למה בונים העתקים של 770?

00:00 Speaker 1 This is Igress, and as has been our tradition for a while, if anybody writes in a question that they're interested in knowing the Rebbe Shita on, we do a special episode just on that. So this was a-- th-today's, uh, class is a deep dive into the Rebbe Shita on a particular issue, as requested by one of our longtime listeners. Wanted to know, we see these seven seventy replicas cropping up everywhere. There were a couple a couple of years ago. Now there's-- uh, and it's, it's strange that Pomona doesn't have one yet. I have here on your screen a list of all of the places that have seven seventy replicas, uh, just about every city everywhere. I mean, there's one in Aspen. Look at the snow-topped roofs. They're everywhere. Uh, there's one in Miami Beach. People spend a lot of money. They put a lot of investment into having buildings that look like seven seventy. And this individual wanted to know, has the Rebbe ever said whether he actually likes this, or are we just doing this because it makes us happy? Is this something that the Rebbe likes? Is the Rebbe-- I-- the Cleveland's a bit of a stretch, I must admit. But the-- a lot of the other ones are -- I'm just scrolling through and looking. El Paso, Texas, look at that. So, uh, does the Rebbe actually like this? Did the Rebbe ever actively encourage people to build replicas of Beis Kayenu of seven seventy? You probably know, I'm sure you know,

01:02 Speaker 1 that the Rebbe takes seven seventy itself very seriously. We have, uh, we have multiple sichas on the importance of specifically that building, seven seventy. Its ruchnius, its gashmius, its role in the coming of Mashiach. But whether seven seventy is supposed to be replicated, sometimes poorly, and sent around the entire world-- Uh, look at this, this one in Argentina, it's a little bit too tall. Uh, whether that's supposed to be happening is an open question. So that's what we're going to look at today, what the Rebbe says about seven seventy replicas. The one in India is interesting. Okay, we're gonna stop looking at the pictures and start doing the share. One person who's here live is driving, and I'm afraid that I'm gonna-- I'm afraid he's gonna get hurt if I keep on showing pretty pictures. Uh, the first time we have anything from the Rebbe about a seven seventy replica is not the one that I'm mainly going to talk about today. There are three cases where the Rebbe pers-personally weighed in on a seven seventy replica before Gimel Tammuz. Almost all of them, by the way, as far as I can tell, only three of the seven seventy replicas that exist today existed before Gimel Tammuz. I think all of the rest of them cropped up after that. I-- th-there are two really good books on this. Um, I didn't know where to start on this sort of research project. I reached out to, uh, Rabbi Michal Zeligson. He's a great source for, uh,

02:09 Speaker 1 when you don't know where to look for things. And he pointed out to me that there's a book, uh, called Beis Kayenu, and in the back of Beis Kayenu, they printed the story of every one of the major seven seventy replicas and how they built it. So I started reading back there. It turns out there's other sefarim that that linked me to, and ended up on a wild goose chase. The, uh, point is that as far as I can tell, there were only three seven seventy replicas that were built, uh, before Gimel Tammuz. And the first one was built in Los Angeles. This was built five years before the one in Far Chabad that is so famous. In nineteen eighty, this Tu Bishvat, the Chabad House, which by the way was the first Beis Chabad. That's a story unto itself. But the first place to be called a Chabad House, uh, was the one in Los Angeles, and this is by Rav Kunan, and it burnt down. The Rebbe sent Rav Kunan a letter reminding him that after a fire comes wealth, and he included eighteen thousand dollars toward a new building. That's a lot of money. As you're about to see, it's nothing compared to the other things that the Rebbe contributed to seven seventy replicas. But yeah, this, this, this was not yet going to be a seven-- seven seventy replica. The Rebbe sent him eighteen thousand dollars and said that he should build a new building. Uh, among the Hasidim in California,

