Why did the Lubavitcher Rebbe apologize to Netanyahu? • Special lesson for Passover

Haredim 10
April 1, 2026   
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In 1988, Benjamin Netanyahu met with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, shortly before the end of his term as Israel's ambassador to the UN. Everyone remembers the sentence in which the Rebbe told him that he would have to stand in front of 119 people. But there was something else that happened there – and it was almost never talked about.

The Rebbe said a surprising thing to him – and even apologized for saying it in public: "First, dress yourself.".

What was behind this statement, and why does it touch the lives of each and every one of us today?

In a special lesson for Passover, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson explains the deep secret of true freedom, which lies behind the three names of the holiday – the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Time of Our Freedom, and the Feast of Passover – and reveals that they represent three stages that each of us must go through in order to truly grow: cancellation and humility, discovery of self, and rebirth.


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