Just heard

Rabbi Levi Klein from Memphis, TN told us this story by the Kinus.

He got a great offer for a new building for his Chabad House. The problem was that the building was in a different neighbourhood. He didn't know if it was a good idea to move locations. And his baalei batim where split on the issue. Some said it's a good idea and the others said it's terrible and they're going to leave if he moves etc.

He had to decide quickly and he was flying that day to the Ohel, so on the plane he poured out his heart, untypical of himself, in a letter to the Rebbe.

He began the letter with "being it's close to 13 years we're in Memphis, we think it's time to take Chabad to the next level. We just got a great offer on a property etc." In the letter he also mentions the problems in getting the building, plus financial issues and so on. He ends the letter with the words "Ha'Im zeh nachon", for a Berachah on Kol Hana"l underlining kol hana"l (including a berachah for the baalei batim and money) and asks if maybe he can have a Siman Milmaalah.

He goes to the Ohel and afterwards goes to his parents house in Crown Heights. He's in middle of eating when his father Binyamin Klein walks in and says he has a letter he wanted to give him. Binyamin goes upstairs and brings down a tzetel.

The tzetel is a question asked by Binyamin about Levi's Bar Mitzvah. That year his Bar Mitzvah fell out on Friday Yud Gimmel Tammuz and Binyamin wanted to know when he should make the party. They couldn't make it Thursday night because of the Yud Bais Tammuz Farbrengen and oniday they also couldn't. So he was asking if they should make it on Tes Vav Tammuz.

The letter read something like this: "Being that my son Levi Yitzchak is soon becoming 13 years old... (and it goes on about the option of Tes Vav Tammuz) Binyamin asks at the end "Ha'Im zeh nachon".

The Rebbe answers on the side of the letter: "VeYehei Kol Hana"l Beshaah toivah umitzlachas. Azkir Al Hatzion.