0497 - Follow Instructions of Hanhala

00:01 It's well known that if a bocher from yeshiva would ask the Rebbe a question that has to do with yeshiva in yonim, the Rebbe would not answer, and he would always send to Dan Holzer Yeshiva. There are tens, probably hundreds of times that the Rebbe wrote kimu fursem that this is katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva, or stam katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva. He even said it, but he wrote it many times, hundreds of times for sure. Once, one of the bochrim in yeshiva here by Yosef Miami spoke to me about a certain decision he had to make, which had to do with yeshiva in yonim, but it was a very, very important decision that he had to make. And he spoke to me about it because the Rebbe would always say katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva. But this was a question that it was very hard to come to a decision because it was very major, very important, and I didn't know really what to say. So I told him, "This is a question you have to ask the Rebbe." But I told him, "I know that the Rebbe will answer katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva." That's Rebbe always sends to Dan Holzer. Therefore, I think you should write to the Rebbe that you spoke to Dan Holzer, and Dan Holzer said that in a question like this, the only one that could answer is the Rebbe. And therefore, Dan Holzer suggested that you ask the Rebbe, therefore you're asking the Rebbe. So I thought if he writes like

01:12 that, then how could the Rebbe go say go to Dan Holzer when Dan Holzer's answer was go to speak to the Rebbe? So the bocher wrote like that to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva. He disregarded the fact that he asked already and they sent him to Rebbe. The Rebbe said katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva, you go back to Dan Holzer Yeshiva. And because the Rebbe, so to speak, wanted that in all these questions, Dan Holzer should be the one to answer. And he came back to us, and we looked into it, and we gave an answer, and Baruch Hashem, it worked out. But I want to show that if the Rebbe wanted it should go through Dan Holzer, it should go whole from Kaneh HaChacham, but nothing helped even though he wrote this way that I spoke to Dan Holzer, and Holzer said go ask the Rebbe. The Rebbe nevertheless sent it back, and he said katzat Dan Holzer Yeshiva.