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Rabbi Shimon Raichik

Forward

Yud Shevat is the day that the took the mantle of leadership of Chassidus . In honor of this day, the Hilula of the Previous Rebbe and the beginning of the Rebbe’s Nesius we are printing several articles about the function of a Rebbe and on the topic of hiskashrus that were published at different times throughout the year.

In for the 24th of Sivan it says: You ask how can you be bound (m'kushar) to me when I do not know you personally..."

“...The true bond is created by studying Torah. When you study my , read the sichot and associate with those dear to me - the chassidic community and the tmimim- in their studies and , and you fulfill my request regarding saying Tehillim and observing Torah-study times - in this is the bond.”

Rabbi Shimon Raichik Congregation Levy Yitzchok Los Angeles

Forward ...... 2 The Rebbe Calls Upon Each of Us: Live Up to Your Potential! ...... 7 Staying Connected; Completing the Shlichus ...... 9 The Rebbe is Healthy, our Hiskashrus is Healthy ...... 11 Mah Zaro B’Chaim- Living With The Rebbe ...... 13 Story ...... 15

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“I Gave You the Match”

In the upcoming articles I would like with his neshama. Through this he to discuss the connection between a becomes connected with the soul of the Rebbe and a chosid. First, based on the Rebbe and through that connection the Rebbe’s sichos we will explain what a chosid receives his life and his needs, Rebbe is and how he differs from a both physically and spiritually. teacher. On the 25th of Elul 5711-1951 the The example of this the Rebbe gave Rebbe held a private audience with was of a lamp that effuses light. The lamp university students where he answered itself has no ability to produce light. It their questions on these fundamentals draws its energy from a power station, among other topics. The following are which produces the electricity necessary adapted excerpts from their discussion. to produce light. The station is located at a distant end of the town. In order get the The Rebbe gave the following answer electricity to the lamp there needs to be when asked by one of the students in power lines that channel the electricity 1951 about the difference between a Rav correctly that allow it to reach the town. and a Rebbe. A Rav is someone who The lamp also needs to have correct teaches students that come to him and fittings to adapt to the electricity current. provides answers to their questions. A Once everything is connected from the Rebbe doesn’t wait for his students to power station, through the line, through come to him; he goes out and finds them. the adapted fixture into the light bulb, all He endeavors to wake them up and to which is left is to flip the switch, and then arouse them; he finds different ways and it works and the lamp shines. This is approaches to strengthen their faith. similar to the connection between a When asked by one of the students if Rebbe and chassidim. The Rebbe is the anyone can become a Rebbe, the Rebbe power station which produces the clarified the fundamentals of what a necessary energy and power to fulfill all Rebbe is, and in most particular in the life mitzvos and spiritual obligations. He also of a chosid. The Rebbe explained that a provides physical support. The power line Rebbe does not see himself as higher than that channels all of these needs is the his chassidim, rather that there is found neshama of the chosid which is connected within his neshama a part of the neshama to the neshama of the Rebbe. The greater of the chassidim that are connected with the Rebbe is, the greater the light that is him. When a chosid approaches his Rebbe provided. This is the sole purpose of the for help for whatever problem he may Rebbe, to provide these needs to his have, he is seeking the part of his chassidim. neshama that is included within the There is a related story. Reb Yehudah neshama of the Rebbe and to connect it 3

Avner once asked the Rebbe; what is a than a lump of wax and a string. So too, Rebbe? The Rebbe answered; if you open every Jew is a candle, it has a body a cabinet and see a lump of wax and a (which is like the wax) and a wick (which string lying there, you have something is like the neshama). It just needs to be set that doesn’t do anything. If you take it up and lit, which is the job of a Rebbe. out, place it on a table and light a match, The person then asked the Rebbe if he lit then it’s a candle (and then the room is his neshama. The Rebbe replied; “I gave illuminated). Otherwise it is nothing more you the match…”

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“I Gave You the Match” Part 2

