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SHABBOS PARSHAS TRUMA; constructed, does the Torah relate the Sanctuary was erected, during the 6 ADAR, 5750 commands G-d gave to Moshe subsequent service, G-d’s presence 1. This week’s Torah portion, Parshas regarding the sacrifices, as described was revealed in the world. Truma, contains a fundamental Torah in the Book of VaYikra. Since the For this reason, the command, subject, the commandment, “And command to build the Sanctuary and “make Me a Sanctuary,” applies not you shall make for Me a Sanctuary its fulfillment is described in several only to the Sanctuary built in the and I will dwell within them.” parshiyos, we can infer that each of desert, but to the Sanctuary in Shilo, those parshiyos represents a different The remainder of the book of the Beis HaMikdash, and to the concept and stage in the spiritual Shmos is devoted to this subject. This personal Sanctuary within the heart service associated with the Sanctuary. week’s portion describes G-d’s of every Jew, even during the time of command to build the Sanctuary The construction of the Sanctuary exile. The establishment of a dwelling itself and its utensils. Parshas expresses, in microcosm, G-d’s intent for G-d is the very goal of the Tetzaveh describes the mitzva of in the creation of the world: creation of the world. kindling the menora, the priestly establishing a dwelling, a place where The establishment of such a garments, the initiation of Aharon His essence is revealed, in the lower dwelling, however, involves many and his sons, and the incense altar. worlds. For this reason, the phases; each of the parshiyos from Parshas Ki Sisa describes the command to construct (and the Truma until VaYikra represents a donation of the half-shekel to make construction of) the Sanctuary came different stage in the establishment of the sockets, the details involved in directly after the giving of the Torah. this dwelling. The names of the the incense offering, and the making The giving of the Torah represented various parshiyos allude to the service of the basin for sanctifying the priest’s the nullification of the decree to which they refer. hands and feet. Parshas VaYakhel separating the spiritual from the describes the manner in which Moshe material. From that time onward, the Parshas Truma describes G-d’s Rabbeinu related G-d’s command to potential existed for the Divine command to build the Sanctuary. the Jewish people and how the presence to be revealed within the This command gave the Jews the Jewish people fulfilled it. And world and for the material entities of potential to make a dwelling for G-d Parshas Pikudei describes the this world to be elevated and using the physicality of this world for completion of this sequence, the transformed into articles of holiness. a Sanctuary wherein G-d’s presence would be revealed. actual construction of the Sanctuary Both of these dimensions were and how “the glory of G-d filled the revealed in the construction and the Parshas Tetzaveh adds a deeper Sanctuary.” service of the Sanctuary. The material dimension to the unity established Only after completing the items donated by the Jews became between G-d and the world as description of how the Sanctuary was part of G-d’s Sanctuary, and after the revealed in the opening phrase, “V’ata tetzaveh.” “Tetzaveh” (command) is

4 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 related to the word tzavsa burn “from the evening until the one’s previous rung appear as (connection). “V’ata” (you) refers to morning.” “evening.” the essence of Moshe’s being, and These difficulties can be resolved For Aharon’s kindling of the ultimately, to G-d’s essence itself. In through an analysis of the spiritual candles – the souls of the Jewish this sense, through the construction dimensions of the concept. The people – to be “a continuous flame,” of the Sanctuary, a connection is kindling of the menora refers to the connection with the essence of established between the Jewish lighting “the candle of G-d, the soul G-d (“V’ata tezaveh” as explained people in the material world, the of man,” which is in the heart of above) must be established. The essence of Moshe’s soul, and G-d’s every Jew, motivating each Jew to essence of G-d is completely beyond essence. love G-d, to desire to cling to the concept and possibility of change. The revelation of Moshe’s essence G-dliness, and to shine with “the Thus, it (through the medium of the and G-d’s essence – which will also candle of mitzva and the light of essence of Moshe) generates the bring about the revelation of the Torah.” Aharon gives each Jew’s soul potential for a Divine service that is essence of every Jew – will effect even the potential to shine from below similarly unchanging. This is the lowest levels. Regardless of the (the Jew’s own level) to above. Being reflected in the service of “the light of level one is on, the essence of every that this potential stems from a Torah,” which establishes a constant Jew, even the most simple person, is connection between a Jew and his connected with the essence of G-d source and, therefore, brings about a through a fundamental bond that continuous light and revelation. cannot be broken or interrupted. As The essence of every In particular, the passage speaks the Alter Rebbe declared, “No Jew about different dimensions: Aharon’s can or desires to be separate from Jew, even the most lighting of the candles “from the G-d.” evening until the morning,” a Based on the above, we can simple person, is revelation which recognizes and understand the higher level reflected relates to the world, as well as, “The by Parshas Tetzaveh in comparison connected with the continuous flame,” associated with with Parshas Truma. G-d mentioned essence of G-d Moshe. Each of these revelations is Moshe’s name when He commanded significant and contributes a him to build the Sanctuary. This through a dimension lacking in the other. “And implies a relationship only to the both revelations are made possible revealed levels of G-dliness. In fundamental bond and fused together through G-d’s contrast, in Parshas Tetzaveh, Moshe’s that cannot be broken essence — “V’ata Tetzaveh.” name is not mentioned, implying a 2. Parshas Ki Sisa contributes an connection reaching G-d’s essence or interrupted. added dimension to the manifestation itself, which is drawn down to every of the Divine presence in the Jew, even those on the lowest levels. Sanctuary. The words “ki sisa” mean, This concept is also reflected in “when you shall lift up.” To this end, the kindling of the menora, the mitzva human, and hence, inherently limited Ki Sisa deals with the elevation of the mentioned at the beginning of the initiative, there are, therefore, Jewish people from their previous parasha. The manner in which the limitations within the power of the rung. Ki Sisa is also related to the Torah relates this command is light; it shines only “from the evening Jewish people’s activities involving problematic: Although Aharon and until the morning;” i.e., a small flame the material substance of the world, his sons kindled the menora, G-d told of G-dly light shines within the emphasized by the giving of the half- Moshe that the oil for the menora person’s darkness. This refers to the shekel,. should be brought to him. light generated by the service of To explain: When G-d Furthermore, in the initial verse, prayer and the fulfillment of mitzvos commanded the Jewish people to which was directed to Moshe, the that are bound by the constraints of give a half-shekel as “atonement for Torah talks about kindling “a limitations of time. their souls,” Moshe was amazed. He continuous flame,” whereas the could not comprehend how giving a second verse, which describes the “From the evening until the morning” also implies a continuous coin, a physical object, could bring kindling of the menora by Aharon, atonement for a soul, which is “truly mentions that the menora should process of growth. One ascends to a higher level, “morning,” which makes a part of G-d Above.”

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 5 G-d responded by showing Moshe parasha. VaYakhel means “And he describes the service of offering Rabbeinu “a coin of fire...from gathered together.” The establishment sacrifices. This represents the beneath His throne,” and telling him, of Jewish unity was a necessary purpose of the building of the “This is what they should give.” G-d precondition to the construction of Sanctuary. The Hebrew word for informed Moshe that the coin the the Sanctuary. The Sanctuary was not sacrifice, korban, is related to the Jewish people would be giving would merely the product of the combined word kiruv (close). Sacrifices draw not be merely a material coin, but efforts of many people, but rather the the material essence of the world rather, “a coin of fire...from beneath product of the Jewish people as a close to G-d and also evoke pleasure, His throne.” This does not mean collective whole. When a donation creating “a pleasant fragrance unto merely that the source for this coin was made to the Sanctuary, the G-d,” for “it is pleasing before Me was spiritual, or merely that through money or article donated belonged to that I uttered a command and My the fulfillment of mitzvos the Jewish the community as a whole. As a will was done.” people have the potential of drawing preparation for this service, the The lessons from the above must down spiritual energy (fire) into their Jewish people had to be gathered be applied to our own Divine service. fulfillment of the mitzvos; rather, together and fused into a single unit. Their continuous relevance is further there is a potential for a complete Parshas Pikudei contributes emphasized by the fact that the unity between the physical and the another important element, for it is command, “And you shall make Me a spiritual. Even as the coin exists in the summation of the narrative of the Sanctuary and I shall dwell within,” the material world, it remains “a coin construction of the Sanctuary. It does not apply to the construction of of fire...from beneath His throne”; the Sanctuary alone; rather, it also there is no change in its nature. applies to the construction of the first G-d showed Moshe this coin of and second Batei HaMikdash as well fire, implying that this unity between “Ben Menachem as the third Beis HaMikdash, which spirituality and physicality is only will be constructed speedily in our possible through G-d’s influence. Mendel” alludes to days. G-d, Himself, established the one whose nature is The third Beis HaMikdash will be different levels of existence. Thus, He “the Sanctuary of G-d, established by alone can nullify the factors that characterized by the Your hands.” Therefore, it will be, differentiate one level from another unlike the first and second Batei and fuse the spiritual with the efforts to bring about HaMikdash, an eternal structure. It physical. will represent the most complete Thus, Parshas Ki Sisa teaches us Moshiach’s coming. expression of the unity between the that the union between the spiritual physical and the spiritual and the and the physical (which was brought ultimate expression of all the lessons about by the giving of the Torah and contributed by each of the parshiyos which was manifest in the Sanctuary) describes how the Sanctuary was mentioned above. actually constructed and how G-d does not imply that a revelation of This is particularly relevant in our the spiritual will merely become caused His Presence to rest therein: “And the cloud covered the Tent of generation. Throughout the ages, the revealed within the physical, but that Jewish people have yearned for the the unity between them can be Meeting and the glory of G-d filled up the Sanctuary.” coming of Moshiach and the complete and total. rebuilding of the Beis HaMikdash. Parshas VaYakhel adds a further This leads to an even further This yearning has been expressed in dimension to this process. The dimension of service contributed by the study of the service required in previous parshiyos deal with G-d’s Parshas VaYikra. Whereas Parshas the Beis HaMikdash so that when the command to Moshe to construct a Pikudei relates that, because of the Beis HaMikdash is rebuilt, we will be Sanctuary. Parshas VaYakhel mentions intensity of the revelation of G-d’s prepared and will know the laws Moshe’s relaying this command to the essence, Moshe was unable to enter necessary to begin its service. Jewish people, and their fulfillment the Sanctuary, Parshas VaYikra describes how G-d called to him and Efforts of this nature are of it. Thus, it describes the actual particularly appropriate in the service of creating a dwelling for G-d made it possible for him to receive this revelation. present era when, “all the appointed in this material world. times for Moshiach’s coming have There is an added aspect to this Furthermore, Parshas VaYikra passed,” and according to all the

6 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 signs given by our Sages, we are in directing . is related to those aspects of the time immediately preceding He acted with the power invested in G-dliness which are revealed through Moshiach’s coming. Our generation him by the Rebbe Rayatz, the first creation. Pnimiyus HaTorah, will be the last generation of exile director of the , who was Chassidus, the soul of Torah, is and the first generation of appointed to that position by the related to the hidden dimensions of redemption. Rebbe Rashab, the founder of the G-dliness, the G-dliness which In particular, at present, when the yeshiva. We see the fruits of his efforts transcends creation. weekly Torah portions describe the – a multitude of students involved in The fusion of these two branches construction of the Sanctuary, it is the study of Torah (Nigla as well as of study in Yeshivas Tomchei appropriate, in addition to one’s Chassidus) and spreading the Tmimim unifies the hidden aspects of efforts to transform his own home wellsprings of Judaism and Chassidus Torah and the hidden aspects of G-d into a sanctuary in microcosm, to outward. with the revealed aspects of G-d and arouse the desire for the Messianic These efforts are related to the Torah. This, in turn, generates the redemption and the building of the concepts described above, since every potential for the students of the Beis HaMikdash. This should also be yeshiva is “a Sanctuary in microcosm” yeshiva to become “candles to expressed in actual deeds, which and their activities cause the light to illuminate,” who spread the light of reflect in microcosm and thus hasten shine in an internalized and settled Torah (Pnimiyus HaTorah) throughout the coming of the Messianic the world. This makes it possible to redemption. This includes the study “kindle a continuous light,” to reveal of the laws of the construction of the the “candle of G-d which is the soul Beis HaMikdash and the service The students of of man” in every Jew. This will carried out within. It includes illuminate the entire world and make activities that make the world into a Tomchei Tmimim are it a dwelling for G-d. Through the dwelling for G-d by establishing a characterized as spreading of Chassidus, even the connection between G-d and the highest dimensions of G-dliness will material world through the “soldiers of the House be revealed in the world at large. fulfillment of mitzvos. This prepares The above is also connected with the world for the era when it will of David,” “candles to the ninth of Adar on which, this year, become transformed into a dwelling illuminate” the we will celebrate the fiftieth for G-d with the coming of the anniversary of the Rebbe Rayatz’s Messianic redemption and the darkness of exile and arrival in America. Directly upon his revelation of the third Beis arrival in this country, the Rebbe HaMikdash. hasten the coming of Rayatz transferred the central branch 3. There is added significance of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim here. within the community Moshiach. The establishment of the yeshiva in because this week, Shabbos Parshas America is significant in the context Truma, falls on the sixth of Adar, the of the statement “the Torah was not yahrtzeit of the Rashag (Rav given in lower half of the world.” Shemaryahu Gourarie), the Rebbe manner, as it will in the Beis Although, on the surface, establishing Rayatz’s son-in-law, and the person HaMikdash of the Messianic era. In the Yeshiva in a place where “the appointed by the Rebbe Rayatz to be particular, there is a connection to Torah was not given” represents a the director of Yeshivas Tomchei the Messianic era, since the students descent, this descent brought about Tmimim. of Tomchei Tmimim are characterized an increase in the Rebbe Rayatz’s as “soldiers of the House of David,” activities. Indeed, it is evident that A yahrtzeit signifies a dramatic “candles to illuminate” the darkness ascent for the soul. This ascent, from the time the Rebbe Rayatz of exile and hasten the coming of settled in the , his however, also draws down influence Moshiach. to this earthly plane, and especially activities in spreading Yiddishkeit to those (in this instance, the The unity of the physical and expanded greatly. students of Yeshivas Tomchei spiritual, which characterizes the The service associated with Tmimim) who shared a connection Sanctuary and its service, is also Tomchei Tmimim is also reflected in with the person whose yahrtzeit it is reflected in the fusion of Nigla and the Rashag’s name, Shemaryahu ben Chassidus as studied in the yeshiva. Menachem Mendel. The name The Rashag’s primary activity was Nigla, the revealed aspects of Torah,

