The Rebbe's Shocking Letter to Israel's President

Labarba wrote a letter once in 1956 to the president of Israel to the Nasi. You know they have the Roshame Shalah the prime minister and they have the Nasi Nosi I would say in my accent and uh the Nasi was Yeitzak Benvi. He was the first president and longest serving president of Israel. And the Reba writes to Benfi and apologizes for not using his proper governmental title. He doesn't call him Nsi. And the Reb says, "I hear that you're a real guy. You're a sincere person and you wouldn't want flattery and you wouldn't want me to be a faker. So, I'm not going to use the term nsy on you." And the Reb explains because the word nasi for me has very very personal meaning. Then the Reb gives a very rare glimpse into his personal life and says the word Nasi is a Tyra word. It's not a secular word. It's not a governmental position. A nasi means a true leader of the Jewish people over whom there's no greater authority than Hashem alone. He he's directly answerable to Hashem allevik and ultimately the real Nosi will be Malik Mashiach. So the rebba says since I was 3 years old from the day I went to and even before can you imagine a little child and I don't know if you know anything about little's life but do you know his childhood they were when he was a little kid they were hiding from the cosex there were raids there were prams in his town his mother wrote rabbit kana she writes in her diary by the way rabbit khana is also you can visit her caver is also here in Queens queens is the holiest burrow you have the oil and you have the Ravid's mother, Rabbit Tinana. So, Rabbin Khana writes in her diary that when there there was a pagram and the coscs were raiding the town, she said her little son, he was a little kid himself. He was soothing the other children from crying because if they would cry, the cosaks would find them and kill everybody. He was giving out candies and he was calming the other children so that they shouldn't cry and be discovered. So, you're talking about somebody Labba grew up with that. And then came the communist revolution. his father was sent into exile and ultimately died that his father's yards had said coming up. Then the holocaust and his brother was murdered and his his his wife's family was uh her sister and and husband were murdered did not have an easy life. I'm saying on a personal level and the Reb is writing to Beni and he's saying my whole life I'm imagining the gula since I'm a little kid since I'm a baby I'm imagining the gula and this word nsi has a very specific connection to gulah because nsi really means melamia and I just can't use that word to talk about a secular governmental title the says do you know what it means when goula comes It'll be like the Na'vi says that we're going to turn to Hashem and after everything that the Jewish people went through for 2,000 years of the most horrifying brutality, the says we're going to turn to Hashem when Mashiah comes, we're going to say, "Hashem, I'm going to thank you for the pain." How's it possible to thank Hashem for the pain? Maybe you'll thank Hashem for stopping the pain. Maybe you thank Hashem that we're no longer in gullus. How are we going to thank him for the gullus? Does it make sense? I understand you thank Hashem that we're no longer in pain. Why would you thank Hashem for all the pain? Why would I thank Hashem for the worst day of my life? Why would I say, "Hashem, I remember the moment when I was in the greatest pain. Thank you. I'm I cherish the moment." Why would I ever say that? There's only one possible explanation. When Msiah comes, it's not just an end to the pain that our people have went through that that each of us individually have gone through. It's not just an end to the pain. When Mashiach comes, all of a sudden, we look back and we see the whole story and we see that the moments of destruction were plowing. They were plowing and they were making greater growth possible. Whatever you've gone through, you're a hero. like the Jewish people, we are all heroes and you're surviving and you're thriving and you're looking forward to the moment when Mashiach will be here and finally you'll be able to look at your moment of devastation and cherish that moment to to see the possibilities that it led to. I'll only say one other thing which is I told you already it's very awkward for a yeish because we are not built for gullets. We're built we're built for gula. Golas is not a home for a yid. Literally it's not. We're not home. We're not at home in golas. We don't know how to we don't know how to deal with it's not a normal day. Give us some normaly. Nobody should die ever again. That's how we're created to never die. The should get rid of death. There should be no war. There should be no famine. There should be no children and parents who don't talk to each other. There should be no Jews who don't know what shabas is, who don't know what it means to be Jewish, to put on fill in every day. These things are not normal and we're not comfortable with it and we're not comfortable with tishabove because the siba of all this dysfunction is the hashem. We want normaly. We want to be restored to normaly and that means that we live forever that God is something we see with our eyes. I don't want to hear any more of people telling us fantasies you're imagining. Our flesh should be able to see Gilocus. That's normal. That's normal. But I want you to understand that whatever you went through up until now, not only is it coming to end very an end very soon. And the comfort is coming, but it's a double comfort. You're going to see how everything you went through and you did it so gracefully and you did it so beautifully and you're here. We're all here. Everything we went through gave us the ability to see Hashem with greater clarity. It wasn't destruction. It was plowing for greater growth.