The last article spoke about the reaches the point of a true recognition of connection between a Rebbe and a Hashem. The animal type soul has chosid. We ended with a story from Reb intellect and instincts. It knows how to Yehudah Avner when he once asked the run from fire, balance its checkbook, and Rebbe; what is a Rebbe? After the Rebbe take care of its needs. At the same time answered that every Jew is a candle, it has this soul can be like an animal and can a body (which is like the wax) and a wick trample over it’s responsibly between him (which is like the neshama). It just needs and Hashem and between him and others. to be set up and lit, which is the job of a This is because they don’t have the proper Rebbe. Reb Avner then asked the Rebbe feeling, and also they can often be out of if he lit his neshama. The Rebbe replied; control. Why is this? It is because while “I gave you the match” they may have knowledge, meaning information, but they do not have a Since every Jew has a neshama, feeling, recognition of the true value of which is a part of Hashem, why do we the neshama. need someone (the Rebbe) to light our neshama? Why can we not do it Moshe Rabbenu is named the Raya ourselves? If the answer is a person might Mehemna, the Faithful Sheppard. not be keeping the Torah and mitzvos Chassidus explains that Moshe Rabbenu properly that it understandable. We surely is faithfully attending to the needs of the cannot say this about a Torah Jew. Also, Jewish people. Even though Jews have what exactly did the Rebbe mean when he emunah, many times our emunah doesn’t said that he “gave the match”? impact our daily lives. Moshe Rabbenu feeds our faith, our emunah, until the The Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek, point that our emunah penetrates our brings the following pasuk when minds and our hearts. Moshe Rabbenu discussing the mitzvah of a jewish slave- gives us the necessary strength to live our an eved ivri, in this week’s parsha. “I emunah as we go through life’s shall sow the House of Israel…the seed of challenges. This is explained in the Baasi man and the seed of animal (Yirmiahu LGani maamarim. In the Baasi LGani 31:26). What does this mean? Chassidus maamar 5713 in the third chapter in explains that there are two types of souls; particular the Rebbe explains the spirit of souls referred to as man and souls referred foolishness, the ruach shtus that covers to as animals. They are both souls, and over the truth. Because of the ruach shtus they both function. The difference is that the neshama does not feel how each the animal type souls do not have daas. mitzvah connects us to Hashem and each Daas is a feeling for something that aveira disconnects us from Hashem 5

(R’L). This is because we lack feeling and yeshiva. The administrators wanted to let recognition therefore we lack that him go due to finances and asked connection. permission from the Rebbe Rashab. The It’s easy to see how a person who Rebbe responded that just by seeing this isn’t frum needs to be lit to overcome the chosid alone, the yeshiva gets its money’s ruach shtus that covers the truth, but why worth. Once Reb Michoel told the doesn’t a Torah Jew feel and recognize following story after explaining that every the truth? The Previous Rebbe answers village was not able to have a yeshiva. this in the Baasi LGani maamar of 5699- Therefore simple villagers would hire 1939. He describes the ruach shtus as educated melamdim to live in their homes coldness. He describes a general coldness and teach their children. In one village the toward the Torah and mitzvos. When job of the melamed was also to read the Rosh Hashana comes, we do what we are illiterate villager his mail. One day the supposed to do, but we do it without melamed read the villager a letter with feeling. Not having daas also means that sad news of villager’s father’s passing. at times he can know better but he does Upon hearing the news the villager not have control. He does not take joy in fainted. They asked, surely the melamed the opportunity to do a mitzvah, join in should have passed out as well, he read the simcha of Yom Tov and the awe of the letter first! The answer is that it Rosh Hashana… For this reason we need wasn’t his father. He didn’t have the to strengthen our connection to the Raya feeling and recognition. With this story he Mehemna wanted to bring out that Chassidus can penetrate the neshama. It doesn’t depend In 1954 on Yud Shevat, the Rebbe as much on the amount one learns. The told a story that Reb Modecai Perlow most important thing is to ralize that wrote about the chosid Reb Michoel the Chassidus is speaking about OUR Alter chosid of the Tzemach Tzedek. He neshama and it is speaking about OUR was one of the first mashpiim in Father, Hashem is AviNU, our Father. Lubavitch. Once there was a financial This is the match… crisis when Reb Michoel was already older and not teaching any longer in

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The Rebbe Calls Upon Each of Us: Live Up to Your Potential!

