0050 - The Rebbe's Gartel

00:01 It's known that when the Rebbe came to America and the Friedrich Rebbe called in the Elter Chassidim and he told them to go to greet the Rebbe and he described who the Rebbe was. So different gears says exactly what he said. I mean, whatever it is, but he said he's walking in shots, all kinds of things. But one of the things he added, he said, this is what the version is, which probably means that it's a gartel you go when you're going to daven. That means you're in this mindset of standing in front of the Eibishter. So when you say you go with the gartel, it means that it's a person that is standing in front of the Eibishter. I mean, but I just want to mention that I myself saw that gartel on the Rebbe. I remember we stand by a coffins many years. I stood right next to the Rebbe's bimah in front. So I remember once standing on the Rebbe, I was standing on the floor and the Rebbe was standing on the bimah and I was able to see. So I saw the Rebbe put in his hand in his pocket to take out his tikel. So when he put his hand in his pocket, his sertuk moved obviously, so he was able to put his hand in. So when the sertuk moved, so I was able to see that under the sertuk, over his shirt, there was a gartel hanging. Like we have this thing, gartelach, that was the gartel

01:15 was there, which means he had a gartel over his sertuk like we do by davening. And then there was another gartel under it, so I was able to see it myself.