An incredible story emerged late Sunday night, after Yeedle Werdyger received a call from famed Jewish singer Avrohom Fried, who said that he needs to bring him a “special gift.”
Yeedle told Fried that he was at his niece’s sheva brachos in Boro Park, and Avremel drove from Crown Heights to meet him. Yeedle noticed that Fried was wearing a gartel, an uncommon sight for someone simply giving a gift.
“Get your kallah,” Avremel told Yeedle.
“My kallah? Okay,” Yeedle said, and went to get his wife of 31 years from the hall.
Coming back upstairs together, Fried handed them a letter. And it wasn’t just any letter.
Two days before Yeedle married his wife, the Lubavitcher Rebbe had written a letter to the soon-to-be couple wishing them mazel tov and brachos in their marriage, but for some reason, the letter never got to them.
Several days ago, the son of one of the Rebbe’s secretaries reached out to Avrohom Fried, asking if he knew anyone by the name of Yehuda Avigdor Werdyger. Yeedle’s father, MBD, confirmed to Fried that it was indeed his son, enabling Avremel to give the incredible gift to Yeedle and his wife.
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Wow!
More of a personal matter than a news story
Can someone explain:
Where was this letter “found”? Was it sitting, for 30 years, somewhere in the shul, in a shtender or among the Rebbe’s personal possessions?
Clearly the Rebbe signed the letter and it was personalized to the intended recipients. So who dropped the ball by not mailing it? Was it mailed and the US Post Office ”returned to sender”?
This letter had no personal info, but are there other letters just floating around the Chabad bais hamedresh, maybe with private info, that were undelivered?
Can someone can shed some light by filling in the obvious factual gaps that are missing in the story?
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There’s no letters roaming around 770 Mies medrish.
Out of tens of thousands of letters a few didn’t make it to the recipient. The office of 770 was a very busy office. But still should have been more organized that noon should go missing.
Chosid, Are you saying that this letter and a few others are sitting around in the general office of 770, for 30 years, and no one felt the need to mail them out? Wow! I was dan lkaf zchus that the letter was tucked away unnoticed in a sefer or shtender. Maybe it ended up in the shaimos geniza. But you are suggesting it was neglected in the mail room. That’s a p’shi’ah negligence. I hoped it was the post office returning an undelivered letter after many years! Or, I want to believe it’s a huge bais medresh and old letters might be drifting around. You suggest there might be additional I mailed letters! Who are the current secretaries? I thought they were all niftar.