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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 140-141, no. 12
In the summer of 5674 (1914) the narrator's brother fell ill with tuberculosis of the bone and was taken from Homil to Kiev for surgery, then a second and a third operation, after which he was very weak. The narrator wrote a pidyon and sent it to the Rebbe's summer dacha in Zalsha; an opening formed at the site, the phlegm drained, and the doctor, Kostritzky, said he had never seen such a thing. The narrator brought his brother to Lubavitch for Rosh Hashanah 5675, but with the war having begun on Tisha B'Av and the crowds immense they could not obtain yechidus, and lacking money to stay through Sukkos they had to leave on motzaei Yom Kippur; the Rebbetzin let him wait in the small room outside the yechidus room, and when the Rebbe finally emerged very late and the narrator said "This is my brother," the Rebbe asked, "This is the one whose leg hurt?"
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534 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 119-120, no. 4
In the summer of 5675 (1915), lodging in Pinsk with R. Yisroel Yitzchak Lubinsky, the narrator heard this from him. The Rebbe Maharash would always say that a matter should be heard as it seems and answered as it seems — in a general manner. When the authorities in Semyanovka, Chernigov province, discovered untaxed alcohol being taken from the factory, a major trial was set for thirteen defendants with R. Yisroel Yitzchak as a witness, and the well-known investigator Stalietov was coming from Petersburg; R. Yisroel Yitzchak went to the Rebbe Maharash in Lubavitch and, because many Yidden faced prison, asked the Rebbe to hear out his prepared answers, ending with one question he did not know how to answer. The Rebbe told him that he is a Yid with a good head who is not sunk in physical desires, while Stalietov is a goy without such a mind and caught up in desires, so it would never occur to him to ask such questions — and so it was: the trial ended favorably.
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488 wordsRebbe Maharash
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 268-269, no. 110
On Yud-Beis Tammuz, after being unofficially informed of his freedom, the Rebbe related that on Yud-Beis Tammuz 5654 (1894), his fourteenth birthday, they were on vacation and his father the Rebbe Rashab poured LeChaims. The Rashbatz asked where he had seen such a practice — by his father or his grandfather — and the Rashab answered, "Trust me"; the Rebbe concluded, "And I am grateful to him." Years later, in a yechidus about birthdays, the narrator told the story and the Rebbe Shlita corrected his understanding: the gratitude was directed to the Rashbatz, whose question drew from the Rebbe Rashab the words "Trust me" — and that, said the Rebbe, was the miracle of Yud-Beis Tammuz.
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362 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 225, no. 41
At a farbrengen in his mother's house the Rebbe told of a chossid who dreamt that his previous Rebbe said one of his children would pass away that year. His Rebbe told him "Tracht gut vet zein gut," but he remained badly shaken; on Simchas Torah he stood aside weeping until the thought struck him that it was nonetheless Simchas Torah, and he joined the dancing. In yechidus after Sukkos the Rebbe asked what he had done on Simchas Torah, and told him that with that he had nullified the decree. The Rebbe did not say the names of the Rebbeim involved.
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314 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 396-398, no. 25
While the Rebbe was imprisoned in Shpalerka, chassidim received reports from contacts inside the G.P.U., so already on Friday they knew he was to be released, and Shabbos morning davening was delayed in anticipation. On Sunday, the third of Tammuz, the narrator and his brother-in-law R. Yitzchak Minkovitch had stepped out when Pinya (Pinchas ben R. Binyomin Althoiz) came running to tell them the Rebbe was already home; they ran back and found him sitting in the children's room. Asked whether they had learned Chassidus during that time, the brother-in-law answered that they had said Tehillim, and the Rebbe replied that he had written the maamarim of Shavuos until they saw him and took away the pencil; hours later he brought out the maamarim, one inscribed "written in prison, 19 Sivan 5687" (Anochi) and the second (Vaydaber) "20 Sivan 5687," the last word written being Or. Later, at the dacha in Malachovka, the narrator asked for the conclusion of the maamar and the Rebbe answered, "It does not write itself." At the departure the chassidim formed two rows; R. Binyomin Althoiz began to speak and the Rebbe stopped, answering a remark about the Alter Rebbe leading b'yad ramah after Petersburg with the vort said on Shavuos on yad hagedolah, yad hachazakah and yad ramah — ramah being keser, the letters of kares, may it be 'v'chol oyvecha yikoreisun.' At the station the Rebbe stood at the open window of a yellow second-class car; Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah approached and he said to her, "Mama, it says yehi Hashem Elokeinu imanu ka'asher hayah im avoseinu — surely there will also be al ya'azvenu v'al yitesheinu," and to those seeing him off, "An altogether unnecessary journey," adding, "You will presumably say Yevarechecha."
