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Rabbi Efraim Schmuckler has served as rabbi of the Geriatric Center in Montreal, Canada for over thirty years. In 1970, during an audience with the Rebbe, he asked for a blessing that his uncle succeed in leaving Soviet Russia. The Rebbe gave him a blessing, but made it conditional on him keeping it secret. He was elated to have received assurances from the Rebbe, but was dismayed when he failed to live up to the condition the Rebbe had set.