0064 - Growing a Beard Part 3

00:00 Concerning the union of growing a beard, there's another thing that-- interesting thing that happened. The farbrengen of Yu Chvat, Tov Shin Chaf Dalet. Actually, farbrengen was not on Yu Chvat itself, it was Motzaei Shabbos Parshas Beshalach, Gidal of Shevat, but that was the big farbrengen of Yu Chvat. Whenever Yu Chvat came out on Friday, the big farbrengen was on Motzaei Shabbos. At that farbrengen, something interesting. The Chabad say there is that when on the Rebbe's Kippitah we have a nigun. The way it was originally was that only if there were words in the Kippitah of that year with a Lubavitch nigun on those words. So during the year by the farbrengen, they would sing that nigun. Later it became that even if there was no nigun on any words of that Kippitah, they would take an old Lubavitch nigun and put it to the words of that Kippitah. Then became they would make a new nigun for the words of, of the Rebbe's Kippitah. That year, Tov Shin Chaf Dalet, in the Rebbe's Kippitah, you had the posek, Achlei Vekim Deimi Nafshi. So they used to sing by most farbrengens, they used to sing that nigun. For some reason, that farbrengen of Yu Chvat, no one thought of it or no one started that nigun. So when it got closer to the end of the farbrengen, the Rebbe seemed upset why no one started that nigun. And he said, "We're holding at a point now where I don't really care much because it's-- this is

01:18 a time like this where we don't really have to take in consideration of what the people will think. So therefore, even though no one here thought of starting that nigun, maybe someone would start a nigun Achlei Vekim." And then he expressed himself a little negatively at, at concerning the union that no one started the nigun. So then the Rebbe turned around to our Rav Yehuda Krinsky and he told him to start the nigun. And he said, "Er doch nit mugbul medial nyonim do." He's not limited to all the things here. Now, exactly what kind of things he meant, I don't know, but it definitely was a positive statement that he's not limited to the things. And melee, the Rebbe said, "Let him start singing." So he started the nigun, and they sang the nigun. When he finished, the Rebbe said that in addition to the fact that he takes me to the tzion and from the tzion of the Baal HaYolulah, that means he took... The Rebbe said he takes me to the ohel of the Baal HaYolulah of the Friedik Rebbe. But in order to go to the ohel, go to the tzion, you have to have an agolah and merkavah. You have to have wagons. It means you have to have a car. So there is somebody who provides the cars for taking me to the tzion, and that was Reb Shmuel Isaac Popeck. At that time, he had a car rental business, and he would provide the cars for the Rebbe to

02:30 go to the ohel. So the Rebbe said that you have the person here who provides the cars. He said, "Loshon agolas." And therefore he should say l'chaim, and he should also sing this nigun. And he told him to say l'chaim bar chova, and he said it's negeah to his parnosah, and he told him to sing that nigun. Then the Rebbe said to him like this. It wasn't directly to him. The Rebbe just said it out loud. "Af andere helt nit mein dibur, afilu az ich zoga por mol. Af em hot geholf mein machshaveh, chotz a meshtomem veis gor nit az ich heb getracht vegn em." In English it means the Rebbe said, "On others, when I say something to them, and even a few times it doesn't help. On him, just the fact that I thought about this, he doesn't even know that I thought about it, it also helped." And the Rebbe added, "Er hot fallos na burt." That means the Rebbe said that the Rebbe never told him that he should let his beard grow. But the Rebbe said in the Rebbe's mind he thought that he should do it. Never told him. So the Rebbe's machshaveh, he said, helped, helped on him that he grew a beard because till then he didn't have a beard. And from that time, about that time, he started growing a beard. So the Rebbe told him to start the nigun. And when he started the nigun, the Rebbe said that it's too quiet and he should

03:45 stand up and people should be able to hear the nigun. But here we have another thing that the Rebbe expressed concerning growing a beard, that even though he didn't tell people about growing some-- many people about growing a beard, but he said that his machshaveh helped. He said it to him that his machsh-- Rebbe's machshaveh helped the negeah Reb Shmuel Isaac that he grew a beard without even the Rebbe telling him, just because the Rebbe thought about it.