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From Days Gone By: The Rebbe’s Young Secretary

Reb Binyomin Klein in his early days as the Rebbe’s secretary in the mid 1960s.

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  • mendoza

    may he be well . he was and is from all of the Rebbas
    maskeriem a big ball sode .. and when asked a ?
    that is none of your business , he would look at you like u fell off a tree . like he does not even hear what yr asking .
    THATS A BALL SODE
    MAY HE BE WELL AND SEE MOSHIAC NOW
    HEALTHY AND HAPPY

  • Wow! Look closer!

    Who’s grabbing the phone from him, The Rebbe?

    Did the Rebbe wear that watch? I know he wore something similar to it, as evident with in the picture with The Fridiker Rebbe.

    Anyone?

  • No Way

    The Rebbes hands were a lot more delicate w long delicate fingers. And the Rebbe would not grab.

  • No Ties

    At a farbrengen in the mid-sixties (chof-hey?) the Rebbe asked why bochurim are wearing ties? Probably because the Roshei Yeshiva and mashpiim are, he answered. (As a bochur my inner voice said, I’m wearing a tie because the Rebbe is).
    Rabbi Mentlik, his face redder than red, removed his tie – and that was it.

  • YOUR ANSWERS HERE

    1). Do you honestly think that if that was (CV) the Rebbes hand taking the phone from Rabbi B. Kline, that his face would have an expression like that?!!!
    I mean, just standing there, looking into the camera, when the Rebbe is standing right in front of him!!! Be real!
    2).Concerning ties: Borchrim weren’t suppose to wear ties. Married men, baal habatim were the ones with the distintion were suppose to wear ties!.
    3). Concerning Rabbi Mentlik: Don’t even go there. Don’t even comment on about a person that was literaly light years above us.