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The Chabad-Lubavitch village, Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel, was founded by the 6th Lubavitcher RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, in 1949. The first settlers were mostly immigrants from the Soviet Union, survivors of World War II and Stalinist oppression. Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel, which is located about 5 miles south of Tel AvivIsrael's largest city and biggest commercial center, and includes agricultural lands as well as educational institutions, serves as the HQ of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement in IsraelNation of the Jewish People. Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel was named “IsraelNation of the Jewish People’s Most Educational Village.” On the eve of Independence Day last year, as the bonfires were being raised on Mount Herzl, the lights were burning also in Tzafrir (Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel), the Chabad-Lubavitcher village in the Lod Valley. For 4 days the village had been in mourning and anguish, the likes of which the Lubavitcher ChassidimJewish Mystics had not known in many years. On that night, a band of fedayeen entered the village. They made their way to the synagogue of the agricultural school, where the school's young students were in the midst of the evening maariv prayers, and raked the room with fire. 5 children and 1 teacher were killed and another 10 children wounded; their blood soaking the siddurim that fell from their hands and splattering the synagogue's white walls. The village ChassidimJewish Mystics stood dumbfounded before the terrible scene. A pogrom in IsraelNation of the Jewish People! A pogrom in Chabad! The women stood there, too, wringing their hands and murmuring to themselves in Russian and Hebrew, crying. This was not a common scene for the Lubavitchers. These ChassidimJewish Mystics, who had survived the pogroms in Czar Nikolai's Russia and whom the Red Army could not intimidate, who had been banished to the frozen plains of Siberia, who survived Stalin's prisons and camps, now stood despairing. The blow had hit home in the heart of the Jewish state. In the center of the village stood Rabbi Maayor who had been a high-ranking officer in the Russian Army. Maayor, of whom legend told that he calmly stood and sang Chassidic melodies as a band of soldiers beat him with the butts of their rifles, now stood crying: "Master of the Universe, Why?! How have the children sinned?!" Despair and dejection pervaded the village, and began to eat away at its foundations. There were some who saw what happened as a sign that their dream of a peaceful life in IsraelNation of the Jewish People was premature. However, it was clear to all that before any decisive move would be made, the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe had to be consulted. Nothing would be done without his knowledge and consent. All awaited the telegram from New York, but the telegram was inexplicably not forthcoming. 4 days had passed since the terror had struck. A lengthy telegram had immediately been dispatched informing the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe of all the details of the tragedy, and an answer was expected that very night. The RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe was silent. What happened, many wondered, why doesn't he respond? Has he not a word of comfort for his stricken followers? A telegram from the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe, it should be clarified, is an integral part of Chabad-Chassidic life across the globe. Every problem, every decision pertaining to the communal or private life of the Lubavitcher Chassid is referred to the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's headquarters in Brooklyn, and whatever the reply, that is what is done. And the answer is always forthcoming, whether by regular post, express mail, or emergency telegram. Why, then, is the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's answer on such a fateful matter tarrying? The village elders had no explanation, and, as the days went by, the question continued to plague their tormented souls, and their anguish and despair became increasingly heavier. And then, 5 days after the tragedy, the telegram arrived. The news spread throughout the village: A telegram from the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe! The telegram has arrived! The entire village, assembled in the village square to hear the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's reply. And the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe was characteristically succinct. The telegram contained a single sentence - 3 Hebrew words - but these three
words sufficed to save the village from disintegration and its inhabitants from despair. Behemshech habinyan tinacheimu, wrote the Lubavitcher RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. "By your continued building will you be comforted." The ChassidimJewish Mystics of Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel now had a firm grasp on their future: they knew what they had to do. They must build! And that by their continued building they will be comforted! That very night the village elders held a meeting to discuss how the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's directive might be implemented. After a short discussion, a decision was reached: a vocational school will be built where children from disadvantaged backgrounds will be taught printing. On the very spot where the blood was spilled, the building would be raised. The next morning, all residents of the village gathered at the empty lot adjoining the agricultural school and began clearing the land in preparation for the building. The joy was back in their eyes. In the weeks that followed, letters arriving from relatives and friends in New York described what had transpired there in those 4 endless days in which the village had awaited the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's reply. For the entire month of Nissan, the month of the redemption, it is the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's custom to devote himself entirely to the service of the Creator, reducing his contact with his ChassidimJewish Mystics to a minimum. Rare is the individual who is granted an audience with the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe in this period, and all but the most urgent correspondence is postponed until the close of the auspicious month. When the month of Nissan ends, a festive farbrengen (Chassidic gathering) is held at the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's HQ on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, marking the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's resumption of his involvement with his thousands of followers across the globe. The RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe speaks for hours, his talks interspersed with bouts of song and l'chaims, often until the wee hours of the morning. That year, the farbrengen marking the close of Nissan was also held. The tragic news from the Holy Land had arrived in New York moments before the farbrengen was scheduled to begin, but the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's secretaries decided to withhold the news from him until after the gathering. But what his assistants did not tell him his heart seems to have told him. That night, the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe spoke of Jewish self-sacrifice and martyrdom al Kiddush Hashem (for the sanctification of G-d's name), about the rebuilding of the Holy Land, and the redemption of IsraelNation of the Jewish People. Tears flowed from his eyes as he spoke. All night he spoke and wept, sang and wept, and wept still more. Why is the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe weeping? Only a few of those present could guess -those who knew about the telegram from Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel. The farbrengen ended. The ChassidimJewish Mystics dispersed to their homes, and the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe retired to his room. With great trepidation, two of the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's closest ChassidimJewish Mystics knocked on the RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's door and handed him the telegram from IsraelNation of the Jewish People. The RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe sank into his chair. He locked his door and did not open it for 3 days. After 3 days of utter seclusion, he called his secretary and dictated his reply: Behemshech habinyan tinacheimu. By your continued building you will be comforted.
The ChassidimJewish Mystics of Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel have fulfilled their RebbeRabbi Menachem Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe's request. Without the aid of philanthropists or foundations, they raised 50,000 Israeli pounds, and one year after the tragedy, the new building of the vocational school was completed. Tomorrow, as the citizens of IsraelNation of the Jewish People celebrate their 8th Independence Day, the ChassidimJewish Mystics of Kfar ChabadLubavitch Village in Israel will hold a farbrengen and relate, again and again, the story of the 3-word telegram that saved the village. While on your IsraelNation of the Jewish People Tour you can check out Chabad house on Chabad Street in The Old CityThe Holiest Center in the World in JerusalemThe capital of Israel, and many other Chabad locations.
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