0480 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin Part 6 - Referred to as Rav (of Lubavitch)

00:01 Concerning the achas of the Rebbe to Rab Salma Shimon Dvorkin, I want to mention that there was another time that the Rebbe pointed him out in public by a farbrengen and referred to him as the Moreh D'asra. And that was Shabbos Erev Pesach Tov Shimim Maluf. Since that Shabbos was Erev Pesach, no one expected a farbrengen. They davened. After davening, there was no farbrengen. Everyone went home because it was Erev Pesach. People ate the meal. Some people even went to rest because they knew it last the night will be a long night. It's the night of the Seder. Then all of a sudden, people started running around saying that there is going to be a farbrengen. The Rebbe just gave over there were going to be a farbrengen. So everyone ran to seven seventy, and we came there, and we saw, yeah, they're preparing the shul for a farbrengen. The Rebbe's place, they put down water and bananas. The Rebbe came into the farbrengen, said a sicha. Interesting that after the first sicha, the Rebbe said l'chaim on the water. And then the second sicha, the Rebbe started discussing the water that they put down. And he discussed that since it's Erev Pesach, we can't drink wine. Even though the Rebbe says that a lot of wine you are allowed to drink, but nevertheless, you don't drink wine on Erev Pesach. Pamela, you couldn't put down wine. And therefore, they only put down water and pedes, what was bananas, but it was-- the Rebbe referred

01:24 to it as pedes. And then the Rebbe said it is not nice, it's not derechet, it's not covered that somebody, one person should sit and eat, and everybody else should sit around and not be able to eat. So therefore, he says he asked that they should give enough fruit that there should be for everybody, but for some reason it didn't work out. So he asked at least that there should be more than what he expects to eat. And he said that he's gonna eat whatever he's gonna eat, and the rest to give to everybody is not shaya because even if we'll give little crumbs, it won't be enough for everybody. So what he said he's gonna do, he's gonna give it to the Moreh D'asra of this kehillah. And he said that since he is the Moreh D'asra, Moreh D'asra means the boss of the place, the Rav of the place. So the food that the achilat uveshtiyat, the drinking and eating that he is going to do is as if the whole asra is doing it, and therefore he will give it to him. And then the Rebbe said ma tov if he's gonna take along with him if they are here, other of the members of the bezdin. And since it says, "Ein agud hapachas mishlisah", so they have at least three, so mamir it'll be agudah, and this will represent the whole place, and he'll give it to him. And then the Rebbe connected this to Pesach. And then the Rebbe said

02:40 he should come up, and he should take the mayim and the pedes take. And since he's a Rav, he's the Moreh D'asra, he will know what to do with it. So the Rebbe called him up. He came up, and the Rebbe gave him the water and the pedes. So here again, we see that the Rebbe referred to him as the Moreh D'asra. Not only that, the Rebbe said that by him eating from it, it's as if everybody ate, that he is representing everybody, the whole asra. Another thing I wanna mention, that when the Rebbe sold his chametz, he sold it to Rab Zalma Shimon Dvorkin, which means originally it was Rab Shmuel Ovitt, and he was the Rav, considered the Rav of the Beis Harav from the Freiker Rab Stein yet. So he, the Rebbe used to sell to him. But after he passed away, I think it was Rabbi Simpson that the Rebbe used. But after that, the Rebbe used Rab Zalma Shimon Dvorkin to sell him the chametz. I also wanna mention that bachlal we know when the Rebbe would send somebody to Rab Zalma Shimon, when they asked a shayla, he would say, "You should go to Rav Rab Zalma Shimon Dvorkin. Yishal Rab Zalma Shimon Dvorkin or Yisayetz," or whatever expression he would use, Rab Zalma Shimon Dvorkin. But someone told me that he got an interesting answer from the Rebbe. He said he wrote to the Rebbe something that Rab Zalma Shimon told him to do, but he had a

03:52 question, something about it. So he wrote to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered him, he says these words, "Vechol zeh ke'atzas harav de Lubavitch." That he-- all-- everything that he wrote should be according to etzah of the Rav of Lubavitch. So the Rebbe referred to Rab Zalma Shimon here as Rav of Lubavitch. Now we know at other times the Rebbe said that there is no such thing as a Rav HaRoshei in Lubavitch. Also in the farbrengen of Tov Shimim Maluf that I mentioned before in one of the voice notes, he said that he is under the jurisdiction of the Moreh D'asra here, but people from other places are not under the jurisdiction. But here he did refer to him as the Rav of Lubavitch. Could be debshatis because then gufa the Rebbe said concerning-- it was concerning the time Neshoes that even though other people are not under what the Moreh D'asra here will say, but since they're connected to the Rebbe and the Rebbe is under him, bemeile everyone will also have to follow. So maybe that's what he meant here too, but I don't know exactly. But this is the lashon he said that the Rebbe wrote to him, "Ke'atzas harav de Lubavitch."