Editing Yitzchak Nemes (section)

== His Business ==
When his family stayed on Faroe Island near the coast, R' Yitzchak had no educational framework, and out of boredom, he went to help at the local post office. Because of the disruption in communications during the war, the island's governor issued 5,000 independent stamps for ongoing needs until the end of the war. A clerk at the post office recommended that R' Yitzchak purchase some of the stamps, as their value would increase after the war. The boy convinced his father, who purchased 100 stamps. When they arrived in the United States with nothing, they sold the stamps for a considerable sum.

"About you it can be said 'And Judah he sent before him to Goshen.' We are sending you as 'sent before him' to prepare a place for Chabad Houses." – Rabbi Hodakov to R' Yitzchak, when he returned from one of his trips

After he got married, he thought about returning to the stamp business he had started in his childhood. He asked the Rebbe about this, and the Rebbe blessed him, and even gave him a check for $200 from the Rebbe Rayatz's fund. The Rebbe suggested he travel to Paris, where the stamp market was good for business.

Before every deal he made, he sent the contract to the Rebbe for advice and blessing, and succeeded in creating special connections with postal chiefs and ministers in third-world countries. The first time he issued his own stamps in Paraguay, he sent pictures of the stamps to the Rebbe and asked for a blessing. The Rebbe answered that the drawings on the stamps should be positive in order to positively influence the citizens of the country.

Many times the Rebbe instructed him: "Increase in travels." He would use his travels to spread Yiddishkeit and deliver religious articles to Jews in remote places. On one occasion when he returned from a trip and entered for yechidus, the Rebbe said to him: "Yitzchak, du bist a biznes mentsh darfstu gedenken machen biznes..." (Yitzchak, you are a businessman and don't forget to do business...).