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My Encounter with the Rebbe - Volume 1

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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Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson(1)

Shazar, Zalman(1)

Introductary Remarks

Editor’s Preface

Early Encounters 5712-5718 (1951-1958)

A Letter from the Rebbe

Lubavitch Origins

Establishing The Connection

Direct Correspondence with the Rebbe

First Visit 5719 (1959)

The start of our adventures

Shabbos with the Rebbe

First Farbrengen

Yud Shevat Farbrengen

Crown Heights Hospitality

Second Visit 5720 (1960)

Our Second Visit to America

A Crown Heights Shabbos

Holiday Interruption

Fourth Yechidus

First Charter Flight 5721 (1961)

(Un)Easy Preparations

Last-Minute Setbacks

I forget about myself

Second Charter Flight 5722 (1962)

Arranging Our Flight

Quick in-and-out

Second Charter Flight

Quiet Arrival to 770

The Rebbe Promotes a Shidduch

Shabbos Tammuz 12

Third Charter Flight 5723 (1963)

Visits of Choson and Kalla

Wedding Preparations and Flight

The Rebbe Will Officiate

Inviting the Rebbetzin

Visit to the Rebbe’s Mother

Sheva Brochos on High

The Year 5724 (1963-1964)

Shavous with the Rebbe

Avrohom’s Progress

The Importance of Tzedakah

Shavuos 5728 (1968)

Immediate Yechidus

This Years Meals

Shabbos Nosso Farbrengen

Formally Demanding a Farbrengen

Listening to the Rebbe

The Year 5729 (1968-1969)

Meals with the Rebbe

We want a Farbrengen

Shavuos 5730 (1970)

Yechidus On Arrival

Preparations for Yom Tov

Women’s Convention

Shabbos Bamidbar Farbrengen

Dining and Singing

The Year of 5731 (1970-1971)

Journeying to the Rebbe

A Belzer Mincha

Shabbos Bamidbar

Singing in the Shul

The Year of 5732 (1971-1972)

Rebbe’s Seventieth Birthday

Excitement Buildup

Thank You For Coming

Who Needs Hotels?

Shabbos Hagodol a Yom Tov?

Shavuos 5732 (1972)

Arrival to CommUnion Street

Surprise Farbrengen

First Day of Shavuos

Second day of Shavuos

Kos Shel Brocha

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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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