In a Yud Shevat fabrengen 5726-1966 time he worked tirelessly to give Jews the Rebbe spoke about the mesirus nefesh who forgot they were Jews an education the Previous Rebbe had for each and in the basics. He was involved in every Jew. On one hand he demanded a developing the release time programs to very high standard from his chassidim. He enable children to have a break from often demanded the utmost exemplary secular studies in public school to learn conduct. Not just behavior befitting the Judaism for an hour. He did all of this title mehadrin, careful but “mehadrin min with mesirus nefesh. hamenhadrin”, excellent. And if, for some What was the motivation behind this reason there was something missing in approach? If a person serves with his what he expected, for some he spoke intellect in a calculating way this sharply to them. Why did the Rebbe approach doesn’t seem to make sense. choose to use sharp words for those select Usually a person will focus on a specific chassidim? These were chassidim who approach or group to work with. The did everything b’hidur, both in learning Rebbe’s way is to be focused on the and in action. Why was it necessary to neshama. From this perspective all that speak this way? After all they were on matters is the specific needs of the such a high level already. On the other individual neshama. If this neshama can hand, we see the exact opposite approach go from mehadrin to mihadrin min when the Rebbe helped Jews who only hamehadrin, then he needs a strong word. knew that they were Jewish and did didn’t If he is drowning and disappearing even know an alef from a beis. To these altogether as a Jew, then we need to send people he spoke many generous words of him a life raft, maybe it’s the alef beis and encouragement, only to remind them that maybe it’s kind and caring words. they are Jews. The Previous Rebbe had We find that the Previous Rebbe self sacrifice for these Jews and their wrote many memoirs and stories in needs as his did with his select chassidim. addition to maamorim. Why would the In Russia he demanded the highest Rebbe spend the time that he could be standard of learning. On the other hand, writing a maamar and instead write he would also take care to send a stories? If a person has time to study a melamed to a distant town to teach simple maamar, why would he instead read a Jews the alef beis. In America, he story? Isn’t it more important to learn the established yeshivas to have the same maamar? This is because the Rebbe wrote high standard as in Russia. At the same 7 different things for the needs of different big deal? For the Rebbe it is the very neshamos. Since a Rebbe’s connection is biggest deal, it’s about reaching your from essence to essence, for some the potential. deepest way to affect their neshama is In 5751-1991 the mood in 770 wasn’t through a maamar, one with a pasuk from the best. Then the Rebbe received a letter the Chumash, and for a third it’s a story. from a young child who wrote that he It may be spoken in Yiddish for one and took upon himself to read Birkas in English for another, depending upon HaShachar from a siddur. The Rebbe told their circumstances. him that the good news he shared was like We saw the very same approach by “Mayim karim al nefesh ayeifa- like cool the Rebbe. The Rebbe demanded that waters on a fatigued soul”. Just like the Bachurim learn on the highest possible heart pumps the same blood and with it level they were capable and at the same the same life force all over the body and it time he would invest his time to teach the reaches each part according to its needs, 12 pasukim to children or encourage so too a Rebbe provides the life, the people to give an extra dollar to tzedaka. connection to G-dliness to each neshama, It was all of the utmost importance to the each according to its needs. Rebbe. The Rebbe wanted us to have a Once when the local sent the similar perspective, and he instructed Rebbe the students test scores, the Rebbe each of us according to our circumstances told Rav Hadakov to tell a certain Talmid to do all we can to benefit others in a (RGS) one word in his name; similar way. Mah Zaroh B’Chayim, Af “Hayitachen?”, meaning; is this the best Hu B’Chaim: When we live in his ways, you can do? You can do much better! so too He continues to be alive. Some might ask, its one test, what’s the

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Staying Connected; Completing the Shlichus

