Closing a 31-year circle: Fried's gift that moved the Werdiger family

June Green
November 16, 2021   
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COL

Singer and music producer Yidel Werdiger, the son of the Hasidic singer Mordechai Ben David, He received an unexpected gift this week: a letter from the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l that his brother wrote 31 years ago.

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It all started on Sunday night, this week. 

Singer Avraham Fried Call Werdiger and ask where he is, as he urgently wants to bring him a special gift.

The two agreed to meet in the Borough Park neighborhood, at the 'Seven Blessings' event.

Fried appeared shortly afterwards, wearing a Hasidic garter, hat and suit.

""Where is your wife?" he asked Werdiger.

He called her and when she arrived at the scene, Fried pulled out the letter from the Rebbe that had been prepared in honor of their wedding - 31 years ago.

""Here I am to express my blessing of Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov," the Rebbe wrote in the same way he regularly wished brides and grooms, "and may it be a good and successful time and may they build a house in Israel, a building of witnesses, on the foundations of the Torah and the mitzvah, as they are illuminated by the light of the Torah, which is the teaching of Hasidism.".

How was the letter discovered this week?

According to a report on the COL website, one of the sons of the Lubavitcher Rebbe's secretary found the letter in his father's archive and asked Fried if he knew who "Yehuda Avigdor Verdiger" was.

Fried called the singer Mordechai Ben David and asked if the name was familiar to him.

And Radgir responded immediately: It's my son....

The letter apparently was not sent to its destination on time, and only three decades later did it close an exciting circle.

""I'm sure the blessings have been in place since the moment the letter was signed," said Yidel Werdiger, "and at the same time, I assume that now the blessings are complete, and in general, what kind of messenger I was lucky enough to bring me the letter, it makes everything much more amazing.".


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