0483 - The Rebbe's Connection with R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin Part 7 - Interested in His Health and Question Regarding Medicine on Pesach

00:00 Concerning the yachas of the Rebbe to Rav Zalman Shimon Dvorkin, Rav Yeshav Yitzchak Itkin, known as Rav Fitcha Itkin, who lives in Pittsburgh, told me that when he was a chosan, he went in to see the Rebbetsin with his kale and his in-laws. His father-in-law was a Rebbe El unik, who was a Meshamas Bekedesh by the Rebbe, so he was close to the Rebbe, the Rebbetsin. So before the chasana, they went to see the Rebbetsin. That means Rebbe El unik and his wife, and Rav Fitcha Itkin and the kale, and his wife, who was then the kale. And they came in, they were there. The Rebbetsin spoke to each one of them separately, very friendly. And then she said to him, to Rav Fitcha, she said to him, "You're a neighbor of the Rebbe, Rav Zalman Shimon Dvorkin." So he says, "Yes." So she asked him, "How is he feeling? How is he doing?" And then she said to him, "Well, mein mann un nich sein interessiert in sein gesund." My husband, which is the Rebbe, myself, are interested in his health. So it's very interesting that she expressed herself that the Rebbe and she are interested in Rav Zalman Shimon's health. When he tells me, Rav Fitcha Itkin, that he told this over to Rav Zalman Shimon a while later, not right away. So Rav Zalman Shimon was a little bit upset and said, "You should have told me right away that the Rebbe's interested in my health." Another thing he told me, that

01:17 Rav Zalman Shimon told him that one of the times when the Rebbe sold a chametz to him, afterwards the Rebbe asked him, "Can I ask you a shaila?" So he said, "Sure." So the Rebbe asked him a shaila in halakha, in aggadah, something has to do with medicine on Pesach. And he told the Rebbe that you're allowed to. So the Rebbe said to him, "Heich andantuni?" Which means, "Where did you get this from? Where is your makir?" So he said he's gonna answer tomorrow. So this was Erev Pesach at night. So he spent a long time, Erev Pesach at night, to look into it, to find a makir. Even though Erev Pesach at night people are busy, certainly rabbonim, but he spent time looking for a makir, and he found a deek on the Alter Rebbe Shulchan Aruch which made it very clear that this is allowed. So he gave it over to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe, take it, was very happy that he was allowed to do it. So when he asked him, "Since you didn't have the makir l'chatchilah, so how did you answer the Rebbe right away that you're allowed?" So he said that, "Since I saw that the Rebbe wanted to do it, I knew that definitely it is mutar. I just had to find a makir, so that's why I right away said that it's mutar. But then later I found a makir and I gave it over to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe was happy that this was

02:22 mutar, because this is something that they needed to do." And then more about the yachas of the Rebbe to Rav Zalman Shimon Dvorkin will be in the next voice note.