Yesh Letmoha English Questions and Answers

Questions:

1. When did the Rebbe say a maamar while standing?
2. When did the Rebbe stop saying maamarim from time to time in his room?
3. When was the last time the Rebbe said a maamar with the tune of a maamar at a farbrengen?
4. Which year was known as “the year of the [Jewish] boy and girl” and “the year of building”?
5. When did the Rebbe say that everyone should participate in the printing of a certain sefer (by giving one dollar)? What was the reason for this?
6. When did the Rebbe move from his apartment on New York Ave. to his house on President St.?
7. When did the Rebbe teach the niggun Asader L’Seudasa?
8. When did the Rebbe start wearing a silk kapote every day and davening on the bimah in 770?
9. When did the Rebbe daven Minchah immediately after Shacharis and Musaf (before 27 Adar Rishon, 5752)?
10. What did the Rebbe say about the identity of Reb Leib Sarah’s?
11. When was the first time the Rebbe gave out dollars at a farbrengen?
12. When did the Rebbe give out dollars on Eastern Parkway?
13. When did the Rebbe give out dollars on a Motzoei Shabbos?
14. When did the Rebbe give out dollars only to boys and girls before bar and bas mitzvah?
15. What story did the Rebbe once relate about one of the shluchim?

Answers:

1. On 13 Nissan, 5749 (a maamar beginning with the words Matzah Zu).
2. On the Shabbos before Yud Shevat, 5721, the Rebbe came to say a maamar in his room. A minyan for Krias HaTorah was then taking place in the small zal, and people left the Sefer Torah to hear the maamar. The Rebbe did not like this, and from then on he stopped saying maamarim in his room.
3. On Shabbos Parshas Bereishis, 5746.
4. 5749 (including the end of 5748).
5. On 20 Kislev, 5737, the Rebbe said that he wanted to print Hemshech Ayin Beis (5672) but didn’t want to accept the responsibility involved in doing so. Therefore, he said that everyone should participate so that the responsibility would be shared by everyone. For the same reason, he continued, no names should be mentioned in the sefer other than the names of the Rebbe Rashab and the Frierdiker Rebbe.
6. In Tammuz, 5716.
7. On Shabbos Parshas Balak, 14 Tammuz, 5716.
8. In 5750.
9. On the first day of Sukkos, 5752 (after standing for about six hours watching the chassidim pass by and make a brachah on his set of Daled Minim).
10. That he and the Shpoler Zeide are the same person. The Rebbe added that until someone trustworthy will testify that he saw two separate tombstones, we can say that they are the same person. (Acharon shel Pesach and Shabbos Parshas Acharei, 5730)
11. On Chai Elul, 5734.
12. On 17 Elul, 5748, after saying a sichah and placing the cornerstone for the expansion of 770.
13. On Motzoei Shabbos Chazon, the night of (a delayed) Tisha B’Av, 5751.
14. On the day following Yom Kippur, 5752.
15. A shliach arranged a meeting with a famous professor for which he needed to wait several months. When he was finally allowed to come in to see him, he noticed the sun was about to set and he had not yet davened Minchah, so right then and there he started davening Shemoneh Esrei. The professor was amazed that although the shliach had waited so long to meet him, instead of speaking to him he was standing near the wall praying to Hashem. It was this incident that brought the professor closer to Yiddishkeit.