0575 - When Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Was Sick Schedule was Changed 5729

00:00 I want to tell over what happened on Shmini Atzeres Simchas Torah Tov Shin Chof Tes, which is 1968. The Seder was that Rebbe Dav Shmini Atzeres Mincha at whatever time he Dav Mincha. Then they would announce what time will be Ma'ariv. Usually Ma'ariv was seven o'clock. And then after that, there was a time in between. And then to eight, eight o'clock there was a Farbrengen because every year before Hakafos on Simchas Torah, the night of Simchas Torah, there was a Farbrengen. So at that time also the Rebbe Dav Mincha. After Mincha, they announced that Ma'ariv will be seven o'clock and the Farbrengen would be at eight o'clock. After Mincha, people left to different shuls to go be Mesameach Yidden as the Rebbe wanted. I also went with a group to a certain shul, but it was a closed shul. I made sure to go to a closed shul so I should be able to be back for the Farbrengen. Since I had to be part of Chazoras, I made sure to be back for eight o'clock for the Farbrengen. Be'ezrat Hashem I got back around ten to eight and walk in. I see the Rebbe didn't even Dav Ma'ariv yet. Ma'ariv was supposed to be seven o'clock. The Rebbe didn't Dav Ma'ariv yet. And they told us that what happened that the Rebbetzin, Nechama Dina, the Friediker Rebbe's Rebbetzin, did not feel good that afternoon around five forty or five thirty, something like that. Didn't feel good. She couldn't breathe. It looked like she had

01:14 a heart attack. The Rebbe happened to be in the Sukkah, and they came to notify the Rebbe in the Sukkah. And the Rebbe said they should get doctors. They brought the doctors, and the doctors came. And the Rebbe himself went up some... When I came to seven seventy, the Rebbe was still upstairs on the second floor. And they were saying the Rebbe's there, the doctors are taking care of the Rebbetzin, but the Rebbe is there. And the way they said then, obviously I didn't see it, I wasn't upstairs, that the Rebbe is not in the room where she is. The Rebbe is standing on the outside and was standing there the whole time. And the Rebbe stood there till about eight ten. That's when they took her down with a wheelchair, and they took her to the ambulance, and they took her to the hospital. And right after that, the Rebbe went in to Dav Ma'ariv. So the Rebbe Dav Ma'ariv at eight ten. So I remember standing there not expecting to be by Ma'ariv because I knew Ma'ariv would be seven. I only came back for the Farbrengen. Be'ezrat Hashem I was there by Ma'ariv. The Rebbe came into Ma'ariv, and the Rebbe made with Simchat Chag Echad, made with his hand a lot right before Ma'ariv, very happy with the zingen. And then after Ma'ariv, which was already about, it's time eight thirty, I don't remember, the Rebbe gave over to Rabbi Chadakov that there's gonna be the Farbrengen right away. Instead of

02:22 being eight o'clock, it came out to be around eight thirty. Be'ezrat Hashem I don't know exactly. And that's when the Farbrengen started. And by the Farbrengen gufa, the Rebbe was pretty freilach. But this was a special situation that the Rebbe stayed upstairs while they were taking care of his mother-in-law. But the Rebbe did not go into the room. That's what they said. And then right after that, he came down to Dav Ma'ariv. I heard not long ago something that I didn't hear then, but, uh, I heard now also not from Klei Vishin. So I don't know if it's true or not, but I'm just saying go over because it's interesting. They say that one of the Meshamshei, one of the ones that were working upstairs by the Alter Rebbetzin, and he came down to tell the Rebbe. So he said to the Rebbe like this. That's how the story goes, and I don't know for sure. That he said to the Rebbe that the Rebbetzin had, had a heart attack. So the Rebbe looked at him and he said, "Mein fru?" In other words, he didn't say which Rebbetzin. So he said, "Nein, the Alter Rebbetzin." Or he said the Schwiger. I don't know exactly what he said. So the Rebbe said, "But Dav gei rufen Dr. Ness." He was one of the doctors that always used to be in seven seventy. So chaimi, the, the person who was talking to the Rebbe started running. So the Rebbe said, "Vu leifstu? Du veist vu er

03:29 lebt?" Where are you running? You know where he's living? So he said, "Yeah, at Brooklyn Avenue." So they started going. The Rebbe said, "Vu leifstu? Du veist dem adres?" And he looked at the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said, "The adres is zwey finf finf." So he started running away. So the Rebbe rufs, calls him back, and he said, "Du vest gedenken?" How are you gonna remember the address? So I wanna give you a remez. It's Simchas Torah, so the word rinah, which means happiness, is rei shin nun hei, two fifty-five. So if you have that, you'll remember that. And the taker ran, and he got the doctor to come, and then the doctors took care. But the main thing I'm trying to say that that was then when the Farbrengen changed a little bit the schedule because of what happened to the Rebbetzin. And, uh, I think she only stayed there for a short while. I don't know how long. I don't remember how long she was in the hospital. Not so long. And they brought her back.