Ephraim Yolles: Difference between revisions

Following the passing of the Frierdiker Rebbe in [[5710]] (1950), Rabbi Yolles strongly urged the Rebbe to accept the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch upon himself.<ref>He wrote a formal letter of allegiance to the Rebbe and also sent letters to the Rebbe's close associates and family members, urging them to accept the Rebbe as the Nasi (leader) of Chabad and to work toward that end.</ref> From that point onward, Rabbi Yolles attended the Rebbe's [[Farbrengen|farbrengens]] regularly. He accepted the Rebbe as his personal rebbe and would come to him several times a year. The series of volumes known as [[Igros Kodesh]] — the collected correspondence of the Rebbe — attests that hundreds of letters on Torah subjects, both in [[nigleh]] (the revealed dimension of Torah law) and in Kabbalah, passed between them.

When Rabbi Yolles was once posed a question touching on the relationship between science and Torah — specifically, an apparent discrepancy between the size of the sun as recorded in Jewish sources and as measured by modern science — he referred the question to the Rebbe. His profound sense of connection and self-nullification before the Rebbe was widely noted.[[File:הרב יאללס אצל הרבי.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Rabbi Yolles meeting with [[the Rebbe]] at [[770 Eastern Parkway|770]]]]He had a long-standing custom: each year on [[19 Kislev]] (the Chabad "Festival of Liberation," marking the release of the Alter Rebbe from Czarist imprisonment in 1798) — at the moment when the Rebbe would draw lots to select which tractate of the Talmud he would study as part of the annual [[Chalukas HaShas]] (division of the Talmud among Chassidim) — Rabbi Yolles would hand the Rebbe his own pen. Afterward, the Rebbe would return it to him with a "Yasher koach" (well done), and sometimes added a few additional words.

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