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725 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 111-112, no. 57
The narrator's zeide told how the Tzemach Tzedek, in Petersburg for the government ministry conference, fought intensely against the authorities' plans. Asked where his determination came from, he said it lay in his suitcase; when they opened it they found his burial shrouds. The minister replied, "You are looking to sacrifice your life, but we only give lashings." The zeide also related that when the children objected that their mother would be terrified by the shrouds, the Tzemach Tzedek answered that this was exactly what he wanted — that she should beg the Eibershter for help, since she is truly the daughter of a Torah sage.
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292 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 368-369, no. 4
R. Yitzchak Masmid related that in a small town lived an eminent chossid, R. Itchele. A wealthy man whose daughter had fallen ill gave him money for a pidyon nefesh — and instead the chossid gathered his chassidim for a festive seudah and farbrengen. Challenged by the gvir, he explained that Itchele fasting and weeping is nothing new before G-d, but when Itchele gathers his chassidim and farbrengs, Heaven asks what the occasion is and discovers that the gvir's daughter is ill — which he applied to the verse "And He looked upon their distress when He heard their rejoicing."
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287 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 195-196, no. 91
R. Yisroel Neveler related in the name of the gvir R. Nosson Gurary that R. Nosson traveled with the Rebbe Rashab to the Alter Rebbe's ohel in Haditch, where both gvirim and melamdim were to enter yechidus. The Rebbe instructed that the melamdim be admitted first and the gvirim afterwards, but R. Nosson reversed the order and told the gvirim to leave their contributions on the table. At the train station the Rebbe asked R. Nosson whether he had money for the tickets; when R. Nosson, who knew the gvirim had left money, was astonished, the Rebbe explained that since the melamdim came in afterwards there was money on hand, and he gave them whatever was in his pocket.
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277 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 259, no. 98
On Gimmel Tammuz, when the Rebbe came out of Shpalerka, he entered the study hall, sat on a bench near the aron hakodesh, and said, 'It's a plan and we must know this — it's a libel from there.' He then said that he had seen Hashgacha Pratis at the door of Shpalerka and had thought at that moment: 'Do I take upon myself to continue writing about children's education and Torah schools? If so, it will be good; otherwise, there will be repercussions' — alluding to the verse in Bereishis. He added that a secretary had asked whether he needed to communicate anything to his home, and since she was the one who offered, he decided to refuse.
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268 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 266, no. 106
When the Rebbe reported to the G.P.U. on a Tuesday, he was told to appear again eight days later, on Wednesday — the law requiring a weekly appearance. He insisted on coming on Tuesday instead, and they laughed at anyone wanting to come to them a day early. When he came that Tuesday, Yud-Beis Tammuz — although it was a local festival — he was told that a telegram signed by Dzerzhinsky had arrived and that he was free; mistakes happen, even major ones, they said, asking his forgiveness, and the directive had come from Moscow.
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239 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 98-99, no. 35
R. Michoel Dvorkin related that during the Sebastopol (Crimean) War, chassidim were sitting with the Rebbe's son R. Chaim Shneur Zalman, the Rebbe of Liadi, when the Tzemach Tzedek walked in. They were saying that the decree of a third army conscription in a single year surely meant it was the time of Moshiach. The Tzemach Tzedek responded: "We do not know darkness. We know only light. And as to the light that will be revealed when Moshiach comes — who knows what sort of darkness will have to precede such a light?"
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217 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 262, no. 101
The Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah, and his wife, Rebbetzin Nechama Dinah, wearing white silk scarves, accompanied the Rebbe to the train station. From the coach window the Rebbe told his mother that it is true that "Hashem our G-d will be with us, as He was with our forefathers," and it will surely be, "Let Him not leave us, nor forsake us." Then, turning to those standing there, he said, "Ah, such an unnecessary trip. Nu, you'll probably say Yevarechecha."
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217 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 285, no. 3
Reb Aizel used to say that we are not capable of real bitachon. If a person does everything a good friend asks of him, he can trust that the friend will do what he requests; but when he does the opposite of what is asked of him, on what basis can he trust? What he does have, Reb Aizel said, is emunah — faith that G-d is good and desires kindness, and therefore will certainly fulfill his request.
