The Rebbe's Secret Mission to Reach Bobby Fischer

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

re was looking for Bobby fiser he tried to get to him the Reb tried to get the Bobby fer you ever heard of RFI Samy rski he was one of the great grand masters of Chess he was one of the few Americans who was competitive at that level on the world class level in the 20th century and he competed against Fischer RFI was also a Jew he was born in Poland from a family of gidm but as a child he moved to America and he actually grew up in Crown Heights Brooklyn in fact in the 1940s he had Yus with the sixth of kabad and after the freedb is passing he continued to have a relationship with the seventh Reb and rashevsky was famous for being shamer shabas he kept chabas yeah he would not compete on chabas and that was like a well-known thing so in 1982 he turned 70 and he wanted to retire you know in general that deba was against retirement that deba never retired spoke about it's not good to retire so rvi was 70 already in 1982 and uh he wanted to retire that debba told him don't retire you should continue to compete because when you compete it's a kesem it's a sanctification of God's name why because he didn't compete on chavas and it was a known thing in fact I'll tell you a story in a second where he competed with Bobby fiser and his chabas observance actually factored into the story I want

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2. 1:02retire you know in general that deba was against retirement that deba never retired spoke about…
3. 2:371984 at the age of 72 rashevsky went to the rovic open in Iceland and he…
4. 3:39some time this is the early 80s Bobby fer dropped off the map in the 70s…
5. 5:11congregations and and community centers and any regular leader like that in that position would say…
6. 6:43the story you know I had a dear dear friend who was one of the most…
7. 7:44friend who was cremated thinking that he was a Buddhist and even Bobby fiser who renounced…
8. 9:15in but uh I highly doubt anyone sitting here feels that way about themselves maybe someone…
9. 10:18say I am giving up my my uh membership to this family and it would work…
10. 11:51when we we were Shiva boys it was understood that most Jews you speak to are…

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