F
rom his place in the front row, Yanky watched the crowd at the tish. They were actually enjoying it! It was a blissful experience for them, standing here, singing and hearing vertlach from the Rebbe.
Shaye Langerman sat with his eyes shut. Chaim Yosef Shpringler and his two sons were next to him, and beside them sat Rav Amster and Gevirer and Kaufman and Chenkin and Cohen and Tyberg and the rest. Feivele sat between Tatte and the Rebbe, alongside several choshuve people. Sandy Eliav, the big donor, looked on with interest.
Everyone seemed fully focused.
Everybody was getting a spiritual charge out of this.
Everybody felt connected to a higher realm.
Except for me. My battery is empty. Sometimes I think I don’t even have a battery… like that time when Raizele bought a new cordless phone and plugged it in for 24 hours, and then when she tried to use it, there was no dial tone, because she’d forgotten to put the battery in…
