Zalmon Jaffe

One of the highlights of our trip to the Rebbe is our visit with the Rebbetzin at her home on President Street. The Rebbetzin is a very charming and friendly person. She always makes us feel very much at home. After two or three hours when we take our lea...

The day after the yechidus, I was reflecting on (and brooding over) what the Rebbe meant when he told me that I should be friendlier to him. One of my friends thought he knew. “The Rebbe is a king and has to be treated like one, with the greatest honor an...

Our yechidus took place on Monday night, Sivan 9 (May 19). The great moment arrived at 11:45 p.m. when the young man who was before us opened the Rebbe’s door from the inside and retreated from the Rebbe’s presence. He kissed the mezuzah and closed the do...

I am constantly asked why it is so difficult to obtain a yechidus with the Rebbe and why should people not anticipate receiving an immediate written response to their letters, if any at all. Let us consider some of the facts. The Rebbe heads a huge and su...

A most luxuriously appointed new 20-foot Dodge van had just been delivered outside 770. This was the most modern and up-to-date “Mitzvah Tank” I could have ever envisaged. The whole interior twenty feet was covered with wall-to-wall carpeting. There was a...

As mentioned earlier, the Tanya committee had decided on the plane coming from England, to seek an impartial rabbi, who would arbitrate between London and Manchester in the matter of the Tanya. He would have to adjudicate mainly on how the profits of the ...

The following week, Shmuel and Hindy invited us to another vort. Raizy Adler had proved herself such a good and loyal friend by looking after the children and so forth that Shmuel and Hindy had rewarded her by finding her a choson, none other than Yossi H...

A young friend of ours from London, Shaul Cohen, who was studying for semicha at 770, informed me that he was engaged to Miss Reva Rivkin of Brooklyn. He begged me to come along, if only for a few minutes, to the vort (engagement party) to take place that...

The kinus hatorah takes place each year on the day following yom tov (May 18th this year). Many prominent rabbonim and roshei yeshivos prepare complicated pilpulim that they then deliver. The rabbis bring to the shtender (podium) a pile of Talmudic volume...

At 8:00 p.m. on the second day of Shavuos, the farbrengen commenced with the Rebbe entering the hall. Beforehand, we had washed and made hamotzie. It was a very freilicher farbrengen. Here follows a little of what the Rebbe said: It is a well-known fact t...