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Seeing Beyond the Complaint

In a private audience I said that recently one of the board members had been leveling painful personal attacks against me. “Sometimes people are upset because of a personal matter,” the Rebbe said, “and they take it out on the rabbi. If you would inquire, you would learn that he probably had a loss on Wall Street.” 

JEM: A Mission to Venezuela

They were preparing to visit Jewish communities in three countries: Cuba, Colombia, and Venezuela. Concerned about the growing political upheaval in Cuba, Rabbi Moshe Herson—then a young yeshiva student—asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe for a blessing before departing.