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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.

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Meeting a Lubavitcher Near Far Rockaway

met a yunger man about a year ago next to Far Rockaway in the Agudah shul. He is a Lubavitcher, I mean I don't know 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 sichos, he goes to the Ohel very often, and he's very strong בנוגע the Rebbe, בנוגע ליובאַוויטש. He told me like this: he has a son who's a talmid chacham, and he's a magid shiur in one of the yeshivos, and he's I think he learned in Lakewood and maybe even lives in Lakewood, and he בשום אופן would not look into the Rebbe's a vort, into the Rebbe's sicha, 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״נ 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. Geyt durkh a paar vokhn, I think maybe a paar chadashim, I don't know, a short while, פּונקט אינה לידו to the son, somehow I don't know exactly how, a Rashi sicha from the Rebbe. He

Son Becomes Hooked on the Rebbe’s Rashi Commentaries

started looking at it, and he got so נפעל that since then, he got so hooked on the Rebbe's Rashi's, and he became such a like chassid 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, kochen 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? ביאורים לפירוש רש״י from the Rebbe, the קיצור 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, that ke'ilu as if the Rebbe sent him a set of his ביאורים, and that's when he started after he started getting involved in the רש״י שיחות. So it just shows after he went to the Ohel and asked for a beracha, this is what happened.

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