0467 - The Rebbe Answered Questions From a Different Paper

00:01 A close friend of mine who is a reliable person, a trustworthy person, told me a story that happened to his father. They lived in Eretz Yisrael in Kfar Chabad, and his father was going to the Rebbe for Tishrei Tov Shin Chof Beis. Before he left, the members of the Anhola, the Reshet, which are the Lubavitcher schools in Eretz Yisrael, came to his house and asked him to ask the Rebbe certain questions about things that has to do with the Reshet, the way things should be run in the Reshet. The reason they came to ask him, because he was known to have a very good memory, so they assumed that he'll remember, he'll remember the questions, remember the answers, et cetera, et cetera. And he told them that he would do that. When he came to seven seventy, came the time to go into Yechidus, he wrote up two papers. One paper he wrote with questions that they told him to write about the Reshet, and a separate paper with his personal questions. And he was waiting to go into Yechidus. Yechidus was stretching out, and it was getting late. It was getting ready towards the morning. So they came out to Maskirus, and they said there's still a lot of people who have to go in, and it's late already. So they said like this, "Please, all those who have two pages, please change it. Shorten it to make one page. If you have one page, please shorten it to make a half a page,

01:19 because it's very late." So this guy says, my father, who is a Kabbalas Elnik, disciplined, listened. So he decided out of the two pages, he's only gonna give the Rebbe one. And he decided he's gonna give the Rebbe the page with the questions about the Reshet. And the other one, which the personal questions, he will not give to the Rebbe. So what he did was he put it into a Sefer Am HaModim that he was learning before he went into Yechidus, and put it on top of the Aron Kodesh in shul in seven seventy upstairs. And in his hand, he had the paper with the questions about the Reshet. When his turn came to go into Yechidus, he went into Yechidus, and he gave the Rebbe this page with the questions about the Reshet. That's all. The other one, he didn't give the Rebbe because he had put it away. The Rebbe looked at the paper and started answering him the questions that he wrote about his personal things. He wondered how the Rebbe's doing that when the questions that he wrote about himself were not given to the Rebbe. So he thought maybe by mistake he did give the Rebbe that page instead of the page he meant to give, which is the Reshet. So he bent over the Rebbe's table in Yechidus, and he saw that he didn't make a mistake. The paper the Rebbe was holding was the page with the questions about the Reshet. And nevertheless, the Rebbe answered him in

02:35 the order of the way he wrote the other setel with the questions about his own personal things. That's a great surprise that the Rebbe was answering the other setel even though the setel that he gave in was about the Reshet. Came to the Farbrengen Simchas Torah, the Rebbe in one of the sichas was talking about Chinuch. And in that sicha, the Rebbe started saying things which answered the questions about the Reshet, which was the other setel which he gave to the Rebbe, but the Rebbe never answered. And the Rebbe started talking things which answered the questions that he wrote in the setel about the Reshet. He got so mevovel that he pushut fainted. They took him out from the Farbrengen because he fainted. And when he came to, to himself, he came back in. But the meantime, he missed part of the sicha. So he asked later Rabbi Yael to chazar him that part of the sicha. And Rabbi Yael, the chozer, chazared to him the sicha, so he got the point of the sicha also. But here we see very clearly that when you go into Yechidus, the Rebbe reads more than what you wrote. Like in this case, that he gave the setel with the questions of the Reshet, and the other setel which he wrote thinking to give in, did not give in, and the Rebbe answered those questions. That shows how the Rebbe looks at things and what the Rebbe sees when you go into Yechidus.