Yud Shvat: Sipurim of the Rebbe - Part 1

00:01 As we find ourselves after and Behemshach to Yitzvat, we'll relate a few stories about the Rebbe which took place before the Kabbalah Sanasias, before the Rebbe accepted the leadership, which was in the beginning of the fifties, and these stories took place in earlier years on various occasions. One story is told when you get to a wedding, a Hasana that took place by a group of Hasidim, and the Rebbe participated. And when they went to the chuppah, they realized that their Rebbe, who was an older person, was still sitting at the table, and he needed assistance to get to the chuppah. And it seemed like everyone relied on someone else, and as far as they understood, he was still left at the table. When they came to pick him up, they realized that the Rebbe already was holding him by his arm and leading him to the chuppah. Another story, when you get to the year between Tov Shin Yud and Tov Shin Yud Alef, nineteen fifty and nineteen fifty-one, which in nineteen fifty-one the Rebbe formally accepted the Neseos. The faculty, the Anholo of the Yeshiva Temchitmim in Montreal went into Yechidas, a private audience, the Rebbe, and they handed the Rebbe a duch, a report, and it was a Yechidas which they discussed various matters with the Rebbe. And the Rebbe asked that they should continue writing to him in the future. Rabbi Greenglass relates that he was thinking in his mind, how does he address the Rebbe? Since it is already coming to

02:13 the Yutzvat, which is potentially the day that the Rebbe will be accepting the Neseos, so how does he address, in what titles does he write to the Rebbe? And the Rebbe immediately sensed his machshava, his thought, his doubt, uh, which he was thinking about. So the Rebbe said, "When you get to how to open the letter, you can just write Shalom Ubracha, peace and blessing." A third story was told by Rabbe El Muchkin in Montreal, and he related the following story. He once saw that his father, Rabbe Retz Muchkin, who was a very distinguished Hasid, a mashpia in Montreal, received from the Rebbe a response, and it said as follows, "Thank you, what he wrote and what he saw." Rabbe El was eager to know what this answer was about, what letter was it referring to that his father wrote, and that the Rebbe responded these words. And he found out that it was in the year clo- coming close to Yutzvat Tov Shin Yud Alef, which is when the Rebbe assumed leadership, and it was at that time that he was farbringing, Rabbe Retz was farbringing with Hasidim, and speaking about his kashelus, that Hasidim should commit themselves to the Rebbe, should accept the Rebbe as the Rebbe. And in middle, Rabbe Retz drowsed off, either from l'chaim or exhausted, he, he drowsed off. And when he woke up, he realized that while he drowsed off, the Rebbe Rashab and the previous Rebbe came to him and said to him, "They gave him a

04:40 thank you for urging Hasidim and encouraging Hasidim that they should be mekusher, connected to the Rebbe." And when he wrote it in to the Rebbe, the Rebbe responded, as mentioned earlier, "Thank you for what you wrote and what you saw." And now we go on to another story which took place in the last twenty or thirty years. The story was related by the person himself as he gave it over to a shliach in Eretz Israel in Nadia. An individual who we're discussing here grew up in an assimilated family in France, knowing nothing about Yiddishkeit. His father did not go to shul even on Yom Kippur. Several of his siblings intermarried, and when he was twenty-five, he met a non-Jewish woman, and they made up to get married in six months' time. In the meantime, they found an apartment in Paris where they would stay together. When he entered the apartment with her, he suddenly felt a depression and nervousness. The individual grew up in an assimilated family in France, knowing nothing about Yiddishkeit. His father did not go to shul even on Yom Kippur. Several of his siblings intermarried, and when he was twenty-five, he met a Nokria, and they made up to get married in six months' time. In the meantime, they found an apartment in Paris where they would stay together. When he entered the apartment with her, he suddenly felt a depression and nervousness. He excused himself, left the apartment, and began running down the streets of Paris. He happened to run

06:46 by a shul. The door was open, and he walked in. The rav of the shul walked over to him and asked him, what does he need? He told the rav that he wants to pray. They were davening mincha, and the rav gave him a siddur with French translation and showed him what to do. When they finished, he ran back to the apartment, and he told the woman to leave. He took her belongings, put them outside the apartment, and locked the door to the apartment. For the next month, he could not sleep at night. There was something about the apartment that made him feel very uneasy. He therefore paid up for the six months, left, and went to Eretz Yisrael. He wound up in Tzvass and became a Breslover. Eventually, he married and built a Yiddishish mishpacha. Years later, he saw a f-- a flyer inviting the French-speaking crowd to an evening with the Rebbe. On the other side, he saw three addresses where the Rebbe lived in Paris. One of them was the address of the apartment that he rented. As we can say, kedusha v'izauza memkeima, the impact of the Rebbe staying in that apartment accomplished its goal.