0030 - Description of Vov Tishrei 5725 part 2

00:01 When we heard that the Rebbe went to the hospital, so a lot of us, meaning Bochrim and Gelait, also ran to the hospital. The hospital wasn't so far, so we all ran to the hospital. When we got to the hospital, when some of us got to the hospital, we already heard that there was a lacha ramaisets already. The Rebbetsin had passed away. She was nistalik already. And they said that the Rebbe, even when they stopped working on her, asked maybe they could still do something to massage the heart. And they said that they can't do it, that it's not going to help. Then they asked the Rebbe that the Rebbe should wash because the Rebbe hadn't eaten Sudah Shabbos yet. And they had gotten some way some challah through a goy and they asked the Rebbe to wash. And the Rebbe started discussing, he said, is there a din of aninas on him since it's Shabbos? And he said that you have to ask a rov. And this fits to what they said before, that the Rebbe El Chafille said that anything before you do anything, you have to ask a rov. So he asked to ask a rov. So someone there answered, ein aninas b'Shabbos. So the Rebbe asked him, are you a rov or not? But L'Peel, by Sudah, the Rebbe did not eat the Sudah. And they say that the whole time after the Rebbe had passed away, the Rebbe was standing in the room. That's what they were told then. And

01:04 he was looking at the window, throughout the window, staring just outside of the window. Then they davened ma'ariv and the Rebbe got a siddur. And after that, when they were going out, the Rebbe saw that there are a lot of people there outside in the room. There were not so many people, but outside there were people and they were pushing. So the Rebbe said, and the Rebbe said this quite a few times throughout the whole time from that time on till even tomorrow, the next day, by the levaya, the Rebbe used many times the words And not only that, but negei the Bochrim, it was even much stricter. The Rebbe said many times I remember then when they brought the body down and they put the body into the station wagon in the back where it was flat on the seat, I guess was down and it was flat. And the Rebbe came down. So they asked the Rebbe where he wants to sit. Does he want to sit in the front, in the passenger seat, etc.? So I was standing there and I saw that the Rebbe with his hand made right next to the body where the body was laying in the back of the station wagon. Here I want to sit. And that's where he sat down. And again, at that time, he looked around. I was standing there too, but I was standing on the side trying that the Rebbe shouldn't be in front because the Rebbe didn't want that the

02:21 Bochrim should be there. But I was able to hear what the Rebbe said and I was able to see what was going on. When they took the body with the station wagon, the Rebbe was in the car to the house. So when the Rebbe went to the house, I wasn't inside, but they say the Rebbe said the first thing about people are going to start searching in the drawers. So he got people to become Then I remember in the morning, everybody, by the time of the levaya, everybody was standing by the house waiting for the levaya to start on President Street. But the Rebbe came to 770 and there was a minyan betzumtzem, exact minyan davening, made a minyan at 770. And the Rebbe came out to say the kadation. This was before the levaya. The Rebbe came out to say the kadation. I was there and I saw the Rebbe came out to say the kadation. And after that, the Rebbe went back into his room. And then I was standing, the Rebbe came out to the car to go to the house, to go to President Street to the house. He came out holding many, many sodim in his hand. And he went to the car and they went to the house on President Street. When it came to the levaya, when they came to the beis hakvoras to the levaya and they came to the place where the kever was opened, the Rebbe came over there and there was a lot of

03:31 pushing. And the Rebbe again said, just stop pushing. But no one could stop. So the Rebbe said, if no one's going to do it, I'll do it myself. And the Rebbe came over, started pushing the people. He actually didn't touch anybody because as soon as he made with his hands, trying to kiveyoch, so to speak, trying to push, the people moved away. But L'Peel, he started doing it himself. And then someone started screaming when they put the lower the body, someone screaming, where is the klionke? Klionke is a piece of plastic, which they say had some blood on it. They said, where is the klionke? They couldn't find it and they wanted to bury it. And the Rebbe was very looking upset. What's with the klionke? So someone said, maybe it's in the car. So the Rebbe said, so let them go to the car and look. And nobody moved. So the Rebbe said, if nobody's going, I'm going to be going myself. And the Rebbe turned around and started walking towards the car. He started walking away from the place of the kever where we know where it is. And he walked, he got to the place, to the aisle. By the aisle, he saw a bocher standing there. He says, you're a bocher. What are you doing here? But then by then they already started screaming that they found the klionke. They found it. So the Rebbe went back. But this whole thing made the bocher feel very bad. It looked like the

04:40 Rebbe was very upset and the Rebbe had a k'peida on the bocherim. So the elder bocherim got together and they decided we're going to do something to take off the k'peida. So they did something which till then was not really done, even though now it's done always. Every time there is a shiva, so there's a chalukah of mishnayis that people take to finish. But then it wasn't done. So the bocherim decided we'll make a chalukah of mishnayis of the bocherim to be finished before Yom Kippur because that's when the shiva is over. Not the seven days, but that's when the actual shiva was over. So they made this chalukah and they typed up the list of the names and gave it to Rabbi Chadukov to give to the Rebbe. Rabbi Chadukov gave it to the Rebbe. It was the middle of shiva. And the Rebbe looked at it and the Rebbe said to him, that's what he repeated later, this gives me pleasure. He looked at it again and he said, a big pleasure. And then he looked at it again and he said, and when we heard this, all the bocherim felt much better because at least this took off some of the k'peida. And actually what happened, Erev Yom Kippur by Kol Nidre, so the Rebbe gave the brocha to the bocherim first. Always he would give the brocha to people earlier. And then before Kol Nidre, he would give to the bocherim. But this time he didn't give the brocha to everybody

05:51 earlier because he was still in the middle of shiva and Mincha was actually in the house, not in 770. So he gave first the brocha to the bocherim before Kol Nidre. He came down and then he gave the brocha to everybody. And then he said that they should make the Sima Mishnayis now. They made the Sima Mishnayis and the Rebbe said the Kadesh D'Rabbonim.