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 7 Shemaryahu contains three of the translated in its simple sense as with the efforts to make “a Sanctuary letters of the word neshama. The meaning the “son of.” Thus, “ben in microcosm,” as reflected by in an fourth letter, the Nun, can be formed Menachem Mendel” alludes to one increase in Torah and mitzvos, and in by placing the letter Yud at the foot of whose nature is characterized by the particular, an increase in gifts to the letter Vav. This is related to efforts to (spread Chassidus, which tzedaka. Pnimiyus HaTorah, “the soul of the will) bring about Moshiach’s coming. The students of Tomchei Tmimim Torah.” This name is also connected Today is also the day preceding should increase their study of Torah, with the Messianic redemption, as the seventh of Adar, the birthday and both Nigla and Chassidus, and also evidenced by the fact that it contains the yahrtzeit of Moshe Rabbeinu. increase their efforts to be “candles a Mem. Moshe Rabbeinu is associated with that illuminate” and spread the light The connection to the Messianic Torah. Indeed, the entire Torah, both of Chassidus throughout the world. redemption is also emphasized by the the written and oral law, is described (In this context, it is appropriate that name, ben Menachem Mendel. Our as “the Torah of Moshe.” In addition, a Chassidic discourse which deals Sages relate that Menachem is one of Moshe Rabbeinu is also associated with the Messianic era and the Moshiach’s names, and Mendel is with the Sanctuary. concept of resurrection be printed in numerically equivalent to Tzedek, It is appropriate that we increase memory of the Rashag.) also one of Moshiach’s names. In this in , and in particular, May these efforts hasten the context, the word “ben” should be increase efforts to “gather people coming of the Messianic redemption interpreted as a definition of the together on Shabbos to study Torah,” when we will serve G-d in the third individual’s nature as in the a practice initiated by Moshe. Also, Beis HaMikdash, “the sanctuary of expression, “ben chorin” and not the yahrtzeit should be connected G-d, established by Your hands.” - New-York - Montreal From From Montreal: New-york: Saturday: 22:30 Sunday:18:00 wednesday: 22:30 Thursday: 18:00 $37 U.S. or $55 CAN

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Once again there are elements of Yisroel, because there are Jews who the media who continue to sow fear are afraid, and who frighten others among the public at large, pointing about traveling there.” “You should to Saddam Hussein’s ability to To those who ask: but publicize that you are traveling and launch missiles, and the possibility many years have that there’s nothing to fear.” “It is of chemical or biological warheads, the safest place because it is the etc. There’s even talk about antidote passed, and how do place of the Beis HaMikdash.” “You pills and instructions on how to use will certainly publicize this” – and them, not to mention plastic, sealed we know that what many other such expressions. rooms, masks and other assorted was said then, applies We must do this not only protective paraphernalia for every because we care about other Jews eventuality. now? The Rebbe who need encouragement, as the As chassidim who are familiar Rebbe has always taught us – and with what the Rebbe has said repeatedly stressed: not even as a humane act, as regarding the same situation over a anybody who sees someone who is decade ago, in the year of “I will “What I have said is afraid would do if he knew he could show them wonders,” we have the calm and encourage the other with obligation to publicize what the because of the words that are 100% true and Rebbe said as widely as possible. strength of the eternal, but – because all these There’s no greater “ofen things which are going on are only ha’miskabel,” when the (Jewish) man concept of “Hashem’s in order for us to publicize the on the street is thirsty to hear “what Rebbe’s prophecy and to awaken the Rebbe said.” There’s no greater eyes are always upon Jews to the fact that there is a proof that the Rebbe is “chai it ... and because of “judge of the generation and an v’kayam” than the fact that chassidei advisor of the generation and a Chabad, wherever they live, the Beis HaMikdash prophet of the generation” (“the publicize what the Rebbe MH”M prophecy of Moshiach before the says now: “My children, do not fear! being there, and Geula”), that he is alive and what he Everything I have done, I did for says is definite, as only he can be you. The time for your redemption regarding this – there definite, and he has told us: The has arrived!” “Eretz Yisroel is the time for your redemption has safest place.” “You must publicize is no change.” arrived! that you are traveling to Eretz This is not just something

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 9 someone dreamed up, but what the thousands of soldiers participated, no correlation to the Jewish people.” Rebbe said explicitly Shabbos etc. All this was for the sake of “an The only connection it has is that Parshas VaEira 5727 (a few months opening of the mouth” – that through this, more and more Jews before the Six Day War), and which something should result for the sake will become aware of the prophecy was published in an edited Likkut of the Jewish people, and not just of Melech HaMoshiach, who stands for Shabbos Parshas VaEira 5751, for B’nei Yisroel as a whole, but for on the roof of the Beis HaMikdash right before the Gulf War began those few individuals (who did not (before the Geula, in his beis midrash (and then printed in believe in Yechezkel). in the Diaspora as the Rebbe vol. 36 p. 33-7). We must learn a lesson for man’s explains in the kuntres, “Beis In the sicha, the Rebbe explains avoda in these times: Rabbeinu Sh’B’Bavel”) and announces the general connection between the to the Jewish people, “the time for In addition to the essential point, your redemption has arrived.” Haftora of VaEira and the parsha. which is that Jews must know that Namely, that the Haftora speaks everything which occurs in the It must be emphasized that we about the command to Yechezkel to world, even among the gentiles, is are not talking about “responsible prophesy “about Pharaoh king of all for them, as we learn in the Jewish leadership” here, but the Mitzrayim... and about all of Egypt,” Yalkut that Hashem says to the explicit promise and prophecy of a and about the destruction Hashem Jewish people, “My children, do not tzaddik, who teaches in G-d’s name, would bring upon them (“and all of fear, everything I did I did for your and who publicizes and announces Egypt will know that I am G-d”), sakes,” and so the Jewish people and informs everyone that indeed, which is also the content of the need not fear; they should be strong “Eretz Yisroel is the safest place!” parsha which speaks about the in their trust in Hashem, and put To those who ask: but many plagues Hashem brought on more effort in observing the Torah years have passed, and how do we Mitzrayim (through which and mitzvos in actuality, as know that what was said then, “Mitzrayim will know that I am preparation for the future applies now? The Rebbe repeatedly G-d”). Redemption, which will come stressed (23 Teives 5751 after the At the conclusion of the sicha, imminently. latest diplomatic talks failed): “What the Rebbe adds an interesting ... and the navi is informing us I have said is because of the strength of explanation for the fact that the in this Haftora that Hashem made the concept of “Hashem’s eyes are Haftora ends with the pasuk, “on great and powerful wars for the sake always upon it ... and because of the that day I will cause a keren to grow of even just a few Jews, so that they Beis HaMikdash being there, and for the House of , and I will would listen to the consolation of regarding this – there is no change.” give you an opening of the mouth Yechezkel the Navi. Would anybody even consider among them, and they will know It’s only right that we follow the that any change has taken place? that I am G-d”: This pasuk Are Hashem’s eyes G-d forbid, not emphasizes that the goal and orders we are given for security, as the Rebbe instructed us to do upon it? Is the location of the purpose of all these things from Mikdash not in Eretz Yisroel?! Hashem is for the sake of Yisroel. during the Gulf War regarding When he prophesied about masks: “One shouldn’t be different And to those who say, Mitzrayim, and certainly during his than others. If everybody takes, you nevertheless look at the violence nevua about Nevuchadnetzar, take, too.” Regarding the sealed taking place in Eretz Yisroel! So first Yechezkel had been a well-known rooms: “If the people responsible for of all, you have to ask the Rebbe. navi for years, and most of the this (i.e., police, civil defense) ask But even if we don’t have an answer Jewish people believed in him as a that this be done, it should be done, to this question, we clearly heard navi. Still, he adds in this nevua, “I for you don’t lose out by doing so. the Rebbe say – openly and will give you an opening of the It is not a contradiction to my definitively, in every possible place mouth,” meaning that the Jewish position regarding the situation.” and every possible way – that this is people will see that the nevua was This, of course, is only in order not something that can change, fulfilled and they will believe him. to fulfill the Torah’s command of since it is based on Hashem’s special And Hashem made the war with “lama tisra’u” (not being different supervision over Eretz Yisroel, Nevuchadnetzar and Mitzrayim, than others), and not to undermine which is ongoing and eternal, and who were the two superpowers of the authority of those responsible on the fact that it is the site of the the time, and it was a major event for security and the like. But Mikdash, facts which are not given in which thousands and tens of regarding the thing itself, “it bears to change.

10 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 Furthermore, the Rebbe said that with the clear pronouncement that wouldn’t be necessary to be in the past there was the possibility Hashem protects and guards each specially obligated in this. Rather, for G-dly and spiritual matters to one of us. this obligation is an avoda unto remain spiritual and not “come As the Rebbe explains in the itself, whose essence and definition down” and be realized in the Likkut which was published for is that a person rely on Hashem to physical world. But in our Parshas Shmos 5751 (printed in the point that he cast his lot entirely generation, “the seventh Likkutei Sichos vol. 36, p. 4 and on), on Him, as it says, “cast your generation,” whose function is to again, a few weeks before the burden upon Hashem,” for he has “bring the Sh’china down to earth,” outbreak of war in Iraq, which he nothing else to rely on aside from all the G-dly and spiritual things are G-d Himself. manifest and accomplish what they ... this itself is the basis for his must in this physical world. bitachon that Hashem will do only Therefore, even if there was a good in a revealed way, even if he situation in which the special care The Rebbe isn’t deserving of this kindness: of Eretz Yisroel was relegated to the realm of the spiritual as “hidden emphasized The meaning of bitachon is not good,” and did not come down as that he believes, that since G-d’s openly, revealed good, it is clear that repeatedly at that kindness is unlimited, both to those one can see and even feel the fact who deserve it and to those that that Eretz Yisroel, “palace of the time that it does not don’t deserve it, therefore he will King,” has a special miraculous, even depend on how receive Hashem’s kindness without G-dly supervision. However, at the any work at all on his part (for in same time, we must act according to Jews conduct this way, the whole system of Torah, and do what we must do in a reward and punishment is nullified). natural way so that we make a themselves as far as Rather, bitachon is an avoda, and it vessel to receive Hashem’s blessings brings Hashem’s kindness, which and His wondrous supervision. Torah and mitzvos comes as a result of man’s avoda in bitachon in Hashem: by a person The Rebbe emphasized are concerned, for truly relying on Hashem alone, from repeatedly at that time that it does the depths of his neshama, to the not even depend on how Jews after all the Jewish point that he doesn’t worry at all – conduct themselves as far as Torah this itself causes Hashem to conduct and mitzvos are concerned, for after people have gone Himself towards him in this all the Jewish people have gone through, especially manner, so that He does kindness through, especially the recent with him (even if, aside from this, generation, we can be certain that “a the recent generation, he doesn’t deserve it). tragedy will not take place twice.” Each and every Jew will experience we can be certain bitachon is an avoda, and it brings only good in an open and revealed Hashem’s kindness, which comes as a way, as it says, “Redeem the Jewish that “a tragedy will result of man’s avoda in bitachon in people from all their misfortunes,” Hashem which is then followed by, “and He not take place twice.” This is what “trust in Hashem” will redeem the Jewish people from means that a person must cast his all their sins.” burden upon Hashem, so that He Despite this, in order for us to be will do kindness with him in an proper vessels to receive the brachos, repeated many times in nearly every open manner. When one relies on we must add and beautify Torah and sicha of that period: Hashem alone in this manner mitzvos in general, fulfilling the The obligation of bitachon, (without calculations as to whether Rebbe’s directives in particular, most regarding which we were he can be saved, etc.), then he is especially the directive for this time commanded, is not merely a detail dealt with in the same way, measure and this situation: “tracht gut, vet (and the natural outcome) of the for measure. Hashem guards him zain gut” (think positively and it will belief that everything is under the and has mercy on him, even if he work out well). Let us strengthen control of Heaven and that Hashem doesn’t deserve to have open and and encourage the Jewish people is gracious and merciful, for it revealed good.