The Previous Rebbe tells the story of had heard. I told him that my father never the Maggid, who on the last Shabbos of told me but that it made sense for a few his life in this world quoted this pasuk as reasons. First, he was the kind of chosid he laid on his bed in the presence of the that always wanted to be near to the Chevraya Kaddisha. He quoted Rashi Rebbe. It was very hard for him to be who says; mamash, real away. Also, he travelled a lot. malachim, and then added; the mamash Another reason is the letter we found (the body) of the malachim he sent to that he had always carried with him to Eisav but the spiritual part remained with read and re-read wherever he went. From Yaakov. the letter I understood that father had a The Rebbe asked; how is it possible to tshuka, a desire to be together with the divide and separate between the body and Rebbe (that it’s wasn’t enough for him to the spirit? Do they divide so that the body be accomplishing things on his own). The can go to Eisav while their spirit can basic content of the Rebbe’s letter was remain by Yaakov? Rashi’s comment that he shouldn’t feel that he is so far taken simply means real malachim, not away on shilchus, and that his longing is physical messengers. After everything is causing him to be always waiting for later said and done Yaakov sent real malachim. to return to 770. Rather, he should be They went to Eisav, nevertheless their where he is on shlichus and be happy that spirit stayed with Yaakov and remained he’s doing shlichus. With this kind of connected. outlook it makes sense that he might have said Tefillas HaDerech every day. This This is similar to each one of us in our was how all chassidim felt about being on shlichus here in this world. We have a shlichus at that time. What kept them neshama and we have a body. The going, whether in Russia or in Shanghai neshama cannot make a dwelling place was the feeling, the tshukah to be by the for Hashem in this world without the Rebbe. That we may be on shlichus in this body. Nevertheless the neshama needs to or that place but our true home is by the stay connected to Hashem; the shliach has Rebbe. to stay connected to the mishaleiach, the one who sends him. A chosid isn’t a chosid automatically just because his father was; I need to When I was at the Kinus HaShuchim build and strengthen my connection to the this year someone said that he heard that Rebbe, so that the Rebbe is in front of me my father said Tefillas HaDerech every just as it was in the previous generations. day he was away from 770. He wanted to I cannot be satisfied that they had a know if I could confirm as true what he 9 tshukah, I need to see to it that my Rebbe came out with learning Rambam, I hiskashrus is real, not an echo from the remember how he would call the past, that my penimius and ruchnius stays shluchim to convince and encourage them by the Rebbe. to study Rambam daily even though it The sefer Hayom Yom details the was difficult to find time because they three things necessary to strengthen were so busy. It was so important because hiskashrus. Seeing the Rebbe, learning his this is what builds and strengthens the Torah (this includes listening to connection. recordings, learning his Sichos and When we are busy with all of these maamarim inside and repeating them, three things and they are fully part of how learning them in depth and applying them we live, then it effects us and arouses a to our daily lives), and following his true teshukah of closeness to the directives. These three things correspond mishaleiach, the Rebbe. It gives us the to thought, speech and action and strength to be successful in all aspects of encompass every aspect of our lives. They our shlichus. By continuing and provide a complete connection and make strengthening our connection may we it as the one who said them is standing in complete the shlichus to make this world front of us. a dwelling place for Hashem and witness I remember how my father would not the full and complete revelation of go to bed without finishing his shiurim, Moshiach Now! including and Rambam. After the

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The Rebbe is Healthy, our Hiskashrus is Healthy

Rebbe’s chapter in Tehillim for this and watch the Superbowl? Is that year, 112 contains the pasuk: “Zorach Chanuka?? b’choshech ohr l’yesharim”. Therefore By learning the Gemara about this entire year is connected with the idea Chanuka we learn about the decree that that; “Hashem shines even in the darkness the Greeks placed upon the Jews not a light for the upright”. allowing them to do mitzvos. When we Hiskashrus is connected to all Yomim nevertheless put ourselves into danger to Tovim including Chassidishe Yomim continue doing Torah and mitzvos, we Tovim. The first Chassidishe of the year saw great miracles that broke through the for us is Rosh Chodesh Kislev. The shackles of the Greek influence. When we difference between the first time we celebrate Chanuka, it gives us strength to celebrated Rosh Chodesh Kislev in 1977 go forward and break through our until today, 36 years later in Los Angeles, challenges today. is that today is a double darkness in This is true for Yud Tes Kislev as comparison (As the pasuk says; Hastir well. The decree was if Chassidus should astir panai…- I will certainly hide my be concealed or revealed. We won the countenance on that day). The biggest case and Chassidus was revealed. The darkness is when we live in the dark same is true about Rosh Chodesh Kislev. without even realizing where we are. On The decree was about whether the Rebbe the contrary we think it’s fine, we’ve should stay with us in this world, or if the made peace with the situation. When the time had come for the opposite. The time comes for the Rosh Chodesh Kislev decree was broken and we have witnessed fabrengen, some say to themselves; this with our own eyes what has happened event happened 36 years ago. It was since. Most of the schools we see today, before I was born or when I was too and that most were educated in, were young to know; I’m too busy to go to the established since 1977. We have fabrengen. The very question, of why witnessed the expansion of Chassidus, in should I go, be it for Rosh Chodesh, Yud, Sichos and Maamarim, as well as the Yud Tes Kislev or Chanuka, shows that many campaigns, including Tzivos we are missing the main point. Has Hashem and Inyanei Geula v’Moshiach Chanuka today devolved into latkes, that have all occurred after 1977. doughnuts, taking the kids out to lighting, So why is that we say; “I wasn’t there and then then this year to get some beer or I wasn’t aware”? It’s your Rebbe, it’s 11 your Shul, it’s your school (and your and reflect on the endless importance and children’s) it’s your life! impact the day has on our lives. On A few days before Yud Shevat 1968 Chanuka it’s not just the doughnuts and at a l’chaim, I recall a conversation R. soda. Along with the wicks the oil and the Shalom Marazov had with a former lights we need to learn, to know and to student of Tomchei Tomimim. The appreciate what the days represent. Then student was not a Lubavitcher Chosid but we need to translate that into our daily had learned in the yeshiva in the 1940’s. living. This is true by all the Yomim When he asked if he was going to the Yud Tovim; we get ready by learning the Shevat fabrengen he answered that he was halachos and chassidus; without which not planning on going. That’s when R. the Yom Tov is dry. Before we know it, Shalom began to cry. If the former alumni we don’t feel like showing up (R’E). of a misnagdishe yeshiva were invited to The light shines into the darkness; the an evening honoring the yartzeit of their light of connection, hiskashrus to the former Rosh Yeshiva would they refuse Rebbe that we have and that we because they were no longer attending the continuously cultivate. The true yeshiva? Once you were there you feel a hiskashrus that we have continues through part. If you don’t feel that you are a part, all the Sichos, Maamarim, Igros, then something is missing, it’s a double fabrengens, guidance, directives and darkness. When we celebrate a Yud or campaigns and shines into the darkness to Yud Tes Kislev fabrengen today, and the yesharim, those that go in his ways. thousands come and participate, they Through this the light of Moshiach we know that they are part of it and will break through the wall of this final connected whether or not they saw it darkness, as well as our personal happen, they know they belong. darkness, for the entire world with the As Chabad Chassidim when Rosh geula ha’amitis v’hashleima, Chodesh Kislev approaches we know that immediately, Now! we need to be misbonen, we need to learn