03:09 Speaker 1 there was a discussion, maybe they should make a replica of seven seventy. Maybe that would be kind of cool. Maybe that would be an Indian Ruchni. Maybe it would be special. They also didn't know if the Rebbe would like it very much, and I don't know why they decided to do this exactly. But the team in California decided they were going to ask the Rebbetsin, not the Rebbe. So they asked the Rebbetsin, "Do you think it would make sense to build a seven seventy replica in California?" And as far as I can tell, this was the first one. We have here the Rebbetsin's answer. I have it on your screen. The Rebbe's answer was that there is incredible satisfaction. I feel-- we feel very-- it feels very good to know that people love my father's house, that people love seven seventy. So this was the answer from the Rebbetsin, and based on that answer from the Rebbetsin that I get incredible satisfaction from knowing that people love my father's house, they decided to build a replica of seven seventy. That was the first one, and, uh, the Rebbe, whether he at the time knew or not that it was going to be a replica, did indeed contribute to that. Uh, that's not a-- I don't know. Um, I find it very hard to believe that the Rebbetsin says something that the Rebbe's not on the same page about. I also find it very hard to believe that the Rebbetsin answered without consulting the Rebbe as

04:07 Speaker 1 well. So I think this kind of is the beginning of our proof that the Rebbe's into these replicas. But we don't really need that because we have a much further proof and a much more well-documented one when it comes to the building of Far Chabad. When it comes to the building of Far Chabad, the Rebbe, first of all, on Yud Beis Tammuz of Tu Bishvat, we definitely have people here who remember Tu Bishvat. Uh, that was the year that was, uh, specifically around the time of Tammuz that was marked by the Rebbe first announcing that sefarim had been stolen from the library. This was the beginning of the Parsha Sefarim of, uh, Hey Teves, the victory that came on Hey Teves. This began in Tu Bishvat in nineteen eighty-five, uh, on Yud Beis Tammuz. I believe it was Yud Beis Tammuz, the Fabrang of Yud Beis Tammuz, the Rebbe first mentions that the books are stolen. However, in Yechidus right before that, which we actually have a record of over here, I'm gonna show you on the screen. Yechidus right before that, the Rebbe talks about the missing sefarim, talks about the importance of a Rebbe, and near the end says that he wants something built in Far Chabad. And I'm gonna show you that. I have it on the screen here. Uh, we will have a sicha to look at today and a couple of handwritten minas, but since this is so late in the game in the eighties, we don't have straight Igress.

05:07 Speaker 1 So we have minas today. It's a minas year. Uh, in any event, this is, uh, this is how the following people remember this story. Reb Menachem Eliyahu Gerdetsky and Rav Chaim Mordechai Isaac Kadakov and Rav Mordechai Mentlik and Rav Meshulam Chassakai and Katz, Rav Shenir Zaman Gorari and Rav Nissen Mendel and Rav David Raskin all were gathered into the Rebbe's office. They were all called in for Yechidus with the Rebbe on the-- on Rosh Chodesh Tammuz of Tu Bishvat, and then all of them sat down and wrote down what they remembered and signed their names on the bottom of it. So I would say this is a pretty accurate rendition of Yechidus. Doesn't get a lot better than five Lubavitcher rabbonim sitting down, signing a paper, and saying, "This is what we heard in the Yechidus." So we have this on the screen. It says this was the-- this was Thursday. It was the first of Tammuz Chodesh. We merited to hear those of us who were undersigned and then list their names. Uh, we, we were brought into the room of the Rebbe at eight o'clock at night. The Rebbe said to them. The Frieda Rebbe's birthday is coming up. Everything I'm about to tell you, I'm hoping to say at the farbrengen at the Chag HaGeulah. But I can't really say everything in great detail at the farbrengen, so I'm going to tell you what I really mean to say now. The background here is that, uh, the Rebbe at this early stage

