Historical Accounts

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 happy new year...

For five weeks in 1977, people the world over anxiously prayed for the recovery of the Rebbe after he suffered a sudden massive heart attack that left the doctors wondering whether he would pull through.

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%!

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...

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...

It was one of the Rebbe's aides calling from 770. He informed me that the Rebbe was very worried because he had not heard from me...