(lubavitch.com).Following his impassioned speech, Netanyahu spoke with members of the Israeli media. In answer to one journalist who asked whether he might not be lending credibility to Ahmadenijad by addressing his denial of the Holocaust, Netanyahu chose to focus on a prescient experience he had with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, 25 years ago.
“Let me tell you something,” said Netanyahu. “In 1984, after I came to the UN as Israel’s Ambassador, I met the Rebbe of Lubavitch. He began speaking to me—he spoke to me for 40 minutes.
“You know what he told me, back in 1984?” Netanyahu asked.
“He told me, ‘you are going to the UN—a place of deep darkness and lies, and if you will light one candle of truth, you will dispel the darkness.’
“That is what I tried to do here—to present the truth clearly and with confidence.”
Later in the evening, Netanyahu spoke to Jewish community leaders at the 92nd Street Y. Introduced by Alan Solow, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, and by Elie Wiesel, the Prime Minister spoke at length about his meeting with the Rebbe when he arrived at the UN as Israel’s Ambassador.
"You will go into a house of lies," he said the Rebbe told him, referring to the UN. Netanyahu pointed out the lies that emanating from the UN regarding Israel--lies about Israel as the aggressor and lies about the Holocaust. To dispel the lies and the darkness, the Rebbe told him, he must "light a candle of truth."
Netanyahu appealed to his audience to do likewise, and "light a candle for truth and justice for the Jewish people," this Yom Kippur.
“Let me tell you something,” said Netanyahu. “In 1984, after I came to the UN as Israel’s Ambassador, I met the Rebbe of Lubavitch. He began speaking to me—he spoke to me for 40 minutes.
“You know what he told me, back in 1984?” Netanyahu asked.
“He told me, ‘you are going to the UN—a place of deep darkness and lies, and if you will light one candle of truth, you will dispel the darkness.’
“That is what I tried to do here—to present the truth clearly and with confidence.”
Later in the evening, Netanyahu spoke to Jewish community leaders at the 92nd Street Y. Introduced by Alan Solow, Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, and by Elie Wiesel, the Prime Minister spoke at length about his meeting with the Rebbe when he arrived at the UN as Israel’s Ambassador.
"You will go into a house of lies," he said the Rebbe told him, referring to the UN. Netanyahu pointed out the lies that emanating from the UN regarding Israel--lies about Israel as the aggressor and lies about the Holocaust. To dispel the lies and the darkness, the Rebbe told him, he must "light a candle of truth."
Netanyahu appealed to his audience to do likewise, and "light a candle for truth and justice for the Jewish people," this Yom Kippur.