06:26 Speaker 1 only hints at the fact that the books are stolen in public and, uh, and suggests that they be returned. He doesn't really come out strong and threatens that he's gonna come out much stronger if things don't start moving in the right direction. So the Rebbe's not really able to fully show his hand at the farbrengen at this point, but he does wanna fully show his hand to, uh, his clo-- to the, to the Rabbanim. So he tells the Rabbanim, "I'm bringing you into the room. I wanna tell you what I really feel about this whole episode." This house of seven seventy that we're in is called Agudas Chasidei Chabad, and this is not because-- we don't call it that because we're trying to get out of taxes, the Rebbe says. We're calling it that because it really is a place that is a house and all of its rooms and all of the places in it where people daven and people learn Torah are meant to be shaya to Afatros Hamayan Haschalutza and they are shaya to the Agudas of Agudas Chasidei Chabad. They don't belong to, they don't belong to me. And then he goes on to have a discussion about Yerusha and how the Meirish, the Frieda Rebbe, never wanted this area divided, and because it hasn't been split up, he's not going to split it up now, and that seven seventy is meant to be the Rebbe's place. After the Rebbe says this though, there's a tangent. Here's the rest of the

07:20 Speaker 1 yechidus. Similarly, in Eretz HaKodesh may it be rebuilt speedily. I want them to build a house in Kfar Chabad. I want them to build a house in the name of the Frieda Rebbe that mirrors seven seventy. He doesn't say at this point that it should match what it looks like, but that's the implication because remember what he's saying is that the seven seventy that we have now represents the Frieda Rebbe's, uh, property here, and he wants something to be the Frieda Rebbe's property in Eretz HaKodesh. It should be called Eliyahu HaNavi. It should also have a place there for davening, for learning, for spreading Hasidism outside. The Rebbe says, "There will be enough money for this. I have the money." And spoiler for the end of the story, they tried very hard not to get the Rebbe to pay for this entire project, and he paid for the entire project. Uh, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in nineteen eighty-five, and they couldn't get a-- they couldn't get the Rebbe not-- they tried to-- I mean, wealthy donor shows up, I'll tell you this later. But a wealthy donor showed up and offered to pay it, and the Rebbe told him, "No, I already committed to paying it." So the Rebbe paid for this entire project. Anyway, we should put this in front of so we all agreed to do what he said and to help get this done. Okay. So the message got out to, uh-- But there's one more thing I wanted to

08:43 Speaker 1 tell you. I think I have it in a note here. Yes. So after the farbrengen of Yahrzeit Tammuz, there was a report that the Rebbe turned to Binyamin Klein, the mazkir, and he showed him a picture of seven seventy or pointed to a picture of seven seventy, uh, the tzumun shel seven seventy, either the form of it or a picture. And at this point, the Rebbe told Binyamin Klein, "I want this house that we're building in Kfar Chabad to look like the one-- to look like seven seventy." Uh, after they got all the permits and were ready to lay the cornerstone and kan makam lechayer that they tried to begin laying the cornerstone, the even ha'pina, and begin building before they had all the permits because, you know, Hasidim, uh, la'achila rabba. So they tried to build before they had all the permits, and the Rebbe told them explicitly, although I don't have this, uh, I don't have the Rebbe's text on this. I have this in the books that I read on the topic in preparing for this, that the, uh, the Rebbe told them, "You are not to build anything. Don't, don't, don't even touch the ground until you have every single permit ironed out. There's no going around city ordinances. First you get your permits, and then you build." And forever-- And whomever needs to hear that, please hear that. The of the Rebbe is we don't build until we have permits in any event. Uh, the Rebbe didn't let them build

09:47 Speaker 1 until they had permits, and finally they were ready to, uh, lay the cornerstone. At the farbrengen of Shabbos Parshas Vaychi of Taf Shin Men Vav, the Rebbe gave a bottle of mashka to Rav Aryeh Leib Kaplan, who was, uh, helping organize things. He was the rav who was involved in organized things-- organizing things in Eretz Yisrael, and he told him to hand out the mashka to everybody who was going to be there at the cornerstone laying ceremony. Now, you know, when you lay a cornerstone, you aren't really doing much, and that's the beginning of absolutely nothing. I mean, it's the beginning of the building, but you haven't done much planning yet. They still didn't know exactly what they were going to do. So, uh, they had the idea that they wanted to build a copy of seven seventy. The Rebbe had implied he wanted something like seven seventy and told Binyamin Klein he wanted something like seven seventy, but they didn't know how to build a building like seven seventy. So they went to New York, or they called New York, and they said, "Do you guys have the blueprints for seven seventy?" And it turns out that they were lost, and we don't have the blueprints anymore for the original seven seventy. So they decided-- the Vaad of Kfar Chabad decided they were going to send two architects, two Hasidisha architects to seven seventy to take measurements around the whole building, and they wrote to the Rebbe asking, "Can we send the architects, uh,

