Bais Iyar: The Rebbe Maharash - Part IV

00:00 The hamsich to the earlier installment has been a gear to Beis Ear, the year Mailedes of the Rebbe Marash, and referring back to the earlier installment, a gear to the Rebbe Marash's visit in Paris, and the haspora, the impact that the Rebbe Marash made on a Yid who swayed away from the path of Yiddishkeit, and through the words of the Rebbe Marash and his haspora, the Yid became a Baltuva. We continue now discussing how this story was told by the previous Rebbe, as we mentioned in the previous installment. This was in Tav Shin Hei, 1945, and this story, as the previous Rebbe related it in Tav Shin Hei, the Rebbe in 1947, when he published the biography of the Rebbe Marash, this story was also included in this Sefer Ateldes, page 77. In Tav Shin Yud Alef, it was the evening of the acceptance of the Nisios, when the Rebbe accepted the Nisios on Yud Alef Shvatov Shin Yud Alef by his first maimer, deliverance, and this was Basilegani. During the maimer, the Rebbe related stories, benigea to our Rabbeim and examples of Avas Yisro, how they committed themselves to help another fellow Jew. When it came to the Rebbe Marash, the Rebbe mentioned this same story. We'll read it as it is translated in English by Sifas in English. The Rebbe says, Then there is the story how the Rebbe Marash once traveled from a healing spot to Paris solely for the purpose of meeting with a young man to whom he said, Young

02:22 man, forbidden wine stupefies the mind and heart. Become a practicing Jew. The young man returned home and found no rest until he returned to the Rebbe Marash and repented. Eventually, he became the head of a God-fearing and observant family. And the Rebbe elaborates, It is well known that time was extremely precious to the Rebbe Marash, to the extent that even his recital of my murim was brief. There were times when at eight in the morning he already concluded his prayers. Nonetheless, he traveled to a distant city and stayed there a considerable amount of time for the sake of one young man. About 14 years later, in a fabrengen on Shabbos Chalametzukis Tav Shin Chofei, late 1964, the Rebbe again told the story. We don't have the details of the sicha, but it was documented very briefly. The delivery of this sicha is described as follows. The Rebbe broke down and cried several times during the sicha. A legendary, distinguished chasid, Rabbi Sadya Lieberov, who visited with the Rebbe for Sukis that year, shared with chassidim the following. When the Rebbe told the story, it was with an indescribable intense emotion. During the sicha, the Rebbe unusually held on to his beard, hat, and table. The scene was heavenly beyond this world. This is the way the older chasid, Rabbi Sadya Lieberov, described what took place when the Rebbe told this story. And once again, in the year Tav Shin Nun Beis, which is late 1991, the Rebbe mentioned in regards to the Rebbe Marash that

04:47 he traveled to France and he made ba'al tshuvahs there and meditated and also accomplished in yoni chassidus while he was in France.