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Hecht have to keep reminding my- he early 1950s was an es- t is easy to speak before a By Cynthia Zalisky self that not everyone thinks By Sarah Newcomb pecially terrible time for crowd that is on your side. It Ithe way I do. Not everyone TJews in the Soviet Union, Itakes a lot of courage to go has the same confi dence I have. a period fi lled with terror and into the “lion’s den” and speak in ike many of you, I am still I don’t have a shy bone in my am a grateful member of Al- dread. With a maniacal tyrant front of a hostile crowd. reeling from the horrifi c body and I actually love public Anon, celebrating my four- leading the country, Joseph Sta- Mona Charem was selected to Levents that erupted at the speaking. Situations that often Iyear anniversary. 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His face was afl ame due to the government would be hold- his elevated state of attachment ing elections. The Rebbe Rash- was at its peak, and Russia’s Jew- to Hashem. As soon as he con- ab (the fi fth Lubavitcher Rebbe) ish physicians were disappear- cluded his ma’amar (talk), his sent word to the chasidim that ing rapidly. People were being face resumed its natural color. they were to participate in the purged left and right, never to The gathering continued voting process. There was one be heard from again. Around the for the next few hours, during particular chasid who was com- world, Jews wept and pleaded which the Rebbe gave several in- pletely removed from worldly ‘Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah!’ Taking his not understand the signifi cance for Divine salvation but there formal talks, chasidic melodies affairs; to him, the political are- cue from those around him, he of what had just occurred. The was none yet in sight. were sung, and numerous glass- na was foreign territory. likewise cried out, ‘Hoo-rah! Rebbe looked around at the The year was 1953. In the es were hoisted in l’chaim. “Nonetheless, having received Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah!’” large gathering as he said the Crown Heights section of Brook- It was late at night – almost an explicit instruction from the The chasidim back in 1953 word “Hoo-rah!” Swept up by lyn, New York, a large crowd of dawn, in fact – when an unusual Rebbe, he set out to fulfi ll the Brooklyn were in awe of the spec- the powerful emotion that fi lled Jews had gathered to celebrate the air, the crowd spontaneously the festive and joyful holiday rose to its feet and began copy- of Purim with the Lubavitcher The chasidim could barely believe what was happening. ing the Rebbe’s chant, shouting, Rebbe, R’ Menachem Mendel The Rebbe had never delivered two discourses at the same gathering! “Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah! Hoo-rah!” Schneerson zt”l. Many of the three times. participants at the Rebbe’s table After this strange preamble, had themselves just recently es- thing occurred. For the second command. With a sense of awe tacle before them: as he uttered things quieted down and R’ Me- caped from behind the Iron Cur- time that evening, the Rebbe’s and reverence he immersed these words, the Lubavitcher nachem Mendel delivered his tain. A good number had person- holy face began to radiate and himself in a mikvah, donned Rebbe’s face burned with a holy second ma’amar of the night, a ally suffered the wrath of Stalin’s shine with that special solem- his gartel, and set out for the fi re! They were astounded; they long and detailed understanding tyranny, wasting away for years nity and earnestness that meant polling booth. Of course, when realized that more was going on in Russian prisons. Still, many that he was preparing to deliver he got there, he had no idea than meets the eye, but they did CONTINUED ON P. 22 such chasidim could not forget another ma’amar. The chasidim what he was expected to do, but their oppressed brethren across could barely believe what was some of the more worldly cha- Rabbi Dovid Hoffman is the author of the popular “Torah Tavlin” the sea. happening. The Rebbe had never sidim helped him cast