16 of Menachem Av - On 8.22.1929 previous Rebbe concluded his visit to Eretz Yisroel - ט"ז אב תרפ"ט - גמר ביקור אדמו"ר מהריי"צ בארץ הקודש

00:00 Speaker 1 Of Chabad on the, uh, sixteenth day of Menachem Av, and this is again also nineteen twenty-nine. That is the day that the previous, uh, Lubavitcher Rebbe, uh, finished the visit to Israel. As you remember, uh, we had, uh, mentioned earlier that on the, uh, second day of Menachem Av, the previous Rebbe arrived in Israel, and he stayed there, uh, for approximately, uh, two weeks, um, from the second to the sixteenth, uh, um, so, uh, t-two weeks. And, um, he, um, you know, visited, as we spoke about, Hebron, and he visited in-- various-- went through the list of places that he visited during his stay in, in Israel. Um, and it, it was a, a very significant event for all the people of Israel, for all the Hasidim and, um, I guess this was still in nineteen, don't forget, in twenty-nine, so it was just, uh... It's not like-

01:14 Speaker 2 Ois.

01:14 Speaker 1 Yeah, ois, that it wasn't like modern Israel. So it was-- But still, there were many people and many Hasidim, and the people came, uh, to be with the Rebbe at the train station, and they, uh, went to say goodbye. And the way they actually traveled, they took a train, uh, from, uh, Lod. Lod was the train station, or Lod or Lod. And there-- Now-- And they went-- Actually, they went on a boat, but they went to, um, they went to Egypt. That where is the boat. They, they, they, they, they, they, they had a train going from Israel to Egypt, from that time, Israel to Egypt. And, um, uh, the Rebbe, uh, you know, greeted everybody and said goodbye to everybody, and, uh, the Rebbe gave a special, um, uh, discourse that he distributed. He didn't have a chance to really talk to everybody, so he, he, he, um, um, he, he distributed that in place of saying, uh, like personally to the people. They gave each one to study. And, um, and then he left, and, um, he left actually, uh, Israel, and then he came to the United States for a visit. We will talk about that, you know, on another day.

02:33 Speaker 2 Before nineteen forty-nine.

02:34 Speaker 1 This was all, this was all in nineteen twenty-nine, in the end of nineteen twenty-nine, um, or in twenty-nine. And, um, he, he, he, he went to, to-- came to America. He was, um, also in, in, in, in search to create a permanent home for Chabad. You know, this was right before, you know, the, uh, Nazi machines, you know, before the Germans.

02:58 Speaker 2 Communist rule.

02:59 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. And this was coming, uh... You know, it was like there was a lot of anti-Semitism already going on, I mean, in, in, in nineteen twenty-nine even. But, you know, it took another ten years really till... And then when the Rebbe already came, you know, it was just barely escaped, sort of with great, uh, m-miraculous ways. That's another t-- another time. He was escaped there. But so this was ten years earlier, and he, uh, he visited the United States, and he went to different places. He was in the Boston area, in Chicago, you know, and, um, um, we'll talk about that also. But this was part of his journey. And we learned, uh, last time, we spoke about that the purpose of his going to, uh, Israel, as he stated, was to visit the grave sites of the forefathers and, uh, to pray there because he didn't have the opportunity to go to his own ancestors, uh, which were back under the communist regime. And of course, he's just left there, and he could not go back there, so he wanted an opportunity to pray. So he went there to Israel to do that. And, um, and that was the purpose of the visit. But then he was also looking where to establish the headquarters. And, uh, so we'll, we'll learn later on about his visit to the, um, to the United States and, uh, some of the other travels that he did.

04:23 Speaker 2 Yeah.