WHAT TREASURIES OF HEAVEN?!

At the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe shlita spoke, with great emotion and amidst tears, saying that with regard to the Rebbe Rayatz one shouldn’t use the expression “nishmaso b’ginzei m’romim – his soul is in the treasuries of heaven” … * From Chapter Eight of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros (Underlined text is the compiler’s emphasis.)

7. One time this winter, I went into the room of the Rebbe [Rayatz, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok]. He was sitting there, leaning on his arm, immersed in thought, He told me that he wants to go to Eretz Yisroel. I asked: How is it possible to go there? There is so much work to be done here! He thought for a moment and said: Nu, it was a nice thought.

In the Rebbe’s mind he was already there in Eretz Yisroel. The “bones of Yosef” were brought to Eretz Yisroel.

8. Once, a Chassid came from far away and requested that the Rebbe say a maamer Chassidus. The Rebbe answered that he says maamarim on Shabbos. The Chassid replied that for him when he comes to the Rebbe, it is Shabbos. The Rebbe then said Chassidus.

The same is true now. By means of properly connecting to the Rebbe, every single person is able – on any given day or moment – to experience Shabbos, and the Rebbe comes and says Kiddush, fulfilling the obligation to do so for those present. That is to say that he extends spiritual influence to those connected with him as if they had said Kiddush themselves. In fact, it is as if they had said Kiddush with the Rebbe’s kavana, and therefore, with his holiness.*

(From the address of Acharon Shel Pesach 5710; Toras Menachem 5710, pg. 26-27)

NOTES:

*Footnote 24: At the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe shlita spoke, with great emotion and amidst tears, saying that with regard to the Rebbe Rayatz one should not use the expression “nishmaso b’ginzei m’romim – his soul is in the treasuries of heaven”:

What “ginzei m’romim”?! Ginzei m’romim is something that relates to G-dly lights and revelations. Whereas the Rebbe’s service of G-d was not for the sake of receiving a reward, a pras, meaning prusa (literally, “slice”), signifying a mere illumination and revelation (Likkutei Torah Tazria 20b). The Rebbe, rather, is connected with the essence, which surpasses Divine revelations. Since the essence is (in the place where the general avoda is performed) here below [in the physical world] (as explained in the teachings of Chassidus), it follows that the Rebbe is present even here in the physical world!

(And the Rebbe concluded with the following.) My revered father in-law, the Rebbe shlita shall lead us to the true and complete redemption.

(From the notes of an individual, bilti muga)