0010 - Kiddush Shabbos Day

00:02 When you make a kiddush Shabbos afternoon, which there's a whole shach of ataria amongst Hasidim, what's our meaning? Do we stand there? Do we sit by the kiddush afternoon? So we all know by the fabrengen, Shabbos afternoon when the Rebbe would make kiddush. So later years he made kiddush every Shabbos, and then later he didn't make kiddush at all because he made kiddush in his room. But other years, the Rebbe didn't make a kiddush every Shabbos. Every time there was a fabrengen, there was usually like a Shabbos, a regular Shabbos of Orchem, the Rebbe didn't make kiddush. There was no mezainis and he didn't make a brocha, didn't say l'chaim. Unless there was a pagre, then he would make kiddush. Later it started that he made kiddush every Shabbos. But l'pel mamish, the Rebbe would stand up a little bit and be like bent and make kiddush. Now some people want to prove from that, that that shows that the Rebbe held that you have to make kiddush that way. It's no raya because probably even if the Rebbe wanted to stand up the whole way, he wouldn't because he didn't want the whole elam to stand up. The best proof that this is the reason, because once a year the Rebbe would make even the big kiddush, the night kiddush he would make in front of the elam by a fabrengen. And that was the night of Simchas Torah. Before Akofas, the fabrengen of Lil Simchas Torah before Akofas, the Rebbe would make kiddush.

01:12 And he would take the seder and make the whole full kiddush. And there for sure, our meaning is that we stand by kiddush and the Rebbe didn't stand up. He did the same thing as he did in the morning. So there it's clear that the reason is because he didn't want the elam to stand up. So maybe the kiddush of Shabbos by fabrengen afternoon is also because of that reason. But what I want to say is that I once happened to be when the Rebbe still ate upstairs in the Friedrich Rebbe's apartments. I once was there Yontif and I came before the Rebbe even walked in. Or maybe he just walked in, but before he made kiddush. And I was standing there and I saw from far that the Rebbe made kiddush while he was standing. Now I don't know if it's a role of Rabi or not, but this is the fact that the Rebbe made kiddush Yontif afternoon fully standing.