Longtime Montreal shliach, Reb Moishe New, relates:
Before my chassuna, I merited a yechidus together with my kallah, and we received a bracha to build a home that radiates with the light of Torah.
But the beginning of the yechidus was interesting. The Rebbe began by telling us, “Since you both speak Yiddish, I will talk to you in Yiddish.”
A while after the yechidus, I wondered why the Rebbe had said that. Yiddish was my first language, and the school my wife had attended in Montreal taught in Yiddish. I compared notes with some friends, and the Rebbe hadn’t opened with this introduction for them.
But then my wife revealed something to me.
“Before our yechidus,” she said, “I was afraid the Rebbe would ask me a question.” Her Yiddish wasn’t as good as her English, and she was worried that she wouldn’t answer perfectly. She became preoccupied with this fear.
But then, she said, we came in and the Rebbe said those words: Since you both speak Yiddish, I’ll speak in Yiddish. All of a sudden, the fear drained away from her, and she was able to melt into the moment.
