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By Zalmon Jaffe
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Immediate Yechidus

The Rebbe talking with me after davening during our Shavuos stay 5728 (1968)
The Rebbe talking with me after davening during our Shavuos stay 5728 (1968)

We arrived at 770 about 9:00 p.m. on Sivan 3, 5728 (May 30, 1968). I was told the Rebbe wanted to see me straight away, before maariv. The Rebbe was still fasting. The Rebbe would fast whenever he visited his father-in-law’s resting place - about three times a week.

We (only) had a half-hour yechidus this time. However, the Rebbe promised that we would have two more yechidus during this visit, “one would be a short one and another a long one.” The Rebbe said that this yechidus, before Shavuos, the holiday celebrating the giving of the Torah, was “in the midbar (desert); the others would be after kabolas hatorah (giving of the Torah).”

(The Rebbe insisted on shaking hands with me during this yechidus!)

I told the Rebbe that I was not prepared to have a yechidus so soon after arrival.

The Rebbe asked me “Is Shmuel here? Hindy? Their children? Avrohom? I was happy to notify the Rebbe that they were indeed all here.


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