Editing Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi (section)

== Life History ==
Born in the Pocking displaced persons camp in Germany on 28 Shevat 1947, to his father Rabbi Avraham Meir Zarchi and his mother Mrs. Liba Michla, daughter of R' Shlomo Raskin. He arrived with his parents and siblings in New York on 14 Nissan 1951.

Upon reaching the age of four and entering Cheder, his father received a special and unusual blessing letter from the Rebbe, in which he blessed his son.

From his childhood, his father took him to participate in the Rebbe's farbrengens, and from the first time, he never missed any farbrengen with the Rebbe and was present from beginning to end. At one of the farbrengens he attended in his childhood, he burst into tears, the Rebbe motioned for him to approach his chair, and he remained close to the Rebbe until the end of the farbrengen.

During his studies at Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Bedford, he approached the Rebbe - as was customary in those years - during the Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen to report to the Rebbe that he had an upcoming birthday and to inform what spiritual preparations he had taken upon himself. In practice, when he approached the Rebbe, he became confused and only managed to say that he had an upcoming birthday. In response, the Rebbe blessed him and said: "That you should say Chassidus in clear language". In subsequent years, the Rebbe instructed that he join the team of chozrim (those who would review and transcribe the Rebbe's talks).

Due to his gifted memory and the fact that throughout his years he merited to be educated and live in the Chassidic atmosphere of the Rebbe's court, Rabbi Zarchi is considered one of the greatest transmitters of tradition in the last generation, and an expert in Chassidic history in general and the history of the seventh generation in particular.

In 1966, together with Rabbi Yehoshua Dubrawski, Rabbi Ephraim Piekarski, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Shapiro, Rabbi Shalom Ber Levtin, Rabbi Natan Wolf, and Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Baruch Gerlitzky, he founded the Vaad Hanachos Hatmimim.
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