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Bobover Rebbe w Rebbe in 1952. What Happened?

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so this is a fascinating story that i heard last week a viewer called me and told me this story this was rabbi kalman weinfeld who's a rev in the shul in crown heights and he's the the one of the rabbinic coordinators for the okay kosheros organization in 1952 shane garten rabbit zodiac shane garten was the wife of ruth shane who had many yehidus in the correspondence with the reb as an educator and a social worker of kinds of himself was a great talmud hohem he had a shul in his basement across the big boulevard shul on 48th street between 15th and 16th avenue in borough park and rapsodic could be seen on certain certain clips sitting behind the rabbit learned in kletsk i believe before the war and he knew a lot of the good islam and he knew a lot of the rebels and he became a laba hosted a plea mistake so in 1952 he was this is the the language that he used when he told the story to rabbi weinfeld he was in ghana and he was waiting his turn to go into yahidis with the rebbe and he heard crying coming from the room bitter profuse crying and tears and then he heard the rebbe say to whoever was in the room in english why do you cry there are waits for you a kingdom on the shell on the step going from the room to the to the gane the idea being it's right there your your kingship your royalty your kingdom is waiting for you do what you need to do and you'll be a king and you'll have a tremendous following and then the door opened up from yahidis and a person walks out and the rebbe repeats again and rabbi schengarten heard this he repeats guidance remember exact same words but this time the rabbit started with the word gedank remember who walked out it was down the bubble of the bubble he came out of yahidis this is the story the brotherhood at the time lived in the west side of manhattan and he had a small minion i heard from robertson [Music] who told me that her husband and her his brothers layma carl bach they were twins they helped in 1948 and those 49 those years they helped make the minion many times by the baba rabbi because it was a small crowd and then they they they liked his nego name and they started to come to his malava malki's and they really became close to him so the west side was not his it wasn't the people that were sydney there weren't there were very few in general in the west side in those years so he didn't find this place there that's why in 1955 he moved to kran heights and he opened up his shul and his yeshiva and he had a mikvah because there were many more of his hasidim and people who would participate when he came to america in 1946 i think i told you last week he had yakidas with the freedom and the friedrich and he was broken and shattered he lost his wife he lost children he went through the holocaust and he was a very broken person like many other people including other rabbis too it's interesting that the only rebel in a way that had experience in europe in russia with stalin yamakshama and then had a had an experience on the holocaust in 1939 and then came to america in 1940 was the fleet of cadet now why am i telling you this the frida kareba was a mammoth kind of an intermediary where he had a taste of both horrors communism stalinism and nazism and then he miraculously was saved and he comes to america so early in 40. the rabbis that were here the beyond the rebel the captive they all avoided like the holocaust the frida kahn but did not but he came here in 40. people who started to come from europe post holocaust 1945 46-47 identified with him then i'm talking about hungarians satmir then claire's see them and the brotherhood himself related to the frida kereb as a father figure and i'm not only talking about the fact that he wore his buddha and he had this beautiful face and beard that he looked so royal and so regal and he fit the the the the mode of of a polish hungarian hasidic the frida krabi's heart his warmth his fatherly love and mercy was what drew all these other hasidim to him now i don't know this but i would think that the rebbe knew about the visit of the roof in 1946 to defeat the cadet [Music] only six years later in 1952 seemingly the baba vareba still was going through a very difficult time so he goes to seek another father father figure out who mind you was born in 1902 and the blah blah was born 1907. he was only five years older deb was five years older nevertheless he felt in this person specifically that he wasn't hungarian he wasn't polish and he wasn't got a galaxy honor he was a russian and he was a schneerson and he was a rebel he felt him to be another father figure and that is why possibly he went to see him in 1952 because he felt that abbott can relate to his pain and the rabbit did relate to his pain that ebba's words why you crying was not to crush him or diminish him it was to it was the following words after that that there's a a kingdom waiting for you shift your focus from the negative to the positive and you'll see what you can do for your for see them and claudius roll and indeed that's what happened look it's 80 years later 70 years later or so and the baba khasi this is blooming hashem yes there's two groups and two rebbes and we're not going to discuss that right now i'll let you read about that in my upcoming book immediately but the fact is that the rebbe's words of 1952 have been fulfilled a hundred fold so here we are when we talk about such at sadiq as the rabbit of shlaine and we are and we're looking to understand how to take all the difficulties we've had so far this year to abolish them to eliminate them to transform them remember to focus on the good what good has come out of this pandemic what good can we find in the negative it's interesting in today's sheer tanya la skill khabino igurus yud alef that's daltereva's message look for the good because it's only good may hashem help that each and every one of us should go into shape as kaidosh with a paradigm shift of transforming negativity to positivity and we should continue climbing the ladder of truva deshallow to be safer to the ghoulish lemur because of mamish