Our Audience with the Rebbe
Fourth Installment
By Zalmon Jaffe
We chose to have the audience on the first night. Five hundred people were expected that evening; one of the Rebbe's aides predicted that our appointment would be very late—maybe around 3 a.m...
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Hoshanah Rabbah with Etrog and Cake
Third Installment
By Zalmon Jaffe
Throughout the time we spent at 770, there were strong arguments and counterarguments continuously going on. The subject matter was the health of our Rebbe...
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Sukkot with the Rebbe and Chabad's Financial Troubles
Second Installment: Sukkot 1979
By Zalmon Jaffe
Our problem – and it is a common one these days – was that although we owned extremely valuable property, we suffered from an acute cash flow shortage, mainly because we were heavily overdrawn in the bank, with interest at over 20%!
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Crying Over the Peoples’ Entreaties
First installment: The High Holidays, 1980
By Zalmon Jaffe
The Rebbe then drew his prayer shawl up over his head, enveloping the podium and its contents as well. He lowered his head onto the podium, meditated, prayed, and wept—appealing to the Almighty to bless all the Jewish people everywhere with a good and ...
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My Encounter with the Rebbe
Personal Journals of Zalmon Jaffe's Visits to the Lubavitcher Rebbe
By Zalmon Jaffe
Zalmon Jaffe's lively personal journals turn back the clock to the Rebbe's early years of leadership when a farbrengen was attended by a modest crowd of 300, and a personal yechidut could last over two hours.
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