Yom Holedes - Part XII

00:00 The hamster to the earlier installments regarding Yamaledes birthday, its aspects and lessons, we now continue with installment number twelve, where we will relate some personal experiences plus surprises which individual people shared after their Yechidas by the Rebbe in honor of their upcoming Yam Ailedes. In these short experiences, people witnessed the Ruach Hakedesh of the Rebbe in a very obvious manner. We will relate this in the following five short stories. In the first gr- uh, story, Rabbi Groner, Olavasalin, secretary of the Rebbe, related the following story. While I was at the Casel, a non-Chabad person approached me and related a story to me. There is something bothering me, this person said. My parents couldn't remember if I was born on the twenty-ninth of Nisan or the thirtieth of Nisan. I am not a Chabad Hasid and never visited the Rebbe. One evening, I saw in my dream the Rebbe speaking to someone who looked as a distinguished person with a white beard. I was standing at the side and listening. In middle of the conversation, the Rebbe turns to me and says, "In regards to your issue about the Yamaledes date, check the tractate of Suvis ninety-four B at the end of the page." After I woke up, I checked the reference in the tractate and found that it stated, "You are of the twenty-ninth of Nisan." This happened even without me asking the Rebbe about this. Now, looking up the tractate, the context of the tractate says the following: Two deeds of sale were once

02:13 presented before Rab Yesef, one being dated on the fifth of Nisan, the other was vaguely dated in Nisan. Rab Yesef confirmed the holder of the deed which had the entry fifth of Nisan in the possession of the property. "And I," said the other, "must lose." "You," he replied, "are at a disadvantage since it may be suggested that your deed was one that was written on the twenty-ninth of Nisan." This is story in the Gemara in Suvis. In the second story, Rab Yitzhak Leiv Lieberman of Etz Israel related the following experience: I was able to study in the Kvutza group of students from Etz Israel for the year Tavshin Lamadalet, late nineteen seventy-three through nineteen seventy-four. This was customary from the Tavshin Chaf's nineteen sixties that a group of students from Etz Israel would study one full year in seven seventy near the Rebbe. When it was late in Tishrei, in the month of Tishrei, and my birthday on the fourth of Chesvan was approaching, I was told that it was very unique to have a Yechidas by the Rebbe. I made an appointment with the secretary for a Yechidas. I was overjoyed that my birthday this year would be on a Sunday, which is one of the three days in the week when the Rebbe accepted people in Yechidas. I was filled with inner intense emotions and excitement, and finally, I am entering the Rebbe's room. The Rebbe began reading my note, and he begins noting with a pencil on the top of the letter

04:11 where the birth date is mentioned. He immediately turns to me and asks, "When is your Yamaledes?" I'm wondering to myself, it says on the note that today, the fourth day of Chesvan, is my Yamaledes. With difficulty, I uttered the words the fourth of Chesvan. The Rebbe again asks, "When is your Yamaledes?" I figured the Rebbe didn't hear me, and this time I said it loudly, "The fourth of Chesvan." The Rebbe then asked me, "Are you sure that your Yamaledes is on the fourth of Chesvan?" I said, "Yes." And I even added that my bar mitzvah was on this very day. The Rebbe asked, "Are you sure?" The Rebbe then shrugged his shoulders, and he benched me with the traditional beracha that the Rebbe would give for Yamaledes. After this Yechidas, I shared this experience with my friends, and they suggested that I consult with Rabbi Chadikoff, the Rebbe's chief secretary. When I met Rabbi Chadikoff, he asked me very sternly, "Why did the Rebbe need to ask you so many times? After the first time that you were asked, you should have understood that you need to check into it." A while later when I inquired by my family, it was discovered that I was born on the fourteenth of Chesvan, but seemingly the fourteenth is written Yud Dalet And the Yud faded, and it looked like it was a Dalet. And therefore, it looked like Dalet Chesed. And that's what remained in my mind all the years, a difference of ten days. And a

06:25 third story, when Rabbi Yehoshua Hadad, Shliach HaRav in Italy, came to the Rebbe the first time as a student, he learned that when one has a yom eledes, he has an opportunity to go into Yechidus to receive the Rebbe's broches. Rabbi Yehoshua didn't know of anything. He just heard that this is a way of going in. So he made an appointment to see the Rebbe. When he entered into Yechidus, the Rebbe asked him when is his yom eledes. He realized that he has over-exaggerated. He just made an appointment to go into Yechidus not knowing when his yom eledes is. So he told the Rebbe he doesn't know. He doesn't know when his yom eledes is. The Rebbe told him that since Shabbos blesses all the days of the following week, therefore he should commemorate his yom eledes on this upcoming Shabbos as it is your yom eledes and fulfill the customs of yom eledes. After the Yechidus, he contacted his family and he learned that his birthday was not later or earlier than on this upcoming Shabbos when the Rebbe instructed him to commemorate the yom eledes. In a fourth story, Chassid, the name Rabbi Yankev Shlomo Goldberg, Alav HaShalom, went into Yechidus. The Rebbe asked him when is his yom eledes. He answered, Shvi'i Shal Pesach, the seventh day of Pesach. The Rebbe said, the twenty-second of Nisan? Rabbi Goldberg said, the twenty-first of Nisan. The Rebbe continued and asked several times as wondering, the twenty-first of Nisan? After the Yechidus, he contacted his

08:21 mother in Eretz Yisrael and she told him that the year in which he was born, Shvi'i Shal Pesach was on a Friday. And as far as she remembers, she gave birth Friday night, which was already the twenty-second of Nisan. This is what the Rebbe was wondering about. In a fifth story, for the Yom Tov of Shavuot, 5712, 1976, many guests arrived to spend Shavuot by the Rebbe. Amongst the guests who arrived for the first time was a distinguished dayan and rav from England, from a Lithuanian background, Dayan Rabbi Mechol Fisher. The few days that Rabbi Fisher spent by the Rebbe gave him a great insight in the Rebbe's greatness, Torah knowledge, etc., after which he returned to England with a very strong impression of reverence for the Rebbe. When he went into Yechidus, the Rebbe asked him when is his yom eledes. He said he doesn't know, forgot. The Rebbe said to him, perhaps it is in the week of Parshat Tetzaveh. And the Rebbe explained the connection. The connection. The total number of psukim verses in the Parshat Tetzaveh is 101, which equals the numerical value of Rabbi Fisher's first name, Mechol. This rang a bell in Rabbi Fisher's mind. He then recalled that his bar mitzvah indeed took place in the week of Parshat Tetzaveh. No need to elaborate that this was an obvious ruach hakodesh.