10:46 Speaker 1 on the budget of Kfar Chabad, uh, the Kfar Chabad budget?" And the Rebbe told them no. He said, "I, I wanna minimize expenses. Don't pay for this." So the architect said, "Fine, we're gonna go on our own. We'll pay for it." And that the Rebbe agreed to. So the architects showed up on their own. They measured every part of seven seventy. There's all these stories about them trying to, like, get into the yechidus room and working around bachurim. I don't know. Were any of you there at the time and remember architects walking around with, like, measuring tape? They say that some of the bachurim were there at the time, remember the architects, like, shoving them out of the way, not, not literally shoving, but maybe even literally shoving, to get the tape measurers in place to really measure every part of seven seventy, and they made their own blueprints from the existing building. Uh, when they began finally to construct the thing-- Once they finally started constructing it, there was an article in Maariv newspaper, and it said that the State of Israel had granted the Rebbe a plot in Kfar Chabad to build a house for himself. When the Rebbe heard this, he called, uh-- he told-- Uh, Rebbe Groner, he called the Kfar Chabad committee, and he told them that if this is true, that the, the State of Israel is giving the Rebbe a plot to build a house on, stop building right now. I don't want the building. This is a

11:49 Speaker 1 building for Kfar Chabad. If it's for me, I don't want it. Now, if you think about it, this actually makes a lot of sense given the yechidus that we saw. The Rebbe very specifically wanted this to be the Frieda Rebbe's house, the property of the Hasidim and not his, 'cause that's the entire parshah of the Sfarim he was fighting over right now is whether Chabad property belongs to him or belongs to the Hasidim. So when Maariv publishes the Rebbe now has a piece of Chabad property that belongs to him, that is very much against the Rebbe's entire message of this tekufa. But the Rebbe says, "Yeah, if it's for me, please stop." So at that point, the Rebbe-- uh, the, uh, the Ministry of Agriculture in Yerushalayim, uh, re-released an official document saying, "This is not for the Rebbe, it's for Kfar Chabad," and the Rebbe allowed it to continue being built. Uh, right before they started building, the, uh, secretariat requested an estimate of all of the construction costs, and they told the Rebbe it would be about seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And the Rebbe said that's a little bit too high. They should minimize expenses, but they should definitely get started. In any event, one of the other things I wanna show you inside is on chaf alef adar of tav shin mem vav. This would be-- no, not, not eighty-six, forty-six. In nineteen eighty-six, tav shin mem vav, the, uh, Rebbe clarified that he wanted the shape to be like

12:51 Speaker 1 seven seventy. Uh, so they wrote to the Rebbe. They, they spoke to the Rebbe. Th-this is, uh, Menachem Lehr talking. "L'neike shvuai gena ma'ana mekabla teshuvah meshlicheta." We received a response from the Rebbe about a week ago, "al derech sh'alaseinu," regarding our question, "keitzati hatachnis habinyan," what the shape of the building should be, "vebinyan beis haguda chasidei Chabad bekomashniy ave shlichish," what the second and third floor of the building should look like. "Ve'al taama alef, hechlich zu l'bnei zeh kemay be seven seventy." We told the Rebbe that we were planning on making the first floor exactly like seven seventy, and the Rebbe responded, "Ve'tzirah chitzeni kemay kan." The outward appearance of the building should look just like our building here. "Ve'seder b'fnim," however, what you do in the inner-- internal rooms, "ki atzarach eretz ha'kedosh," depends on what the needs of the country, which is answering sort of an implicit question that I kind of always had, which is that Kfar Chabad is a pretty good replica of seven seventy. A lot of the other seven seventys around the world, the facade is seven seventy, but the inside looks nothing like it. We do have a minor from the Rebbe from that tekufa saying that I want the outside to look like seven seventy, but as far as the inside goes, go for what is most practical. The Rebbe gave a directive in the farbrengen of Lag BaOmer tav shin mem vav saying that they had to finish the project by yud beis tammuz. That

