The Rebbe Approves

Nearly ten and a half years went by, with R’ Zushe repeatedly requesting to commence the building.

However, the Rebbe did not give him permission to begin, and answered, “It is not yet the time.”

At the end of Shvat 5752, a change occurred. Mrs. Naomi Rivkin a”h, passed by the Rebbe at a “general yechidus” and said that her husband asked if he could begin building the Palace for the Rebbe.

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The Rebbe answered with a smile, “Ask a Rav in Eretz Yisroel.”