0006 - Shabbos 20 Av 5723

00:02 Shabbos Chof Ov, Tov Shin Chof Gimel. That year, Sha- uh, Chof Ov came out on Shabbos. So, the Rebbe davened for the Amud, obviously. And I remember standing there also not so far, and you could hear the Rebbe daven. And the interesting thing was, when it came to Kel Odin, which the meaning Chabad always was till the Rebbe basically seems like changed it, that they didn't sing Kel Odin. The world sang L'chu Neranina-- Uh, Chadei, I mean, and Kel Odin. Lubavitch never sang, not L'chu Chadei, not Kel Odin. Later on, by the Rebbe, we started this, the Rebbe changed. But then it was still the time when we did not sing Kel Odin. So the Rebbe said Kel Odin, he said it for the Amud like you regularly say. Then all of a sudden, when it came to the words from Peir V'Chovid, it was mamish so interesting that the Rebbe all of a sudden, when he had to say the words, instead of saying it stam, he started singing it with Shamil's nigun. Peir V'Chovid Nes Nimli Shme. And everyone was listening. It was mamish such a tzirur. And from there till the end of Kel Odin, the Rebbe sang it with the nigun of, uh, Shamil's nigun. Uh, I think it was that same Shabbos. Sorry, uh, maybe it was a different Shabbos when the Rebbe davened for the Amud, but I'm pretty sure, but not 100% that it's the same Shabbos, that when the Rebbe davened for the Amud, on the side,

01:20 on the right side of the Rebbe, there was the whole area where the Bochurim stood. And there were some Bochurim were standing right in front, and they kept on the whole time looking at the Rebbe, but they weren't davening. So the Rebbe turned around in middle of davening, obviously before Boruch Shamai. It was before the, the, uh, it was the middle of the Shema Yisrael, I remember. The Rebbe turned around and said, "Voz daventen it?" It was like it was an ups- being upset. "Voz daventen it?" I think it was the same Shabbos. But then I also remember that later on, before Mincha, the Rebbe did not get an aliyah for Mincha bechlal. The Rebbe would get an aliyah Shabbos Maftir, and then to the Mincha, he wouldn't get an aliyah. But I overheard a Gabboim before Mincha, I remember Yechiel Gordon with somebody else, I don't remember who it was, were talking whether maybe since it's Yortsay, the Rebbe has Yortsay today, maybe we should give the Rebbe the aliyah for Mincha also. They didn't know because it's never hap- didn't happen, so maybe it's something new. And so I remember I was standing there when they came, they decided that they were gonna give him. And the Rebbe standing by the Amud. When they came to Shlichei, they announced, "Yaamein ad meini m'reinu v'rabenu." And I remember the Rebbe turned around, made with his hands, like put his hands up like with a s- with a siman. What is this? I mean, not,

02:27 I don't think it was a tayneh, but like a wonder. And then the Rebbe went to the aliyah, took the aliyah. And I think from then on, every time it came out on Shabbos, uh, Yortsay, so the Rebbe got an aliyah for Mincha. Then later it changed the whole system the way it was later. But this was the first time, I think it was the first time that they gave the Rebbe an aliyah to Mincha also, which means he had two aliyahs in the same day. Now, I don't know what happened years before, but from the way they-- I overheard them talking about it, seems like it was a dwar chidush that they were planning to do. And this happened on the same day, uh, that was Chof Ov Tov Shin Chof Gimel.