Parshas Chayei Sarah

The note that they found [ see be­low ], printed in Kun­tres Yud-Beis Tam­muz, 5708, af­ter the Rebbe’s ar­rest, was kept by R. Pin­chas, the son of R. Eliyahu Chaim [Al­thoiz], in Leningrad. Ev­ery Yud-Beis Tam­muz they would make a far­bren­gen in his home and he would take the note from a hid­ing place, as well as two let­ters that the Rebbe had writ­ten on Yud-Beis Tam­muz; one was a gen­eral let­ter, the other writ­ten per­son­ally to R. Eliyahu Chaim — and they would read them.

And this is the note that was found on the high ta­ble in the Rebbe’s room af­ter his ar­rest on Wednes­day, the 15th of Sivan, 5687 (1927), in Leningrad:

“Lis­ten, chas­sidim and all Yid­den who yearn for Moshi­ach; give over in my name to all chas­sidim in the world: I have in­structed that in ev­ery chas­sidishe shul — af­ter the daily morn­ing prayers, in­clud­ing Shab­bos — ev­ery­one should re­cite with a minyan the por­tion of Tehillim as they are di­vided into the days of the month, and af­ter­wards re­cite Kad­dish; and all the lo­cal shop­keep­ers and busi­ness­men should come to shul to daven and for the class in Ein Yaakov, and Hashem will help them with abun­dant liveli­hood. “Chas­sidim: you should say that I in­struct you — and for other Yid­den, say that for Ahavas Yis­roel and for the well-be­ing of Yid­den, I beg them — to ful­fill this; and Hashem will help them with a year of good for­tune in ruch­nius and gash­mius, and we will merit the com­plete Re­demp­tion through Moshi­ach, Amen.”

The same young man came to the Rebbe for yechidus one sum­mer day in the large zal (study hall) in Ros­tov. The Rebbe’s face was ra­di­ant. “I am ac­cus­tomed to sing while dav­en­ing,” he had said. “Would it be bet­ter to hold my­self back?”

“No, no, ” an­swered the Rebbe, “these are the G-dly soul’s pow­ers re­veal­ing them­selves. ”