It happened 88 years ago. 1932. The Rebbe and Rebbetzin came from Berlin to Riga to spend Sukkos with the Rebbe Rayatz and the his family.
On Chol Hamoed, the Rebbe fabrenged all night in the sukkah of the yeshiva. But nobody ever had a record of the words.
After Gimmel Tamuz, the Rebbe’s personal journals were discovered and published as the Reshimos. There they found the Rebbe’s transcript of that fabrengen, a major part of it dealing with the Torah laws about searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. As the Mishna states, we never give up hope and do not stop searching for anyone who might be buried there to try and save their life.
The Rebbe, it seems, spent a few hours (!) analyzing all the details of this halacha (which will be studied in the Daf Yomi this week), and then explaining it from an emotional and spiritual perspective.
In this class, Rabbi YY Jacobson will explore a few of the hundreds of ideas discussed by the Rebbe at that historic 1932 fabrengen.
What does it mean that a person is emotionally trapped under a collapsed building? How do we extract them? Do we ever give up? Whar are the sign we are looking for?
Click here for the source sheets to part of the Rebbe’s fabrengen
Every blessing
This is very interesting. I would appreciate if someone can explain
What does the Rebbe mean by a person bring emotionally trapped in a collapsed building..
And how does one make effort to “help save” that person?
“The building” is a metaphor for a person.
Regarding the Surfside tragedy there is a chance that someone survived even after 6 days.
Feel as if the rebbe is addressing us now. This was revealed to us after 3 tammuz by amazing hashgocha to advice us when we no longer see the rebbe in fabrengen showing us hashem in everything.
Thank you rabbi jacobsen