Parshas Vayeishev

When the Rebbe was im­pris­oned in Sh­palerka we re­ceived re­ports from sources in­side the G.P .O. (The Rebbe him­self wrote that in Sh­palerka the in­ves­ti­ga­tor ad­dressed him as “Rebbe. ”) Hence, we al­ready knew on Fri­day that the Rebbe would be re­leased. (It was ac­tu­ally known even ear­lier, when R. Mi­choel Dvorkin trav­eled to Kos­trama for Shab­bos.) And in an­tic­i­pa­tion of his re­lease the Shab­bos morn­ing dav­en­ing was de­layed.

On Sun­day, the third of Tam­muz — when the Rebbe still hadn’t come — and my brother-in-law R. Yitzchak Minkovitch and I went out­side for a while, Pinya (Pin­chas ben R. Biny­omin Al­thoiz) came run­ning to us with the news that the Rebbe had al­ready reached home. We im­me­di­ately ran there, and the Rebbe was sit­ting in the chil­dren’s room. [When I re­lated this story one Yud-Beis Tam­muz, the Rebbe Shlita in­ter­rupted me with a re­quest to ex­plain what the “chil­dren’s room” was.]

One of the daugh­ters en­tered the room and said, “Tateh, the yun­geleit want to see you. ”

“Have you been learn­ing Chas­sidus dur­ing this time?” the Rebbe asked us im­me­di­ately when we came in­side.

“We’ve been say­ing Tehillim,” my brother-in-law an­swered.

The Rebbe replied im­me­di­ately, “I wrote the maa­marim of Shavuos un­til they saw me and took away the pen­cil. ”

A few hours later the Rebbe Shlita brought us the maa­marim. The first maa­mar, be­gin­ning Anochi, was in­scribed “19 Sivan 5687” (1927); the sec­ond maa­mar, be­gin­ning Vayd­aber, was in­scribed “20 Sivan 5687 . ” The last word writ­ten was Or (“light”).

When I was in Mala­chovka — when the Rebbe was there in his dacha — and asked for the end of the maa­mar, the Rebbe an­swered, “Noth­ing more came. ”³⁸

38. See above: The Rebbe Rayatz, #99. ↩

The Rebbe said, “We have grown so weak that our feet move weakly, our vi­sion is weak, we lose our strength — but They who wait for Hashem shall re­new their strength.”⁴

4. Yeshayahu 40:31. ↩