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The Rebbe's Handkerchief

  • Shemini Atzeres
  • 5787
  • English
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 472-473, no. 14

Continued from the biography of R. Yisroel Duchman:

In 5749 (1988), the last Simchas Torah of R. Yisroel's life, he came to the Rebbe's hakafos after many l'chaims. As always, he and the Rebbe shared a lively interchange, and at one point, the Rebbe handed him his handker-chief. (When his son Sholom joked later that he would now have a precious inheritance after 120 years, R. Yis-roel replied, "No, the handkerchief will go with me." When he unexpectedly passed away later that year, it was indeed laid over his face in his final resting place.)

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