0727 - Connection Between the Ribnitzer Rebbe and the Rebbe - Simchas Torah 5738

00:01 It was known that all those years that the Ribnitzer Rebbe was in Russland, the Rebbe gave over a message to the Chassidim that if they have questions and they can't get to the Rebbe, so they should ask him. Which I assume it's true, similar to what they know that the Friedrich Rebbe said when the Atrotzketer Middim were in Shanghai, he also gave over a message that if there's a question they can't get to him, to the Rebbe, they should ask the Amshinover Rebbe. So they said the same thing happened here with the Rebbe and the Ribnitzer. But whichever way, we know that there was a close connection between the Ribnitzer Rebbe and the Rebbe. So a person told me that he was with the Ribnitzer Rebbe Simchas Day, the Tov Shelamat Chesed. The Ribnitzer Rebbe was in Los Angeles then. He was there by Hakofes by the Ribnitzer Rebbe. And remembers that in the middle of Hakofes, the Ribnitzer Rebbe stopped and he said, we're going to make a Hefsek. And he walked out and walked into his room, wherever it was there. Stayed there for a few hours. That's what the person told me. And he came out afterwards. But those few hours, people waited, waited, but they couldn't wait. Most of the people left. There was almost only a minyan about that left over. And this person says he was there as one of the minyan that stayed. After a few hours, when already it was light outside, the Ribnitzer Rebbe came out

01:18 of his room and he continued the Hakofes. And he said to the people, I was notified that something happened to the Lubavitch Rebbe. So therefore, I locked myself up and I worked to see what I could do. And I saw there was a Yeshua. And that's why I came out to continue the Hakofes. Now, on one hand, it shows the godlessness of the Ribnitzer Rebbe, but it shows that when the Rebbe had this heart attack, this made all kinds of inyonim lamailo. And therefore, a person that in the level of the Ribnitzer Rebbe, they say he was a special person, a Yish Kodesh, so he would feel it. And he stopped his Hakofes in middle, saying that he heard that something happened to the Lubavitch Rebbe.