The 12th & 13th of Tamuz: Part III

00:01 The hemsech to the earlier installment has been to Yud Beis Yud Gimmel Tammuz. We're continuing now Be'ezras Hashem with installment number three, discussing a farbrengen of Yud Gimmel Tammuz, Tov Shin Heh nineteen forty-five. This farbrengen took place in seven seventy in the office of Machneh Yisroel, which later became the Rebbe's office, the Yechidas room, and it was documented by Rabbi Avraham Weingarten. He was a talmid, a bocher then in seven seventy, and he would document many different farbrengens that he heard from the Rebbe and from Mashpi'im. The Rebbe began the farbrengen that when they came to arrest the previous Rebbe, he was in middle of supper. And the previous Rebbe saw that they entered the house, and he reached Birchas Hamazon. He prolonged the Birchas Hamazon. It should take longer. This allowed the family members to gather and place many of the documents that dealt with the previous Rebbe's activities in Russia. They were all placed in boxes, including also, um, other papers that were not of great importance, and this accomplished that when it came to the search, they were not able to find anything that should prove dangerous. In the middle of s- of the search, a Chassid arrived at the house of the previous Rebbe. Rabbi Avraham Weingarten, when he wrote down this reshimah, he left a space not mentioning who it was, but it seems like from Rabbi Elchanan Altalas that it was the Rebbe. When the Rebbe saw the whole house is lit up, he understood something happened. He surrounded

02:11 the house, went all around, and was afraid to knock on a door or a window. At the end, the Rebbe knocked on a window, and the Rebbe's son, Chaim Mushka, told him what happened. The Rebbe immediately contacted Rabbi Elchanan Altalas and additional Chassidim to tell them what is going on. Many timim and bochurim went to Chaim Lieberman, who was the reb- previous Rebbe's maskir. He lived in a different, uh, uh, house, and notified him about the dangerous documents that are found by him, that they need to be destroyed. The bochurim that went since it was dangerous to go at night because of the government, so they made themselves like shik- like shikurim, uh, as they would be drunk, as they were drunk, and that is how they managed to get to the house of Chaim Lieberman. In the corners of the streets, Anash, curious to know what is going on here, to know where is this car going to take the previous Rebbe, they also stood there and acted like drunk. The previous Rebbe said they took him, um, to the prison about two fifteen AM. But the Rebbe says the minute bedi'ok, previous Rebbe says... The Rebbe says the previous Rebbe does not know bedi'ok what minute this was. Uh, while they were driving, the GePeU officers started to talk to each other, joke to each other, "Look at these Jewish drunks." The hemsech of this farbrengen, the Rebbe mentions different facts which are already published in the Reshimas HaMeiser of the previous Rebbe,

04:31 but then there are some facts which are not in this Reshimas HaMeiser. The Rebbe mentions that there was a certain form with questions, a questionnaire, and the previous Rebbe answered on some of the questions, and there was a, uh, secretary, a lady that would fill in the answers as the previous Rebbe was responding orally. When the questions were complete, the previous Rebbe took the beyden, this, uh, th- this form, and he read everything that it says there. And the questions that he did not answer, he made a line like crossing it out, and that is to point out that on these questions he didn't give any answer in order that they shouldn't write things on their own in a fraudulent way. He then counted how many things he wrote, and once he completed reading it, he signed his name. Another fact that the Rebbe mentions in this sicha that one-- when one of the interrogators, Lulov, prided himself in front of the previous Rebbe and warned him that many people were killed by him, and this was to threaten, Chas veshalom, the previous Rebbe. The previous Rebbe said, "Ver veyst vos dein sof vet zayn?" Who knows what your end will be? And exactly that, some years passed, and he himself was also killed. When they arrested the previous Rebbe, he had in his property more than about a hundred cigarettes. It means basically referring to paper from which they use for cigarillos. In Russia, the Rebbe says the papirosn are big, large. And in

06:49 prison, the previous Rebbe wrote Chassidis in the Beis HaSiddurim on a hundred and seventeen of these papers. The Rebbe tells us that when he was in Paris, he had some of these papers. He managed to see about ten of the papers. The Rebbe concludes, "But now the previous Rebbe does not have these papers." Concluding with a vort that the Rebbe said about Kastrama, Kastrama, that when the previous Rebbe was in Kastrama by the Shechit, there were re- rebiste mevsim. There were miracles that were seen accomplished by the previous Rebbe.