Memories of Ato Horaisa & Memories Simchas Torah By The Rebbe , Rabbi Shmuel Lew - 5786

Just before we go to where I am now, I'd like to share a few uh thoughts and about maybe some of them I said last year. Certainly I must have said last year and some will be new anyway. First, I'd like to say that um the last days of Suk especially after Tshin Lammed after them when the Reb had a heart attack in the middle of Hakus of the secretaries were really really afraid and nervous at that time. I was not there. I was there the next year lama test and it was Hashana Rabba at night um towards the evening and I was walking somewhere in Crown Heights and Rabbi Krinsky who's a very good friend Gizun uh he was driving in the garden he saw me and he called me in and he said I'll drive you where you go wherever you're going and in the car he said to me that the secretaries they're they're very very nervous Davka because it's the first anniversary on that occasion and I heard subsequently from Rabbi Gordon about Rabbi Klene a sec with a secretary of the Reba um he heard from his father-in-law Rabbi Binyaman Klene that the Rebbitson was extremely concerned and nervous because the Reb his normal schedule was extremely demanding. and stressful over yont in what he did in his just a and then all the thousands of people who visited and um they were very nervous the whole month of Tish and one year um after Yam Rabbi Klein had to speak to the Rebbitson about something um wasn't he didn't make a call just for this but when he was on the phone. He said to the Rebbitson, "Uh, y thank God the Yam has passed." And the Rebbitson said, "Not we don't say that it has passed. We say it has increased. It has given us something." In other words, the rebbit wouldn't uh accept that it's just a passive thing. It don't have happened and you know you you're nervous about then any of the side effects that might be there but it's there in order that it should increase something to us and I just think it's something I'm trying to think myself that we should be thinking about uh pack a little bit more in over these precious 48 hours which end uh now a few things about the ataresa by the rebbber. I mentioned in the previous voice note how in the earlier years it was hours I don't know how long it was I was a kid but uh it took a very long time the selling of the the saying but it was also a tremendous happening because there was tremendous sim the niggan to start at the beginning and each after each time they sang it there were long uh almost like a hakafa and um I remember that I think it was in lad that was the first time I visited it might have been lame test which was the second time that I visited after we went on and um while all the different things were happening the reb I think I think it's I have to uh search my memory maybe but I'm almost It was rabbikam who gave the rebba a humish. The reb asked for humish. It was a small there was no humish there nearby. It was a small uh it's a brown cover. It's about 4 in by 3 in or almost almost like it's a traveling type of thing of u because there's a very long this was by day I think um on that year and in later years I think Rabbi Zman Khan put out some kind of a like a more a primitive um dramas type of thing with the shimm of in it uh was put out and uh in his printing out there which was next to 770 and um I think the had that uh lady years that I'm not I'm I'm not sure but the was uh facing the wall the misre wall in the south corner wherever's makum kavo was and um while all the salon whatever was happening was busy with other things at that time and hardly turned around I do remember that in um maybe it was in the early certainly I was there and saw it and Rabbi Talf skills would sell on behalf of Shiva and he was trying to um encourage and urge people to come forth with bids and at some stage he just said the Reb is me the Reb is tired so you know get moving get you know you shake yourselves up when he said that word around that second like a reflex Uh until then the Reb was just standing and you didn't see he just was facing the wall turned around and said hi me I think it was that niggan started and it was really really 770 was rocking with that niggan I'm almost sure that was the niggan and it was a tremendous experience another one which I think I said a year ago was that um in in this occas in this part of the um of the when they were going through and there were a lot of nigim in between uh at some stage rabbi came to me I'm 90% sure it was bay there's a small chance it was giml it was certainly one of those three years I'm almost certain because of other simum I have There was um a boy, you know, it must have been about 18, 19 years old, American boy, and he was in the crowd. you're talking about hundreds and hundreds of bakim and you were like this in that area and um you know in the area near the Reb's place and he was very lively and Rabbakov told me uh not now but when you get a chance he was that boy was going on 770 a bit find out who this person is and um I heard just the last few years that the Reb told Rabbi Khadak of something. So it could be it was that same time and they told him to find out. Anyway, I was very close with Rabbi Khadak always and um after YV I saw this guy uh in Crown Heights and I said hello where are you? I said tell me about yourself. So he says I'm not Jewish. um from Alabama and uh he was very interested in Yiddish and becoming Jewish and uh was very in you know very intense kind of a person and um he wanted to know about conversion about the gay so then that same day maybe it was before Ma whatever it was I went into the America's office and I told Rabbi Khadakov uh that I I had a conversation with this boy and he told me he's not Jewish and he wants to become Jewish. Rabbi Khadakov said first of all the divine first of all keep the wine out of his sight. That was the f the first thing and I was just impressed. A subsequent story happened with somebody from England who uh told to check the trill. It was brand new the most expensive trill possible and it was Mr. trader and uh he just bought the that summer and this was in December when he had his first kiss of time and um he told her I just got brand new filling the most expensive available then to check them anyway. This was a Sunday night Monday. He had them checked and they were really really the most mud possible but the paras were put in in the wrong order and because of that it's fussle it's not for you and um so um he told Rabbi Khadakov or Rabbi Vogle told Rabbi Khadakov he was with him in New York uh he he told him that what a What a amazing thing it was that he had these very special forms. Rebs insisted to have them checked and they were and they were personal in this way that really they were perfect quality except the poses had been mistakenly put in the wrong way. Rabbi Khadav was not amazed at the mus. Rabbi Khadak immediately said there's only an hour to he has not fulfilled the mitzvah of trillin this morning Monday morning quickly he should go put on trillin now um and I always thought that was a bin he saw miracles daily probably multiple times in a day and but the had to be followed that was the story with the here as well the first thing he said was what does the implication this person should not handle the wine. That was the first thing and then he said is king lab is not a rabbitic organization. Send them to he told me where to send him Broadway or somewhere in Lat. It was the first time I visited the day of simra. There was they they maneuvered the tables in a way that there was like a pathway for the Reba, but somehow they made a mistake somehow and it was like a maze which is impossible to get through uh over there and the Reba um this was noticed by a lot of people but not you know only a very small uh fraction of the people who actually present. But I was near and deba put his hands on the table and swung himself over the table because there was no opening there. But at that time uh the person who had hba was had take had said kition and taken a lot of mashka and was a bit tipsy and people were worried about something. People start screaming and they started running over to him and to grab him or to pull the noticed it and just said a few words. He said the men is five words. the person is more important. In other words, even more important than the and in subsequent years, you look at the of before um when the spoke about um why the Torah ends with and rashi, the very very final Rashi and the very final thing the Torah has to say It was not that he got the the most sublime thing he ever did was he broke the and and that's how you celebrate and and spoke with was crying very very much about the mila of Jews and and that that it's to tell you that how however great the Torah is the ye is meic.