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 11 The Rebbe concludes the sicha in the Midrash, “they deserve Geula past it all, and everyone will see and (p. 6): From here we learn a as reward for the hope (itself),” and feel everything. But in the final practical lesson. When a person so may it be, that in the merit of the remaining moments (if there are encounters obstacles in keeping Jewish people’s bitachon, that any) we must fulfill the shlichus of Torah and mitzvos, he should know “salvation is about to come,” we this special time and shturm that getting rid of these obstacles is merit that Hashem redeem us with (particularly in Eretz Yisroel) that dependent on him and his conduct. the true and complete Geula, the Rebbe promises and prophesies If he has utter trust in Hashem, He speedily in our time. that “Eretz Yisroel is the safest place will help things turn out well, to the As the Rebbe repeatedly said at to be,” and we must travel there and point that he is absolutely calm with that time (Shmos 5751, etc.), we not, ch”v, run away from there! no concerns at all (though naturally, must merely “strengthen and With G-d’s help, we will see the he does all he must in a natural way encourage the Jewish people with great wonders and everybody will to get rid of the obstacles). Then we the proclamation which Hashem acknowledge that it was all so that are promised “tracht gut, vet zain makes every day in a new way, everybody will believe in the nevua gut” – that it will really turn out “pakod pakaditi es’chem,” Moshiach of Melech HaMoshiach, and accept good and all obstacles will be stands “behind our walls” and him and greet him, and express the nullified, and he’ll have literal good “behold he comes” and we must connection between the king and in a way that anybody can see. prepare to greet him by adding in his people with the final Geula Just as with the Geula from Torah and mitzvos...” NOW! Mitzrayim it says, “in the merit of We hope and are sure that there “Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu bitachon the Jews were redeemed won’t be a need for strengthening V’Rabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach L’olam from Mitzrayim,” so too with the and encouraging, since we will be Va’ed!” Geula from this final Galus. It says

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12 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 STORIES THE REBBE VISITS ORPHANAGES IN EUROPE A YOUNG MAN In another story from the era in which the Rebbe was in Europe, Rabbi Yosef Gordon told me the following WITH A CAP AT story which he heard from the person himself: THE SORBONNE Between the years 5700 and 5701 (1940-1), when World War II was raging, he was a child of 7-8 years of Stories about the Rebbe MH”M from the reshimos of age whose parents placed him in an R’ Elimelech Tiefenbrun published as a t’shura orphanage in order to save his life. for his son’s bar mitzva The orphanage was near , and each week a young man came and MIVTZA T’FILLIN AT THE brought food and medication. There were severe food and medicine SORBONNE shortages at that time, and the I heard the following story, young man’s help was greatly which took place 70 years ago, appreciated. He stayed on to tell from R’ Kasriel Sudak, who heard it them stories and lift their spirits. from a Klausenberger chassid: The children affectionately called A Jew from a distinguished him Monsieur. family in the Klausenberg This man remained in the community went off the derech and orphanage for nearly half a year, went to study at the Sorbonne and he remembers how each time University in . On his first the young man promised to come, day at the university, he entered the he came, despite the danger. main hall of the building and saw His parents were finally able to groups of students, each one leave France with him and heading to their prospective managed to enter the U.S., where classroom. He joined the crowd he ultimately discovered the and went to his classroom. identity of the wonderful young Suddenly he froze. A few steps man: the Rebbe MH”M. away from him was a chassid with a beard and kasket (cap) who looked “HE REALLY MEANS IT” like he was searching for someone. The nearly ten students whom one would I heard from Rabbi that boy who had gone to the university in be hard put to describe them as in the first years of the Rebbe’s nesius, order to flee any and all signs of religious, all standing in line to put on somebody came from Detroit on a Judaism didn’t want to meet the t’fillin. mission from one of the shluchim there. chassid’s gaze and tried to cross to the This amazing sight led to a spiritual In yechidus he told the Rebbe that R’ other side of the hall. But as though it awakening in him. His Jewish spark Meir Avtzon goes around telling people was intentional, the chassid also moved was ignited and he decided to put on that the Rebbe is Moshiach. Said the to that side and they met. t’fillin every day. His daily t’fillin Rebbe, “Vos zol ich ton az er meint mit “You can enter the room on the routine ultimately led him back to the an emes (what can I do, if he means it other side of the hall and put t’fillin on right path. truthfully). there,” suggested the chassid. The The chassid with the kasket, if you IS HE SURE? chassid’s penetrating look didn’t leave haven’t yet figured it out, was the him much choice, and he went to the Rebbe MH”M, who was studying at the There are many miracle stories told room the chassid had pointed out. He Sorbonne at that time. about the connection that the Rebbe looked in and was amazed to see revealed between kosher t’fillin and

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 13 mezuzos and physical health. One such Then she told me that after the an answer to continue visiting that story was related to me by Rabbi T. L. doctor said she had to hospitalize her doctor. One of his acquaintances had a child, she had written to the Rebbe What I learned from this story is medical problem. He wrote to the and did not receive an answer. that “no answer” from the Rebbe is also Rebbe and the Rebbe’s answer was: “I wrote again, and still didn’t an answer. check t’fillin and mezuzos. They receive a reply. And what do you think checked, and the sofer said everything – that I’ll hospitalize my son without a ONLY BEGINNINGS ARE was fine. They wrote to the Rebbe bracha from the Rebbe? No way! I will DIFFICULT what the sofer had said and were not call the doctor until I get an I heard from Rabbi Nachum V. that surprised to get this response from the answer from the Rebbe,” she declared his father-in-law once had a yechidus in Rebbe: Is he sure? with finality. which he asked for a bracha for They gave the t’fillin and mezuzos to I told her she was right, and I parnasa. The Rebbe said, “Chazal say another, more expert sofer, and he decided to ask the secretaries about the that only all beginnings are difficult…” found a few taggin that were not as delay in the answer. The next day I they should be, as well one mezuza asked R’ Binyamin Klein why there had CORRECTING A PICTURE which was pasul – even though this been no answer and he said that he The following story was told by mezuza was in a place that did not Rabbi N. to Rabbi P.R. who repeated it need a mezuza al pi din (since there to me: was no lintel). Rabbi N. lives in Lakewood, New After fixing the taggin and putting He told the Rebbe Jersey, and is a terrific artist. He once up a kosher mezuza in place of the pasul that R’ Meir Avtzon drew a picture of the Rebbe wrapped in one, everything else worked out, too. tallis and t’fillin, and he brought the goes around telling picture to the Rebbe as a gift. The Rebbe NO ANSWER IS ALSO AN said that the t’fillin in the picture were ANSWER people that the Rebbe lower than they ought to be and he Rabbi B told me the following: On should fix the picture and should not a hot summer night, a woman called is Moshiach. Said the show it to anyone until he had fixed it. me and asked if I knew a certain Rebbe, “What can I On his way back home he decided family. When I said that I did, she told to stop off in Morristown at his me that in the shul that she davened in, do, if he means it mashpia to show him the picture, but a woman cardiologist, who was an he got into an accident and the rear of expert in her field and worked at truthfully.” his car was smashed so badly that he Mount Sinai, davened there, too. The couldn’t open the trunk where he had previous week, this doctor cried while his picture. It was only when he got davening, and when she asked her what had placed the woman’s letter on the home to Lakewood that a local the problem was, she said a woman top of the pile of letters three times, mechanic was able to fix the car and had come to her with a very sick child but the Rebbe did not respond. “You’re open the trunk. who refused to hospitalize her son. A not the only one who’s asking. The week had gone by and the child was doctor calls every day and asks I’M HAPPY WITH HIM not being treated, and she was whether the Rebbe answered the Rabbi Y.Y. Kazen told me that when extremely concerned about him. letter.” his father, Rabbi Aharon Avigdor Kazen was a talmid in Tomchei T’mimim 770, Since I knew the family with the After a few more days passed his uncle had a yechidus on a mission sick child, the woman who had called without an answer, the mother took for his grandfather. He asked the me asked me to speak to the boy’s her son to a different doctor who said Rebbe “How is my brother? My father mother and to convince her to listen to his condition wasn’t that bad, and that is worried about him.” the doctor. I told her I would try. when the child went to camp he I immediately called the boy’s should just be sure not to run around The Rebbe said, “Ich bin tzufrieden mother and asked her what was going too much. fun em, ober ich veis nisht tzu er iz tzufrieden fun zich alein” (I’m happy on. She didn’t appreciate my butting in The mother wrote to the Rebbe, with him, but I don’t know if he’s to her business, and angrily retorted, telling him what the second doctor had happy with himself). “You also know the story?!” said, and within minutes she received

14 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 DAVEN WITH SIMCHA AND minutes later the Rebbe said, “I don’t PACKING BEFORE BE SUCCESSFUL know why he doesn’t bring one, but SHIVA-ASAR TAMMUZ I’ll make sure you get one.” Rabbi Y.Y. Kazen also told me that Another story I heard from R’ his father first came to the United R’ Kazen left the yechidus and went Kazen about his father was that on States Erev Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan to the small zal to write up what had Ko’ach Nissan 5721 (1961) he had a 5717 (1957) and had his first yechidus taken place in the yechidus. Suddenly yechidus for his birthday. In his letter on 27 Cheshvan. In the course of the he heard someone calling, “Kazen, he had written that he was planning yechidus, his father asked the Rebbe Kazen!” he said, to travel back to on Tuesday, whether he should change his nusach “I’m Kazen,” and R’ Groner told 17 Tammuz. him the Rebbe was calling him and to Nusach Arizal. The Rebbe said, “You In response to his letter the that he should go back to the Rebbe’s should switch, but wait until Rosh Rebbe said, “Since you’re traveling room. Chodesh Kislev.” on Shiva-Asar B’Tammuz, a fast day, Then the Rebbe asked him whether When he entered the Rebbe’s room begin packing before the fast.” he had a siddur. R’ Kazen said he he saw the Rebbe sitting and R’ Two and a half months later, a didn’t, but that he’d buy one. Said the Yitzchok Dov Ushpal facing him. The few days before 17 Tammuz, R’ Rebbe, “No, I’ll give you one.” Rebbe lifted himself up a bit in order to see him. Chadakov called him and said the The Rebbe looked for a siddur but Rebbe had written a note about him Since he saw that the Rebbe was didn’t find one, and he rang the bell which said, “Certainly he’ll beginning busy with R’ Ushpal, he left, but R’ (to call the secretary). Ten seconds packing before Tuesday.” later, Rabbi Chadakov, a”h, arrived and Groner told him to go back in. He the Rebbe asked him, “Are there any of went back in and this time the Rebbe the little siddurim around?” stood up, handed him a siddur, and R’ Chadakov went out to look for a said, “You should siddur and in the meantime the Rebbe daven b’simcha asked him a few more questions, like and be 8946 W. Pico Blvd who did he learn with, etc. A few successful.” , CA 90035 www.avivrentacar.com

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Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 15 CHASSID

