0672 - R' Yoel Kahn 22 - Rebbe Asked Sholom Yisroel Chadakov When Will You Learn All the Seforim

00:01 Rabbi Yael told me that it was Erev Pesach, I think Tov Shen Yud Beis, maybe Tov Shen Yud Aleph, but it's definitely in the beginning of the Nesius, Mamash in the beginning, that he was in 1770, and it was still a time that the Rebbe would come into the Maskirus office if he needed something to get or to bring. So the Rebbe walked out of his room, came to the Maskirus office, and there was nobody there. The only one that was around was Rabbi Yael. And together with him was Rabbi Chadakov's son. He was a little boy then, Sholom Yisroel. And the Rebbe said to Rabbi Yael, asked him if he could type for him a letter. He had needed a letter to be typed, and there was nobody else there. So Vashtetzach, Rabbi Yael said right away, yes. So the Rebbe told him what to type, and the Rebbe also gave him a Sefer and showed him a few lines from the Sefer that he's supposed to copy out in the letter. And he showed him which lines to do and in the letter. And the Rebbe told him that he's going to go back into his own room, and in a few minutes later, he'll come to the office, Maskirus, and he's going to pick up the letter to take it. So the Rebbe walked out, and Rabbi Yael started typing the letter, and Sholom Yisroel was drinking something around there. A few minutes passed, and the Rebbe came to pick up the

01:06 letter, but Rabbi Yael wasn't finished yet. But the Rebbe saw that he's almost finished, so the Rebbe stood there waiting for him to finish. But in the meantime, while the Rebbe was waiting, he turns around to Sholom Yisroel, and he says to him, And he said, because there's Erev Pesach, there's no Yeshiva, no Cheder. So the Rebbe took the Sefer that he gave Rabbi Yael to copy from, and he mish to the back of the page, to the last page, and he showed Sholom Yisroel the number. He says to him, you see how many pages this Sefer has? And then the Rebbe pointed to the Shaffas in the Maskirus office, and he said, and you see all these for him? And he said to him, when will you become knowledgeable in all these for him? If you're not going to Yeshiva, you're not learning today, then you're missing out in getting to know all these for him. Which means the Rebbe was hinting to him that you always have to learn. And when he said he's not learning today because there's no Yeshiva, that's not an answer. But the way he put it to him, he said, This is what Rabbi Yael told me. He listened and he heard this. And by that time, the Rebbe, he finished the letter and he gave it to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe went back into his room.