A woman from Sydney Australia who
was learning more about Yiddishkeit and becoming more observant found her
curiosity piqued when a "Rebbe dollar" was auctioned off in a Chabad
fundraiser for seven thousand dollars. When the significance of the dollar was explained
to her it aroused in her a desire to receive somehow or other her own Rebbe
dollar, and this desire grew greater and greater as she tried to devise ways to
realize it.
Her husband had study sessions
with Robert Krimniser (sp?), an Australian business man who visited the Rebbe
numerous times and merited to be by Yechidus on several occasions. She figured
that he would be a good resource to turn to, and requested from her husband to
tell Robert the next time they studied together how much she wanted a Rebbe
dollar and ask whether he could help her get one.
Despite the discomfort her
husband acceded to his wife's wishes. When Robert heard the request he said
that the couple should come to him for Shabbos.
After Shabbos he brought the
couple into his study, and opening a sefer on the shelf he removed a dollar and
gave it to them. Emotionally he told them that this dollar he had received from
the Rebbe seventeen years earlier with instructions to "give it to the
Jewish woman in Sydney when she will ask for it"!
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