In the audience, which took place in May 1977, the Rebbe encourages the then son of the Gerer Rebbe to publish the Chasidic group's customs and the writings of its rebbes in a publicly-available book.
Account of Meeting Between Lubavitcher Rebbe and Current Gerer Rebbe Published
A Chabad-Lubavitch scholarly journal published this week an account of a private meeting between today’s Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. The 35-page transcript of the meeting, originally penned in Yiddish and published for the first time in the current issue of the bi-monthly Israeli Pardes Chabad, spans a host of topics, from Jewish law to in-depth analyses of portions of the Talmud to the state of Jewish activism.
In the audience, which took place in May 1977, the Rebbe encourages the then son of the Gerer Rebbe to publish the Chasidic group’s customs and the writings of its rebbes in a publicly-available book.
“The Chassidim need to know their customs,” the Rebbe told his visitor in Yiddish, “especially in our times, when a father does not live in close proximity of his son. The customs could be forgotten.”
At another point, the Rebbe requests that Gerer Chasidim should be encouraged to become rabbis in towns and cities in Israel which lack rabbis.