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Mah Zaro B’Chaim- Living With The Rebbe

At the end of Sefer Breishis the last that Yud Shevat 5710 brought an end to parsha begins; “Vayachi Yaakov- And an era. They say that the sefarim were the Yaakov lived”. This refers to the best personal property of the Previous Rebbe, years of Yaakov life, the 17 years he lived and since there was a levaya and Kaddish in Mitzrayim. The whole parsha is titled was said etc., the property now belonged Vayechi yet its content is basically the to his heirs. The Rebbe explained that a opposite. The parsha discusses the end of Rebbe is not a private individual or even Yaakov’s life when he gives the brachos an overseer of a large organization. The to his children, his passing and then his entire existence of a Nasi is for Klal internment in Maaras HaMachpela. What Yisroel, not himself. Therefore Yud connection does this have to the parsha’s Shevat did not bring the end of an era, name, Vayachi, which denotes life? rather the era continues on through those that follow in his ways; his children and To answer this the Rebbe quotes the his chassidim. On the contrary, the Gemara Taanis that states; Yaakov lo Rebbe’s work expanded exponentially meis- Yaakov did not die. The Gemara both after Yud Shevat, (and then again asks how is it possible that he did not die; after Gimmel Tammuz). The more that he was embalmed, he was eulogized and his children live in his ways the more he he was buried? The Gemara answers; is alive in an ever-expanding measure, “Ma zaro b’chaim, af hu b’chaim- Since more and more from year to year. his children are alive, so too he is alive”. This means that when we, Yaakov’s Therefore when some one hears a children, live in the ways of Yaakov, he is story about the Rebbe, it is not for the alive, “Vayachi” here in this world. purpose of reminiscence or nostalgia for the past. It is a lesson for us today. When This answer is very important to us we live with his Sichos, Maamarim, today. Hei Teves is the the day that horaos and stories the Rebbe lives, commemorates Didon Notzach, the Vayachi, through us in an ever greater victory of the sefarim being returned to measure. the Rebbe’s library in 770. During the time that the court case ensued everyone Some may ask; what about the was aware of the great pain it was causing distance in time from Gimmel Tammuz both the Rebbe and the Rebbitzin, so that grows with every passing day? much so that it even took a physical toll Other’s say; “You were there, I was not”, upon them. In a sicha, the Rebbe put the etc. What we must always keep in mind is entire episode with the sefarim into that just like the relationship between a perspective. He explained that some think parent and their child is not just a physical 13 connection so too the relation between a nigun to the point that he became Rebbe and chosid. It is not nor has ever oblivious of his surroundings. At one been based upon the physical; its soul to point the Rebbe Rashab passed the chosid soul, which is beyond time. The Rebbe, a unnoticed. Later, in yechidus the Rebbe neshama klalis, is unified with each and Rashab asked him which maamar he was every individual neshama at its essence as thinking of when he was singing the explained in the . To feel this we nigun. The chosid began to cry, told the need to take action and not just wait to be Rebbe the name of the maamar and began inspired, to get on a high. The way to feel to repeat the maamar, a maamar that he this connection is through avoda, the had heard many years before by the service of following in his ways, nothing Rebbe Maharash. Sometime later when less. We sit down with a maamar or a the Rebbe Rashab was in Monton with the sicha and we learn it, and then relearn it. Previous Rebbe, he stopped by a bench And then we think about it and take to and told the Previous Rebbe that this is heart that he is my Rebbe and I am his the spot that R Zalmen sat and sang the student and this maamar or sicha is nigun. The connection of a Rebbe and a speaking directly to me not only to chosid is beyond time and space. others. We learn like this until we become Once the chosid R Zalman one with it and then there is a connection, Zlatapolsky, a chosid of the Rebbe and then it impacts this life that we are Maharash, and later a chosid of the Rebbe living here today. Then it’s zaro b’chaim, Rashab, came to visit the Rebbe Rashab its felt. When we are zaro b’chaim then in Monton after the passing of the Rebbe Yaakov lo meis and the Rebbe lives Maharash. He arrived early in the through us. With this we have the power morning, sat down on a bench and began to bring the revelation of Moshiach. When singing a nigun. Soon enough he became we are Connected, Nothing Can Stand in deeply involved and then engrossed in the Our Way!

