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לעילוי נשמת הקדושים שלוחי הרבי הרב גבריאל נח ומרת רבקה CELEBRATING A CHOSSID’S SPECIAL DAYS הולצברג ה’ יקום דמם SHINE י״א ניסן BIRTHDAY OF THE Nikolayov דֶ ער רֶ יבִּ נָׂשִ יא דֹורֵ ינּו

“People preparing for my birthday are wondering what they should do. Usually, someone receiving a gift doesn’t make conditions...but a gift is meant to be something that the person will be happy with and enjoy, so it is fitting to point out the most important thing is that every person should do more in limud , both in the Nigleh of Torah and Chassidus.” The Rebbe, ש ס שה שיחת פורים תשל”ב מ דרי שנה

לק אמ וט ת רי י ניא ם

INSIDE: What’s more than a decillion? RE THAN A O עַ שֶ M מַ ה HOW MANY PENNIES? Based on a moshol of the Rebbe

In the Rebbe’s Words

אַז דעֶראֹויּבעֶרְ שְטעֶ ר געֶ פיִנְט זיִך איִן גָ לּות, ...since Hashem is found in golus, געֶ פיִנְט זיִך דאָרְ טְ ן it is (also) found there אֶ לֶף אַ לְפֵי אַ לָפִים מַ לְאָכִ ים, millions and billions of angels ...אַפִילּו דעֶר טְרעֶז'עֶרעֶ ר פּון וואַׁשִ ינְגְטאָן—פּון דעֶ ם אָדֹון הַגָ דֹול Even the treasurer of the President in Washington האָ ט ניִט אַ זֹוי פיִל... רִ יּבֹוא רְ בָ בֹות וְאַ לְפֵי אַ לָפִים ּפעֶ נִ יס does not have so many million billion pennies וויִפְל דעֶראֹויּבעֶרְ שְטעֶ ר האָט מַ לָאכִ ים. as Hashem has Malochim.

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MISSION I connected to who? by learning his Torah

אֶבֶן מִקִיר ּתִ זְעָ ק

If a dollar Name: Zahava Dollar Bill Printer Address: US Treasury Department bill printer Favorite exercise: Penny-pinching Greatest ambition: That everyone should know that money isn’t could talk… everything, but Hashem is Observed by One more thing: Tzedakah brings Yaffa Lieba Gottlieb the geulah!

I print dollar bills for the National Treasury, and boy, It’s hard in Golus. Some people are hurt or unwell. do I love my job. Each dollar bill I produce says, “In Some think they need more of what I make (dollars) G-d We Trust,” and I hope that this message reaches and they hurt. Some people are hungry, or cold, or everyone! need a place to live, or want something that they don’t have. Some are far away and miss their friends My friends and I print out billions a year. We deliver and family. Some people feel far from Hashem and 2.8 million notes a day to the Federal Reserves with miss Him. Some have loved ones who went to olam a face value of 5.6 million dollars! Line them up and ha’emes and miss them. Some people are far away you could reach the moon and back! from kosher candy, and they miss that! Well, some very fortunate dollars went to the It’s even harder for Hashem to be in golus. He is Lubavitcher Rebbe, who handed them out to attached to each one of us, and when we are in pain, thousands of people. Some of those Chassidim carry He feels it too. their Rebbe dollar with them at all times. Those dollars listen to them davening and learning, and So that’s where I come in. Not only can I do the great they get to be pretty smart! of reminding people to trust in Hashem, but I also help them do the mitzvah of tzedakah! And The big numbers I know are nothing compared ?צְדָקָה מְקָרֶ בֶת אֶת הַגְאּולָ הdon’t you know that to the big numbers those dollar bills hear about. For example, you can’t even count the number of That’s why I’m working overtime, so people can have angels and messengers working for Hashem. These emunah and give tzedakah, and end golus as fast as megagalebagezillion angels and messengers are possible!

שיחות קודש תשמ”א חלק ב עמוד with Hashem, of course. And Hashem is everywhere, Read more: 262 י״א ניסן !but especially in golus with us WHAT HAPPENED ? י״א ניסן ON As the Nasi of our generation, the Rebbe is a neshomah klolis— we are all connected to him on the deepest level of our souls. On the Rebbe’s birthday each year, we celebrate this special Children who learned Mishnayos baal peh in receive dollars from the Rebbe י”א ניסן bond with , mivtzoyim, and hachlatos tovos. honor of Here are some events that occurred on this special day.

ׁשִיׁשִים ׁשָ נָ ה BIRTH UPSHERNISH BAR MITZVAH CELEBRATION תשכ”ב (1962) תש״ז (Shabbos (1947 תרס״ה (Friday (1905 תרס״ב (1902) Age 45 Age 60 תער”ה )Age 3 )1915 Age 13

Reb Levi “I stored the “This is the first The Rebbe Yitzchok and Rebbe’s long blond time hearing such farbrengs at his Rebbetzin locks… During the scholarship from a mother’s behest First public Chana’s bechor war, they were boy of this age.” in Paris. “It’s his farbrengen is lost…” —a participant birthday,” she in honor of born. —Rebbetzin told the the Rebbe’s Chana’s diary Chassidim. birthday.

