Another time, the Rabbi Chadikov called the house, my in-law's house, and he said he wants to speak to my wife's grandmother. Her name was Esther Bailey Liss. And she got on the phone. She s- he said that the Rebbe wants to know vos i macht. He wants to know how she's feeling. And he said because he didn't receive any letters from her for a while. So he was interested to see why didn't he receive any letters. He wanted to know how she's feeling. So here we see how the Rebbe was interested and remembered every person that was shaiches. B'negei, a grandmother could be it's even more than that because she had a shaiches to the Rebbe's mother. Because when they escaped from Russia with Polish passports, m- my-- the grandma, my wife's grandmother, and her mother, my shviger, helped a lot because they were the only ones that were able to speak, uh, Polish, and n- no one else was, so she helped a lot. But one of the people that she helped was the Rebbe's mother. And because of that, the Rebbe had a very sp- very special, uh, hakoras hatov to her, and could be that's why specially he called. But even without that, the Rebbe was interested in everybody and remembered whether you're a Levi and

02:35 you have a brother, and all the other details as we see in these few little stories.