#772) 770 Eastern Parkway - Part III

00:00 The hemsechen continuation to the earlier installments on the topic of seven seventy, we continue now with installment number three, discussing additional aspects about seven seventy. But firstly, referring briefly to the earlier installment where it was mentioned in regards to the opposition against the previous Rebbe moving into seven seventy, the opposition that came from the neighbors who were living in the area. Just to add the fact that this opposition took place after the contract was made, before the final closure was processed. In regards to the building, the purchase of the building, there was a mortgage. Right at the outset, in the beginning, at the time of the purchase, there was already a down payment of ten thousand dollars, and the rest was left for the mortgage to pay up over the course of the years. The family that took care of the down payment was the Kramer family, and as the years moved on, there was an individual who he took upon himself to finish with the mortgage. He paid it up in full. His name was Rab Yeisef Robinson. When he came to New York in nineteen fifty, after the passing of the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe fabrent on Veschei DeShivu. And the Rebbe said the following, as it is translated here in English by Sichas in English. When the Rebbe, the previous Rebbe, came to his house for the first time, he entered the room which was to become the shul and Beis Medrash, and said, May it be Hashem's will that the prayers

02:07 to be offered here should spring from an inward source with the true inward delight that stems from Aveda. And the Rebbe continues, Now, if this were the purchase of a residence, what is the relevance of this request regarding prayers? Rebbe begins explaining. The explanation is simple. This is a universal house for the Jewish people at large, because it was a neshamah klolis, a comprehensive soul, who came to live in it. And the task of that soul is prayer, tefillah, which is related to the root, the word tefil, tefil klecheres, connecting, gluing together two separate things. To join them together. Likewise, in regards to tefillah, prayer, it is to connect the entire people of Israel with their Father in heaven. Throughout the ten years during which the Rebbe, the Rebbe is referring to his father-in-law, lived in this house, part of its mortgage remained unpaid, so that the more purchase was not absolutely complete. How great, then, is the merit of the individual whom my revered father-in-law granted the privilege of redeeming it by liquidating the remaining debt, and thereby bringing it into the Rebbe's complete possession. In truth, the very fact that the Rebbe left the debt and waited ten years for that individual to come and redeem the house is in itself a great zchus for that individual, a spiritual privilege indeed. The Rebbe continues in regards to his father-in-law, the previous Rebbe. The Rebbe is not prepared to accept contributions for charitable purposes from everyone. From some he is, and from some he

04:20 is not. Once, for example, it happened that a certain individual wanted to give the Rebbe maimet, which is to share in the cost of maintaining the Rebbe's household. The Rebbe, however, declined his offer. As he said, maimet is given bachsidim. Said the individual, so I will be a chasid. The Rebbe responded, but this isn't what you start with. How great, then, is the zchus of that fortunate person for whom the Rebbe waited ten years and then gave him the notion of redeeming this house. The Rebbe sums it up. My revered father-in-law, the Rebbe, once said that he did not come to receive but to give. It is thus clear that apart from the above-mentioned individual's spiritual privilege of redeeming the house, his action in redeeming the universal house brings it about that the Rebbe grants him abundance with respect to his own personal house. For the downward flow of blessings which the Rebbe secured is present now too. Even though in the middle there occurred the incident of yutzvat, which means the passing of the previous Rebbe, this does not affect the downward current of these hashpoas which now too the Rebbe secures. Now too he does not come to receive but to give. Thus, apart from granting someone the privilege of redeeming his house, he is giving and relaying to him all that he needs in his own home. And the Rebbe concludes that in addition to all the above, the Torah has promised aser b'shvil shetis asher. Give mayser, ta'id, in order that

06:28 you grow rich. Which means that when one person gives a tenth of their earning, they become rich.