0567 - Flying on a Plane with Two Engines Part 1 - If Have a Chitas

00:00 It was known in the youths and in the early choffs that the Rebbe didn't want that people should fly with a plane that has less than four motors. Those years, most of the commercial planes were propeller planes. And the Rebbe told people that it's okay to fly with a plane, but only if it has four motors. And this was known because he told it to many people. There's even a letter printed in the Yigris Kadesh Chelik Tes, page Reish Tzadi Gimel, a letter to Rebbe Nisan Emanov about coming against America. And the Rebbe writes to him these words, There's no problem. You shouldn't worry about going with a plane, traveling with a plane. But only if it's big. Meaning, It has four motors, four engines. Only then you should fly. But otherwise, the Rebbe said not to fly with a plane. And the simple reason, I don't know if the Rebbe said it or it was just understood by itself, that if chas v'shalom one engine fails, then the plane goes down. But if it has four engines, and even if chas v'shalom one fails, you still have the other engines. Now, later on, when it came with the jets, it's different. I don't know exactly what the Rebbe said or if he said anything. But what I'm talking about, the propeller planes, that the Rebbe said this. Nevertheless, I know from quite a few people that there were sometimes bochrim that had to go amerkeslich as a different shtetlach. And the only way to

01:30 get to those places was by a small plane which only had two engines. So there were a few times that I know that they asked the Rebbe what should they do. And the Rebbe answered, you could go with the plane with the two engines, but make sure to take along a chitas. Those days, I don't think it meant the Sefer Chitas because there was no Sefer Chitas yet, but to take along a Chumash, Tehillim, and a Tanya. And that would be a shmira. And then the Rebbe allowed to go with the smaller planes, even if it only had two engines. But here we see the importance of chitas, that chitas is a shmira. Besides, we know that the Rebbe said to keep it in the car, but also by the planes, that a plane that the Rebbe bachlal said not to use, like in this letter where he says that you should only use a big plane, hainu shel arba matorn if it has four motors. Nevertheless, if you have Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya there, that is a shmira. So certainly learning Chumash, Tehillim, and Tanya is a shmira.