THE REBBE SAID TO R’ MOSHE GOLDES A”H: “UNTIL NOW YOU’VE HELPED US; FROM NOW ON WE NEED TO HELP YOU” BY SHAI GEFEN

suffering and mesirus nefesh. The Chasid R’ Moshe Goldes was a legendary figure who It was an act of G-d that R’ Moshe gave away all his money to bolster Jewish life in missed the train which took out hundreds of chassidim from Russia and to support Lubavitch families. * Beis Moshiach during the famous flight on Yud-Tes presents a glimpse into the life of this amazing Chassid Kislev 5706. This resulted in his having to remain another thirty years who endangered himself to preserve the Jewish spark. in Chernovitz, where he lived with distinguished Lubavitcher families, The chassid R’ Moshe Leib Goldes, breadwinner had been imprisoned. such as the family of mashpia R’ Moshe a”h, was born in 5668 (1908) in His mesirus nefesh for Torah and Vishedsky, mashpia R’ Mendel Futerfas, Servia, which was under Romanian mitzvos was boundless, even when the mashpia R’ Chaim Zalman Kozliner, rule at that time. All the Jews of Servia Nazi enemy stood at the entrance to a”h, the Lebenherz family, the were shomrei Torah and mitzvos. the city. The next day it was difficult Cooperman family, and many others. R’ Moshe’s good qualities were to escape. The bridges had been taken Throughout that time, R’ Moshe apparent even in his youth. His father, down and the family had already was one of the outstanding activists R’ Yitzchok who was a melamed, died resigned itself to the idea of living who took part in secret and dangerous young, and R’ Moshe had to support under Nazi occupation. Miraculously activities. “He wasn’t afraid of his family even before he became a bar though, they managed to cross the anything,” testifies someone who knew mitzva. border in the direction of Kishinev. him. “His goal was to preserve the In 5701(1941) when the townsfolk When R’ Moshe would recount the Jewish flame in the and had to flee the Nazis, yimach shmam, adventures of that time he would to help Anash families in Chernovitz.” emphasize that he knew that nothing R’ Moshe refused to cross the Dniester R’ Moshe Goldes was not a bad would happen in the merit of his River on Shabbos even though he spiritual leader. He was quiet and keeping Shabbos. knew this put his life in danger. This introverted, and thus, without undo typified his approach throughout his As did many Jewish refugees, R’ attention, he enlivened the spirits of years in the Soviet Union, when even Moshe headed towards Uzbekistan Anash in Chernovitz, taking care of the considerations such as pikuach nefesh where he knew Chabad chassidim who support of many families. He founded did not stop him from undertaking had arrived there after the outbreak of “mattan b’seiser” (discreet charities), daring activities, such as supporting war. In 5705 (1945) the family financed the building of mikvaos, and Torah and building mikvaos, and traveled to Chernovitz where they took care of all matters pertaining to financially supporting Jews in need, lived until they moved to Eretz Yisroel Jewish life. particularly those families whose in 5735 (1975), after many years of At that time he was an important

16 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 supplier of dried fruit to Siberia. This money. R’ Mendel didn’t give up naturalness.” was his official job, in addition to though, saying, “At least take a loan R’ Benzion Vishedsky: “R’ Moshe which he had other businesses from for the amount you need for your was completely involved in chesed. For which he earned a great deal of business,” and this he agreed to do. a long period of time he earned a lot money. “I was present at the time, and I’ll of money from his businesses in great His friends of that time relate that never forget it. It was an incredible personal danger, yet he only took a 90% of the money he earned was lesson in how to give tz’daka.” tithe for himself from his earnings and given to tz’daka, while poverty reigned Many years later, in 5737, when gave the rest to tz’daka. in his home. His daughter, Mrs. Roza the family sat Shiva after his death, R’ “I remember his apartment. It was Petrivorsky relates that their home was Mendel, a”h, came to be menachem a miserable place without windows. It poverty-stricken, and this was despite avel. When he saw the family’s lacked basic furnishings, whereas the fact that their father earned a lot of despondence he asked, “Why are you other high-earners had incomparably money. crying? You ought to rejoice! R’ Moshe higher standards of living. He gave his “We never knew of our father’s went up to heaven with large suitcases money away for Torah and mitzvos. If activities. My father never told us what of mitzvos and good deeds.” a melamed needed money or there was he did with all the money he earned. Rabbi Benzion Vishedsky: “I a need to support a group of bachurim Everything was secretive. We began or the construction or maintenance of hearing about what he did only after a mikva, R’ Moshe Goldes was the he passed away. Suddenly people address. Aside from this, he supported showed up and told us about his When R’ Moshe many indigent families, married off amazing deeds on their behalf, and young couples, and many other that’s how we came to learn just a little would recount the projects. The amazing thing is that bit about him.” many of the families he supported did One of R’ Moshe’s instructors in adventures of that not know who their secret benefactor life was R’ Mendel Futerfas, who told time he would was. him which mosdos to support. R’ “He did this not only in Moshe gave without calculation. emphasize that he Chernovitz, but in other cities, too. In Rabbi Michel Vishedsky of Kfar the course of his work, he would Chabad: “A mikva was once built in knew that nothing travel throughout the Soviet Union, Chernovitz in the shul. My father, R’ and wherever he went he helped the Moshe Vishedsky, a”h, was involved in bad would happen in local Lubavitchers. the building of the mikva along with R’ the merit of his “I remember a story which I was Mendel Futerfas. R’ Moshe Goldes witness to from which you can learn once arrived from one of his business keeping Shabbos. how exceptional R’ Moshe was. One trips to Chernovitz, and didn’t even go day, R’ Moshe returned from his home first. He went straight to my travels, and he went straight to our father. home, where he met R’ Mendel “R’ Mendel was in our home at the remember that others also contributed Futerfas, a”h. He told him that he had time. R’ Moshe had a large sum of towards the secret mikva in been in a certain town near , money in his pocket that he had Chernovitz. When R’ Moshe found out and a Lubavitcher who had a large earned on this trip. R’ Mendel said to about this, he sighed and felt badly, family desperately wanted to add a R’ Moshe, “What have you got in your for he had wanted to give the entire room to his home. pockets? I need money for the mikva.” sum.” “When R’ Moshe stayed with him, R’ Moshe asked him how much he R’ Michel Vishedsky: “When I he asked R’ Moshe for a loan which he needed, and when R’ Mendel noted a think of R’ Moshe, it’s hard to believe, gave willingly and on the spot – 3000 large sum, R’ Moshe removed all the but he wasn’t a great oved or an rubles – a huge sum in those days. money from his pocket and gave it to outstanding lamdan; he was a simple “Hearing this, R’ Mendel said, “He R’ Mendel, without a moment’s Jew with a good heart and an unusual won’t return the money to you. He has hesitation. R’ Mendel said he should character that amazed everyone. He no way of returning it.” was a Jew who did not live for himself keep some of the money so that he R’ Moshe said, “But I have but for others, and after all that he could continue doing business, but R’ something in my hand [i.e., a didn’t feel that he was doing anything Moshe refused and gave him all the guarantor].” special. He did it all with the utmost

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 17 R’ Mendel was curious, “What do able to carry on despite the enormous Khrushchev took over, war was you have in your hand,” he asked. difficulties of those crazy times. R’ declared against black marketers with R’ Moshe answered in his typical Moshe didn’t tell how much he helped the death penalty meted out to those way, “If he returns it, fine. And if he Jews both b’gashmius and b’ruchnius, caught. Tens and hundreds of doesn’t, then the loan was tz’daka to but the stories and testimonials that thousands were arrested and tortured. that Jew.” came afterwards form a beautiful Many were put to death. R’ Moshe was a man who could mosaic of aid. The mashpia R’ Mottel Now, R’ Moshe earned a lot of keep a secret. His deeds were Kozliner, a”h, said that when the heads money this way, and one day practically unknown, but what we do of families were arrested, R’ Moshe somebody informed on him. The know is that hundreds of Jews made sure to bring money every police came to his house and were benefited from his largesse. morning so that the family could shocked to see how miserable it survive. R’ Moshe did not allow any The Lubavitcher families that lived looked. They checked again and again, chassidic family to founder. in Chernovitz at that time, among to make sure that this was indeed the them Vishedsky, Pressman, Lebenherz, R’ Kozliner: “R’ Moshe had a secret home of R’ Moshe Goldes, because Rubinson, Kozliner, etc., remember R’ fund whose purpose was to provide according to the information they had Moshe’s good heart and generosity. He the funds so that Anash families could received he was supposedly extremely would often loan money to people and wealthy, yet they didn’t find a cent in never took an IOU from them. He his home because there simply wasn’t would say, “If he can return it, he will; any – R’ Moshe left nothing for and if not, he won’t.” Everybody knew For a long period of himself. that a loan from R’ Moshe was a way R’ Moshe’s daughter relates: “After of giving tz’daka to those Jews who time he earned a lot my father’s arrest, the chassidim needed it. “He worked hard making a farbrenged in our house on Shabbos living in order to help other Jews,” of money from his Mevarchim. R’ Mendel took a lot of said Rabbi Chaim Meir Kahane, the businesses in great mashkeh and suddenly began crying rav of Chernovitz. terribly. He kept on repeating: ‘R’ In order to further his dried fruit personal danger, yet Moshe, you’re left with all the money. business, he often traveled to various They didn’t manage to take anything cities in Russia. He arranged his work he only took a tithe from you…’” so that he spent each Shabbos in a His arrest took place after the first different city of the Soviet Union with for himself from his day of Pesach 5723. He was tortured friends and acquaintances. earnings and gave the and interrogated by the K.G.B., but he On these trips, R’ Moshe spread didn’t say a word about anyone. For a Yiddishkeit and was mekarev Jews to rest to tz’daka. number of days he refused to eat Torah and mitzvos, supporting them because of Pesach. At first, the Soviets whether with a good word or with thought they could break him, but R’ actual help. Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Moshe was hard as stone and refused to eat. Only then did they allow his Raskin who lived in Gorky at that travel to the mikva. In all of Russia at time, remembers that one day R’ family to bring him matzos and other that time there were two or three kosher l’Pesach food to his cell. Moshe knocked at his door and asked mikvaos, and sometimes it was a long During the many interrogations, R’ to borrow money for a train ticket and costly trip. Sometimes people Moshe was asked about help he home to Chernovitz. He didn’t have a even needed to fly. R’ Moshe saw this offered Jews as well as about his illegal cent in his pocket. as of supreme importance, and for businesses. R’ Moshe’s arrest caused The Raskin couple couldn’t years he paid for these trips without great pain to many Jews, and gloom understand it, since R’ Moshe was not people knowing it was him. If that descended upon the Lubavitcher a man in need of loans. Seeing their wasn’t enough, he made sure that after families in Chernovitz. surprise, he told them that he had met the long trip, which sometimes took a young Jewish couple about to marry days, presents were brought for the R’ Moshe received a relatively light who lacked the means to do so. R’ children who remained at home, sentence of eight years(!), when other Moshe gave them all the money he something which says a great deal people received the death sentence for had so that they could marry. about R’ Moshe’s sensitivity.” similar crimes or were tortured. Despite the great suffering he endured, Thanks to him, many families were In the beginning of the 50’s, when R’ Moshe gave in on nothing, and even

18 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 “My father never told us what he did with all the money he earned. Everything was secretive. We began hearing about what he did only after he passed away. Suddenly people showed up and told us about his amazing deeds on their behalf, and that’s how we came to learn just a little bit about him.”

while in jail he zealously kept mitzvos all his life for that moment, especially said that Rabbi Yehoshua Pinson, the with mesirus nefesh as he did when after his travails in Russian jails. director of Ezras Achim, should go free. Although he wasn’t old, he was weak along with R’ Moshe. R’ Moshe would The eight difficult years ended on from everything he had endured. introduce himself and speak about the Friday, Erev Pesach 5731. He left jail As soon as he left Russia, he Jews left behind the Iron Curtain. and got home in time for the seider, traveled to the Rebbe, as did many Then some time later, R’ Moshe and was able to celebrate his personal chassidim who left in those days. R’ went to the Rebbe again and had redemption with his family. Mordechai Kozliner, a”h, who knew R’ another yechidus. After this second trip After his release, he dedicated all Moshe for years, told about this he fell ill and passed away one year his time to Torah study. His daughter special visit: “As soon as he entered for and eight months after he arrived in remembers his devotion to Torah yechidus, which lasted 18 minutes, the Eretz Yisroel, on 6 Kislev 5737, when study, to shiurei chassidus, and saying Rebbe said to him, ‘Until now you he was only 69 years old. He was T’hillim as though he wanted to make helped us; from now on we must help buried on Har HaZeisim near his up for what he had missed out on all you.’ I think the Rebbe’s remark friend R’ Shmuel Avrohom Lebenherz, those years. expresses what R’ Moshe was all a”h. He presented a request to emigrate about: helping others. During the R’ Moshe Goldes was greatly to Eretz Yisroel in 5732. He was yechidus the Rebbe asked him about mekushar to the Rimnitzer Rebbe, zt”l. refused, and for the next three years everything he had experienced in At R’ Moshe’s funeral, R’ Mendel he and his family were refusniks. It Russia.” whispered to the Rimnitzer Rebbe, was only in 5735 that R’ Moshe For a while, R’ Moshe traveled and “He is taking suitcases of g’milus chesed realized his dream and moved with his fundraised on behalf of Ezras Achim, with him to heaven.” family to Eretz Yisroel. He had waited which helps Russian Jews. The Rebbe