13:53 Speaker 1 was only a few months. It was absolutely impossible. You know how all these stories go. I don't have to tell you the same Hasidic story you've heard three hundred times at every farbrengen. The Rebbe said to do something impossible. We all freaked out, and then we did it. That's the long-- honestly, that's like thirty pages in this book. But the Rebbe said to do something they thought was impossible. Turns out it wasn't impossible, and they did indeed accomplish it, and the building was ready by, uh, by yud beis tammuz. They tried very hard, as I told you, not to charge the Rebbe for it, and I have here from the book that, uh, from this book, Beis Feinu, says, "Lamaisa," a period of time went by, and, uh, and we, we were, uh-- they, they sort of took out loans. They, they didn't want to ask the Rebbe for the money to actually pay for the building, uh, and they were pushing off asking the Rebbe to pay because the Rebbe had committed to paying, but the Rebbe also hadn't sent the money. What are you gonna do? Call the Rebbe and say, "You ready to pay me?" So they weren't willing to ask him. A person, uh, who was very wealthy came to the Rebbe and said, "I'm willing to assume all the costs or some of the costs. Can I contribute to the building?" And the Rebbe told him, "You're not allowed to contribute even a dime. It's mine to pay." So then

14:46 Speaker 1 they realized they had to ask the Rebbe. They finally did ask, and the Rebbe sent seven hundred, seven hundred thousand dollars in the end. So I guess they shaved fifty thousand dollars off of this, but the Rebbe sent them seven hundred thousand dollars for the building of this building. By the Chanukah habayis, there was a big celebration by the Chanukah habayis, and the Rebbe res-- the Rebbe had a telephone call. Um, well, I guess this was told by telephone to the-- this was to be told by telephone. So the Rebbe wrote down a minor that was supposed to be sent by telephone to the VadKfarChabad. We have the handwritten response of the Rebbe here, which as usual for me is impossible to read. This time might even be impossible for Surly to read. I see "Le telephone," "Le VadKfarChabad," but a lot of this is a little bit blurry. Um, anyway, we do have a copy of it down here in regular Hebrew, and the Rebbe says, "Amirasi l'Chanukah beis eliyahu yitzchak b'Kfar Chabad yud beis tammuz." The Chanukah habayis dedicating this building for Yud Beis Tammuz. "Hareh zeh b'Shabbos kodesh." Yud Beis Tammuz is going to fall on Shabbos Kodesh. "Veyachriz b'Shabbos Kodesh" they should announce on Shabbos Kodesh, uh, "al dover zeh bechol batei knesset d'Kfar Chabad." On Shabbos, they should announce in all of the shuls in Kfar Chabad. "V'sh'chagiga vepial tihiye b'kema siyar b'shon be'esh limusa" that the actual celebration will be on the middle of the month when the moon

15:52 Speaker 1 is at its apex. "Yom gimel shochor b'ki tov" on Thur- on Tuesday, which is the day where God said ki tov, where God said the word tov twice. So the celebration of the actual Chanukah habayis was not to be until the fifteenth of, uh, Tammuz per the horaah of the Rebbe. Now, right after this went up, the Rebbe did say a sicha. On leil tes velve Tammuz the night before, or I don't know what time it was in Eretz Israel, but in any event, right around the time of the Chanukah habayis, there's a sicha, and the Rebbe discusses the importance of building this house, this replica of seven-- replica, replica of seven seventy in Kfar Chabad. This is-- You can find this in Teress Menachem, vam tav shin mem vav, volume four on page seventy-six. We'll read inside. "Tes velve. Kana makom lehaskir." Here's the place for us to mention, Rebbe. "Yom zeh" on this day, Tes Velve Tammuz. "Hayom shebe kai ma'asiyar d'shleimus gul d'ash limusa." Recognize that lashon? It's exactly what he said in his ma'ana. On the day that the moon is in its complete form. "Mechaneches beis eliyahu yitzchak Lubavitch b'Kfar Chabad," we're going to establish, um, uh, dedicate the Beis Eliyahu Yitzchak Lubavitch in Kfar Chabad, the replica of seven seventy. "B'Kfar Chabad," in Kfar Chabad. "Mi yezaban halasa shel ba'al ha'simcha veg'ula," which was established by the Friediker Rebbe. "Hishtadlu bana-- hishtadlu bana beis-- hishta-hi-hishtadlu u'bnei bayis asher gam reiya chitzeni deim bechol pratim pratim." The beis should-- the

