0035 - Drinking from a Bottle

00:01 I remember one of the Simchas Torah fabrengens, Leil Simchas Torah, the night of Simchas Torah, which means before Hakofes there was a fabrengen. And bechal, at that time there was a small crowd because a lot of the bochrim in Gelai used to go up to the talucha, to different shuls, to be mesamei yechidim, to dance Hakofes with them. And some would come in the middle of the fabrengen, some would come back towards the end of the fabrengen, some came back after the fabrengen. But there was a small crowd. Sorry. And everything was more beilit. You could see things that are happening much easier because it was a much smaller crowd. So I remember that there was a yinger man standing not far from me. I was there in the beginning of the fabrengen because I went to a close place because I had to come back for chazoreh, to listen, to be able to help in chazoreh. So I came back early. I was there in the beginning. And not far from me was standing a yinger man. This was really not the place for yinger lai. This is the place of the bochrim. But since that place was a lot of places were empty, so he stood there. And I remember he put his hand into his pocket, into his etuk pocket, took out a little bottle of mashke. And he stretched out his hand with that little bottle of mashke, holding the bottle of mashke in his hand, not a cup, but the

01:04 bottle, the little bottle. And he makes to the Rebbe l'chaim. So the Rebbe turns around and sees him doing this. So the Rebbe out loud says, der shver hot nit geires geven trinke fun a butl. Der shver, meaning my father-in-law, did not like when people drink from a bottle. So that was a hero he gave him. And from then on, I know you shouldn't drink from a bottle. The only thing is I don't know what he meant. Did he mean that you should not drink only mashke? Or is it even for other liquids, even for water? But these are the words that the Rebbe said very seriously. Der shver hot nit geires geven trinke fun a butl. Der shver did not like when people drink from a bottle.