0476 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin Part 2 - Referred to as Marah D'asra

00:01 The first time that the Rebbe referred to Reb Zalman Shimon as the Moreh d'Asra of Crown Heights, of the community, I think was Yuchvat Tov Shin Lamed Vav. By that farbrengen, the Rebbe did something very interesting. The Rebbe spoke about Shlomo Saaretz, about not giving back any territory of Eretz Yisrael. And the Rebbe said that he would want that 72 Rabbanim who are found in the crowd should pasken that Eretz Yisrael belongs to Yidden and you can't give it back. The Rebbe said, and this is going to be done in front of a public, he used the word v'neach sirius miYisrael, which really means in front of thousands of Yidden, so this will have an effect. And the Rebbe gave a cheshbon of 72 because there are 70 nations in the world which are against Yidden. And it says in Sforim that Esav and Yishmael are on top of them, so together it's 72. Also concerning Sanhedrin, we find a cheshbon of 70, in some places 71, and in some places it says 72. So therefore We need 72 people against them to pasken, and these are Rabbanim, to pasken that Eretz Yisrael belongs to Yidden and you can't give back Eretz Yisrael to the Goyim, any part of Eretz Yisrael. And the Rebbe said that this is not a joke and this is not a Purim spiel. He said, if anybody thinks that it's a joke or a Purim spiel, so yi lehem asher lehem, what can I do? Those that take it serious

01:18 should see that other people also take it serious. Then the Rebbe said that some of the Rabbanim should even speak, should say a dvartora and speak the sinyan that Eretz Yisrael belongs to Yidden. So HaRav Yola spoke. Then the Rebbe said that there are here Rabbanim from Eretz Yisrael, so some of the Rabbanim from Eretz Yisrael spoke. And then later on the Rebbe said that since the Friedrich Rebbe's first Askonim Siburios was connected to Tenchid Mimim, so let the Roshi Yeshiva from Tenchid Mimim also speak from Tenchid Mimim Amol, Tenchid Mimim now. So HaRav Rivkin spoke, HaRav Pekarsky spoke, HaRav Mentlik spoke. But before that, the Rebbe said like this, That since we have here the Rav of this shul, which really means this community, but that he said of this shul of 770, so we'll also give a psakdin. And he turned to Reb Zalman Shimon, and Reb Zalman Shimon Dvorkin got up and said a few words, but how everyone knows he was not a speaker in long speeches. He just said, I think, the words like Eretz Yisrael, Balang Tzoam Yisrael, or something like that. But the Rebbe referred to him as the Rav of this community, the Rav of Dembe Sikneses. And I think this was the first time that the Rebbe referred in public to him that he is the Rav of Dembe Sikneses. I also mentioned once before that when the Rebbe spoke about the Taina Shois, it was Shabbos Parshas Vayishlach Tov Shin Mem. So the Rebbe spoke

02:38 about making a Taina Shois that the Rabbonim made. So the Rebbe said that those people who are in this neighborhood, in this shchuna, definitely have to listen to the Rabbonim that were machal decided to make this Taina Shois. And since this is what the Moreh d'Asra paskent, and this was obviously referring to Reb Zalman Shimon, and he has smicha of Rabbonim from the Rabbonim before him. This goes back ish me pe ish till Moshe Rabbeinu who got it from David Shtir. So if he says, you have to listen to him. The Rebbe did say that those people are in a different neighborhood, b'shach gachaprotes, so they're not under the, so to speak, the authority of the Moreh d'Asra from here, but they have the Moreh d'Asra from their place. But besides that, the Rebbe said, since they have a shaychas to me, and this is what I'm going to do because I am also under the Moreh, under the authority of the Moreh d'Asra here. So Emele has a shaychas to everybody. Anybody who has a shaychas to me has a shaychas to them, especially if the Rav in those places will also say that, etc., etc. So here the Rebbe was very, very clear that Reb Zalman Shimon is the Moreh d'Asra of Crown Heights. And Emele, since the Rebbe said since he is under him, everybody else also has to listen, so this gave him a broader authority. But this is all what the Rebbe like officially said that he is the Moreh

03:51 d'Asra. But the first time he said that, I think, was Yuchvat Tov Shlom Lamed Vov. We also know that the Rebbe would himself send his shaylas to Reb Zalman Shimon. As I mentioned once before, the shayla about the part of the kosel that someone sent to Reb Zalman Shimon a little piece of rock that fell off from the kosel and he asked the Rebbe, someone sent it to the Rebbe and the Rebbe sent it to Reb Zalman Shimon asking him any pasken that he really should give it back. And more things that we know that the Rebbe himself would ask shaylas to Reb Zalman Shimon. The Rebbe would send other people with shaylas to Reb Zalman Shimon. We know that when the person would ask the Rebbe a shayla, usually the Rebbe would not answer shaylas. He would just say shayla l'Rav, shayla l'Mei Re'iro, other lashaynas. But sometimes he would be very clear that he's sending it to Reb Zalman Shimon to write this should be asked by Reb Zalman Shimon Dvorkin. I myself had an experience that the Rebbe wrote that to me too. When we were in Russia close to 40 years ago, so people asked different shaylas for us to ask the Rebbe. So when I came back, I wrote the Rebbe a report and I put in some of the shaylas that they asked. So on one of the shaylas, the Rebbe wrote, Yishal, ask HaRav Reb Zalman Shimon Sheyicha Dvorkin. You should ask Reb Zalman Shimon. And I remember

05:01 I asked Reb Zalman Shimon the shayla and Reb Zalman Shimon later told me he spoke with, he discussed it with Reb Moshe Feinstein and he came up with a psakdin. But here we see that the Rebbe sent the shaylas to him. I also remember I was sitting once in Kolol and in middle came in Reb Yomanklein and brought Reb Zalman Shimon a answer that the Rebbe wrote to his letter and that's going to be in the next voice note.