Why the Rebbe DECLINED to support the memorial | Letter #10 of 30 Letters in 30 Days

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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.

All right, Baruch Hashem, welcome to letter number 10 of 30 letters in 30 days. That means we're a third of the way through our preparation. Getting ready for Yud Aleph Nissan, the Rebbe's birthday. Um yeah, so we're learning and we're also giving tzedakah. Here I have my Colel Chabad pushka app open. This is now our little custom. There you go. Fun, fun. Shabbos and then we do a double letter Thursday night. Get ready. Tomorrow night, God willing, we'll do a double letter, lechem mishna. Okay. Um tonight's letter let's jump in without further ado. Um Baruch Hashem, Zion Thomas tough shin yud base, 7th of Tammuz 1952. This is an early letter. This is in uh chelek vav, in volume six of Igros and chelek vav, in volume six of Igros and this is written to There's many titles here uh but it's written to Yitzchak Schneerson. Yitzchak Schneerson is a relative uh of the Rebbe. Um distant relative. Uh from a rabbinic family. Uh originally from Ukraine and then he moved to France, I believe after World War I. And he's most most associated with And he's most most associated with France and his work, his communal activism in France. He was originally a rabbi in Ukraine. He was a He was a rabbi. Um but in France he's more associated with communal activism and with industry. He was uh I suppose he had a bit of money and he also raised money and he was involved in uh sort of public uh Well, you'll see what the kinds of things that he was involved in but specifically after World War II, after the Holocaust, he was involved in

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1. 0:00All right, Baruch Hashem, welcome to letter number 10 of 30 letters in 30 days. That…
2. 2:32the Holocaust, he was involved in archiving the uh or documenting and keeping an archive of…
3. 4:36apratis l'tachlis zu and that my father-in-law personally donated toward this cause. Uh so ap- apparently…
4. 6:38hakomas matzeivas zikaron kever fun umbekanten Yiddishen martyrer. Okay. Regarding what you wrote that you want…
5. 8:44Um like how would they feel about that? Like the Rebbe doesn't elaborate on it but…
6. 11:15The process lacking and an even greater number of them um, may not be starving materially…
7. 13:21you could use that same money to enliven people who are literally starving and thirsty or…
8. 15:22like on the forefront of public consciousness like it that's a much lower priority than feeding…
9. 17:27thing. It's going to be seen by so many people. So, the Rebbe says, I get…
10. 19:38And again, I want to emphasize the Rebbe told him that the center for documentation is…

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