This Week In

5729-1969, the Rebbe spoke to the first group of student emissaries to Australia during a special audience following their return from a two-year mission. “It is not customary to offer thanks for performing a mitzvah,” the Rebbe said, “but I want to acknowledge that I was greatly pleased with all that you accomplished there.” He advised them to remain in contact with the students in Australia, as well as with the next group of emissaries who had been sent to replace them. The Rebbe also emphasized that since they had previously devoted themselves to teaching Torah to others, now that they had returned, they should study Torah themselves with tremendous diligence.

27 Nissan

1. Torat Menachem vol. 56 p. 174