Ohel

By the way, even Hannah prayed for many years before she came to Shiloh and was answered.

And the prophet told her that, "God likes your prayer, and that's why He keeps asking you to pray." I told this to a woman in my town who waited 17 years for a baby, and we went to the Ohel many times.

And I said, "You must be as holy as Hannah, 'cause God likes your prayer because He's waiting more and more." And she eventually had a beautiful son who's now 20.

But, um, again, so blessings is instant because all you're doing is drawing down an existing thing.

Hence, says the Rebbe, how beautiful is this, that in priestly blessing both are important, the feeling and the speech, because it has both areas of import.

You know, as Hasidim, we all know that, uh, people went to the Rebbe and he made all kind of miracles.

Until today, people are going to the Ohel.

How'd the Rebbe do it? So I don't know.

Do we give a, a, a quick example again of let...

You, you know, when somebody's stuck in a rut and they feel like they need that inspiration from above to give them the inspiration from below, and you mentioned, uh, saying, you know, about rachamim rabim, that sounds similar to what we write in the pond when we go to the Ohel.

What should a person do practically when in that rut to inspire from above, the extra help?

Well, the first thing, if a person is in a rut, he said, what you can do is feel...

They call it 770.

His grave is called the Ohel.

And they'll write a little note on a piece of paper and throw it on the grave.

And that's supposed to be like a wish to the to the Messiah of the Jews.

And I'll never forget that Trump was literally walking down the hall, holding hands with Jared Kushner and Shapiro to pray at the Ohel, the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe for victory.

And I'm thinking like, OK, so am I going crazy? Like, does everybody else see this? Clearly, this is not going to be Mr.

No New Wars, Mr. America first.

Thousands of Chassidim went after the coffin to a resting place.

She is interned over there in the portion of the Rebetzins, which is not far from the Ohel of the previous Rebbe, and it's in Queens, in New York.

the day of her passing uh the seat the chair that she had in the woman's section caught on fire and it was totally burnt in seven seven that same day on the same day yeah uh there are many Many Chabad girls carried the name Chana.

And there's also many institutions for education that have been founded in her memory.

We were coming from Connecticut.

And so we just weren't going to be able to make our flight and go to the OHEL.

So I'm sitting in meditation the morning before, really sad that I'm not going to get to hang out at the OHEL.

And then this thought comes in, Hannah, you know how to hang out with Siddiquim.

So I said, Lubavitcher Rebbe, can we hang out? And he showed up.

And now I tell the Rebbe what I do.

First I said, do it personally, but now go to the Ohel, to this place, the holy place where he's buried.

And I write everything I do.

But I wanted to tell you something else.

But that's only if you need to go.

Kemuvon, going to the Rebbe to the Ohel is not a part of this, because to going to the Rebbe is you're not going...

Like the Rebbe once said, you're not going to the Rebbe as to a kever.

You're going to the Rebbe as a Rebbe.

So therefore, in such a case, you are going to the Rebbe's Ohel when you are pregnant.

But kemuvan, only to the Rebbe's Ohel, and once you're out of the Ohel, you walk out and you don't go to other quorum, even not to the Rebbetsin, even to the other quorum, only to the Rebbe, and you go home.

You don't go, uh, in the Beis HaChaim itself.

The Kaf HaChaim brings down a minhag, Beshem Rabbi Meilech miel Zenzk, the Ba'al Noam El Meilech, that women should have a kapayta that during the pregnancy they should be makpid to eat melaveh malka, l'zchus, l'shem, melaveh malka.

So yesterday we learned that it is possible for a person to become defiled, to become tamei, when he comes in contact with human remains in one of three ways.

There's Tumas Maga, there's a Tumas that comes through touching, There's Tumas Ohel, by being under a common enclosure with a corpse or with human remains.

And then we said there's something called Tumas Masa.

And yesterday we learned that the Torah is specific and clear and direct when it comes to Maga.

It tells us clearly, Hanugeah, if you touch it, so then you are Tomei.

The Torah is clear with regard to the Ohel, with regard to the Tumah that's engendered being under a common enclosure, as it says, kol haba el ha'ohel, whoever comes, you don't have to come, as long as you find yourself under an Ohel, under the same covering.

And then the Torah does not tell us about Tumah's Masa, about the ritual impurity that is engendered through carrying the material that is from human remains or a corpse.

How do we know that you become Tomei? So the Rambam says that this we learn by means of a kal v'chomer.