0686 - Simchas Torah 5739 - Dr Ira Weiss

00:01 Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Lamed Ches, was a very special Simchas Torah in the eyes of the Hasidim because Tov Shin Lamed Ches, in the middle of a Hakafos, the Rebbe had a heart attack, and this was the year after when the Rebbe came down already, Baruch Hashem, able to come to Hakafos and dance Hakafos, do everything like he always did, was a special, special Simchas Torah. And I remember standing by Hakafos Simchas Torah, Tov Shin Lamed Ches, and one of the Hakafos, the Rebbe was making a lot with his hands. He wasn't making it so strong, but he was make... patching along the ding, I think it was a Faradsto, for a long, long time, and it was going on and on and on. Not fr-- far from me was standing Dr. Weiss. Dr. Weiss, Ira Weiss, who was the Rebbe's doctor, and Tov Shin Lamed Ches, he was very much involved and used to come to the Rebbe a lot, and he became, Mamish, the Rebbe's Hasid. So he came for Simchas Torah too, and he was standing not far from me. And when he was standing there and watching the Rebbe do that, Reb Zalman Gourary, who was standing not far, motioned him. I saw him motion to Dr. Weiss to, with his hands, saying, "Go over to the Rebbe." He didn't say these words, but he motioned, "Go over to the Rebbe to ask the Rebbe to stop." Because it was just Lamed Ches. The Rebbe still was not completely finished with

01:14 the heart attack. He was still on... I don't know if he was still on a monitor or not, but he motioned him that he should go over to the Rebbe, tell the Rebbe to stop. And Dr. Weiss, who was a Kabbalah sailnik, started moving closer to the Rebbe. And I was watching, and I saw the Rebbe looked at him, and the Rebbe saw him coming closer, and obviously the Rebbe understood what he's going to do. So as he's going closer to the Rebbe, the Rebbe made with his hands very strongly him, strongly to him to sing and dance. So he started singing and dancing and jumping. So for sure he didn't come over to the Rebbe to tell him to stop, but he himself was part of the, the jumping and dancing of Simchas Torah. So that was a special Simchas Torah to see the Rebbe that way after what happened the Simchas Torah before in Tov Shin Lamed Ches.