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Why is nobody people go to cafés and waste their description by a Knesset member important and unimportant ques- talking to them? They are waiting precious irretrievable time. Do you that came to the Rebbe in 1964. She tions. Every question calls for a true for someone to talk with but nobody remember them during the Sinai recorded everything that took place answer.... Excuse me a minute.” does. They are being addressed in campaign, how they rose like one lofty speeches, but nobody talks to man because there was a commander in 770; the bochurim, the Rebbe's I hadn’t heard the bell ringing, but them, and then people are surprised whose orders were such as they had secretaries, and her actual Yechidus. the secretary jumped over to the that they remain indifferent.” been waiting for, even if they did Introduced by www.inspiringaenera- phone and immediately left the not know it beforehand? Just give tion.com room. Unwittingly I found myself The Rebbe does not speak with me them an order as was done during adjusting the kerchief I had tied in Yiddish but in Hebrew. His accent The Sun Never Sets Over the the Sinai campaign -- never mind the over my head in anticipation of my may not be the purest Sephardi, but Lubavitch Empire particulars, all that matters is that interview with the Rebbe. I was just his language is the language of the “People used to say that the sun it should ignite some spark as it did in time, for the next moment the Bible. And however exciting his never sets over the British Empire, then -- and you will see how all the secretary was back to tell me, with words, his voice remains level and but it is already going down. Not so latent forces will rise up again... the air of one presenting a most calm. with the Lubavitch Empire. We are marvelous gift: “That’s it now; come “It would hardly matter if everything growing stronger from day to day,” “What the youth is waiting for is an along with me.” were as it should be in the Land of he said. “Have you heard about our order which must be given in the Israel and in the Diaspora. But it isn’t. publishing house? It is the biggest He may have said some more, but I same voice and tone in which all All the ‘ideals’ and all the ‘panaceas’ publisher of Jewish writings in the no longer heard him because I was the great commands were issued to have failed and only very, very little world, issuing books in over ten too busy covering up for my sudden the people of Israel. They may obey has so far been accomplished. Never languages. We also have hundreds of palpitations, telling myself not to or they may not, but that is what in the 3,500-year history of the yeshivos with some 30,000 students. be a fool, that there was no need to they are waiting for. But there is Jewish nation was there a period Do you know our village in Israel? get excited, that this wasn’t my first no commander to issue that order. without any prospects; sometimes There’ll be many more such com- midnight appointment. Where are they all? No salvation the chances were used and at other munities. Once a week we publish can come from those who walk in times they were allowed to escape. an information bulletin, circulated Midnight Appointment the beaten path, but only from those But never in the whole history of by the ITA News Agency. When the door closed behind me who break new ground. What has the Jewish people has there been and I remained alone with the Rebbe, happened to all those who were once “Who are the people who come to a period which offered as many the time was twelve midnight. The burning with the holy fire of a holy see the Rebbe? Well, who doesn’t? opportunities as the present, and Rebbe rose from behind his desk to war that they are now dealing with Chassidim and Misnagdim, men never has there been a period when receive me with a smile that spelled such bagatelles as whether people and women, tradesmen and scholars, so few were utilized.” noon rather than midnight. should pay a little more or a little young and old, Jews and Gentiles, less income tax instead of thinking leaders and statesmen; including If that is what you are interested in, The Torah Also Needs a about the urgent concerns of the the present President of Israel -- did you may see a handsome face with Commander Jewish people as a whole? Where are you know he was one of ours? As for a kind and gracious expression, a Until I suddenly heard the sharp those who at one time knew how to his correspondence -- again, with black hat above and a gray beard ringing of a bell I had not realized the issue commands? I believe physics: whom doesn’t he correspond? Even below. Alternatively, you may see vast silence that dwelt in this room. that energy can never disappear. with Ben Gurion. What about? That nothing but a pair of eyes fixed The ringing came from outside; from Forces that have once existed will is the Rebbe’s own affair. Nobody upon you not in order to see but in the office, presumably. I gathered exist forever. Therefore I believe in opens the letters that are addressed order to discover and reveal. Then that my time had run out. But it did the everlasting force of the Jewish to him. He himself opens them all, it won’t be so pleasant for you if not occur to me to get up, and I went people. Whatever forces there may and answers them, too. you have something to hide, if your on sitting there as if there had been once have been in its youth still exist intention was to deceive. You try to no ringing. Despite the repeated “What do Jews ask about as a rule? and need only be evoked. Once there button yourself up anew, because exhortation of the bell, the sound About matters of religion and how to were those who knew how to evoke you feel some of your buttons may of the Rebbe’s voice assured me that make a living; about their personal them -- where have they gone? have suddenly burst. Is it because this was not yet the end. affairs and about politics. In short the Rebbe really has magic eyes or “Everybody is in a rut, following a -- about everything. There is no “Every day that goes by is a tremen- is it because you have brought the course of dull mediocrity. And, as question he cannot answer. Where dous loss. What it takes ten years to magic along with you as a result of you know, there is nothing worse there is faith, one is able to answer do in the Diaspora can be done in ten your nighttime experience and the than conformity. To be carried days in the Land of Israel, provided purge administered by the Rebbe’s away by the current is very much one gets down to the latent spark.