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164 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 129-130, no. 21
The narrator's uncle, R. Yehudah Leib Chasdan, the shochet from Homil, said he heard directly from the Rebbe Maharash an interpretation of "Everything is in the hands of Heaven except the fear of Heaven": everything is given only if Heaven wishes to give it and withheld if not — except yiras shamayim, which, when one asks for it, is given. A footnote observes that this reverses the plain meaning, which places yiras shamayim in a person's own hands, into a promise that sincere supplication draws it down from Above without restriction.
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153 wordsRebbe Maharash
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 486-488, no. 7
Immediately after R. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar arrived in Toronto from Germany, his small daughter, who had been born in the German D.P. camp, fell sick and worsened until the doctors lost hope. He wrote to the Rebbe asking for a bracha, and the Rebbe instructed him to prepare a communal kiddush in shul that Shabbos. He did so, drawing the astonished protest of the community rov that he was celebrating while his daughter lay critically ill; shortly afterward her health began to improve until she recovered completely.
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145 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 168, no. 51
During a cheerless period in the Rebbe's court, the Rebbe Rashab paced back and forth in the zal at 44 Brotsky in Rostov with the door open. He stopped and said that he saw no end to "them" — the Bolsheviks — but that "we, and everyone holding onto us, will remain intact."
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112 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 288, no. 8
When Reb Aizel was ill, his students came to visit him. He told them that they know he cannot tolerate gloomy expressions, and instructed them to go pour themselves a little mashkeh and only then come back in to him.
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77 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 270, no. 112
R. Michoel Dvorkin recounted that the Rebbe wanted to say the maamar HaGomel in Kostrama on Wednesday, the 13th of Tammuz, when people came, but a message arrived from Leningrad warning that Messing, head of the G.P.U., had let it be known that he dared not return to Leningrad. Traveling to Kharkov or Moscow was considered, but the Rebbe said, "We are going home." Later, when travel to Staraya Russa or Malachovka was weighed, the Rebbe said, "Leningrad G.P.U. arrested me; Moscow G.P.U. released me. I'll do better with Moscow" — and he traveled to Malachovka.
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276 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 165, no. 47
R. Fallik Gurary related that he and his uncles R. Shmuel Gurary and R. Nosson were stopped in Rostov by a Chekist from Kremenchug, who taunted them that they could not hide there, took their passports, recorded the numbers, and ordered them to report to the Cheka. They went to the Rebbe and told him what had happened, and he replied, "When there is nothing to answer, no questions are asked." No one bothered them again.
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250 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 313-314, no. 54
R. Yisroel — a son-in-law of Reb Aizel's son R. Yaakov Yosef, and also Reb Aizel's nephew — was seriously ill and paralyzed, and his wife struggled to support their small children through her dry goods store. When it became too much, she came weeping to her zeide, Reb Aizel. He answered her, "What do you want from me? He (the Eibershter) can do whatever He wants with me; I won't give Him any advice."
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237 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 470-471, no. 6
R. Yisroel first took a job in a butcher store and later opened his own poultry business; in yechidus, when the Rebbe asked him for good news, he reported opening his own butcher shop and asked the Rebbe to be his partner, and the Rebbe gave him a $50 bill. In his characteristic way he told the Rebbe, "If you're giving the money to be a partner, $50 is nothing, and if you're giving it as a segulah, then one dollar is also enough." He rose at four a.m. daily for his delivery route, but used his warmth and humor with his Williamsburg customers to move them to give to charitable causes and to change their view of the Rebbe and Lubavitch; his wife Rochel worked in a factory so that he could give his time to the Rebbe and to helping others, and their children nonetheless felt their parents were devoted to them.
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237 wordsR. Yisroel Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 295, no. 25
When R. Avraham HaLevi of Borshtzovk, the father of the narrator's zeide, grew weak, the narrator's uncle Rav Shneur Zalman traveled from Korma, where he served as rov, and stayed several weeks before returning home. The narrator's father was present at the parting and heard the uncle say, "Nu, the first thing is: be healthy!" — adding, with a nigun, "and if not, do not be afraid of any angel or any seraph, only of Hashem Himself."
