Editing Tziyun of the Rebbe Rayatz (section)

==== The Meaning of the Response as a Blessing and Encouragement ====
It is told that after the Rebbe answered a Jew from Crown Heights who needed a blessing for his sick daughter with these words, the Jew approached the secretary Sholom Ber Gansburg and demanded that the Rebbe promise she would recover. When Gansburg conveyed these words to the Rebbe, the Rebbe replied: "I will mention it at the Ohel - is that not a blessing? Tell him she will be a beautiful bride."

Once, the shliach Rabbi Shneur Zalman Duchman approached the Rebbe in the entrance hallway of 770 after the Rebbe left Mincha prayers and requested a blessing for a certain couple who had not been blessed with children and had asked him to request this from the Rebbe. After Rabbi Zalman gave their names, the Rebbe replied that when he would be at the Ohel he would mention them, but Rabbi Zalman persisted and asked: "Why doesn't the Rebbe give them a real blessing?!" The Rebbe did not respond to these words and continued to his holy room. About a year later, a daughter was born to the couple, and after Rabbi Zalman learned of this, he approached the Rebbe again as he left Mincha prayers and informed him of this news. The Rebbe initially did not respond and continued toward his room, but as he was about to open the door to his room, he turned to Rabbi Zalman and said with a smile: "Nu, Reb Zalman, 'I will mention it at the Ohel,' is it a real blessing?!"

During a certain yechidus in early winter of 5734 (1973), the Rebbe expressed that when giving a blessing of "I will mention it at the Ohel," this is the greatest blessing.

Similarly, during a period when the Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat was under large debts and its administration was under pressure, the yeshiva administration shared all their steps with the Rebbe and the answer was always: "I will mention it at the Ohel." At a certain point, the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Havlin felt discouraged and wrote to the Rebbe that he did not feel encouragement from the Rebbe regarding their situation. In response, the Rebbe wrote: "I have already answered many times 'I will mention it at the Ohel.' Ask the Chabad rabbis, is there greater encouragement than this?"

In winter 5750 (1990), the Rebbe answered one of the Chassidim who was planning to travel with his wife to Russia and noted that he had not yet received any blessing from the Rebbe for the trip, and even when he passed by during Sunday dollar distribution, he did not receive a blessing for it: "How many times does one need to tell him that I will mention it at the holy resting place, which in his opinion will be a blessing?"

On Erev Yom Kippur 5751 (1990), the Rebbe wrote to Rabbi Menachem Mendel Groner, in response to his letter in which he wrote that he hesitated about a certain approach taken regarding Tomchei Tmimim Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat - an approach that was reported to the Rebbe when the Rebbe only responded with "I will mention it at the Ohel" - whether this was indeed to the Rebbe's liking, as he wrote that if it wasn't to his liking then he had no part in it (in essence): "I believe I have already answered, I will mention it at the Ohel, and what does 'I will mention it at the Ohel' mean? That one is requesting a blessing."

In response to someone who asked that the Rebbe bless him explicitly and in detail, the Rebbe replied:<blockquote>"What will add to my blessing in the note etc. that I will mention him at the Ohel etc.?!" — Teshurah Chaikin 9 Adar 5762 p. 39</blockquote>However, in a response from summer 5750 (1990) regarding the shliach Rabbi Shabtai Slavaticki, when some wanted to encroach on his territory, and the one who encroached on his territory understood from the Rebbe's answer "I will mention it at the Ohel" that he had approval - the Rebbe marked the words "that he had approval" and wrote: "For forty years I have been answering 'I will mention it at the Ohel,' and the meaning of this is, I will mention it at the Ohel '''and nothing more!!'''"