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This week’s parsha speaks about the massive wealth, would give only one thieves and liars those so-called rabbis. building of the Mishkan. This portable rusty penny to all charity collectors, A penny is really too much for them,” Sanctuary accompanied the Jews in the regardless of how worthy or urgent the as he placed the rusty penny before the desert for forty years, and was the cause. He simply hated to give away Rebbe. forerunner of all the Mishkans (Nob, his money, and made all sorts of But to his surprise, the Rebbe Shiloh, etc) and Mikdashos (especially, excuses to justify himself. seemed pleased; he was actually and most importantly, the third Beis When the Rebbe arrived in the smiling at him warmly as he put the HaMikdash), for the next three town, the elders of the community coin into his pocket and said: “Thank thousand-plus years. graciously received him, but when he you, Mister Solomons. May G-d bless The materials needed to build this announced that he wanted to visit the and protect you always.” Mishkan were donated by the Jewish house of the miser, and wanted two “It must be some trick,” thought people, and hence, the commandment rabbis to accompany him, he was met Solomons to himself. to Moshe in the beginning of our with serious resistance. The Rebbe was But no! The Rebbe was writing him section: “Speak to the Jewish people adamant, however, and they finally a receipt and adding all sorts of and they should take for me a truma acquiesced and gave him the escort he blessings in the most beautiful script! (donation)...” requested. “Thank you again, my friend,” said the Now, at first glance, the word The next afternoon, the three of Rebbe as he stood and warmly shook “take” doesn’t make sense here. It them were standing before the miser’s the miser’s hand, looking him deeply should say, “they should give Me a mansion, but before he knocked on in the eyes with admiration. “And now donation,” because that is what the door, the Rebbe turned to his we must be on our way. We have a lot Hashem really wanted – that everyone companions and requested them not to of collecting to do tonight.” should give toward building the holy utter a word, no matter what they hear The three rabbis walked to the Mishkan. Why does it say take? or see. Several moments later they door. The Rebbe turned and bade his Also, “for me” seems extra. They were sitting in the luxurious front host yet another warm farewell as they were building the Mishkan, whom else room and the owner was returning stepped outside. “You should have would they be giving for, if not G-d? from his safe with a small velvet thrown it back in his face,” hissed one The answer to the first question money pouch. of the rabbis after they heard the door can be learned from the following “Yes,” said the rich man. “A close behind them. story: touching story indeed, widows and “Don’t turn around and don’t say a Once, the Alter Rebbe was forced orphans in captivity. Ahhh, the word,” whispered the Rebbe as they to collect money in order to ransom suffering of the Jewish people – when walked down the path to the front Jewish prisoners. He went first to a city will it all end. Here, Rabbi. Take my yard gate. that was famous for its miser. It seems humble donation.” But the miser was Suddenly they heard the door open that this stingy man, despite his really thinking to himself, “A pack of behind them and heard the miser

20 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 calling: “ Rabbis, rabbis, please come want to speak with you,” Mr. Tabernacle and the Beis HaMikdash back for a minute. Hello, hello. Please, Solomons called out. after it is to make every Jew, and I must speak to you. Please… please “Aha! I knew it!” exclaimed one of eventually every creation, feel that come back in.” the rabbis under his breath, “He wants everything must be “taken for In a few minutes they were again his money back. Let’s just keep Hashem,” and that every minute of sitting in the warm, plush dining walking” one’s life should be a holy end in itself room, but this time the rich man was “G-d forbid,” said the Rebbe. devoted to illuminating the world. pacing back and forth restlessly. He “Exactly the opposite. Come, let us * * * stopped for an instant and turned to return.” More than any detail in the the Rebbe. “Exactly how much money They entered the house for a third Tabernacle, this is especially the job of do you need?” time as the miser turned to them and the menora: to illuminate the world. “About five thousand rubles,” the said, “I have decided to give the entire And it is the job of the Rebbe, Melech Rebbe answered calmly. sum needed for the ransom. Here it is. HaMoshiach, to transform every Jew “Well here is one thousand… I have Please count it to see that I have not into a bright menora. decided to give one thousand rubles. made a mistake.” The Rebbe gave a speech about this You may count it if you want,” said the The Rebbe later turned to his week’s section over 20 years ago, miser as he took a tightly bound stack astonished companions and explained. proving beyond a doubt that the arms of bills from his jacket pocket and laid “I saw that this rich man really wanted of the menora were straight and to give but that he had a thin covering of selfishness over his heart that made “A pack of thieves him insensitive to the needs of others. I knew that the only way to break this “Thank you, my and liars those so- shell was to make him feel, just one time, what it means to give charity. You friend,” said the called rabbis. A see he never had had that feeling even once in his life, because everyone he Rebbe as he stood and penny is really too gave that rusty penny of his to threw it warmly shook the much for them,” as he back in his face.” “This,” concluded the Rebbe, “is miser’s hand, looking placed the rusty the meaning of the words in the beginning of Parshas Truma: ‘Take for him deeply in the penny before the Me a donation’ – by taking that penny from him, I gave him his first taste of eyes with admiration. Rebbe. giving, and opened his heart.” * * * Now, what about our second it on the table. The other rabbis were question; “Why does it say “for Me”? diagonal, and not rounded, as they are astounded. They stared at the money The Rebbe MH”M gives the following commonly pictured. He pointed out and were even afraid to look up at the explanation: that this is the clear opinion of the miser, lest he change his mind. The reason that G-d says here greatest Torah authorities – Rashi But the Rebbe again shook Mr. “Take for Me truma” is to teach each of (Shmos 25:32) and Maimonides Solomons hand, warmly thanking him, us a very deep lesson: If you have the (Rambam on Mishna, ch. 3 Menachos) and wrote him a beautiful receipt ability to take (i.e., to convince others – and that no one of their stature has replete with blessings and praises, to give), don’t make a mistake and ever disagreed with them. exactly like the first time. think that the main thing is the results, In fact, the only dissenting “That was a miracle!” whispered and therefore, all means are justified to opinions came from those who one of them to the Rebbe as they left get that donation or to make the other mistakenly understood that the the house and were again walking person more observant. It is definitely Rambam held otherwise because they toward the gate. not so. Rather, it is essential that even had not seen the sketch that the he The Rebbe signaled him, as before, the means must be holy. In other himself had made (in his explanation to be still, when suddenly the door of words, the one who is taking must on the Mishna) depicting the menora the house again opened behind them. purify himself and use only truth, love, with clearly straight arms. (The “Rabbis, please I have changed my and honesty to obtain his goals. Rambam’s son, Asher, in his expiation mind. Please come in once more. I The entire purpose of the on the Torah, verified this sketch as his

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 21 father’s true opinion, and, therefore, entering the outer courtyard! The next his own, as well.) time he saw that he was passing the To make matters worse, the only The only real source sacrificial altar, then entering into the real source for the rounded version is a Sanctuary’s interior, passing the incense non-Jewish, and in fact, an anti-Jewish, for the rounded altar, and approaching the curtain in source: the Roman engraving on their version is a non- front of the Holy of Holies! Gate of Victory! Certainly no match for He emerged once more and was the opinions of Rashi and Rambam! Jewish, and in fact, trembling with excitement! He was But for some unknown reason even the about to look into the Holy of Holies… most religious Jews continue to depict an anti-Jewish, to see the unseen! The Holy Ark rounded menoros in their holy places containing the Ten Commandments! and ignore the proofs of the Rebbe, as source: the Roman He filled his lungs with as much air as well as his other ingenious Torah possible and slowly immersed, eyes interpretations, G-dly prophesies, and engraving on their open, filled with trepidation. There he world-saving projects. Gate of Victory! was again, separated only by that thick I would like to explain this curtain from the innermost chamber of phenomenon with another story: the Holy Temple. He grabbed the Once there was a chassid of the Baal mikva was, and it was a perfect chance curtain and carefully pulled it aside… Shem Tov who wanted to travel to to really purify his thoughts for the big His eyes then beheld something Eretz Yisroel, but the Baal Shem Tov trip. He removed his clothes, entered that completely defied his wildest would not give him permission. the water, took a deep breath and put imagination. In the place of the Holy Several months later, the chassid again his head under the water. Something Ark, amidst a blinding light, was none asked, and then a few weeks after that, told him to open his eyes, and as he other than the Baal Shem Tov! and again a week later, until he felt did so he saw the most wondrous The chassid came out of the water, that his longing for the Holy Land was thing; it was as though he was looking dried himself, dressed, and headed driving him insane. Every day he wrote from a ship at the distant shoreline of straight back to the Baal Shem. He once, and even twice, to the Baal Shem Eretz Yisroel! thought to himself, “If the Holy Ark is Tov asking for permission, until finally The chassid looked until he could in Mezibus, why should I travel to the Master reluctantly gave him no longer hold his breath, came out of Yerushalayim?” permission. the water, took another deep breath Similarly in our case, just like the Elated, the chassid bought boat and submerged once more with open Baal Shem Tov, the Rebbe is the Holy tickets and packed his bags. He eyes. This time it was as though he was of Holies, completely beyond our couldn’t wait. Soon he would kiss the looking from dry land and he saw in understanding, and therefore, soil of the Holy Land! the distance the Holy city of sometimes a bit challenging to accept. Finally the day of his departure Yerushalayim! He couldn’t believe his And that is another reason why arrived. He woke early and before the eyes! Once again he came up for air, chassidim believe the Rebbe to be Morning Prayer he went to immerse and the next time under he saw that he Moshiach. May we see Moshiach and himself in the mikva. He found himself was approaching the Holy Temple and the revelation of the Beis HaMikdash, alone in the small room where the NOW!

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RESCUING NESHAMOS Two young men went on shlichus for a month to FROM SPIRITUALLY northern India * They relate a few stories of Jews DROWNING reclaiming their roots in that far-off locale. Before going to India, Alon wrote a letter to the Rebbe in which he Rabbi Alon Chakshur, a resident leading to a wave of hisorerus among asked whether to travel so far, of Maalot in northern Eretz Yisroel, the Israelis. A number of them were particularly since it was before the went to northern India with his drawn to Judaism and Chabad as a Yomim Tovim of Tishrei. His answer: friend, R’ Dovid Zohar of Tzfas. result of their work. When a person is drowning you remove your t’fillin and run to save Their home base was in Rishkash, a Beis Moshiach readers are familiar him. Kal v’chomer with Jewish souls. large city in India which is with outreach in India from frequented by Israeli tourists and previous articles, so in this article “That did it for me. I knew I was many Jews. India’s meditation centers we chose to present you with a going on this shlichus!” says Alon. are in the center of the city, and number of fascinating stories about “And a number of souls were saved these attract many Jews. this incredible shlichus in northern because we went. One neshama is The pair of shluchim arrived in India. now in the yeshiva in Katamon, town and began working intensively, diligently learning nigleh and

T’villas keilim in the local river An Israeli raises a Torah for the first time in his life

24 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 chassidus. I suddenly rode over a stone and felt “As soon as we arrived, we rented Within seconds, myself being thrown off the an entire floor in a guesthouse, hundreds of Moslems motorcycle towards very sharp rocks. where we set up a shul and dining If that wasn’t enough, a passing truck room. We spent a month there, in began surrounding nearly killed me. Believe me, I don’t the course of which hundreds of know how I came out of it all alive, Jews came for davening, meals, and me with murder in aside from a few scratches and a sprained leg. other events we hosted. their eyes and axes “On our first days there, we met a “I won’t forget that trip for a long very enthusiastic Jew. News about and clubs in their time, and as soon as I arrived here the arrival of chareidim from Eretz safely, I looked around for some Yisroel had sped among the ranks of hands. I didn’t have good deed to do. When I saw your the tourists there. This Jew wanted to signs I knew I just had to put on put on t’fillin, the sooner the better. to be a genius to t’fillin and even bentch gomel.” We didn’t understand what had “This man still keeps in touch happened to him, because he didn’t guess their intentions. with us,” says Alon. look religious. It took time until the I knew that I had man got over his excitement and was A SERIES OF AMAZING able to tell us his story.” only moments left to EVENTS ON YOM KIPPUR He and a friend had stayed at the Barak Naveh learns in the Chabad in Delhi, and then live, and the Shma yeshiva in Katamon. This is thanks to went on a motorcycle trip through Yisroel burst out of the shluchim who went to far-off the mountains on their way to Rishkash. Barak is Israeli born and Rishkash. They had looked forward me. I added a prayer: 23 years old. His family has no to this trip for the longest time, but connection whatsoever with religion. what happened on the way let him G-d help me! Get me He was as far as from Jewish things know there’s a Master of this world. as east is to west, but the incredible out of this deathtrap. miracle that happened to him in This is what he told us: India brought him back to his roots. “We knew that we were without oil and without gasoline. Barak himself told us what he embarking on a difficult trip, fraught Miraculously we met an Indian who experienced on his lengthy trip to with obstacles, but we hadn’t surprisingly agreed to give us oil and India, when he teetered on the brink dreamed of the obstacles we actually gas. We continued on our way, when of death. experienced! At first we were stuck The Chabad house in northern India “Hi, how about doing a mitzva?”

