The Rebbe's Parting Words | Rabbi Naftali Reich

[Music] Have you ever wondered why when we conquer our yates we feel so empowered and when we slip it feels so horrible? Why are those feelings sometimes so gripping? The Heliga Dish the Reb of Slanim had aid that lived in a far away city. This kasid had a son Davidid that had slipped and was joining the hash group. He wanted to go off to Palestine and be part of a secular kibutz and his father begged him duvidel please go to the dish get a gazen before you leave. David reluctantly agreed. He boarded a train and he arrived in Slanim on an air of shabas. He went straight to the rebell said the rebreing here for shabas. Yes. He said, "Okay, so come to me after Shabas." Right after Marav, David made a beline to the Rebi. Rebagan, I want to say goodbye. The Rebi said, "When is your train?" And he said, "12:00 at night." Okay. Come to me right before you leave. At a/4 to 12, David was standing outside the Reb's door. And the Reb came out of his room wearing his coat and holding his cane. Come, Dvidel. We're going to go together to the train station. They stepped into the horse and buggy and off they went. An awkward silence prevailed. When they came to the station, the Reb accompanied David all the way down the platform to the train itself. David looked at the Rebreban. The Reb said, David, you board the train. It's about to leave. I'll gaz to you from the window. David pressed his face against the window and he looked at the reb. And the reb looked at him and the rebber said, "David, hold yourself pure." And with that, the train chugged out of the station. The reb's holy visage disappeared in the distance. Later on, David arrived in Palestine and he became a leading member of the Histadrut and the Mapai party. But he said those words of the Reb were ringing in my ears. I faced incredible challenges in my early years but I never fell to the bottom. I was always holding on to that voice of the div. Today a branch of David's descendants are and mitzvah. Each and every one of us before our leaves to come down to this ugly and dirty world takes a hold of our and he says he makes us make a Russ be pure. And that voice is reverberating and echoing in the innermost chambers of our nama throughout our journey in life. Every time we withstand the nyun, we're forging a link all the way back to the kiss covered to the place in the heavenly throne from where we came and to where we are going for eternity.