17:07 Speaker 1 bayis should be, "hishtadel kabbal teshuvah m'reach hamn min ha'siderenu." And the Rebbe gets excited about this. The Rebbe says that this is a house that is in all of its details down to the pratim pratim looks exactly like the house that the Friediker Rebbe lived in. So the Rebbe invested his heart and soul into Kfar Chabad, and now they've built him a house that looks exactly like his house in Kfar Chabad. "Ba'al ha'simcha veg'ula" is the-- that, that's the special day for him. "V'meshech esre shanim," uh, over the past ten years. "Esre shanim sh'chas mas tekufas chayay be'haysim ve'chayim hayis ve'amladin. Havaisnik bematir paratsa," seven seventy. It's going to look just-- he'd spent the last ten years of his life in seven seventy here, and the building they're building over there also looks like seven seventy, and seven seventy is Gematria paratsa, melashon ufaratsa, the earth spread forth. So what I find so interesting about this paragraph is, as far as I can tell in sicha's letters and things we have literally in writing from the Rebbe, this is the first time and maybe the only time that the Rebbe is very explicitly celebrating that the replica of seven seventy looks like seven seventy. The Rebbe's lashon is, "Ve gam reiya chitzeni," even on its outside, it is similar in all of its pratim pratim to the bayis that the Friediker Rebbe lived in for his final ten years, uh, in a Gulfstream. And the iquer, of course, is not the outside of the house.

18:14 Speaker 1 It's the ruchnius and the neshamah of the house. There'll be Torah coming out of this house. People will be paskening out of this house, where the Rabbanim are gonna sit. The same way that this light of Torah and Psak and all these other wonderful things comes out of seven seventy over here, the same thing is going to come out of the seven seventy that is in that Medina. That over there too, just like over here, Hashem has commanded Berakhah v'chaim ad ha'olam. So the call of seven seventy in Kvar- in K- Crown Heights appears to also apply to Kvar Chabad now that it has a replica of seven seventy, which would certainly encourage somebody who wanted to build a replica of seven seventy in their own city. You can imagine why people got excited about this after seeing this sort of sicha, the way the Rebbe's talking about transplanting the ruchnius and the gashmius of seven seventy into a different place. The Rebbe now says, "Try very hard to make sure that when you do dedicate this new house, it should be enormous. Everybody should come." Furthermore, this is the most important part. The most important thing is that this should be a house through which the, uh, Torah and the instructions of the Friediker Rebbe is spread out to the entire world, et cetera, et cetera. The Rebbe says that this should also apply to every Beis Chabad around the entire world, that all of them are called on the name of the Friediker

19:43 Speaker 1 Rebbe and therefore, therefore should be representative of the Friediker Rebbe and of course the Rebbe's ideas and ideals. Which if you really wanted to twist it, squeeze it, squint a little bit, could be something like the beginnings of maybe a hora'ah. I don't wanna say hora'ah. I wanna say you could get a, uh, you could get a, a, uh, a feeling out of this that perhaps other Chabad houses might wanna mimic this and also build similar seven seventy replicas because the Rebbe's saying that a lot of what I'm talking about applies to every Beis Chabad around the world. Although certainly this isn't a hora'ah that a Beis Chabad needs to be shaped like a seven seventy. In any event, we see how excited the Rebbe is specifically about the building of this-- uh, specifically about this building in Kfar Chabad, specifically that it looks like a seven seventy, the same-- the, the seven seventy that's in Brooklyn. We see an enthusiasm for a replica of seven seventy. There's one other case before Gimmel Tammuz that we have the Rebbe specifically involved or specifically commenting, uh, or at least specifically aware of a replica of seven seventy, uh, and that is the only other one that as far as I know was built before Gimmel Tammuz, and that's the one in Milan. The one in Milan was built in Taf Shin Nun Alef, in nineteen ninety-one. And as far as I know, I checked, uh, as far as I know, I know somebody's gonna tech-- The

