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Rabbi Mayer Plotkin was a student in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, when he heard a former faculty member recount that the Previous Rebbe boldly kept the doors of the Yeshiva open during a financial crisis in the late-1940s.

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Lubavitcher Rebbe

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Disc 115, Program 458

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Mendy NY September 4, 2017

"When you enter the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas there is no plaque to commemorate this event. In the hallways of the Yeshiva you have a photo gallery of all Chassidic Rebbes except that of Chabad.

When the 8th Graders graduate in Torah Vodaas graduate they go on a special trip to visit the grave of The Satmar Rebbe in Kiryas Yoel.
Visiting Rav Pam's Kever which is logistically closer is not on the agenda.

Certainly visting the Kever of Rayatz in Queens as a sign of gratitude is not part of the itinerary.

It is regrettable that there is no acknowledgment or minimum Hakoras Tov."
(Rabbi Shmuel Knopfler) Reply

a giyoret Tokyo June 23, 2013

For a while, I did not have a word after I watched this testimony.

Then, I needed to think…. Reply

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