0494 - The Rebbe Said Sick Should Attend the Farbrengen

00:01 We heard stories that if somebody was not feeling well, the Rebbe felt that he should come to the farbrengen rather than not come because of that. But these are stories that we hear. But I just want to say one that I know personally that happened. This was when my cousin, Reb Nachman Shapiro, was still a young, young bochur. This was the Ben Tov Shenchov Dalet. And he was sick and not feeling well. And it came to the farbrengen. I don't know if Sukkis or Simchas Torah that he wasn't there. So his grandfather, Reb Perez Smotkin, came over to the Rebbe. I don't know if it was by Kosher Brocher in the middle of the farbrengen. I mentioned that he's not feeling well. So the Rebbe said, Vu iz er? So he said, he's home because he's sick. He's not feeling well. So the Rebbe said, Hoter ech esh gedav kumen. So now that he's not feeling well, certainly he should have come to the farbrengen. So I heard this from Reb Perez Smotkin himself. But I heard that there are many, many other times that the Rebbe said this. But this was the idea that to come to the farbrengen would have been a refuah if you come. That's what came out from the Rebbe.