20:47 Speaker 1 reason why I keep saying as far as I know is 'cause I know, I just know that somebody is going to WhatsApp me after this and say, "My seven seventy was built in the seventies." Uh, as far as I know, these are the only three that were built before Gimmel Tammuz. So Milan is the other one. Geshemend Gorelik was involved in it. He brought the plans for the Milan seven seventy replica to the Rebbe, and it was very clear from the plans that this was going to be a seven seventy. It looks like a seven seventy. He showed the Rebbe, "This is what my building's going to look like." And what we know is this, uh, what the building looked like. The plans were placed before the Rebbe in nineteen ninety-one. And it was clear how satisfied the Rebbe was with these plans. So we certainly don't have the Rebbe protesting, and according to this report, which again, you never know how accurate these sorts of reports are, but the report is that the Rebbe was very satisfied with this replica in-- of seven seventy that would be in Milan. It was ultimately built and dedicated on Chei Tammuz of Taf Shin Mem Daled. I'm fixing my mistakes here. Taf Shin Mem Daled. Um, if you can, uh-- That's right. It was, it was dedicated during the Shiva. And it was called- Nun Daled. Huh? Nun Daled. Nun Daled. Why do I keep-- I had Lamed. Nun Daled. Okay. It was built and dedicated on

21:52 Speaker 1 Chei Tammuz of Taf Shin Nun Daled. It was dedicated during the Shiva, and they called it Beis Menachem. And, uh, they revealed at the time that one of the reasons why they wanted to build a house that looked like seven seventy was because of a yechidus that Mrs. Gorelik had had with the Rebbe, that the, uh, that the-- Mrs. Gorelik reported that, uh, she had visited in the Lameds. That must be where my typo came from. She visited the Rebbe in the Lameds, and, uh, she went to the-- she went to yechidus with the Rebbe, Mrs. Gorelik. And at the end of the yechidus, the Rebbe said to her, "Mashiach is going to come first either through Melbourne or through Milan." When Mashiach arrives, he will first come through either Melbourne or Milan. And when she heard this, she and her husband became very excited about the idea of making a good place for Mashiach to stop along the way. You know, if Mashiach's coming first through Milan, fifty-fifty he's coming here first, there better be somewhere he's comfortable. And where would Mashiach be comfortable if not in Beis Kayenu Sheba'bavel-- uh, Beis Kayenu Sheba Milan, seven seventy, a replica as well. As I'm sure you know, there are literally now-- I mean, we were flipping through at the beginning. I'm still looking. They're, they're everywhere. The Nigeria one is wild looking. This one in the Philippines, somebody did with a fisheye lens. Um, they're everywhere. There's one in Russia and in Ukraine. And, uh,

22:58 Speaker 1 now there is a, there is a seven seventy bounce house. That, that's interesting. Okay, so they're everywhere now. And, uh, in answer to the fundamental question that we asked in this shiur, is the Rebbe happy about these seven seventy replicas? I can't know for sure, but the Rebbe, I can tell you this, the Rebbe is certainly happy about the Kfar Chabad replica. He, uh, he speaks about how happy he is about it. According to the reports we have, the Rebbe was very happy about the Milan replica. And according to the report that we have about the Rebbetsin, and I think that clearly implies the Rebbe as well, they were very happy with the Los Angeles replica. So I will answer as conservatively as possible. I am certain, or as certain as I can be, that the Rebbe was happy with at least three replicas of seven seventy. And as for the rest of them, there's no reason to believe that the Rebbe wouldn't have encouraged them, given that the Rebbe so strongly encouraged and was involved in paying for, in many cases, the seven seventy replicas that existed before Gimmel Tammuz. Okay, that's it. Shkaya. Very interesting.

23:54 Speaker 2 Yeah, very interesting. Very cool. I rem-remember the buzz back then when they were building the seven seventy Kfar Chabad. There was a big buzz of that the, the Rebbe was preparing to go to Eretz Israel.