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Presented by Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Executive Director of the Central Lubavitch Youth Organization (Tzach Hamerkazis) and a long-time columnist and radio broadcaster.
This week: The message from the Parsha to every Jewish daughter, her parents and her educators: “What is a Jewish daughter doing in the field alone?”
Weekly story: A person visited the Rebbe’s Ohel mentioned that he needs $10,000 — help came quicker than expected.
You may ask, upon hearing a story where the Rebbe tells someone to travel to xyz … and there, indeed, under providential twists and turns, bingo!
You question might be: Did the Rebbe see that this guy will be walking this way and that then suddenly the other guy shows up, etc? No. But the tzaddik’s bracha can dictate to Hashem Who then sets up those circumstances to happen accordingly!
Chassidus explains that the Rebbe is the ממוצע המחבר the unifying connection between us and Hashem. Same as Moshe Rabbeinu.
I would like to point out that he was answered by the Ribbono Shel Oilam, not by the Rebbe.
We do not know how these things work. If one has the merit and he is זוכה then he may be answered in advance even before he asks. This is in the spirit of והיה טרם יקראו ואני אענה “I will respond before they will ask.”
Nice story. But that means that the check was already there before you went to the Ohel.
Rebbe, we are not asking for Moshiach and the geula shlaima now. We need the geula shlaima now.
I’m a Shliach not far from the Ohel. I went to the Ohel once and wrote that a bill is due in three days (a few thousand) and I had nothing in my account. When I returned from the Ohel, on my way inside my home I stuck my hand inside the mailbox and removed that days mail and inside one of the envelopes was a check for the amount of the bill due.