We’ll start with Alon: a long road ahead of me – very long. demonstrators decided to leave me “One day a young man came to I decided to set out, in the alone. I don’t know exactly what us and asked us to teach him direction of Manali. After fixing the happened. I can just remember a everything. He meant t’fillos, brachos, motorcycle I set out on the long trip flash of an image that when the and t’fillin. After he received his first for Manali, a trip that nearly ended Moslems fell upon me, I saw lesson, he began telling us his story. with my death. I had been traveling someone approach one of the leaders, whisper something in his Barak: One day I was traveling for a long while and started noticing thick smoke on the road. As I got ear, and then disappear into the with a friend in the mountains. We crowd. When I recount this, I decided to leave Kashmir Erev Yom closer I saw burning tires and thousands of people, just like in Gaza. wonder whether I had the privilege Kippur. The fact that it was the eve of Eliyahu HaNavi himself coming to of the holy day didn’t bother me as I That day the Moslems of Kashmir my rescue. wasn’t at all religious. A quarter of an had demonstrated angrily and I was hour before Yom Kippur, a bus heading straight into the crowd. I nearly got stuck in two other suddenly bypassed us and I was Within seconds, hundreds of demonstrations by Moslem thrown to the ground. I checked to Moslems began surrounding me with extremists, but I knew to avoid them. see that I was in one piece, and saw murder in their eyes and axes and When I got to Manali, I decided I’d that I was fine though the motorcycle clubs in their hands. I didn’t have to join Chabad for Simchas Torah (I had been damaged. be a genius to guess their intentions. heard they had come before that), I knew that I had only moments left and celebrate Simchas Torah I dragged the motorcycle to a properly. I hadn’t observed Yom local mechanic who fixed it for me to live, and the Shma Yisroel burst out of me. I added a prayer: G-d Kippur; at least I would observe on Yom Kippur. After seeing that Simchas Torah. everything was in order, my friend help me! Get me out of this and I mounted the motorcycle once deathtrap. I met Alon who guided me and again, intending to travel onwards, As strange as it sounds, suddenly, gave me all the help I needed. Today, but it refused to budge for no and for no discernible reason, the baruch Hashem, I am studying in the apparent reason. Chabad yeshiva in Katamon. I began to realize that all this was happening because I had fixed it on L’CHAIM, OX! Yom Kippur. I finally got it moving Alon: On Simchas Torah as we returned from Tahalucha, Dovid Zohar again, but then my friend didn’t want put a bottle of mashkeh in his pocket in order to be able to say l’chaim to go. He understood that there was with the Israelis. An ox lumbering by (oxen are commonly found on the more here than met the eye, and street) gored him. He fell on the pavement and we were terrified that he thought we had had enough problems was seriously injured, but miraculously, the horns had gored the bottle of and miracles. I continued on myself, mashkeh in the pocket of his sirtuk, and he was fine! thinking that I needed to do something, but I still didn’t know I had He bentched gomel on Shabbos B’Reishis.

26 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 T’fillin on the arm and neshamos ignited in distant Rishkash T’kias shofar near the river

SPARKS IGNITED ON THE REBBE ANSWERS helped us tremendously in SIMCHAS TORAH A young Israeli by the name of organizing the food and other stuff. “Simchas Torah was especially Harel was in the Chabad house in When he was ready to leave, he joyous,” says Alon. Many Jews joined Delhi and Dramasala, and came to us asked to write to the Rebbe. He took us the first night, but for some for Yom Kippur. He was already it very seriously, and put his letter in reason, we didn’t get a crowd the excited about Chabad’s work, and he a volume of Igros Kodesh. After he next night. After we made our read the answer, we saw him begin Hakafos, we knew that on a day like to cry. We didn’t understand why he that we had to seek out Jews, and so Many Jews joined us was crying but we left him alone. we headed for a nearby grove where When he calmed down, he told us he we knew many Israelis sat around the first night, but for had wanted to ask two questions, but bonfires. We said: if they don’t come after thinking it over, he asked only to us, we’ll go to them. some reason, we one of them. Incredibly, the Rebbe had answered the question he had “We took Sifrei Torah and indeed, decided not to ask. met many Israelis. Circles began didn’t get a crowd the forming and the enthusiasm was next night. After we A few weeks later, at the incredible. It was there, of all places, beginning of Cheshvan, we met him that many sparks were ignited. The made our Hakafos, again. He had decided to do t’shuva, next day, someone came to the and he told us that it was the answer Chabad house and said, “You have we knew that on a of the Rebbe in the Igros Kodesh that no idea what you accomplished with he got in Rishkash that was the your dancing. You came right in the day like that we had catalyst for his decision. middle of a debate with an Israeli to seek out Jews, and I continued to keep in touch with who was in an ashram in Poona, who him after I returned to Eretz Yisroel, had convinced others among us to so we headed for a and Harel added the following: join him. When you arrived, you “I went to sleep Yom Kippur woke up their neshamos at the last nearby grove where night when I suddenly heard you tell minute. we knew many one of the boys that on Yom Kippur “That guy from the ashram also we don’t go to sleep like a goy; you joined in the dancing, and then he Israelis sat around have to say T’hillim. I decided that I, announced that he was leaving all too, would not go to sleep like a goy, the avoda zara. I don’t know bonfires. We said: if and I got up and said Krias Shma in exactly what appealed to him in the siddur. It was a tremendously your dancing with the Torah, but they don’t come to us, moving moment.” the fact is that he decided to drop Alon: “Since he arrived back in it all.” we’ll go to them. Eretz Yisroel, his life is completely

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 27 different. Baruch smugglers from the Hashem, he also found a black market. suitable shidduch.” “At a certain point JEWISH SOULS IN the smugglers were RISHKASH afraid the law was onto them, and they left me A remarkable thing alone near a gas station happened to me on and said they’d come Rosh HaShana. After back for me in a few davening, we went to hours. I was afraid the main centers to they’d never return, and blow shofar. I met two there I was in Israelis and suggested unfamiliar that they listen to the surroundings, in shofar. They agreed, danger. Suddenly I and I closed my eyes Israelis help build the sukka found myself singing, and blew, without “Kol ha’olam kulo gesher noticing what was tzar me’od...” (the whole going on around me. entire world is a very More and more Jews narrow bridge). had gathered round, “The men returned, until there were dozens and in the end I arrived of them standing there safely in Tibet, but at and listening to the the time when I didn’t shofar. know what would When I had become of me, I felt a finished, I noticed an tremendous closeness older woman and girl to Hashem, which gave standing not far off who me a hisorerus. looked like locals. I “That’s why as soon inquired and learned as I arrived, I went to that the woman was a the Chabad house and Jewish doctor who lived put on t’fillin.” in India. I brought her a picture of the Rebbe, * * * and suggested that Alon: These stories while we were in India, are just a drop in the Dovid Zohar and Alon, in the sukka built in Rishkash she should come to the bucket of the Chabad house and experiences we had and Judaism. It was the gentile husband learn a bit about Judaism. She said the people we met during our month- who was most excited by our visit. that she and her gentile husband had long shlichus in India. Each neshama is We said to ourselves that it paid to go resolved not to teach their daughter a a world. on shlichus here just for this family. thing about religion. We saw how great the Rebbe’s I decided I couldn’t forego this FEELING CLOSE TO HASHEM ko’ach is as he reaches Jews in every Jewish neshama lost in Rishkash, and We had another story with Yaron, corner of the world and ignites their the day after Rosh HaShana we an Israeli who came to the Chabad neshamos. As it said in the answer I visited them at their home. The house all excited. He put on t’fillin opened to before I left, we must run house was full of little idols. We and even helped us in our activities. and save a drowning Jew, all the spoke with the father and after a Yaron had been through a lot in his more so, a drowning neshama. Baruch long conversation, he agreed to travels. He had been in China and Hashem, because of that trip, many having mezuzos put up, probably the wanted to cross the border to Tibet, neshamos were returned to their first mezuza in Rishkash. but since there were problems from source. We left them books about the Tibetans, he decided to cross via

28 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 PROFILE HOW FRIENDS OF REFUGEES OF EASTERN EUROPE (F.R.E.E.) INSPIRED A JEWISH CHILD TO BECOME THE REBBE’S CHASSID

Zelig Krymko came to the U.S. trips, arts and crafts, and even some camp together debating and discussing from Leningrad, Russia in 1978 at the Jewish cultural learning. She didn’t G-d, Judaism, Torah, and the question age of one and a half. He was one of realize that she’s sending me to FREE’s of the authenticity of it all (all this at many thousands of Jewish children Russian division of Gan Yisroel, the the age of 12!),” Zelig recalls from Russia affected and inspired by Lubavitch summer sleep-away camp in nostalgically. “My camp friendship the work of Friends of Refugees of upstate New York.” with Shmuli Hecht really shaped my Eastern Europe. When he was two The summer of 1988 was the first attitude towards Yiddishkeit and years old, rabbis from FREE really positive, exciting and fun-filled helped shape my philosophy. Now approached his parents, while they Jewish experience Zelig had. He that I think back, it is remarkable how were still living in a hotel in learned how to read Hebrew in a few much more powerful it is for a Manhattan (Jews that arrived from weeks, learned brachos, and starting teenager to discuss Judaism with peers Russia to New York in the 1970’s were wearing a yarmulke and tzitzis on a than with teachers and counselors.” placed in hotels paid for by the regular basis for the very first time in Shmuli Hecht is now the shliach at Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and his life. Yale University, and Zelig Krymko is in NYANA until they would be placed in the 770 kollel as well as the appropriate housing) and offered a His counselors saw that he was spokesperson for TruePeace.org. very rebellious against the religious free bris mila for their son. Zelig’s FREE’s Shabbos Club, that had a parents agreed, and today fondly aspect of the camp, mostly because , as he recalls, “I wanted to do what weekly Shabbaton program in Crown remember not only the bris, but also Heights for teens from non-observant the bottle of wine presented as a gift made sense, and davening three times a day, after meals, before going to sleep, homes, brought the Gan Yisroel on behalf of the bris. This was the summer experience into the entire first encounter the Krymko family had and for hours on Shabbos seemed not only boring, but made no sense to me year for these kids. “I couldn’t wait to with FREE, which spiritually laid the come to Crown Heights every groundwork for a future connection. at that point. So I davka made a point not to daven, and even encouraged my Shabbos, to see the Rebbe, to learn Many years elapsed, and Zelig was fellow campers to rebel against the and win prizes, but most importantly, a student at the Gifted and Talented rules.” to go skiing on Sundays in the winter Program of the NYC public school months. I actually learned how to ski system, when FREE placed an ad in Mordechai Golden, the director, through Shabbos Club, and the the Russian newspaper, “Novoye saw the potential in a camper who was concept of screaming “Shma Yisroel” Russkoye Slovo.” constantly arguing against what was when you think you’re about to die being taught, and set Zelig up with was ingrained in me on the black “They didn’t realize it was a Shmuli Hecht, an incredibly bright religious camp they’re sending me to,” diamond slopes of Hunter Mountain Gan Yisroel camper from a Lubavitch and Big Vanilla,” Zelig recalls. recalls Zelig. “My mom saw an ad in family, a year his senior. “Shmuli the Russian paper for a Jewish would get beer on Friday nights from Mordechai Golden, together with summer camp, complete with sports, somewhere and we’d walk around Chaim Yavich, would organize weekly

30 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 FREE Shabbos Club Shabbatons, treif, I walked out of the dining room where there would be an average of “When this child was and began to weep,” she recalls, “that ten to twenty teens every Shabbos. these are the questions that Jewish The teenagers slept on mattresses on concerned that maybe children are asking today.” the top floors of FREE’s headquarters he wasn't Jewish FREE’s summer camp planted the on President Street. They were split seeds, FREE’s Shabbos Club fertilized up every Shabbos into two or three because his mother and watered them, and then they teams, and had competitions. These began to grow. competitions involved davening, feeds him treif, I games, learning, answering questions In eighth grade, Zelig was already on whatever parsha or holiday it was, walked out of the coming to Crown Heights for Shabbos and being in the front of the crowd of and Yom Tov on a regular basis. overjoyed, pulsating chassidim in 770 dining room and Once, before a Yom Tov, he told all his when the Rebbe would walk through began to weep,” she friends in his Astoria, Queens public before and after davening. school that it’s a Jewish holiday for the next two days and that he will not be And the teens would go to various recalls, “that these coming in to school. When he came families for meals, which really gave are the questions that home, though, his parents would not them an incredible insight on how let him go to Crown Heights for Yom chassidim really live. Jewish children are Tov, and the next day he was forced to “I became close with Zalman and go to school. Esther Shagalov, as well as the asking today.” Zelig relates: “I was heartbroken Borodkin families,” says Zelig. that I was going to school on Yom Tov, Rebbetzin Esther Shagalov remembers even though his parents feed him non- but I thought that I would try to keep how Zelig was at her home for a kosher food. “When this child was it the best I could. We had bus passes Shabbos when he was 13 years old, concerned that maybe he wasn’t for the city bus, so I thought that it’s and asked her if he was still Jewish Jewish because his mother feeds him not a big deal, I’m not paying for the

