0034 - Vihi Noam

00:01 The kviyis of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in the year of Tov Shin Chav Dalet, which is 1963, was that Rosh Hashanah was Thursday and Friday, and then the Shabbos Shuva the day right after that, and then Yom Kippur is Shabbos. The Rebbe davened ma'ariv, the Motzei Shabbos, Shabbos Shuva, he davened ma'ariv upstairs, like he used to do always at Motzei Shabbos ma'ariv was upstairs, not downstairs. And I remember that when they davened, it came to the end after Shemoneh Esreh, the chazan started saying Kadesh, but it looked like from when the Rebbe went back, because he used to go back, if there was a Chotzi Kadesh, he would go back right after, right to the end of the Chotzi Kadesh, he would walk back. When he's finished Shemoneh Esreh, he walked back and he would walk back to his shtender then. If it was a whole Kadesh, Kadesh Es Chabel, he would stay longer. So it seemed like from the Rebbe that the Rebbe did not want they should say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh. We don't say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh only if it's a Motzei Shabbos that that week will be, middle of the week will be Yom Tov. Now, if Yom Kippur would be middle of the week, obviously Motzei Shabbos before this, Motzei Shabbos Shuva, you do not say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh. But since it's Shabbos, so it's not the middle of the week, Yom Kippur is Shabbos. But Erev Yom Kippur is Friday, is in the middle of the

01:17 week, and Erev Yom Kippur is also a Yom Tov. So there's a shaylah, do we say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh, the Motzei Shabbos before, because of the Yom Tov of Erev Yom Kippur, which betzim the same shaylah would be by Pesach, if Shabbos Hagadol, Motzei Shabbos Hagadol, if Pesach happens to be Shabbos, do we say or not? But anyway, this was not the story. The story here was that it was b'negeah Motzei Shabbos Shuva, b'negeah Yom Kippur. And the chazan didn't know what to do. And I don't remember actually if the chazan did finish the Kadesh with Es Chabel or he stopped before that. I don't remember. But l'peel the Rebbe turned around and the Rebbe said, nu what's the din? Do we say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh today? And he said, wer gedengt vim yod giton dam Rebbe Neshwer? Who remembers how they did when the same kviyis came out in the time of the Friediger Rebbe? And no one answered. No one knew. Then the Rebbe said, do Shalom Chaskin. For that tishre Shalom Chaskin came from Eretz Yisrael. And Shalom Chaskin was around in the time of the Friediger Rebbe. And Shalom Chaskin was known to be a person that would follow the minhogim and he would know these things. Vu is Shalom Chaskin? So they went downstairs. He wasn't upstairs. He wasn't in the shul upstairs. He was downstairs. So someone ran downstairs, found Shalom Chaskin. He ran up and he came into the shul. Now I even remember he came

02:31 in through the middle door, which means the door that's by the amid. And I even remember he jumped over the table. I remember the tzirah jumped over the table and walked straight over to the Rebbe who was standing in the corner by the door where the clock is by that door with the shtender. And the Rebbe says to him, nu du gedengst vi et m'gitom am Rebbe Neshwer? And he didn't remember. So the Rebbe looked around, turned around, and was back on the shtender looking to the wall. And the Elom didn't know what to do. So the Elom did say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh. The Rebbe did not say. That's what it looked like. The Rebbe did not say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh. And then they finished davening and the Rebbe went into his room. Now that year, the Sefer HaMinhogim came out. And if I remember correctly, in the Sefer HaMinhogim when they gave it into the Rebbe to be magiya, they added in the minhogim of Yom Kippur of Shabbos Shuva that in the case where Shabbos Shuva is the day after Rosh Chodesh and Yom Kippur is the next Shabbos, we do not say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh because that's what the Rebbe did. L'peel the Rebbe did not say. And l'peel the Rebbe crossed out that line. And the fact is that since then, whenever it came out, we do say V'hineh Em Anata Kodesh. So why the Rebbe didn't say it then is not so clear. And I'm pretty sure

03:53 that it was originally put in because they thought that since the Rebbe didn't say it, that's what the Rebbe wanted. And the Rebbe crossed it out. But this is something that we have to bim bevarer.