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Story

There is a story I heard about Reb daughter who too young to get married at Yossie Biston, a shliach in Florida who I the time) but he didn’t comment. later called and verified the story. This Approximately 10 years after Gimmel story reminds us how the Rebbe is Tammuz Yossie had a chassuna for his connected with us after Gimmel Tammuz. daughter. On the way to the chuppah he The Biston’s were not zoche to children noticed his friend. He was surprised to see for a while after their chassuna. They had him because he hadn’t responded to the a friend not from a Chabad family, who invitation and he wasn’t the type to just went to 770 and asked the Rebbe for a show up. After the chuppah he bracha for them to have children. He approached the friend and told him he approached the Rebbe and said he is was happy to see him, and that it was an asking for a bracha and said Yossie’s unexpected surprise. He told him that name and the name of his wife; “Feiga when he has a chance he wants to tell him bas Devorah”. The Rebbe corrected him; a story. Later on they sat down and the “Feiga bas Devorah Leah”. The Rebbe friend recounted the entire story from the asked what he wanted the bracha for. He beginning and ended it with the words of answered, for children. The Rebbe said; the Rebbe; “Both you and I will dance by “I already gave them a bracha for their child’s chassuna”. The friend then children”. Yes he said, but I would like a told him how in the days leading up to the havtacha, a gurantee that it will really chassuna the Rebbe came to him in a happen. The Rebbe said I don’t give dream along with Yossie’s father. The promises I give a brachos. The Rebbe told him that they had made up to conversation went back and forth and be together at the wedding; why was he finally the Rebbe said; both you and I will not going? The next night the Rebbe dance by their child’s chassuna. They returned, this time alone, and asked again; were blessed with many children. “Why are you not going?” On the third Once, when Yossie was on a visit night the Rebbe came again and repeated New York his father took him to a the question. The friend answered that he chassuna of one of that friends children. was having difficulties in business and he Yossie himself had never heard the story didn’t have the money. The Rebbe of the bracha he received from the Rebbe answered; “A chosid always finds in 770 but his father had. He thought it money”. The day before the chassuna he was strange when his father said to the bumped into a friend who told him that he friend that he would dance with him at his can see that he looks really down. He granddaughter’s wedding (his own gave him 400 dollars saying; “You need a change of scenery. Use this money to take 15 a vacation in Florida, it will make you friend agreed and said to use the extra 100 feel better”. He went home and told his dollars as a chassuna present, to bring wife the whole story and they went ahead simcha to the chosson and kalla. Later on and booked a ticket to Florida for 300 when Yossie danced with his friend he dollars. He called back his friend and told knew that he was also dancing with the him the story about the chassuna and that Rebbe. the ticket only costed 300 dollars. His

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לע"נ אבי מורי הרה"ח הרה"ת הרב מנחם שמואל דוד ב"ר שמעון הלוי ע"ה רייטשיק שד"ר רבותינו נשיאנו למעלה מיובל שנים נפטר ח' שבט ה'תשנ"ח

ולע"נ אמי מורתי הרבנית אשת חבר מרת לאה בת הרה"ח אברהם אבלי הכהן ע"ה ראפפורט מגזע הש"ך והרמ"א נפטרה כ"ד מנחם-אב ה'תשס"ז

ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.

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