תִּשְׁעִים ׁשָ נָה DOLLARS MAAMAR ׁשְמֹונִים ׁשָ נָ ה ׁשִבְעִים ׁשָ נָ ה תשנ”ב (1992) תש”נ (1990) תשמ”ו (1986) תשמ”ב (1982) תשל”ב (1972) Age 70 Age 80 Age 84 Age 88 Age 90

Special request The Rebbe The Rebbe The Rebbe 90 Mitzvah from the distributes gives out bills distributes Tanks Rebbe for 71 Tanyas for tzedakah, a kuntres go to 90 new mosdos until 6 am. the beginning from his destinations this year. of “Sunday home. . around NYC. לק אמ וט ת רי י .”dollars ניא ם י״א ניסן rebbe’s childhood home street

Young AOnly Peek into the in Rebbe’s Years Childhood

Inside and Out My son, Mendel...spoke, even as a two-year-old, very advanced for his age. Even then, as a toddler, he was able to ask the four kashios at the Seder. He had learned them all erev Yom Tov, and delivered them with the understanding of a grown-up. ...When he was three, he was, first of all, a beautiful child. He had long blond locks (which I hid away [when we were forced to leave], but they were lost in the War with everything else). When we would walk down the street, people would just stop and stare. - Rebbetzin Chana

Building As a child, the Rebbe made a model of the Beis Hamikdosh out of cardboard and construction materials. He kept it displayed in his bedroom. - Mr. Yehuda Leib Horowitz, Neighbor Mesiras Nefesh The Rebbetzin spoke about the typhus epidemic that came to Yekaterinoslav. There were many Jewish victims, and the Rebbe decided to put his energy in bringing relief and medicine to the ill Yidden. It placed him in great danger, since this terribly contagious disease could affect him too. But he paid no attention to the sakanah and continued his work until he, too, fell ill. The Rebbetzin told of those terrifying days when the young bochur lay in bed with burning fever. As the illness took hold of him, he was constantly muttering. What was he saying? He was talking of the highest spiritual worlds and the avodah of a person in this gashmiuskdike velt. - Reb Nissan Gordon, Journalist Worth it I was returning from a Tishrei visit to Rostov with my friends, the Temimim. Motzoei , I was called into the room of the Rebbe (Rashab) and handed a letter to deliver to Reb Leivik on the way home to Kremenchug. I went to Yekatorinislav, where Reb Leivik had become of the city, and while we A Dream were speaking, he led me to the room of his oldest son. The future From the day I started , and Rebbe was sitting at his desk, deeply involved in learning a sefer of even before then, there began to Chassidus. We left him alone; his father did not want to disturb his form in my mind a vision of the concentration. But on the way out, he whispered to me, “You saw future geulah—the redemption him? It will prove to help you.” of Yidden from its last golus, After fifty years of many trials and tribulations under Communist redemption such as would explain rule, including over twenty years in the gulag, I went in to the the suffering... of exile . . . Rebbe for yechidus and told him of our first “meeting.” “Nu,” the Rebbe asked, “Did it help?” - Rebbe, age 2 - Reb Eliezer Nanes, Activist Chossid

Farbrengen As a child, the Rebbe was very humble. He kept mostly to himself, keeping to his learning and avodah and not speaking much with anyone, even though his home was a firestorm of activity, since his father was Chief . Every year, Reb Leivik would organize a big farbrengen for Yud-Tes Kislev. The farbrengen would last well into the night and, after many l’chaims, he would speak on topics of the revealed and hidden parts of Torah. His sons would stand while he spoke, and when he paused intermittently to sing niggunim with the crowd, they’d return to their rooms to study. There was another seudah, on a different night, that was celebrated by all the youngsters in the city. Days before, they’d collect money to be able to buy the foodstuffs, and the Rebbe, as the oldest son, was responsible for the collection. They would cook kasha and set up the meal. This was the only time throughout the whole year that the future Rebbe departed from his strict schedule of learning. - Reb Nochum Goldschmidt, Chossid and Teacher

The News Once, when there were guests in the home of Reb Leivik and Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbetzin called for her son, the future Rebbe, to come out into the living room. The child came immediately and asked what she needed. She handed him the Russian newspaper, and asked that he read the headline story—two full columns—and memorize it. He glanced at the paper and repeated it word for word for his mother’s visitors. He then silently returned to his room. When the Rebbetzin told me this story, I could feel her motherly pride. I could also sense her wonder at how far the Rebbe went to for Kibud eim, always acting with kabbalas ol and humility. - Reb Alexander Ben-Nun, Chassid

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