Chabad History

CHABAD HISTORY

1. When and regarding what did the Rebbe speak at a farbrengen about the World Series (the Major League Baseball championship games)?
2. What halachic question did the Rebbe discuss with many of those who came to comfort him after the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Chana, in 5725 (1964)?
3. Where would the Rebbe sit when he would travel by car?
4. What story did the Rebbe tell about the chossid Reb Shmuel Levitin a”h?
5. From 5742 (1981–2) and on, the Rebbe would give a roshei teivos for each year. For which year did he not give a roshei teivos?
6. During the shivah of the Rebbe’s brother Reb Leibel in 5712 (1952), what did the Rebbe do when he visited his mother so she wouldn’t realize he had passed away?
7. When did the Rebbe flip over his hat in the middle of a farbrengen, instructing those present to do so as well?
8. What story would the Rebbe often relate about his father, Reb Levi Yitzchok z”l?
9. What story would the Rebbe often relate about his mother, Rebbetzin Chana a”h?
10. In which year (in the later years) did the Rebbe visit the bank opposite 770?
11. Why did the Rebbe instruct that the name of the sefer “Chiddushim U’Biurim L’Shas” should be changed to “Chiddushim U’Biurim B’Shas”?
12. When did the Rebbe ask several Rabbonim to speak during the farbrengen about Shleimus Ha’aretz, and that 72 Rabbonim should pasken that the borders of Eretz Yisrael must remain intact?
13. What did the Rebbe ask two children to read in the middle of a farbrengen?
14. When was the last time the Rebbe was mesader kiddushin?
15. What story did the Rebbe relate about Mr. David Chase?