“Historic Treasures,” is presented by Rabbi Sholom Ber Schapiro, Director of the Nissan Mindel Publications (NMP), exclusively for COLlive.com.
Each program shares ‘treasures’ from the archives of Rabbi Schapiro’s father in law, Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel OBM, a prolific writer who served as a personal secretary of the 6th and 7th Chabad Rebbes.
The program uncovers fascinating stories, rare artifacts and precious documents from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
This week, in honor of the 25th Gimmel Tammuz:
1. Rabbi Nissan Mindel’s visit to the Rebbe a few months after the first Chof Zayin Adar 5752. Learn about this moving encounter between a chosid/friend and his Rebbe.
2. The Rebbe’s definition of a “last will and testament” as expressed in a handwritten letter to a close supporter of the Frierdiker Rebbe shortly after Yud Shvat 1951. In it, the Rebbe clearly explains what a true will (tzava’a) is.
3. The 2 wills of the Rebbe: The legal will that deals with the estate, material possessions of the Rebbe, signed by him in February 1988. And the Jewish which the Rebbe personally dictated (and later reviewed) in the presence of his two trusted secretaries and his Rov. This the Rebbe did twice – both in Sivan,1988 and Elul, 1988. In this document, the Rebbe expresses his wishes for Chabad and its future. Of an everlasting nature.
Although this video was filmed to be aired on Motzei Shabbos, we present it here tonight as a preparation for Gimmel Tammuz:
VIDEO:
Wow Thank You Feter Sholom Ber Schapiro
Thank you Rabbi,
Where are we able to see the Rebbe’s essential will?
Where are we able to see the signed non essential will?
What Was Written?
Didn’t answer the question.
b’h To clarify the main point of last nights’s program of “Chabad in America Through the Mindel Archives” – what is the Rebbe’s true, essential will: What is the true “last will and testament” of a Jewish leader (from a letter the Rebbe wrote to someone shortly after Yud Shvat)? His true will is that the MESSAGE should continue. (As it was with Avraham Avinu, Yaakov Avinu, Moshe Rabbeinu and the Rebbe – their will was that their message should be transmitted and should continue. No signature was needed for their children to know and respect their will). In the… Read more »
You mentioned that the unsigned will was then written up by Rabbi Mindel.
Was it checked over by the Rebbe? We’re there any edits made to it?
Thank you. Very helpful.