0676 - R' Yoel Kahn 26 - The Rebbe Didn't Respond So that it Doesn't Appear to be a Miracle

00:01 We know that the saying by the Rebbe was that whenever they were able to cover up the mefsim, it should look like it came bederech hateva, they would do that. By the Rebbe also, as there are many stories told, that things which were mefsim, but the Rebbe made it in such a way that it should look like in derech hateva. So Rabbi Yael told me once that someone told him that when he went to yechidus to the Rebbe, he mentioned to the Rebbe that some people feel bad they're not getting answers from the Rebbe. The Rebbe is not answering their letters. And the Rebbe looked at him and he said, "Give me an example. For instance, which, which letter are you talking about?" So he gave him an example of a person who wrote to the Rebbe a question whether he should have an operation or not. He wrote once and he didn't get an answer. He wrote a second time, didn't get an answer. I don't know, maybe another time, but he wrote a few times, didn't get an answer. That's the example he gave to the Rebbe. So the Rebbe said, "Ah, this one? No, that's... There's a different reason." And what happened not long after that, it healed without having an operation. And the person wouldn't do the operation as long as he didn't get the answer from the Rebbe. So the Rebbe knew that that was gonna happen. That's what Rabbi Yael explained to me. The Rebbe knew that he's not

01:11 gonna do it. But if the Rebbe would answer, "Don't do it," and it healed by itself, oh, it's a mefas from the Rebbe. By, by not answering, so he didn't do it. So it doesn't look like it's a mefas from the Rebbe because the person didn't do it. So the Rebbe especially said, "Ah, this one, that's a special reason why I didn't answer." And he says the pashut is the reason is because that it should not be obvious that it's a mefas of the Rebbe