<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">The story regarding the following, I heard in greater detail:<div><br></div><div>This is as bad as the story of a speaker at the Agudah convention, who said that<br>Yitzchok Avinu was fooled by Eisav because "he liked a good dinner" ("er hot lib<br>gehat a gutte vetchere"). The LR at the time protested against this and said<br>the speakershould take a minyan to Mearas Hamachpela to apologise to Yitzchak,<br>because otherwise he would have to retract his words before the same audience,<br>which would not gather until the next year, and in the meantime Rosh Hashana<br>would come, and on RH one does not want to be in dispute with Yitzchak Avinu.<br><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div>The facts as I heard them was the following:</div><div>At this Agudah Convention, a well known rabbi got up to speak in front of nearly a thousand people. </div><div>This rabbi began his speech by saying that Lubavitch is like “Yitzchok Avinu.” Why did he say Lubavitch, Chabad, is like Yitzchok Avinu? </div><div>He said just like Yitzchok liked Esau because he gave him food, Chabad likes the non religious Jews because they give them money.</div>So, in one felt swoop, this speaker insulted the patriarch Isaac, insulted the Lubavitchers as well as non religious Jews. <div><br>Needless to say, the Rebbe was extremely upset and when his turn came to speak, everyone waited with baited breath to see how he would respond. </div><div>Also, by the time the rebbe spoke, a couple of hundred people had left due to the lateness of the hour. </div><div>So the rebbe got up and said: “First of all, I want to thank you for likening Chabad to Yitzchok Avinu; it’s a big compliment. </div><div>I mean what greater compliment is there than to liken any Jew to the second of the major patriarchs. And as the rebbe spoke, his voice got louder </div><div>and the anger was obvious and he said to the crowd (as if the other rabbi wasn’t present): First of all, this individual (the rebbe omitted his title of “rabbi”) </div><div>that made those remarks, has to go to <i>m’ears hamachpela</i> to beg for forgiveness (with a minyan) for the terrible thing he said, because there is an actual halacha </div><div>in the Shulchan Aruch that if you embarrass someone who died, you have to go to the grave to ask for forgiveness. The rebbe, then looked at this other rabbi </div><div>and banging his fist on the podium yelled: How in the world did you have the chutzpa to say that Yitzchok liked Esau because he gave him food? </div><div>It’s an embarrassment and an insult to Yitzchok Avinu.” You now have to go to Yerushalayim to the kever of Yitzchok Avinu and ask for forgiveness. </div><div>After you do that, you have to assemble every last person who was here and beg for forgiveness from the entire body of people who heard what an idiot you were.</div><div>(This story was related by R’ Y. Shusterman of L.A., verbatim)</div><div> <br><br> <br> </div></body></html>