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Yud-Gimmel Tammuz

Chag HaGeulah (second day) — the Frierdiker Rebbe's actual release (1927)

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13 Tammuz

"Moscow Released Me — I'll Do Better With Moscow"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 270, no. 112

R. Mi­choel Dvorkin re­counted that the Rebbe wanted to say the maa­mar HaGomel on Wednes­day, the 13 th of Tam­muz, in Kos­trama — when peo­ple came — but a mes­sage came from Leningrad with the warn­ing that Mess­ing, the head of the G.P .O., had made it known that he dared not re­turn to Leningrad. Thoughts were con­sid­ered then about trav­el­ing to Kharkov or Mos­cow, but the Rebbe said, “We are go­ing home. ”

Later on 3, though, when the thought arose to travel to Staraya Russa [near Leningrad] or to Mala­chovka [near Mos­cow], the Rebbe said, “Leningrad G.P .O. ar­rested me; Mos­cow G.P .O. re­leased me. I’ll do bet­ter with Mos­cow. ” And he trav­eled to Mala­chovka.

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A Bracha on an Untilled Field

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 238-239, no. 63 · The Frierdiker Rebbe

R. Aharon Leib Lein — the grand­son of R. Chaim Dovid, the shochet of Nevel — told me that when he came from Poltava to spend Purim in Leningrad, and had yechidus af­ter Purim, the Rebbe asked him, “Did you hear what we spoke here?”

“I would like a bracha, ” he said.

“A bless­ing from a Jew is note­wor­thy, ” the Rebbe an­swered. “A bless­ing from a Torah scholar is cer­tainly note­wor­thy; a bless­ing from the son of holy pure tzad­dikim is ab­so­lutely note­wor­thy. But what is a bracha? Rain, the bracha of rain — when one plows and sows and Hashem gives rain, then good things grow, good ker­nels. But on an un­tilled field there is noth­ing. ”

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"Nu, You'll Probably Say Yevarechecha"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 262, no. 101 · The Frierdiker Rebbe

The Rebbe’s mother Reb­bet­zin Shterna Sarah, and his wife Reb­bet­zin Nechama Di­nah, wear­ing white silk scarves, ac­com­pa­nied the Rebbe to the train sta­tion.

The Rebbe told his mother from the coach win­dow, “ Mama, 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.24 Then, turn­ing to us, “ Ah, such an un­nec­es­sary trip. Nu, you’ll prob­a­bly say Yevarechecha.”25

  1. Melachim I 8:57; Shachris before Shir Shel Yom. "יהי הוי' אלקינו עמנו כאשר הי' עם אבותינו, אל יעזבנו ואל יטשנו"The Rebbe elaborated upon that posuk in his talk at the train station. ↩
  2. Birkas Kohanim. ↩
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