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Rabbi Binyomin Klein (1935-2015)
Rabbi Yerachmiel Binyomin Klein
Rabbi Yerachmiel Binyomin Halevi Klein, who discreetly served as a longtime personal aide to the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and as a liaison to Israeli political, social and security leadership, will long be remembered as a person who touched thousands with his humility and kindness.
Here, we've collected some tributes to this gentle chassid, as well as some of the few vignettes he shared about the decades he served the Rebbe.
He served as a liaison to Israeli leadership and as a mentor to many
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My relationship with Rabbi Binyomin Klein
Poor Rabbi Klein had not signed up for this. We stood in his office, and he wasn’t exactly sure what to do with this hysterical girl.
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Rabbi Binyomin Klein, a member of the Rebbe’s secretariat, tells the story behind an improptu talk of the Rebbe in 1990 on a global terrorist threat.
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Rabbi Binyomin Klein was a member of the Rebbe’s secretariat for 30 years. He shares two stories of the Rebbe’s unique ability to see to the root of things.
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part I
When the Rebbe requested that I join his secretarial staff, he told me to speak to Rabbi Hodakov, his chief aide. "He will tell you what needs to be done."
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part II
The donor told the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary: "Before I enter into my audience with the Rebbe, let it be known that I support your Chabad House, and I have no interest in supporting any other Jewish – or for that matter, Chabad – causes."
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part III
There is no doubt in my mind that the time the Rebbe spent at the resting place of his father-in-law, the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, was extremely precious to him...
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part IV
At the end of one of these audiences, the Rebbe turned to Begin and asked him if he would do him a personal favor. Begin replied affirmatively.
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part V
I would enter the Rebbe's office at least once a day...
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part VI
In a private audience, the Rebbe encouraged the rabbi of a certain community to start in his city a campaign to purchase kosher food...
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part VII
We realized that the Rebbe did not sleep for any long period of time. I remember that if the Rebbe went to sleep at 10 p.m., at 11:30 he was back up at his desk studying...
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part VIII
She was speaking to the Rebbe for a very long time, and it seemed that she did not have any plans to end the conversation...
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The Rebbe's Aide Relates - Part IX
I remember once an envoy from the King of Morocco came for a private audience with the Rebbe. He arrived a few hours early and respectfully asked me what the procedure was for an audience with the Rebbe.
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21 snapshots spanning the decades of Rabbi Binyomin Klein’s service
Photos courtesy of The Living Archive (Jewish Educational Media)
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