KabbalaOnline.org "The Nicest Gift Imaginable" Story #1314
KabbalaOnline.org "The Nicest Gift Imaginable" Story #1314
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THE NICEST GIFT IMAGINABLE
Before Chaim-Baruch Halberstam was
married, he was a house assistant for the Rebbetzin, and her personal driver.
On Purim Day of 1970, Chaim-Baruchwas on duty, standing by the door in order to receive the shalach manos (gift
for the Purim festive meal of two or more edible items). The whole
neighborhood, and many, many people from further away, would bring shalach manos to the
Lubavitcher Rebbe and his Rebbetzin, Chaya-Musia (“Mushka”). ChaimBaruchwould take all the shalach manos and put them
on the dining room table. The Rebbetzin would pass by from time to time and
take all the little greeting cards that accompanied the gift.
At a certain part of the day--late in
the afternoon, I think--a bachur (yeshiva student) came to the
door and gave Chaim Baruch a shalach manos for the Rebbe and the
Rebbetzin. He put it on the crowded table with the others. It consisted of a
brown paper bag with an orange and a cookie inside, which was in sharp contrast
to all the generous and lavish ones that the ‘well to do’ householders had
sent. These ranged from a full holiday meal to fancy cakes, rare, expensive
alcoholic drinks and so on. All these beautiful items were later sent to the yeshiva
students in 770.
“When the Rebbetzin passed by the table
again later on in the day and saw this brown bag, she asked Chaim Baruch who
brought it. He told her it was from a bachur. She was visibly moved and
said it was the nicest shalach manos imaginable, and that this one she
would show to her husband.
When the others were sent to 770, only
this one remained on the Rebbe’s table!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: From a recording of the wife of Reb Chayim-Baruch
Halberstam, Mrs Mindy Halberstam (who comments, “This story shows the
greatness and sensitivity of the Rebbetzin). Subsequently transcribed and
edited by Yaakov Cass for “Living Jewish” (Bo 5781) and further
adapted and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles for AscentOfSafed.com.
Rabbi Yaakov Cass is a
Lubavitcher chossid living in Jerusalem. Until recently he was a senior
official in the Israel Ministry of Health.
Biographical note:
Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson (of blessed memory: 25 Adar 5661- 22 Shvat 5748 /
March 1901 - Feb. 1988) was the daughter of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi
Yosef-Yitzchak Schneersohn. On 14 Kislev 5689 (Dec. 1928), she married the
future Rebbe, her distant cousin, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Warsaw,
in a wedding attended by many Chasidic rebbes and leading Torah scholars of the
generation. She devoted herself totally to supporting her husband in his role
as a leader of world Jewry, and was known in her own right for her modesty,
erudition, piety and good deeds.
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