Snow by the Rebbe

00:01 Ro-maise venisker haloche. The snowstorm in New York that we're experiencing now basically brings to memory, zichrones from amol by the Rebbe, different inyonim that took place and how the Rebbe reacted to it in different occasions. One inyan was erev Rosh Chodesh Adar 1155. It was then a big snowstorm, strong winds, and the Rebbe was planning to go to the AL as was customary by the Rebbe erev Rosh Chodesh. And the maskiros first verified if it's possible to get to the AL, if the roads are clear or if the roads are manageable, and they received an answer that it's impossible to get to the AL. One of the maskiros went into the Rebbe and notified the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said, "Du varfst if Miron a moreh sheteh." You're throwing on me a moreh sheteh, a inyan of a depression, a displeasing news. And, uh, the Rebbe said he's not going, and the Rebbe did not travel to the AL that day, erev Rosh Chodesh Adar 1155. Now we go on to a another event that took place in 5755, that's early 1979. It was Chovbei Shvat, and there was a big snow in New York and also in additional cities. Meshiach Ben Yisroel Chabad were at the convention in Detroit, the winter convention, and they were also hit with a snowstorm, and they notified the Rebbe that inside the snow they can't get back home. So the Rebbe answered, I'll read it in Hebrew and then simultaneously translate it, uh, piece by piece. "Lipele hachi

01:59 godol." It's a big wonder, the Rebbe s- underlines godol. "Shel acharai shemedabrimu ba'arichus vekama vekama po'amim al dar teires haba shem tiv." Thereafter we speak, we discuss, and in length and many times, when we get to the teires haba shem tiv that he says, "Shebechol dover heiro ba'avedes Hashem." Everything has a hero in avedes Hashem, a lesson in avedes Hashem. "Ve gam hein be'atzmem-- be'atzman bevad nehemes." And they also surely speak about the status of Hashem tiv. "Ki shekor lehen inyan shekavanosei berurah." When they experience something that its intention is very clear. So instead, "Mechapshes bi'urim meshunim be'tachus." Instead, they're searching for different strange explanations and tachus, what actually, uh, does this mean for them? And the Rebbe writes in a parenthesis, "Ulai zeh letzarun chas veshalom." They're, they're figuring maybe it is to put them through pain. "Eich techzarnu lebeisan?" How will they get back home chulo? And in-in-instead of looking at the simple meaning, the Rebbe says, "Milvad ha'pirush haposhet," the simple meaning, "az efshar hoyah lefarsem hateirah u'mitzves yeiser veyeiser meshal asav esa convention." That rather to focus on publicizing teirah u'mitzves more and more than was done at the-- during the convention. "U'mezaken eson." And they are being merited through a snow. "Hayel al yedei sheleg hayed min hashamayim lehashlim alav." They're getting the message through a snow that comes down milmaila min hashamayim to complete what they need to complete neyonim of teirah u'mitzves. "Al yedei shufi sheleki rogel." That it should be in a very great measure. "Al derech

03:48 hasheleg." The same way that the snow is coming down in a great measure. Strong. "Be yades vechulo." The Rebbe writes the word strong. Samach, tes, resh, alef, nun, gimel, which is the English word for strong. A strong snowstorm. So they're saying, likewise should be in inyonim of Yiddishkeit. "Be'ir." The Rebbe said they should be involved in the city. "Bizdeya t'ufa." In the airport. "B'mechtav yeis." In newspapers. "Ve'kayetsevaze." Et cetera. Vechulo. This is the answer Rebbe answered initially when he received their letter. When they began doing more po'ulus, more activities, it was Monday, Chovbei Shvat. So they wrote to the Rebbe, and the Rebbe answered, "Zechus miyuchades." Miyuchades is underlined. "Shemeilim milmaila be'etzbah." They have a special zechus that they're being guided milmaila be'etzbah. The Rebbe quote, uh, quotes, unquotes the word be'etzbah, with a finger. In other words, they're being milmaila. They show them with a finger ma lasis, what to do. And the Rebbe continues, "Ve'yihi ba'atzlocha raba." It should be ba'atzlocha raba. "U'bimeilit isano gam behedem." Everyone could, uh, already travel. "Kolachas vachas lebeisa," to our house. "Sha'alein nigmar hashlichus because the shlichus was completed.