Keeper of the Trust

“Several months later, my wife suggested that I invite him to some event where he could see the Rebbe. Most farbrengens were on Shabbos, though, but then I remembered that the Rebbe would hold a farbrengen on the night of Tu B’Shevat. I invited both him and his wife to 770, and they actually accepted the invitation. During the singing between the Rebbe’s talks, I introduced him to the Rebbe. The Rebbe looked at him, poured him a cup of mashkeh for a l’chayim, and then said to him, ‘Mr. Spiegel, always remember that you can reach a lot more people than I can.’

“And after hearing that from the Rebbe, something inside him shifted. He became my media friend.”

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here’s a question no one wants to ask, but everyone wants to know: Did the Rebbe prepare his confidant Reb Yudel for his passing?

“I can answer a definitive yes on that,” he says. “For me there is no question at all. There was a series of general and private instructions, including writing a will.