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204 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 149, no. 21
R. Yisroel Neveler related that as a student in Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch he was due to come to the Rebbe Rayatz, the Rebbe's son, during the day on Thursday, and arrived late. Asked why he had not come earlier, he explained that he had lain down to rest because he had to stay awake Thursday night. The Rebbe Rayatz replied that sleeping beforehand will not help; to be able to stay awake one must ask the Eibershter and recite the chapter of Tehillim “Yaancha Hashem” (ch. 20).
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194 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 370, no. 6
At a farbrengen with Reb Groinem in Lubavitch in 5667-68 (1907-08), the familiar complaint came up again that Lubavitcher chassidim were not prosperous. One of the Temimim answered that he had seen an old manuscript stating that someone bound up with pnimius haTorah does not receive his life-force through the seventy ministering angels who bestow material bounty on the nations. Receiving from a loftier source, he said, is no easy matter and requires merit.
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175 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 124-125, no. 10
R. Yehoshua Nemoytin of Beshenkovitch related that a Yid from Beshenkovitch spent time in Lubavitch with the Rebbe Maharash, who told him to study Chapter 11 of Iggeres HaKodesh — Lehaskil'chah Binah — every day. The bracketed note explains that this chapter stresses belief in constant creation yesh me'ayin and that no evil descends from Above. Years later, all of that man's children passed away.
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156 wordsRebbe Maharash
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 151-152, no. 24
During the First World War the narrator repeatedly traveled to the Rebbe in Rostov on behalf of his brother Baruch, who was serving in the army. When Baruch's unit was sent toward the front, the narrator informed Yerucham, the tomim and chozer who served as gabbai for pidyon shevuyim, and Yerucham brought the matter in to the Rebbe, who answered, "I hope to the Eibershter that they won't send him there." A few weeks later a telegram came from Oryol: a German warplane had thrown his unit into chaos at Minsk and they were diverted to Oryol, after which Baruch himself came to Rostov and received the Rebbe's blessing, and everything was then fine.
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353 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 396, no. 24
Throughout the winter of 5685 (1925) in Leningrad, the Rebbe made Havdalah himself every motzaei Shabbos. He would stand at the end of the table nearer the door, while his mother, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah, stood by the other door together with Rebbetzin Nechama Dinah. The narrator says the words Evtach v'lo efchod — "I trust and shall not fear" — still ring in his ears to this day.
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118 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 456-457, no. 63
When R. Zalman had to be hospitalized for surgery, the Rebbe gave him a siddur and Tanya to place on the operating table; he did so and the surgery was successful. Later, on a visit to Chicago, he misplaced the siddur and — as he did with everything that happened to him — informed the Rebbe, but received no response. Not long afterwards R. Yankel Katz of Chicago arrived at his home with it: a non-Jewish woman had found the siddur and brought it to a shul, the gabbai recognized it as a Chabad siddur and brought it to the Chabad shul, and R. Yankel recognized R. Zalman's name and returned it.
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123 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 42-43, no. 20
The Alter Rebbe once said that if his children devote themselves to ruchnius, they will have gashmius as well.
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38 wordsAlter Rebbe
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 246, no. 80
At a farbrengen in Leningrad, the Frierdiker Rebbe said, "My posuk is known; I only have to begin, and Hashem will finish for me." The footnote explains the custom of reciting a posuk at the conclusion of Shemoneh Esrei whose first and last letters match one's name, and that the posuk for the name Yosef (Tehillim 138:8) begins with the words "Hashem will finish for me."
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70 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 265-266, no. 105
The Jews of Kostrama told the Rebbe that a tzaddik had once been there for seven years. He replied, "We will do it faster."
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 427-428, no. 17
R. Zalman Duchman's first journey to the Frierdiker Rebbe after the histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab was for Rosh Hashanah 5683 (1922). He wrote that at that visit, in the first yechidus, the Rebbe told him, "We provide parnassah for our children."
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50 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 219, no. 35
A young man came to yechidus and complained that times were hard for making a living, citing the Rebbe's letter of Kislev 5672 to Yeshivas Toras Emes in the Holy Land, which said one must keep his dwelling clean or the owner will drive him out in disgrace — and to cleanliness there is no limit. The Rebbe gave no reply at the time. On Shabbos he said the maamar Mashcheini acharechah and noted that the word can also be read Mishkani ('My sanctuary'), and that besides a dwelling's cleanliness there is also its goodness and beauty.
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 242, no. 70
The Rebbe said that we have grown so weak that our feet move weakly and our vision is weak, and we lose our strength — but 'they who wait for Hashem shall renew their strength.'
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