0736 - Resolving Disputes within Lubavitcher Rabanim - R' Zalman Shimon Dvorkin R' Nochum Schapiro

00:01 My brother, Nochem, is the maskir of Adar Bonolobavich. Originally, he worked together with Reb Bet Lipsker. So he tells me the story that once two people, two shlukim from Eretz Yisroel, had a dispute with one of the Chosheb Askanim in New York when they gave money that came in, who it belongs to, et cetera, et cetera. And they came to Reb Zalma Shiman, they wanted to have it in Torah, and Reb Zalma Shiman should sit under the Torah. And Reb Zalma Shiman called my brother, and he told him to write them a letter that they should go someplace else. And it seemed from him that what he meant to say, they should go not here to Adar Bonolobavich, but they should go to a different besen, not a Lobavich besen. And he told him to write a letter to them. So my brother wrote a letter on the stationary of Adar Bonolobavich, Beshem of the Moreh Dasir, Reb Dworkin, and he said that they should go to a besen that's not Lobavich people, not Anash, and they should go there, and he signed his name. After a while, he gets a call from Reb Yomim Klein. He says, Reb Chadekov wants to talk to you. Comes to Reb Chadekov, he sees Reb Chadekov shows him a copy of the letter that he sent to them in Eretz Yisroel, because they sent Reb Chadekov a copy. And there, the Rebbe on that copy wrote a question mark and made an arrow to my brother's name, and

01:23 he wrote, Lishaolei, to ask my brother what's going on here, which means to ask my brother what does it mean to send them to Rabbonim who are not from Anash. Then he shows him another letter, another letter from Reb Zalma Shiman Dworkin to Reb Chadekov. And he writes to Reb Chadekov like this, that I got a letter from Eretz Yisroel from these people, that they write that they got a letter from the Maskir of Besen in my name, in the name of Reb Chadekov, that they should go to another Besen. But these people are writing that they spoke to Reb Chadekov. This is all written in the letter of Zalma Shiman, that they writing to him that they spoke to Reb Chadekov, and the Rebbe was on the telephone when they spoke to Reb Chadekov, and the Rebbe wondered how could you send them to a Besen that's not from Anash. So now, Reb Zalma Shiman writes clearly that it's not true, he didn't say it. So Reb Chadekov was asking my brother what's going on. That's what the Rebbe meant to ask him. So he explained that's what they understood, and Reb Bet Lipsker also understood. It seemed from what he said, let him go someplace else, not this. But obviously, it wasn't clear from Reb Zalma Shiman when he told him, and he didn't mean that. And in the letter, Reb Zalma Shiman writes that he never meant it, and he meant they should go to others, not him. He can't get involved.

02:42 He has no time for this, et cetera, et cetera. So that's what he meant. So Reb Chadekov told my brother, now you have to write a letter to these people in Eretz Yisroel, these shlukim, another letter clarifying what happened, to write that it's not so, it was a misunderstanding, and really you have to go to Rabboni Anash. So my brother wrote up another letter, signed to them, and he showed it to Reb Chadekov, and Reb Chadekov was not happy. He said it's not strong enough. It has to be written very strong that you have to go to Rabboni Anash. So he sent them another letter. So here we see how much by the Rebbe was so important that not to go to outside of Rabboni Anash. At Kadikach, the Rebbe wondered how could Reb Zalma Shiman say such a thing, and Reb Zalma Shiman explained himself. And then they wrote another letter, a second letter, clarifying that he never meant they shouldn't go to Rabboni Anash, but he meant that he's not going to take it, but they should go to Rabboni Anash.