0581 - Letters of the Rebbe Regarding College Part 1

00:01 One summer, I went on Merkes Liches with a friend of mine to a certain city. We know that during the summer, the Rebbe would send Bochum to different cities to strengthen Yiddishkeit in those cities. So I went with a friend of mine to a certain city. We stayed in the house of a Shlia that was there. And the room that he gave us to stay in was the room that had a lot of Sforim in it. When we went into the room, we noticed that amongst the Sforim, there is a spring binder. Spring binder looks like a safer, but it's really you could put things in, and then it closes up with a spring, and it looks like a safer. So it attracted our attention, so we took out the binder and opened it up, and we saw this was a whole collection of letters that the Rebbe wrote to this person in the one that we stayed in his house. So we were very curious to see the letters, so we asked him, the Balabos, whether we could look at the binder. We told him we noticed a binder in the room. Can we look at it through the letters? So he said, "No, no problem." So we looked at it, and we saw many letters there, but there were three letters that attracted our attention the most. Now, I would like to give over what these three letters were about. They actually were printed later. First was printed in Likud Hasesichas, Chelek Yitzion,

01:18 page four eighty-seven, all three letters one after another. And then it was printed in the Igras, but because they're three letters in different dates, so it was printed according to the dates, not one after another. So from the Igras, you don't really get the picture. But in Likud Hasesichas, you see the picture of all the three letters together. And in the Igras, it's in Chelek Gimel, page Tov Lamed Daled, and in the same Sefer, in the same Chelek, Tov-- page Tov Ayin Beis, and then in Chelek Daled, page Nun Beis. And this is what we saw. The first letter was a Kloli Protis. Kloli Protis was letters that the Rebbe wrote one letter, and he sent the same letter out to many, many people. The letter was typed, but then it was copied in many copies, and the Rebbe would send it to different people. So it's considered a Mikhtov Kloli because many, many people got the same letter, but it's called Kloli Protis because it was sent to people individually, not like a Mikhtov Kloli, which was the Rebbe wrote it, and then it was given out to everybody. But this was sent to different people by the Rebbe, and to each person, if there was something individual that the Rebbe had to write to him, answer a question, or write something to him, the Rebbe would add it to this Mikhtov Kloli Protis that he would send. So the first letter that we saw is the date Yud Gimel Elul Tov Shen Yud.

02:30 And there, that was a Mikhtov Kloli Protis, and at the end, we saw the original Ksavyat Kedes of the Rebbe, which like I said, it's printed already, but we saw the original Ksavyat Kedes of the Rebbe. And these are the words that the Rebbe wrote at the end of the letter. "Nivhalti Lishmeia," I was shocked to hear, "Sheyesh Svara Etzloi Levaket Lilmod Be'eizeh College uGa'avneh." That there is a Svara that you have to go and visit, which means to study in a college or something like that. And the Rebbe adds, "Tikvosi uBitcheni", I hope and I'm sure, "She'azniach Svara Zula Gamre", that you will drop this idea completely, "ViYagia Ruhi Vipsura Tei Bezu", and you will calm m- down, calm me down by giving me good news about it, obviously meaning that you decided not to go after I was meir you not to go. That's the first letter. So it's written as a Heisofet to the Mikhtov Kloli Protis of Yud Gimel Elul Tov Shen Yud, and this was written Miksavyat Kedes from the Rebbe. And then after that, the Rebbe wrote a Hemshich of two letters. So the first letter I'm gonna say in the next voice note, and then the next letter in the next voice note.