Don’t You Know What Happens At College?
The Rebbe’s handwritten response to a girl who asked about attending college:
The Rebbe’s handwritten response to a girl who asked about attending college:
This drawing of the Frierdiker Rebbe was sent by a Chassid to the Rebbe in the summer of 5751 (1991). In his letter, he wrote that he assumes that this picture is from around the year 5680.
“The truth is that it isn’t even possible to ask questions about the Rebbe … as it is well known that the idea of Rebbeim is a preparation for the coming of Moshiach of which it is written, “And the glory of Hashem shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see” — they will see Elokus (Divinity) with fleshly eyes.
In response to a woman who asked, “How is making long term plans not a contradiction to our firm belief in Moshiach’s imminent arrival.”
An answer from the Rebbe about the need to learn Chassidus, even if you don’t understand it in the desired depth:
An answer from the Rebbe to a woman who asked how are we to explain why Jewish identity is determined by the mother and not by the father?
An answer from the Rebbe to someone who wrote about his hardships in Parnassah:
In the earlier years of the Rebbe’s leadership, the Rebbe instructed his secretary, Rabbi Sholom Mendel ‘שי Simpson, to visit a particular Jewish-American religious activist, and to discuss with him “what Lubavitch matters truly are.”
An answer from the Rebbe to someone who had a heart condition, and after the doctors performed a cardiac catheterization – they scheduled an operation for after Pesach.