0710 - Special Regards to Someone Who Helped the Rebbe

00:02 A yid. He's not a Lubavitcher, but he told me an interesting story. Says his schweiger, his father-in-law, when he was a bocher or maybe he was a choson, was once walking on Eastern Parkway, and he was next to Seven Seventy, when he saw the Rebbe coming, and the Rebbe was walking up the steps. And probably it was snowing, I don't know exactly, and he saw the Rebbe slipping. So he ran over and he grabbed the Rebbe so the Rebbe shouldn't fall. Straightaway, the Rebbe thanked him very much, and he asked the Rebbe for a bracha, told the Rebbe his name, and asked him for a bracha. Could be it was a choson or he's asking to become a choson, I don't remember exactly. And the Rebbe gave him a bracha and, and he left. This person lived in Manchester. The Rebbe wr- wrote a letter to the Anash of Manchester. Maybe it was actually specially written to the-- Harav Dubov, who was the, uh, rov, and he was the rosh yeshiva in the yeshiva there. And the Rebbe... This was a br- letter for Rosh Hashanah. And in the letter, the Rebbe wrote a bracha, and then he says a special regards and bracha, and the Rebbe wrote a name of a person, Ben. This man told me the name, but I don't remember his name and name of... But didn't write a last name. So they didn't know who this refers to. Rabbi Dubov was standing in shul once, and they called up s-

01:22 a person to an aliyah, and they called him by his name, obviously, and by his father's name. And that was the name in that letter. So after the aliyah, he runs over to him, "We never knew th- this was you. When the Rebbe wrote that we should give a special regards to, and he wrote a name, Ben, the father's name, we didn't know who it meant. Now that I heard that they called you by this name, it's you." So he said, "Yeah." So he told him the story that he was the one that, like, helped the Rebbe not fall. And the Rebbe sent him a special regards and a special bracha months, seven months or eight months later, seven month... A long time later. And this guy was so surprised. He said since then, since that happened, how many names went through the Rebbe? Thousands and thousands of names went to Rebbe. And the Rebbe remembered seven months later when he gave a bracha to a Yid in, in Manchester, he remembered to mention his name specifically because he once did him that favor that he helped him not fall. And this shows how much the Rebbe remembered everybody and how much the Rebbe was makir tov for anybody who did anything for him. The Rebbe showed a special hakaras hatov, and this is a great lesson for us also.