0068 - Beginning of Hanochos Hatmimim

00:01 The middle of the Tov Shin Chofs was a time when not too many Hanoches of the Rebbe's Fabrengens would come out. Because usually, Reb Yael Kahn was the one that would write the Hanoches. He was the Chezer, so he Chazer Fabrengens, and then he would write it up, and it would be Hanoche Biltemugge, and then it would be stenciled, it would be given out. But those times, he was very, very busy over his head with so many other things, including the Sefer Aerkim, so he wasn't able to do it. So a few of us got together and said, let us maybe try to see what we could do to give it out. As I said, there was, there was Chazore. Reb Yael would Chazer, and then the other people who helped Chazore were there and would work on Chazore. And one of the people also who would help in Chazore was Reb Avram Galitzki. He would be sitting by Chazore, but he would also take notes of Chazore. And then after that, he would sit down and type up the Fabregen. And this was something private. I mean, I would also get involved with it together with him, and I would also, after he finished writing it up and typing it, I would look it over and give my comments and together. But this was still all private. This was called Hanoche Protis, a private Hanoche. This was not something to be given out. So we decided, with the encouragement of Reb Noske Wolf, who

01:20 was one of the elder Rebochim 770 at that time, and decided that we're going to try to make the Hanoche better and give it out, and give it out officially. So the first one that we gave out was the one for Parsha Mishpotim Tov Shin Chovov. We sat down together to work on it. Mainly the one that wrote it was Reb Avram Galitzki, but together we would discuss it and work on it, and then I would also look it over, and we together worked on it. And we gave out, the first one was for Parsha Mishpotim Tov Shin Chovov. First we gave it out, it was called on a blue stencil, which was not such an official way of giving it out. The black stencil was the more official way. So, but we gave out because we were afraid to give it out. So we gave out Parsha Mishpotim, and we called it that this is Hanoches Hatmimim Biltemugge. The reason we changed from the word Hanoche Biltemugge to Hanoches Hatmimim Biltemugge, because the Hanoches that Reb Yael made were official good Hanoches, and that was Hanoche Biltemugge. We wanted that people should know that this is not the same. This is only written by some Bochrim. We were Bochrim at that time, just by some Bochrim, and Hanoches probably not just, not as good. So we wanted to make sure that people know it, so we called it Hanoches Hatmimim Biltemugge. And we also, we gave it out on a blue stencil, but then

02:40 we decided we'll do it more, and for the next Fabregen, next time we gave out a Fabregen, which was Parsha Vayakel Pekudei, we gave out on black stencil. And obviously the first copy we gave in was to the Rebbe, and then this was the one that was publicized. And then from then on, we started giving out more Hanoches, more and more frequent, and that's how it continued. Now, officially we didn't hear anything from the Rebbe, whether the Rebbe is happy or not. Really, in connection to the Fabregen of Parsha Tildes, Tov Shin Chof Zayin, we, meaning Rabbi Galitzki and myself, wrote something up of an answer that the Rebbe gave, that the Rebbe wrote to try to ask the Rebbe if it's correct, because we wanted to add it to the Hanoche that we're giving out, and we gave it in. And the way it was actually, that we gave it to Rabbi Chadakov to give to the Rebbe, and it was at night. Every night Rabbi Chadakov, before the Rebbe left 770 to go home, Rabbi Chadakov would go in. So punkt, we gave it to him before he went in, and he gave it, and he took it and went in. Then it took about a half hour till the Rebbe left 770 to go home. When the Rebbe left, Rabbi Chadakov gave us the Rebbe, because he was Magia, the Rebbe. As soon as he gave it, the Rebbe was Magia on the spot, but he told us, don't ever do it

03:56 again, because because of you, the Rebbe stayed, couldn't, didn't go home for another half hour. But the pale Rebbe was Magia, so we saw that the Rebbe did acknowledge it somehow, but it wasn't like an official acknowledgement. Rabbi Galitzki himself on Yechidis in Teves Tov Shin Chof Zayin, the Rebbe also mentioned to him something about the Hanoches that are given out, but nothing that we could consider as a physical acknowledgement that the Rebbe accepts these Hanoches as like an official Hanoche. Till it came to Parsha Tildes Tov Shin Chof Ches, and then Parsha Vayishlach, where it talked about Yitzchok, and when it says, Vatikhen Oinov, and the Loshen that we wrote is something around that Yitzchok is given blind, Yitzchok was blind. So a few Fabregens later, the Rebbe referred to it, and that Hanoche came out. Shabbos, that Shabbos, the Rebbe said, I received the Rishime, which means the Hanoche of Fabregen, and there they wrote that Yitzchok is given blind, that Yitzchok was blind. And the Rebbe said, Toshnitin the Even, this cuts into the ears to use the Loshen that Yitzchok was blind, they give him blind. In other words, it's not a refined way to write it. You could say Yitzchok was hard of seeing, or other Loshenas, but not Yitzchok was blind. So on one hand, this showed us that the Rebbe's criticizing what we wrote, but on the other hand, it showed that the Rebbe acknowledged that this is Hanoche, this is a Rishime of the Fabregen, and he

05:21 just criticized a certain prat. So on one hand, we felt bad that the Rebbe's saying that we wrote something that's not right, but on the other hand, the Rebbe acknowledged that this is a Rishime, and that gave us encouragement that we should be able to continue and from then on do more and more. So it was mainly Rabbi Galitzki, Rabbi Avram Galitzki, and myself, and then sometimes some other Bochrim would also help out. And then later, other people wrote Hanoches, like Rabbi LeGoldstein, and then Rabbi Yossi Hecht, and then later on even more people, other people, even that's after I left already to Miami. So it continued later with this title, Hanoches Atmimim, then it went on as it went on in the years later, but this is the way Hanoches Atmimim started.