0577 - The Rebbe Read the Unwritten Questions - R' Mendel Futerfas

00:00 Rabbi Nacha Mendel Groner, one of the Roshei Yeshivas in Kiryat Gat, told me that he was very close to Rabbi Mendel Futerfas. They actually were mishpacha also, and he used to go to his house, and he used to go to his house, et cetera, et cetera. So he told me many things about Rabbi Mendel and also his connection to the Rebbe. But one of the things he told me which I'd like to repeat is that once after Tishrei, Rabbi Mendel was going to go into Yechidas, and he sat down, and he prepared a settel to wrote to the Rebbe, to write, give to the Rebbe, and he had written ten shailas, ten questions that he had to ask the Rebbe. That night, there were a lot of people who had to go into Yechidas. So maskiros came over to all the people and told them, "You cannot write more than two questions. There's so many people, and there's not enough time, so you cannot write more than two questions." And they told this to Rabbi Mendel of Futerfas also, and he as a kapara suddenly sat down to rewrite his settel. He sat down. He thought about which are the two most important questions of his letter, and he rewrote his settel, and he only wrote two questions. When he went into Yechidas and gave the Rebbe that settel, the Rebbe looked, settel, read that settel, and then the Rebbe said to him, "Rabbi Mendel, "" or he said, """ I don't know exactly the

01:18 wording that he used, which means he told him, "Rabbi Mendel, you know that I read between the lines." And then the Rebbe started answering him two questions, two shailas he had, but not the two shailas that he wrote in this new settel. He answered him two shailas, other shailas out of the original prepared settel that he prepared to give it to the Rebbe, which he didn't give him. But the Rebbe answered him two of those shailas. But the hakdoma that he gave him that's very interesting, that he said that, "You probably know that I read between the lines." This is something that the Rebbe seldom would say. But to Rabbi Mendel, he said it, and he answered him settla, uh, shailas which were not in the settel that he gave, but were in the settel, the original settel that he prepared.