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A Chassidic Story That Reached an Unlikely Listener
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A story about an encounter with a young Lubavitcher whose son, a talmid chacham in a non-Chabad yeshiva, refuses to engage with the Rebbe's teachings.
Audio Transcript
met a yunger man about a year ago next to Far Rockaway in the Agudah shul. He is a Lubavitcher, I mean, not Lubavitch we know him, I never saw him, but he's a Lubavitcher, he holds himself as a Lubavitcher, and he learns the Rebbe's sichot, he goes to the Ohel very often, and he's very strong בנוגע the Rebbe, בנוגע ליובאוויטש. He told me like this: he has a son who's a talmid chacham and he's a magid shiur in one of the yeshivot, and he's, I think he learned in Lakewood, like maybe even lives in Lakewood, and he בשום אופן would not look into the Rebbe's a vort, into the Rebbe's sichah, etc., etc. And it bothered him, the father. So he said that he went to the Ohel, and when he told me, he says it was about a half a year ago before that, so I spoke to him about a year ago and this goes back a half a year before that, he said he went to the Ohel and wrote a special פ״ן בנוגע this ענין that the Eibershter should help, that יערה עליו רוח ממרום on his son, that he should start getting involved in the Rebbe's Torah. גייט דורך א פאר וואכן, I think maybe א פאר חדשים, I don't know, a short while, פונקט אינה לידו to the son, somehow, I don't know exactly how, a Rashi sichah from the Rebbe. He
started looking at it, and he got so נתפעל that since then, he got so hooked on the Rebbe's Rashi's, and he became such a, like, chasid of the Rebbe's Torah, especially of the Rebbe's Rashi's. And this all came after he went, the father went to the Ohel and asked for a berachah that his son should get this. Then he tells me, after he started getting involved, koch zich in the Rebbe's Rashi's, there was a knock on his door one day, and it was a person in the neighborhood, he said he's renovating his house and he doesn't have so much space for all the sefarim he has, so he's looking around, he says to him, he didn't even know who he was, \"Would you like a set of sefarim that I have to give away?\" So this man says, \"Yeah, I wouldn't mind.\" And he gives him a set of sefarim. What was it? Bi'urim lefeirush Rashi from the Rebbe, the kitzur of the Rashi's from the Rebbe. So he says this was to him a סימן מן השמים that he's doing the right thing, כאילו as if the Rebbe sent him a set of his Bi'urim, and that's when he started after he started getting involved in the Rashi sichot. So it just shows, after he went to the Ohel and asked for a berachah, this is what happened.