On a FREE summer camp trip

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 31 bus, just carrying, which is allowed on Yom Tov,” he recalls. This song, composed by a March of the Living teen participant, inspired Zelig tremendously. It encapsulates the lesson we can take out of “When I got to my homeroom the Churban of the Holocaust in an incredibly powerful way. class, I walked in late, and as I sat down, bitter tears began rolling down EVERLASTING FLAME my face. I was so embarrassed when BY SHAYNA LEVINE my friends began to whisper amongst MARCH OF THE LIVING, AND ISRAEL, 1994 themselves that I told everyone I Footsteps on cobblestone roads Who took their children by the hand wasn’t coming in for two days because As snow falls to the ground And told them never to fear of a Jewish holiday, and here I am. I I strain myself to listen For they could never understand was deeply upset that I was in school I can barely hear the sounds on Yom Tov while other Jewish For the child who risked his life children were in Crown Heights with Of young children laughing To get a loaf of bread From Cheider running home To feed his family just one more day the Rebbe and I couldn’t be. It all To share the Torah they have learned This tear I shed came out. I was upset because I can see their faces glow. children my age I saw in 770 had an I can see the lights you lit on Chanukah entire circle of Jewish friends, were a The rustle of the marketplace on Friday I can hear voices in prayer part of their close knit groups in afternoon I can feel the hope in your heart yeshiva, knew each other so well, and The girls come home with baskets When light could not be found it wasn’t fair, I thought, that I was For Shabbos they bring food anywhere stuck in a public school surrounded by goyim, with so few close The crowd of men hurrying I can feel your hopes and your dreams To welcome the Shabbos Queen I can hear your song relationships. And in the windows of each home And I promise you wherever I go Within a few minutes, the tears The candles can be seen. I will take them along. were noticeable, and the teacher saw. She took me out into the hall and The shtetl that was here Footsteps on cobblestone roads asked me what was wrong. Where has it all gone? But so very different it’s clear Embarrassed because I cried in front Where is the flame of Torah The stones are pure in That used to burn so strong? Each one so precious and dear of the class, and holding back tears, I told her that it was a Jewish holiday, Sparks of glory dwindling I can still hear the children laughing that my parents weren’t religious, and As the days go by The girls in the marketplace that they forced me to go to school. I, And if you listen with your heart The candles are lit around the shul a twelve or thirteen year old Jewish You can hear the city cry. Your dream lives on today. kid, told my teacher, who was a Catholic Italian, that I cannot write in The fathers mothers and children It is from you that we get our strength any of my classes, as it is a Jewish law All those that used to be We will live as Jews with pride on the holiday. Each one of them a brother, a sister We have lit an everlasting candle One of my family With each tear we’ve cried What happened then was remarkable. She brought me down to Desecrations are all that’s left We have taken your spark the principal of P.S.122, who was also Not much has survived And passed it down a goy, and he wrote me a note to take They tried to extinguish our fire The flame of Torah rekindled to all my classes that I am exempt But it will never die. Your song is all around from writing in all classes for the next In your great yeshivas The shtetl that you’ve built two days! I was ecstatic! I went to all Your light radiates from the walls It is far from gone my classes, English, Biology, Social Your song is so inspiring We have lit the flame of Torah Studies, French, with this note. And yet its voice so small It is forever strong The only teacher who gave me a problem was the Jewish Social Studies It tells stories of courage Your bodies they have burned To surrender you refused But your spirits still survive teacher, Mrs. Adelson from Long With Shma Yisroel on your lips They tried to extinguish our fire Island. “What, you’re more religious You lived and died as Jews But it must never die. than me?” she exclaimed, and threw me out of the class. So for that period For thee, our mothers

32 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 I had to stand in the hallway. only student to wear a yarmulke and There is so much that I learned “When the entire tzitzis in the entire school, and won from this. One is that American non- the admiration of many of the Jewish Jews can be the most understanding group of 6,000 teens students and faculty. and compassionate people, that There were definitely obstacles to respect a connection to G-d and gathered at Auschwitz face, though. One time, after religion. And I learned that on Holocaust plastering the entire ten floors of sometimes the people that make the Stuyvesant High School with posters most problems for Jews observing Remembrance Day, advertising an upcoming meeting with Yiddishkeit are our fellow Jews, and the theme of the catastrophe of Jewish mostly because deep down inside each contingent assimilation and intermarriage in they feel awkward and America, with a cartoon comparing it psychologically threatened by Jews carrying Israeli flags to the Holocaust, Zelig was called who live according to the dictates of and signs from their down to the principal’s office. Judaism.” It happened that the week of the A few years later, at Manhattan’s various Jewish and meeting, a day after the controversial specialized Stuyvesant High School, posters were plastered throughout the with a Jewish student population of Zionist youth entire school, was Parent-Teacher roughly 800 (20% of the student Conference Day. Many of the parents body), Zelig started a Jewish student movements, I held my were intermarried Jews. They were club, with weekly meetings, outreach ‘Boruch HaBa Melech offended and complained to the activities, guest speakers, and over principal of the school. 100 active members. Zelig was the HaMoshiach’ sign.” It turned out that the principal,

In the heart of the Shomron

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 33 Abraham Baumel, z”l, who was Jewish, Education scholarship for Jewish unaffected by their criticism, they had a daughter who had intermarried Student Leadership to attend the 1994 backed off.” as well, and he took it personally that “March of the Living,” a two week Zelig continues: “One of the Stuyvesant High School’s Jewish educational trip to Poland and Israel. places that had an incredibly Student club had an agenda that was 6,000 Jewish teens from around the profound effect on me was the against intermarriage and was openly world came to commemorate and Majdanek death camp, which the and fearlessly campaigning for Jewish learn about the Holocaust on a tour of Nazis, yimach shmam, did not have a life and survival. Poland, culminating with a march at chance to destroy, due to the surprise “The principal was visibly angry at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attack on the camp by the Russian me, as president of the club, that I on Yom HaShoa, Holocaust army. So unlike most other camps, plastered the school with a poster Remembrance Day. Then they went to like Treblinka and Auschwitz, where comparing Jewish intermarriage to the Eretz Israel for a week afterwards, the gas chambers and crematoria Holocaust. He screamed and yelled, coinciding with Yom HaZikaron for were blown up by the Germans to but I, together with my Vice President, Israeli soldiers and Independence Day. hide their crimes, Majdanek stands calmly answered that we have a right “I brought a ‘Boruch HaBa Melech today as it stood during the churban. to believe in Judaism, and that we HaMoshiach’ sign with the Rebbe’s It is said that it would take less than truly think that even the educating of picture with me on March of the a day to get it fully operational again. Jewish children in public schools Living,” recalls Zelig. “And when the At Majdanek, there are still “shower amounts to a spiritual Holocaust. and disinfection rooms” with shower At this point he yelled that if we heads that were never intended for would like, he could arrange for us to “Children's shoes water. be suspended from the school, and, And in Majdanek there are long, being in our senior (last) year, we behind metal wire wooden bunkers filled with thousands were a bit frightened that we would that visitors can and thousands of pairs of little shoes. not be allowed to graduate. But we Children’s shoes behind metal wire stood up to his aggressive tone. actually reach that visitors can actually reach through Michael Krechmer, my Vice President, and touch with their hands. This is answered him that we are not dogs through and touch where I just broke down. This is and do not deserve to be spoken to as where I began having images of the such. We then got up to leave, and, with their hands. beautiful Yiddishe kinderlach in not knowing what grade Michael was Crown Heights that I played with by in, the principal yelled out in This is where I just the families I stayed with. American desperation, “Michael Krechmer, what broke down.” Jewish teenagers were all around me, year are you in?” to which Michael some lighting candles, others saying responded, “1994.” T’hillim. When they left the building We walked right out of the office, and I stood alone in the cold, I began entire group of 6,000 teens gathered at to weep so hard I fell on the floor. I cracking up hysterically. It was so Auschwitz on Holocaust hilarious, our chutzpah, the principal’s sobbed uncontrollably, until some Remembrance Day, each contingent people came in, lifted me up and mad reaction, and the fact that we carrying Israeli flags and signs from knew that he couldn’t do anything to brought me back to the bus. The pain their various Jewish and Zionist youth was agonizing and unbearable. It us, as there were a few months of movements, I held my “Boruch HaBa school left, and we were graduating cannot be put into words when you Melech HaMoshiach” yellow sign. are at a place where hundreds of with excellent grades and high SAT Most people were very supportive scores. We couldn’t believe, and were thousands of Yiddishe mothers, when they saw it, but a small group of fathers, and children underwent such so proud of ourselves, that we had just anti-religious Israelis came up to me calmly walked out of the office of a torment and were taken away from us. and exclaimed to me, an American 17- That day at Majdanek I promised now hysterical, yet powerless, year-old overcome with grief, standing principal of Stuyvesant High.” Hashem that I would definitely get in the remains of Auschwitz, that it married to a Jewish girl and have a After handing in an essay and an wasn’t appropriate to hold such a sign. large chassidishe family, and would application late, and writing in to the I just replied to them that this signifies devote my life to protecting and Rebbe for a bracha to be accepted, the continuation and thriving of helping Yidden. Zelig received a Board of Jewish Judaism to me, and seeing I was

34 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 SHLEIMUS HA’ARETZ abandon our inexplicable calm and to cry out while there’s still something left to salvage. None of us will be able to say that his silence prevented the WHAT NOW? tragedy from happening. We must rid ourselves of BY SHAI GEFEN our apathy and quote the Rebbe MH”M, for only in THE MORNING AFTER not allow Jews to endanger their own this way will Eretz Yisroel be saved from its enemies So the election results are in. After security. within and without. the flood of leaflets that the In the last two years, not one of candidates and parties rained down the parties stood the test. All the ELECTIONS AND upon us, we’ve got to realize that the parties, except for one, took part in a MILITARY STRIKES critical time is now, as all the main parties are heading towards tragic Two days before the elections we agreements. If in the past the concept saw the army enter Gaza “for a broad of a Palestinian state didn’t go over We must ask range of actions, the likes of which well with the Right, today, thanks to we haven’t seen since the start of the the brainwashing of the leaders of the ourselves, how is it Intifada,” as the military journalists Right, it is considered inevitable. put it. Suddenly the army was able to that a rabbi publicly carry out military strikes that have The germ of insanity called a been on the shelf for two years. Palestinian state has infected us all. announced that he is Suddenly they were able to achieve Some of the most Right-wing parties in favor of giving an enormous amount and to destroy convey the sense that there is no weapons-producing labs and bomb- choice, and that we must allow the away land after he making materials without constraints. establishment of a Palestinian state. How did this happen all of a sudden? Now after the elections we must supported the The answer is less than simple. think about what to do to prevent the Everybody realized that on the eve of tragedy that threatens millions of agreements which the elections, the prime minister had Jews. We must think about what can have led to the to show that he could dare to enter be done so that Jews have the Gaza and even blow things up. strength to gather and stand up for murder of over 1000 Suddenly, all the fears that were their own lives. expressed all along vanished. The real battle is about to take Jews?! Suddenly there was no danger in place over the next few months. The entering Gaza, despite the fact that U.S. and the European countries want just a few months ago, they cancelled to see Bush’s “Roadmap” acted on, government that announced the all plans to enter Gaza due to with the establishment of a establishment of a Palestinian state. pressure from the politicians. The upcoming parliament is the most Palestinian state. The real question is They told us that entering Gaza critical of all, from the aspect of every where will the parties of the Right this week followed the missile attacks Jew who wants to continue living in and the religious parties, who declare on Sderot, but for some reason they Eretz Yisroel. their belief in Hashem and His Torah, forget that missiles fell on Sderot two stand: will they be partners to this After the elections, when the dust years ago! It’s two years now since awful crime or not? settles, all the masks will drop and hundreds of rocket-propelled bombs As chassidim loyal to the Rebbe we’ll see that we’re still on the same fell throughout Gush Katif, but MH”M, we must do all we can now, road leading towards concessions nothing was done about it. It’s only after the elections, to ensure that this towards Arab murderers. We’ll be thanks to open miracles that no disaster does not take place. We must heading back to the same old slogans major tragedies have taken place. like “restraint is strength.” loudly proclaim our protest so that This is the reason that the massive Hashem will nullify their plans and Now is the time to get to work, to entry into Gaza doesn’t move us. The

