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Rare Find: Bidding by the Rebbe

The only known recordings of selling shul honors at 770 Eastern Parkway in the presence of the Rebbe was given to COLlive.com. Full Story, Audio

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Rare Discoveries....
October 12, 2015 12:48 am

Only rare for those who never interested themselves in finding them. These tapes were always sold by WLCC immediately after each farbrengen, Thank you very much Reb Chaim Boruch Halbershtam and his co-workers Reb Yonoson Hackner, Reb SDB Eber, and – Lehavdil bein chaim lechaim – Reb Y.Y. Kazen OBM.

Had we been united
October 9, 2015 5:14 pm

If we (I include myself as a resident of CH) would not chase out most of Lubavitch from 770 we would’ve raised 10 times the amount they raise now for the Rebbe’s shul and we would be able to build the shul and make it three times larger as the Rebbe wanted. Now you must be a member of a certain party in order to be able to be part of 770 and if you play some major role in the other party then the chances that you’ll be physically abused and perhaps even removed from 770 is a high… Read more »

Question
October 9, 2015 4:54 pm

First of all thank you very much to collive for posting
Just Got a few questions
“Recently discovered”
what does that mean?
Where was this recording till now?
And who gave it to collive?

Money inLubavitch
October 9, 2015 3:38 pm

In the 50’s 60’s 70’s and 80;s Lubavitch (and the frum world in general) was very small, and basically a community of poor immigrants and the american kids were just coming of age. if you follow the Rebbe’s Sichos in the early 90’s you will find the theme of Ashirus and Harchovoh B’gashmiyus very often. (most famously in miketz-vayigash-vayechi 92) I personally believe that the Rebbe opened up new channels of parnososh with those sichos. around that time, the amount of serious gevirim in Lubavitch started to multiply exponentially (Y.G. being the most notable example, but he is small fry… Read more »

Yitzchok
October 9, 2015 3:23 pm

Thank you for the recording.
Shia Pinson was hurrying because the Rebbe was waiting, that (among other factors) may factor in to the low numbers

To #2
October 9, 2015 2:30 pm

Based on inflation, $1 in 1978 is now worth $3.78 so the sums are not so paltry though I do think that much more would be able to be raised now, mostly because Lubavitch has grown and more of us are capable of giving

יחי המלך
October 9, 2015 2:26 pm

Wow

Amazing
October 9, 2015 2:18 pm

I remember it well…

The rebbe asks for devar torah and he says a story!!!

Also it is amazing how little money was raised even for those years. Could we all imagine now if the rebbe was sitting there what would be raised!!!!!!!

WOW!!!
October 9, 2015 1:32 pm

Thank you for this Jem of a recording.

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