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R' '''Raphael Nachman''' ('''Folleh''') '''Cohen''' (5 Shevat 5657/1897 - 17 Tishrei 5748/1987) was a Chabad chassid, a bearer of tradition and author of the books "Shmuos V'Sipurim" (Traditions and Stories), "Lubavitch V'Chayoleha" (Lubavitch and Its Soldiers) and "Me'achorei Masach HaBarzel" (Behind the Iron Curtain).

== Life History ==

~~R' Raphael Nachman~~ was born on 5 Shevat 5657/1897 in the town of Rudnia to R' Baruch Shalom and Slava Cohen. When he was eight years old, his mother - following his father's instructions - took him to Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch, intending to leave him there to study. Upon arriving in Lubavitch, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah expressed her surprise at the intention to leave such a young child alone far from his parents and advised the mother to bring him to the Rebbe for yechidus (private audience). When the 8-year-old boy entered alone into the holy chamber of the Rebbe Rashab, the Rebbe smiled at him, inquired about his learning and even tested him. During the yechidus, the Rebbe asked him if he slept wearing a tallis katan and yarmulke, and continued to ask and investigate the eight-year-old boy in great detail... Finally, the Rebbe gently asked: "Do you want to stay here?" - "Yes," the little one replied. "Won't you miss your mother?" - the Rebbe continued with a smile - and suddenly the dam of tears burst, and the little boy began to sob... The Rebbe immediately sent him out of the room, instructed his mother to return home with him, and right there wrote a letter to his father: "Your son is still a child who needs his mother. If in another two years, G-d forbid, Moshiach does not come - bring him here to study!"

was born on 5 Shevat 5657/1897 in the town of Rudnia to R' Baruch Shalom and Slava Cohen. When he was eight years old, his mother - following his father's instructions - took him to Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch, intending to leave him there to study. Upon arriving in Lubavitch, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah expressed her surprise at the intention to leave such a young child alone far from his parents and advised the mother to bring him to the Rebbe for yechidus (private audience). When the 8-year-old boy entered alone into the holy chamber of the Rebbe Rashab, the Rebbe smiled at him, inquired about his learning and even tested him. During the yechidus, the Rebbe asked him if he slept wearing a tallis katan and yarmulke, and continued to ask and investigate the eight-year-old boy in great detail... Finally, the Rebbe gently asked: "Do you want to stay here?" - "Yes," the little one replied. "Won't you miss your mother?" - the Rebbe continued with a smile - and suddenly the dam of tears burst, and the little boy began to sob... The Rebbe immediately sent him out of the room, instructed his mother to return home with him, and right there wrote a letter to his father: "Your son is still a child who needs his mother. If in another two years, G-d forbid, Moshiach does not come - bring him here to study!"

==== With the Rebbe Rashab ====

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* '''Zeide Folle''', teshurah from his descendants' wedding, Menachem-Av 5779/2019

* '''"And then, the Rebbe began to climb"...''', journal he wrote during his stay in the Rebbe's court in the month of Tishrei 5717/1956, in Beis Moshiach weekly before Rosh Hashanah 5777/2016

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 R' '''Raphael Nachman''' ('''Folleh''') '''Cohen''' (5 Shevat 5657/1897 - 17 Tishrei 5748/1987) was a Chabad chassid, a bearer of tradition and author of the books "Shmuos V'Sipurim" (Traditions and Stories), "Lubavitch V'Chayoleha" (Lubavitch and Its Soldiers) and "Me'achorei Masach HaBarzel" (Behind the Iron Curtain).
 == Life History ==
-R' Raphael Nachman was born on 5 Shevat 5657/1897 in the town of Rudnia to R' Baruch Shalom and Slava Cohen. When he was eight years old, his mother - following his father's instructions - took him to Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch, intending to leave him there to study. Upon arriving in Lubavitch, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah expressed her surprise at the intention to leave such a young child alone far from his parents and advised the mother to bring him to the Rebbe for yechidus (private audience). When the 8-year-old boy entered alone into the holy chamber of the Rebbe Rashab, the Rebbe smiled at him, inquired about his learning and even tested him. During the yechidus, the Rebbe asked him if he slept wearing a tallis katan and yarmulke, and continued to ask and investigate the eight-year-old boy in great detail... Finally, the Rebbe gently asked: "Do you want to stay here?" - "Yes," the little one replied. "Won't you miss your mother?" - the Rebbe continued with a smile - and suddenly the dam of tears burst, and the little boy began to sob... The Rebbe immediately sent him out of the room, instructed his mother to return home with him, and right there wrote a letter to his father: "Your son is still a child who needs his mother. If in another two years, G-d forbid, Moshiach does not come - bring him here to study!"
+was born on 5 Shevat 5657/1897 in the town of Rudnia to R' Baruch Shalom and Slava Cohen. When he was eight years old, his mother - following his father's instructions - took him to Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch, intending to leave him there to study. Upon arriving in Lubavitch, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah expressed her surprise at the intention to leave such a young child alone far from his parents and advised the mother to bring him to the Rebbe for yechidus (private audience). When the 8-year-old boy entered alone into the holy chamber of the Rebbe Rashab, the Rebbe smiled at him, inquired about his learning and even tested him. During the yechidus, the Rebbe asked him if he slept wearing a tallis katan and yarmulke, and continued to ask and investigate the eight-year-old boy in great detail... Finally, the Rebbe gently asked: "Do you want to stay here?" - "Yes," the little one replied. "Won't you miss your mother?" - the Rebbe continued with a smile - and suddenly the dam of tears burst, and the little boy began to sob... The Rebbe immediately sent him out of the room, instructed his mother to return home with him, and right there wrote a letter to his father: "Your son is still a child who needs his mother. If in another two years, G-d forbid, Moshiach does not come - bring him here to study!"
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 * '''Zeide Folle''', teshurah from his descendants' wedding, Menachem-Av 5779/2019
 * '''"And then, the Rebbe began to climb"...''', journal he wrote during his stay in the Rebbe's court in the month of Tishrei 5717/1956, in Beis Moshiach weekly before Rosh Hashanah 5777/2016
+[[he:רפאל נחמן כהן]]