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 35 cleanup job has to be from the root 1000 Jews?! and have no connection whatsoever This is the reason Logically, one would have with elections and putting on a false expected this rabbi to stand up long front. Dealing with terror has nothing that the massive ago to scream: We sinned! He should to do with elections! have gone to the graves of all the On the other hand, dealing with entry into Gaza Oslo dead to ask their forgiveness terror in a way that Israel lets the and to promise that he won’t be a Arabs dream that there’s something to doesn’t move us. The part of cursed agreements anymore! talk about only intensifies the terror. cleanup job has to be How is it possible that a rabbi can It’s not logical to put down terror on get up and announce that he doesn’t the one hand, while intensifying from the root and regret his p’sak when it’s clear to all terror on the other hand by making that he erred? The political pundits concessions. This is not the way to have no connection try to connect it with the building of fight terrorism. Ask Bush (El Qaeda) whatsoever with a future coalition. If this is correct, and Putin (Chechnya) and Tony Blair this is extremely serious, since that (Ireland). elections and putting party intends on selling us out once We’ll only arrive at a solution again, and being a partner to a when the government understands on a false front. government that will establish a the root of the problem in this bloody Dealing with terror Palestinian state. conflict, which can only be We too must make an accounting. understood if one follows the way has nothing to do What have we done until now to Shulchan Aruch teaches us to deal publicize this law in Orach Chaim, with conflict resolution between with elections! siman 329 that it’s forbidden to give nations and the Jewish people. One up land? What have we done so that rule prevails eternally: “Even if they every Jew knows that supporting come regarding straw and hay, you STRONG PROTEST! concessions to the Arabs is to go profane the Shabbos and go out In an interview with one of the against Hashem and His Torah, and against them with weapons, so that big papers, a distinguished rabbi and that this is k’fira against Hashem and the country won’t be easily leader of a party announced that he His Torah, as the Rebbe told Moshe conquerable before them.” still does not regret his p’sak din that Katzav? The most prestigious politicians land ought to be given to our We see that when we don’t follow and the greatest experts on terror enemies, a.k.a., “Land for Peace.” the Shulchan Aruch, and we try to find have not resolved the situation, but This interview was widely publicized “heterim,” the end of the story is Jewish law tells us that the same on the first page of the newspaper concessions and death, r”l. halacha which was said in and caused an enormous chillul We call out to all rabbanim: In Nahardaa 2000 years ago by the Hashem. Sages of the is relevant order to mitigate the chillul Hashem, it We must ask ourselves, how is it today, and is the law for is all the more important to publicize that a rabbi publicly announced that generations as decided by the Beis this law in Shulchan Aruch against he is in favor of giving away land Yosef in the Shulchan Aruch. giving away land, and the silence of after he supported the agreements any rav at this time can only be which have led to the murder of over construed as complicity... Y.S. MOVING Professional Yossi Reasonable Tel: 718-467-0171 24 hour service Boxes available upon request. Cellular: 917-805-7757

36 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 NEWS FARBRENGENS FOR REBBETZIN MENUCHA ROCHEL’S YAHRTZEIT

Special farbrengens were held in Hebron on Monday to commemorate the 115th Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Menucha Rochel Slonim, the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe. The first of these was organized by the Chabad House in Hebron and the “Gal Einai” Organization, and was conducted by Rabbi Yitzchok Ginsburg, the director of “Gal Einai.” Around 250 people, who arrived on private buses from Rechovot, Kfar Chabad, Jerusalem and Kiryat Arba, attended the farbrengen. After a visit to the Rebbetzin’s gravesite, a second farbrengen took place in Beit Gutnick, near the Cave of Machpelah. Hundreds of participants flocked to this event, including Davening at the Rebbetzin’s gravesite many rabbis and community figures. There was also a special farbrengen in English for women. This was CORRECTION RE EVENTS REPORT conducted by Rabbi Menachem This year’s production, as well as the theme for the Inter-High School Mendel Gluckowsky the Rav of the convention, produced by Beis Rivka, was actually titled “Reflections.” It Chabad community in Rechovot and portrayed an older sister reflecting her experiences with the Rebbe, and her Secretary of the Chabad Beis Din, younger sister’s desire to reflect the Rebbe’s actions (i.e., T’filla, Ahavas Yisroel, and Rebbetzin Nachshon. Hafatzas HaChassidus, etc.) into her own life. The performance including moving (Pictures supplied by the Chabad of Hebron site.) footage of the Rebbe davening, distributing dollars, and giving over powerful messages, etc. The convention also focused on this theme.

(L to R) Hillel Horowitz, Rabbi Boruch Nachshon, Rabbi Gluckowsky and Rabbi Danny Cohen Rabbi Heartman, and Rabbi Halperin

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 37 CHASSIDIC FARBRENGEN WITH UJA

T’mimim and mekuravim at the farbrengen Rabbi Butman (right) with Yochanan Roskaye

The , which Federation, the Federation’s directors, Rabbi Butman, who spoke at the represents much of Jewish community Steven Sollonder and Ernest Michel, farbrengen, emphasized the positive life in America, is not the most likely and Rabbi Shmuel Menachem Mendel relationship that exists between venue for a farbrengen. However the Butman, the director of the central Chabad and the Jewish Federation. power of the Rebbe Melech branch of the Lubavitch Youth This sentiment was echoed by HaMoshiach broke down any apparent Organization. Yochanan Roskaye, the executive barriers between Chabad and this Mrs. Tischmann explains at the director of the Federation, who stated powerful organization when a large beginning of this excerpt that twenty that he hoped to see this warm farbrengen, attended by Lubavitcher years ago the Rebbe told her that one connection continue. Chassidim and senior Federation day she would become the president of During the evening the guest figures, took place on 13th Shevat.. the Jewish Federation. At the time this speaker, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok At the beginning of the farbrengen, seemed like a distant dream because all Jacobson, spoke enthusiastically about held at the central hall of the Jewish of the presidents up until that point the power of every Jew to carry out the Federation – United Jewish Appeal had been men. However, this prophecy shlichus they have been given from (which are now one organization), the was eventually fulfilled when the their Creator. new video, “Challenge,” was screened. United Jewish Appeal merged with the “A person’s greatness depends on Part of the video shows the encounter Jewish Federation, and Mrs. one thing – if he uses all of his talents between the Rebbe and Mrs. Peggy Tischmann became the first president and abilities that the Holy One has Tischman, the current president of the of the new, joint organization. given him, in the proper way,” stated Rabbi Jacobson. Towards the end of the evening, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Butman, who organized the farbrengen received a vote of thanks, along with the director of Atoh, Rabbi Michoel Rosenblum, and the many T’mimim who carry out mivtzaim with such devotion. The farbrengen concluded with lively singing and dancing, and a wonderful feeling of how much closer the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach has brought the entire Jewish community and the world to Geula. Rabbi Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Jacobson Pictures: Asher Litzmann

38 BEIS MOSHIACH - 5 Adar 1 5763 SLAMS CHABAD’S SUPPORT FOR HERUT

Chabad Chassidim in Israel and unfair reporting, which was an the minimum number of votes abroad have been angered and apparent reaction to the fact that necessary for getting into the Knesset, disgusted by a recent journalistic more than seventy percent of voters because there was nobody else to witch-hunt against members of Anash in Kfar Chabad had opted for Herut. vote for in these elections. Even if in Israel for supporting Herut, a party “How could it be possible that these same elections were held again which promoted Shleimus ha’Aretz United Torah Judaism sat in the tomorrow, we would still vote in the and Jewish values. Hamodia, a coalition for two years, thus playing same way.” newspaper published by Agudas an active part in bloodshed?” asked Hamodia has distanced itself from Yisroel, which is part of the United one particular rav, who had called Chabad for many years. Even when Torah Judaism party, slammed upon Anash to support Herut. “Its certain provocative articles were Chabad Chassidim in Kfar Chabad leaders have even said that they printed against the Rebbe Melech for having supported what they would support a Palestinian state and HaMoshiach elsewhere, Hamodia did termed “the lies of Herut,” even the removal of Jewish communities not protest against this incitement. It though members of Anash had done from throughout Judah and Samaria. is therefore clear that Chabad so in accordance with the instructions Voting for United Torah Judaism can Chassidim did the right thing by of our rabbanim and mashpiim. be defined as “deceit” whenever we supporting the party that devoted Hamodia even falsely reported that see how this party is involved in itself to Shleimus ha’Aretz and Jewish the tires of a United Torah Judaism matters that go against the Rebbe… values, because this is what the Rebbe activist were let down in Kfar Chabad has no regrets about voting Melech HaMoshiach has instructed us Chabad. The rabbanim of Chabad for Herut, even if they did not receive to do so many times over the years. expressed their surprise at Hamodia’s

RABBI EFRAIM WOLFF, A”H Over a thousand people attended the of , Kfar Chabad and Nachlat Har Chabad also funeral of Rabbi Efraim Wolff, a”h, who passed away attended the funeral. this morning at the age of eighty-two. Rabbi Wolff Rabbi Wolff leaves his wife, Rebbetzin Pessia, a was the director of the central Tomchei daughter of the late Rabbi Avrohom T’mimim yeshiva institutions of Kfar Paris. His sons are: Rabbi Nosson Chabad, Lod, and Kiryat Malachi. His (Notke) Wolff, menahel of the yeshiva of funeral procession departed from the Beis haRam, Nachlat Har Chabad, Rabbi yeshiva in Lod, passed through the Menachem Mendel (Meni) Wolff, the Chabad neighborhood, and went on to director of Kehos publications in Israel, the Shamgar funeral home, from where Rabbi Eliokim Wolff, menahel of it continued to Har haMenuchos. Morristown yeshiva, and Rabbi The funeral was attended by Chabad Binyomin Wolff of Crown Heights. rabbanim, mashpiim, maggidei shiurim, Rabbi Wolff also leaves a daughter, and roshei yeshiva. The mayor of Lod, Reindel, the wife of Rabbi Menachem Benny Regev, and various leaders of the Mendel Deren of Lod. Rabbi Wolff’s son, municipality were also there, as were Rabbi Sholom Dovber (Berke) Wolff, the local chief rabbi, Rabbi Ortner, and passed away two years ago. Chabad community figures from throughout the country. Many students from the Kollels and yeshivos

Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 39 TRUEPEACE DISTRIBUTES THE REBBE’S VIDEOS AND SICHOS AT CONFERENCE

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Issue Number 402 - BEIS MOSHIACH 41 DMITRI SALITA – THE KOSHER BOXER

Dmitri Salita had his first knock- Canarsie, Brooklyn, where he was the To become a professional boxer, a out at the age of 8 at elementary only White member. The initial fighter needs sponsorship from a school in his native city of Odessa, hostility that the other members felt sports company to cover the costs of . A number of his fellow towards him did not deter him and, if his training and his entry into students had surrounded him and anything, only helped to improve his tournaments. were shouting anti-Semitic epithets at boxing style. In the end he earned Yisroel Liberow, brother of Rabbi him. Suddenly one of them shouted, their respect. Zalman Liberow, met Dmitri at the “Zhid!” (a very abusive term meaning “Today, everyone at the club is my Chabad House three years ago and he “Jew”) and Dmitri saw red. Clenching friend, whether Black, White, or became a close friend. When Dmitri his fist, the eight year old slammed it Hispanic,” says Dmitri. won the American amateur boxing into the other boy’s face, knocking championship, Yisroel recalled that him out. Dmitri’s father was Dmitri is a good friend of his local Chabad shliach, Rabbi Zalman one of the greatest boxing promoters, immediately summoned to the school. Bob Arrum, is a Jew living in Las On the way home, the boy told his Liberow. His first contact with observant Jews occurred when his Vegas. With the help of the shliach in father what had happened. In Las Vegas, Yisroel contacted him and response, his father patted him on the mother, Ludmila, was hospitalized with cancer. She was sharing a room sent him videotapes of Dmitri in shoulder and remarked, smiling: “You action. Bob, who works for the did the right thing!” with an Orthodox woman, whose husband used to visit her frequently “Toprink” sports company, which Today Dmitri, now aged 20 and at the same time that Dmitri was provides generous sponsorships, was living in New York, is known in the sitting at his mother’s bedside. very impressed and he signed a media as the “kosher boxer.” His Eventually a friendship built up contract with Dmitri. Naturally, the boxing shorts are decorated with a between Dmitri and the husband. contract includes a clause stating that large Star of David, and before he Sometime afterwards, Dmitri received Dmitri will not train or fight on goes into the arena he always recites a call from his local Chabad House, Shabbos or any Jewish festivals. “Shma.” This young boxer, who never inviting him to a Shabbos meal. Since then Dmitri has won ten fights on Shabbos, is an upcoming fights as a professional boxer, much to star in his sport. “At first I didn’t want to go because I was shy,” recalls Dmitri. “I the delight of his sponsors. However, When the Salita family first arrived didn’t know anything about Chabad, despite his growing fame, he still lives in America from the former USSR, but in the end I decided to go so that with his brother in Flatbush, close to they were not yet religiously I could say a prayer for my mother’s his father. In his spare time, he enjoys observant. recovery.” watching boxing matches, or going to the Chabad House to participate in a “My parents moved to America From then on Dmitri’s connection because they wanted to give my weekly with Rabbi Liberow. with Chabad and Torah observance While Dmitri’s greatest ambition is be brother and I the chance to grow up only grew. As mentioned above, he someplace where we wouldn’t be the world boxing champion, he is, as always says Shma and recites chapters he describes it, “a true soldier in the judged because of our religion. It was 20, 101, and 120 of T’hillim before very hard to be Jewish in Odessa,” army of Chabad, and I would do every fight. He also receives a lot of whatever they ask.” recalls Dmitri. support from Chabad – and not only Dmitri joined a boxing club in in a spiritual sense. Raskin's Consistently “if it grows we have it” Superior Fruit and Produce Emporium WHOLESALE & RETAIL Michal & We Deliver 335 Kingston Ave. Brooklyn NY 11213 * Tel: (718) 756-3888 756-2221 * Fax: 756-2440

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