Editing Dovid raskin (section)

== In New York ==
He arrived in New York on Thursday, 2 Teves (Zos Chanukah) 5710. On 5 Teves, he merited to enter for yechidus with the Frierdiker Rebbe. The gabbai Reb Eliyahu Yeichel Simpson entered with him, but during the yechidus he became so emotional that he couldn't remember the Rebbe's words. He immediately went to the Rebbe [the future Rebbe] and expressed his distress. The Rebbe immediately called Reb Simpson, who related that the Frierdiker Rebbe had inquired about the family, where his father was, and gave a bracha.

Just a month later, Reb Dovid requested another yechidus. This was when four tmimim arrived from Europe and requested to see the Rebbe. Reb Dovid asked to join them and was granted permission. They entered for yechidus on Sunday, 4 Shevat 5710: Reb Dovid together with the bochurim Reb Yitzchok Shlomo Pewzner, Reb Sholom Marozov, Reb DovBer Junik, and Reb Gedaliah Korf.

During the yechidus, the Rebbe asked the tmimim how they were feeling and then inquired about their learning schedule. The bochurim answered that they learn like in Paris, and the mazkir explained that in Paris they learn an hour and a half of Chassidus in the morning before davening, then think about Chassidus, and then daven at length. The Rebbe said: "Lernen darf men, davenen muz men, uber lernen darf men oich. MiZman liZman vet yederer arayngeyn bazunder velen mir reyden" [Learning one should do, davening one must do, but learning one should also do. From time to time each one will come in separately and we will talk].

Following this, the Rebbe instructed them to prepare a hanachah (transcript) of the yechidus, saying that if there would be an opportunity, he would try to bring it to the Frierdiker Rebbe for editing. Reb Dovid Raskin prepared a hanachah and gave it to the Rebbe, but after a few days, on Shabbos 10 Shevat, the Frierdiker Rebbe was nistalek. Later the Rebbe said that the Frierdiker Rebbe had not had time to edit the hanachah.

In the first year after the Frierdiker Rebbe's histalkus, when the Rebbe refused to accept the nesius, the chassidim sought every possible way to request the Rebbe to farbreng. On 2 Nissan 5710, Reb Dovid entered together with his friend Reb Gedaliah Korf to the Rebbe, and requested that he farbreng with the tmimim in connection with the yahrzeit of 2 Nissan. Initially, the Rebbe told them to ask the mashpi'im Reb Shmuel Levitin and Reb Yisroel Jacobson to farbreng with them, but they replied that the mashpi'im had already farbrenged yesterday and they wanted the "Rebbe"... to farbreng. The Rebbe took out a small calendar from his desk drawer, looked at it and said: "In exactly one month, on 2 Iyar, bli neder there will be a farbrengen." Indeed, on 2 Iyar the Rebbe farbrenged with the tmimim and chassidim, and this was the first weekday farbrengen after the histalkus.