Simchat Torah night in 770, the Lubavitcher Rebbe's beit midrashim. 10,000 people are crammed into one hall. The time is 1:00 in the morning.
Suddenly, everything stops. The Rebbe is about to speak for a full 45 minutes with a young, unknown ambassador named Benjamin Netanyahu.
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What did he say to him? Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Jacobson's father, who was standing there, caught a few words. But only now - 40 years later, are we beginning to understand what really happened that night, in a conversation that changed the face of history.
In a lesson leading up to Shabbat HaGadol, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson recounts in the first person the moments he saw with his own eyes - about the moment when the Rebbe saw what no one else saw, about the spiritual resilience that the Rebbe instilled in Netanyahu at the heart of the circumambulations, and about the hidden connection between that mysterious conversation and the victories that the people of Israel are experiencing today.
And the special connection to the "Great Sabbath" - the day when a people of slaves found within themselves the courage not to be afraid.
