It Can Thus Be Settled

IT CAN THUS BE SETTLED

1. On Simchas Torah, 5726 (1965), regarding the Jewish pitcher Sandy Koufax who refused to play on Yom Kippur.
2. Whether or not he was allowed to go to the mikvah on Erev Yom Kippur, the day when shivah ended.
3. To the Ohel he would sit in the front (passenger) seat, and to his house and the mikvah he would sit in the back seat.
4. When he was imprisoned in Russia, he was unsure whether the correct nusach is הנותן ליעף כח or הנותן לעיף כח, and this question was more important to him than all the pain and suffering he experienced. (18 Elul, 5734/1974)
5. 5746 (1985–6).
6. Before visiting her, he put on black rubber shoes. Right after he entered the apartment, Reb Berel Junik telephoned the Rebbetzin. The Rebbe then said, “I see you are busy. Zai gezunt,” and he left.
7. Shabbos Mevarchim Iyar, 5712 (1952).
8. He stood steadfast against the authorities to ensure the matzos baked in his locality had a proper hashgachah, despite the danger this entailed.
9. She would gather grasses and prepare dye so that her husband could write his chiddushei Torah on the margins of his sefarim.
10. 5746 (1986).
11. The Rebbe connected this to the fact that the name of the Tzemach Tzedek’s sefer is “Tzemach Tzedek.” Chassidim later calculated that “Chiddushim U’Biurim B’Shas” has the same gematriya as the Rebbe’s name and family name (just like “Tzemach Tzedek” has the same gematriya as the Tzemach Tzedek’s name).
12. Yud Shevat, 5736 (1976).
13. The first Rashi in Chumash, which states that Eretz Yisroel belongs to the Jewish nation.
14. 15 Tammuz, 5723 (1963).
15. On 11 Nissan, 5743 (1983), the Rebbe related that there is a wealthy man to whom Hashem gave tremendous success to the extent that he owns a personal yacht. Once, while traveling on his yacht, he asked the non-Jewish captain which direction was east. After he had asked this question several times, the captain asked him why he wanted to know this. He replied that it was because he needed to pray in the direction of Yerushalayim. Hearing this, the captain was amazed that even a financially successful person such as him prayed to G-d, and this led him to think about Hashem. (The captain was thus influenced in an area connected to one of the Sheva Mitzvos Bnei Noach—not to serve avodah zarah.)